SB495 - Election Law - Petitions and Ballot Questions - Plain Language Requirement
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Cheryl C. Kagan
Last updated 7 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
SB1059 - Maternal Health – Assessments, Referrals, and Reporting (Maryland Maternal Health Act of 2024)
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Arthur Ellis
Last updated 4 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Establishing requirements on certain health departments and health care providers and facilities regarding maternal health, including requirements regarding prenatal risk assessment forms and postpartum infant and maternal referral forms; requiring the Secretary of Health, in collaboration with the Maryland Health Care Commission, to develop a Maryland Report Card for Birthing Facility Maternity Care; requiring hospitals and freestanding birthing centers to participate in the Severe Maternal Morbidity Surveillance Program; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB832 - State Designations - State Natural History Museum - Natural History Society of Maryland
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Katherine Ann Klausmeier
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Designating the Natural History Society of Maryland as the State natural history museum.
STATUS
Introduced
SB613 - State Board of Long-Term Care Administrators - Requirements for Assisted Living Managers
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Pamela G Beidle
Last updated 4 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Extending, from October 1, 2024, to July 1, 2026, the date by which individuals must be licensed by the State Board of Long-Term Care Administrators before practicing as an assisted living manager in the State; altering the requirements for the manager training course that certain assisted living managers are required to complete to include in-person courses, virtual training methods, or a combination of both; and altering the requirements for serving as an interim assisted living manager.
STATUS
Passed
SB932 - Maryland Agricultural BMP Priority Environmental Stewardship Program - Established
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Sarah K. Elfreth, Jason C. Gallion, Dawn D. Gile
Last updated 6 months ago5 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Maryland Agricultural BMP Priority Environmental Stewardship Program to provide and prioritize the use of certain funding relating to agricultural best management practices and to increase the cost-effectiveness and environmental, social, and health impacts of State-funded best management practices in a certain manner; requiring a grant applicant to demonstrate that any agricultural operation on which best management practices are to be established are in compliance with certain nutrient management plans; etc.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB809 - Dorchester County - County Applicants - Polygraph Examination
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Johnny Mautz
Last updated 5 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 8 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
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 6 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
SB691 - Higher Education - Charles W. Riley Firefighter and Ambulance and Rescue Squad Member Scholarship - Alterations
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Malcolm L. Augustine
Last updated 5 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Altering the Charles W. Riley Firefighter and Ambulance and Rescue Squad Member Scholarship to make the scholarship applicable to all courses at institutions of higher education in the State; and altering the maximum award available, when a scholarship should be credited, and to whom initial awards should be provided under the scholarship.
STATUS
Passed
SB456 - Alcoholic Beverages – Retail Delivery – Local Delivery Service Permit
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Alonzo T. Washington
Last updated 4 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Establishing a local delivery service permit that authorizes the holder to deliver alcoholic beverages from a retail license holder that is authorized to deliver alcoholic beverages to purchasers in a certain jurisdiction under certain circumstances; authorizing retail license holders to deliver alcoholic beverages to purchasers in a certain jurisdiction through a third-party contractor, an independent contractor, or an agent that holds a certain delivery service permit under certain circumstances; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB348 - Firearms - Right to Purchase, Own, Possess, and Carry
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Mike McKay
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Providing that a person may not be denied the right to purchase, own, possess, or carry a firearm solely on the basis that the person is authorized to use medical cannabis.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB985 - Economic Development - County or Municipality Economic Development Authority - Powers and Use of Proceeds
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Karen Lewis Young
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Expanding the acceptable names authorized for an economic development authority established by a county or municipal corporation; expanding the powers of an authority, subject to limitations in the articles of incorporation of the authority; authorizing an authority to issue certain bonds in accordance with certain requirements; and expanding the authorized uses of tax increment proceeds.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1187 - State of Emergency – Restoration, Repair, or Replacement of Critical Infrastructure – Suspension of State or Local Law
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Bryan Warner Simonaire, Johnny Ray Salling
Last updated 6 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Authorizing the Governor to suspend State or local law if necessary for the restoration, repair, or replacement of critical infrastructure related to a declared state of emergency for not more than 1 year after the state of emergency is declared; authorizing the Governor, notwithstanding the termination of the state of emergency, to extend the suspension of State or local law under the Act until the restoration, repair, or replacement of the critical infrastructure is completed; applying the Act retroactively to March 26, 2024; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
SB737 - Higher Education - Harford Community College Board of Trustees - Alterations
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Harford County Senators
Last updated 5 months ago0 Co-Sponsors
Requiring that a member of the Harford Community College Board of Trustees be a resident of Harford County for the duration of the member's term; altering the membership of the Harford Community College Board of Trustees so that all members are at large; requiring the Governor to consider certain factors when appointing members to the Board; and altering meeting requirements so that the Harford Community College Board of Trustees and the Harford County Board of Education are no longer required to attend certain meetings.
STATUS
Passed
SB676 - Tax Assistance for Low-Income Marylanders - Funding
Maryland - 2024 Regular Session
Last updated 8 months ago0 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the Comptroller, beginning in fiscal year 2025, to distribute a certain amount of abandoned property funds to the Tax Clinics for Low-Income Marylanders Fund; requiring the Governor to include $800,000 in the annual budget for the CASH Campaign of Maryland to award grants for providing certain tax assistance through on-demand and mobile tax clinics; and requiring certain grant recipients to interact with the CASH Campaign on, at minimum, a quarterly basis each year for a certain purpose.
STATUS
Introduced