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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Procurement Reform Act of 2025 [HB-500]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Infrastructure ]
Authorizing the Secretary of General Services to delegate certain powers and duties to the Chief Procurement Officer; altering the authority of the Department of General Services to engage in or control procurement of certain equipment and services; requiring the Department of Information Technology to establish a technical procurement team; altering the authority of the Department of Transportation and the Maryland Transportation Authority to engage in procurement for certain supplies and services; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Stein
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 601 on 05/20/2025
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Chesapeake Bay Legacy Act [SB-428]
[Agriculture ]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Food ]
Establishing the Maryland Leaders in Environmentally Engaged Farming (LEEF) Program; establishing the Maryland Leaders in Environmentally Engaged Farming (LEEF) Program Fund to support actions associated with fulfilling the Program's purpose; defining "fixed natural buffer" as a strip of maintained, native vegetation alongside a body of water; exempting certain holders of certain fishing licenses from the requirement to obtain a certain food establishment license; establishing the Water Quality Monitoring Program; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Cheryl Kagan
Third Reading Passed (47-0) on 04/02/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Procurement Reform Act of 2025 [SB-426]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Construction ]
[Economic Development ]
Authorizing the Secretary of General Services to delegate certain powers and duties to the Chief Procurement Officer; altering the authority of the Department of General Services to engage in or control procurement of certain equipment and services; altering the authority of the Department of Transportation and the Maryland Transportation Authority to engage in procurement for certain supplies and services for transportation related activities; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Cheryl Kagan
Hearing Canceled on 01/30/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Environment - Coal Combustion By-Products - Fees, Coordinating Committee, and Regulations [SB-425]
[Environmental ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Energy ]
[Water ]
[Mining ]
[Public Health ]
Altering the factors that the Department of the Environment is required to consider in establishing a certain fee; requiring the Department to use certain excess fees collected from certain generators of coal combustion by-products for certain purposes; establishing the Statewide Coal Combustion By-Products Coordinating Committee to share information, monitoring results, and certain remedial actions with respect to certain coal combustion by-product sites; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Michael Jackson
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 529 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Natural Resources - Wildland Areas - Overhead Transmission Lines [SB-399]
[Energy ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Environmental ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Water ]
Exempting certain areas in the Big Savage Mountain Wildland, Bear Pen Wildland, and Dan's Mountain Wildland from being designated as a wildland area, subject to a certificate of public convenience and necessity being obtained for a certain transmission line; and requiring the Public Service Commission to require an applicant for a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the construction of a certain overhead transmission line to provide wildland impact mitigation guarantees.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mike McKay
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 572 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Recreational Equality for Service Members Act [HB-494]
[Veterans ]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
[Military ]
[Recreation ]
Establishing rules of interpretation related to the uniformed services; altering the rule of interpretation for "veteran"; altering the application of certain provisions of law governing public health and the regulation of health occupations to apply to all uniformed services, rather than only the armed forces; altering the circumstances under which licenses for fishing in tidal waters do not lapse; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Marvin Holmes
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 266 on 05/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Natural Resources - Invasive Blue Catfish Pilot Program [HB-446]
[Animals ]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Science ]
[Public Safety ]
Establishing the Invasive Blue Catfish Pilot Program in the Department of Natural Resources to curb the spread of the invasive blue catfish in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries; requiring the Department to expand the use of practices determined to be effective under the Program; and requiring the Department to report to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 1, 2025, on its findings and recommendations based on the Pilot Program.
Sponsored by: Rep. Barrie Ciliberti
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 172 on 04/22/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act of 2025 [HB-352]
[Finance ]
[Taxes ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
Establishing or altering certain administrative penalties; altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; establishing certain funds; authorizing, requiring, or altering the distribution of certain revenue; altering the rates and rate brackets under the State income tax on certain income of individuals; increasing the cap on the percentage that may be deducted from all open purses and paid to a certain organization; etc.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 604 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act of 2025 [SB-321]
[Finance ]
[Taxes ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Establishing or altering certain administrative penalties; altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; establishing certain funds; authorizing, requiring, or altering the distribution of certain revenue; altering the rates and rate brackets under the State income tax on certain income of individuals; requiring certain groups of corporations to file a combined income tax return reflecting the aggregate income tax liability of all members of the group; etc.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Hearing Canceled on 02/14/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Natural Resources - Food Forests and Foraging Program - Establishment [SB-317]
[Agriculture ]
[Environmental ]
[Food ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Public Health ]
Establishing a Food Forests and Foraging Program on areas owned or managed by the Department of Natural Resources; defining "foraging" as harvesting plant materials, including seeds, nuts, mushrooms, roots, tubers, and berries for noncommercial personal consumption; requiring individuals who forage in a food forest to obtain a permit; requiring the Department to charge a permit application fee and establish a fee waiver process for individuals who demonstrate financial need; establishing the Food Forests and Foraging Fund; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Lewis Young
Hearing 2/11 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/23/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Recreational Equality for Service Members Act [SB-282]
[Veterans ]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
[Recreation ]
Establishing rules of interpretation related to the uniformed services; altering the rule of interpretation for "veteran"; altering the application of certain provisions of law governing public health and the regulation of health occupations to apply to all uniformed services, rather than only the armed forces; altering the circumstances under which licenses for fishing in tidal waters do not lapse; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Michael Jackson
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 265 on 05/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Prince George's County - Natural Resources - Sunday Deer Hunting and Archery Hunting Safety Zones [SB-272]
[Animals ]
[Public Safety ]
[Recreation ]
Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to allow a person to hunt deer on each Sunday of the deer bow hunting season in Prince George's County; and adding Prince George's County to the list of counties in which the safety zone for archery hunters extends a distance of 50 yards from a dwelling house, residence, church, or any other building or camp occupied by human beings.
