Commercial Driver's Licenses - Out-of-State Residents - School Buses or Passenger Vehicles [HB-1500]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Education ]
Authorizing the Motor Vehicle Administration to issue a Class B commercial driver's license with a school bus or passenger vehicle endorsement to nonresidents of Maryland who hold an equivalent commercial driver's license and the appropriate equivalent endorsement from the driver's licensing authority of a neighboring state.
HB-1500: Commercial Driver's Licenses - Out-of-State Residents - School Buses or Passenger Vehicles
Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Kerr
First Reading House Rules And Executive Nominations on 02/13/2025
Residency Req: Hunting, Trapping, Fishing [HB-93]
[Animals ]
[Sports ]
[Recreation ]
An Act changing the residency requirements for hunting, trapping, and sport fishing privileges; and providing for an effective date.
HB-93: Residency Req: Hunting, Trapping, Fishing
Sponsored by: Rep. Dan Saddler
Referred To Rules on 03/28/2025
Support and Protections for Individuals Affected by Federal Actions (Protect Our Federal Workers Act) [HB-1424]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Human Services ]
[Public Safety ]
[Economic Development ]
Renaming the Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund to be the Federal Government Employee Assistance Loan Fund; authorizing funds appropriated to the Catastrophic Event Account to be expended to assist in funding costs connected to a relocation, closure, or mass layoff of a unit of the federal government; establishing the Expedited Hiring Program in the Department of Budget and Management; authorizing an appointing authority to recruit for certain vacant positions in State government; etc.
HB-1424: Support and Protections for Individuals Affected by Federal Actions (Protect Our Federal Workers Act)
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana M Stein
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 97 on 04/22/2025
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.
HB-1474: State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists - Temporary Telehealth Licenses - Establishment
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne R Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 649 on 05/20/2025
Prekindergarten Savings Account Program - Establishment [HB-1326]
[Education ]
[Taxes ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Children and Youth ]
Establishing the Prekindergarten Savings Account Program in the State administered by the State Department of Education; providing that the State shall deposit into an account of an eligible student a certain percentage of the per pupil amount of State and local funds for each education program in the resident school district for which the eligible student would be included in the enrollment count; and allowing a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for deposits into an education savings account.
HB-1326: Prekindergarten Savings Account Program - Establishment
Sponsored by: Rep. William J. Wivell
Hearing Canceled on 03/05/2025
Task Force to Study Land Use Issues in Prince George's County - Establishment MC/PG 117-25 [HB-1266]
[Real Estate ]
[Community Development ]
[Housing ]
[Construction ]
Establishing the Task Force to Study Land Use Issues In Prince George's County to review the role of the County Planning Board, evaluate the list of person that have standing to seek judicial review and appeal to the Appellate Court, the expiration processes, and the need for legislative remedies to address certain issues; and requiring the Task Force to report its findings to the Prince George's County Executive, the County Council, and the Prince George's County Delegation to the General Assembly by December 1, 2026.
HB-1266: Task Force to Study Land Use Issues in Prince George's County - Establishment MC/PG 117-25
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Hearing Canceled on 04/01/2025
Community Solar Energy Generating Systems - Subscription Eligibility [HB-1233]
[Energy ]
[Community Development ]
Authorizing a certain LMI subscriber to hold a subscription to a community solar energy generating system located in a different electric service territory from the one in which the LMI subscriber resides; providing that a certain LMI subscriber shall receive the same bill credit value as an LMI subscriber who resides in a certain electric service territory; and requiring the Public Service Commission to establish a process for exchanging community solar bill credits between systems located in different electric service areas.
HB-1233: Community Solar Energy Generating Systems - Subscription Eligibility
Sponsored by: Rep. Steven Craig Johnson
First Reading Economic Matters on 02/07/2025
Maryland Department of Health and Department of Human Services – Public Benefits – Prevention of Waste, Fraud, and Abuse [HB-1402]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health and the Department of Human Services to enter into certain data-sharing agreements with certain agencies to conduct certain reviews related to eligibility for and use of certain public benefits; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to seek approval for a certain waiver to impose a certain lockout period on certain individuals who fail to report a change in eligibility for the Maryland Medical Assistance Program; etc.
HB-1402: Maryland Department of Health and Department of Human Services – Public Benefits – Prevention of Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
Sponsored by: Rep. Robin L. Grammer
Hearing 3/04 At 1:00 P.m. (appropriations) on 02/21/2025
Education - Reporting Arrests of Students - Alterations [HB-1211]
[Education ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Requiring a law enforcement agency making an arrest of a student for a reportable offense or an offense related to the student's membership in a criminal organization to report the arrest to the Maryland Center for School Safety, the Juvenile Services Education Program, the State Board of Education, and the State's Attorney; requiring the State's Attorney to notify the Maryland Center for School Safety, the Juvenile Services Education Program, and the State Board of the disposition of the offense; etc.
