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SB483 - Maryland Community Investment Corporation - Establishment (Housing and Community Development Financing Act of 2024)
Pamela G Beidle, Benjamin T. Brooks, Sarah K. Elfreth
Last updated 10 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Maryland Community Investment Corporation as an independent unit to make investments in certain low-income communities; requiring the Corporation to apply for an allocation of federal new markets tax credits; expanding the eligible uses of the Strategic Demolition and Smart Growth Impact Fund to include grants and loans for debt payments and for credit enhancement for certain projects; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
SB165 - Education – Coaches – Mental Health Training
Shelly Hettleman, Pamela G Beidle, Benjamin T. Brooks
Last updated 6 months ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the State Department of Education to develop guidelines for public schools and the Maryland Higher Education Commission to develop guidelines for public institutions of higher education to train coaches to recognize indicators of mental illness and behavioral distress in students who participate in athletic programs in public schools and public institutions of higher education; requiring public schools and public institutions that offer athletic programs to provide a certain mental health training to coaches; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB451 - Baltimore County Board of Education - Nonstudent Member Compensation and Student Member Scholarships - Alterations
Benjamin T. Brooks, Shelly Hettleman
Last updated 7 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Increasing the annual compensation of nonstudent members of the Baltimore County Board of Education who are not the chair of the county board from $7,500 to $16,500; providing that the chair of the county board is entitled to receive an annual compensation of $17,500; and increasing from the amount that a student member of the county board is granted as a scholarship to be applied toward the student's higher education costs $7,500 to $10,000.
STATUS
Passed
SB482 - Governor's Office for Children - Engaging Neighborhoods, Organizations, Unions, Governments, and Households (ENOUGH) Grant Program (ENOUGH Act of 2024)
Malcolm L. Augustine, Pamela G Beidle, Benjamin T. Brooks
Last updated 6 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Governor's Office for Children and the Special Secretary of the Governor's Office for Children as the head of the Office; requiring the Special Secretary to chair the Children's Cabinet; requiring the Office to staff the Children's Cabinet; requiring the Children's Cabinet to meet not less than four times each year; requiring the Accountability and Implementation Board, in consultation with certain departments, to submit a certain recommendation to the General Assembly by December 1, 2025; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB474 - Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity and Related Approvals - Definition of Generating Station (Critical Infrastructure Streamlining Act of 2024)
Malcolm L. Augustine, Jack Bailey, Pamela G Beidle
Last updated 6 months ago
18 Co-Sponsors
Altering and establishing the definition of "generating station" for the purpose of exempting the construction of certain generating facilities used to produce electricity for the purpose of on-site emergency backup and certain test and maintenance operations from the requirement to obtain a certificate of public convenience and necessity or certain other related approvals under certain circumstances; and altering the distribution of income tax revenue from corporations that is attributable to certain data centers.
STATUS
Passed
SB473 - Economic Development - Entrepreneurial Innovation Programs - Establishment (Pava LaPere Legacy of Innovation Act of 2024)
Malcolm L. Augustine, Pamela G Beidle, Benjamin T. Brooks
Last updated 6 months ago
16 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Pava LaPere Innovation Acceleration Grant Program in the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to provide grants to technology-based startup companies that are founded by students of postsecondary institutions located in and have their principle places of business in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson Metropolitan Statistical Area; establishing the Baltimore Innovation Initiative Pilot Program within the Maryland Innovation Initiative of the Corporation to provide incentives for and grow certain start-up companies; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB757 - State Information Technology - Prohibited Applications and Websites
Mary Elizabeth Carozza, Jack Bailey, Benjamin T. Brooks
Last updated 10 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Prohibiting certain employees, agents, or entities on any information technology owned or leased by a unit of State government from downloading or using any application, including TikTok or WeChat, or accessing any website developed by ByteDance Ltd. or Tencent Holdings Ltd; requiring by December 31, 2024, the Department of Budget and Management, in collaboration with the Department of Information Technology, to prepare guidance for units of State government regarding access to certain applications and websites; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
SB783 - Public Utilities - Solar Energy Systems and Programs, Maryland Strategic Energy Investment Fund, and Prevailing Wage (Brighter Tomorrow Act)
Sarah K. Elfreth, Malcolm L. Augustine, Pamela G Beidle
Last updated 6 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
Requiring that certain home improvement contracts for the installation of a solar energy generating system on the roof of a building include the installation of a certain wildlife barrier under certain circumstances; requiring a county or municipality to implement certain software for features supporting the tracking and approval of residential building permits for residential solar energy and energy storage systems and main electric panel urgrades and derates on or before August 1, 2025, except under certain circumstances; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB805 - Nuclear Energy Development Task Force
Benjamin T. Brooks, Katherine Ann Klausmeier
Last updated 10 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Nuclear Energy Development Task Force to study and make recommendations on the deployment of nuclear power generation resources and other related technologies in the State and the establishment of a permanent nuclear energy commission in the State; and requiring the Task Force to report by December 30, 2025, on its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly.
STATUS
Introduced
SB802 - Election Law - Voters with Disabilities - Electronic Ballot Return
Benjamin T. Brooks, Shelly Hettleman, Katherine Ann Klausmeier
Last updated 10 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the State Board of Elections to establish a process by which an individual with disabilities may return a marked absentee ballot to a local board of elections electronically.
STATUS
Introduced
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