Employment Discrimination - Intent [HB-1261]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
Prohibiting certain acts that have a discriminatory effect, regardless of the actor's intent, in employment by any person; and providing that a person who unintentionally violates a certain provision of law has not committed an unlawful employment practice if the violation was justified by a legitimate business necessity and there was no other less discriminatory means of accomplishing that business necessity.
HB-1261: Employment Discrimination - Intent
Sponsored by: Rep. Adrian Boafo
First Reading Economic Matters on 02/07/2025
Consumer Protection - Consumer Reporting Agencies - Use of Algorithmic Systems [HB-1477]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Artificial Intelligence ]
[Finance ]
Establishing requirements for consumer reporting agencies that use algorithmic systems to assemble or evaluate consumer credit information on consumers for the purpose of furnishing consumer reports to third parties; and requiring the Commissioner of Financial Regulation of the Maryland Department of Labor to establish certain assessment thresholds for algorithms, mandate regular training for human reviewers, and implement a certain whistleblower protection program.
HB-1477: Consumer Protection - Consumer Reporting Agencies - Use of Algorithmic Systems
Sponsored by: Rep. Terri Hill
Hearing Canceled on 03/03/2025
Public Health - Human Immunodeficiency Virus - Repeal of Prohibition on Transfer and Study [HB-1382]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Repealing the prohibition on an individual from knowingly transferring or attempting to transfer the human immunodeficiency virus to another individual; and requiring the Maryland Department of Health to review and make recommendations on statutory and regulatory provisions regarding the human immunodeficiency virus that may be outdated or discriminatory and report its findings to the Senate Finance Committee and the House Health and Government Operations Committee on or before December 1, 2025.
HB-1382: Public Health - Human Immunodeficiency Virus - Repeal of Prohibition on Transfer and Study
Sponsored by: Rep. Heather Bagnall
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/10/2025
You have voted HB-1435: Public Safety - Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission - Prohibition Against Certain Affiliation or Support by Police Officers.
Higher Education - Antihate and Antidiscrimination Policies and Workgroup (Maryland Campus Accountability and Modernization to Protect University Students Act) [HB-1462]
[Education ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Human Rights ]
[Community Development ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring institutions of higher education to adopt and enforce policies regarding antihate and antidiscrimination and time, place, and manner requirements for expressive conduct; requiring institutions of higher education to conduct certain meetings with certain approved student organizations; establishing the Campus Community Grant Program; and establishing the Workgroup on Combating Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Other Forms of Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Violence, Harassment, and Intimidation.
HB-1462: Higher Education - Antihate and Antidiscrimination Policies and Workgroup (Maryland Campus Accountability and Modernization to Protect University Students Act)
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Kaiser
Hearing Canceled on 03/05/2025
You have voted HB-1462: Higher Education - Antihate and Antidiscrimination Policies and Workgroup (Maryland Campus Accountability and Modernization to Protect University Students Act).
Landlord and Tenant - Residential Leases - Prospective Tenant Criminal History Records Check (Maryland Fair Chance Housing Act) [HB-1077]
[Housing ]
[Crime ]
[Real Estate ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Prohibiting a landlord from requiring or requesting from a prospective tenant certain information relating to criminal history and prohibiting a landlord from considering certain information when evaluating the prospective tenant; permitting a landlord to consider certain criminal history information prior to extending a conditional offer to a prospective tenant and requiring the landlord to consider certain information provided by a prospective tenant relating to a criminal history records check; etc.
HB-1077: Landlord and Tenant - Residential Leases - Prospective Tenant Criminal History Records Check (Maryland Fair Chance Housing Act)
Sponsored by: Rep. Jheanelle Wilkins
First Reading Environment And Transportation on 02/05/2025
You have voted HB-1077: Landlord and Tenant - Residential Leases - Prospective Tenant Criminal History Records Check (Maryland Fair Chance Housing Act).
