Revenue And Taxes
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
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Economic Development - Western Maryland Economic Future Investment Board and Senator George C. Edwards Fund - Alterations [HB-1459]
[Economic Development ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Small Business ]
Altering the composition of the Western Maryland Economic Future Investment Board; providing that the Executive Director serves as a nonvoting member of the Board, but may vote to break a tie; providing criteria for the awarding of grant and loan funding to include the creation or retention of at least 25 jobs, creation or retention of at least 10 jobs each with wages that exceed 120% of the State minimum wage, or creates significant population growth in the area in which the project is located; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason C. Buckel
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 380 on 05/06/2025
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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.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robin L. Grammer
Hearing 3/04 At 1:00 P.m. (appropriations) on 02/21/2025
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Transportation - Regional Transportation Authorities [HB-1370]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Taxes ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Economic Development ]
Establishing the Baltimore region, capital region, and Southern Maryland region transportation authorities to develop and implement certain transportation plans; establishing the Baltimore region, capital region, and Southern Maryland region transportation funds as special, nonlapsing funds; imposing certain transportation authority sales tax surcharges, hotel surcharges, and transfer tax surcharges; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Marlon Amprey
Hearing Canceled (environment And Transportation) on 02/14/2025
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Department of Social and Economic Mobility - Established [HB-1253]
[Economic Development ]
[Human Services ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Social Security ]
[Poverty ]
Establishing the Department of Social and Economic Mobility; providing for the Secretary of Social and Economic Mobility; providing the purpose of the Department is to provide support for units of State government, individuals, and businesses for the maintenance of social equity policies in the State; establishing the Department of Social and Economic Mobility Special Fund; requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill a certain appropriation from the Transportation Trust Fund to the Fund; etc.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 605 on 05/20/2025
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Public Health - Reproductive Health Care Data - Report [HB-1357]
[Healthcare ]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Public Health ]
[Data Privacy ]
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to collect and compile annual data on the costs of birth, postpartum care, pregnancy care, and abortion; requiring the Department to post on its website and submit to the General Assembly a reproductive health care data report each December 1, beginning in 2025; and requiring the report to include the aggregated cost data for certain categories of care, comparative data by region within the State, analysis of trends in the cost of care, and recommendations for improving cost efficiency.
Sponsored by: Rep. Teresa E. Reilly
Hearing Canceled on 02/26/2025
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Hospitals - Medical Debt Collection - Sale of Patient Debt to Nonprofit Organizations [HB-1324]
[Healthcare ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Nonprofit ]
[Public Health ]
Authorizing a hospital to sell the medical debt of patients if the debt is sold to a nonprofit organization for the purpose of canceling the debt; and requiring that a hospital's financial policy require the hospital to dismiss actions pending against a patient for the collection of debt that was sold and prohibit the hospital from engaging in specified collection activities on patient debt that was sold.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne R Kaiser
Hearing 2/26 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/10/2025
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Accountability and Implementation Board - Scope of Authority [HB-1421]
[Education ]
Placing the Accountability and Implementation Board under the authority of the State Board of Education; altering the scope of authority of the Accountability and Implementation Board; requiring the State Board to review reporting requirements under the Blueprint for Maryland's Future and submit a certain report; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. April Fleming Miller
Hearing Canceled on 03/05/2025
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Correctional Services - Comprehensive Rehabilitative Prerelease Services - Female Incarcerated Individuals (The Monica Cooper Prerelease Act) [HB-1198]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Human Services ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Altering the required location and timeline for a certain prerelease facility for female incarcerated individuals; requiring the Commissioner of the Division of Correction to make certain services available to certain female incarcerated individuals; requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to implement certain comprehensive rehabilitative prerelease services by July 1, 2026; requiring the Department to report certain information to certain entities; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Healey
Referred Judicial Proceedings Budget And Taxation on 03/17/2025
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Insurance - Property and Casualty Insurance - Minimum Acceptable Loss Ratio and Premium Refunds [HB-1159]
[Insurance ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Establishing a minimum acceptable loss ratio of 85% during a plan year for property and casualty insurers and requiring the insurer to refund a certain amount of premiums paid by an insured if the insurer's loss ratio does not meet or exceed the established loss ratio.
