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HB7 - Housing Innovation Pilot Program and Housing Innovation Fund - Establishment (Housing Innovation Pilot Program Act of 2024)
Vaughn Stewart, Jackie Addison, Nick Allen
Last updated 7 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Housing Innovation Fund to provide loans for local housing authorities and county governments to develop mixed-income, cross-subsidized housing; establishing the Housing Innovation Pilot Program in the Department of Housing and Community Development to assist public housing authorities and county governments in increasing housing production and to reward counties pursuing solutions to the problem of housing scarcity; authorizing the Governor to include an appropriation of $5,000,000 to the Fund in certain fiscal years; etc.
STATUS
Passed
HB1096 - Public Health - Overdose and Infectious Disease Prevention Services Program
Joseline A Pena-Melnyk, Gabriel Acevero, Jackie Addison
Last updated 9 months ago
28 Co-Sponsors
Authorizing a community-based organization, with the approval of the Maryland Department of Health, to establish an Overdose and Infectious Disease Prevention Services Program to provide a location for the consumption of preobtained drugs, provide sterile needles, administer first aid, and certain other services; authorizing a Program to bill the insurance carrier of an individual who uses the services; authorizing the Department to approve not more than six programs, preferably two in urban, two in rural, and two in suburban areas; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1120 - State Board of Social Work Examiners – Continuing Education Programs – Approval of Authorized Sponsors
Jamila J. Woods, Tiffany T. Alston, Kevin M. Harris
Last updated 9 months ago
14 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the State Board of Social Work Examiners to establish a process to review and approve certain persons as authorized sponsors of social work continuing education programs, subject to a requirement that at least one pathway for approval does not require an applicant to have the approval of a national or regional organization.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1101 - Standing - Environmental and Natural Resources Protection Proceedings (Clean Water Justice Act of 2024)
Sara Norris Love, Lorig Charkoudian, Linda Foley
Last updated 6 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Providing certain persons standing in environmental and natural resources protection proceedings; authorizing persons that meet standing requirements to bring certain civil actions under certain circumstances; requiring a plaintiff, under certain circumstances, to give certain notice and provide certain documentation to the Department of the Environment and the Attorney General and to file a certain affidavit; authorizing a court to grant certain relief, award certain costs, and impose certain civil penalties; etc.
STATUS
Passed
HB1137 - Maryland Medical Assistance Program and Health Insurance - Required Coverage for Calcium Score Testing
Jamila J. Woods, Nick Allen, Tiffany T. Alston
Last updated 9 months ago
19 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations to provide coverage for calcium score testing for individuals who have at least three of the following risk factors: diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or a family history of premature coronary artery disease.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1055 - Environment – Highways – Salt Application
Lily Qi, Linda Foley, Michele Guyton
Last updated 8 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Requiring each State agency, county, and municipality to maintain certain records of its highway salt application and submit to the Department of the Environment by July 1 each year a report on its highway salt application for the previous fiscal year, including the total amount of salt applied and the amount of salt the jurisdiction had at the beginning of the fiscal year.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB1147 - Environment - Playground Surfacing Materials - Prohibitions
Michele Guyton, Mary A. Lehman, Nick Allen
Last updated 6 months ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Prohibiting, on or after October 1, 2024, a person from installing, supplying, selling, soliciting, or offering for sale playground surfacing materials that contain a certain concentration of lead or a component product, material, or substance to which PFAS chemicals were previously intentionally added for certain purposes; prohibiting a county, municipality, or unit of local government from adopting any ordinance, rule, or regulation related to playground surfacing materials that is less stringent than of the Act; etc.
STATUS
Passed
HB1090 - Revitalizing Neighborhoods Through Homeownership Program and Fund – Established
Pamela Queen, Nick Allen, Linda Foley
Last updated 9 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Revitalizing Neighborhoods Through Homeownership Program to provide financial assistance in the form of loans to political subdivisions to support the purchase and renovation of HUD dollar homes and abandoned residential properties for resale to low-to moderate-income buyers; and establishing the Revitalizing Neighborhoods Through Homeownership Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to provide financial assistance in the form of loans under the provisions of the Program.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1077 - Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs – Small Business Climate Change Coordinator – Establishment
Sheila Ruth, Nick Allen, Jennifer Terrasa
Last updated 9 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Small Business Climate Change Coordinator in the Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs in the Executive Department to support the State's small, minority, and women-owned business community on matters related to climate change; and requiring, on request, the Coordinator to advise the Governor and the General Assembly on the impact of climate change on small businesses and the effect of a transition to advanced clean energy on small businesses in the State.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1057 - Task Force to Study the Use and Possession of De Minimis Quantities of Controlled Dangerous Substances
Sheila Ruth
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Establishing the Task Force to Study the Use and Possession of De Minimis Quantities of Controlled Dangerous Substances; and requiring the Task Force to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly by October 1, 2025.
STATUS
Introduced
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