Community Facilities And Services
Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Community Schools - Rental Assistance for Community School Families Program and Fund - Establishment [HB-428]
Establishing the Rental Assistance for Community School Families Program to provide rental assistance to eligible student households; requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to administer the Program; establishing the Rental Assistance for Community School Families Fund; authorizing the Governor to include an appropriation of $10,000,000 in the annual budget bill for the Fund; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Vaughn Stewart
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 211 on 04/25/2024
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Cannabis - Advertising - Prohibited Locations [SB-399]
Altering a certain prohibition on advertising for cannabis licensees, products, or services by repealing a prohibition on certain outdoor advertising and instead prohibiting advertising within 500 feet of a substance use treatment facility, certain schools, child care facilities, or other locations; authorizing a cannabis licensee to request and requiring the Maryland Cannabis Administration to provide, within 30 days of receiving the advertisement, an opinion as to whether a cannabis advertisement meets certain requirements; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Chris West
Unfavorable Report By Finance on 03/13/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Study on the Feasibility of Relocating the Prince George's County Public School System Headquarters PG 501-24 [HB-376]
Requiring the Prince George's County Board of Education to hire an independent consultant to study and make recommendations on the feasibility of relocating the Prince George's County public school system headquarters and to report its recommendations by June 1, 2026; and requiring the County board to cover the cost of the study.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 372 on 04/25/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Personal Care Aides - Wage Reports [SB-371]
Requiring residential service agencies to submit certain reports to the Maryland Department of Labor regarding wage rates for personal care aides by September 1 each year, beginning in 2025; and requiring the Maryland Department of Health to report to the Senate Finance Committee and the House Health and Government Operations Committee by the 180th day after the release of the final federal Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services rule on an overview of the final rule and plans or steps that the Department will take to operationalize the rule.
Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence Lam
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 864 on 05/16/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Community Schools - Rental Assistance for Community School Families Program and Fund - Establishment [SB-370]
Establishing the Rental Assistance for Community School Families Program to provide rental assistance to eligible student households; requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to administer the Program; establishing the Rental Assistance for Community School Families Fund; authorizing the Governor to include an appropriation of $10,000,000 in the annual budget bill for the Fund; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Shelly Hettleman
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 210 on 04/25/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Prince George's County - Workgroup on Health and Wellness PG 409-24 [HB-358]
Establishing a Workgroup on Health and Wellness in Prince George's County to review and evaluate health and wellness practices, programs, services, and resources in Prince George's County and make recommendations regarding best practices in health and wellness community programming in the county; and requiring the Workgroup to report its findings and recommendations to the Prince George's County Executive, the Chair of the Prince George's County Council, the Governor, and the General Assembly by December 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 977 on 05/16/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Workgroup to Study Funding for the Westernport Wastewater Treatment Facility - Establishment [SB-135]
Establishing the Workgroup to Study Funding for the Westernport Wastewater Treatment Facility to identify and examine existing funding sources that support the Facility and study whether increased funding could enhance operations at the Facility, the funding sources of comparable facilities in the region, and available and potential federal, State, and local funding sources for the Facility; and requiring the Workgroup to report, on or before December 1, 2024, its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mike McKay
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 640 on 05/09/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Personal Care Aides - Wage Reports [HB-189]
Requiring residential service agencies to submit certain reports to the Maryland Department of Labor regarding wage rates for personal care aides on or before September 1 each year, beginning in 2025; and requiring the Maryland Department of Health to report to certain committees of the General Assembly by the 180th day after the release of the final federal Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services rule on an overview of the final rule and plans or steps that the Department will take to operationalize the rule.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 865 on 05/16/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Provider Agencies and Personal Care Aides - Reimbursement and Wages [SB-208]
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to increase the hourly reimbursement rate for certain personal assistance services under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to a minimum of $25 per hour; requiring provider agencies to pay the greater of $16 per hour or 64% of the hourly reimbursement rate to personal care aides and to provide a written notice regarding the wage to personal care aides; requiring provider agencies to submit annual cost reports to the Department; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joanne Benson
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 02/05/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Interagency Committee on Aging Services – Repeal [SB-223]
Repealing the provisions of law establishing and governing the Interagency Committee on Aging Services; and applying the Act prospectively.
Sponsored by: Sen.
