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SB981 - Local Cybersecurity Preparedness and Local Cybersecurity Support Fund - Alterations
Katie Fry Hester
Last updated 10 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Authorizing the Governor for fiscal years 2026 and 2027, to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $10,000,000 for the Local Cybersecurity Support Fund; requiring the Department of Information Technology to provide sufficient information security officers to assist the Director of Local Cybersecurity; requiring that, by July 1, 2025, a local school system shall implement for all school employees multifactor authentication, endpoint detection and response on all system-owned devices, and network monitoring; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
SB920 - State Government - Maryland Electric Transmission Authority - Established
Katie Fry Hester
Last updated 10 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Establishing the Maryland Electric Transmission Authority to serve as the lead State agency on issues related to electricity transmission; and requiring the Authority to advocate on, research, evaluate, and identify certain issues related to electricity transmission.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1082 - Solar Energy and Energy Storage - Development and State Procurement
Katie Fry Hester
Last updated 10 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Authorizing a county to enact a local law creating a conservation and restoration fund for a certain purpose; establishing the Utility-Scale Solar Design and Siting Commission in the Power Plant Research Program to provide recommendations related to solar energy development and land conservation and preservation; requiring the owner or operator of a certain solar energy generating station to plant and maintain a certain cover crop on certain land and submit a certain vegetation management plan to a certain entity; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
SB980 - Education - Computer Science - Content Standards and Requirements
Katie Fry Hester
Last updated 10 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring public high schools to promote and increase the enrollment of certain students in high school computer science courses; requiring, beginning on or before June 1, 2025, the State Board of Education to update computer science content standards to include certain information; and requiring county boards of education to provide developmentally appropriate computer science instruction in public elementary and middle schools in the county.
STATUS
Introduced
SB956 - Environment - Water Pollution Control - Protecting State Waters From PFAS Pollution (Protecting State Waters From PFAS Pollution Act)
Katie Fry Hester
Last updated 6 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring the Department of the Environment to identify significant industrial users that currently and intentionally use PFAS chemicals by October 1, 2024; requiring the Department to develop certain PFAS monitoring and testing criteria for significant industrial users by January 1, 2025; requiring the Department to develop PFAS action levels for addressing PFAS contamination from industrial discharge for pretreatment permits by June 1, 2025; requiring the Department to develop certain mitigtion plans by September 1, 2025; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB1083 - Public Utilities - Electric Distribution System Planning - Regulations, Plans, and Fund
Katie Fry Hester
Last updated 10 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring the Public Service Commission to adopt certain regulations to oversee electric distribution system planning in the State on or before December 31, 2025; requiring electric companies in the State to submit to the Commission certain plans to upgrade certain parts of the electric distribution system in the State on or before January 1, 2026; and establishing the Electric Distribution System Make-Ready Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund administered by the Maryland Energy Administration.
STATUS
Introduced
SB957 - Labor and Employment – Automated Employment Decision Tools – Prohibition
Katie Fry Hester
Last updated 10 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Prohibiting, subject to a certain exception, an employer from using an automated employment decision tool to make certain employment decisions; and requiring an employer, under certain circumstances, to notify an applicant for employment of the employer's use of an automated employment decision tool within 30 days after the use; and providing certain penalties per violation for an employer that violates the notification requirement of the Act.
STATUS
Introduced
SB958 - Responding to Emergency Needs From Extreme Weather (RENEW) Act of 2024
Katie Fry Hester, Benjamin T. Brooks, Dawn D. Gile
Last updated 10 months ago
16 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Payment Program in the Department of the Environment to secure payments from certain businesses that extract fossil fuels or refine petroleum products in order to provide a source of revenue for State efforts to adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change and to address the health impacts of climate change on vulnerable populations; establishing the Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Fund to support efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
SB932 - Maryland Agricultural BMP Priority Environmental Stewardship Program - Established
Sarah K. Elfreth, Jason C. Gallion, Dawn D. Gile
Last updated 8 months ago
5 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
SB592 - Maryland Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Program - Materials for Individualized Education Program, Individualized Family Service Plan, and 504 Plan Meetings
Craig Zucker, Brian J. Feldman, Jason C. Gallion
Last updated 7 months ago
16 Co-Sponsors
Requiring a local school system to provide to parents at certain individualized education program, individualized family service plan, and 504 plan meetings for children with disabilities certain written informational materials regarding the Maryland ABLE Program: requiring the State Treasurer to develop informational materials about the Maryland ABLE Program that may be distributed electronically or by hand; and requiring the State Treasurer to provide informational materials to the State Board of Education and county boards.
STATUS
Passed
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