SB178 - Agriculture – Pollinator Habitat Plan – Requirements for State Highway Administration
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Katherine Ann Klausmeier
Last updated 5 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring the State Highway Administration's pollinator habitat plan to include policies and procedures regarding the use of pollinator habitat areas along State highways; requiring the Administration to track and evaluate federal programs that provide funding for pollinator habitats, native plants, and invasive species control and to apply for any funding that the Administration determines appropriate and beneficial to pollinator habitats; requiring the Administration to update the plan by October 1 each year; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB1144 - Clean Water Commerce Account - Contracts for the Purchase of Environmental Outcomes
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Guy J Guzzone, Sarah K. Elfreth
Last updated 5 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the Department of the Environment, in entering into a certain contract under the Clean Water Commerce Account for the purchase of a certain environmental outcome, to allow certain nonuniform payment schedules for certain purposes; and authorizing the Department, in order to ensure certain outcomes, to require a minimum final payment and, for a contract award greater than $500,000, additional financial protections, including a letter of credit, insurance instrument, or performance bond.
STATUS
Passed
SB608 - Public Safety - Police Accountability - Time Limit for Filing Administrative Charges
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
William Folden, Jack Bailey, Joanne C. Benson
Last updated 6 months ago7 Co-Sponsors
Altering a requirement for a law enforcement agency to file administrative charges relating to alleged police officer misconduct that is required to be reviewed by an administrative charging committee within 30 days; requiring a law enforcement agency to file any administrative charges arising out of an investigation of alleged police officer misconduct that is not required to be reviewed by an administrative charging committee within 1 year and 1 day after the date that the agency became aware of the incident; etc.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB879 - Shellfish Aquaculture - Harvest Hours
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Katherine Ann Klausmeier, Bryan Warner Simonaire, James C. Rosapepe
Last updated 5 months ago6 Co-Sponsors
Repealing a restriction on the harvesting of shellfish between the hours of sunset and sunrise from certain areas leased for aquaculture; and requiring the Department of Natural Resources to establish by regulation the hours for harvesting shellfish within leased areas.
STATUS
Passed
SB972 - Correctional Officers' Retirement System - Membership
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Guy J Guzzone
Last updated 5 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Altering membership in the Correctional Officers' Retirement System to include certain employees of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and the Maryland Department of Health; requiring the State Retirement and Pension System to transfer the creditable service of employees transferred into the Correctional Officers' Retirement System under the Act; authorizing certain employees to elect, on or before June 1, 2025, not to transfer service to the Correctional Officers' Retirement System; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB1004 - Motor Vehicles - Specially Designed Vintage Reproduction Registration Plates
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
William Folden
Last updated 6 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Repealing the time limitation within which the Motor Vehicle Administration is required to make available specially designed vintage reproduction registration plates; and requiring the Administration to charge a fee of $100 for the initial issuance and $25 for the renewal of a specially designed vintage reproduction registration plate.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB32 - Economic Development - Maryland Agricultural and Resource-Based Industry Development Corporation - Loans
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jack Bailey, Katherine Ann Klausmeier
Last updated 5 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Altering a certain loan program to authorize the Maryland Agricultural and Resource-Based Industry Development Corporation to provide loans not exceeding $10,000 for each seasonal full-time job; expanding eligibility for the Maryland Watermen's Microloan Program within the Corporation to include, starting July 1, 2025, individuals who are residents of the State and hold a commercial fishing license to catch finfish, crabs, clams, or oysters issued by the Potomac River Fisheries Commission; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB207 - Natural Resources - Northern Snakehead - Common Name
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jack Bailey, J.B. Jennings
Last updated 5 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the common name of the northern snakehead as the "Chesapeake Channa".
STATUS
Passed
SB763 - Somerset County – Sale of Property – Revells Neck Road
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Mary Elizabeth Carozza
Last updated 5 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Authorizing the County Commissioners of Somerset County to sell the property at Map 32, Parcel 149 on Revells Neck Road under terms considered appropriate by the county commissioners.
STATUS
Passed
SB1028 - Human Remains - Alkaline Hydrolysis and Natural Organic Reduction (Green Death Care Options Act)
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jeff D. Waldstreicher
Last updated 5 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Establishing a regulatory system for reduction operators and reduction facilities; establishing requirements and prohibitions related to the performance of alkaline hydrolysis and natural organic reduction and the disposition of hydrolyzed or soil remains by certain facilities; requiring the Director of the Office of Cemetery Oversight and the Director of the State Board of Morticians and Funeral Directors to adopt regulations governing the performance of natural organic reduction; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB1165 - Public Health - Prohibition on Transfer of Human Immunodeficiency Virus - Repeal
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Karen Lewis Young
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Repealing the prohibition on an individual from knowingly transferring or attempting to transfer the human immunodeficiency virus to another individual.
STATUS
Introduced
SB502 - Allegany County – Property Tax Credit – Evergreen Heritage Center
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Mike McKay
Last updated 4 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Authorizing the governing body of Allegany County or a municipal corporation in Allegany County to grant, by law, a property tax credit against the county or municipal corporation property tax imposed on property that is owned by the Evergreen Heritage Center.
STATUS
Passed
SB448 - Commission to Study African American Civil War Soldiers in Maryland
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Charles Anthony Muse, Malcolm L. Augustine, Benjamin T. Brooks
Last updated 5 months ago11 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Commission to Study African American Civil War Soldiers in Maryland to study the history of the African American soldiers who fought for the Union Army in Maryland and to make findings and recommendations regarding the funding, design, construction, and location of an appropriate memorial dedicated to the African American Civil War soldiers; and requiring the Commission to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before December 1, 2024.
STATUS
Passed
SB962 - Real Property – Contracts of Sale – Title Report Requirement
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Justin D Ready
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring the seller of any real property to provide a title report to the buyer prior to closing; permitting a buyer to rescind a contract of sale for real property under certain circumstances; and providing that a violation of the Act is an unfair, abusive, or deceptive trade practice.
STATUS
Introduced
SB979 - Education - Artificial Intelligence - Guidelines and Pilot Program
Maryland - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Katie Fry Hester
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the AI Subcabinet of the Governor's Executive Council, to develop and update guidelines on artificial intelligence for county boards of education and to develop a pilot program to support the AI Subcabinet of the Governor's Executive Council; requiring the Department to develop certain strategies to coordinate and assist county boards to provide certain recommendations for integrating artificial intelligence into certain college and career readiness standards; etc.
STATUS
Introduced