Investigations And Inquiries
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Primary and Secondary Education - Definition and Notification of Reportable Offense - Alterations [SB-386]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Crime ]
Altering the definition of "reportable offense" to remove the requirement that the offense occurred off school premises and did not occur at an event sponsored by the school; and requiring the Department of Juvenile Services to report to the local superintendent of schools and school principal for certain decisions made during a certain inquiry of a juvenile offender for certain offenses.
Sponsored by: Sen. William Folden
Hearing Canceled (education, Energy, And The Environment) on 02/10/2025
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Maryland Department of Health and Office of Health Care Quality - Nursing Home Inspections - Reporting [SB-376]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
[Senior Citizens ]
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, beginning July 1, 2025, to report quarterly to certain committees of the General Assembly on disaggregated data regarding nursing home inspections in each county; and requiring the Office of Health Care Quality, beginning July 1, 2025, to report to the local area agency on aging for each county the name of each nursing home in the county that was surveyed in the immediately preceding 6 months and the date each survey was conducted.
Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence K. Lam
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 680 on 05/20/2025
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Prince George's County Public Schools - Office of Integrity and Compliance - Alterations PG 504-25 [HB-370]
[Education ]
[Ethics ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
Specifying the purpose of the Office of Integrity and Compliance in the Prince George's County public school system; requiring the County Executive of Prince George's County, rather than the County Council, to select and appoint an Integrity and Compliance Officer; requiring the Officer to serve as an independent employee within the county government, rather than the local school system, with certain review and oversight; specifying and altering certain duties of the Officer; etc.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Hearing 2/05 At 2:00 P.m. on 01/22/2025
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Adult Protective Services - Investigations and Disclosure of Information [SB-347]
[Human Services ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Crime ]
Authorizing a local department of social services to request assistance from federal law enforcement officers in an investigation relating to an alleged vulnerable adult; and altering certain provisions relating to the disclosure of certain information concerning human services to include adult protective services.
Sponsored by: Sen. Sara Norris Love
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 499 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Health Facilities - Augmentation of Survey Staff - Nursing Homes [HB-429]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Requiring the Secretary of Health, on request of a county, to delegate to the county the authority to augment State nursing home survey staff using county funds under certain circumstances; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to initiate a certain memorandum of understanding and develop a certain plan with a requesting county within 45 days after a county's request; requiring the Department, beginning July 1, 2025, to report to each area agency on aging the names and dates of each nursing home surveyed in the preceding 6 months; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne R Kaiser
Referred Rules on 04/04/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Juvenile Law - Police Record Concerning a Child - Confidentiality Exception [HB-366]
[Crime ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Data Privacy ]
Authorizing the public disclosure by the Office of the Attorney General of the name and age of a child injured or killed in a police-involved incident resulting in the death or injury of a child, subject to the express consent of the child's parent or guardian.
Sponsored by: Rep. Elizabeth M. Embry
Hearing 2/06 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/17/2025
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Financial Institutions and Activities - Virtual Currency Kiosks - Registration and Regulation [SB-305]
[Finance ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Establishing registration and operating requirements for a virtual currency kiosk operator to operate a virtual currency kiosk in the State; authorizing the Commissioner of Financial Regulation to investigate and enforce the Act in a certain manner; and authorizing the Commissioner to assess against a virtual currency kiosk operator a civil penalty not to exceed $1,000 for each knowing and willful violation of the Act.
Sponsored by: Sen. Shelly Hettleman
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 117 on 04/22/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Climate Change - Attorney General Actions, Climate Change Restitution Fund, and Climate Change Restitution Fund Advisory Council [HB-340]
[Climate Change ]
[Environmental ]
[Energy ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Funding ]
[Public Safety ]
Authorizing the Attorney General to investigate, commence, and prosecute or defend any suit or action that holds certain entities accountable for tortious or otherwise unlawful conduct that has contributed to climate change; establishing the Climate Change Restitution Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; establishing the Climate Change Restitution Fund Advisory Council to provide information to the Governor, the Attorney General, and the General Assembly on climate change and the distribution of the Fund; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Lorig Charkoudian
Hearing 2/11 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/21/2025
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Interstate Social Work Licensure Compact [HB-345]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
Entering into the Social Work Licensure Compact for the purpose of authorizing regulated social workers who hold multistate licenses to practice social work in member states in order to improve public access to competent social work services; establishing requirements for multistate licensure; establishing the Social Work Licensure Compact Commission; providing for withdrawal from the Compact; and providing that the Act is contingent on the enactment of substantially similar legislation in six other states.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne R Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 9 on 04/08/2025
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Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance - Intercepted Communications - Admissibility of Evidence [HB-314]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Data Privacy ]
Providing that the contents of a certain intercepted communication and evidence derived from the communication may be received in evidence in a certain proceeding under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robin L. Grammer
Hearing 2/04 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/17/2025
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Courts and Judicial Proceedings - Statement of Charges - Human Service Workers [HB-302]
[Human Services ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Expanding certain provisions of law relating to a certain investigation and recommendation by a State's Attorney concerning the filing of a statement of charges against certain professionals to include certain human service workers.
