Elder Abuse And Neglect
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Health Care Facilities - Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Programs - Video Recordings [HB-576]
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Requiring nursing homes and assisted living programs to install, operate, and maintain video surveillance equipment in the common areas of the facilities to detect the abuse, neglect, or exploitation of residents; and requiring nursing homes and assisted living programs to make available, on request, certain recorded video data to law enforcement and State personnel that is necessary in the course of performing their official duties.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Hearing 2/13 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/03/2025
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Health Care Facilities - Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Programs - Video Recordings [SB-465]
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[Law Enforcement ]
[Senior Citizens ]
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Requiring nursing homes and assisted living programs to install, operate, and maintain video surveillance equipment in the common areas of the facilities to detect the abuse, neglect, or exploitation of residents; and requiring nursing homes and assisted living programs to make available, on request, certain recorded video data to law enforcement and State personnel that is necessary in the course of performing their official duties.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Hearing 2/11 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/27/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Safety - Law Enforcement Agencies - Peer Support Programs [SB-326]
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Establishing certain confidentiality requirements for peer support counseling programs for law enforcement agencies; prohibiting a peer support specialist from disclosing the contents of any written or oral communication regarding a peer support interaction; and providing certain exceptions.
Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Muse
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 511 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Safety - Law Enforcement Agencies - Peer Support Programs [HB-309]
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Establishing certain confidentiality requirements for peer support counseling programs for law enforcement agencies; prohibiting a peer support specialist from disclosing the contents of any written or oral communication regarding a peer support interaction; and providing certain exceptions.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jon Cardin
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 510 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Criminal Organizations - Underlying Crime [HB-1063]
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Altering the definition of "underlying crime" that is applicable to certain prohibitions against participation in criminal organizations.
Sponsored by: Rep. Lauren Arikan
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 934 on 05/16/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Criminal Organizations - Criminal Prohibitions, Civil Actions, and Forfeiture [SB-1111]
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Establishing the statute of limitations for a certain civil action for damages resulting from certain participation in a criminal organization; altering certain definitions of "criminal organization" and "underlying crime"; authorizing the filing of and establishing procedures for a civil action for injunctive relief and damages arising out of certain participation in a criminal organization; and establishing procedures for the forfeiture of property connected to certain participation in a criminal organization.
Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Muse
Rereferred To Judicial Proceedings on 03/21/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Wiretap and Electronic Surveillance Reform Workgroup [SB-313]
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Establishing the Maryland Wiretap and Electronic Surveillance Reform Workgroup to study the effectiveness of Maryland's wiretapping and electronic surveillance laws, examine current technologies, and examine ways to make certain audio and visual recordings more available; and requiring the Workgroup to report its final findings and recommendations regarding revisions to Maryland's wiretapping and electronic surveillance laws to the Governor and General Assembly on or before December 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Sen. William Folden
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 02/05/2024
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Task Force on Preventing and Countering Elder Abuse [HB-1191]
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Establishing the Task Force on Preventing and Countering Elder Abuse to study existing laws, policies, and practices relating to elder abuse and crimes commonly committed against older adults; and requiring the Task Force to submit a final report by December 31, 2024, to the Governor and the General Assembly with its findings and recommendations regarding changes to State law, policy, and practice that would aid in preventing elder abuse.
Sponsored by: Rep. Frank Conaway
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 707 on 05/16/2023
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Assisted Living Programs - Unlicensed Programs - Resident Abuse, Exploitation, and Neglect (The Senator Delores Kelley Residents of Unlicensed Programs Protection Act) [HB-774]
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Requiring the Maryland Department of Health or the Office of Health Care Quality to investigate whether residents in an assisted living program have been subject to neglect, exploitation, or abuse, if the assisted living program is operating without a license; subjecting certain assisted living programs operating without a license to immediate prosecution under a certain provision of law under certain circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 7 on 04/11/2023
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Maryland Wiretap and Electronic Surveillance Reform Workgroup [SB-754]
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[Technology and Innovation ]
Establishing the Maryland Wiretap and Electronic Surveillance Reform Work Group to study the effectiveness of Maryland's wiretapping and electronic surveillance laws; and requiring the Work Group to report its final findings and recommendations regarding revisions to Maryland's wiretapping and electronic surveillance laws to the Governor and General Assembly by December 1, 2024.