Sponsored by: Rep. William J. Wivell
Hearing 2/26 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/06/2025
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Montgomery County - Silver Spring Purple Line Construction Zone Parking Improvement Grant Program MC 16-25 [HB-1206]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Grants ]
[Economic Development ]
[Construction ]
[Community Development ]
Establishing the Silver Spring Purple Line Construction Zone Parking Improvement Grant Program; requiring the Governor, for fiscal years 2026 and 2027, to include an appropriation of $50,000 in the annual budget bill for the Grant Program; requiring the Department of Transportation to distribute funds appropriated for the Grant Program to Montgomery County; requiring Montgomery County to implement a process to award grants to business associations to be used to improve parking in Downtown Silver Spring; etc.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Hearing 3/04 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/21/2025
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Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission - Membership, Reporting, Billing, and Planning (WSSC Planning and Reporting Act of 2025) MC/PG 105-25 [HB-1195]
[Water ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Environmental ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring one of the three commissioners from Montgomery County on the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission to be the Director of the Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection or a designee; requiring the Commission to submit a long range comprehensive financial plan in a certain manner; requiring the budget authorization for the Office of the Inspector General of the Commission to be approved independently and without involvement of Commission staff; etc.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 593 on 05/13/2025
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Task Force on the Establishment of a State Park Dedicated to Veterans' Care [HB-1181]
[Veterans ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Recreation ]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
Establishing the Task Force on the Establishment of a State Park Dedicated to Veterans' Care to study issues and estimate costs related to the establishment of a State park dedicated to providing recreational opportunities and therapeutic services to veterans; and requiring the Task Force to report its findings and recommendations on or before December 1, 2026.
Sponsored by: Rep. William J. Wivell
Third Reading Passed (139-0) on 03/12/2025
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Montgomery County - Speed Monitoring Systems - High-Risk Highways MC 17-25 [HB-1173]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Construction ]
Authorizing the placement and use of speed monitoring systems on highways in Montgomery County that are at high risk for certain motor vehicle crashes; prohibiting the placement and use of speed monitoring systems on certain highways in Montgomery County; requiring the fines collected by Montgomery County or by a municipal government in Montgomery County as a result of violations enforced by a speed monitoring system to be used to fund the study, design, and construction of certain safety-related projects; etc.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 590 on 05/13/2025
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State Finance and Procurement - Retention Proceeds [HB-1166]
[Finance ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Construction ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Requiring that undisputed retention proceeds retained by a unit or a certain contractor under a State procurement contract be paid within 90 days after the date of substantial completion.
Sponsored by: Rep. Christopher Troy Adams
Hearing Canceled on 03/08/2025
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Education - Primary and Secondary Schools - Alternative School Options (Right to Learn Act) [HB-1180]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Requiring, on or before January 1 each year, each county board of education to provide certain information to the parents or legal guardians of students who attend a failing school; requiring that a failing school continue to be designated as a failing school until certain conditions are met; requiring that a student who is attending a failing school be provided the opportunity to attend an alternative school; establishing the Broadening Options and Opportunities for Students Today Program; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Steven J. Arentz
Hearing 3/03 At 11:00 A.m. on 02/07/2025
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Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning, or Refrigeration Contractors - Equipment Sales [HB-1162]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Construction ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Small Business ]
Prohibiting a person from knowingly offering to sell or selling heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, or refrigeration equipment to an individual that does not hold a certain license issued by the Board of Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning, or Refrigeration Contractors except under certain circumstances; requiring certain persons to provide a certain notice to purchasers of heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, or refrigeration equipment at the time of sale; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana M Stein
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 386 on 05/06/2025
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Nutrient Management - Tidal Buffer - Vegetative Buffers and Restriction on Fertilizer Application [HB-1175]
[Agriculture ]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Funding ]
Authorizing, in accordance with technical specifications adopted by the Department of Agriculture, that State cost-share funding be made available for installing various vegetative buffer practices on land within the 100-foot tidal buffer on an agricultural operation; prohibiting a nutrient management plan renewed after July 1, 2025, from allowing a person to apply certain fertilizer to land within the 100-foot tidal buffer; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana M Stein
Hearing 2/28 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/07/2025
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Business Regulation - Travel Services - Special Fund, Fees, and Surety Requirement (Don't You Worry (Wurie) Act) [HB-1106]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Small Business ]
[Tourism ]
Establishing the Sellers of Travel Registration Fund in the Department of Labor to be used to cover the actual documented direct and indirect costs of fulfilling certain statutory and regulatory duties of the Department; authorizing the Department to set by regulation certain fees based on certain calculations; prohibiting certain fees from increasing annually by more than 12.5% of the existing and corresponding fees of the Department; requiring certain providers of travel services to file certain information with the Department; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Adrian Boafo
Third Reading Passed (113-24) on 03/17/2025
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Behavioral Health Crisis Response Grant Program - Funding [HB-1049]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill for each of fiscal years 2027 through 2029 an appropriation of $5,000,000 to the Behavioral Health Crisis Response Grant Program.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jessica Feldmark
Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed on 04/07/2025
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Correctional Services – Medication–Assisted Treatment Funding [HB-1084]
[Healthcare ]
[Funding ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Requiring the Maryland Secretary of Health to provide funding to counties for medication-assisted treatment programs; requiring counties that receive funding to submit a certain report; authorizing the Governor to appropriate certain funds in the annual budget bill; altering the requirements for a certain report; authorizing funds in the Opioid Restitution Fund to be used for medication-assisted treatment programs; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Bonnie L Cullison
Hearing 3/04 At 1:00 P.m. (judiciary) on 02/10/2025