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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Continuing Care Retirement Communities - Transparency, Grievances, and Unit Reoccupancy [SB-76]
Requiring a provider to post the provider's most recent disclosure statement on the provider's website; altering the number of times providers are required to hold a meeting open to all of the provider's subscribers each year; requiring an authorized officer of a provider to provide a summary of certain grievance information at certain meetings; requiring the Department of Aging to collect certain information about internal grievances; requiring a provider to submit certain reports to a subscriber under certain circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence Lam
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 257 on 04/25/2024
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Interstate Social Work Licensure Compact [SB-204]
Entering into the Social Work Licensure Compact for the purpose of authorizing regulated social workers who hold interstate compact licenses to practice social work in member states; establishing requirements for multistate licensure; establishing the Social Work Licensure Compact Commission; and providing for withdrawal from the Compact.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joanne Benson
Hearing 2/13 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/24/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Higher Education - Disciplinary Records - Use in Admissions and Disciplinary Proceedings [SB-61]
Prohibiting an institution of higher education from using an admissions application that contains questions about an applicant's disciplinary record, subject to certain exceptions; and authorizing an institution of higher education to make inquiries into and consider information about a student's disciplinary record for discipline related to academic dishonesty.
Sponsored by: Sen. Alonzo Washington
Hearing Canceled on 01/17/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Department of Planning - State Repository and Clearinghouse for Federal and State Financial and Technical Assistance [SB-310]
Repealing a requirement that the Department of Planning serve as a repository and clearinghouse for information concerning federal and State grants, loans, and other financial and technical assistance; repealing a requirement that the Department adopt certain regulations and publish certain information in the Maryland Register; and altering a requirement that the Department publish certain information concerning State financial and technical assistance offered through State assistance programs.
Sponsored by: Sen.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 94 on 04/09/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Agriculture - Pollinator Habitat Plan - Requirements for State Highway Administration [HB-22]
Requiring the State Highway Administration's pollinator habitat plan to include policies and procedures regarding the use of pollinator habitat areas along State highways; requiring the Administration to track and evaluate federal programs that provide funding for pollinator habitats, native plants, and invasive species control and to apply for any funding that the Administration determines appropriate and beneficial to pollinator habitats; requiring the Administration to update the plan by October 1 each year; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Stein
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 553 on 05/09/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Community Schools - Alterations [SB-161]
Altering certain requirements for community schools and community school coordinators; requiring the Director of Community Schools to create a common needs assessment tool and an evaluation form; requiring a community school coordinator to complete an evaluation and a needs assessment in a certain manner; authorizing the State Department of Education to provide comments to community school coordinators on implementation plans; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Alonzo Washington
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 230 on 04/25/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
General Assembly Vacancy - Political Party Central Committees - Procedures [SB-140]
Establishing requirements for the filling of a vacancy in the office of Senator or Delegate in the General Assembly by a central committee of a political party under the Maryland Constitution relating to applications, public notice, public meetings, and voting; and requiring a member of the central committee who has applied to fill the vacancy to recuse themselves from voting on the individual to fill the vacancy.
Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence Lam
Hearing 1/30 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/17/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Noise Abatement Monitoring Systems - Pilot Program [HB-212]
Establishing a pilot program to authorize the use of noise abatement monitoring systems in Montgomery County and Prince George's County to enforce certain motor vehicle noise requirements; requiring a county, before activating a noise abatement monitoring system, to publish notice of the locations of the systems on its website; requiring a county that authorizes a noise abatement monitoring program to report to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 1, 2025, on the implementation and costs of the program and revenues collected; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Healey
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 624 on 05/09/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Public Health - Healthy Maryland Program - Establishment [HB-184]
Establishing the Healthy Maryland Program as a public corporation and a unit of State government to provide comprehensive universal single-payer health care services for residents of the State by January 1, 2026; establishing requirements and prohibitions related to Healthy Maryland, including provisions regarding eligibility, participation by and payments to health care providers, benefits, payroll premiums, funding, and collective negotiations with health care providers; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Gabriel Acevero
Hearing 3/12 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/09/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Noise Abatement Monitoring Systems - Pilot Program [SB-155]
Establishing a pilot program to authorize the use of noise abatement monitoring systems in Montgomery County and Prince George's County to enforce certain motor vehicle noise requirements; requiring a county that authorizes a program of noise abatement monitoring systems to report to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before December 1, 2025, on the effectiveness, performance, appropriate locations, costs and revenues, and citations issued in relation to the program; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Alonzo Washington
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 625 on 05/09/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Paint Stewardship [HB-1]
Requiring producers of architectural paint or a representative organization to submit a plan for the establishment of a Paint Stewardship Program to the Department of the Environment by July 1, 2025, and in accordance with certain requirements; requiring the Department to review and approve certain plans, including a certain assessment; prohibiting the sale of certain architectural paint beginning January 1, 2026 unless an approved Paint Stewardship Program has been implemented by certain producers; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Stein
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 587 on 05/09/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Motor Vehicle Insurance Companies - Requirements [SB-254]
Requiring motor vehicle insurance companies to participate in the Administration's online verification program for vehicle insurance policies for law enforcement and administrative purposes; and requiring motor vehicle insurance companies to provide certain customer information details.