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 01/23/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Interagency Committee on Aging Services – Repeal [HB-255]
Repealing the provisions of law establishing and governing the Interagency Committee on Aging Services, and applying the Act prospectively.
Sponsored by: Rep.
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 02/05/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Public Safety - Law Enforcement Agencies - Positive Community Feedback [SB-7]
Adding positive community feedback that was not solicited by the police officer who is the subject of the feedback to the list of records that are not considered personnel records for certain purposes; requiring the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission to develop a process for citizens to submit positive community feedback; requiring each law enforcement agency to adopt the uniform citizen positive community feedback process; requiring a law enforcement agency to maintain a certain record; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jack Bailey
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 549 on 05/09/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Food Waste and Solid Waste Reduction – Grants, Fund, and Surcharge [SB-56]
Establishing the On-Farm Organic Diversion and Composting Grant Program to award grants to eligible entities to assist with the costs of developing and implementing on-farm composting and compost use, food waste prevention, and food rescue projects; requiring the Department of the Environment to use funds from the Reduce, Recycle, Remanufacture Fund to support the Grant Program to Reduce and Compost School Waste; authorizing the Department to establish a statewide solid waste disposal surcharge; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Katie Hester
Hearing 2/06 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/25/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
General Assembly - Special Election to Fill a Vacancy in Office [SB-29]
Requiring that a special election be held at the same time as the regular statewide primary and general elections that are held in the second year of a term to fill a vacancy in the office of Delegate or Senator in the General Assembly if the vacancy occurs before a certain date.
Sponsored by: Sen. Cheryl Kagan
Hearing Canceled on 03/19/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Courts - Prohibited Liability Agreements - Recreational Facilities [HB-162]
Establishing that a provision in a contract or agreement relating to the use of a recreational facility that purports to limit the recreational facility's liability, or release the recreational facility from or indemnify or hold harmless the recreational facility against liability, for injury caused by or resulting from the negligence or other wrongful acts of the recreational facility or its agents or employees is void and unenforceable under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Moon
Third Reading Passed (129-3) on 03/18/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Education - Student Behavior - Parent and Guardian Notice and Required Counseling (Parent and Guardian Accountability Act) [HB-206]
Establishing that it is unlawful for a parent or guardian of a student in a public school to fail to seek and participate in counseling with the parent's or guardian's child after receiving a certain notice of violent and disruptive behavior; and requiring a public school principal to provide a certain written notice to the parent or guardian of a student who engages in two or more incidents of violent and disruptive behavior on school premises or during school-related activities during the school year.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Long
Hearing 1/31 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/16/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Public Health - Healthy Maryland Program - Establishment [HB-184]
Establishing the Healthy Maryland Program as a public corporation and a unit of State government to provide comprehensive universal single-payer health care services for residents of the State by January 1, 2026; establishing requirements and prohibitions related to Healthy Maryland, including provisions regarding eligibility, participation by and payments to health care providers, benefits, payroll premiums, funding, and collective negotiations with health care providers; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Gabriel Acevero
Hearing 3/12 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/09/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Community Health Resources Commission – Sunset Extension and Program Evaluation [SB-245]
Adding the Maryland Community Health Resources Commission to the governmental activities and units subject to the Maryland Program Evaluation Act; and extending the termination date to June 30, 2035, for certain provisions of law related to the Commission.
Sponsored by: Sen.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 386 on 04/25/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Prince George's County - Workgroup on Health and Wellness [SB-151]
Establishing a Workgroup on Health and Wellness in Prince George's County to review and evaluate health and wellness practices, programs, services, and resources in Prince George's County and make recommendations regarding best practices in health and wellness community programming in the county; and requiring the Workgroup to report its findings and recommendations to the Prince George's County Executive, the Chair of the Prince George's County Council, the Governor, and the General Assembly on or before December 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Muse
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 978 on 05/16/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Food Waste and Solid Waste Reduction - Grants, Fund, and Surcharge [HB-163]
Establishing the On-Farm Organic Diversion and Composting Grant Program to award grants to eligible entities to assist with the costs of developing and implementing on-farm composting and compost use, food waste prevention, and food rescue projects; requiring the Department of the Environment to use funds from the Reduce, Recycle, Remanufacture Fund to support the Grant Program to Reduce and Compost School Waste; authorizing the Department to establish a statewide solid waste disposal surcharge; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Lorig Charkoudian
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/04/2024