Civil Actions
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Transportation Network Companies - Deactivation of Operators - Policy and Appeal Procedure [SB-747]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Altering the definitions of "transportation network company" and "transportation network operator" for purposes of provisions of law regarding transportation network companies; requiring a transportation network company to maintain a deactivation policy that provides the policies and procedures for the deactivation of operators; prohibiting a transportation network company from deactivating an operator unless the deactivation is consistent with the company's deactivation policy; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence Lam
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/06/2025
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Civil Actions - Maryland Transit Administration - Limitation of Tort Liability [SB-743]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
Limiting the liability of the Maryland Transit Administration as to a tort action to $400,000 to a single claimant for injuries arising from a single incident or occurrence.
Sponsored by: Sen. William Smith
Hearing 2/18 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/04/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
School Psychologist Interstate Licensure Compact [HB-959]
[Education ]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Entering into the School Psychologist Interstate Licensure Compact for the purpose of authorizing licensed school psychologists who hold multistate licenses to provide school psychological services in member states; establishing requirements for multistate licensure; establishing the School Psychologist Interstate Licensure Compact Commission; providing for the withdrawal from the Compact; and providing the Act is contingent on the enactment of substantially similar legislation in seven other states.
Sponsored by: Rep. Bernice Mireku-North
Hearing Canceled on 02/07/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Courts - Global Warming and Climate Change - Prohibited Actions (Ratepayer Protection Act of 2025) [HB-903]
[Climate Change ]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Prohibiting the State or a local government, or an agency of the State or a local government, from filing an action for monetary damages or alleged economic damages against a business for the adverse effects of global warming or climate change in the State.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholaus Kipke
Hearing 2/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/10/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Electronic Health Networks and Electronic Medical Record Vendors of Nursing Homes - Release of Records - Enforcement [SB-678]
[Healthcare ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Health ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
Authorizing the Office of the Attorney General to enforce and certain persons to bring a certain civil action regarding a certain provision of law authorizing a nursing home that contracts with or uses an electronic health network or electronic medical record vendor to direct the network or vendor to release electronic medical records or electronic health care transactions to a business associate of the nursing home.
Sponsored by: Sen. James Rosapepe
Hearing 3/06 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Tobacco Product Manufacturers - Escrow Act - Alterations [HB-870]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring, beginning in 2026 and each year thereafter, a certain tobacco product manufacturer to pay a certain equity fee instead of depositing certain funds in a certain escrow account; authorizing a certain tobacco product manufacturer to contest the amount of the equity fee paid under certain circumstances; requiring a certain tobacco product manufacturer to make a certain certification to the Attorney General each year; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Samuel Rosenberg
Hearing 2/19 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/04/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Nuisance - Common Carriers - Damage to Public Infrastructure [HB-860]
[Infrastructure ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Construction ]
Prohibiting certain common carriers from damaging certain public infrastructure necessitating the closure of the infrastructure; establishing that a violation of the Act is a public nuisance; authorizing the State or a local government to bring a civil action against a common carrier for a violation under the Act; and providing that a common carrier that commits a violation may be liable to the State or local government for civil penalties of $1,000 per day for each day the public nuisance continues.
Sponsored by: Rep. Frank Conaway
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 454 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Criminal Law – Human Remains, Pet Remains, and Cemeteries – Prohibitions [SB-616]
[Crime ]
[Animals ]
[Religion ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Altering the definition of "permanent cemetery" to include a cemetery owned by a family or religious organization; prohibiting a person from tampering with human remains interred in a cemetery; altering certain penalties relating to prohibitions against removal of human remains from a burial site; prohibiting a person from damaging, desecrating, mutilating, storing, tampering with, trafficking, or transporting human remains; prohibiting a person from removing or attempting to remove pet remains from a cemetery; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mike McKay
Hearing 2/12 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/03/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Uniform Disposition of Abandoned Property Act – Revisions [SB-665]
[Finance ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Data Privacy ]
Making certain virtual currency subject to the abandoned property laws in the State; establishing certain provisions to determine certain information about certain apparent owners of abandoned property; altering and establishing certain provisions pertaining to the presumption of abandonment for certain types of property; establishing certain procedures to establish the death of a certain insured or certain annuitant; altering the dollar value at which the Comptroller is required to publish certain notice; etc.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 635 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Electronic Health Networks and Electronic Medical Record Vendors of Nursing Homes - Release of Records - Enforcement [HB-812]
[Healthcare ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Health ]
[Senior Citizens ]
Authorizing the Office of the Attorney General to enforce and certain persons to bring a certain civil action regarding a certain provision of law authorizing a nursing home that contracts with or uses an electronic health network or electronic medical record vendor to direct the network or vendor to release electronic medical records or electronic health care transactions to a business associate of the nursing home.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Kaiser
Hearing 2/26 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/04/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Courts - Artificial Intelligence Evidence Clinic Pilot Program - Establishment [SB-655]
[Artificial Intelligence ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Education ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Establishing an Artificial Intelligence Evidence Clinic Pilot Program within the Administrative Office of the Courts to provide expertise in artificial intelligence to the circuit courts and the District Court in the form of expert testimony on certain types of evidence before the courts; requiring the Office to develop a grant application for the Program and award grants to eligible higher education institutions; and authorizing the Governor for fiscal years 2027 and 2028 to include $250,000 in the annual budget bill for the Program.