Sponsored by: Rep. David H. Moon
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 134 on 04/22/2025
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Common Ownership Communities - Ombudsman Unit, Governing Document Database, and Local Commissions [HB-306]
[Housing ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Community Development ]
[Real Estate ]
Establishing the Common Ownership Community Ombudsman Unit in the Division of Consumer Protection in the Office of the Attorney General to receive and respond to certain complaints; requiring common ownership communities to file certain documents with the Department of Housing and Community Development; requiring the Department to establish a database of governing documents accessible to the public; and establishing requirements for a local common ownership commission established by the local government of a county.
Sponsored by: Rep. Marvin E Holmes
Hearing 2/04 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/15/2025
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Criminal Procedure - Forensic Genetic Genealogical DNA Analysis and Search - Affidavit for Judicial Authorization [HB-301]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Science ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Data Privacy ]
Altering and clarifying the requirement that a sworn affidavit for judicial authorization to initiate forensic genetic genealogical DNA analysis and search (FGGS) assert that the reasonable investigative leads have been pursued and failed to identify the perpetrator and instead requiring that a sworn affidavit for judicial authorization assert that identity of the perpetrator is unknown.
Sponsored by: Rep. David H. Moon
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 135 on 04/22/2025
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Education - Interscholastic and Intramural Junior Varsity and Varsity Teams - Designation Based on Sex (Fairness in Girls' Sports Act) [HB-156]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Sports ]
Requiring certain interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and varsity athletic teams or sports sponsored by certain schools to be expressly designated based on biological sex; prohibiting certain entities from taking certain adverse actions against a school for maintaining separate interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and varsity athletic teams and sports for students of the female sex; and providing that certain individuals have the right to bring a civil action under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason C. Buckel
Unfavorable Report By Ways And Means on 02/10/2025
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Office of the Chief Medical Examiner - Disclosure of Autopsy Information and Maintenance of Investigative Database [HB-290]
[Public Health ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Healthcare ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Altering the autopsy information in a public record with respect to which a custodian is required to deny inspection; requiring the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to maintain an investigative database; and providing that certain data and records maintained in the database are not public records and not subject to the Maryland Public Information Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. Health and Government Operations
Hearing 1/22 At 2:00 P.m. on 01/13/2025
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Family Law – Child Support [HB-218]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
Altering provisions relating to the commencement of a proceeding to hold a person in contempt of court for the person's default in payment of periodic child or spousal support under the terms of a court order and provisions relating to the commencement of a contempt proceeding for failure to make a payment of child or spousal support under a court order; authorizing the Child Support Administration to take action to secure an assignment to the State of any rights to support on behalf of a child receiving foster care maintenance payments; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Judiciary
Hearing Canceled on 02/17/2025
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Child Support - Suspension of Driver's Licenses [SB-106]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Children and Youth ]
Altering provisions of law relating to the authority of the Child Support Enforcement Administration to notify the Motor Vehicle Administration of an individual's child support arrearages for the purpose of suspending the individual's driver's license or privilege to drive under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Anthony Muse
Hearing 1/22 At 10:00 A.m. on 01/09/2025
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Family Law - Child Abuse and Neglect Investigations ("Know Before They Knock" Family Right to Notice Act) [HB-223]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Crime ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring a local department of social services or a law enforcement agency to provide oral and written notice of certain rights to a parent or caretaker of a child at the time of initial contact during an investigation of suspected child abuse or neglect; and excluding evidence obtained in violation of the Act from being used in certain judicial or administrative proceedings.
Sponsored by: Rep. Charlotte Agnes Crutchfield
Hearing 2/13 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/27/2025
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Public Safety - Police Accountability - Deadline for Completion of Investigation [HB-139]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Requiring the investigating unit of a law enforcement agency to complete its review of a certain complaint and forward its investigatory files to the administrative charging committee as soon as possible, but not later than 9 months after the filing of the complaint.
Sponsored by: Rep. Caylin Allen Young
Hearing 2/25 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/10/2025
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Human Services - Adult Protective Services [SB-205]
[Human Services ]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Specifying that certain provisions of law relating to confidentiality do not prohibit the disclosure of certain information relating to adult protective services or the disclosure of the identity of certain persons making certain reports under certain circumstances; expanding the definition of "health practitioner" to include certain emergency medical providers; and authorizing certain individuals who are required in specific instances to report information regarding alleged vulnerable adults to make a report.
Sponsored by: Sen. Judicial Proceedings
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 38 on 04/08/2025