Civil Actions
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Courts - Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation [SB-167]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Altering the conditions under which a lawsuit is considered a strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP suit); altering the conditions under which a defendant in a SLAPP suit is not civilly liable for certain communications; establishing certain standards and requirements relating to a motion to dismiss an alleged SLAPP suit; and applying the Act prospectively.
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Education - Interscholastic and Intramural Junior Varsity and Varsity Teams - Designation Based on Sex (Fairness in Girls' Sports Act) [HB-156]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Sports ]
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.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Real Property - Wrongful Detainer - Time of Hearing and Service of Process [HB-164]
[Real Estate ]
[Housing ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Property Tax ]
Requiring a certain hearing to be held not more than 14 calendar days after a certain complaint is filed; and altering requirements relating to service of process in a wrongful detainer action.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Family Law – Child Support [HB-218]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
Altering provisions relating to the commencement of a proceeding to hold a person in contempt of court for the person's default in payment of periodic child or spousal support under the terms of a court order and provisions relating to the commencement of a contempt proceeding for failure to make a payment of child or spousal support under a court order; authorizing the Child Support Administration to take action to secure an assignment to the State of any rights to support on behalf of a child receiving foster care maintenance payments; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Health - Abortion (Heartbeat Bill) [HB-108]
[Healthcare ]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring that an abortion be performed by a physician, rather than a qualified provider; repealing certain provisions of law related to State interference with an abortion, regulations related to abortion, and liability or criminal punishment for qualified providers who perform an abortion; prohibiting a physician from knowingly performing, inducing, or attempting to perform or induce an abortion under certain circumstances and subject to certain exceptions; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Civil Actions - Noneconomic Damages - Personal Injury and Wrongful Death [HB-113]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Healthcare ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Repealing certain limitations on noneconomic damages in civil actions for personal injury or wrongful death; and applying the Act prospectively.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
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Department of the Environment - Fees, Penalties, Funding, and Regulation [SB-250]
[Environmental ]
[Air Quality ]
[Funding ]
[Water ]
[Energy ]
[Public Health ]
Altering the authorized uses of the Maryland Clean Air Fund to include certain activities relating to mitigating and reducing air pollution in the State; authorizing the Department of the Environment to charge a fee for processing and issuing on-site sewage disposal permits and individual well construction permits under certain circumstances; requiring a holder of a license to transfer oil into the State to pay a certain fee when oil owned by the licensee is first transferred into the State; establishing the Private Dam Repair Fund; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact [HB-118]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Repealing certain provisions of law relating to the Interstate Agreement on Qualifications of Educational Personnel; providing that certain provisions of law regarding the issuance of an initial teaching certificate do not apply to certain teachers; entering into the Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact for the purpose of authorizing regulated teachers who hold multistate licenses to teach in each member state; establishing requirements for multistate licensure; providing a certain contingency requirement; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Out-of-State Vehicles - Improper Registration [HB-219]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Establishing a certain process for bringing vehicles owned by State residents that are improperly registered in another state into compliance with the Maryland Vehicle Law.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
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Hospitals - Financial Assistance and Collection of Debts - Policies [HB-268]
[Healthcare ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Health ]
[Finance ]
Altering provisions of law related to a hospital's financial assistance and collection of debts policies; specifying the percentage by which a hospital is required to reduce a patient's out-of-pocket expenses under certain circumstances; adding to the notice requirements relating to a hospital's financial assistance policy; prohibiting a hospital from filing a civil action to collect a debt against a patient whose outstanding debt is at or below $500; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Health Care Providers - Assisted Reproductive Treatment - Informed Consent and Fraud [HB-95]
[Healthcare ]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Health ]
Prohibiting a health care provider from using the health care provider's reproductive material when providing assistive reproductive treatment without the consent of the recipient of the treatment; prohibiting a health care provider from using a donor's reproductive material to provide assisted reproductive treatment without the donor's informed consent or in a manner that is inconsistent with the donor's consent; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Procurement - Scrutinized Entities - Prohibition [HB-188]
[Trade ]
[International ]
[National Security ]
[Public Safety ]
Prohibiting an entity owned, operated, or controlled by the government of certain countries subject to an embargo under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations from participating in any procurement with the State, a local government in the State, a public instrumentality in the State, or any governmental unit in the State; requiring the Board of Public Works to make certain determinations and maintain and publish a certain list of scrutinized entities; preempting any local ordinance, rule, or regulation that conflicts with the Act; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Economic Development - County or Municipal Corporation Economic Development Authority - Powers and Use of Proceeds [HB-97]
[Economic Development ]
[Community Development ]
[Finance ]
[Taxes ]
Expanding the acceptable names authorized for an economic development authority established by a county or municipal corporation; expanding the powers of an authority, subject to limitations in the articles of incorporation of the authority; authorizing an authority to issue certain bonds in accordance with certain requirements; expanding the authorized uses of tax increment proceeds; etc.
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North Carolina 2023-2024 Session
Property Rights and Protections [HB-1070]
[Real Estate ]
Property Rights and Protections
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North Carolina 2023-2024 Session
Protect Reproductive Health [SB-848]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Protect Reproductive Health
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North Carolina 2023-2024 Session
Require Findings for Certain Indigent Appeals [HB-1002]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Funding ]
Require Findings for Certain Indigent Appeals
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North Carolina 2023-2024 Session
Removal of Squatters from Private Property [HB-984]
[Real Estate ]
[Housing ]
[Crime ]
[Property Tax ]
[Public Safety ]
Removal of Squatters from Private Property
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North Carolina 2023-2024 Session
GSC Technical Corrections 2024 [HB-917]
GSC Technical Corrections 2024
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North Carolina 2023-2024 Session
GSC Attorneys' Fees in Debt Instruments [SB-767]
[Finance ]
GSC Attorneys' Fees in Debt Instruments
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to loss of consortium. [SB-365]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Healthcare ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a civil cause of action for loss of consortium by a child when the negligent or wrongful act of a third person caused the death or total and permanent disability of a parent.