Sponsored by: Sen. Katie Hester
Vetoed By The Governor (policy) on 05/16/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Multifamily Dwellings - Smoking Policies [HB-804]
[Housing ]
[Public Health ]
[Real Estate ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Requiring the governing body of a common ownership community to develop a smoking policy that applies to all common areas of the property if the property subject to the control of the governing body is a multifamily dwelling.
Sponsored by: Rep. Frank Conaway
First Reading Environment And Transportation on 01/29/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Consumer Protection - Motor Vehicles - Right to Repair [HB-843]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Data Privacy ]
Requiring a manufacturer of certain motor vehicles to provide certain information and tools related to the diagnosis, service, and repair of motor vehicles to certain owners and independent repair facilities under certain circumstances; requiring a manufacturer that sells motor vehicles with telematics systems to install an open data platform in certain motor vehicles; requiring the Consumer Protection Division of the Office of the Attorney General to develop a certain document relating to telematics systems and certain consumer rights; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jeff Ghrist
First Reading Economic Matters on 01/29/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Uniform Disposition of Abandoned Property Act - Revisions [HB-761]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
Making certain virtual currency subject to the abandoned property laws in the State; establishing certain provisions to determine certain information about certain apparent owners of abandoned property; altering and establishing certain provisions pertaining to the presumption of abandonment for certain types of property; establishing certain procedures to establish the death of a certain insured or certain annuitant; altering from $100 to $50 the value at which the Comptroller is required to publish a certain notice; etc.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 636 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Petition for Guardianship of the Property of Alleged Disabled Person - Stay of Civil Actions and Proceedings [HB-756]
[Disabilities ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Authorizing a party to the guardianship of the property of an alleged disabled person to request a stay of certain civil actions or proceedings on the filing of a petition for guardianship of the property of an alleged disabled person; requiring a certain party to the guardianship of the property of an alleged disabled person to provide certain notice to a court granting a stay and to parties to a civil action or proceeding; applying the Act prospectively; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Frank Conaway
Hearing 3/26 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/19/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Civil Actions - Tortious Injury to or Death of Pet - Compensatory Damages (Buddy's Law) [SB-581]
[Animals ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Increasing from $10,000 to $25,000 the maximum amount of compensatory damages that may be awarded to an owner of a pet from a person who tortiously causes an injury to or death of the pet while acting individually or through an animal under the person's ownership, direction, or control.
Sponsored by: Sen. Shaneka Henson
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 100 on 04/22/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Civil Actions - Noneconomic Damages - Personal Injury and Wrongful Death [SB-584]
[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.
Sponsored by: Sen. William Smith
Hearing 2/11 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/30/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Education - Interscholastic and Intramural Junior Varsity and Varsity Teams and Sports - Designation (Fairness in Girls' Sports Act) [SB-588]
[Education ]
[Sports ]
[Children and Youth ]
Requiring certain interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and varsity athletic teams or sports sponsored by certain schools to be expressly designated in a certain manner; prohibiting certain interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and varsity athletic teams or sports from including certain students; prohibiting certain entities from taking certain adverse actions against a school under certain circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mary Carozza
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Civil Actions - Immunity - Disclosure of Allegations of Sexually Assaultive Behavior (Stop Silencing Survivors Act) [SB-549]
[Crime ]
[Human Rights ]
[Public Safety ]
[Data Privacy ]
Establishing an immunity from liability for a person who discloses information about allegations of sexually assaultive behavior if the person acts in good faith; establishing a presumption of good faith unless it is shown by clear and convincing evidence that the person acted with actual malice or intentionally or recklessly disclosed false information; providing for the award of attorney's fees and costs in certain circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Cheryl Kagan
Hearing 2/06 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/28/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Civil Actions - Sexual Deepfake Representations and Revenge Porn [HB-663]
[Data Privacy ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
Authorizing a person to bring and maintain a civil action for defamation against another person who distributes a computer-generated visual representation that is indistinguishable from an actual visual representation of the person and falsely depicts the person with his or her intimate parts exposed or engaged in sexual activity; clarifying what constitutes a visual representation for a certain prohibition against distributing a certain visual representation in a certain manner; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Lesley Lopez
Hearing Canceled on 02/17/2025