Sponsored by: Sen.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 74 on 04/09/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Environment - Plastic Products - Postconsumer Recycled Content Program [HB-168]
Prohibiting certain producers of certain plastic products from selling, offering for sale, or distributing the products to any person in the State unless certain conditions are met; requiring certain producers of certain plastic products to, individually or as part of a representative organization, register and pay a certain annual registration fee to the Department of the Environment; establishing certain minimum postconsumer recycled content percentage requirements for certain products; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Terri Hill
Hearing 2/07 At 2:30 P.m. (environment And Transportation) on 01/18/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Labor and Employment - Payment of Minimum Wage - Tipped Employees [SB-160]
Specifying a certain tip credit amount that is in effect for certain time periods; prohibiting certain employers of tipped employees, beginning July 1, 2027, from including a tip credit amount as part of the employees' wages and requiring the employer to pay an employee at least the State minimum wage; and requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to establish the High Road Kitchen Program as a recognition program for restaurants that do not include the tip credit as part of certain employees' wages.
Sponsored by: Sen. Cory McCray
Hearing 2/01 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/11/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Agriculture – Pollinator Habitat Plan – Requirements for State Highway Administration [SB-178]
Requiring the State Highway Administration's pollinator habitat plan to include policies and procedures regarding the use of pollinator habitat areas along State highways; requiring the Administration to track and evaluate federal programs that provide funding for pollinator habitats, native plants, and invasive species control and to apply for any funding that the Administration determines appropriate and beneficial to pollinator habitats; requiring the Administration to update the plan by October 1 each year; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Katherine Klausmeier
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 552 on 05/09/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Election Law - Campaign Finance - Draft Committees and Exploratory Committees [SB-16]
Applying certain campaign finance requirements for a political committee to draft committees and exploratory committees; establishing requirements and prohibitions for draft and exploratory committees relating to the establishment of the committees, receipt of funds, and permissible disbursements; requiring an authorized candidate campaign committee that results from the draft committee or exploratory committee to make any equipment purchases from the draft committee or exploratory committee at the fair market value of the equipment; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Cheryl Kagan
Hearing Canceled on 03/19/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Comprehensive plan; locality may consider adopting a healthy communities strategy. [HB-208]
Comprehensive plan; healthy communities strategy. Authorizes a locality, beginning July 1, 2024, to adopt a healthy communities strategy as part of its next and any subsequent reviews of the comprehensive plan. The bill provides that the locality's strategy may include identifying (i) major sources of pollution or hazardous waste sites within the locality, (ii) policies to mitigate the unique or compounded health risks to residents that may be caused by such pollution sources or hazardous waste sites, (iii) objectives and policies to promote civic
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Sponsored by: Rep. Shelly Simonds
House Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/17/2024
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Texas 88th Legislature 4th Special Session
Relating to property owners' associations, including condominium owners' associations. [SB-36]
Relating to property owners' associations, including condominium owners' associations.
Sponsored by: Sen. Bryan Hughes
Received By The Secretary Of The Senate on 11/13/2023
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Texas 88th Legislature 4th Special Session
Relating to primary and secondary education, including the certification, compensation, and health coverage of certain public school employees, the public school finance system, special education in public schools, the establishment of an education savings account program, measures to support the education of public school students that include certain educational grant programs, reading instruction, and early childhood education, the provision of virtual education, and public school accountability. [HB-1]
Relating to primary and secondary education, including the certification, compensation, and health coverage of certain public school employees, the public school finance system, special education in public schools, the establishment of an education savings account program, measures to support the education of public school students that include certain educational grant programs, reading instruction, and early childhood education, the provision of virtual education, and public school accountability.
Sponsored by: Rep. Briscoe Cain
Motion To Reconsider And Table Prevails on 11/17/2023
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Texas 88th Legislature 4th Special Session
Relating to electronic voter registration. [HB-31]
Relating to electronic voter registration.
Sponsored by: Rep. John Bucy
Filed on 11/07/2023