Sponsored by: Sen. William Folden
Hearing 3/14 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/14/2023
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Assisted Living Programs - Unlicensed Programs - Resident Abuse, Exploitation, and Neglect (The Senator Delores Kelley Residents of Unlicensed Programs Protection Act) [SB-665]
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Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, or the Office of Health Care Quality, to investigate whether residents in an assisted living program have been subject to neglect, exploitation, or abuse if the assisted living program is operating without a license; subjecting certain assisted living programs operating without a license to immediate prosecution under a certain provision of law under certain circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence Lam
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 8 on 04/11/2023
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Task Force on Preventing and Countering Elder Abuse [SB-797]
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Establishing the Task Force on Preventing and Countering Elder Abuse; requiring the Task Force to study existing laws, policies, and practices relating to elder abuse and other crimes commonly committed against older adults and make recommendations regarding changes to State law, policy, and practice that would aid in preventing elder abuse; and requiring the Task Force to submit a final report of its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before December 31, 2024.
Sponsored by: Sen. Shelly Hettleman
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 706 on 05/16/2023
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Victim Services Programs – Supplementing Federal Funding and Support (Victim Services Stabilization Act) [HB-186]
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Providing for the stable funding and support of trauma-informed, high-quality programs and services for victims of crime; requiring the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention, Youth, and Victim Services to help support certain programs providing services for victims of crime; requiring the Office to consult with certain individuals and organizations regarding the allocation of certain funding; and requiring the Governor to include certain funding in the State budget.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ben Barnes
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 625 on 05/16/2023
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Victim Services Programs - Supplementing Federal Funding and Support (Victim Services Stabilization Act) [SB-148]
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Providing for the stable funding and support of trauma-informed, high-quality program and services for victims of crime; requiring the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention, Youth, and Victim Services to help support certain programs providing services for victims of crime; requiring the Office to consult with certain individuals and organizations regarding the allocation of certain funding; and requiring the Governor to include certain funding in the State budget.
Sponsored by: Sen. James Rosapepe
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 626 on 05/16/2023
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Maryland 2022 Regular Session
Fiduciary Institutions - Investigation of Financial Abuse and Financial Exploitation - Records Disclosure [SB-175]
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[Consumer Protection ]
[Senior Citizens ]
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Requiring a fiduciary institution to disclose certain financial records from a specified period of time that are requested in writing by an adult protective services program that is investigating suspected financial abuse or financial exploitation; authorizing an adult protective services agency or a law enforcement agency to share certain information with a fiduciary institution that made a report of suspected financial abuse or financial exploitation; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 227 on 04/21/2022
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Maryland 2022 Regular Session
Criminal Law - Exploitation of Vulnerable Adult or Elderly Individual - Undue Influence [HB-161]
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Altering the definition of "undue influence" for purposes of provisions of law prohibiting the exploitation of certain vulnerable adults or individuals at least 68 years old that results in inequity; and requiring a court, in determining whether a transfer of property was induced by undue influence, to consider certain factors.
Sponsored by: Rep. Emily Shetty
Hearing 3/22 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/15/2022
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Maryland 2019 Regular Session
Criminal Law - Abuse and Neglect of Vulnerable Adults - Notice of Report [SB-1027]
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Requiring a copy of a report of alleged abuse or neglect of a vulnerable adult made to a State or local unit to be provided by the State or local unit to the individual alleged to have committed the abuse or neglect via certified mail or some other means reasonably calculated to provide actual notice.
Sponsored by: Sen. Katherine Klausmeier
Hearing 3/21 At 12:00 P.m. on 03/12/2019
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Maryland 2019 Regular Session
Maryland Elder Abuse Victims Resources Committee [HB-1270]
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Establishing the Maryland Elder Abuse Victims Resources Committee; declaring the policy of the General Assembly; providing for the composition, chair, officers, and staffing for the Committee; providing for the terms, vacancies, and removal of members of the Committee; establishing quorum and meeting requirements for the Committee; prohibiting a member of the Committee from receiving certain compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement of certain expenses; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Shelly Hettleman
First Reading Judiciary on 02/08/2019
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Family Law - Domestic Violence - Definition of Abuse [SB-960]
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[Crime ]
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[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Altering the definition of "abuse" for purposes of specified provisions of law relating to domestic violence to include harassment and malicious destruction of property; and defining harassment and malicious destruction of property.
Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Muse
Hearing 3/08 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/08/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Health Care Facilities - Abuser Registry [HB-265]
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[Crime ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
Requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to establish a registry that includes information about any employee of a health care facility whose employment was terminated because the employee was convicted of a specified crime; requiring a health care facility to submit the names of specified former employees to the Secretary for inclusion in the registry; authorizing a health care facility to access the registry under specified circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Barbara Robinson
Unfavorable Report By Health And Government Operations on 02/16/2016