Publicly Funded Prekindergarten - Eligible Prekindergarten Provider Data Dashboard [HB-1530]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Funding ]
Requiring, beginning July 1, 2026, the State Department of Education to maintain on its website a data dashboard with certain information regarding certain eligible prekindergarten providers in the State; requiring the Department to partner with a nonprofit organization that has experience in maintaining a data dashboard for child care providers; and requiring the Department to establish a process that allows an eligible prekindergarten provider to opt out of being included in the data dashboard.
HB-1530: Publicly Funded Prekindergarten - Eligible Prekindergarten Provider Data Dashboard
Sponsored by: Rep. Aletheia McCaskill
First Reading House Rules And Executive Nominations on 02/24/2025
Commercial Driver's Licenses - Out-of-State Residents - School Buses or Passenger Vehicles [HB-1500]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Education ]
Authorizing the Motor Vehicle Administration to issue a Class B commercial driver's license with a school bus or passenger vehicle endorsement to nonresidents of Maryland who hold an equivalent commercial driver's license and the appropriate equivalent endorsement from the driver's licensing authority of a neighboring state.
HB-1500: Commercial Driver's Licenses - Out-of-State Residents - School Buses or Passenger Vehicles
Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Kerr
First Reading House Rules And Executive Nominations on 02/13/2025
Blueprint for Maryland's Future - Alterations [HB-1461]
[Education ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Community Development ]
[Human Rights ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Requiring institutions of higher education to adopt and enforce policies regarding antihate and antidiscrimination and time, place, and manner requirements for expressive conduct; requiring institutions of higher education to conduct certain meetings with certain approved student organizations; establishing the Campus Community Grant Program; and establishing the Workgroup on Combating Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Other Forms of Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Violence, Harassment, and Intimidation.
HB-1461: Blueprint for Maryland's Future - Alterations
Sponsored by: Rep. April Fleming Miller
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/03/2025
Labor and Employment - Exemptions From Overtime Pay - Administrative, Executive, or Professional Capacity [HB-1438]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Inflation ]
Altering the exemption from overtime pay for individuals who are employed to work in an administrative, executive, or professional capacity; increasing, except under certain circumstances, the exempted compensation rate in effect for certain periods of time based on the annual growth, if any, in the Consumer Price Index; requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry, beginning March 1, 2026, and each subsequent year, to determine and announce the new exempted compensation rate; etc.
HB-1438: Labor and Employment - Exemptions From Overtime Pay - Administrative, Executive, or Professional Capacity
Sponsored by: Rep. Dylan Behler
Hearing Canceled on 02/20/2025
Prekindergarten - 3-Year-Olds - Private Providers (Parental Choice for Prekindergarten Act) [HB-1374]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Altering the definition of "Tier I child" for purposes of publicly provided prekindergarten to not include 3-year-olds and only include certain 4-year-olds; authorizing an eligible private prekindergarten provider to elect to enroll 3-year-olds in publicly provided prekindergarten; requiring an eligible private provider that elects to enroll a Tier I 3-year-old to enter into a certain memorandum of understanding with the State Department of Education and the county board of education; etc.
Blueprint for Maryland's Future - Alterations [HB-1245]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Children and Youth ]
Repealing the Career Counseling Program for Middle and High School Students and the associated funding; requiring county boards of education to report on per-school funding for certain programs associated with the Blueprint for Maryland's Future in a certain manner; providing a waiver from the minimum funding per school requirement for schools with 350 or fewer total students; altering the definition of "Tier I child" for purposes of publicly funded prekindergarten to include certain children; etc.
HB-1245: Blueprint for Maryland's Future - Alterations
Sponsored by: Rep. Greg Wims
Hearing Canceled (appropriations) on 03/05/2025
Pesticide and Pest Control - State-Owned Property - Pesticide Use Restrictions and Pollinator Habitat [HB-1342]
[Agriculture ]
[Environmental ]
[Animals ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Science ]
Authorizing a person to apply a pesticide on State-owned property only if the person is applying a listed pesticide or a registered pesticide for specified purposes; requiring the Department of Agriculture to develop a model pesticide and pollinator habitat management plan to be implemented on State-owned and managed property; and requiring a unit of State government that manages tracts of State-owned property to work with the Department to adapt the model plan.
HB-1342: Pesticide and Pest Control - State-Owned Property - Pesticide Use Restrictions and Pollinator Habitat
Sponsored by: Rep. Robbyn Lewis
First Reading Environment And Transportation on 02/07/2025
Education - Primary and Secondary Schools - Alternative School Options (Right to Learn Act) [HB-1180]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Requiring, on or before January 1 each year, each county board of education to provide certain information to the parents or legal guardians of students who attend a failing school; requiring that a failing school continue to be designated as a failing school until certain conditions are met; requiring that a student who is attending a failing school be provided the opportunity to attend an alternative school; establishing the Broadening Options and Opportunities for Students Today Program; etc.
HB-1180: Education - Primary and Secondary Schools - Alternative School Options (Right to Learn Act)
Sponsored by: Rep. Steven Arentz
Hearing 3/03 At 11:00 A.m. on 02/07/2025
Vehicle Registration - Fee Exemptions - Military Honorees [HB-1216]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Veterans ]
[Military ]
Exempting recipients of the Purple Heart, the Medal of Honor, the Silver Star, or the Bronze Star and members of Gold Star families from the requirement to pay vehicle registration fees.
