Revenue And Taxes
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
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Energy Resource Adequacy and Planning Act [HB-1037]
[Energy ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Public Safety ]
Establishing the Strategic Energy Planning Office; requiring the Office to develop a Comprehensive Wholesale Energy Markets and Bulk Power System Risk Report and examine certain scenarios to support the development of the Risk Report; requiring the Risk Report to assess wholesale energy market financial resource adequacy and reliability risks and to identify any necessary cost-effective solutions that ensure electric system reliability while meeting the State's energy policy goals; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Brian M. Crosby
Vetoed By The Governor (policy) on 05/16/2025
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Electricity and Gas - Emissions Reductions, Rate Regulation, Cost Recovery, Infrastructure, Planning, Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard, and Energy Assistance Programs (Next Generation Energy Act) [HB-1035]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Climate Change ]
[Housing ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Public Health ]
Authorizing the Department of Housing and Community Development to issue loans, in addition to grants, for certain purposes relating to reducing direct greenhouse gas emissions from certain multifamily residential buildings; requiring the Maryland Energy Administration, in coordination with the Public Service Commission and the Department of Natural Resources, to pursue certain agreements with neighboring states and federal agencies related to the development of new nuclear energy generation stations; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. C.T. Wilson
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 626 on 05/20/2025
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Health - Maryland Helping Everyone Afford Life-Saving Treatments and Health Care (HEALTH) Fund and Income Tax Checkoff [HB-1059]
[Healthcare ]
[Taxes ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
[Funding ]
Establishing the Helping Everyone Afford Life-Saving Treatments and Health Care (HEALTH) Fund to assist Maryland Medical Assistance Program enrollees and insured individuals with heath care costs associated with services and benefits provided under State law that are subject to federal restrictions; requiring certain individuals to provide evidence of need for certain health care assistance; requiring the Comptroller to include a checkoff on individual income tax return forms for voluntary contributions to the Fund; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Courtney Watson
Hearing Canceled (health And Government Operations) on 02/26/2025
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Maryland Pediatric Cancer Fund - Funding [HB-1115]
[Healthcare ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Altering the fiscal years during which the Governor is required to include in the annual budget bill a certain appropriation to the Maryland Pediatric Cancer Fund; altering the funding source of the Maryland Pediatric Cancer Fund to include money from the Cigarette Restitution Fund; and altering uses of the Cigarette Restitution Fund to include the Maryland Pediatric Cancer Fund.
Sponsored by: Rep. Samuel I Rosenberg
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 02/24/2025
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Public Health - Medetomidine and Xylazine Consumer Protection Act [HB-1109]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
Prohibiting a retailer from distributing, selling, or exposing for sale a medetomidine product or a xylazine product unless the purchaser provides to the retailer certain proof; prohibiting a retailer from distributing, selling, or exposing for sale a medetomidine product or a xylazine product to an individual under the age of 21 years; requiring a retailer that prepares, distributes, sells, or exposes for sale a medetomidine product or a xylazine product to maintain certain records; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jesse Tyler Pippy
Hearing Canceled on 03/05/2025
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Department of Human Services - Study on Private Treatment Foster Care Homes [HB-1057]
[Children and Youth ]
[Funding ]
[Human Services ]
Requiring the Department of Human Services to conduct a study to determine the types of State support, in the form of funding or otherwise, that would be appropriate and beneficial to assist private providers of treatment foster care homes in the provision of services; and requiring the Department to report its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly by December 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jheanelle K. Wilkins
Favorable With Amendments Report By Appropriations on 04/05/2025
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Health Insurance - Individual Market Stabilization - Establishment of the State-Based Health Insurance Subsidies Program [HB-1082]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
Establishing the State-Based Health Insurance Subsidies Program to provide subsidies to individuals in the State to mitigate the impact of a reduction in certain federal advance premium tax credits for calendar years 2026 through 2028; and requiring the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange to implement the Program under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne R Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 468 on 05/13/2025
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Coal Transportation Fee and Fossil Fuel Mitigation Fund (Coal Dust Cleanup and Asthma Remediation Act) [HB-1088]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Air Quality ]
[Climate Change ]
[Taxes ]
[Funding ]
[Public Health ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Imposing a coal transportation fee on a person that transports coal in the State; providing that the rate of the coal transportation fee is $13 per short ton transported in the State; providing the fee does not apply to the transportation of coal that is solely for use on a farm and the carrier does not otherwise use or sell the coal; establishing the Fossil Fuel Mitigation Fund to support activities that reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the State; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana M Stein
Hearing Canceled (environment And Transportation) on 03/02/2025
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Income Tax - Credit for Employers of Eligible Apprentices - Alterations [HB-1047]
[Taxes ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Education ]
[Small Business ]
Altering the definition of "eligible apprentice" for purposes of a certain credit against the State income tax for the employment of certain eligible apprentices by repealing a certain wage requirement; extending the termination of the credit until June 30, 2031; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2024.
