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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Center for School Safety - Secure Schools Emergency Response Grant Program - Established [HB-1167]
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[Grants ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Establishing the Secure Schools Emergency Response Grant Program to be administered by the Maryland Center for School Safety to provide funds to improve emergency notification systems and communications between public elementary and secondary school personnel, a public safety answering point, and a public safety agency during emergency events; requiring the Center to ensure that the Program is operating and available to each county board by September 1, 2026; and authorizing the Governor to include an appropriation in the annual budget bill.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason C. Buckel
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 293 on 04/25/2024
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Gettr Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Wildlife – Protections and Highway Crossings [SB-902]
[Animals ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Environmental ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring the Department of Natural Resources, in collaboration with the State Highway Administration, to identify and prioritize certain species whose habitat or movement corridors intersect with State highways and develop tools, technology, and techniques to identify certain State highway infrastructure locations; requiring the Department of Natural Resources to develop a methodology and a cost estimate for performing a statewide deer population survey on or before November 1, 2024; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Lewis Young
Hearing Canceled on 04/02/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Center for School Safety - Secure Schools Emergency Response Grant Program - Established [SB-1090]
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[Grants ]
[Funding ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Establishing the Secure Schools Emergency Response Grant Program to be administered by the Maryland Center for School Safety to provide funds to improve emergency notification systems and communications between public elementary and secondary school personnel, a public safety answering point, and a public safety agency during emergency events; requiring the Center to ensure that the Program is operating and available to each county board on or before September 1, 2026; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Cheryl C. Kagan
Third Reading Passed (47-0) on 04/08/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Boating Accidents - Duty to Remain at the Scene, Render Assistance, and Provide Information - Penalties [SB-585]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Requiring the operator of a vessel involved in a collision, accident, or other casualty to return to and remain at the scene of the collision, accident, or casualty until the operator has rendered certain assistance and provided certain information; establishing certain criminal penalties for the operator of a vessel involved in a collision, accident, or other casualty who does not return to and remain at the scene of the collision, accident, or casualty or render certain assistance and provide certain information; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mary Elizabeth Carozza
Hearing Canceled on 03/27/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Montgomery County - Speed Monitoring Systems - High-Risk Highways MC 15-24 [HB-665]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Funding ]
Authorizing the placement and use of speed monitoring systems on highways in Montgomery County that are at high risk for certain motor vehicle crashes; prohibiting the placement and use of speed monitoring systems on certain highways in Montgomery County; requiring the fines collected by Montgomery County or by a municipal government in Montgomery County as a result of violations enforced by a speed monitoring system to be used to fund the study, design, and construction of certain safety-related projects; etc.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Third Reading Passed (106-26) on 03/18/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Handgun Permits - Accidental Discharge and Training Requirements - Maryland State Police Gun Center (Firearm Safety Act of 2024) [HB-546]
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[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Requiring a person who holds a handgun permit and accidentally discharges a firearm to register within 90 days for a certain firearms safety training course and complete the course within 6 months of the incident; requiring the Secretary of State Police to revoke a handgun permit of a certain person who fails to successfully complete a certain firearms safety training course; requiring the Secretary to provide certain written notice to a person whose handgun permit is revoked; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicole A. Williams
Hearing Canceled on 02/21/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Transportation - Vision Zero - Implementation [HB-344]
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[Public Safety ]
Establishing certain standards and requirements for implementing the Vision Zero program under the Maryland Department of Transportation; requiring the Department to report to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 31 each year on the status of Vision Zero, the activities, findings, and recommendations of the Vision Zero coordinator, and certain meetings held in the previous year; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Vincent Fraser-hidalgo
Rereferred To Judicial Proceedings on 04/05/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Transportation - Vision Zero - Implementation [SB-345]
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[Public Safety ]
Establishing certain standards and requirements for implementing the Vision Zero program under the Maryland Department of Transportation.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jeff D. Waldstreicher
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 603 on 05/09/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Handgun Permits - Accidental Discharge and Training Requirements - Maryland State Police Gun Center (Firearm Safety Act of 2024) [SB-324]
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[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Requiring a person who holds a handgun permit and accidentally discharges a firearm to register within 90 days for a certain firearms safety training course and complete the course within 6 months of the incident; requiring the Secretary of State Police to revoke a handgun permit of a certain person who fails to successfully complete a certain firearms safety training course; requiring the Secretary to provide certain written notice to a person whose handgun permit is revoked; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Cory V. McCray
