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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Human Remains - Transportation Protection Agreements [SB-607]
[Consumer Protection ]
Excluding transportation protection agreements from the definition of "preneed burial contract" and "pre-need contract" under the Maryland Cemetery Act and the Maryland Morticians and Funeral Directors Act, respectively; and providing that transportation protection agreements are not insurance and are not subject to regulation under certain provisions of law.
Sponsored by: Sen. Chris West
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 02/17/2025
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Consumer Protection - Credit Reporting - Medical Debt (Fair Medical Debt Reporting Act) [SB-614]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Healthcare ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Finance ]
Prohibiting a consumer reporting agency from including certain medical debt information in a consumer report; prohibiting a person from using medical debt information included in a consumer report when making a creditworthiness determination; prohibiting certain entities from disclosing medical debt to a consumer reporting agency; requiring certain entities to include a certain provision in contracts entered into with a collection entity regarding medical debt; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence Lam
Referred Rules And Executive Nominations on 04/05/2025
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Alaska 34th Legislature
Timber Management Leases [SB-75]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Energy ]
An Act relating to timber on state lands; relating to timber management leases; and providing for an effective date.
Sponsored by: Sen.
Read The First Time - Referrals on 01/27/2025
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Alaska 34th Legislature
Timber Management Leases [HB-72]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Energy ]
An Act relating to timber on state lands; relating to timber management leases; and providing for an effective date.
Sponsored by: Rep.
Read The First Time - Referrals on 01/27/2025
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Alaska 34th Legislature
Arch, Eng, Surveyors; Reg Int Design [SB-54]
[Construction ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Water ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Community Development ]
[Recreation ]
An Act relating to registered interior designers and interior design; relating to project costs for the construction, enlargement, or improvement of airports; extending the termination date of the State Board of Registration for Architects, Engineers, and Land Surveyors; relating to the State Board of Registration for Architects, Engineers, and Land Surveyors; establishing requirements for the practice of registered interior design; relating to the practice of architecture, engineering, land surveying, landscape architecture, and registered interior
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Sponsored by: Rep. Matt Claman
Manifest Error(s) on 05/29/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Commercial Financing - Small Business Truth in Lending Act [HB-693]
[Finance ]
[Small Business ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Economic Development ]
Regulating commercial financing transactions, including by establishing requirements related to certain disclosures, calculations of annual percentage rates, terms of repayments, and other related items, and the extension of specific offers.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Fraser-hidalgo
Favorable Report By Economic Matters on 03/17/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Procurement - Indefinite Quantity Contracts - Authorization [HB-662]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Construction ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Safety ]
Authorizing a procurement officer to award an indefinite quantity contract under certain circumstances; requiring the Board of Public Works to adopt certain regulations relating to the assignment of work under an indefinite quantity contract including assignment by right of first refusal in the order of ranking of contract awards and rotation among contractors; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Kaiser
Hearing 3/26 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Procurement Contracts and Public-Private Partnerships - Project Labor Agreements, Community Benefit Agreements, and Use of Registered Apprentices [SB-494]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Construction ]
[Community Development ]
[Economic Development ]
[Public Safety ]
Establishing requirements related to project labor agreements, community benefit agreements, and the use of registered apprentices under procurement contracts and public-private partnerships.
Sponsored by: Sen. Arthur Ellis
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 02/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Home Builders - New Home Sales - Notice of Appliance Warranty Registration [SB-522]
[Construction ]
[Housing ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Requiring a person registered to build a new home to provide at the time of closing for the initial sale of a new home information about the warranties for appliances registered by the person, including the date of the warranty registration and the time remaining under the warranty.
Sponsored by: Sen. Nick Charles
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 295 on 05/06/2025
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Insurance. [SB-1645]
[Insurance ]
[Healthcare ]
[Inflation ]
Provides that after 12/31/2025, each new or renewed contract between a mutual benefit society and a physician for a fee for service plan shall provide for: (1) The reimbursement of the physician's increased overhead costs, cost of living increases, and increased costs caused by inflation; and (2) An increase of 10% in the reimbursement rate of services after each 5-year period that the physician is in service.
