Criminal Procedure - Automated Expungement, Waiting Periods, and Adverse Actions (Clean Slate Act of 2024) [SB-602]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Altering certain provisions of law relating to waiting periods for the filing of certain petitions for expungement to authorize the filing of a petition a certain amount of time after the completion of the sentence; establishing procedures for the automated expungement of certain clean slate eligible charges; requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to submit a report semiannually detailing the progress and outcomes of the automated expungement process during the preceding 6 months; etc.
SB-602: Criminal Procedure - Automated Expungement, Waiting Periods, and Adverse Actions (Clean Slate Act of 2024)
Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Muse
Hearing 2/21 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/31/2024
You have voted SB-628: State Finance – Catastrophic Event Account and Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund – Noncivilian Federal Employees.
Election Law - Election Judges - Revisions [HB-700]
[Elections ]
[Voting Rights ]
Requiring the State Board to develop and implement a marketing campaign to recruit individuals to serve as election judges; authorizing a local board to supplement the marketing campaign implemented by the State Board; requiring that a county employee who serves as an election judge during hours that the employee is scheduled to work receive certain administrative leave and certain election judge compensation; requiring the State Board to adopt certain regulations related to service as an election judge; etc.
HB-700: Election Law - Election Judges - Revisions
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Jones
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 504 on 05/09/2024
Criminal Procedure – Automated Expungement, Waiting Periods, and Adverse Actions (Clean Slate Act of 2024) [HB-658]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Altering certain provisions of law relating to waiting periods for the filing of certain petitions for expungement to authorize the filing of a petition a certain amount of time after the completion of the sentence; establishing procedures for the automated expungement of certain clean slate eligible charges; requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to submit a report semiannually detailing the progress and outcomes of the automated expungement process during the preceding 6 months; etc.
HB-658: Criminal Procedure – Automated Expungement, Waiting Periods, and Adverse Actions (Clean Slate Act of 2024)
Sponsored by: Rep. David Moon
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/13/2024
Relating To Family Leave. [HB-2586]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Healthcare ]
[Human Services ]
Establishes a paid family leave program for state and county employees. Authorizes a qualifying employee to take up to twelve weeks of paid leave for the birth or placement of a child or to care for a family member who has a serious health condition.
HB-2586: Relating To Family Leave.
Sponsored by: Rep. Lauren Matsumoto
Referred To Lgo, Cpc, Fin, Referral Sheet 3 on 01/26/2024
Relating To Legislative Employees. [HB-2632]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Specifies that the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall each have one vote if they have employees in a particular bargaining unit for the purposes of negotiating a collective bargaining agreement. Repeals staff of the legislative branch of the State from the list of individuals not included in any appropriate bargaining unit.
HB-2632: Relating To Legislative Employees.
Sponsored by: Rep. Amy Perruso
Referred To Lmg/lgo, Fin, Referral Sheet 3 on 01/26/2024
Motor Vehicles - School Vehicle Drivers - Medical Examinations [HB-478]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Requiring a school vehicle driver to pass an appropriate medical examination before employment and once during each 2 years of employment.
HB-478: Motor Vehicles - School Vehicle Drivers - Medical Examinations
Sponsored by: Rep. Sheree Sample-Hughes
Hearing 2/15 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/25/2024
Disclosure of Tax Information - Tax Compliance Activity and Binding Data Use Agreements [HB-454]
[Taxes ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Altering the definition of "tax information" for purposes of law governing the confidentiality and disclosure of tax information; authorizing, subject to certain limitations, the disclosure of certain tax information to certain tax compliance organizations and governmental entities to assist the Comptroller in tax compliance activity; requiring the Comptroller to require the party to whom the information is to be disclosed to enter into a written, binding agreement regarding the use and security of the tax information; etc.
HB-454: Disclosure of Tax Information - Tax Compliance Activity and Binding Data Use Agreements
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 728 on 05/16/2024
Trs Contr Rate; Pers Soc Security Or Sbs [SB-200]
[Retirement ]
[Social Security ]
[Education ]
[Pensions ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
An Act relating to employer contributions in the teachers' retirement system; relating to supplemental employee benefits; and providing for an effective date.
SB-200: Trs Contr Rate; Pers Soc Security Or Sbs
Sponsored by: Sen. Lyman Hoffman
Cosponsor(s): Shower on 05/11/2024
Relating To Legislative Employees. [SB-2760]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Specifies that the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall each have one vote if they have employees in a particular bargaining unit for the purposes of negotiating a collective bargaining agreement. Repeals staff of the legislative branch of the State from the list of individuals not included in any appropriate bargaining unit.
