BillCam

Discrimination

Number	Legislature	Summary	Subjects
SB-1056	State (Maryland)	Providing that certain fees and surcharges on the recordation of instruments among the land records do not apply to the recordation of a certain restrictive covenant modification or an amendment to the common area deeds or other declarations of a homeowners association that deletes a covenant or restriction that restricts ownership based on race, religious belief, or national origin in accordance with certain provisions of law; repealing a deadline of September 30, 2019, for the governing body to delete certain restrictions; etc. Democrat: 100% (1) 100% Democrat support	Real Property Human Relations Clerks Of Court Discrimination Fees Homeowners Associations Land Records Recordation
HB-1637	State (Maryland)	Extending the time for the submission of the interim report to September 1, 2021, and for the final report to December 1, 2022, of the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission and extending the termination date for the Commission. Democrat: 100% (3) 100% Democrat support	Human Relations State Government - Agencies, Offices, And Officials Committees And Commissions Discrimination Ethics Ethnic Affairs Murder Reports Sunset Time
SB-1044	State (Maryland)	Requiring the State Treasurer to ensure that any shares held by the State are voted in favor of shareholder resolutions that ask companies to adopt policies of refusing to do business with governments engaging in genocide or crimes against humanity; requiring, when issuing an invitation for bids or a request for proposals, certain units of State government to require a certain bidder or offeror to disclose any company policy regarding a refusal to do business with governments that are engaged in genocide or crimes against humanity; etc. Democrat: 100% (1) 100% Democrat support	State Government - Agencies, Offices, And Officials State Government - Procurement State Government - Personnel Abduction Commerce And Business Committees And Commissions Contractors Contracts Crimes And Punishments Death
HB-1612	State (Maryland)	Providing that a certain official is immune from criminal and civil liability for refusing to provide information to the federal government or another state for a certain purpose; authorizing the State to indemnify a certain official for certain costs or a certain judgment; expressing the intent of the General Assembly to maintain community trust in Maryland governmental operations and law enforcement efforts by clarifying the parameters of State and local participation in federal immigration enforcement efforts; etc. Democrat: 100% (17) 100% Democrat support	Public Safety Arrests Attorney General Correctional Officers Courts Crimes And Punishments Discipline Disclosure Discrimination Federal Government
SB-1029	State (Maryland)	Establishing that a record relating to a formal complaint of job-related misconduct made against a law enforcement officer is not a personnel record under certain provisions of the Public Information Act under certain circumstances; authorizing a custodian to deny inspection of certain records involving a complaint of job-related misconduct made against a law enforcement officer; authorizing a custodian to deny inspection of certain records by a complainant only under certain circumstances; etc. Democrat: 100% (2) 100% Democrat support	Criminal Law - Procedure Public Safety Crimes And Punishments Death Discipline Discrimination Ethics Evidence Fraud Guns
HB-1603	State (Maryland)	Prohibiting an insurer, with respect to private passenger motor vehicle insurance, from rating a risk based, in whole or in part, on the credit history of an applicant or insured in any manner; repealing certain provisions of law authorizing an insurer to use the credit history of an applicant or insured to rate a new policy of private passenger motor vehicle insurance subject to certain limitations and requirements; etc. Democrat: 100% (1) 100% Democrat support	Insurance - Other Than Health Consumer Protection Credit Discrimination Motor Vehicle Insurance
HB-1592	State (Maryland)	Requiring the State Treasurer to ensure that any shares held by the State are voted in favor of shareholder resolutions that ask companies to adopt policies of refusing to do business with governments engaging in genocide or crimes against humanity; requiring, when issuing an invitation for bids or a request for proposals, certain units of State government to require a certain bidder or offeror to disclose any company policy regarding a refusal to do business with governments that are engaged in genocide or crimes against humanity; etc. Democrat: 100% (1) 100% Democrat support	State Government - Agencies, Offices, And Officials State Government - Procurement State Government - Personnel Abduction Commerce And Business Committees And Commissions Contractors Contracts Crimes And Punishments Death
HB-1589	State (Maryland)	Requiring every employer in the State to allow any employee, rather than any employee who claims to be a registered voter, in the State a certain period of absence from work to vote in an election, rather than only on election day; requiring the employee to provide reasonable proof to the employer in a timely manner that the employee voted or attempted to vote; prohibiting an employer from taking certain actions against an employee who exercises the right under certain provisions of law to be absent from work to vote; etc. Democrat: 100% (1) 100% Democrat support	Elections Discrimination Evidence Evidence Leave Leave Time Time Voting Voting
HB-1578	State (Maryland)	Expressing the sense of the General Assembly that facial recognition technology can present certain risks as well as provide a variety of benefits and that safeguards are necessary to allow the use of the technology in ways that benefit society; establishing certain requirements and certain prohibited actions relating to provision of facial recognition services by certain persons; prohibiting certain governmental units from using facial recognition services under certain circumstances; etc. Democrat: 100% (1) 100% Democrat support	Commercial Law - Consumer Protection State Government - Agencies, Offices, And Officials Age Auditors And Audits Claims Communications Court Of Appeals Courts Crimes And Punishments Cybersecurity
HB-1582	State (Maryland)	Providing that a person may not be denied the right to purchase, possess, or carry a firearm solely on the basis that the person is authorized to use medical cannabis. Republican: 92% (13) Democrat: 7% (1) 92% Republican support 7% Democrat support	Public Safety Cannabis Discrimination Guns Licenses
