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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Environmental Permits - Requirements for Public Participation and Impact and Burden Analyses (Cumulative Harms to Environmental Restoration for Improving Shared Health - CHERISH Our Communities Act) [SB-978]
[Environmental ]
[Public Health ]
[Air Quality ]
[Water ]
[Community Development ]
Applying certain public participation requirements to permits for projects that have been identified by the Department of the Environment as having an increased potential for adverse community environmental and public health impacts; requiring a person applying for certain environmental permits for certain projects with an increased potential to cause adverse community environmental and public health impacts to include in the permit application an environmental impact analysis; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence Lam
Hearing 2/18 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/04/2025
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Aviation Oversight - BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport Master Plan [SB-973]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Air Quality ]
Requiring the Maryland Aviation Commission to adopt, rather than approve for adoption by the Executive Director of the Maryland Aviation Administration, regulations for the operation of the State-owned airports; altering requirements for meetings and a quorum of the Commission; altering certain powers and duties of the Administration and the Commission; requiring certain contracts to be approved by the Commission; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence Lam
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/03/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Business Regulation - Cellular Phone Carriers - Authorized Users [SB-846]
[Telecommunications ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
Requiring a cellular phone carrier to allow a customer of record who is responsible for payment of an account to have the option to designate other individuals as authorized users on the customer's account and to allow an authorized user to take certain actions in connection with the account.
Sponsored by: Sen. Shelly Hettleman
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 334 on 05/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
State Finance and Procurement - Retention Proceeds [SB-835]
[Finance ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Construction ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Requiring that undisputed retention proceeds retained by a unit or a certain contractor under a State procurement contract be paid within 90 days after the date of substantial completion.
Sponsored by: Sen. Johnny Mautz
Hearing Canceled on 02/17/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Electricity and Gas - Emissions Reductions, Rate Regulation, Cost Recovery, Infrastructure, Planning, Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard, and Energy Assistance Programs (Next Generation Energy Act) [SB-937]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Climate Change ]
[Housing ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Public Health ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Authorizing the Department of Housing and Community Development to issue loans, in addition to grants, for certain purposes relating to reducing direct greenhouse gas emissions from certain multifamily residential buildings; requiring the Maryland Energy Administration, in coordination with the Public Service Commission and the Department of Natural Resources, to pursue certain agreements with neighboring states and federal agencies related to the development of new nuclear energy generation stations; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Brian Feldman
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 625 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
State Lottery - Ticket Purchase and Delivery by Third-Party Entity - Authorization [SB-850]
[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: Sen. Craig Zucker
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Consumer Protection - Third-Party Litigation Financing [SB-985]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Finance ]
Prohibiting certain litigation financiers from engaging in certain conduct with respect to litigation financing transactions and certain litigation financing contracts; requiring that the litigation financing contracts contain certain disclosures and be executed in a certain manner; requiring a certain disclosure of a litigation financing contract in certain civil actions; and imposing a fiduciary duty on litigation financiers in certain class actions.
Sponsored by: Sen. Alonzo Washington
Hearing 3/06 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Collective Bargaining - Local Government Employees and Public Employee Relations Act [SB-976]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Safety ]
Establishing collective bargaining rights for public local employees; applying the Maryland Public Employee Relations Act to county and municipal government employers and their employees; providing that a public employee may be deemed a certain management employee for purposes of establishing collective bargaining rights; establishing impasse procedures for collective bargaining between public local employees and their employers that include binding arbitration; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence Lam
Hearing 2/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Cyber Maryland Program - Revisions [SB-867]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Transferring the Cyber Maryland Program from the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to the Maryland Department of Labor; altering the duties of the Program; requiring the Program to issue competitive grants and contracts beginning in fiscal year 2026, to enhance cybersecurity workforce development, including cybersecurity for operational technology; authorizing the Governor for fiscal year 2027 and each fiscal year thereafter to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation sufficient to run the program; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Katie Hester
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 218 on 04/22/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Baltimore City - Alcoholic Beverages - Authorizations and Revisions [SB-939]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
Requiring the Board of License Commissioners for Baltimore City to impose a fee of up to $250 for expedited processing of certain Class C per diem licenses; requiring the Board to adopt regulations related to the application process for Class C per diem licenses, including for the denial or revocation of the licenses; limiting the number of licenses that may be issued to a person for the same location within a calendar year; authorizing the issuance of certain alcoholic beverages licenses in the 40th alcoholic beverages district; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Antonio Hayes
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 811 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Corporations and Associations - Cooperative Limited Equity Housing Corporations - Establishment [SB-927]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Community Development ]
Authorizing a Maryland nonstock corporation to convert to a cooperative limited equity housing corporation subject to certain requirements; requiring a cooperative limited equity housing corporation for certain households to receive notice to vacate a portion of a certain residential rental facility; requiring a cooperative limited equity housing corporation to reimburse certain households for moving expenses; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. William Smith
Hearing 3/25 At 1:00 P.m. (environment And Transportation) on 03/19/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Baltimore City - Alcoholic Beverages - 43rd Alcoholic Beverages District - Class B-D-7 Licenses [SB-788]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
Authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Baltimore City to issue additional B-D-7 beer, wine, and liquor licenses in certain areas of the 43rd alcoholic beverages district of Baltimore City if the license applicant meets certain criteria; and extending to July 1, 2026, an alcoholic beverages license issued for a certain area for the purpose of renewal.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mary Washington
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 806 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Howard Community College - Board of Trustees, Meetings, and Contracts - Alterations Ho. Co. 1-25 [SB-813]
[Education ]
[Community Development ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Adding two members to the Board of Community College Trustees for Howard County; requiring each meeting of the Board to allow for public comment; requiring the Board to make a video or audio recording of its meetings which are to be made available on the Board's website; requiring Board members to undergo certain training specific to Board governance; and requiring the Board to submit a report to the General Assembly by January 1, 2026, and every 6 months thereafter until a contract is finalized, on the status of the faculty union contract.