SB-2760: Relating To Legislative Employees.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stanley Chang
Referred To Lbt, Jdc/wam. on 01/24/2024
Relating To Public Employees. [SB-2665]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Require the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to convene a Four-Day Workweek Task Force. Requires the taskforce to submit a report to the Legislature. Dissolves the taskforce on 6/30/25.
SB-2665: Relating To Public Employees.
Sponsored by: Sen. Angus McKelvey
Referred To Lbt, Wam. on 01/24/2024
Relating To The Employees' Retirement System. [HB-1947]
[Retirement ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Pensions ]
Reduces the minimum number of years of credited service from ten years to five years qualified Tier 2 employee's retirement system members must have to be eligible for vested benefit status for service retirement allowance purposes. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
HB-1947: Relating To The Employees' Retirement System.
Sponsored by: Rep. Della au Belatti
Reported From Lgo (stand. Com. Rep. No. 102-24) As Amended In Hd 1, Recommending Passage On Second Reading And Referral To Fin. on 02/06/2024
Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumption - Long COVID (Home of the Brave Act of 2024) [SB-431]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Public Health ]
Establishing that governmental essential workers are presumed to have an occupational disease that is compensable under workers' compensation law after being diagnosed with long COVID under certain circumstances; and applying the Act retroactively.
SB-431: Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumption - Long COVID (Home of the Brave Act of 2024)
Sponsored by: Sen. James Rosapepe
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/02/2024
Relating To Health Insurance. [SB-2321]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Public Health ]
Establishes the public employee health benefits working group to investigate the feasibility of establishing and offering a fully self-insured health benefits plan with no deductible or monthly premium cost to state and county public employees. Requires a report to the Legislature.
SB-2321: Relating To Health Insurance.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stanley Chang
Introduced. on 01/19/2024
Relating To Family Leave. [HB-1713]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Healthcare ]
[Human Services ]
Establishes a paid family leave program for state and county employees. Authorizes a qualifying employee to take up to twelve weeks of paid leave for the birth or placement of a child or to care for a family member who has a serious health condition.
HB-1713: Relating To Family Leave.
Sponsored by: Rep. Lauren Matsumoto
Referred To Lgo, Cpc, Fin, Referral Sheet 1 on 01/24/2024
Public Utilities - Street Lighting Equipment - Acquisitions and Reporting (County and Municipal Street Lighting Investment Act) [HB-409]
[Energy ]
[Public Safety ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Infrastructure ]
Finding that local governments pay electric companies large sums to light streets and are limited in how this public safety resource can be managed, the Act authorizes certain counties or municipalities to acquire certain street lighting equipment by purchase or condemnation, convert its street lighting service to a customer-owned street lighting tariff, enter into an agreement to purchase electricity, and contract with an electric company for the maintenance of the street lighting equipment; etc.
HB-409: Public Utilities - Street Lighting Equipment - Acquisitions and Reporting (County and Municipal Street Lighting Investment Act)
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Stein
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 02/12/2024
You have voted HB-409: Public Utilities - Street Lighting Equipment - Acquisitions and Reporting (County and Municipal Street Lighting Investment Act).
Relating To The Whistleblowers' Protection Act. [SB-1449]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Ethics ]
Amends the State Whistleblowers' Protection Act to include protection for public employees reporting the commission of fraud by other public employees or public bodies.
SB-1449: Relating To The Whistleblowers' Protection Act.
Sponsored by: Sen. Les Ihara
Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023
Public Information Act – Surveillance Images – Illegal Dumping in Baltimore City [HB-387]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Crime ]
[Housing ]
[Public Safety ]
[Community Development ]
Altering a requirement that a custodian deny inspection of certain surveillance images of illegal dumping in Baltimore City to allow inspection by an employee or agent of the Baltimore City Department of Housing and Community Development; and authorizing the Baltimore City Department of Housing and Community Development to publicly disseminate a surveillance image as part of an investigation.
HB-387: Public Information Act – Surveillance Images – Illegal Dumping in Baltimore City
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 203 on 04/25/2024
Relating To Transportation. [HB-1419]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Energy ]
[Housing ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Construction ]
Requires the Department of Accounting and General Services to enable parking stall sharing among public employees, accommodate more electric vehicle charging stations, and provide bicycle storage lockers at facilities where parking is made available to public employees. Requires new public housing developments' parking stalls to accommodate electric vehicle charging stations and bicycle storage lockers.
HB-1419: Relating To Transportation.
Sponsored by: Rep. Chris Todd
Carried Over To 2024 Regular Session. on 12/11/2023