You have voted SB-900: Relating to the inclusion of a school safety domain for evaluating districts and campuses under the public school accountability system..
Establish Sunrise Review Board [SB-51]
An Act establishing the Sunrise Review Board; relating to review of proposed legislation relating to authorization to engage in the practice of a profession or occupation; and providing for an effective date.
SB-51: Establish Sunrise Review Board
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Myers
Read The First Time - Referrals on 01/24/2025
Ext Arch, Eng, Survey Brd; Reg Int Design [SB-54]
An Act relating to registered interior designers and interior design; extending the termination date of the State Board of Registration for Architects, Engineers, and Land Surveyors; relating to the State Board of Registration for Architects, Engineers, and Land Surveyors; establishing requirements for the practice of registered interior design; relating to the practice of architecture, engineering, land surveying, landscape architecture, and registered interior design by partnerships; relating to liens for labor or materials furnished; relating
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SB-54: Ext Arch, Eng, Survey Brd; Reg Int Design
Sponsored by: Sen. Matt Claman
Read The First Time - Referrals on 01/24/2025
Landlord and Tenant - Residential Leases - Prospective Tenant Criminal History Records Check (Maryland Fair Chance Housing Act) [SB-514]
Prohibiting a landlord from requiring or requesting from a prospective tenant certain information relating to criminal history and prohibiting a landlord from considering certain information when evaluating the prospective tenant; permitting a landlord to consider certain criminal history information prior to extending a conditional offer to a prospective tenant and requiring the landlord to consider certain information provided by a prospective tenant relating to a criminal history records check; etc.
SB-514: Landlord and Tenant - Residential Leases - Prospective Tenant Criminal History Records Check (Maryland Fair Chance Housing Act)
Sponsored by: Sen. Shaneka Henson
First Reading Judicial Proceedings on 01/23/2025
You have voted SB-514: Landlord and Tenant - Residential Leases - Prospective Tenant Criminal History Records Check (Maryland Fair Chance Housing Act).
Family Law - Child Custody - Determinations [SB-548]
Authorizing the court, in determining legal and physical custody in certain child custody proceedings, to consider certain factors; and authorizing the court to modify a child custody or visitation order if the court determines that there has been a material change in circumstances since the issuance of the order that related to the needs of the child or the ability of the parents to meet those needs and that modifying the order is in the best interests of the child.
SB-548: Family Law - Child Custody - Determinations
Sponsored by: Sen. Mary James
First Reading Judicial Proceedings on 01/23/2025
Wicomico County - Alcoholic Beverages - Temporary To-Go Event Permit and Class C Per Diem Municipal To-Go Beer, Wine, and Liquor License [HB-655]
Establishing a temporary to-go event permit in Wicomico County; authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Wicomico County to issue a temporary to-go event permit to a holder of a Class B beer, wine, and liquor license; establishing a Class C per diem municipal to-go beer, wine, and liquor license in the county; authorizing the Board to issue a Class C per diem municipal to-go beer, wine, and liquor license to a municipality in the county; requiring the Board to adopt certain regulations; etc.
HB-655: Wicomico County - Alcoholic Beverages - Temporary To-Go Event Permit and Class C Per Diem Municipal To-Go Beer, Wine, and Liquor License
Sponsored by: No sponsors
First Reading Economic Matters on 01/24/2025
You have voted HB-655: Wicomico County - Alcoholic Beverages - Temporary To-Go Event Permit and Class C Per Diem Municipal To-Go Beer, Wine, and Liquor License.
Public Safety - Rape Kit Testing Grant Fund - Alterations [HB-675]
Altering the purpose and use of the Rape Kit Testing Grant Fund; expanding the duties of the Executive Director of the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention and Policy relating to the Fund; and prohibiting the use of the Fund for the Sexual Assault Evidence Kit Tracking System.
HB-675: Public Safety - Rape Kit Testing Grant Fund - Alterations
Sponsored by: Rep. Juanita Bartlett
First Reading Judiciary on 01/24/2025
Motor Vehicles - Speed Monitoring Systems - Safety Corridors [SB-520]
Authorizing the State Highway Administration to use speed monitoring systems in areas determined to be of high risk to vulnerable road users and priority corridors in the Administration's Pedestrian Safety Action Plan; and defining "vulnerable road users" as individuals not traveling in a motor vehicle, including pedestrians, bicyclists, other cyclists, persons using personal conveyance or a mobility device such as a wheelchair, and persons on foot in a highway work zone.