Hearing Canceled on 01/30/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Private Passenger Motor Vehicle Insurance - Premium Increases - Collisions With Wild Animals [SB-172]
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[Insurance ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Prohibiting an insurer, with respect to private passenger motor vehicle insurance, from increasing a premium based on the claims history of an insured where two or fewer of the claims within the immediately preceding 3-year period were for accidents or losses caused by a collision with a free-roaming wild animal and for which the insured was not at fault for the loss.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jack Bailey
Hearing 1/31 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/15/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Reckless and Negligent Driving - Death of Another - Must-Appear Violation (Sherry's and Christian's Law) [SB-68]
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[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Providing that a person charged with reckless or negligent driving must appear in court and may not prepay the fine if the reckless or negligent driving contributed to an accident that resulted in the death of another person, unless a court for good cause shown waives the requirement to appear.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mary Elizabeth Carozza
Hearing 1/31 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/15/2024
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Texas 88th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to the investigation of certain motor vehicle accidents. [HB-2564]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Relating to the investigation of certain motor vehicle accidents.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ryan Guillen
Referred To Transportation on 05/11/2023
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Texas 88th Legislature Regular Session
Notifying the federal government of the tragic loss of firearms, accessories, and ammunition of all private gun owners in Hunt, Hopkins, and Van Zandt Counties, and possibly other counties, in a series of alleged boating accidents. [HCR-54]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Notifying the federal government of the tragic loss of firearms, accessories, and ammunition of all private gun owners in Hunt, Hopkins, and Van Zandt Counties, and possibly other counties, in a series of alleged boating accidents.
Sponsored by: Rep. Bryan Slaton
Referred To State Affairs on 03/02/2023
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Texas 88th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to the terminology used to describe transportation-related accidents. [HB-2190]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
Relating to the terminology used to describe transportation-related accidents.
Sponsored by: Sen. Juan Hinojosa
Effective On 9/1/23 on 06/12/2023
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Courts – Wrongful Acts by Deceased Individuals – Actions In Rem [SB-683]
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[Healthcare ]
[Consumer Protection ]
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Authorizing an individual who has been harmed by a deceased individual for whom no estate has been opened to bring an action against the deceased individual's insurance policy for personal injury or death arising from a motor vehicle accident; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jeff D. Waldstreicher
Hearing 3/15 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/14/2023
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Texas 88th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to the release of a motor vehicle accident report to an employee or authorized representative of a vehicle storage facility. [HB-1964]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Data Privacy ]
Relating to the release of a motor vehicle accident report to an employee or authorized representative of a vehicle storage facility.
Sponsored by: Rep. Briscoe Cain
Effective On 9/1/23 on 06/09/2023
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Workers' Compensation - Benefits - Offset and Study [HB-590]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
Altering the circumstances under which the payment of a benefit by a governmental unit or quasi-public corporation to a covered employee offsets the liability for benefits under the workers' compensation law; and stating that it is the intent of the General Assembly that the Maryland Association of Counties and the Professional Fire Fighters of Maryland jointly research and report on the effects of the amendments to the Labor and Employment Article implemented by the Act to certain committees of the General Assembly by December 1, 2024.
Sponsored by: Rep. Andrew C. Pruski
Referred Rules on 04/03/2023
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Workers' Compensation - Benefits - Offset and Study [SB-377]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
Altering the circumstances under which the payment of a benefit by a governmental unit or quasi-public corporation to a covered employee offsets the liability for benefits under the workers' compensation law; and stating that it is the intent of the General Assembly that the Maryland Association of Counties and the Professional Fire Fighters of Maryland jointly research and report data and analysis on the effects of the Act by December 1, 2024, to interested parties and certain committees of the General Assembly.
Sponsored by: Sen. Benjamin Fred Kramer
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 410 on 05/03/2023
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Reckless and Negligent Driving – Death of Another – Must–Appear Violation (Sherry’s and Christian’s Law) [HB-360]
[Crime ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Providing that a person charged with reckless or negligent driving must appear in court and may not prepay the fine if the reckless or negligent driving contributed to an accident that resulted in the death of another person.
Sponsored by: Rep. Frank M Conaway
Hearing 2/08 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/01/2023
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Reckless and Negligent Driving - Penalties (Sherry's and Christian's Law) [SB-252]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Providing that a person charged with negligent driving must appear in court and may not prepay the fine if the negligent driving contributed to an accident that resulted in the death of another person; and establishing a penalty for a person convicted of a violation of the prohibition on reckless driving of imprisonment not exceeding 5 days or a fine not exceeding $1,000 or both.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mary Elizabeth Carozza
Hearing 3/29 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/22/2023