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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Residential Owners in Common Ownership Communities - Bill of Rights [HB-557]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Community Development ]
Establishing a bill of rights for unit owners of a condominium, members of a cooperative housing corporation, and lot owners of a homeowners association.
Sponsored by: Rep. Marvin E Holmes
Hearing 2/11 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/27/2025
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Texas 89th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to victims of sex offenses, sex-based human trafficking offenses, or acts of a sexual nature and to the confidentiality of or restrictions on the availability of certain property, material, or information regarding those victims, offenses, or acts. [HB-1975]
[Crime ]
[Human Rights ]
[Human Services ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Relating to victims of sex offenses, sex-based human trafficking offenses, or acts of a sexual nature and to the confidentiality of or restrictions on the availability of certain property, material, or information regarding those victims, offenses, or acts.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Cook
Read First Time on 03/14/2025
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Texas 89th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to the admissibility of evidence of certain extraneous offenses or acts in the prosecution of sexual assault or aggravated sexual assault or an attempt or conspiracy to commit sexual assault or aggravated sexual assault. [HB-1977]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Relating to the admissibility of evidence of certain extraneous offenses or acts in the prosecution of sexual assault or aggravated sexual assault or an attempt or conspiracy to commit sexual assault or aggravated sexual assault.
Sponsored by: Rep. John Smithee
Scheduled For Public Hearing On . . . on 03/25/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Safety - Gun Buyback Programs - Destruction of Firearms [SB-444]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring a federal firearms licensee or law enforcement agency operating a gun buyback program to destroy each firearm and all its components and parts, that is traded in as part of a gun buyback program; authorizing a certain person or entity to contract with a law enforcement agency or a business to destroy certain firearms; requiring a law enforcement agency operating a gun buyback program to make certain efforts to determine whether a firearm is a crime firearm or has been reported lost or stolen before destroying the weapon; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. William C. Smith
Motion Special Order Until Next Session (delegate Clippinger) Adopted on 04/07/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Housing Development Act [HB-503]
[Housing ]
[Community Development ]
[Economic Development ]
Requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development to periodically establish housing production targets for the State and certain local jurisdictions; requiring the Department to publish housing production targets on its website and notify certain local jurisdictions; requiring the Department to publish an annual report assessing the progress of the State and certain local jurisdictions with meeting specified housing targets; establishing the Housing Opportunities Made Equitable Commission; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kevin Bailey Hornberger
Rereferred To Education, Energy, And The Environment on 04/03/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Land Use - Regional Housing Infrastructure Gap (Housing for Jobs Act) [SB-430]
[Housing ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Community Development ]
[Economic Development ]
[Real Estate ]
[Construction ]
Requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development and the Department of Planning to calculate certain regional housing infrastructure gaps; providing for the apportionment of regional housing infrastructure gaps to counties and incorporated municipalities; authorizing local jurisdictions to reduce local housing infrastructure gaps in a certain manner; establishing that certain local jurisdictions have an affirmative obligation to expeditiously approve housing development project applications; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Cheryl C. Kagan
Hearing Canceled on 02/06/2025
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Transportation. [SB-1208]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
Allows authorized employees of the Department of Transportation and Department of Law Enforcement to inspect and provide a certificate of certain evidence of speed limit violations obtained by automated speed enforcement systems. Appropriates funds to the Department of Transportation to establish and implement the automated speed enforcement systems program.
Sponsored by: Sen. Chris Kalani Lee
Referred To Tca/psm, Wam/jdc. on 01/27/2025
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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 M Conaway
Hearing 2/12 At 1:00 P.m. (ways And Means) on 01/29/2025
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Transportation. [HB-697]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Funding ]
[Public Safety ]
Allows authorized employees of the Department of Law Enforcement, in addition to county police departments, to perform certain actions in reviewing recorded images produced by automated speed enforcement systems. Appropriates funds from the State Highway Fund to the Department of Transportation to establish and implement the Automated Speed Enforcement Systems Program. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1)
Sponsored by: Rep. Gregg Takayama
The Conference Committee Recommends That The Measure Be Passed, With Amendments. The Votes Of The Senate Conference Managers Were As Follows: 3 Aye(s): Senator(s) Lee, C., Wakai, Rhoads; Aye(s) With Reservations: None ; 0 No(es): None; And 1 Excused: Senator(s) Decoite. on 04/25/2025
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Excited Delirium. [SB-705]
[Healthcare ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Health ]
[Science ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Prohibits excited delirium from being recognized as a valid medical diagnosis or cause of death in the State. Prohibits a local health officer or local agent of the Department of Health from stating on a certificate of death or in any report that the cause of death was excited delirium. Prohibits law enforcement officers from using the term excited delirium to describe an individual in an incident report. Establishes a new rule of evidence that deems evidence that a person experienced or suffered an excited delirium inadmissible in a civil action.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joy A. San Buenaventura
Referred To Hhs/psm, Jdc. on 01/23/2025
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Texas 89th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to victims of sex offenses, sex-based human trafficking offenses, or acts of a sexual nature and to the confidentiality of or restrictions on the availability of certain property, material, or information regarding those victims, offenses, or acts. [SB-836]
[Crime ]
[Human Rights ]
[Human Services ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Relating to victims of sex offenses, sex-based human trafficking offenses, or acts of a sexual nature and to the confidentiality of or restrictions on the availability of certain property, material, or information regarding those victims, offenses, or acts.
