Penalties And Sentences
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Election Law - State Elected Officials - Fundraising Activities During General Assembly Session [SB-1047]
[Elections ]
[Ethics ]
[Funding ]
Altering the entities with respect to which certain officials or persons acting on behalf of certain officials are prohibited from taking certain actions related to fundraising during a regular session of the General Assembly; and prohibiting certain officials or persons acting on behalf of certain officials from participating in certain fundraising events in a certain manner during a regular session of the General Assembly.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jason Gallion
Motion Rules Suspend For Late Introduction (senator Gallion) Adopted on 04/02/2025
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Election Law - State Elected Officials - Fundraising Activities During General Assembly Session [HB-1558]
[Elections ]
[Ethics ]
[Funding ]
Altering the entities with respect to which certain officials or persons acting on behalf of certain officials are prohibited from taking certain actions related to fundraising during a regular session of the General Assembly; and prohibiting certain officials or persons acting on behalf of certain officials from participating in certain fundraising events in a certain manner during a regular session of the General Assembly.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholaus Kipke
Motion Rules Suspend For Late Introduction (delegate Kipke) Adopted (127-7) on 04/02/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Funeral Establishments, Crematories, and Reduction Facilities - Oversight (Ensuring Dignity and Accountability in Crematory and Funeral Home Operations Act) [HB-1555]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Safety ]
[Healthcare ]
Requiring the Office of Cemetery Oversight and the State Board of Morticians and Funeral Directors to establish and maintain certain online databases and conduct certain inspections; establishing the authority of the Secretary of Health regarding staff for the Board; authorizing the Executive Director of the Board to direct an immediate investigation of certain complaints; establishing requirements for the review of complaints and investigations by the Board; providing a civil penalty of up to $25,000 for certain violations; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Kaiser
Hearing 3/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Environment - Advanced Clean Cars II Program and Advanced Clean Trucks Program - Implementation, Application, and Enforcement [HB-1556]
[Environmental ]
[Air Quality ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Energy ]
[Climate Change ]
Prohibiting the Department of the Environment from implementing the Advanced Clean Trucks Program until a certain needs assessment and deployment plan is published, subject to certain conditions; authorizing the Department to apply certain enforcement or penalty provisions to a motor vehicle manufacturer for failing to meet any requirements under the Advanced Clean Cars II Program for model years 2027 and 2028 only under certain circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Stein
Second Reading Passed With Amendments on 04/04/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Employment - Harassment and Intimidation - Reporting [HB-1548]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Human Rights ]
Establishing requirements related to the reporting of incidents of employee harassment and intimidation, including provisions regarding the reporting of incidents by employers to the Commissioner of Labor and Industry, the creation of a reporting form, and the establishment of an electronic tip program; establishing that certain information shared in the reporting of incidents of employee harassment or intimidation is confidential; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Frank Conaway
First Reading House Rules And Executive Nominations on 02/25/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Criminal Law - Child's Access to Firearms - Penalty (Ny'Kala Strawder Act) [SB-1031]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Increasing the penalty to up to 5 years of imprisonment or a fine or both for storing or leaving a loaded firearm in a location where the person knew or should have known that an unsupervised minor has access to the firearm.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dalya Attar
Hearing 3/11 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/25/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Environment - Advanced Clean Cars II Program - Application and Enforcement [SB-1020]
[Air Quality ]
[Environmental ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Energy ]
[Climate Change ]
Prohibiting the Department of the Environment from adopting the California Advanced Clean Cars II regulations to be effective before motor vehicle model year 2031; and prohibiting the Department from applying certain provisions of law governing enforcement and penalties under the California Advanced Clean Cars II Program to a motor vehicle manufacturer for failing to meet the minimum electric vehicle or plug-in hybrid electric vehicle delivery requirements for an applicable motor vehicle model year.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Hershey
First Reading Senate Rules on 02/14/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Municipalities - Enforcement of Ordinances and Resolutions [HB-1506]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Increasing from $1,000 to $5,000 the maximum amount of a criminal fine or municipal infraction that may be imposed by a municipality to enforce certain ordinances and resolutions enacted by the municipality.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kym Taylor
Favorable Report By Environment And Transportation on 04/04/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Criminal Law - Drug Paraphernalia - Prohibitions and Penalties [SB-1009]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Public Health ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Altering the penalties for a person using or possessing with intent to use, delivering or selling under certain circumstances, or manufacturing or possessing with intent to deliver or sell under certain circumstances drug paraphernalia to inject, ingest, inhale, or otherwise introduce into the human body a controlled dangerous substance; repealing the prohibition on possessing controlled paraphernalia under certain circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Muse
First Reading Senate Rules on 02/10/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Crime of Violence - Medical Facilities and Places of Worship - Penalty (Sacred Places Safety Act) [SB-1010]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Healthcare ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Prohibiting a person from committing a crime of violence while the person is in a medical facility or a place of worship; and providing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a felony and on conviction is subject to imprisonment of up to 10 years.
Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Muse
First Reading Senate Rules on 02/10/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Health Occupations - Cross-Sex Hormone Therapy for Minors - Prohibition (Protect the Kids Act) [HB-1399]
[Healthcare ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
Prohibiting a licensed health care practitioner from prescribing, dispensing, or administering a cross-sex hormone or otherwise providing cross-sex hormone therapy for the treatment of certain mental health diagnoses to an individual who is a minor.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholaus Kipke
Hearing Canceled on 03/11/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
End-of-Life Option Act (The Honorable Elijah E. Cummings and the Honorable Shane E. Pendergrass Act) [HB-1328]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
Authorizing an individual to request aid in dying by making certain requests; establishing requirements and prohibitions governing aid in dying, including requirements related to requests for aid in dying, consulting physicians, mental health assessments, the disposal of drugs prescribed for aid in dying, health care facility policies, and the effect of aid in dying on insurance policies; authorizing a pharmacist to dispense medication for aid in dying only to certain individuals under certain circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Stein
Hearing 3/03 At 2:00 P.m. (health And Government Operations) And Hearing Canceled (judiciary) on 02/27/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Criminal Law - Theft - Redeemable Credit Points [HB-1319]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Prohibiting a person from knowingly or willfully obtaining or exerting unauthorized control over certain points with the intent to deprive a certain owner of the points; and providing that a person who violated the Act is guilty of a felony and on conviction is subject to imprisonment not to exceed 5 years or a fine of up to $10,000 or both and is required to pay the owner the value of the points.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Buckel
Hearing Canceled on 02/27/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Education - Student Behavior - Parent and Guardian Notice and Required Counseling (Parent and Guardian Accountability Act) [HB-1313]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Establishing that it is unlawful for a parent or guardian of a student in a public school to fail to seek and participate in counseling with the parent's or guardian's child after receiving a certain notice of violent and disruptive behavior; and requiring a public school principal to provide a certain written notice to the parent or guardian of a student who engages in two or more incidents of violent and disruptive behavior on school premises or during school-related activities during the school year.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Long
Hearing Canceled on 03/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Criminal Law - Firearm Crimes - Convertible Pistols [HB-1287]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Prohibiting a person from manufacturing, selling, offering for sale, purchasing, receiving, or transferring a certain convertible pistol; and defining "convertible pistol" as any semiautomatic pistol that can be converted into a machine gun solely by the attachment of a switch/auto-sear.
Sponsored by: Rep. Terri Hill
Hearing Canceled on 03/04/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Consumer Protection - Third-Party Litigation Financing [HB-1274]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Finance ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Prohibiting certain litigation financiers from engaging in certain conduct with respect to litigation financing transactions and certain litigation financing contracts; requiring that the litigation financing contracts contain certain disclosures and be executed in a certain manner; requiring a certain disclosure of a litigation financing contract in certain civil actions; and imposing a fiduciary duty on litigation financiers in certain class actions.
Sponsored by: Rep. Andre Johnson
First Reading Economic Matters on 02/07/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Sale of Residential Property - Taxes and Offers to Purchase (End Hedge Fund Control of Maryland Homes Act of 2025) [HB-1428]
[Real Estate ]
[Taxes ]
[Housing ]
[Community Development ]
[Nonprofit ]
[Property Tax ]
[Economic Development ]
Imposing an excise tax on the acquisition and excess ownership of certain single-family residences in the State by certain entities; authorizing a person who offers for sale to a third party improved single-family residential real property, for the first 30 days, to accept an offer to purchase the property made only by an individual, a community development organization, a nonprofit organization, or a real estate enterprise that owns an interest in less than 3% of all residential real property in the county; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Marlon Amprey
First Reading Environment And Transportation And Ways And Means on 02/07/2025
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State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists - Temporary Telehealth Licenses - Establishment [HB-1474]
[Healthcare ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Mental Health ]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
Establishing a temporary telehealth license to be issued by the State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists authorizing the holder to provide clinical professional counseling services only to a student attending an institution of higher education in the State if the student and out-of-state licensed professional counselor have a previously established relationship that has existed for at least 6 months; limiting the term of the temporary license to 6 months; and prohibiting the renewal of a temporary licensed issued under the Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 649 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Business Regulation - Electronic Smoking Devices Manufacturers - Certifications [HB-1441]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Small Business ]
Authorizing the Executive Director of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission and the Attorney General to take certain action relating to the licensure of certain electronic smoking devices manufacturers, wholesalers, importers, and retailers and vape shop vendors in certain circumstances; requiring an electronic smoking devices manufacturer to execute and deliver a certain certification to the Attorney General each year; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Fraser-hidalgo
First Reading Economic Matters on 02/07/2025
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Health Benefit Plans - Calculation of Cost-Sharing Contribution - Requirements [HB-1246]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to include certain discounts, financial assistance payments, product vouchers, and other out-of-pocket expenses made by or on behalf of an insured or enrollee when calculating cost-sharing contributions for certain prescription drugs; requiring certain persons that provide financial assistance payments, discounts, product vouchers, or other out-of-pocket expenses to notify an insured or enrollee of certain information; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Kaiser
Third Reading Passed (47-0) on 04/07/2025