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SB480 - Protecting Election Officials Act of 2024
Jack Bailey, Pamela G Beidle, Benjamin T. Brooks
Last updated 7 months ago
17 Co-Sponsors
Prohibiting a person from knowingly and willfully making a threat to harm an election official or an immediate family member of an election official because of the election official's role in administering the election process; and establishing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to imprisonment not exceeding 3 years or a fine not exceeding $2,500 or both.
STATUS
Passed
SB949 - Consumer Protection - Self-Administered Sexual Assault Evidence Collection Kits
Shelly Hettleman
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Providing that a party in a criminal trial involving an allegation of sexually assaultive behavior may not introduce information that physical evidence of sexually assaultive behavior was obtained using certain materials; providing that selling, offering for sale, or distributing a certain self-administered sexual assault evidence collection kit is an unfair, abusive, or deceptive trade practice; establishing the Forensic Nurse Examiner Training Grant Program and the Forensic Nurse Examiner Training Grant Program Fund; etc.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB1099 - Emergency Services - Automated External Defibrillator and Naloxone Co-Location Initiative - Requirements for Public Buildings
William C. Smith, Dawn D. Gile, Mary Dulany James
Last updated 6 months ago
26 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the State Emergency Medical Services Board, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health, to develop and implement an initiative under the Public Access Automated External Defibrillator Program to require that naloxone be co-located with each automated external defibrillator placed in a public building; establishing a certain immunity from liability for individuals who administer naloxone made available under the initiative in response to a known or suspected drug overdose; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB951 - Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment Workgroup
Shelly Hettleman
Last updated 6 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Establishing the Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment Workgroup; and requiring the Workgroup to report its framework for reliability and reporting standards for electric vehicle charging stations and recommendations to the Senate Committee on Education, Energy, and the Environment and the House Economic Matters Committee on or before November 1, 2024.
STATUS
Passed
SB905 - Public Safety – Extreme Risk Protective Orders – Review of Court Records
Ariana M. Kelly, Clarence K. Lam, Shelly Hettleman
Last updated 6 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Authorizing researchers affiliated with institutions of higher education who are conducting research to review a court record related to a petition for an extreme risk protective order; requiring the Maryland Judiciary to require an institution of higher education that has researchers reviewing court records to enter into an agreement providing for the storage and handling of the records; authorizing the Judiciary to institute an injunction or other remedy for a violation of the agreement and to prevent disclosure of certain records; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB975 - Maryland Department of Health - Reproductive Health Care Clinic Security Grant Program - Establishment (Supporting Reproductive Health Care Clinics Act)
Sarah K. Elfreth, Dawn D. Gile, Shelly Hettleman
Last updated 6 months ago
17 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Reproductive Health Care Clinic Security Grant Program in the Maryland Department of Health to assist reproductive health care clinics in the State with costs associated with security improvements and safety operational expenses; prohibiting the Department from disclosing certain personal information of an individual associated with the Program; and authorizing the Governor to include in the annual budget bill for fiscal year 2026 an appropriation of $500,000 to the Program.
STATUS
Passed
SB1067 - Baltimore County - Speed Monitoring Systems - Interstate 695
Chris West, Benjamin T. Brooks, Charles E. Sydnor
Last updated 8 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Authorizing the State Highway Administration to place and use 16 speed monitoring systems on Interstate 695 in Baltimore County, except that only 4 may be operated at any given time; requiring that fines collected in Baltimore County as a result of violations enforced by speed monitoring systems on Interstate 695 be used to assist in covering the cost of roadway and safety improvements on Interstate 695 in Baltimore County; requiring the Department of State Police to mail a warning notice instead of a citation for a certain violation; etc.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB934 - Baltimore County - Sheriff - Salary
Benjamin T. Brooks, Johnny Ray Salling, Shelly Hettleman
Last updated 8 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Altering the annual salary of the Sheriff of Baltimore County.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB1058 - Education - Curriculum Standards - Antihate and Holocaust Education (Educate to Stop the Hate Act)
Benjamin Fred Kramer, Benjamin T. Brooks, Brian J. Feldman
Last updated 8 months ago
14 Co-Sponsors
Requiring county boards of education to establish curriculum guides and courses of study that are aligned with certain content standards developed by the State Department of Education, and requiring the State Board of Education to withhold certain funds from county boards that fail to do so; establishing certain requirements for the Department's process for developing, reviewing, and adopting certain content standards, curriculum standards, and curriculum resources; etc.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB950 - Sexual Assault Forensic Examinations Conducted Through Telehealth - Reimbursement and Study
Shelly Hettleman
Last updated 6 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Authorizing the reimbursement of a sexual assault forensic exam conducted through peer-to-peer telehealth under certain circumstances; requiring the Maryland Sexual Assault Evidence Kit Policy and Funding Committee to conduct a study on the feasibility of a telehealth program that includes a pilot program for conducting sexual assault forensic examinations through telehealth; and requiring the Committee to report its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly on or before December 1, 2024.
STATUS
Passed
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