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SB774 - Public Safety - Maryland Entertainment District Security Grant Program
William C. Ferguson, William C. Smith, Jeff D. Waldstreicher
Last updated 6 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Establishing the Maryland Entertainment District Security Grant Program to assist community organizations, nonprofit entities, and local governments in funding security operations during times of high pedestrian traffic in certain entertainment districts; establishing the Maryland Entertainment District Security Grant Program Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; authorizing the Governor, beginning in fiscal year 2026 and each fiscal year thereafter, to appropriate up to $1,000,000 in the annual budget bill to the Fund; etc.
STATUS
Passed
SB442 - Street Racing and Exhibition Driving - Prohibited Acts, Enforcement, and Penalties
Pamela G Beidle, Malcolm L. Augustine, Nick Charles
Last updated 6 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Altering certain penalties and points assessments for certain motor vehicle violations related to participation in a race or speed contest; prohibiting a person from engaging in exhibition driving on any highway or private property that is used for driving by the public; and establishing certain affirmative defenses to a certain charge of exhibition driving.
STATUS
Passed
SB391 - Criminal Law - Sexual Extortion, Stalking, and Revenge Porn - Statute of Limitations and In Banc Review
Ariana M. Kelly, William C. Smith, Mary Elizabeth Carozza
Last updated 6 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Altering the statute of limitations applicable to the crime of sexual extortion to be 5 years and the crime of stalking to be 10 years; providing that the State may institute a prosecution for revenge porn at any time; and providing that, for purposes of the Maryland Constitution, a person who commits revenge porn shall be deemed to have committed a misdemeanor whose punishment is confinement in the penitentiary and may reserve a point or question for a certain in banc review.
STATUS
Passed
SB611 - Frederick and Washington Counties – Bow Hunting – Openly Carrying Handguns
William Folden, Jack Bailey, Mike McKay
Last updated 10 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from prohibiting certain licensed bow hunters from openly carrying a handgun under certain circumstances in Frederick County and Washington County during deer hunting season.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1145 - Public and Nonpublic Schools - Child Sex Offenders - Prohibition on In-Person Attendance
Johnny Ray Salling, Jack Bailey, Mary Elizabeth Carozza
Last updated 8 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Requiring law enforcement agencies and State's Attorneys to notify schools of certain information when a child is arrested for a sexual offense in the third degree; prohibiting a child from in-person attendance at a public school or a nonpublic school that receives State funds if the child has been convicted or adjudicated delinquent of rape or other sexual offenses; and requiring each local school system to provide alternative educational options for children prohibited from in-person attendance under the Act.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB4 - Criminal Procedure - Victims' Rights - Notification of Release From Confinement (Jaycee Webster Victims' Rights Act)
Jeff D. Waldstreicher, William C. Smith, Jill P Carter
Last updated 9 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Requiring a certain commitment unit to include in a notification given to a victim, victim's representative, or witness regarding the release from confinement of a sentenced defendant or child respondent the name and telephone number of the lead victim services employee of the State's Attorney's office of the county in which the sentenced defendant or child respondent was prosecuted.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB1178 - Higher Education - Douglas J. J. Peters Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship - Repeal of Service Terminal Date
Jack Bailey, Malcolm L. Augustine, Pamela G Beidle
Last updated 7 months ago
47 Co-Sponsors
Repealing the service terminal date required to be eligible for the Douglas J. J. Peters Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship.
STATUS
Passed
SB2 - Juvenile Law - Child in Need of Supervision - Mandatory Petition (NyKayla Strawder Memorial Act)
Jill P Carter, Nick Charles, William Folden
Last updated 9 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Requiring an intake officer to file a petition alleging that a child under the age of 13 years is either delinquent or a child in need of supervision if the child is alleged to have committed an act that results in the death of a victim; and requiring a law enforcement officer to forward a complaint alleging that a child under the age of 13 years committed an act that resulted in the death of a victim to the Department of Juvenile Services for appropriate action.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB744 - Juvenile Law - Reform
William C. Smith, William Folden, Mary Dulany James
Last updated 9 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Altering the jurisdiction of the juvenile court over a child of a certain age alleged to have committed a certain offense; altering certain procedures relating to juvenile intake, detention, and probation; requiring the Secretary of Juvenile Services to include certain programs in a certain plan; requiring the State Board of Victim Services to include certain information about filing a certain complaint in a certain pamphlet; repealing certain provisions relating to the State Advisory Board for Juvenile Services; etc.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB1150 - Crime of Violence - Educational Facilities, Medical Facilities, and Places of Worship - Penalty (Sacred Places Safety Act)
William Folden
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Prohibiting a person from committing a crime of violence while the person is in an educational facility, a medical facility, or a place of worship; and providing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a felony, and in addition to any other penalty imposed for the underlying crime of violence, on conviction is subject to imprisonment of up to 10 years.
STATUS
Introduced
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