Sponsored by: Sen. Kurt Fevella
Passed First Reading. on 01/27/2025
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Emergency Charter Air Services. [SB-1640]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Funding ]
[Disaster Relief ]
[Public Safety ]
Requires the Air Carrier Commission to enter into a contract with a qualified charter air service provider to secure emergency air transportation services in cases of emergency when no other air service is available. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
Sponsored by: Sen. Lynn Decoite
Reported From Tca (stand. Com. Rep. No. 618) With Recommendation Of Passage On Second Reading, As Amended (sd 1) And Referral To Wam. on 02/14/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Business Regulation - Enforcement for Miscellaneous State Business Licenses - Study [HB-577]
[Small Business ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Economic Development ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Requiring the Comptroller to consult with certain stakeholders to study and make recommendations on the enforcement process for miscellaneous State business licenses; and requiring the Comptroller to report the findings and recommendations of the study to the General Assembly by December 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 633 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Common Ownership Communities - Local Commissions [HB-558]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Community Development ]
Establishing requirements for a local commission on common ownership communities established by the local government of a county.
Sponsored by: Rep. Marvin Holmes
Hearing 2/11 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/27/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Department of General Services - Clean Energy Procurement Program - Establishment [SB-480]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring the Department of General Services, in consultation with the Maryland Green Purchasing Committee, the University System of Maryland, and the Maryland Clean Energy Center, to establish a Clean Energy Procurement Program in the Department on or before January 1, 2026; requiring the Department, in consultation with certain entities, to issue a certain solicitation for a biogas contract; authorizing the Department to enter into a contract to procure biogas; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Katie Hester
Hearing 2/20 At 1:00 P.m. (education, Energy, And The Environment) on 02/04/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Economic Development - Business Resource Initiative for Developmental Growth and Empowerment (BRIDGE) Program - Establishment [HB-648]
[Economic Development ]
[Small Business ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Community Development ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
Establishing the Business Resource Initiative for Developmental Growth and Empowerment Program and Fund in the Department of Commerce to provide grants to certain business entities to establish certain business incubators; prohibiting the grants awarded under the Program from being used to support more than 25% of the operating expenses of a qualified incubator, except in the first year of a grant; requiring the Department to give priority for grants to incubators managed by socially or economically disadvantaged persons; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Regina Boyce
Hearing 2/20 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/31/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
State Contracts - Prohibited Provisions [SB-453]
[Construction ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Property Tax ]
[Real Estate ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Clarifying a prohibition on including in State contracts provisions pertaining to limitations of liability for damage to real or tangible personal property; and clarifying a prohibition on including in State contracts provisions limiting the recovery of costs related to the use of replacement contractors under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Sen. Nancy King
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 723 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Workgroup on the Reorganization of the Maryland Transit Administration [HB-517]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Economic Development ]
Establishing the Workgroup on the Reorganization of the Maryland Transit Administration to study reorganizing the Maryland Transit Administration; requiring the Workgroup to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before December 1, 2025; and requiring the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the Department of Legislative Services, to submit to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House draft legislation to effectuate the recommendations of the Workgroup.
Sponsored by: Rep. Marc Korman
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 462 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
State Lottery – Ticket Purchase and Delivery by Third–Party Entity – Authorization [HB-539]
[Gaming ]
Authorizing the State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency to allow licensed agents to enter into an agreement with third-party entities to allow those entities to purchase State lottery tickets on behalf of individuals in the State and deliver the tickets to the purchasers; and authorizing the third-party entities to charge a service fee.
Sponsored by: Rep. Eric Ebersole
First Reading Ways And Means on 01/22/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
State Contracts - Prohibited Provisions [HB-507]
[Construction ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Property Tax ]
[Real Estate ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Clarifying a prohibition on including in State contracts provisions pertaining to limitations of liability for damage to real or tangible personal property; and clarifying a prohibition on including in State contracts provisions limiting the recovery of costs related to the use of replacement contractors under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Kerr
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 724 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Empowering New Energy Resources and Green Initiatives Toward a Zero-Emission (ENERGIZE) Maryland Act [SB-434]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Climate Change ]
[Public Health ]
Renaming the "renewable energy portfolio standard" to be the "clean energy portfolio standard"; altering the minimum required percentage of energy that must be derived from clean energy sources in certain years under the clean energy portfolio standard; altering the contents of and approval criteria for an application for an offshore wind project; establishing a process for the Public Service Commission to review and approve an application for a proposed nuclear energy generation project; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Benjamin Brooks
Hearing 2/20 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2025