Real Property - Insufficient Condominium Reserve Account Grant Fund - Establishment [HB-1040]
[Real Estate ]
[Housing ]
[Community Development ]
[Finance ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Requiring regulated financial institutions to develop a community benefit plan in connection with applications to the Commissioner of Financial Regulation relating to financial services for purposes of providing safe and sound loans, and other financial products for low-and moderate-income individuals and communities and other distressed or underserved individuals and communities; requiring the Commissioner to exercise certain oversight authority relating to the adequacy of the community benefit plans and attainment of goals; etc.
HB-1040: Real Property - Insufficient Condominium Reserve Account Grant Fund - Establishment
Sponsored by: Rep. Samuel Rosenberg
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 02/10/2025
Health Insurance, Family Planning Services, and Confidentiality of Medical Records - Consumer Protections - Updates [HB-1045]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Public Health ]
Updating references to federal law related to family planning services, grandfathered plans, explanation of benefits, summaries of benefits and coverage, medical loss ratios, catastrophic plans, annual limits for cost sharing, prescription drugs, and rescissions; altering the definitions of "legally protected health care" and "sensitive health services" to include gender-affirming care for purposes of law governing the disclosure of information regarding sensitive health services; etc.
HB-1045: Health Insurance, Family Planning Services, and Confidentiality of Medical Records - Consumer Protections - Updates
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 469 on 05/13/2025
Commission on Nondiscrimination - Establishment [HB-1055]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Human Rights ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Establishing the Commission on Nondiscrimination to monitor and study nondiscrimination laws and regulations and the impacts of the actions of the federal government on those laws and regulations and to recommend legislation to address any deficiencies in nondiscrimination protections in Maryland; and requiring the Commission to submit a report on its findings and recommendations, including any legislative proposals, to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 15 each year.
HB-1055: Commission on Nondiscrimination - Establishment
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Kaiser
Hearing Canceled on 03/08/2025
Montgomery County - Common Ownership Communities - Disputes, Payments, and Elections MC 11-25 [HB-1117]
[Community Development ]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Establishing certain requirements for elections to governing bodies and organizing activities of cooperative housing corporations, condominiums, and homeowners associations in Montgomery County; establishing procedures and requirements during a dispute between a member or an owner and a cooperative housing corporation, condominium, or homeowners association in Montgomery County; etc.
HB-1117: Montgomery County - Common Ownership Communities - Disputes, Payments, and Elections MC 11-25
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Hearing 2/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/14/2025
Department of Human Services - Study on Private Treatment Foster Care Homes [HB-1057]
[Children and Youth ]
[Funding ]
[Human Services ]
Requiring the Department of Human Services to conduct a study to determine the types of State support, in the form of funding or otherwise, that would be appropriate and beneficial to assist private providers of treatment foster care homes in the provision of services; and requiring the Department to report its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly by December 1, 2025.
HB-1057: Department of Human Services - Study on Private Treatment Foster Care Homes
Sponsored by: Rep. Jheanelle Wilkins
Favorable With Amendments Report By Appropriations on 04/05/2025
HB-2391: Relating to the procedure for determining whether a student's violation of a public school's or public institution of higher education's student code of conduct was motivated by antisemitism.
Sponsored by: Rep. Richard Raymond
Laid On The Table Subject To Call on 04/29/2025
You have voted HB-2391: Relating to the procedure for determining whether a student's violation of a public school's or public institution of higher education's student code of conduct was motivated by antisemitism..
Howard County - Department of Fire and Rescue Services - Current and Prospective Employee Medical Cannabis Use [SB-969]
[Cannabis ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Prohibiting the Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services from taking certain adverse employment actions against an employee or prospective employee solely because of the employee's or prospective employee's authorized use of medical cannabis; and authorizing the Department to prohibit an employee from working while impaired by cannabis or using cannabis within the 12 hours immediately precedeing the employee's shift.
SB-969: Howard County - Department of Fire and Rescue Services - Current and Prospective Employee Medical Cannabis Use
Sponsored by: Sen.
