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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Wildlife - Protections and Highway Crossings [SB-635]
[Animals ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Environmental ]
[Public Safety ]
Establishing the Maryland Connectivity Coalition to foster collaboration among State and federal agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and other stakeholders for the purpose of protecting endangered wildlife from habitat fragmentation; requiring the State Highway Administration to have final decision-making authority regarding decisions related to placement, funding, or design of wildlife crossings; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. James C. Rosapepe
Referred Rules And Executive Nominations on 04/01/2025
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Vehicle Laws - Bicycles - Operation at Intersections [SB-627]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Authorizing a person operating a bicycle that is approaching a stop sign at an intersection on a highway with two or fewer lanes for moving traffic to cautiously make a turn or proceed through the intersection without stopping if the person reduces the speed of the bicycle to a reasonable rate and yields the right-of-way to certain vehicles under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Sen. William C. Smith
Hearing 2/13 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/03/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Courtroom Security - Minimum Adequate Security Standard [HB-789]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Establishing minimum adequate security standards for courtroom security at all courthouse facilities.
Sponsored by: Rep. Judiciary
Hearing 2/12 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/07/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Insurance Administration and Maryland Department of Health - Workgroup to Study Pharmacy Benefits Managers [HB-813]
[Insurance ]
[Healthcare ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring the Maryland Insurance Administration and the Maryland Department of Health, in consultation with the Prescription Drug Affordability Board, to convene a workgroup to study and review reimbursement for pharmacists; and requiring the workgroup to submit an interim report by December 31, 2025, and a final report on their findings and recommendations to certain committees of the General Assembly by December 31, 2026.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne R Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 730 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Urban State Highways - Speed Limits - Exemptions [HB-780]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
Authorizing the State Highway Administration to decrease the maximum speed limit by 5 miles per hour on certain urban State highways without an engineering and traffic investigation, subject to certain notice requirements; and prohibiting the use of speed monitoring systems on urban State highways under the Administration's jurisdiction for which the speed limit has been decreased without performing an engineering and traffic investigation for 6 months after the speed limit decrease.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Healey
Referred Judicial Proceedings on 02/28/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
St. Mary's County - Public Facilities Bond [SB-623]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Community Development ]
[Construction ]
[Funding ]
[Public Safety ]
Authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of St. Mary's County to borrow not more than $71,000,000 in order to finance the construction, improvement, or development of certain public facilities in St. Mary's County, and to effect such borrowing by the issuance and sale at public or private sale of its general obligation bonds; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jack Bailey
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 408 on 05/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Correctional Services - Medication Review Committee - Administration of Psychotropic Medication to an Incarcerated Individual [HB-779]
[Crime ]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Authorizing the establishment of a medication review committee within the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services that convenes to determine whether to approve the administration of psychotropic medication to a certain incarcerated individual under certain circumstances; providing that psychotropic medication may not be administered to an incarcerated individual who refuses the medication except under certain circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Judiciary
Hearing Canceled on 02/17/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Hospitals - Medical Debt Collection - Sale of Patient Debt [HB-765]
[Healthcare ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Nonprofit ]
Authorizing a hospital, under certain circumstances, to sell the medical debt of patients if the debt is sold to a governmental unit or an entity that is under contract with the unit or a nonprofit organization for the purpose of canceling the debt; 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; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne R Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 750 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
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.
Sponsored by: Sen. J.B. Jennings
Hearing Canceled on 03/26/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Medical Practice Act and Maryland Physician Assistants Act - Revisions [HB-776]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Repealing obsolete and redundant language in, clarifying language in, and making language consistent across certain provisions of law governing the State Board of Physicians and the regulation of physicians, physician assistants, and allied health professionals; altering certain licensure requirements; altering the grounds for discipline for physicians, physician assistants, and allied health professionals; authorizing the Board to impose a civil penalty for a certain report made in bad faith; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne R Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 676 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Counties – Construction of Sidewalks and Crosswalks – Safe Alternative Routes to Public Schools [HB-811]
[Education ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Construction ]
[Children and Youth ]
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 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.
