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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Baltimore City - Assault of Special Enforcement Officers - Penalties [SB-825]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Increasing penalties for a person causing physical injury to a Baltimore City special enforcement officer, a special parking enforcement officer, or a special traffic enforcement officer while the officer is engaged in the performance of the officer's official duties; and providing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of the felony of assault in the second degree and is subject to imprisonment of up to 10 years or a fine of up to $5,000 or both.
Sponsored by: Sen. Cory V. McCray
Hearing 2/26 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/04/2025
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Public Service Commission - Membership - Alterations [SB-816]
[Telecommunications ]
[Public Safety ]
Increasing from five to seven the number of commissioners appointed to the Public Service Commission; establishing certain residency requirements for each commissioner; altering the manner in which the Chair of the Commission is appointed; requiring the Commission to submit, on or before August 1, 2025, a slate of nominees to the Governor for the initial appointment of certain commissioners; and applying the Act prospectively.
Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Anthony Muse
Hearing 3/06 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Transportation - Regional Transportation Authorities [SB-881]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Taxes ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Economic Development ]
Establishing the Baltimore region, capital region, and Southern Maryland region transportation authorities to develop and implement certain transportation plans; establishing the Baltimore region, capital region, and Southern Maryland region transportation funds as special, nonlapsing funds; imposing certain transportation authority sales tax surcharges, hotel surcharges, and transfer tax surcharges; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. James C. Rosapepe
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. (budget And Taxation) on 02/05/2025
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Economic Development - Western Maryland Economic Future Investment Board and Senator George C. Edwards Fund - Alterations [SB-861]
[Economic Development ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Altering the composition of the Western Maryland Economic Future Investment Board; providing that the Executive Director serves as a nonvoting member of the Board; altering the purpose of the Senator George C. Edwards Fund to provide grant or loan funding to create jobs and significant economic development opportunities in the region; altering the criteria that the Board must consider when awarding certain grant and loan funding from the fund; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Paul Corderman
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 379 on 05/06/2025
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Public Utilities - Generating Stations - Generation and Siting (Renewable Energy Certainty Act) [SB-931]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Climate Change ]
Altering the factors the Public Service Commission must consider before taking final action on a certificate of public convenience and necessity; establishing a distributed generation certificate of public convenience and necessity to authorize the construction and operation of a certain distributed solar energy generating system; requiring the Power Plant Research Program, by July 1, 2026, to develop and submit to the Commission proposed siting and design requirements and licensing conditions; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Brian J. Feldman
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 623 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Collective Bargaining - Local Government Employees and Public Employee Relations Act [SB-976]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Safety ]
Establishing collective bargaining rights for public local employees; applying the Maryland Public Employee Relations Act to county and municipal government employers and their employees; providing that a public employee may be deemed a certain management employee for purposes of establishing collective bargaining rights; establishing impasse procedures for collective bargaining between public local employees and their employers that include binding arbitration; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence K. Lam
Hearing 2/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/06/2025
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Baltimore City - Alcoholic Beverages - Authorizations and Revisions [SB-939]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
Requiring the Board of License Commissioners for Baltimore City to impose a fee of up to $250 for expedited processing of certain Class C per diem licenses; requiring the Board to adopt regulations related to the application process for Class C per diem licenses, including for the denial or revocation of the licenses; limiting the number of licenses that may be issued to a person for the same location within a calendar year; authorizing the issuance of certain alcoholic beverages licenses in the 40th alcoholic beverages district; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Antonio Hayes
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 811 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Corporations and Associations - Cooperative Limited Equity Housing Corporations - Establishment [SB-927]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Community Development ]
Authorizing a Maryland nonstock corporation to convert to a cooperative limited equity housing corporation subject to certain requirements; requiring a cooperative limited equity housing corporation for certain households to receive notice to vacate a portion of a certain residential rental facility; requiring a cooperative limited equity housing corporation to reimburse certain households for moving expenses; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. William C. Smith
Hearing 3/25 At 1:00 P.m. (environment And Transportation) on 03/19/2025
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Baltimore City - Alcoholic Beverages - 43rd Alcoholic Beverages District - Class B-D-7 Licenses [SB-788]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
Authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Baltimore City to issue additional B-D-7 beer, wine, and liquor licenses in certain areas of the 43rd alcoholic beverages district of Baltimore City if the license applicant meets certain criteria; and extending to July 1, 2026, an alcoholic beverages license issued for a certain area for the purpose of renewal.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mary Washington
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 806 on 05/20/2025
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Public Middle, High, and Charter Schools - Start Time for Instruction [HB-1015]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Requiring, beginning in the 2027-2028 school year, each public middle school and each public high school to begin instruction not earlier than 8 a.m. and 8:30 a.m., respectively, unless granted a waiver by the State Board of Education under certain circumstances; and requiring each county board of education and each public charter school to implement a certain public service campaign to raise awareness on sleep deprivation and later school start times.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason C. Buckel
Hearing Canceled on 02/07/2025
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Baltimore Convention and Tourism Redevelopment and Operating Authority Task Force - Revisions [HB-1016]
[Tourism ]
[Economic Development ]
[Funding ]
Requiring the Baltimore Convention and Tourism Redevelopment and Operating Authority Task Force to identify certain funding sources and mechanisms, and to submit a report to the Governor, the Mayor of Baltimore City, and the General Assembly on its findings and recommendations by December 1, 2025; and extending the termination date for the Task Force from June 30, 2025, to June 30, 2026.