HB-1216: Vehicle Registration - Fee Exemptions - Military Honorees
Sponsored by: Rep. Sheree Sample-Hughes
Hearing 2/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/07/2025
Insurance - Automobile Insurance - Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund and Affordability Study [HB-1098]
[Insurance ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Requiring the Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund to calculate and report its risk based capital level in accordance with certain provisions of insurance law and maintain total adjusted capital in a certain amount; establishing that certain provisions of insurance law regarding prior approval rate making apply to the Fund during a certain time period and under certain circumstances; requiring the Maryland Insurance Administration to establish a workgroup to study automobile insurance affordability; etc.
HB-1098: Insurance - Automobile Insurance - Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund and Affordability Study
Sponsored by: Rep. David Fraser-hidalgo
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 395 on 05/06/2025
Public Utilities - Generating Stations - Generation and Siting (Renewable Energy Certainty Act) [HB-1036]
[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.
HB-1036: Public Utilities - Generating Stations - Generation and Siting (Renewable Energy Certainty Act)
Sponsored by: Rep. C.T. Wilson
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 624 on 05/20/2025
Public Schools - High School Sports Officials - Payment and Fees [SB-923]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Sports ]
Requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association, to develop and periodically update a list of similar high school sports that are categorized together; requiring a county board of education to ensure that certain high school sports officials for certain high school sports are provided equal pay; and requiring a county board to conduct invitations for bids for high school sports officiating services in a certain manner.
SB-923: Public Schools - High School Sports Officials - Payment and Fees
Sponsored by: Sen. Cheryl Kagan
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 342 on 05/06/2025
Education - High School Class Rankings and Guaranteed Admissions to Public Senior Institutions of Higher Education [SB-899]
[Education ]
Requiring, beginning in the 2025-2026 school year, certain high schools to prepare, in a certain manner, a class ranking of each student who completes grade 11 to establish rankings for use in a certain guaranteed admissions process to certain public senior institutions of higher education in the State; and requiring, beginning in the 2026-2027 academic year, public senior institutions of higher education to establish a certain process for accepting high school students who apply under a guaranteed admission policy.
SB-899: Education - High School Class Rankings and Guaranteed Admissions to Public Senior Institutions of Higher Education
Sponsored by: Sen. Malcolm Augustine
Hearing Canceled on 02/06/2025
Endangered and Threatened Species - Incidental Taking - Bats [SB-946]
[Animals ]
[Environmental ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
Authorizing the Secretary of Natural Resources to issue an incidental taking permit for the Indiana bat, the eastern small-footed bat, the northern long-eared bat, or the tricolored bat if an applicant submits a certain conservation plan and the Secretary makes certain findings.
SB-946: Endangered and Threatened Species - Incidental Taking - Bats
Sponsored by: Sen. Mike McKay
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 550 on 05/13/2025
Housing and Community Development - Division of Just Communities - Establishment [SB-890]
[Housing ]
[Community Development ]
[Public Health ]
[Grants ]
[Funding ]
Establishing the Division of Just Communities in the Department of Housing and Community Development; transferring the authority to designate an area as a Just Community from the Governor to the Department; altering the criteria for designating an area as a Just Community; and transferring the administration of the Community Health and Safety Works Grant Program to the Division.
SB-890: Housing and Community Development - Division of Just Communities - Establishment
Sponsored by: Sen. Mary Washington
Hearing 2/25 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/04/2025
Commercial Driver's Licenses - Out-of-State Residents - School Buses or Passenger Vehicles [SB-884]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Education ]
Authorizing the Motor Vehicle Administration to issue a Class B commercial driver's license with a school bus or passenger vehicle endorsement to nonresidents of Maryland who hold an equivalent commercial driver's license and the appropriate equivalent endorsement from the driver's licensing authority of a neighboring state.
SB-884: Commercial Driver's Licenses - Out-of-State Residents - School Buses or Passenger Vehicles
Sponsored by: Sen. Justin Ready
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/10/2025
Pesticide and Pest Control - State-Owned Property - Pesticide Use Restrictions and Pollinator Habitat [SB-932]
[Agriculture ]
[Environmental ]
[Animals ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Science ]
Authorizing a person to apply a pesticide on State-owned property only if the person is applying a listed pesticide or a registered pesticide for specified purposes; requiring the Department of Agriculture to develop a model pesticide and pollinator habitat management plan to be implemented on State-owned and managed property; and requiring a unit of State government that manages tracts of State-owned property to work with the Department to adapt the model plan.
SB-932: Pesticide and Pest Control - State-Owned Property - Pesticide Use Restrictions and Pollinator Habitat
Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Lewis Young
Hearing 2/18 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/04/2025
Blueprint for Maryland's Future - Alterations [SB-852]
[Education ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Children and Youth ]
Repealing the Career Counseling Program for Middle and High School Students and the associated funding; requiring county boards of education to report on per-school funding for certain programs associated with the Blueprint for Maryland's Future in a certain manner; providing a waiver from the minimum funding per school requirement for schools with 350 or fewer total students; altering the definition of "Tier I child" for purposes of publicly funded prekindergarten to include certain children; etc.
SB-852: Blueprint for Maryland's Future - Alterations
Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Lewis Young
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. (education, Energy, And The Environment) on 02/05/2025
Railroads - Safety Requirements (Maryland Railway Safety Act of 2025) [SB-855]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
Establishing requirements and prohibitions related to the operation of railroads in the State, including provisions related to the size of the crew, blocking of railroad and highway grade crossings, the length of trains operating on a main or branch line, wayside detectors, and investigations by railroad labor union representatives; and requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to establish and maintain a reporting system regarding the transportation of hazardous materials and waste by rail in the State.