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Alaska 34th Legislature
Approp: Mental Health Budget [HB-55]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
An Act making appropriations for the operating and capital expenses of the state's integrated comprehensive mental health program; and providing for an effective date.
Sponsored by: Rep.
Line Item Veto And Reductions on 06/16/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy and Maryland as a Model Employer Initiative - Established [HB-502]
[Disabilities ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Human Services ]
Establishing the Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy within the Department of Disabilities; establishing the Maryland as a Model Employer Initiative within the Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy to facilitate efforts that improve outcomes in the hiring, recruitment, retention, and advancement of people with disabilities in the State government workforce; authorizing the Governor for fiscal year 2027, to include $250,000 in the annual budget bill for the Office; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Stein
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 1 on 04/08/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Early Childhood Education - Child Care Scholarship Program - Eligibility [HB-555]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Immigration ]
Specifying eligibility for the Child Care Scholarship Program, including that a child shall reside in the State, be under a certain age, and be in a household that meets certain need and income requirements; and prohibiting the State Department of Education from considering the immigration status of a parent, guardian, or child when determining eligibility for Program benefits.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joseline Pena-Melnyk
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 02/24/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Registered Apprenticeship Investments for a Stronger Economy (RAISE) Act [HB-501]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Education ]
[Small Business ]
[Economic Development ]
Authorizing the State Board of Plumbing to waive the license examination requirement for a journey plumber license; authorizing the Secretary of Labor to waive the examination for certain licenses; altering the duties of the Maryland Apprenticeship and Training Council; repealing the Youth Apprenticeship Advisory Committee; establishing the Maryland Office of Registered Apprenticeship Development to market and advance the registered apprenticeship system throughout the State; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Buckel
Hearing 2/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/04/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Self-Directed Mental Health Services - Pilot Program [SB-448]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
Establishing the Self-Directed Mental Health Services Pilot Program in the Maryland Department of Health to facilitate access to clinically appropriate, person-centered, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed self-directed services in the most integrated setting appropriate for certain recipients of services under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program; requiring the Governor in fiscal years 2027 through 2029 to include $300,000 in the annual budget bill for the Pilot Program; and requiring a certain report.
Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence Lam
Hearing 2/11 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/27/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Education - Remote Learning Accommodations - Established (College Disability Education Act) [HB-531]
[Education ]
[Disabilities ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
Requiring all public institutions of higher education to establish remote learning accommodations for students with disabilities that impede regular, in-person attendance beginning in the 2026-2027 academic year; authorizing the Maryland Higher Education Commission to issue waivers from the requirement under certain circumstances; establishing a grant program to assist institutions to meet the remote learning accommodations requirement; and providing for certain review procedures and penalties for noncompliance.
Sponsored by: Rep. Andre Johnson
Hearing 2/18 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/08/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy and Maryland as a Model Employer Initiative - Established [SB-433]
[Disabilities ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Human Services ]
Establishing the Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy within the Department of Disabilities; establishing the Maryland as a Model Employer Initiative within the Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy to facilitate efforts that improve outcomes in the hiring, recruitment, retention, and advancement of people with disabilities in the State government workforce; and requiring the Office to report annually on the progress and outcomes of the Initiative.
Sponsored by: Sen. Cheryl Kagan
Referred Rules And Executive Nominations on 04/04/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Excellence in Maryland Public Schools Act [HB-504]
[Education ]
[Taxes ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Authorizing local governing bodies to exceed certain tax and revenue limitations for a certain purpose; altering the source of funds for the Blueprint for Maryland's Future Fund to include the interest earnings of the Academic Excellence Fund; authorizing the Department to establish a national teacher recruitment campaign; establishing the Academic Excellence Program in the Department to address critical academic needs in public schools; requiring local school systems to develop certain countywide community school implementation plans; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kevin Hornberger
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 237 on 05/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Registered Apprenticeship Investments for a Stronger Economy (RAISE) Act [SB-431]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Economic Development ]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Altering the duties of the Maryland Apprenticeship and Training Council; repealing the Youth Apprenticeship Advisory Committee; establishing the Maryland Office of Registered Apprenticeship Development to scale registered apprenticeships across industries and occupations to meet the needs of the State's economy; establishing the Maryland Pay Per Apprentice Program within the Maryland Department of Labor; establishing the Maryland Pay Per Apprentice Program Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Nancy King
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 2 on 04/08/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Safety Officer - Performance of Duties - Death Benefits [SB-396]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Crime ]
[Veterans ]
Altering circumstances under which certain individuals are presumed to have died as a direct and proximate result of an injury sustained in the performance of duties for purposes of eligibility for death benefits.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joanne Benson
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 573 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Residential Child Care Programs - Transportation Companies - Regulation (Preventing Abduction in Youth Transport Act of 2025) [SB-400]
[Children and Youth ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Human Services ]
Prohibiting transportation companies that transport children to residential child care programs from using certain restraints unless there is a substantial likelihood of imminent serious physical harm to a child or others; prohibiting transportation companies that transport children to residential child care programs from picking up children between the hours of 9 p.m. and 6 a.m.; authorizing an individual and the Attorney General to bring a certain civil action against certain transportation companies; and applying the Act prospectively.