Sponsored by: Rep. Melissa Wells
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 214 on 04/22/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Works Contracts - Apprenticeship Requirements (Maryland Workforce Apprenticeship Utilization Act) [HB-1017]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Construction ]
[Economic Development ]
[Education ]
Altering certain apprenticeship requirements relating to public works contracts to require certain contractors and subcontractors to employ a certain number of qualified apprentices or journeyworkers necessary to meet a certain applicable percentage for the project; altering which projects are subject to certain apprenticeship requirements; repealing certain provisions of law that authorized contractors and subcontractors to make certain payments to a certain apprenticeship program in lieu of employing certain apprentices; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Melissa Wells
Hearing 2/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/04/2025
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Baltimore City and Montgomery County - Stop Sign Monitoring Systems - Authorization MC 4-25 [HB-1032]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Authorizing the use of stop sign monitoring systems in school zones in Baltimore City and Montgomery County under the pilot program authorized for Prince George's County, if authorized by local law; and requiring the Montgomery County Department of Transportation and the Baltimore City Department of Transportation to individually report to the Governor and General Assembly by December 1, 2027, the data on the program through October 1, 2027, in their individual jurisdictions.
Sponsored by: Rep. Caylin Allen Young
Favorable With Amendments {623025/1 Adopted on 04/04/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
State Procurement - Worker Residency Requirements [HB-957]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Construction ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
Requiring certain contractors to ensure that at least 35% of apprenticeship hours on certain projects are performed by State residents; requiring the Department of Labor to enforce certain residency requirements; providing that a contractor that fails to meet certain requirements is liable for an amount twice the number of apprentice hours at the apprentice rate by which the contractor failed to meet the applicable requirement; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne R Kaiser
Third Reading Passed (122-12) on 04/07/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Estates and Trusts - Registers of Wills - Salary [HB-918]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Providing that the maximum annual salary of a register of wills may not be more than the salary of a State employee at grade 26, step 20 of the State of Maryland Standard and Bargaining Salary Scale in effect on the day before the register begins a new term of office; and repealing as obsolete a certain minimum salary requirement for the register of wills for Baltimore City.
Sponsored by: Rep. Luke Clippinger
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/15/2025
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State Department of Education and Department of Information Technology - Evaluation on Artificial Intelligence in Public Schools [HB-981]
[Education ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Artificial Intelligence ]
Requiring the State Department of Education to conduct an evaluation on the use and potential use of artificial intelligence in public schools; requiring that the evaluation consist of a survey of local school systems and a review of available systems that use artificial intelligence to assist with student learning; requiring the Department of Information Technology to assist the State Department of Education in performing its review; and requiring the Department to issue a final report on the results of the evaluation by December 15, 2026.
Sponsored by: Rep. Eric D. Ebersole
Hearing Canceled on 02/07/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Economic Development - Tax Increment Financing - Noncontiguous Areas [HB-942]
[Economic Development ]
[Housing ]
[Taxes ]
[Community Development ]
Authorizing the designation of certain noncontiguous areas as development districts; and requiring the governing body of a political subdivision to limit redevelopment of noncontiguous parcels within a development district for affordable housing that is deed restricted to households whose household income does not exceed 80% of area median income.
Sponsored by: Rep. Matthew J. Schindler
Hearing 3/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/24/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Department of General Services - Maryland Capitol Police - Jurisdiction [SB-766]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
Altering the jurisdiction of the Maryland Capitol Police of the Department of General Services.
Sponsored by: Sen. Michael A. Jackson
Hearing 3/04 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/04/2025
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State Department of Education and Department of Information Technology - Evaluation on Artificial Intelligence in Public Schools [SB-704]
[Education ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Artificial Intelligence ]
Requiring the State Department of Education to conduct an evaluation on the use and potential use of artificial intelligence in public schools; requiring that the evaluation consist of a survey of local school systems and a review of available systems that use artificial intelligence to assist with student learning; requiring the Department of Information Technology to assist the State Department of Education in performing its review; and requiring the Department to issue a final report on the results of the evaluation by December 15, 2026.
Sponsored by: Sen. Katie Fry Hester
Hearing Canceled on 02/19/2025
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Baltimore City - Tax Sales - Heir-Occupied Property and Registry [SB-724]
[Property Tax ]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Taxes ]
[Community Development ]
Authorizing the tax collector in Baltimore City to withhold from tax sale certain property occupied by an heir of a deceased owner of the property; requiring certain property occupied by an heir of a deceased owner of the property to be withheld from tax sale in Baltimore City; requiring Baltimore City to establish a registry for interested parties to designate property to be withheld from tax sale under certain provisions of law; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Cory V. McCray
Hearing 2/25 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/03/2025