Public Safety - State and Local Governments - Use of Unmanned Aircraft [HB-954]
[Public Safety ]
[Drones ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Crime ]
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.
HB-954: Public Safety - State and Local Governments - Use of Unmanned Aircraft
Sponsored by: Rep. Robin Grammer
Hearing 2/25 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/10/2025
Income Tax - Subtraction Modification - Public Safety Employee Retirement Income [HB-792]
[Taxes ]
[Retirement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Pensions ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
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.
HB-792: Income Tax - Subtraction Modification - Public Safety Employee Retirement Income
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Buckel
First Reading Ways And Means on 01/29/2025
Income Tax - Subtraction Modification - Public Safety Volunteers [HB-815]
[Taxes ]
[Public Safety ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Law Enforcement ]
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.
HB-815: Income Tax - Subtraction Modification - Public Safety Volunteers
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Stein
First Reading Ways And Means on 01/29/2025
Local Government – Local Personnel – Leave With Pay [SB-652]
[Disaster Relief ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Safety ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Human Services ]
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.
SB-652: Local Government – Local Personnel – Leave With Pay
Sponsored by: Sen. J.B. Jennings
Hearing Canceled on 03/26/2025
Somerset County - Property Tax - Emergency Services Tax [HB-791]
[Property Tax ]
[Taxes ]
[Public Safety ]
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.
HB-791: Somerset County - Property Tax - Emergency Services Tax
Sponsored by: Rep. Charles Otto
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 69 on 04/08/2025
Property Tax - Credit for Law Enforcement Officer or Rescue Worker - Expansion to Judicial Officer [SB-502]
[Property Tax ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Taxes ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
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.
SB-502: Property Tax - Credit for Law Enforcement Officer or Rescue Worker - Expansion to Judicial Officer
Sponsored by: Sen. James Rosapepe
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 130 on 04/22/2025
Public Safety - Persistent Aerial Surveillance [HB-682]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Drones ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
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.
HB-682: Public Safety - Persistent Aerial Surveillance
Sponsored by: Rep. Frank Conaway
Hearing 2/25 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/10/2025
State Personnel - BWI Airport Fire and Rescue Department - Collective Bargaining and Arbitration Processes [HB-599]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
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 on or before September 30 of the year in which the collective bargaining agreement will expire; and establishing a process of binding arbitration in the event of an impasse.
HB-599: State Personnel - BWI Airport Fire and Rescue Department - Collective Bargaining and Arbitration Processes
Sponsored by: Rep. Andrew Pruski
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 654 on 05/20/2025
Frederick County - Gaming - Acceptance of Credit as Payment [HB-510]
[Gaming ]
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.
HB-510: Frederick County - Gaming - Acceptance of Credit as Payment
Sponsored by: No sponsors
First Reading Ways And Means on 01/22/2025
Frederick County - Gaming - Acceptance of Credit as Payment [SB-450]
[Gaming ]
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.
SB-450: Frederick County - Gaming - Acceptance of Credit as Payment
Income Tax - Subtraction Modification - Public Safety Volunteers [SB-419]
[Taxes ]
[Public Safety ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Law Enforcement ]
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.
SB-419: Income Tax - Subtraction Modification - Public Safety Volunteers
Sponsored by: Sen. Michael Jackson
Hearing Canceled on 01/30/2025
State Personnel - BWI Airport Fire and Rescue Department - Collective Bargaining and Arbitration Processes [SB-373]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
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 on or before September 30 of the year in which the collective bargaining agreement will expire; and establishing a process of binding arbitration in the event of an impasse.
SB-373: State Personnel - BWI Airport Fire and Rescue Department - Collective Bargaining and Arbitration Processes
Sponsored by: Sen. Pamela Beidle
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 653 on 05/20/2025
Income Tax - Subtraction Modification - Retirement Income [HB-355]
[Taxes ]
[Retirement ]
[Senior Citizens ]
Including income from certain retirement plans within a certain subtraction modification allowed under the Maryland income tax for certain individuals who are at least 65 years old or who are disabled or whose spouse is disabled; altering the maximum amount of the subtraction modification for certain taxable years; repealing a limitation on the maximum amount of the subtraction modification; applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2024; etc.
HB-355: Income Tax - Subtraction Modification - Retirement Income
Sponsored by: Rep. Robin Grammer
First Reading Ways And Means on 01/16/2025
Property Tax Credit - Disabled or Fallen Law Enforcement Officer or Rescue Worker - Alterations [SB-330]
[Property Tax ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Taxes ]
[Disabilities ]
[Veterans ]
Altering, for purposes of a certain property tax credit for a certain dwelling, the definition of "fallen law enforcement officer or rescue worker" to include disabled law enforcement officers or rescue workers who have died regardless of the cause of death; authorizing, under certain circumstances, the amount of the credit for a dwelling owned by a disabled or fallen law enforcement officer or rescue worker or the surviving spouse or cohabitant to be in the same proportion as the property tax credit initially granted for the dwelling; etc.
SB-330: Property Tax Credit - Disabled or Fallen Law Enforcement Officer or Rescue Worker - Alterations
Sponsored by: Sen. James Rosapepe
Hearing 3/18 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/03/2025
Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumptions - Hypertension [HB-217]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Safety ]
[Healthcare ]
Establishing that certain firefighters, fire fighting instructors, rescue squad members, advanced life support unit members, and members of the Office of the State Fire Marshal demonstrate disablement for purposes of workers' compensation and are deemed to have hypertension for purposes of an occupational disease presumption for hypertension if certain requirements are met.
Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumptions - Hypertension [SB-173]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Safety ]
[Healthcare ]
Establishing that certain firefighters, fire fighting instructors, rescue squad members, advanced life support unit members, and members of the Office of the State Fire Marshal demonstrate disablement for purposes of workers' compensation and are deemed to have hypertension for purposes of an occupational disease presumption for hypertension if certain requirements are met.
Income Tax - Subtraction Modification - Public Safety Employee Retirement Income [SB-30]
[Taxes ]
[Retirement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Pensions ]
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.
SB-30: Income Tax - Subtraction Modification - Public Safety Employee Retirement Income
Sponsored by: Sen. Jack Bailey
First Reading Budget And Taxation on 01/08/2025
Public Safety Officer - Performance of Duties - Death Benefit [HB-1389]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Crime ]
[Veterans ]
Altering circumstances under which certain individuals are presumed to have died as a direct and proximate result of an injury sustained in the performance of duties for purposes of eligibility for death benefits.
HB-1389: Public Safety Officer - Performance of Duties - Death Benefit
Sponsored by: Rep. Mary Lehman
Hearing 3/12 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/26/2024
Public and Nonpublic Middle and High Schools - Venue-Specific Emergency Action Plans for Athletic Facilities (The Bailey Bullock Act) [HB-1219]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Healthcare ]
[Sports ]
[Children and Youth ]
Requiring that each public middle school and high school alter the venue-specific emergency action plan for athletic facilities to incorporate a cardiac emergency response plan; requiring each nonpublic middle school and high school that receives State funding to develop a venue-specific emergency action plan for athletic facilities; specifying the contents of a nonpublic venue-specific emergency action plan; and requiring that the emergency action plans be reviewed and updated annually.
HB-1219: Public and Nonpublic Middle and High Schools - Venue-Specific Emergency Action Plans for Athletic Facilities (The Bailey Bullock Act)
Sponsored by: Rep. Eric Ebersole
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 163 on 04/25/2024
You have voted HB-1219: Public and Nonpublic Middle and High Schools - Venue-Specific Emergency Action Plans for Athletic Facilities (The Bailey Bullock Act).