Salaries And Compensation
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
State Personnel - BWI Airport Fire and Rescue Department - Collective Bargaining and Arbitration Processes [HB-599]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
Altering the collective bargaining process between the State and uniformed fire employees of the BWI Airport Fire and Rescue Department by requiring the parties to reach a collective bargaining agreement on or before September 30 of the year in which the collective bargaining agreement will expire; and establishing a process of binding arbitration in the event of an impasse.
Sponsored by: Rep. Andrew C. Pruski
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 654 on 05/20/2025
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Election Law - Election Judges - Compensation [HB-586]
[Elections ]
[Education ]
[Voting Rights ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Requiring a local board of elections to pay an election judge compensation for completing a certain course of instruction only after the election judge actually serves an election day or early voting day; and authorizing a public school student in the State to earn hours toward the service-learning graduation requirement or receive election judge compensation for service as an election judge.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Jones
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 390 on 05/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Labor and Employment - Exemptions From Overtime Pay - Administrative, Executive, or Professional Capacity [HB-582]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Altering the exemption from overtime pay for individuals who are employed to work in an administrative, executive, or professional capacity.
Sponsored by: Rep. Vaughn Stewart
Motion Special Order Until 03/13 (delegate Crosby) Adopted on 02/25/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Board of Trustees of the Maryland Teachers and State Employees Supplemental Retirement Plans - Automatic Enrollment [HB-605]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Retirement ]
[Pensions ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Requiring the State Board of Trustees of the Maryland Teachers and State Employees Supplemental Retirement Plans to implement an automatic enrollment arrangement for State employees who are hired on or after January 1, 2026; and requiring an eligible employer to deduct wages of an employee for contribution to a supplemental retirement plan, unless the employee has elected to withdraw from or cease to contribute to the supplemental retirement plan within 90 days after the first automatic deduction of the contribution from wages.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Hearing 3/11 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/21/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Labor and Employment - Workplace Fraud - Application (Maryland Workplace Fraud Act of 2025) [HB-632]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Construction ]
Applying to all private sector employers, rather than only employers in the construction and landscape services industries, provisions of law that prohibit an employer from failing to properly classify an individual who performs work for remuneration paid by the employer.
Sponsored by: Rep. Terri Hill
First Reading Economic Matters on 01/23/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Institutions of Higher Education - Mandatory Disclosures for New and Prospective Students (Informed Enrollment Act) [HB-611]
[Education ]
[Student Loans ]
[Data Privacy ]
Requiring each institution of higher education in the State that admits first-time undergraduate students, by July 1, 2026, to prominently display on its publicly accessible prospective student website a link to the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard website; and requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to make certain data available to institutions of higher education in the State under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jeff Ghrist
Hearing 2/11 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/31/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Empowering New Energy Resources and Green Initiatives Toward a Zero-Emission (ENERGIZE) Maryland Act [SB-434]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Climate Change ]
[Public Health ]
Renaming the "renewable energy portfolio standard" to be the "clean energy portfolio standard"; altering the minimum required percentage of energy that must be derived from clean energy sources in certain years under the clean energy portfolio standard; altering the contents of and approval criteria for an application for an offshore wind project; establishing a process for the Public Service Commission to review and approve an application for a proposed nuclear energy generation project; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Benjamin T. Brooks
Hearing 2/20 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Excellence in Maryland Public Schools Act [SB-429]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Economic Development ]
Altering the definitions of "target per pupil foundation amount", "collaborative time per pupil amount", "compensatory education per pupil amount", "English learner per pupil amount", "special education per pupil amount", "growth in the target per pupil foundation amount", and "change in the per pupil amount"; directing county boards of education to provide certain funding to local workforce development boards to support the Career Counseling Program for Middle and High School Students; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Cheryl C. Kagan
Referred Rules And Executive Nominations on 04/02/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard - Renaming and Alterations [HB-505]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Climate Change ]
Renaming the "renewable energy portfolio standard" to be the "clean energy portfolio standard"; altering the minimum required percentage of energy that must be derived from clean energy sources in certain years under the clean energy portfolio standard; and applying the Act retroactively; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Eric D. Ebersole
Third Reading Passed (131-3) on 04/07/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Unemployment Insurance Modernization Act of 2025 [HB-554]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Unemployment ]
[Insurance ]
