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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Property Tax - Charter Counties - Application of County Tax Limitation on Public Safety Budget [SB-1041]
Authorizing a county council of a charter county, notwithstanding certain provisions of law, to set by simple majority vote a property tax rate that is higher than the property tax rate authorized under a county's charter or collect more property tax revenues than the revenues authorized under the county's charter for the purpose of funding the approved public safety budget of the county; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 2025.
Sponsored by: Sen. Benjamin Kramer
First Reading Senate Rules on 03/03/2025
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Employment Discrimination - Fire and Rescue Public Safety Employees - Use of Medical Cannabis [SB-1023]
Prohibiting an employer from taking certain discriminatory employment actions against a fire and rescue public safety employee based on the employee's use of medical cannabis, subject to certain conditions.
Sponsored by: Sen. Carl Jackson
Third Reading Passed (36-8) on 03/17/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Employment Discrimination - Fire and Rescue Public Safety Employees - Use of Medical Cannabis [HB-1408]
Prohibiting an employer from taking certain discriminatory employment actions against a fire and rescue public safety employee based on the employee's use of medical cannabis, subject to certain conditions.
Sponsored by: Rep. Adrian Boafo
First Reading Economic Matters on 02/07/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Property Tax - Credit for Law Enforcement Officer or Rescue Worker - Expansion to Judicial Officer [HB-1200]
Authorizing the governing body of a county or municipal corporation or the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City to provide a certain property tax credit to certain judicial officers, surviving spouses, or cohabitants; requiring the county or municipal corporation to define, by law, who is a correctional officer and judicial officer; and applying the Act retroactively to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 2022.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Buckel
Referred Budget And Taxation on 03/14/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Local Government - Local Personnel - Leave With Pay [HB-1080]
Establishing that governmental units may provide disaster service leave with pay to certain employees; establishing that an employee of a governmental unit of a county or a municipality in the State may be entitled to disaster service leave with pay under certain circumstances; authorizing certain governmental units to waive certain requirements for disaster service leave; and authorizing a governmental unit of a county or a municipality to provide leave with pay under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Griffith
Referred Finance on 03/07/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Howard County - Department of Fire and Rescue Services - Current and Prospective Employee Medical Cannabis Use [SB-969]
Prohibiting the Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services from taking certain adverse employment actions against an employee or prospective employee solely because of the employee's or prospective employee's authorized use of medical cannabis; and authorizing the Department to prohibit an employee from working while impaired by cannabis or using cannabis within the 12 hours immediately precedeing the employee's shift.
Sponsored by: Sen.
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/10/2025
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North Carolina 2025-2026 Session
Enhance Firefighter Benefits & Representation [HB-37]
Enhance Firefighter Benefits & Representation
Sponsored by: Rep. Dennis Riddell
Reptd Fav on 03/17/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Venue-Specific Emergency Action Plans - High School Football Games - Requirements [HB-935]
Altering the requirements of a venue-specific emergency action plan to include the on-site presence of a licensed athletic trainer or an ambulance at each high school football game.
Sponsored by: Rep. Vanessa Atterbeary
Referred Education, Energy, And The Environment on 03/17/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Somerset County - Property Tax - Emergency Services Tax [SB-719]
Authorizing the County Commissioners of Somerset County to impose an emergency services tax on all property subject to the county property tax to pay costs of emergency services; prohibiting the county commissioners from initially imposing or subsequently increasing an emergency services tax until after a public hearing is held; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 2025.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mary Carozza
Hearing 3/18 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/03/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Safety - State and Local Governments - Use of Unmanned Aircraft [HB-954]
Providing that certain evidence obtained through the use of an unmanned aircraft is inadmissible in a criminal, civil, or administrative proceeding; prohibiting a unit of State government or a political subdivision of the State from deploying or operating an unmanned aircraft subject to certain exceptions; and prohibiting a unit of State government or a political subdivision of the State from using certain information acquired through the use of an unmanned aircraft.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robin Grammer
Hearing 2/25 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/10/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Income Tax - Subtraction Modification - Public Safety Employee Retirement Income [HB-792]
Increasing, from $15,000 to $20,000, the amount allowed as a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for retirement income attributable to an individual's employment as a public safety employee; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2024.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Buckel
First Reading Ways And Means on 01/29/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Income Tax - Subtraction Modification - Public Safety Volunteers [HB-815]
Increasing, from $7,000 to $10,000, the amount of a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for an individual who is a qualifying public safety volunteer for a taxable year beginning after December 31, 2024.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Stein
First Reading Ways And Means on 01/29/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Local Government – Local Personnel – Leave With Pay [SB-652]
Establishing that an employee of a governmental unit of a county or a municipality in the State may be entitled to disaster service leave with pay under certain circumstances; authorizing certain governmental units to waive certain requirements for disaster service leave; and authorizing a governmental unit of a county or a municipality to provide leave with pay under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Sen. J.B. Jennings
Referred Appropriations on 03/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Somerset County - Property Tax - Emergency Services Tax [HB-791]
Authorizing the County Commissioners of Somerset County to impose an emergency services tax on all property subject to the county property tax to pay costs of emergency services; and prohibiting the county commissioners from initially imposing or subsequently increasing an emergency services tax until after a public hearing is held.
Sponsored by: Rep. Charles Otto
Favorable Report By Ways And Means on 03/14/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Property Tax - Credit for Law Enforcement Officer or Rescue Worker - Expansion to Judicial Officer [SB-502]
Authorizing the governing body of a county or municipal corporation or the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City to provide a certain property tax credit to certain judicial officers, surviving spouses, or cohabitants; requiring the county or municipal corporation to define, by law, who is a correctional officer and judicial officer; and applying the Act retroactively to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 2022.
Sponsored by: Sen. James Rosapepe
Hearing 3/18 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/03/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Safety - Persistent Aerial Surveillance [HB-682]
Prohibiting persistent aerial surveillance by a unit, an agency, or a political subdivision of the State to gather evidence or other information in a criminal investigation, subject to certain exceptions; and defining "persistent aerial surveillance" as the use of aircraft to record video or a concurrent series of images or pictures that when viewed in aggregate depict a person's actions over time.
Sponsored by: Rep. Frank Conaway
Hearing 2/25 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/10/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
State Personnel - BWI Airport Fire and Rescue Department - Collective Bargaining and Arbitration Processes [HB-599]
Altering the collective bargaining process between the State and uniformed fire employees of the BWI Airport Fire and Rescue Department by requiring the parties to reach a collective bargaining agreement by September 30 of the year in which the collective bargaining agreement will expire; requiring that each budget bill contain the appropriations necessary to implement all terms and conditions of employment in certain memoranda of understanding for the next ensuing fiscal year; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Andrew Pruski
Referred Finance on 03/14/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Frederick County - Gaming - Acceptance of Credit as Payment [HB-510]
Authorizing certain fire, rescue, and ambulance organizations conducting certain gaming events in Frederick County to accept credit from a person as payment to play a gaming device at the gaming event.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
First Reading Ways And Means on 01/22/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Frederick County - Gaming - Acceptance of Credit as Payment [SB-450]
Authorizing certain fire, rescue, and ambulance organizations conducting certain gaming events in Frederick County to accept credit from a person as payment to play a gaming device at the gaming event.
Sponsored by: Sen.
Hearing Canceled on 02/11/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Income Tax - Subtraction Modification - Public Safety Volunteers [SB-419]
Increasing, from $7,000 to $10,000, the amount of a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for an individual who is a qualifying public safety volunteer for a taxable year beginning after December 31, 2024.
Sponsored by: Sen. Michael Jackson
Hearing Canceled on 01/30/2025