Sponsored by: Sen. Dawn Gile
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 344 on 05/06/2025
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Utah 2025 General Session
Commitment Revisions [HB-276]
Commitment Revisions
Sponsored by: Sen. Evan Vickers
Governor Signed In Lieutenant Governor's Office For Filing on 03/19/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Education - Antidiscrimination Policies - Policy and Notice Requirements [HB-495]
[Education ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Human Rights ]
[Children and Youth ]
Requiring certain schools that have an antidiscrimination policy to ensure that the policy includes certain information and is available to certain individuals in a certain manner; requiring a school to provide a certain training regarding antidiscrimination policies to students and employees in a certain manner; and requiring, if sufficient resources are not available to provide training, a school to coordinate with a community organization with certain expertise to provide the training to students and employees at no cost.
Sponsored by: Rep. Frank Conaway
Hearing 2/12 At 1:00 P.m. (ways And Means) on 01/29/2025
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Special Education - Individualized Education Program Meetings - Secondary Transition Planning Materials [HB-464]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Disabilities ]
Requiring a local school system to provide information regarding certain secondary transition services to the parents of a child with a disability at certain individualized education program meetings.
Sponsored by: Rep. Frank Conaway
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 02/10/2025
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Public Schools - Discipline-Related Data - Collection and Publication [HB-488]
[Education ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
Requiring the State Department of Education to disaggregate certain discipline-related data in an electronic spreadsheet format for the Department's website, make the data available to the public, and report certain discipline-related information each year; and requiring the Department to maintain a certain risk ratio and State comparison threshold used to identify a school's disproportional disciplinary practices and report disproportionality data for high-suspending schools.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joseline Pena-Melnyk
Hearing 2/12 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/29/2025
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Residential Child Care Programs - Transportation Companies - Regulation (Preventing Abduction in Youth Transport Act of 2025) [HB-497]
[Children and Youth ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Human Services ]
Prohibiting transportation companies that transport children to residential child care programs from using certain restraints unless there is a substantial likelihood of imminent serious physical harm to a child or others; prohibiting transportation companies that transport children to residential child care programs from picking up children between the hours of 9 p.m. and 6 a.m.; authorizing an individual and the Attorney General to bring a certain civil action against certain transportation companies; and applying the Act prospectively.
Sponsored by: Rep. Frank Conaway
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 343 on 05/06/2025
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Alaska 34th Legislature
Education For Deaf & Hard Of Hearing [HB-39]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Disabilities ]
An Act relating to public school students who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Sponsored by: Rep. DeLena Johnson
Cosponsor(s): Gray, Galvin on 05/17/2025
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Utah 2025 General Session
Medicare Supplement Insurance Amendments [HB-258]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Senior Citizens ]
Medicare Supplement Insurance Amendments
Sponsored by: Rep. Steve Eliason
Governor Signed In Lieutenant Governor's Office For Filing on 03/26/2025
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Workgroup on Social Worker Requirements for Licensure - Extension and Duties [SB-379]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Human Services ]
Extending the termination date for the Workgroup on Social Worker Requirements for Licensure to June 30, 2027; altering the duties of the Workgroup to include an examination of alterations made to the examination developed by the Association of Social Work Boards and implemented beginning in 2026; and requiring the Workgroup to submit a report on whether to continue to use examinations developed by the Association of Social Work Boards as a requirement for licensure on or before December 1, 2026.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joanne Benson
Motion Recommit To Committee (senator Beidle) Adopted on 03/12/2025
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Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Supportive Housing and Health Services [SB-367]
[Healthcare ]
[Housing ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program, beginning July 1, 2026, to provide supportive housing and health services to certain Program recipients; establishing requirements for professionals seeking certification as a certified supportive housing and health services professional and entities that employ or contract with supportive housing and health services professionals; requiring, by January 1, 2026, the Department to approve at least one accredited training and certification program; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Arthur Ellis
Hearing 2/04 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/22/2025