SB520 - Consumer Protection - Credit or Debit Card Surcharges - Limitation
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Cory V. McCray
Last updated 10 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Prohibiting a retail business from charging a consumer a certain surcharge in excess of the amount required to reimburse the retail business for the cost of processing certain credit or debit transactions; and making a violation of this Act an unfair, abusive, or deceptive trade practice that is subject to enforcement and penalties under the Maryland Consumer Protection Act.
STATUS
Introduced
SB490 - State Retirement and Pension System - Consumer Price Index - Definition
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Michael A. Jackson, Pensions
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Updating the definition of "Consumer Price Index" to replace the 1967 index with the 1982-1984 index as the reference used by the State Retirement and Pension System for certain calculations.
STATUS
Passed
SB513 - Employment Discrimination - Use of Cannabis Products
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Alonzo T. Washington
Last updated 10 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Prohibiting an employer from discriminating against an individual because of the individual's use of cannabis products under certain circumstances; establishing that certain provisions prohibiting employment discrimination do not prohibit an employer from taking certain actions against an employee under certain circumstances or authorize certain behaviors by an employee; and requiring certain employers to issue a drug policy under certain circumstances.
STATUS
Introduced
SB495 - Election Law - Petitions and Ballot Questions - Plain Language Requirement
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Cheryl C. Kagan
Last updated 9 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring that a certain statement included on the signature page of a petition seeking to place a question on the ballot and a certain statement about the purpose of a question on the ballot be written in plain language reasonably calculated to be understood by an individual who has attained not higher than a grade 6 level of reading comprehension.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB499 - State Department of Education - School Psychologist Recruitment Program
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Mary Washington
Last updated 10 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Establishing the School Psychologist Recruitment Program within the State Department of Education to provide professional development programs and aid for a certification fee to school psychologists and individuals seeking to become school psychologists and to reimburse school psychologists for professional conference expenses.
STATUS
Introduced
SB492 - Public Schools - Student Telehealth Appointments - State Guidelines, Policies, and Access
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Cheryl C. Kagan
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring the State Department of Education and the Maryland Department of Health jointly to adopt certain State guidelines for school health services regarding student access to telehealth appointments during the school day in public middle and high schools in the State; and requiring each county board of education to establish a certain student telehealth policy.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB522 - Charter Counties - Enforcement of Local Laws
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Malcolm L. Augustine
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Increasing from $1,000 to $5,000 the maximum amount of a civil or criminal fine that may be imposed by a charter county to enforce certain local laws enacted by the county.
STATUS
Passed
SB809 - Dorchester County - County Applicants - Polygraph Examination
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Johnny Mautz
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Exempting applicants for employment as a paramedic or an emergency medical technician with the Emergency Medical Services Division or as a 9-1-1 Center dispatcher at the Dorchester County 9-1-1 Center within the Dorchester County Department of Emergency Services from the prohibition on employers requiring or demanding that an individual submit to or take a polygraph examination as a condition of prospective employment.
STATUS
Passed
SB1012 - Veterans Affairs – Disabled Veterans Guaranteed Basic Income
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Nick Charles
Last updated 10 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Establishing the Disabled Veterans Guaranteed Basic Income Program; establishing the Disabled Veterans Guaranteed Basic Income Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; requiring interest earnings of the Fund to be credited to the Fund; requiring, beginning in fiscal year 2025, the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $5,000,000 to the Fund; and authorizing the appropriation to the Fund to be drawn from the State Lottery Fund or video lottery terminal proceeds.
STATUS
Introduced
SB431 - Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumption - Long COVID (Home of the Brave Act of 2024)
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jeff D. Waldstreicher, Sarah K. Elfreth, Brian J. Feldman
Last updated 10 months ago11 Co-Sponsors
Establishing that governmental essential workers are presumed to have an occupational disease that is compensable under workers' compensation law after being diagnosed with long COVID under certain circumstances; and applying the Act retroactively.
STATUS
Introduced
SB689 - Fire Protection and Prevention – Residential Rental Property – Requirements (Melanie Nicholle Diaz Fire Safety Act)
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
William C. Smith
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Establishing certain requirements relating to the installation of certain fire safety equipment in residential rental high-rise buildings and certain other property; authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county or municipal corporation to grant, by law, a certain property tax credit; establishing the Workgroup to Develop Fire Safety Best Practices for Pre-1974 High-Rise Apartment Buildings; requiring the Workgroup to report its findings and recommendations by December 31, 2024; etc.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB576 - Property Tax - Assessment Appeal Boards and Supervisors - Regional Organization
Maryland - 2024 Regular Session
Last updated 10 months ago0 Co-Sponsors
Establishing certain regions for supervisors of real property assessments offices; altering the geographic jurisdiction of property tax assessment appeal boards from county to regional; establishing the membership of the regional boards; and prohibiting an employee of the State Department of Assessments and Taxation from concurrently being a member of a regional board, serving as the Administrator of the regional boards, or being employed as staff for a regional board.
STATUS
Introduced
SB563 - Frederick County - Alcoholic Beverages - Weinberg Center/New Spires Arts Stages Beer, Wine, and Liquor License
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Frederick County Senators
Last updated 7 months ago0 Co-Sponsors
Altering the Class C (Weinberg Center) beer, wine, and liquor license in Frederick County to be the Class C (Weinberg Center/New Spires Arts Stages) beer, wine, and liquor license; expanding the licensed premises to include the New Spires Arts Stages; altering the officials who may sign a certain license application; authorizing the license holder to sell beer, wine, and liquor at an event held by an outside group that has rented the Weinberg Arts Center or the New Spires Arts Stages; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB588 - Income Tax – Subtraction Modification – Public Safety Employee Retirement Income
Maryland - 2024 Regular Session
Last updated 10 months ago0 Co-Sponsors
Increasing, from $15,000 to $20,000, the amount allowed as a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for retirement income attributable to an individual's employment as a public safety employee; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2023.
STATUS
Introduced
SB549 - Criminal Procedure - Forensic Genetic Genealogical DNA Analysis and Search - Applicability for Deceased and Missing Individuals
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Charles E. Sydnor
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Providing that certain provisions of law regarding the use of a certain forensic genetic genealogical DNA analysis and search (FGGS) do not apply when the FGGS is conducted solely for the purpose of identifying an individual who is deceased or the subject of a certain missing person report and whose whereabouts are unknown.
STATUS
Passed
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