SB-520: Motor Vehicles - Speed Monitoring Systems - Safety Corridors
Sponsored by: Sen. Nick Charles
First Reading Judicial Proceedings on 01/23/2025
Counties - Construction of Sidewalks and Crosswalks - Safe Alternative Routes to Public Schools [SB-526]
Requiring a county board of education each year to prepare and post to the county's website a report that identifies pathways that public school students, who are ineligible for transportation services, may use to travel to school using only safe alternative routes under certain circumstances; requiring the governing body of a county each year to review a certain report and construct any sidewalks and crosswalks necessary to create safe alternative routes for public school students under certain circumstances; etc.
SB-526: Counties - Construction of Sidewalks and Crosswalks - Safe Alternative Routes to Public Schools
Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Lewis Young
First Reading Education, Energy, And The Environment on 01/23/2025
SB-494: Procurement Contracts and Public-Private Partnerships - Project Labor Agreements, Community Benefit Agreements, and Use of Registered Apprentices
Sponsored by: Sen. Arthur Ellis
First Reading Budget And Taxation on 01/23/2025
You have voted SB-494: Procurement Contracts and Public-Private Partnerships - Project Labor Agreements, Community Benefit Agreements, and Use of Registered Apprentices.
Public Safety - Distribution of Literature to Purchasers of Firearms and Ammunition [SB-577]
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to prepare certain literature relating to firearms and ammunition and to distribute the literature to all county health departments in the State; requiring each county health department to distribute certain literature to all establishments that sell firearms or ammunition within the county; requiring establishments that sell firearms or ammunition in the State to make certain literature visible and available and to distribute the literature to purchasers of firearms and ammunition; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence Lam
First Reading Judicial Proceedings on 01/23/2025
Motor Vehicles - School Buses - Seat Belts [SB-498]
Requiring the public school safety education program to include student instruction concerning school bus safety and the proper use of seat belts on school buses; requiring that school buses purchased after July 1, 2027, and registered in the State be equipped with, for every seat on the school bus, 3-point seat belts that are accessible to passengers; and prohibiting a civil action for damages based on the failure of a school bus operator to ensure that an occupant of a school bus was wearing a seat belt.
SB-498: Motor Vehicles - School Buses - Seat Belts
Sponsored by: Sen. Arthur Ellis
First Reading Judicial Proceedings on 01/23/2025
Relating To Transportation. [SB-1667]
Prohibits any vehicles from blocking marked crosswalks. Establishes additional penalties for repeat convictions for reckless driving and excessive speeding. Requires a person under arrest who refuses to submit to a breath, blood, or urine test to surrender their license to a law enforcement officer. Increases the duration of the suspension of a license when a person is arrested for driving under the influence and refuses to submit a breath, blood, or urine test. Allows the appeal of any license suspension to be filed with the administrative driver's
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SB-1667: Relating To Transportation.
Sponsored by: Sen. Chris Lee
Introduced. on 01/23/2025
SB-887: Relating to the authority of a municipality to use funds collected from an impact fee to construct or install a safety improvement to a roadway facility.
Sponsored by: Sen. Sarah Eckhardt
Received By The Secretary Of The Senate on 01/23/2025
You have voted SB-887: Relating to the authority of a municipality to use funds collected from an impact fee to construct or install a safety improvement to a roadway facility..
Motor Vehicles - Secondary Enforcement and Admissibility of Evidence [HB-635]
Requiring a police officer to document all reasons for a traffic stop or other stop on a citation or police report resulting from the stop; establishing that certain evidence obtained during a traffic stop or other stop in violation of certain provisions may be or is inadmissible in certain proceedings; authorizing a police officer to enforce certain provisions of the Maryland Vehicle Law only as a secondary action; etc.
HB-635: Motor Vehicles - Secondary Enforcement and Admissibility of Evidence
Sponsored by: Rep. Frank Conaway
First Reading Judiciary And Environment And Transportation on 01/23/2025