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SB858 - Revenge Porn - Civil Action and Reporting Requirement
Katie Fry Hester, Sarah K. Elfreth, Arthur Ellis
Last updated 8 months ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Authorizing a person to bring and maintain a civil action for defamation under certain circumstances; and altering the prohibition against revenge porn to prohibit a person from knowingly distributing a computer-generated visual representation that is indistinguishable from another actual and identifiable person under certain circumstances.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB808 - Anaerobic Digestion Technology - Coordination and Guidance
Mary Elizabeth Carozza, Jason C. Gallion, Katie Fry Hester
Last updated 6 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the Department of Agriculture to coordinate with the Maryland Energy Administration, the Department of the Environment, the Department of Commerce, the University of Maryland College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, electric companies, farmers, and industry to ensure anaerobic digestion technology projects are appropriately coordinated; and requiring the Department, in coordination with certain agencies, to establish guidance for farmers on anaerobic digestion technology.
STATUS
Passed
SB682 - Electric Companies - Regional Transmission Organizations - Report (Utility Transparency and Accountability Act)
Katie Fry Hester
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring a certain electric company to submit a report to the Public Service Commission on or before February 1 each year regarding certain votes cast by the electric company and any affiliates of the electric company at a meeting of the regional transmission organization; providing that the Act does not apply to municipal electric utilities; etc.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB472 - State Government - Permits, Licenses, and Certificates - Processing (Transparent Government Act of 2024)
Jack Bailey, Pamela G Beidle, Benjamin T. Brooks
Last updated 6 months ago
25 Co-Sponsors
Requiring each principal department and independent unit to create a catalog of information relating to permits, licenses, and certificates issued by the department or independent unit and submit the catalog to the Governor on or before October 1, 2024; requiring each principal department and independent unit to post a completed update of information relating to permits, licenses, and certificates on the website of the department or independent unit on or before October 1, 2025; and establishing the Government Efficiency Commission.
STATUS
Passed
SB869 - Property Tax - Improvements on Agricultural Land - Assessment
Guy J Guzzone, Sarah K. Elfreth, Katie Fry Hester
Last updated 9 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Clarifying a property owner's right to receive information on the calculation of an assessment; requiring owners of certain buildings to provide certain information to the supervisor of assessments within 90 days after construction of the buildings is completed; creating a subclass of real property consisting of improvements on agricultural land; requiring improvements on agricultural land to be assessed in a certain manner; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
SB388 - Prescription Drug Affordability Board - Authority for Upper Payment Limits and Funding (Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for All Marylanders Act of 2024)
Dawn D. Gile, Brian J. Feldman, Pamela G Beidle
Last updated 10 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the Governor in fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of at least $1,000,000 for the Prescription Drug Affordability Fund which provides funding for the Board; and requiring the Board, under certain circumstances, to establish a process for setting upper payment limits for all purchases and payor reimbursements of prescription drug products in the State that the Board determines have led or will lead to affordability challenges.
STATUS
Introduced
SB541 - Maryland Online Data Privacy Act of 2024
Dawn D. Gile, Katie Fry Hester, Malcolm L. Augustine
Last updated 6 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Regulating the manner in which a controller or a processor in possession of a consumer's personal data may process the consumer's personal data; authorizing a consumer to exercise certain rights in regards to the consumer's personal data; requiring a controller of personal data to establish a method for a consumer to exercise certain rights in regards to the consumer's personal data; requiring a controller to comply with a consumer's request to exercise a certain right in a certain manner, except under certain circumstances; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB979 - Education - Artificial Intelligence - Guidelines and Pilot Program
Katie Fry Hester
Last updated 9 months ago
1 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
SB978 - Election Law - Synthetic Media - Disclosure and Regulation
Katie Fry Hester
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring certain persons that publish, distribute, or disseminate or cause to be published, distributed, or disseminated synthetic media to publish on their website the original content that was manipulated to generate the synthetic media; and requiring certain persons that publish, distribute, or disseminate or cause to be published, distributed, or disseminated synthetic media to include a certain disclosure in a certain manner.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB982 - Information Technology - Modernization of Information Technology Projects
Katie Fry Hester, Mary Washington, Malcolm L. Augustine
Last updated 6 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Altering the duties of the Secretary of Information Technology related to modernization of information technology systems; renaming the Major Information Technology Development Fund; requiring 20% of the amount appropriated to the Fund to be set aside for expedited projects each fiscal year; requiring the Board of Public Works to expedite the placement on an agenda and approval of certain contracts; altering the name, duties, and membership of the Modernize Maryland Oversight Commission; and providing for the terms of certain Commission members.
STATUS
Passed
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