Sponsored by: Rep. Chao Wu
First Reading Ways And Means on 02/05/2025
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Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening Technologies Program - Funding [SB-849]
[Healthcare ]
[Funding ]
[Public Health ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Science ]
Altering the amount the Governor is authorized to include in the annual budget for the Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening Technologies Program from $500,000 to $1,000,000; and authorizing the Secretary of Health to use up to 20% of Program funds to support research centers in the collection, analysis, and processing of Program outcome data for the purposes of assessing, maximizing, and improving the effectiveness and clinical utility of the cancer screening funded by the Program.
Sponsored by: Sen. Guy J Guzzone
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 640 on 05/20/2025
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Fraud Prevention and Worker Protections - Prohibitions, Penalties, and Enforcement [SB-938]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Unemployment ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Crime ]
Prohibiting a person from knowingly making or using, or causing to be made or used, a false record or statement resulting in underpayments of unemployment insurance contributions or payment of unemployment insurance benefits of more than a certain amount; altering the enforcement mechanisms of the Maryland Wage and Hour Law, the Maryland Wage Payment and Collection Law, workplace fraud laws, living wage laws, and prevailing wage laws; etc.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/06/2025
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Public Health Abortion Grant Program - Establishment [SB-848]
[Healthcare ]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Public Health ]
[Insurance ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Establishing the Public Health Abortion Grant Program to provide grants to improve access to abortion care clinical services for individuals in the State; establishing the Public Health Abortion Grant Program Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to provide grants under the Program; and requiring that certain premium funds collected by health insurance carriers be used to provide certain coverage and to support improving access to abortion care clinical services under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Sen. Guy J Guzzone
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 436 on 05/13/2025
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Local Government - Accommodations Intermediaries - Hotel Rental Tax - Collection by Comptroller and Alterations [SB-979]
[Taxes ]
[Housing ]
Requiring certain accommodations intermediaries to collect and remit the hotel rental tax to the Comptroller rather than to each county; providing for the administration of the hotel rental tax by the Comptroller; providing that certain provisions of State law prevail over certain local laws or agreements related to the hotel rental tax; repealing the authority of certain counties to provide for certain exemptions from the hotel rental tax; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Guy J Guzzone
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 638 on 05/20/2025
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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.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dalya Attar
Hearing Canceled (education, Energy, And The Environment) on 03/04/2025
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Housing and Community Development - Division of Just Communities - Establishment [SB-890]
[Housing ]
[Community Development ]
[Public Health ]
[Grants ]
[Funding ]
Establishing the Division of Just Communities in the Department of Housing and Community Development; transferring the authority to designate an area as a Just Community from the Governor to the Department; altering the criteria for designating an area as a Just Community; and transferring the administration of the Community Health and Safety Works Grant Program to the Division.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mary Washington
Hearing 2/25 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/04/2025
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State Retirement and Pension System - Administrative Fees - Repeal [SB-862]
[Pensions ]
[Retirement ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Requiring the Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System to certify certain employer contribution rates each fiscal year; requiring the employer contribution rates to include recognition of certain administrative and operational expenses; repealing a requirement that certain administrative and operational expenses of the State Retirement and Pension System and the State Retirement Agency be funded by charging each participating employer an administrative fee for each system participant; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Michael A. Jackson
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 765 on 05/20/2025
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Transportation - Regional Authorities - Established [SB-935]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Taxes ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Economic Development ]
Authorizing certain counties to impose certain transportation authority sales tax surcharges, hotel surcharges, and transfer tax surcharges; 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; requiring interest earnings of the funds to be credited to the funds; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joanne C. Benson
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. (budget And Taxation) on 02/05/2025
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Cybersecurity - Standards, Compliance, and Audits - Alterations [SB-907]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Education ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Public Safety ]
Repealing the requirement that county boards of education prioritize the purchase of digital devices with certain funds; requiring each local school system to comply with, and certify compliance with, the State minimum cybersecurity standards and to conduct a cybersecurity maturity assessment every 2 years; requiring the Office of Security Management within the Department of Information Technology to annually update the State minimum cybersecurity standards; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Katie Fry Hester
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2025
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Public Health - Women's Health Care Data - Report [SB-965]
[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: Sen. Mary Elizabeth Carozza
Hearing 3/06 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/06/2025
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Environmental Permits - Requirements for Public Participation and Impact and Burden Analyses (Cumulative Harms to Environmental Restoration for Improving Shared Health - CHERISH Our Communities Act) [SB-978]
[Environmental ]
[Public Health ]
[Air Quality ]
[Water ]
[Community Development ]
Applying certain public participation requirements to permits for projects that have been identified by the Department of the Environment as having an increased potential for adverse community environmental and public health impacts; requiring a person applying for certain environmental permits for certain projects with an increased potential to cause adverse community environmental and public health impacts to include in the permit application an environmental impact analysis; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence K. Lam
Hearing 2/18 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/04/2025