AN ACT relating to school bus safety. [SB-38]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; allow the use of camera monitoring systems on school buses operated by a school district, and allow the enforcement of a civil penalty for stop arm camera violations recorded by a camera monitoring system; set the amount of the civil penalty; provide that the revenue generated from a civil penalty shall be retained by the school district; allow a law enforcement agency to charge a fee of $25 from every civil penalty enforced by the law enforcement agency; require specific notice for a stop
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SB-38: AN ACT relating to school bus safety.
Sponsored by: Sen. Greg Elkins
To Transportation (s) on 01/09/2025
AN ACT relating to bus safety. [SB-31]
Amend KRS 156.153 to define "danger zone"; direct the Department of Education to consider requiring the installation of school bus sensors and interior cameras on new school buses purchased on or after July 1, 2026; direct the department to promulgate administrative regulations; require the department to submit a report on the availability and effectiveness of school bus sensors to the Legislative Research Commission by June 30, 2026; amend KRS 156.990, 160.380, and 189.540 to conform; amend KRS 281.635 to encourage cities to install safety sensors
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SB-31: AN ACT relating to bus safety.
Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To Transportation (s) on 01/09/2025
AN ACT relating to Medicaid-covered nonemergency medical transportation. [HB-61]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to establish the Cabinet for Health and Family Services' responsibilities with regard to the administration of nonemergency medical transportation services for Medicaid beneficiaries; require the Cabinet or the Department for Medicaid Services to seek federal approval if it is determined that such approval is necessary; require the cabinet to comply with KRS 205.525.
HB-61: AN ACT relating to Medicaid-covered nonemergency medical transportation.
Sponsored by: Rep. Chad Aull
Introduced In House on 01/07/2025
AN ACT relating to privacy protection. [HB-20]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to define terms related to automated license plate readers; establish limitations on use and sale of data captured by automated license plate readers; provide that captured license plate data may be retained longer than 60 days only if it is being used in a criminal or insurance investigation or has become subject to a preservation of evidence notification; provide that any recorded images or data captured by an ALPR may be made available to the National Insurance Crime Bureau or its successor organization;
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HB-20: AN ACT relating to privacy protection.
Sponsored by: Rep. John Hodgson
Introduced In House on 01/07/2025
Sponsored by: Sen. Jerry Stevenson
Senate/ Comm Rpt/ Substituted In Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, And Technology Committee on 01/24/2025
Sponsored by: Sen. Don Ipson
Senate/ Committee Report Favorable In Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, And Technology Committee on 01/24/2025
Local Comprehensive Planning and State Economic Growth, Resource Protection, and Planning Policy - Planning Principles [HB-286]
Altering the planning visions for local comprehensive planning to consist of certain planning principles; altering the State Economic Growth, Resource Protection, and Planning Policy to consist of certain planning principles; and requiring the publisher of the Annotated Code of Maryland, in consultation with the Department of Legislative Services, to correct cross-references and terminology in the Code that are rendered incorrect by the Act.
HB-286: Local Comprehensive Planning and State Economic Growth, Resource Protection, and Planning Policy - Planning Principles
Sponsored by: Rep.
Hearing 2/04 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/15/2025
Cannabis - Wholesaler License - Establishment [HB-204]
Establishing a cannabis wholesaler license; and altering the maximum fee certain applicants for cannabis licenses must pay for initial licensing or renewal of licenses.
County Income Tax - Rate and Income Brackets - Alterations [HB-151]
Altering, subject to certain limitations, the maximum tax rate that a county may impose on an individual's Maryland taxable income; limiting the number of brackets that a county that imposes the county income tax on a bracket basis may set; and requiring a county that imposes the county income tax on a bracket basis to use certain income bracket thresholds; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2026.
HB-151: County Income Tax - Rate and Income Brackets - Alterations
Sponsored by: Rep. Julie Palakovich Carr
Hearing 1/30 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/13/2025
Department of Transportation - Human Trafficking Awareness, Training, and Response (See Someone, Save Someone Act) [HB-1]
Requiring the Maryland Department of Transportation to develop or identify and implement a training program for transportation sector employees on the identification and reporting of suspected human trafficking victims; requiring transportation sector employers to certify by January 1, 2026, and each year thereafter that certain employees have completed the training program; requiring new employees to receive training within 90 days of hiring; removing civil and criminal liability for reporting of suspected trafficking; etc.
HB-1: Department of Transportation - Human Trafficking Awareness, Training, and Response (See Someone, Save Someone Act)
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Stein
Hearing Canceled on 01/20/2025
Vehicle Laws - Bicycles - Operation at Intersections [HB-7]
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 any vehicle in the intersection or any approaching vehicle on another highway that is near enough to the intersection to pose an immediate danger
HB-7: Vehicle Laws - Bicycles - Operation at Intersections
Sponsored by: Rep. Regina Boyce
Hearing 1/30 At 1:30 P.m. on 01/15/2025