HB-1211: Education - Reporting Arrests of Students - Alterations
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason C. Buckel
Hearing Canceled (ways And Means) on 03/05/2025
Physicians - Licensing - Internationally Trained Physicians [HB-1199]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Immigration ]
Authorizing the State Board of Physicians, beginning October 1, 2027, to issue a license to practice medicine to an internationally trained physician under certain circumstances; requiring the Board to adopt regulations establishing minimum qualifications and application fees and to provide a pathway to full licensure; etc.
Property Tax - Credit for Law Enforcement Officer or Rescue Worker - Expansion to Judicial Officer [HB-1200]
[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.
HB-1200: Property Tax - Credit for Law Enforcement Officer or Rescue Worker - Expansion to Judicial Officer
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason C. Buckel
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 129 on 04/22/2025
Data Brokers - Registry and Gross Income Tax (Building Information Guardrails Data Act of 2025) [HB-1089]
[Data Privacy ]
[Taxes ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Education ]
Establishing the Privacy Protection and Enforcement Unit within the Division of Consumer Protection in the Office of the Attorney General; establishing a data broker registry; requiring certain data brokers to register each year with the Comptroller; imposing a tax on the gross income of certain data brokers for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2026; requiring the revenue from the data broker tax be used by Maryland Public Television to provide digital literacy support to students in kindergarten through 12th grade; etc.
HB-1089: Data Brokers - Registry and Gross Income Tax (Building Information Guardrails Data Act of 2025)
Sponsored by: Rep. Jared Scott Solomon
Hearing 2/25 At 1:00 P.m. (economic Matters) on 02/06/2025
Montgomery County - Common Ownership Communities - Disputes, Payments, and Elections MC 11-25 [HB-1117]
[Community Development ]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Establishing certain requirements for elections to governing bodies and organizing activities of cooperative housing corporations, condominiums, and homeowners associations in Montgomery County; establishing procedures and requirements during a dispute between a member or an owner and a cooperative housing corporation, condominium, or homeowners association in Montgomery County; etc.
HB-1117: Montgomery County - Common Ownership Communities - Disputes, Payments, and Elections MC 11-25
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Hearing 2/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/14/2025
Maryland Higher Education Commission - Maryland College Aid Processing System - Applications [HB-1090]
[Education ]
[Food ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Public Health ]
[Student Loans ]
[Healthcare ]
[Poverty ]
[Human Services ]
Requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to add a certain question to the Maryland College Aid Processing System application asking if the applicant has missed a meal in the previous 6 months because of an inability to afford a meal; and prohibiting the Commission from requiring a student to answer the question.
HB-1090: Maryland Higher Education Commission - Maryland College Aid Processing System - Applications
Sponsored by: Rep. Jared Scott Solomon
Hearing 3/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/18/2025
Public Schools - Open Enrollment - Policies and Funding [SB-819]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Authorizing a county board of education to adopt an open enrollment policy to authorize certain students to attend, free of charge, a public school in a county other than the county where the student is domiciled with the student's parent or guardian, subject to certain requirements; requiring county boards to include certain students in full-time equivalent enrollment counts; and directing certain funding to the county in which certain students are enrolled in a public school under an open enrollment policy.
SB-819: Public Schools - Open Enrollment - Policies and Funding
Sponsored by: Rep. Dalya Attar
Hearing Canceled (education, Energy, And The Environment) on 03/04/2025
Fair Share for Maryland Act of 2025 [SB-859]
[Taxes ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Altering a certain limit on the unified credit used for determining the estate tax for decedents dying on or after a certain date; altering a certain limitation on the amount of the estate tax for decedents dying on or after a certain date; altering the definition of "qualified child" for purposes of a certain credit against the State income tax for certain dependent children; imposing a certain business transportation fee on certain taxable income of corporations and pass-through entities for certain taxable years; etc.
SB-859: Fair Share for Maryland Act of 2025
Sponsored by: Sen. James C. Rosapepe
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2025
Public Service Commission - Membership - Alterations [SB-816]
[Telecommunications ]
[Public Safety ]
Increasing from five to seven the number of commissioners appointed to the Public Service Commission; establishing certain residency requirements for each commissioner; altering the manner in which the Chair of the Commission is appointed; requiring the Commission to submit, on or before August 1, 2025, a slate of nominees to the Governor for the initial appointment of certain commissioners; and applying the Act prospectively.
SB-816: Public Service Commission - Membership - Alterations
Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Anthony Muse
Hearing 3/06 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2025