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HB789 - Primary and Secondary Education - Public School Employees - Salaries
Jessica Feldmark, Eric D. Ebersole, Terri Hill
Last updated 8 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Altering, beginning July 1, 2026, the minimum salary for certain public school employees to be $60,000; and establishing, subject to certain conditions, certain salary increases for certain public school employees.
STATUS
Introduced
HB754 - Vehicle Excise Tax - Trade-In Allowance - Repeal
Melissa Wells
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Altering the calculation of the vehicle excise tax by repealing an allowance against the total purchase price of a vehicle for the value of a trade-in vehicle.
STATUS
Introduced
HB765 - Property Tax - Credit for Hotel or Residential Development Projects
Melissa Wells
Last updated 5 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county or municipal corporation to grant, by law, a tax credit against the county or municipal corporation property tax imposed on real property that is used for certain hotel or residential development projects; and altering eligibility for a certain property tax credit in Wicomico County against the county or municipal corporation property tax imposed on real property that is used for certain hotel or residential development projects.
STATUS
Passed
HB696 - Primary and Secondary Education - Breakfast and Lunch Programs - Universal Expansion Report
Julie Palakovich Carr, Nick Allen, Dalya Attar
Last updated 6 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
HJ1 - Affirming the Federal Equal Rights Amendment
Edith Jerry Patterson, Lesley J. Lopez, Jackie Addison
Last updated 9 months ago
74 Co-Sponsors
Urging the Administration of President Joseph R. Biden to publish the federal Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and for the U.S. Congress to affirm, by joint resolution, the Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment.
STATUS
Introduced
HB467 - Food Service Facilities and Tipped Workers - Service Fees and Tip Credits (One Fair Wage Act of 2024)
Adrian Boafo, Veronica Turner, Mary A. Lehman
Last updated 8 months ago
44 Co-Sponsors
Establishing consumer protections related to service fees charged by restaurants; specifying a certain tip credit amount that is in effect for certain time periods; and prohibiting employers of tipped employees, beginning January 1, 2027, from including a tip credit amount as part of the employees' wages.
STATUS
Introduced
HB357 - Agriculture - Confinement of Egg-Laying Hens in Commercial Egg Production - Prohibitions
Jennifer Terrasa, Mary A. Lehman, Nick Allen
Last updated 9 months ago
23 Co-Sponsors
Prohibiting a certain farm owner or operator from knowingly confining egg-laying hens in an enclosure in a certain manner, subject to certain exceptions, on and after January 1, 2026; prohibiting a business owner or operator or a farm owner or operator from selling shell eggs or egg products under certain circumstances on and after January 1, 2026; and specifying that a certain certification be obtained in a certain manner to sell shell eggs and egg products.
STATUS
Introduced
HB334 - Higher Education - MPowering Joint Steering Council - Funding
Jared Scott Solomon, Marlon Amprey, Frank M Conaway
Last updated 9 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the Governor, beginning in fiscal year 2026, to include in the annual budget bill a certain appropriation for the MPowering Joint Steering Council to use exclusively on the University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing; and requiring the amount of the appropriation to increase each fiscal year, up to $6,000,000 in fiscal year 2029 and each fiscal year thereafter.
STATUS
Introduced
HB432 - Courts and Judicial Proceedings and Criminal Procedure - Technical Corrections - References to Intellectual Disability
Aaron M. Kaufman, Gabriel Acevero, Jackie Addison
Last updated 5 months ago
60 Co-Sponsors
Replacing references to mental retardation with references to an intellectual disability in certain provisions of law.
STATUS
Passed
HB496 - Criminal Law - Sexual Crimes - Definition of Consent and Repeal of Force
Emily Khoury Shetty, Elizabeth M. Embry, Gabriel Acevero
Last updated 5 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
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Representative from Maryland district HD-040
COMMITTEES
Maryland House
BIRTH
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