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/10/2025
Public Schools - Open Enrollment - Policies and Funding [SB-819]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Authorizing a county board of education to adopt an open enrollment policy to authorize certain students to attend, free of charge, a public school in a county other than the county where the student is domiciled with the student's parent or guardian, subject to certain requirements; requiring county boards to include certain students in full-time equivalent enrollment counts; and directing certain funding to the county in which certain students are enrolled in a public school under an open enrollment policy.
SB-819: Public Schools - Open Enrollment - Policies and Funding
Sponsored by: Rep. Dalya Attar
Hearing Canceled (education, Energy, And The Environment) on 03/04/2025
Higher Education - Antihate and Antidiscrimination Policies and Workgroup (Maryland Campus Accountability and Modernization to Protect University Students Act) [SB-847]
[Education ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Human Rights ]
[Community Development ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring institutions of higher education to adopt and enforce policies regarding antihate and antidiscrimination and time, place, and manner requirements for expressive conduct; requiring institutions of higher education to conduct certain meetings with certain approved student organizations; establishing the Campus Community Grant Program; and establishing the Workgroup on Combating Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Other Forms of Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Violence, Harassment, and Intimidation.
SB-847: Higher Education - Antihate and Antidiscrimination Policies and Workgroup (Maryland Campus Accountability and Modernization to Protect University Students Act)
Sponsored by: Sen. Shelly Hettleman
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2025
You have voted SB-847: Higher Education - Antihate and Antidiscrimination Policies and Workgroup (Maryland Campus Accountability and Modernization to Protect University Students Act).
Private Passenger Motor Vehicle Insurance - Use of Programs That Measure the Operation of an Insured Vehicle [SB-984]
[Insurance ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Data Privacy ]
Requiring an insurer that issues or delivers private passenger motor vehicle insurance policies in the State to disclose the use of a program that measures the operation of an insured vehicle and to establish a process by which a policyholder may correct or appeal data the policy holder believes to be erroneous; prohibiting insurers with respect to certain private passenger motor vehicle insurance policies from initiating a premium increase in increments of less than 6 months from the date the policy goes into effect; etc.
SB-984: Private Passenger Motor Vehicle Insurance - Use of Programs That Measure the Operation of an Insured Vehicle
Sponsored by: Sen. Alonzo Washington
Unfavorable Report By Economic Matters on 03/31/2025
Education - Curriculum Standards - Requirements (Educate to Stop the Hate Act) [SB-916]
[Education ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
Requiring that certain curriculum guides and courses of study established by county boards of education be aligned with certain content standards, curriculum standards, and curriculum resources; requiring the State Department of Education to develop certain content standards; establishing certain requirements for the Department's process for developing, reviewing, and adopting certain content standards, curriculum standards, and curriculum resources; etc.
SB-916: Education - Curriculum Standards - Requirements (Educate to Stop the Hate Act)
Sponsored by: Sen. Benjamin Kramer
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2025
Department of Human Services - Study on Private Treatment Foster Care Homes [SB-833]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring the Department of Human Services to conduct a study to determine the types of State support that would be appropriate and beneficial to assist private providers of treatment foster care homes in the provision of services; and requiring the Department to report its findings and recommendations on or before December 1, 2025.
SB-833: Department of Human Services - Study on Private Treatment Foster Care Homes
Sponsored by: Sen. Nick Charles
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 528 on 05/13/2025
Consumer Protection - High-Risk Artificial Intelligence - Developer and Deployer Requirements [SB-936]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Artificial Intelligence ]
[Data Privacy ]
Requiring a certain developer of, and a certain deployer who uses, a certain high-risk artificial intelligence system to use reasonable care to protect consumers from known and reasonably foreseeable risks of certain algorithmic discrimination in a certain high-risk artificial intelligence system; regulating the use of high-risk artificial intelligence systems by establishing certain requirements for disclosures, impact assessments, and other consumer protection provisions; authorizing the Attorney General to enforce the Act; etc.