Sponsored by: Rep. Donna Howard
Effective On 9/1/25 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Criminal Procedure - Victims and Witnesses - Out of Court Statement of Child to Forensic Interviewer [HB-442]
[Crime ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Expanding the evidentiary rule on the admissibility of out of court statements made by child victims or witnesses to make admissible an out of court statement made by a child to a forensic interviewer.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Kerr
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 147 on 04/22/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Health Occupations Boards - English Proficiency Requirements and Licensure by Endorsement for Nursing [HB-367]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Health ]
Prohibiting a health occupations board from requiring additional evidence of English proficiency as a condition for licensure, certification, or registration if an applicant holds a valid, unrestricted license, certification, or registration from another state that requires evidence of English proficiency; requiring each health occupations board that requires evidence of English proficiency to post a statement on their website that an applicant may not be required to provide additional evidence of proficiency; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne R Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 731 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Courts - Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation [HB-434]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Altering the conditions under which a lawsuit is considered a strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP suit); altering the conditions under which a defendant in a SLAPP suit is not civilly liable for certain communications; establishing certain standards and requirements relating to a motion to dismiss an alleged SLAPP suit; and applying the Act prospectively.
Sponsored by: Rep. Samuel I Rosenberg
Hearing 2/12 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/27/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Evidence - Interception of Oral Communications - Fair Housing Testing [HB-392]
[Housing ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Human Rights ]
Providing that it is lawful for a person to intercept an oral communication if the person is working as a fair housing tester for a fair housing testing program operated by the federal government, the State, a local government, or a nonprofit civil rights organization under certain circumstances; and providing that the contents of an intercepted oral communication may be used only for the purpose of enforcing federal, State, or local fair housing laws.
Sponsored by: Rep. Terri Hill
Hearing 2/04 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/17/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Baltimore County - Speed Monitoring Systems - Interstate 695 and Interstate 83 [SB-338]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Authorizing the State Highway Administration to place and use not more than four speed monitoring systems on Interstate 695 in Baltimore County and three on Interstate 83 in Baltimore County subject to notice requirements; requiring that fines collected as a result of violations enforced by speed monitoring systems on Interstate 695 in Baltimore County and Interstate 83 in Baltimore County be used to recover administrative costs and assist in covering the cost of certain roadway and safety improvements; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Baltimore County Senators
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 582 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Criminal Procedure - Victims and Witnesses - Out of Court Statement of Child to Forensic Interviewer [SB-333]
[Crime ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Expanding the evidentiary rule on the admissibility of out of court statements made by child victims or witnesses to make admissible an out of court statement made by a child to a forensic interviewer.
Sponsored by: Sen. William Folden
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 148 on 04/22/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Motor Vehicles - Speed Monitoring Systems - Safety Corridors [HB-348]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Infrastructure ]
Authorizing the State Highway Administration to use speed monitoring systems in areas determined to be of high risk to vulnerable road users and priority corridors in the Administration's Pedestrian Safety Action Plan; and requiring the Comptroller to distribute revenue from the civil fines collected from the use of certain monitoring systems to a fund for the State Highway Administration to cover the costs of implementing and administering certain speed monitoring systems, for highway safety purposes and Administration system preservation.
Sponsored by: Rep. Vaughn Stewart
Referred Judicial Proceedings on 03/17/2025
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Excited Delirium. [SB-228]
[Healthcare ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Health ]
[Science ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Prohibits excited delirium from being recognized as a valid medical diagnosis or cause of death in the State. Prohibits a medical examiner, coroner, or health care provider from stating on a certificate of death or in any report that the cause of death was excited delirium. Prohibits law enforcement officers from using the term excited delirium to describe an individual in an incident report. Establishes a new Hawaii Rule of Evidence that deems evidence that a person experienced or suffered an excited delirium inadmissible in a civil action. Effective
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Sponsored by: Sen. Stanley Chang
Received Notice Of Senate Conferees (sen. Com. No. 809). on 04/16/2025
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Arizona Fifty-seventh Legislature - First Regular Session (2025)
Acting in concert; evidence; exceptions [HB-2090]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Acting in concert; evidence; exceptions
Sponsored by: Rep. Gail Griffin
Governor Vetoed on 04/15/2025