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SB841 - Transportation - Motor Fuel Tax Rates, Vehicle-Miles-Traveled Tax, and Farebox Recovery Requirements (Transportation Equity, Fairness, and Privacy Act of 2024)
Justin D Ready, Jack Bailey, Mary Elizabeth Carozza
Last updated 9 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Repealing a requirement that certain motor fuel tax rates be adjusted in future years based on growth in the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers; prohibiting the State or a local jurisdiction from imposing or levying a vehicle-miles-traveled tax or certain other similar fees, tolls, or taxes; requiring that the Maryland Transit Administration achieve a certain farebox recovery requirement for certain transit services; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
SB862 - Public Health - Pregnancy - Coercion (Protecting Pregnant Women Against Coercive Abuse and Human Trafficking)
Mary Elizabeth Carozza, William Folden, Johnny Mautz
Last updated 9 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Prohibiting an individual from committing or threatening certain actions, including certain actions related to sex trafficking, with the intent of coercing a pregnant woman to have an abortion; providing that a pregnant minor is considered an emancipated minor for purposes of eligibility for public assistance if the minor is denied financial support from a parent or guardian due to the minor's refusal to have an abortion; etc.
STATUS
Introduced
SB472 - State Government - Permits, Licenses, and Certificates - Processing (Transparent Government Act of 2024)
Jack Bailey, Pamela G Beidle, Benjamin T. Brooks
Last updated 6 months ago
25 Co-Sponsors
Requiring each principal department and independent unit to create a catalog of information relating to permits, licenses, and certificates issued by the department or independent unit and submit the catalog to the Governor on or before October 1, 2024; requiring each principal department and independent unit to post a completed update of information relating to permits, licenses, and certificates on the website of the department or independent unit on or before October 1, 2025; and establishing the Government Efficiency Commission.
STATUS
Passed
SB886 - State and Local Parks - Playgrounds - Safety Standards (Our Kids Play Safe Playground Safety Act of 2024)
William Folden
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Requiring each unit of State or local government responsible for the construction and maintenance of a playground to ensure that the playground is constructed and maintained in accordance with certain safety standards; and requiring a unit of State or local government to inspect at least once every 2 years a certain playground to evaluate compliance with certain safety standards and to keep a record of the inspections including a written plan to address any safety issues discovered during the inspection.
STATUS
Introduced
SB897 - Income Tax Subtraction Modification – Death Benefits – Law Enforcement Officers and Fire Fighters
Mary Elizabeth Carozza, Jack Bailey, William Folden
Last updated 6 months ago
16 Co-Sponsors
Allowing a subtraction under the Maryland income tax for the payment of a death benefit under a collective bargaining agreement from a county or municipality in the State to the surviving spouse or other beneficiary of a law enforcement officer or fire fighter whose death arises out of or in the course of employment as a law enforcement officer or fire fighter; and applying the Act retroactively to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2021.
STATUS
Passed
SB887 - Veterans Affairs - Responses to Arrested Veterans and Veterans in Crisis
William Folden, Dawn D. Gile
Last updated 9 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Requiring the Department of Veterans Affairs to coordinate with law enforcement agencies to establish a process by which the Department and the First Responders Action Group shall receive certain information about a veteran who was arrested; requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill a $2,000,000 appropriation to the Maryland Police and Correctional Training Commissions; and requiring the Commissions, in consultation with the Department, to assess and develop first response practices to veterans in crisis.
STATUS
Introduced
SB885 - Residential Leases - Termination Due to Medical Conditions - Limitation of Liability for Rent
William Folden
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Altering the limitation on the liability of a tenant for rent due under a lease due to the tenant's inability to live at the leased premises because of a medical condition to include individuals who will be under the care of a medical professional, professional caregiver, or family member at another location.
STATUS
Introduced
SB381 - Education - Interscholastic and Intramural Junior Varsity and Varsity Teams - Designation Based on Sex (Fairness In Girls' Sports Act)
Mary Elizabeth Carozza, Jack Bailey, Paul Corderman
Last updated 10 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Requiring certain interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and varsity athletic teams or sports sponsored by certain schools to be expressly designated based on biological sex; prohibiting certain entities from taking certain adverse actions against a school for maintaining separate interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and varsity athletic teams and sports for students of the female sex; and providing that certain individuals have the right to bring a civil action under certain circumstances.
STATUS
Introduced
SB396 - Criminal Procedure - Stops and Searches - Cannabis Odor and Admission of Evidence (Drug-Free Roadways Act of 2024)
William Folden, Jack Bailey, Mary Elizabeth Carozza
Last updated 10 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Repealing a certain prohibition against a law enforcement officer initiating a stop or a search of a motor vehicle based solely on the odor of burnt or unburnt cannabis; and repealing a certain provision of law rendering inadmissible certain evidence discovered or obtained in violation of a certain provision of law.
STATUS
Introduced
SB312 - Public Information Act - Personnel Records of Elected Officials and Joint Ethics Committee Records
William Folden
Last updated 10 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Establishing that certain records of elected officials are not personnel records for the purposes of inspection under the Public Information Act; and establishing that certain records of the State Ethics Commission and Joint Committee on Legislative Ethics are available for public inspection under certain circumstances.
STATUS
Introduced
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