Sponsored by: Rep. Edith Jerry Patterson
Hearing 3/04 At 1:00 P.m. (environment And Transportation) on 02/07/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Solar Energy - Distributed Generation Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity, Ground-Mounted Solar, and Small Solar Siting Workgroup [HB-827]
[Energy ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Public Safety ]
[Construction ]
[Environmental ]
Establishing a distributed generation certificate of public convenience and necessity to authorize the construction and operation of a certain distributed solar energy generating system; requiring the Power Plant Research Program, by July 1, 2026, to develop and submit to the Public Service Commission proposed siting and design requirements and licensing conditions; prohibiting a county from enacting certain zoning laws or adopting certain regulations regarding certain ground-mounted solar systems and facilities; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Vincent Fraser-hidalgo
Hearing Canceled on 03/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Study on Detecting Deadly Weapons in Public Middle and High Schools [HB-782]
[Crime ]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
Requiring the Maryland Center for School Safety to study how best to detect deadly weapons in public middle and high schools and how best to rapidly report the detection of weapons to a law enforcement agency; requiring the Center to request any available assessment technologies evaluated under the Act; and requiring the Center to issue an interim report by December 1, 2025, and a final report on the findings of the study, in a manner that does not jeopardize school safety, by December 1, 2026.
Sponsored by: Rep. Eric D. Ebersole
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 244 on 05/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Courtroom Security - Minimum Adequate Security [SB-621]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Requiring each law enforcement agency, department, or entity providing security at a courthouse facility to submit a report by September 30, 2025, to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland; requiring the report include the current number of court security officers available, the minimum number needed to meet adequate security standards, the current number of vacancies and a viable plan to meet minimum adequate security standards as identified in the Act; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Judicial Proceedings
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 141 on 04/22/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Real Property - Landlord and Tenant - Procedures for Failure to Pay Rent, Breach of Lease, and Tenant Holding Over [HB-767]
[Real Estate ]
[Housing ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Requiring a landlord to provide certain notice to a tenant when a court has issued a warrant of restitution for a failure of a tenant to pay rent, a breach of lease, or a tenant holding over under certain circumstances; establishing certain procedures and requirements for the execution of a warrant for repossession; establishing that the Act does not restrict the authority of the State or a local jurisdiction to enact or enforce certain legislation; applying the Act prospectively; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana M Stein
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 563 on 05/13/2025
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Texas 89th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to the composition and duties of a court security committee. [HB-2176]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Relating to the composition and duties of a court security committee.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Harless
Referred To Jurisprudence on 04/24/2025
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Texas 89th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to the regulation of elevator mechanics, elevator apprentices, and contractors; requiring an occupational registration. [HB-2186]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Construction ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Safety ]
Relating to the regulation of elevator mechanics, elevator apprentices, and contractors; requiring an occupational registration.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ana Hernandez
Received From The House on 05/12/2025
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Texas 89th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to state and local authority to regulate the food service industry. [HB-2156]
[Food ]
Relating to state and local authority to regulate the food service industry.
Sponsored by: Rep. Cody Joe Harris
Laid On The Table Subject To Call on 05/02/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Wildlife - Protections and Highway Crossings [HB-731]
[Animals ]
[Environmental ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
Establishing the Maryland Connectivity Coalition to foster collaboration among State and federal agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and other stakeholders for the purpose of protecting endangered wildlife from habitat fragmentation; requiring the State Highway Administration to have final decision-making authority regarding decisions related to placement, funding, or design of wildlife crossings; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana M Stein
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 549 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Natural Resources - State Boat Act - Alterations [HB-719]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Water ]
[Funding ]
[Recreation ]
Repealing certain advertising and public hearing requirements for proposed regulations implementing the State Boat Act; increasing certain funding thresholds for certain projects financed by the Waterway Improvement Fund; and altering the fees for manufacturer and dealer licenses, certificates of number, Maryland use stickers, and the issuance of certificates of title, transfer of title, or duplicate or corrected certificates of title.
Sponsored by: Rep. Environment and Transportation
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 433 on 05/13/2025