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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Hospitals - Price Transparency - Requirements and Fund [HB-547]
[Healthcare ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Public Health ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Requiring hospitals in the State to comply with a certain federal price transparency law; requiring hospitals to maintain and make available a list of standard charges for the hospital's shoppable services; prohibiting hospitals from selling certain personal data; requiring the Secretary of Health to perform certain hospital monitoring duties; requiring hospitals who violate certain provisions of the Act to submit corrective action plans; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robin Grammer
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) [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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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Health Equality for Service Members Act [HB-466]
[Healthcare ]
[Veterans ]
[Public Health ]
[Housing ]
[Military ]
Establishing rules of interpretation related to the uniformed services; altering the rule of interpretation for "veteran"; and altering the application of certain provisions of law governing public health, the regulation of health occupations, and housing vouchers and assistance to apply to all uniformed services, rather than only the armed forces.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 259 on 05/06/2025
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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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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
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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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
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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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
County Boards of Education - Student Cellular Phone Use Policy - Establishment (Maryland Phone-Free Schools Act) [SB-368]
[Education ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Requiring each county board of education to develop and implement, not later than the 2026-2027 school year, a policy limiting the use of a cellular phone by a student during the school day; and prohibiting the policy from restricting a student's use of a cellular phone for any purpose documented in the student's individualized education program to monitor or address a student's documented health issue during an emergency event or when directed by an educator or administrator for educational purposes.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ronald Watson
Hearing 1/29 At 2:30 P.m. on 01/23/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
State Correctional Facilities - Incarcerated Individuals - Costs of Telephone Communications [HB-401]
[Telecommunications ]
[Crime ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Establishing certain requirements relating to the use of telephone equipment and telephone services by incarcerated individuals in State correctional facilities; prohibiting a State correctional facility and telephone service provider from charging an incarcerated individual for the indivdual's use of telephone equipment and services while in the facility; and establishing the Costs of Telephone Communications Advisory Committee to review prison and jail phone call programs and report to the Governor and General Assembly by December 31, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jheanelle Wilkins
Hearing 2/04 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/17/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Interstate Social Work Licensure Compact [HB-345]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
Entering into the Social Work Licensure Compact for the purpose of authorizing regulated social workers who hold multistate licenses to practice social work in member states in order to improve public access to competent social work services; establishing requirements for multistate licensure; establishing the Social Work Licensure Compact Commission; providing for withdrawal from the Compact; and providing that the Act is contingent on the enactment of substantially similar legislation in six other states.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 9 on 04/08/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Motor Vehicles - Secondary Enforcement and Admissibility of Evidence [SB-292]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Data Privacy ]
Requiring a police officer to document all reasons for a traffic stop or other stop on a citation or police report resulting from the stop; establishing that certain evidence obtained during a traffic stop or other stop in violation of certain provisions may be or is inadmissible in certain proceedings; authorizing a police officer to enforce certain provisions of the Maryland Vehicle Law only as a secondary action; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Sydnor
Hearing 1/28 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/16/2025
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An Act to Update the Provision of Law Concerning Student Codes of Conduct in Order to Reflect Best Practices Regarding Behavioral Threat Assessment and Response [SB-21]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
An Act to Update the Provision of Law Concerning Student Codes of Conduct in Order to Reflect Best Practices Regarding Behavioral Threat Assessment and Response
Sponsored by: Sen. Joseph Rafferty
Passed To Be Enacted, In Concurrence. on 05/27/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Schools - Restorative Practices Schools - Comprehensive Plan [HB-197]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring the State Department of Education to develop a comprehensive plan by July 1, 2026, for the establishment of Restorative Practices Schools which integrate restorative practices into daily practices and activities of the whole school; requiring a county board of education to use the comprehensive plan if the county board chooses to establish a Restorative Practices School; and requiring the Department to report to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 1, 2026, on the comprehensive plan for Restorative Practices Schools.
Sponsored by: Rep. Eric Ebersole
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 240 on 05/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Police Discipline - Trial Board Composition [HB-186]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Altering the composition of trial boards responsible for adjudicating matters of police discipline to include certain attorneys.
Sponsored by: Rep. Caylin Young
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/10/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
County Boards of Education - Student Cellular Phone Use Policy - Establishment [HB-57]
[Education ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Requiring each county board of education to develop and implement a policy limiting the use of a cellular phone by a student during instructional time during the school day; prohibiting the policy from limiting a student's use of a cellular phone for any purpose documented in the student's individual education program, to monitor or address a student's documented health issue, or when directed by an educator or administrator for educational purposes; and requiring the policy to include appropriate disciplinary measures.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Fraser-hidalgo
Hearing 1/29 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/15/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
County Boards of Education - Student Cellular Phone Use Policy - Established (No Distracted Learning Act) [HB-192]
[Education ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Requiring county boards of education to adopt a policy that prohibits students from using a cellular phone during certain school hours; and prohibiting the policy from preventing a student with an individualized education program or any documented health issue that requires the use of an electronic device from using the student's cellular phone for that purpose.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nino Mangione
Hearing 1/29 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/15/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact [HB-118]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Repealing certain provisions of law relating to the Interstate Agreement on Qualifications of Educational Personnel; providing that certain provisions of law regarding the issuance of an initial teaching certificate do not apply to certain teachers; entering into the Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact for the purpose of authorizing regulated teachers who hold multistate licenses to teach in each member state; establishing requirements for multistate licensure; providing a certain contingency requirement; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kris Fair
Hearing 1/29 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/15/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Correctional Services - Geriatric and Medical Parole [SB-181]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Safety ]
[Senior Citizens ]
Requiring the Maryland Parole Commission to consider the age of incarcerated individuals when determining whether to grant parole; altering how the Commission evaluates a request for medical parole; repealing the authorization for the Governor to disapprove a decision to grant medical parole; requiring the Commission, within 60 days of receiving a name for parole consideration, to conduct a risk assessment for an individual serving sentences for crimes of violence with an aggregate term of confinement of 40 years or more; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Muse
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 102 on 04/22/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Education - Phone-Free Schools Pilot Program - Establishment [SB-29]
[Education ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Children and Youth ]
Establishing the Phone-Free Schools Pilot Program; requiring the Carroll County and Montgomery County public school systems to develop and implement a policy that prohibits student cell phone use during the school day, subject to certain exceptions; and requiring the eligible school systems to submit a report on the effectiveness of the Pilot Program on or before September 1, 2026.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jeff Waldstreicher
Hearing Canceled on 01/23/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Schools - Restorative Practices Schools - Comprehensive Plan [SB-68]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring the State Department of Education to develop a comprehensive plan by July 1, 2026, for the establishment of Restorative Practices Schools which integrate restorative practices into daily practices and activities of the whole school; requiring a county board of education to use the comprehensive plan if the county board chooses to establish a Restorative Practices School; and requiring the Department to report to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 1, 2026 on the comprehensive plan for Restorative Practices Schools.
Sponsored by: Sen. Benjamin Brooks
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 241 on 05/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Interstate Social Work Licensure Compact [SB-174]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Entering into the Social Work Licensure Compact for the purpose of authorizing regulated social workers who hold multistate licenses to practice social work in member states; establishing requirements for multistate licensure; establishing the Social Work Licensure Compact Commission; providing for withdrawal from the Compact; and providing that the Act is contingent on the enactment of substantially similar legislation in six other states.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joanne Benson
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 10 on 04/08/2025