Sponsored by: Sen.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 585 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Works Contracts - Apprenticeship Requirements (Maryland Workforce Apprenticeship Utilization Act) [HB-1017]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Construction ]
[Economic Development ]
[Education ]
Altering certain apprenticeship requirements relating to public works contracts to require certain contractors and subcontractors to employ a certain number of qualified apprentices or journeyworkers necessary to meet a certain applicable percentage for the project; altering which projects are subject to certain apprenticeship requirements; repealing certain provisions of law that authorized contractors and subcontractors to make certain payments to a certain apprenticeship program in lieu of employing certain apprentices; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Melissa Wells
Hearing 2/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/04/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Consumer Protection - Credit Reporting - Medical Debt (Fair Medical Debt Reporting Act) [HB-1020]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Healthcare ]
[Data Privacy ]
Prohibiting a consumer reporting agency from furnishing any consumer report containing certain adverse information relating to a consumer's medical debt, or any collection action against a consumer for medical debt, or maintain a file on a consumer related to medical debt or collections; prohibiting a person from using medical debt information from a consumer report for certain purposes; prohibiting a health care facility, a health care practitioner, or an ambulance service from disclosing medical debt to a consumer reporting agency; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Julie Palakovich Carr
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 121 on 04/22/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Financial Institutions - Conventional Home Mortgage Loans - Assumption and Required Disclosures [HB-1018]
[Finance ]
[Real Estate ]
[Housing ]
[Insurance ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Requiring banking institutions, credit unions, mortgage lenders, mortgage lending businesses, and mortgage loan originators to include a certain provision in certain conventional home mortgage loans authorizing a certain borrower to purchase the property interest of a certain borrower in connection with a decree of absolute divorce if the lending entity determines that the assuming borrower qualifies for the loan; applying certain provisions of the Act retroactively; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Andrew Pruski
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 202 on 04/22/2025
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Alaska 34th Legislature
Telehealth: Coverage, Reimbursement Rates [SB-83]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
An Act relating to health care insurance; relating to insurance reimbursement for health care services provided through telehealth; relating to telehealth; providing for an effective date by repealing the effective date of secs. 9 and 10, ch. 38, SLA 2022; and providing for an effective date.
Sponsored by: Rep. Matt Claman
Referred To Health & Social Services on 05/09/2025
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Montana 2025 Regular Session
Revise the unit ownership act to allow a lower threshold for common element changes [HB-362]
[Real Estate ]
[Housing ]
[Construction ]
Revise the unit ownership act to allow a lower threshold for common element changes
Sponsored by: Rep. Greg Oblander
(h) Died In Process on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Calvert County Sheriff - Deputy Sheriffs and Correctional Deputies - Collective Bargaining [SB-767]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Providing that full-time deputy sheriffs and correctional deputies at the rank of major and below in the Calvert County Sheriff's Office have the right to organize and negotiate with the County Administrator of Calvert County and the Calvert County Sheriff with regard to certain wages and employee benefits in a certain manner.
Sponsored by: Sen. Michael Jackson
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 132 on 04/22/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Commissioned Public Art - Artist Rights and Registration of Art [HB-961]
[Arts and Culture ]
Prohibiting an entity from including in a contract for certain State public art a provision requiring artists to waive copyright protections or certain rights; prohibiting enforcement of a certain waiver in an existing contract; and requiring an entity that commissions certain State public art to register the art with the Maryland State Arts Council.
Sponsored by: Rep. Susan McComas
Hearing 3/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/24/2025