Telecommunications And Information Technology
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Department of the Environment - Community Water and Sewerage Systems - Cybersecurity Planning and Assessments [HB-1062]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Water ]
[Environmental ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring the Department of the Environment to coordinate, in coordination with the Department of Information Technology and the Maryland Department of Emergency Management, cybersecurity efforts within community water systems and community sewerage systems; establishing the roles and responsibilities of various State agencies with respect to regulating, assessing, and promoting cybersecurity efforts within the water and wastewater sector; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Andrea Harrison
Favorable With Amendments Report By Environment And Transportation on 04/05/2025
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Applicants for Positions Involving Direct Contact With Minors - Required Information, Review Process, and Reporting - Alterations [HB-1105]
[Children and Youth ]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Human Services ]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Requiring child care centers and youth-serving organizations to require applicants for positions involving direct contact with minors to submit certain information; requiring county boards of education, nonpublic schools, and contracting agencies to require applicants for positions involving direct contact with minors to submit certain information relating to certain boundary-violating behavior; requiring child care centers and youth-serving organizations to follow certain procedures when hiring certain applicants; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Edith Patterson
Hearing Canceled on 02/07/2025
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Maryland Behavioral Health Crisis Response System – Integration of 9–8–8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Network and Outcome Evaluations [HB-1146]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
[Human Services ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring the Maryland Behavioral Health Crisis Response System to have a State 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, rather than a crisis communication center, in each jurisdiction; requiring each State 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline in the System to coordinate with the national 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Network to provide supportive counseling, suicide prevention, crisis intervention, referrals to additional resources, and direct dispatch to other services as needed; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Kaiser
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 659 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Data Brokers - Registry and Gross Income Tax (Building Information Guardrails Data Act of 2025) [HB-1089]
[Data Privacy ]
[Taxes ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Education ]
Establishing the Privacy Protection and Enforcement Unit within the Division of Consumer Protection in the Office of the Attorney General; establishing a data broker registry; requiring certain data brokers to register each year with the Comptroller; imposing a tax on the gross income of certain data brokers for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2026; requiring the revenue from the data broker tax be used by Maryland Public Television to provide digital literacy support to students in kindergarten through 12th grade; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jared Solomon
Hearing 2/25 At 1:00 P.m. (economic Matters) on 02/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Substitute Child Care Provider Pool Pilot Program - Established [SB-868]
[Children and Youth ]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Human Services ]
[Nonprofit ]
[Public Health ]
Establishing the Substitute Child Care Provider Pool Pilot Program in the State Department of Education; providing the purpose of the Program is to facilitate the continuous operation of child care facilities in the State by ensuring that qualified substitute child care providers are available to fill short-term staffing needs of child care facilities on a temporary basis; requiring the Department for fiscal years 2027 through 2030, to award a grant of $350,000 to the nonprofit organization selected to administer the Program; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Shaneka Henson
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2025
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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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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
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 Hester
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2025
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Data Centers - Fast Track Pass for Co-Location and Sales and Use Tax [SB-903]
[Taxes ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Energy ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Economic Development ]
[Data Privacy ]
Establishing an expedited certificate of public convenience and necessity review process for certain co-located energy generation projects that have received a fast track pass; establishing a Data Center Fast Track Advisory Committee in the Public Service Commission to facilitate the application for and review and awarding of fast track passes; altering the requirements for qualified data center personal property to be eligible to be exempt from the sales and use tax; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Katie Hester
Hearing Canceled (education, Energy, And The Environment) on 03/04/2025
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Private Passenger Motor Vehicle Insurance - Use of Programs That Measure the Operation of an Insured Vehicle [SB-984]
[Insurance ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Data Privacy ]
Requiring an insurer that issues or delivers private passenger motor vehicle insurance policies in the State to disclose the use of a program that measures the operation of an insured vehicle and to establish a process by which a policyholder may correct or appeal data the policy holder believes to be erroneous; prohibiting insurers with respect to certain private passenger motor vehicle insurance policies from initiating a premium increase in increments of less than 6 months from the date the policy goes into effect; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Alonzo Washington
Unfavorable Report By Economic Matters on 03/31/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Business Regulation - Cellular Phone Carriers - Authorized Users [SB-846]
[Telecommunications ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
Requiring a cellular phone carrier to allow a customer of record who is responsible for payment of an account to have the option to designate other individuals as authorized users on the customer's account and to allow an authorized user to take certain actions in connection with the account.