Sponsored by: Sen. Michael Jackson
Hearing 2/04 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/14/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Natural Resources - Fishing Licenses and Stamps - Alterations [SB-258]
[Animals ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Recreation ]
Altering the fees for resident consolidated senior sport fishing licenses, angler's licenses, and trout stamps; and repealing the exemption from the requirement to obtain a trout stamp under certain circumstances for a holder of a resident consolidated senior sport fishing license.
Sponsored by: Sen.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 46 on 04/08/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Natural Resources - Invasive Blue Catfish Pilot Program [SB-186]
[Animals ]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Science ]
[Public Safety ]
Establishing the Invasive Blue Catfish Pilot Program in the Department of Natural Resources to curb the spread of the invasive blue catfish in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries; requiring the Department to expand the use of practices determined to be effective under the Program; and requiring the Department to report to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 1, 2025, on its findings and recommendations based on the Pilot Program.
Sponsored by: Sen. Johnny Mautz
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 171 on 04/22/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
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.
Hearing Canceled on 02/17/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Fisheries - Striped Bass or Rockfish - Juvenile Survey [SB-87]
[Animals ]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
Expanding the scope of the annual young-of-the-year juvenile survey of striped bass or rockfish by requiring the Department of Natural Resources to conduct the survey at sampling sites in the central region of the Maryland waters of the Chesapeake Bay in addition to sampling sites in the northern and southern regions of the Maryland waters of the Chesapeake Bay; and establishing certain requirements for the central region sampling sites.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jack Bailey
Hearing 2/04 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/14/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Natural Resources - Pursuing Wounded Deer After Legal Hunting Hours and Using a Light - Authorization [SB-100]
[Animals ]
[Public Safety ]
[Recreation ]
Authorizing a person who is authorized by the Department of Natural Resources to hunt deer and who wounds a deer during legal hunting hours to pursue and kill the deer after legal hunting hours using only the means authorized for the applicable hunting season or permit; and authorizing a person who pursues a wounded deer to use a light or lighting device while pursuing the wounded deer.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jack Bailey
Third Reading Passed (46-0) on 04/07/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Tidal Fish Licenses - Oyster Authorizations - Administrative Penalties [SB-76]
[Animals ]
[Water ]
[Environmental ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to suspend, rather than revoke, for up to 5 years for a first violation, a person's oyster authorization for knowingly committing certain violations; providing for the reinstatement for certain persons of an oyster authorization and an entitlement to engage or work in the oyster fishery; altering a certain offense related to the use of prohibited gear; and repealing the 90-day time period within which a certain administrative hearing must be held.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jack Bailey
Rereferred To Environment And Transportation on 04/02/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Natural Resources - Fishing Licenses and Stamps - Alterations [HB-40]
[Animals ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Recreation ]
Altering the fees for resident consolidated senior sport fishing licenses, angler's licenses, and trout stamps; and repealing the exemption from the requirement to obtain a trout stamp under certain circumstances for a holder of a resident consolidated senior sport fishing license.
Sponsored by: Rep.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 45 on 04/08/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Natural Resources - Food Forests and Foraging Program - Establishment [HB-257]
[Agriculture ]
[Environmental ]
[Food ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Public Health ]
Establishing a Food Forests and Foraging Program on areas owned or managed by the Department of Natural Resources; defining "foraging" as harvesting plant materials, including seeds, nuts, mushrooms, roots, tubers, and berries for noncommercial personal consumption; requiring individuals who forage in a food forest to obtain a permit; requiring the Department to charge a permit application fee and establish a fee waiver process for individuals who demonstrate financial need; establishing the Food Forests and Foraging Fund; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Lorig Charkoudian
Hearing Canceled on 01/13/2025