Gifts
Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Battery Storage and Solar Arrays Safety Training Grant Program and Fund [HB-1221]
[Energy ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Public Safety ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Environmental ]
[Climate Change ]
[Construction ]
[Manufacturing ]
[Science ]
[Education ]
Establishing the Battery Storage and Solar Arrays Safety Training Grant Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to provide grants to the Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute to train local fire departments on certain safety aspects associated with lithium-ion battery storage systems installed with solar arrays; requiring the Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute to consult with certain entities in determining how to meet the purpose of the Program with the grants awarded under the Program; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Marvin E Holmes
Hearing 3/08 At 1:00 P.m. (environment And Transportation) on 02/15/2024
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Income Tax - Opportunity for Filers to Register to Make Anatomical Gift [HB-1068]
[Taxes ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring the Comptroller to implement procedures to offer certain income tax return filers the opportunity to register to make an anatomical gift in accordance with the Maryland Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act through a hyperlink to the anatomical gift donor registry.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jessica Feldmark
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 190 on 04/25/2024
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Anne Arundel County - Alcoholic Beverages - License Fees and Technical Corrections [SB-1046]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
Increasing alcoholic beverages license fees paid to the Board of License Commissioners for Anne Arundel County; and clarifying that the holder of a gift basket license may purchase alcoholic beverages from a retail dealer.
Sponsored by: Sen. Anne Arundel County Senators
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 04/05/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Wildlife – Protections and Highway Crossings [SB-902]
[Animals ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Environmental ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring the Department of Natural Resources, in collaboration with the State Highway Administration, to identify and prioritize certain species whose habitat or movement corridors intersect with State highways and develop tools, technology, and techniques to identify certain State highway infrastructure locations; requiring the Department of Natural Resources to develop a methodology and a cost estimate for performing a statewide deer population survey on or before November 1, 2024; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Lewis Young
Hearing Canceled on 04/02/2024
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Education - Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program and Fund - Established [HB-903]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Disabilities ]
Requiring certain information to be provided to the parents of a child with a disability under certain circumstances; establishing the Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program; establishing the Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Fund; requiring interest earnings of the Fund to be credited to the Fund; requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $1,000,000 to the Fund beginning in fiscal year 2026; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason C. Buckel
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 171 on 04/25/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Battery Storage and Solar Arrays Safety Training Grant Program and Fund [SB-788]
[Energy ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Public Safety ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Construction ]
[Environmental ]
[Climate Change ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Science ]
Establishing the Battery Storage and Solar Arrays Safety Training Grant Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to provide grants to the Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute to train local fire departments on certain safety aspects associated with lithium-ion battery storage systems installed with solar arrays; requiring the Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute to consult with certain entities in determining how to meet the purpose of the Program with the grants awarded under the Program; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mike McKay
First Reading Budget And Taxation on 02/01/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Testing Facilities That Use Animals - Licensing and Regulation [SB-761]
[Animals ]
[Agriculture ]
[Science ]
[Public Health ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Requiring each testing facility in the State to be licensed by the Department of Agriculture to use animals in research, education, or testing; establishing requirements for the use and treatment of dogs or cats by a testing facility; prohibiting a testing facility from using certain dogs and cats for research or testing purposes and performing certain procedures on dogs or cats; prohibiting a testing facility from using traditional animal test methods under certain circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence K. Lam
Hearing Canceled on 02/13/2024
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Education - Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program and Fund - Established [SB-797]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Disabilities ]
Requiring certain information to be provided to the parents of a child with a disability under certain circumstances; establishing the Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Program; establishing the Access to Attorneys, Advocates, and Consultants for Special Education Fund; requiring interest earnings of the Fund to be credited to the Fund; requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $1,000,000 to the Fund beginning in fiscal year 2026; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Brian J. Feldman
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 170 on 04/25/2024
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Abandoned Cemeteries Fund - Establishment and Income Tax Checkoff [HB-828]
[Taxes ]
[Funding ]
[Community Development ]
Establishing the Abandoned Cemeteries Fund to provide for the care, preservation, maintenance, and restoration of abandoned cemeteries in the State; establishing a certain income tax checkoff for voluntary contributions to the Abandoned Cemeteries Fund; and requiring the Comptroller to include a checkoff on individual income tax return forms for voluntary contributions to the Fund and to include certain information in each individual income tax return package.
Sponsored by: Rep. Christopher Troy Adams
Hearing 2/15 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/31/2024
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Department of Human Services - Children in Foster Care - Luggage [SB-668]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring the Department of Human Services to establish and maintain a decentralized supply of new luggage to be used to transport the personal belongings of a child in foster care; requiring the Department to provide new luggage to a child who is entering foster care, moving from one foster care placement to another, or exiting foster care; prohibiting the Department from using disposable bags or trash bags to transport items for a child in foster care; and requiring the Department to maintain certain records.
Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Anthony Muse
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 345 on 04/25/2024
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Department of Agriculture - Spay/Neuter Fund [SB-641]
[Agriculture ]
[Animals ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Altering the contents and authorized uses of the Spay/Neuter Fund; requiring the Department of Agriculture to establish a process through which a person may make a voluntary donation to the Fund; requiring the Department to give additional consideration to certain competitive grant proposals that meet certain criteria; and increasing the fee on commercial feed prepared and distributed for consumption by dogs or cats and registered in the State beginning October 1, 2024.
Sponsored by: Sen. Benjamin T. Brooks
Hearing 2/16 At 9:00 A.m. on 02/09/2024
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Abandoned Cemeteries Fund - Establishment and Income Tax Checkoff [SB-647]
[Taxes ]
[Community Development ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Establishing the Abandoned Cemeteries Fund to provide for the care, preservation, maintenance, and restoration of abandoned cemeteries in the State; establishing a certain income tax checkoff for voluntary contributions to the Abandoned Cemeteries Fund; and requiring the Comptroller to include a checkoff on individual income tax return forms for voluntary contributions to the Fund and to include certain information in each individual income tax return package.
Sponsored by: Sen. Arthur Ellis
Hearing Canceled on 02/09/2024
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Green and Renewable Energy for Nonprofit Organizations Loan Program and Fund [HB-660]
[Energy ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Environmental ]
[Nonprofit ]
Establishing the Green and Renewable Energy for Nonprofit Organizations Loan Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to provide financial assistance in the form of no-interest loans to nonprofit organizations for the planning, purchase, and installation of qualifying energy systems; establishing the Green and Renewable Energy for Nonprofit Organizations Loan Fund; authorizing, in fiscal year 2026, the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $5,000,000 for the Fund; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Lorig Charkoudian
Hearing 2/08 At 1:00 P.m. (economic Matters) on 01/29/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Institutions of Higher Education - Admissions Standards - Prohibition on Consideration of Legacy Preference or Donor Preference [SB-543]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
Prohibiting institutions of higher education that receive State funds from considering a legacy preference or donor preference as an eligible criterion for admissions standards at the institution; and allowing an institution of higher education to ask applicants for information regarding familial relationships to alums of the institution for data collection purposes.
Sponsored by: Sen. Benjamin T. Brooks
Referred Rules And Executive Nominations on 04/06/2024
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Income Tax - Opportunity for Filers to Register to Make Anatomical Gift [SB-577]
[Taxes ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring the Comptroller to implement procedures to offer an individual filing a Maryland resident individual income tax return electronically the opportunity to register to make an anatomical gift in accordance with the Maryland Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act through a hyperlink to a certain anatomical gift donor registry; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Nancy King
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 189 on 04/25/2024
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Corporations and Associations - Electric Cooperatives - Nonescheat Capital Credits [SB-510]
[Nonprofit ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Energy ]
[Community Development ]
Providing that certain unclaimed money held by an electric cooperative and due to a past member is not considered abandoned property; and authorizing an electric cooperative to use this money only to assist members of the cooperative or donate to nonprofit, charitable organizations.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen S Hershey
Referred Economic Matters on 03/08/2024
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Department of Human Services - Children in Foster Care - Luggage [HB-542]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring the Department of Human Services to establish and maintain a decentralized supply of new luggage to be used to transport the personal belongings of a child in foster care; requiring the Department to provide new luggage to a child in foster care who is entering foster care, moving from one placement to another, or exiting foster care; prohibiting the Department from using disposable bags or trash bags to transport a child's belongings; and requiring the Department to maintain certain records.
Sponsored by: Rep. Frank M Conaway
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 346 on 04/25/2024
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Corporations and Associations - Electric Cooperatives - Nonescheat Capital Credits [HB-487]
[Nonprofit ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Energy ]
[Community Development ]
Providing that certain unclaimed money held by an electric cooperative and due to a past member is not considered abandoned property; and authorizing an electric cooperative to use this money only to assist members of the cooperative or donate to nonprofit, charitable organizations.
Sponsored by: Rep. Steven J. Arentz
Hearing 2/06 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/29/2024
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Income Tax Credit - Venison Donation [SB-440]
[Taxes ]
[Animals ]
[Food ]
[Agriculture ]
Allowing an individual, subject to certain requirements and limitations, to claim a credit against the State income tax for certain qualified expenses if the individual harvests an antlerless deer and donates the deer meat to certain organizations; limiting the amount of credits certain individuals may claim to a maximum of $300; and requiring by January 31 each year each venison donation program that received certain donations to report certain information about each donor who intended to claim the credit to the Comptroller.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joanne C. Benson
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 769 on 05/16/2024
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Income Tax Credit - Venison Donation [HB-447]
[Taxes ]
[Agriculture ]
[Food ]
[Animals ]
Allowing an individual, subject to certain requirements and limitations, to claim a credit against the State income tax for certain qualified expenses if the individual harvests an antlerless deer and donates the deer meat to certain organizations; limiting the amount of credits an individual may claim to a maximum of $300; and requiring by January 31 each year each venison donation program that received certain donations to report certain information about each donor who intended to claim the credit to the Comptroller.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sheila Ruth
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 770 on 05/16/2024