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HB811 - Higher Education - Financial Well-Being Pilot Program - Establishment
Sarah Wolek, Carl Anderton, Lorig Charkoudian
Last updated 7 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Financial Well-Being Pilot Program at the University of Maryland, College Park Campus and Morgan State University to provide comprehensive financial guidance and coaching to help students who may benefit from financial coaching services; requiring by August 1, 2024, each participating institution to hire one full-time financial well-being coach; requiring each financial well-being coach to create a document with best practices and guidance for other institutions to use to create a financial well-being program; etc.
STATUS
Passed
HB696 - Primary and Secondary Education - Breakfast and Lunch Programs - Universal Expansion Report
Julie Palakovich Carr, Nick Allen, Dalya Attar
Last updated 8 months ago
62 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the State Department of Education, on or before December 1, 2024, to report to the General Assembly on the cost to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students in public schools in the State.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB420 - State and Local Parks - Play Area Accessibility - Recreation Communication Boards Pilot Program
Mary A. Lehman, Catherine M. Forbes, Michele Guyton
Last updated 7 months ago
17 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the Department of Natural Resources and local governing bodies to construct communication boards in certain newly constructed public play areas; defining "communication board" as a device that displays photos, symbols, or illustrations to enable individuals with limited language skills to communicate; establishing the Maryland Recreation Communication Boards Pilot Program, subject to funding, to improve play area accessibility by covering the cost of purchasing and installing communication boards at State and local parks; etc.
STATUS
Passed
HB513 - Motor Vehicles - Work Zone Speed Control Systems - Revisions (Maryland Road Worker Protection Act of 2024)
Nick Allen, Marlon Amprey, Heather Bagnall
Last updated 8 months ago
58 Co-Sponsors
Altering the distribution of revenue from civil fines collected through the use of work zone speed control systems; altering the highways on which a work zone speed control system may be used; clarifying that a system operator does not need to be present when a work zone speed control system is in use; altering the maximum penalty for a civil citation issued as a result of an image from a work zone speed control system; requiring the State Highway Administration to make a certain report; etc.
STATUS
Passed
HB496 - Criminal Law - Sexual Crimes - Definition of Consent and Repeal of Force
Emily Khoury Shetty, Elizabeth M. Embry, Gabriel Acevero
Last updated 7 months ago
57 Co-Sponsors
Requiring certain facts to be considered when determining whether a lack of consent exists for the purposes of determining certain sexual crimes; altering the elements of second-degree rape to remove the requirement of use of force or threat of force; and requiring the Maryland Judiciary to report to the General Assembly, beginning October 1, 2024, and each October 1 thereafter, certain data for the preceding calendar year, disaggregated by county and offender age, race, and sex.
STATUS
Passed
HB331 - Election Law - Candidate Expenditures - Campaign-Related Caregiving Expenses
Michele Guyton, Nick Allen, Heather Bagnall
Last updated 9 months ago
35 Co-Sponsors
Altering the definition of "expenditure" to include reasonable expenses for caregiving services that a candidate incurs as a direct result of campaign activity and that are necessary to promote the candidacy of the candidate; and defining "caregiving services" as direct care, protection, and supervision of a child or an individual with a disability for whom a candidate has direct caregiving responsibility.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB415 - State Retirement and Pension System - Administration - Clarification and Technical Correction
Catherine M. Forbes, Pensions
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Clarifying that the Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System may pay certain incentive compensation to the Chief Investment Officer for the State Retirement and Pension System if the Chief Investment Officer retires from the Investment Division of the State Retirement Agency in a certain manner; and correcting a certain incorrect reference of an age restriction applying to certain members of the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System who participate in the Deferred Retirement Option Program (DROP).
STATUS
Passed
HB555 - Criminal Law - Unauthorized Dissemination of Personal Identifying Information - Prohibition
Andre V. Johnson, Gabriel Acevero, Adrian Boafo
Last updated 10 months ago
16 Co-Sponsors
Prohibiting the unauthorized dissemination of certain personal identifying information in order to threaten, intimidate, or harass a person, incite or facilitate the commission of a crime of violence against a person, or place the person in reasonable fear of death or serious bodily injury or intend the information to be used in such a way; establishing a cause of action for a person injured by the intentional dissemination of certain personal identifying information; and establishing a certain defense.
STATUS
Introduced
HB583 - Center for Firearm Violence Prevention and Intervention - Establishment
Nick Allen, Marlon Amprey, Heather Bagnall
Last updated 7 months ago
53 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Center for Firearm Violence Prevention and Intervention in the Maryland Department of Health to reduce firearm violence, harm from firearm violence, and misuse of firearms in the State by partnering with federal, State, and local agencies and affected communities to implement a public health approach to firearm violence reduction; requiring the Center to submit to the Governor and the General Assembly by May 1, 2025, a preliminary State Plan for a Public Health Approach to Reducing Firearm Violence; etc.
STATUS
Passed
HB432 - Courts and Judicial Proceedings and Criminal Procedure - Technical Corrections - References to Intellectual Disability
Aaron M. Kaufman, Gabriel Acevero, Jackie Addison
Last updated 7 months ago
60 Co-Sponsors
Replacing references to mental retardation with references to an intellectual disability in certain provisions of law.
STATUS
Passed
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