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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Motor Vehicles - Speed Monitoring Systems - Statements and Certificates of Violations [SB-390]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Crime ]
Authorizing technicians, employed by or under contract with a certain agency, to swear to and affirm, based on inspection of recorded images, the occurrence of violations recorded by speed monitoring systems; requiring law enforcement officers and technicians to complete a reasonable training specific to speed monitoring systems; and defining "reasonable training" as a level of education, instruction, and practical experience sufficient to ensure competency in the inspection and interpretation of certain recorded images.
Sponsored by: Sen. William Smith
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 466 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Supportive Housing and Health Services [SB-367]
[Healthcare ]
[Housing ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program, beginning July 1, 2026, to provide supportive housing and health services to certain Program recipients; establishing requirements for professionals seeking certification as a certified supportive housing and health services professional and entities that employ or contract with supportive housing and health services professionals; requiring, by January 1, 2026, the Department to approve at least one accredited training and certification program; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Arthur Ellis
Hearing 2/04 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/22/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Education and Health - Emergency Use Epinephrine - Alterations [HB-420]
[Education ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Altering the defined term "auto-injectable epinephrine" to be "emergency use epinephrine" and to include certain drug delivery devices and products; and altering the name of the Emergency Use Auto-Injectable Epinephrine Program to be the Emergency Use Epinephrine Program.
Sponsored by: Rep. Julie Palakovich Carr
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 711 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Medical Exemption for Enhanced Tinted Windows - Time Limitation [HB-436]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Repealing the 2-year time limitation on medical exemptions for enhanced tinted windows for vehicle owners with certain permanent medical conditions.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Stein
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 452 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Health Occupations Boards - English Proficiency Requirements and Licensure by Endorsement for Nursing [HB-367]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Health ]
Prohibiting a health occupations board from requiring additional evidence of English proficiency as a condition for licensure, certification, or registration if an applicant holds a valid, unrestricted license, certification, or registration from another state that requires evidence of English proficiency; requiring each health occupations board that requires evidence of English proficiency to post a statement on their website that an applicant may not be required to provide additional evidence of proficiency; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 731 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act of 2025 [HB-352]
[Finance ]
[Taxes ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
Establishing or altering certain administrative penalties; altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; establishing certain funds; authorizing, requiring, or altering the distribution of certain revenue; altering the rates and rate brackets under the State income tax on certain income of individuals; increasing the cap on the percentage that may be deducted from all open purses and paid to a certain organization; etc.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 604 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act of 2025 [SB-321]
[Finance ]
[Taxes ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Establishing or altering certain administrative penalties; altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; establishing certain funds; authorizing, requiring, or altering the distribution of certain revenue; altering the rates and rate brackets under the State income tax on certain income of individuals; requiring certain groups of corporations to file a combined income tax return reflecting the aggregate income tax liability of all members of the group; etc.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Hearing Canceled on 02/14/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Baltimore County - Speed Monitoring Systems - Interstate 695 and Interstate 83 [SB-338]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Authorizing the State Highway Administration to place and use not more than four speed monitoring systems on Interstate 695 in Baltimore County and three on Interstate 83 in Baltimore County subject to notice requirements; requiring that fines collected as a result of violations enforced by speed monitoring systems on Interstate 695 in Baltimore County and Interstate 83 in Baltimore County be used to recover administrative costs and assist in covering the cost of certain roadway and safety improvements; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 582 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Motor Vehicles - Speed Monitoring Systems - Safety Corridors [HB-348]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Infrastructure ]
Authorizing the State Highway Administration to use speed monitoring systems in areas determined to be of high risk to vulnerable road users and priority corridors in the Administration's Pedestrian Safety Action Plan; and requiring the Comptroller to distribute revenue from the civil fines collected from the use of certain monitoring systems to a fund for the State Highway Administration to cover the costs of implementing and administering certain speed monitoring systems, for highway safety purposes and Administration system preservation.
Sponsored by: Rep. Vaughn Stewart
Referred Judicial Proceedings on 03/17/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Certificates of Birth, Licenses, and Identification Cards - Sex Designation (Birth Certificate Modernization Act) [SB-314]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Human Rights ]
Altering the circumstances under which the Secretary of Health is required to make a new certificate of birth due to the change of a sex designation of an individual; establishing requirements and a prohibition related to the making of new certificates of birth; and altering the options for indicating an individual's sex designation on a license, identification card, or moped operator's permit issued by the Motor Vehicle Administration.
Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence Lam
Hearing 2/05 At 2:00 P.m. (finance) on 01/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Motor Vehicles - Speed Monitoring Systems - Statements and Certificates of Violations [HB-343]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Crime ]
Authorizing certain technicians to swear to and affirm, based on inspection of recorded images, the occurrence of violations recorded by speed monitoring systems; requiring law enforcement officers and technicians to complete a reasonable training specific to the speed monitoring system before certifying any certificates of violation; and defining "reasonable training" as a sufficient level of education, instruction, and practical experience to ensure competency in the inspection of images generated by speed monitoring systems.
Sponsored by: Rep. Vaughn Stewart
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 467 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Adult Education - High School Diploma by Examination - Requirements and Study [HB-325]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Community Development ]
Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to allow an individual to choose to take all components of the General Educational Development Test in either English or Spanish; and requiring the Department to study the feasibility and cost of offering the examination in additional languages and to report its findings and recommendations to certain committees of the General Assembly on or before December 1, 2026.
Sponsored by: Rep. Eric Ebersole
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 328 on 05/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Security Guards and Security Guard Employers - Registration, Certification, and Regulation [SB-299]
[Cannabis ]
[Crime ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Providing that a cannabis agent who is employed to provide security services for a cannabis licensee or cannabis registrant as a security guard or by a security guard agency is not required to obtain a State or national criminal history records check if the cannabis agent is authorized to provide security guard services; altering the definition of "security guard employer" for purposes of certain provisions of law to exclude video lottery facilities, sports wagering facility licenses, and health care facilities; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Brian Feldman
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 703 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Real Property - Governing Bodies of Common Ownership Communities - Member Training [HB-299]
[Real Estate ]
[Housing ]
[Community Development ]
Requiring certain members of a board of directors or certain officers of a council of unit owners of certain condominiums and certain members of a governing body of a homeowners association to successfully complete a training curriculum on the responsibilities of being a member or an officer in a certain manner and subject to certain requirements.
Sponsored by: Rep. Marvin Holmes
Hearing 2/04 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/15/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Real Property - Regulation of Common Ownership Community Managers [HB-303]
[Real Estate ]
[Housing ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Community Development ]
Creating the State Board of Common Ownership Community Managers in the Maryland Department of Labor to oversee the licensing of community managers who provide management services for common ownership communities; providing that certain provisions of the Act do not prohibit certain persons from providing certain services under certain circumstances; requiring an individual to be issued a license by the Board before providing management services for a common ownership community under certain circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Healey
Hearing 3/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/19/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Community College Promise Scholarship Program - Revisions [SB-269]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Altering the number of years that a recipient of an award under the Maryland Community College Promise Scholarship Program may hold the award under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Sen. Michael Jackson
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 378 on 05/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Health Occupations Boards - Notation of Veteran Status and Eligibility for Benefits [SB-67]
[Veterans ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Authorizing health occupations boards to include a notation indicating veteran status on a license, certificate, registration, or public profile.
Sponsored by: Sen. Michael Jackson
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 248 on 05/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Pesticide and Pest Control - Revisions to Pesticide Applicator's Law and Repeal of Obsolete Provisions [HB-114]
[Agriculture ]
[Environmental ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Health ]
Establishing requirements for the commercial application of general use pesticides, the commercial application of restricted use pesticides, and the private application of restricted use pesticides; requiring a certified private applicator to ensure that certain individuals working under the certified applicator's supervision meet certain requirements; specifying the responsibility and liability of certified applicators for the application of certain pesticides; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 41 on 04/08/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Child Care Centers - Certificated Staff Ratio Requirement - Alteration [HB-150]
[Children and Youth ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Altering a requirement that a child care center that has 20 or more children have in attendance a certain ratio, set by the Department, of staff to children who hold a certificate in first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Rep.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 319 on 05/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Department of Labor - Licenses - Notation of Veteran Status and Eligibility for Benefits [SB-114]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Veterans ]
Authorizing units in the Maryland Department of Labor to establish a certain process to include a notation of veteran status on an occupational license.
Sponsored by: Sen. Michael Jackson
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 250 on 05/06/2025