Sponsored by: Sen. Shelly Hettleman
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 334 on 05/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Primary and Secondary Education - Student Technology and Social Media Resource Guide [SB-897]
[Education ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Mental Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring the National Center for School Mental Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to develop and distribute a student technology and social media resource guide beginning in the 2027-2028 school year with additional information included in successive years; requiring the Governor to include an appropriation of $100,000 for fiscal year 2027 and $125,000 for fiscal years 2028 and 2029 in the annual budget bill; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Sara Love
Favorable With Amendments Report By Education, Energy, And The Environment on 04/07/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Education - Artificial Intelligence - Guidelines, Professional Development, and Task Force [SB-906]
[Education ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Artificial Intelligence ]
[Data Privacy ]
Requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the State Board of Education and the Task Force on Artificial Intelligence in K-12 Education, to develop or update guidance on artificial intelligence for county boards of education; requiring the Department, in consultation with the Department of Information Technology, to develop and update annually a list of approved artificial intelligence tools; requiring each county board to conduct an annual inventory of systems that employ artificial intelligence; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Katie Hester
Hearing Canceled on 03/04/2025
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Maryland Behavioral Health Crisis Response System - Integration of 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Network and Outcome Evaluations [SB-900]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
[Human Services ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring the Maryland Behavioral Health Crisis Response System to have a State 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, rather than a crisis communication center, in each jurisdiction; requiring each State 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline in the System to coordinate with the national 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Network to provide supportive counseling, suicide prevention, crisis intervention, referrals to additional resources, and direct dispatch to other services as needed; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Malcolm Augustine
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 658 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Mold - Landlord Requirements and Regulations (Maryland Tenant Mold Protection Act) [SB-856]
[Housing ]
[Public Health ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Environmental ]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Real Estate ]
Requiring the Department of the Environment, the Maryland Department of Health, the Department of Housing and Community Development, the Maryland Department of Labor, and the Department of General Services to develop a certain pamphlet and website; requiring a landlord to provide a tenant with certain information at certain times and in a certain manner; requiring a landlord to perform a mold assessment and mold remediation within 15 days after receipt of a written notice regarding the detection of mold; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Shaneka Henson
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 539 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Data Brokers - Registry and Gross Income Tax (Building Information Guardrails Data Act of 2025) [SB-904]
[Data Privacy ]
[Taxes ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Cybersecurity ]
Establishing the Privacy Protection and Enforcement Unit within the Division of Consumer Protection in the Office of the Attorney General; establishing a data broker registry; requiring certain data brokers to register each year with the Comptroller; and imposing a tax on the gross income of certain data brokers for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2026.
Sponsored by: Sen. James Rosapepe
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. (budget And Taxation) on 02/05/2025
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Medicaid Management Information System - Surveillance and Utilization Review Subsystem - Publication of Procurement Schedule [SB-840]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to publish on its website a schedule for the issuance of a solicitation for the procurement of a Surveillance and Utilization Review Subsystem of the Medicaid Management Information System; and requiring the Department to publish on its website notice of certain time frames at least 60 days before the issuance of the procurement.
Sponsored by: Sen. Johnny Mautz
Hearing 3/04 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/06/2025
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Consumer Protection - High-Risk Artificial Intelligence - Developer and Deployer Requirements [SB-936]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Artificial Intelligence ]
[Data Privacy ]
Requiring a certain developer of, and a certain deployer who uses, a certain high-risk artificial intelligence system to use reasonable care to protect consumers from known and reasonably foreseeable risks of certain algorithmic discrimination in a certain high-risk artificial intelligence system; regulating the use of high-risk artificial intelligence systems by establishing certain requirements for disclosures, impact assessments, and other consumer protection provisions; authorizing the Attorney General to enforce the Act; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Sara Love
Hearing 2/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/06/2025
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Cyber Maryland Program - Revisions [SB-867]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Transferring the Cyber Maryland Program from the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to the Maryland Department of Labor; altering the duties of the Program; requiring the Program to issue competitive grants and contracts beginning in fiscal year 2026, to enhance cybersecurity workforce development, including cybersecurity for operational technology; authorizing the Governor for fiscal year 2027 and each fiscal year thereafter to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation sufficient to run the program; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Katie Hester
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 218 on 04/22/2025
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Department of the Environment - Community Water and Sewerage Systems - Cybersecurity Planning and Assessments [SB-871]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Water ]
[Environmental ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring the Department of the Environment to coordinate, in coordination with the Department of Information Technology and the Maryland Department of Emergency Management, cybersecurity efforts within community water systems and community sewerage systems; establishing the roles and responsibilities of various State agencies with respect to regulating, assessing, and promoting cybersecurity efforts within the water and wastewater sector; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Katie Hester
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 495 on 05/13/2025
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Howard Community College - Board of Trustees, Meetings, and Contracts - Alterations Ho. Co. 1-25 [SB-813]
[Education ]
[Community Development ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Adding two members to the Board of Community College Trustees for Howard County; requiring each meeting of the Board to allow for public comment; requiring the Board to make a video or audio recording of its meetings which are to be made available on the Board's website; requiring Board members to undergo certain training specific to Board governance; and requiring the Board to submit a report to the General Assembly by January 1, 2026, and every 6 months thereafter until a contract is finalized, on the status of the faculty union contract.
Sponsored by: Sen.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 585 on 05/13/2025