Repealing and establishing the methodology used to calculate the weekly benefit amount; altering the taxable wage base used to determine employer contributions to the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund, the dependent allowance, and the amount of earned wages subtracted from a weekly benefit amount; requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to determine and make available online the State annual average wage applicable to the rate of contribution; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Lorig Charkoudian
Hearing 2/26 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Excellence in Maryland Public Schools Act [HB-504]
[Education ]
[Taxes ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Authorizing local governing bodies to exceed certain tax and revenue limitations for a certain purpose; altering the source of funds for the Blueprint for Maryland's Future Fund to include the interest earnings of the Academic Excellence Fund; authorizing the Department to establish a national teacher recruitment campaign; establishing the Academic Excellence Program in the Department to address critical academic needs in public schools; requiring local school systems to develop certain countywide community school implementation plans; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kevin Bailey Hornberger
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 237 on 05/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Primary and Secondary Education - Public School Employees - Salaries [HB-551]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Altering, beginning July 1, 2026, the minimum salary for certain public school employees to be $60,000; and establishing, subject to certain conditions, certain salary increases for certain public school employees.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jessica Feldmark
Hearing 2/12 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/29/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Safety Officer - Performance of Duties - Death Benefits [SB-396]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Crime ]
[Veterans ]
Altering circumstances under which certain individuals are presumed to have died as a direct and proximate result of an injury sustained in the performance of duties for purposes of eligibility for death benefits.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joanne C. Benson
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 573 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
State Procurement - Construction and Services - Contract Modification [SB-403]
[Construction ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
Requiring a procurement contract for construction or services to include a clause requiring contract modification for increased costs for compensation and benefits as a result of statutory changes increasing required compensation or benefits or collective bargaining.
Sponsored by: Sen. Cory V. McCray
Hearing Canceled on 01/30/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
St. Mary's County - Corrections [HB-485]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Adding programs, a day reporting program, an in-patient treatment program, and a pretrial release supervision program, that the St. Mary's County Sheriff is authorized to establish; repealing a requirement that the Sheriff or the Sheriff's designee collect the earnings of a certain individual participating in a certain program; and authorizing the Sheriff or the Sheriff's designee to direct an individual participating in a certain program to provide proof that the individual has made payments toward certain obligations.
Sponsored by: Rep. Matt Morgan
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 131 on 04/22/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
State Personnel - BWI Airport Fire and Rescue Department - Collective Bargaining and Arbitration Processes [SB-373]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
Altering the collective bargaining process between the State and uniformed fire employees of the BWI Airport Fire and Rescue Department by requiring the parties to reach a collective bargaining agreement on or before September 30 of the year in which the collective bargaining agreement will expire; and establishing a process of binding arbitration in the event of an impasse.
Sponsored by: Sen. Pamela G Beidle
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 653 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Prince George's County - Income Tax - Credit for Employers Providing Parental Engagement Leave PG 409-25 [HB-377]
[Taxes ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Education ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Children and Youth ]
Allowing employers who provide certain parental engagement leave to certain qualified employees during the taxable year a credit against the State income tax; requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Comptroller, to develop and make available a certain certification form; establishing that the credit equals the qualified employee's hourly wage rate times the number of parental leave hours used by the employee during the taxable year, up to $800; and making the credit refundable under certain circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 02/10/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Anne Arundel County – Board of License Commissioners – Chief Inspector – Compensation [HB-410]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Increasing the minimum and maximum salary amounts for the chief inspector employed by the Board of License Commissioners for Anne Arundel County.
Sponsored by: Rep. Andrew C. Pruski
First Reading Economic Matters on 01/16/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Anne Arundel County - Board of License Commissioners - Part-Time Deputy Chief Inspector - Compensation [HB-409]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
Increasing the annual salary of a part-time deputy chief inspector employed by the Board of License Commissioners for Anne Arundel County from $9,000 to $18,000.
Sponsored by: Rep. Andrew C. Pruski
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 816 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Abundant Affordable Clean Energy - Procurement and Development (AACE Act) [HB-398]
[Energy ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Climate Change ]
[Public Health ]
[Economic Development ]
Requiring each electric company in the State to submit to the Public Service Commission by certain dates plans for the construction or procurement of distribution-connected energy storage devices and to construct or procure the devices in accordance with the plan; providing for the creation of zero-emission credits by beneficial nuclear facilities; requiring the Commission to pursue certain coordinated approaches to offshore wind energy transmission development; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Lorig Charkoudian
First Reading Economic Matters on 01/16/2025