HB-1221	State (Maryland)	Establishing that a record relating to a formal complaint of job-related misconduct made against a law enforcement officer is not a personnel record under certain provisions of the Public Information Act under certain circumstances; authorizing a custodian to deny inspection of certain records involving a complaint of job-related misconduct made against a law enforcement officer; authorizing a custodian to deny inspection of certain records by a complainant only under certain circumstances; etc.: Democrat: 100% (1) 100% Democrat support	Criminal Law - Procedure Public Safety Crimes And Punishments Death Discipline Discrimination Ethics Evidence Fraud Guns
HB-1152	State (Maryland)	Requiring a public school to notify a student's parent or legal guardian when there is a low balance in the student's meal account and before the student accrues unpaid meal debt; prohibiting a public school from communicating about unpaid meal debt directly with a student or in any way that embarrasses or humiliates the student; prohibiting a public school from taking certain actions in response to a student's unpaid meal debt; requiring certain notice about the application process and requirements for certain meal programs; etc. Democrat: 90% (9) Republican: 10% (1) 90% Democrat support 10% Republican support	Primary And Secondary Education Communications Counties Discipline Discrimination Education, Boards Of Food Health Human Rights Language
HB-1204	State (Maryland)	Prohibiting a county board, public or nonpublic prekindergarten programs, and public or nonpublic primary or secondary schools that receive State funds from discriminating against a person because of certain factors, refusing enrollment of, expelling, or withholding privileges from any student or prospective student because of certain factors, and from taking a certain retaliatory action; etc. Democrat: 100% (19) 100% Democrat support	Human Relations Education - Miscellaneous Primary And Secondary Education Age Counties Disabilities Discipline Discrimination Education, Boards Of Education, State Board Of
SB-1000	State (Maryland)	Repealing, altering, and adding certain provisions of law to implement The Blueprint for Maryland's Future, which is intended to transform Maryland's early childhood, primary, and secondary education system to the levels of high-performing systems around the world; requiring the State and each county to distribute to county boards of education certain amounts of education aid under certain programs in certain fiscal years; etc. Democrat: 100% (5) 100% Democrat support	Primary And Secondary Education Higher Education Taxes - Property Counties Education, Boards Of Education Education, State Board Of Education, State Department Of Revenue And Taxes Students
HB-1333	State (Maryland)	Requiring the Governor's Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs to conduct a certain study concerning the alcoholic beverages industry in the State; providing for the matters to be included in the study; requiring the Office to conduct the study in consultation and cooperation with certain agencies and interests; requiring the Office of the Attorney General to provide staff for the study; requiring the reporting of findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly by January 1, 2021; etc. Democrat: 100% (1) 100% Democrat support	Alcoholic Beverages - Statewide Bills Human Relations Administrative Agencies Alcoholic Beverages Alcoholic Beverages Licenses Alcoholic Beverages Distribution Alcoholic Beverages Manufacturing Attorney General Commerce And Business Committees And Commissions
HB-1414	State (Maryland)	Stating the intent of the General Assembly that the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services ensure that State correctional facilities adhere to certain standards; requiring the Department to submit a report annually to certain committees of the General Assembly on efforts to adhere to the standards; requiring the report to be posted on the Department's website; etc. Democrat: 100% (3) 100% Democrat support	Public Safety Appropriations Correctional Institutions Discrimination Electronic Government Governor Job Training Prerelease And Reentry Prices Public Information
HB-1528	State (Maryland)	Establishing the Maryland Council on Health in All Policies to employ a Health in All Policies framework, a public health framework through which public and private policymakers and stakeholders use a collaborative approach to improve health outcomes and reduce health inequities in the State; providing, to the extent practicable, Council members are to reflect the geographic, racial, ethnic, cultural, and gender diversity of the State; requiring the Council to submit a report by December 1 each year on the Council's activities; etc. Democrat: 100% (1) 100% Democrat support	Public Health Administrative Agencies Agriculture, Department Of Art, Music And Cultural Affairs Boundaries Committees And Commissions Communications Consumer Protection Correction, Division Of Demographics
HB-1243	State (Maryland)	Prohibiting certain criminal conduct by a person against another person or group because of the other person's or group's age or speech, or because of the other person's or group's refusal to donate or otherwise provide money or a thing of value on demand. Republican: 100% (1) 100% Republican support	Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes Crimes And Punishments Discrimination Gifts
HB-1173	State (Maryland)	Requiring each county board of education to establish a meal charge policy that addresses payment for meals, unpaid meal debt, prohibition of stigmatizing action, and other issues related to the administration of school meal programs and management of payments for school meals; requiring the State Department of Education to create and maintain a database of the county board meal charge policies, publish the policies on its website, and report to the General Assembly on certain matters by December 1, 2020 and 2021; etc. Democrat: 92% (13) Republican: 7% (1) 92% Democrat support 7% Republican support	Primary And Secondary Education Communications Counties Debt Collection Discipline Discrimination Education, Boards Of Education, State Department Of Electronic Communication Food
HB-153	State (Alabama)	Dress codes, grooming policies, to prohibit a local board of education or employer from establishing a dress code or grooming policy prohibiting certain hairstyles Democrat: 100% (1) 100% Democrat support	Discrimination

Title: Real Property - Deletion of Unlawful Ownership Restrictions - Exemption From Fees and Surcharges