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SB738 - Freedom to Read Act
Nancy King, Pamela G Beidle, Joanne C. Benson
Last updated 5 months ago
20 Co-Sponsors
Establishing a State policy that local school systems operate their school library media programs consistent with certain standards; requiring each local school system to develop a policy and procedures to review objections to materials in a school library media program; prohibiting a county board of education from dismissing, demoting, suspending, disciplining, reassigning, transferring, or otherwise retaliating against certain school library media program personnel for performing their job duties consistent with certain standards; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB591 - Education - Public Libraries - Collective Bargaining (Library Workers Empowerment Act)
Clarence K. Lam, Katherine Ann Klausmeier, Guy J Guzzone
Last updated 6 months ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Authorizing employees of certain public libraries to form, join, and participate in an employee organization and engage in certain other activities related to collective bargaining; requiring employers and certified exclusive representatives to engage in good faith bargaining; establishing a collective bargaining process for employees of certain public libraries; prohibiting employers and employee organizations from engaging in certain actions regarding the exercise of an employee's rights under the Act; etc.
STATUS
Engrossed
SJ1 - Affirming the Federal Equal Rights Amendment
Ariana M. Kelly, Pamela G Beidle, Sarah K. Elfreth
Last updated 6 months ago
17 Co-Sponsors
Urging the Administration of President Joseph R. Biden to publish, without delay, the federal Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and for the U.S. Congress to pass a joint resolution affirming the Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment.
STATUS
Enrolled
SB393 - Higher Education - Community College Facilities Renewal Grant Program - Alterations
Nancy King
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to distribute grants of equal amounts to each community college each fiscal year under the Community College Facilities Renewal Grant Program; and requiring the Governor in fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter to annually appropriate in the operating or capital budget of the Commission an amount equal to 10% of the appropriation to the Community College Construction Grant Program in the same fiscal year.
STATUS
Introduced
SB346 - Income Tax - Subtraction Modification - Military Retirement Income (Keep Our Heroes Home Act)
Sarah K. Elfreth, Jack Bailey, Pamela G Beidle
Last updated 8 months ago
20 Co-Sponsors
Phasing in, over a period of 3 years, an increase in a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax to allow for a subtraction of all military retirement income beginning in taxable year 2026.
STATUS
Introduced
SB340 - Property Tax - Credit to Offset Increases in Local Tax Revenue
Nancy King
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Authorizing Baltimore City, a county, or a municipal corporation to grant the property tax credit to offset increases in local income tax revenues to the owner-occupied property of a homeowner for taxable years beginning after June 30, 2022, but before July 1, 2025, whether or not the homeowner has an application for the homestead property tax credit on file with the State Department of Assessments and Taxation, notwithstanding a certain provision of law.
STATUS
Introduced
SB436 - Workplace Fraud and Prevailing Wage - Violations - Penalties and Referrals
Dawn D. Gile, William C. Ferguson, Malcolm L. Augustine
Last updated 6 months ago
22 Co-Sponsors
Increasing a certain civil penalty and administrative penalty for employers knowingly failing to properly classify individuals as employees; and requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to refer to the Comptroller and the U.S. Department of Labor certain complaints that allege a violation of certain tax laws under certain circumstances.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB431 - Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumption - Long COVID (Home of the Brave Act of 2024)
Jeff D. Waldstreicher, Sarah K. Elfreth, Brian J. Feldman
Last updated 8 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Establishing that governmental essential workers are presumed to have an occupational disease that is compensable under workers' compensation law after being diagnosed with long COVID under certain circumstances; and applying the Act retroactively.
STATUS
Introduced
SB414 - Education - Maryland Council on Economic Education - Funding
Craig Zucker, Nancy King, Katherine Ann Klausmeier
Last updated 7 months ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the Governor, for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2028, to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $200,000 for the Maryland Council on Economic Education to support economic and financial literacy education of school-age children in the State; and providing that the funding may be used only to improve students' economic and personal finance understanding, provide free resources to public and nonpublic school special education financial literacy instructors, and assist with certain curriculum development.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB377 - Higher Education - Teacher Development and Retention Program - Alterations
Nancy King
Last updated 5 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Altering the definition of "institution of initial eligibility" to include community colleges as eligible institutions as part of the criteria for applicants for the Teacher Development and Retention Program.
STATUS
Passed
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Maryland Senate
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