Maryland 2024 Regular Session All Bills
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB1048
Introduced
2/2/24
Refer
2/2/24
Requiring the Department of the Environment to transfer certain interest in land to a riparian landowner in fee simple if the landowner obtains a tidal wetland permit for the purpose of creating a living shoreline or other shoreline stabilization measure.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB1049
Introduced
2/2/24
Refer
2/2/24
Prohibiting, in making a decision on an application for a license or permit to construct a pier, the Department of the Environment from considering any vessel owned by the applicant as a condition for issuing the license or permit.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB105
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Requiring an owner of land that encompasses any part of a former plantation to identify and allow visitation to certain burial sites of enslaved persons, under certain circumstances; prohibiting construction of any structure on certain burial sites; establishing the Office of Burial Sites of the Maryland Enslaved; and requiring, beginning in fiscal year 2026, the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $2,500,000 for the Office.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB1050
Introduced
2/2/24
Refer
2/2/24
Exempting cooperative housing corporations, condominiums, and homeowners associations from conducting reserve studies on the vote of at least two-thirds of the members or owners.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB1051
Introduced
2/2/24
Refer
2/2/24
Authorizing the Dorchester County Council to, by public local law, abolish the Dorchester County Sanitary Commission, establish a department of public facilities and services, and provide for the department's abilities and functions, subject to certain requirements; and transferring certain responsibilities from the Dorchester County Sanitary Commission to the Dorchester County Council.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB1052
Introduced
2/2/24
Refer
2/2/24
Requiring each local board of elections to maintain certain records, including all election data, absentee ballot requests, and voter registration lists, for at least 10 years and organized by election year; requiring an election director or representative of a local board to make certain records available for public inspection immediately and to post certain records on the local board's website on request; and authorizing a person to enforce a certain request by filing a petition for a writ of mandamus.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB1053
Introduced
2/2/24
Refer
2/2/24
Prohibiting a person from catching or attempting to catch striped bass or striped bass hybrids in the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries from March 1 through May 15, inclusive, in any year for which the Department does not establish a spring trophy season for striped bass; and establishing an exception for the closed striped bass season to the authority of the Department of Natural Resources to manage the striped bass fishery under a fisheries management plan.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB1054
Introduced
2/2/24
Refer
2/2/24
Requiring a county or municipality to implement a certain web-based platform for features supporting the tracking and approval of residential building permits for certain residential solar energy projects, residential energy storage projects, and main electric panel alterations by August 1, 2025, except under certain circumstances; requiring a county or municipality to adopt certain procedures for required inspections for a certain building permit under certain circumstances; etc.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB1055
Introduced
2/2/24
Refer
2/2/24
Report Pass
3/15/24
Engrossed
3/18/24
Refer
3/19/24
Prohibiting, unless authorized by the Department of Agriculture, a person from keeping more than 5 roosters per acre on a single property or more than a total of 25 roosters on a single property beginning January 1, 2026, subject to certain exceptions; and authorizing the Department to work in cooperation with a local animal control or law enforcement officer to enforce the Act.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB1056
Introduced
2/2/24
Refer
2/2/24
Report Pass
3/15/24
Engrossed
3/18/24
Refer
3/19/24
Report Pass
4/8/24
Enrolled
4/8/24
Chaptered
5/9/24
Passed
5/9/24
Prohibiting licensees that sell cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices at retail from displaying cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices for sale unless located behind a counter; requiring certain licensed retailers to verify an individual's date of birth before selling cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices in a certain manner; altering the application fee for a county license to sell cigarettes or tobacco products at retail; etc.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB1057
Introduced
2/2/24
Refer
2/2/24
Altering the financial eligibility criteria for the home- and community-based services waiver submitted by the Maryland Department of Health to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to include categorically needy individuals with an income disregard up to 300% of the Supplemental Security Income monthly benefit amount and a certain community spouse resource allowance; requiring the Department to adopt regulations to establish a timeline within which the Department is required to approve or deny the application of an applicant; etc.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB1058
Introduced
2/2/24
Refer
2/2/24
Report Pass
3/11/24
Engrossed
3/14/24
Refer
3/14/24
Requiring county boards of education to establish curriculum guides and courses of study that are aligned with certain content standards developed by the State Department of Education, and requiring the State Board of Education to withhold certain funds from county boards that fail to do so; establishing certain requirements for the Department's process for developing, reviewing, and adopting certain content standards, curriculum standards, and curriculum resources; etc.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB1059
Introduced
2/2/24
Refer
2/2/24
Report Pass
3/15/24
Engrossed
3/18/24
Refer
3/19/24
Report Pass
3/28/24
Enrolled
4/3/24
Chaptered
5/16/24
Passed
5/16/24
Establishing requirements on certain health departments and health care providers and facilities regarding maternal health, including requirements regarding prenatal risk assessment forms and postpartum infant and maternal referral forms; requiring the Secretary of Health, in collaboration with the Maryland Health Care Commission, to develop a Maryland Report Card for Birthing Facility Maternity Care; requiring hospitals and freestanding birthing centers to participate in the Severe Maternal Morbidity Surveillance Program; etc.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB106
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Report Pass
2/19/24
Engrossed
2/22/24
Refer
2/23/24
Report Pass
3/25/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Chaptered
5/16/24
Passed
5/16/24
Altering the membership of the State Board of Social Work Examiners; and repealing obsolete references to certified social worker licenses.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB1060
Introduced
2/2/24
Refer
2/2/24
Establishing requirements and prohibitions related to the operation of railroads in the State, including provisions related to the size of the crew, the blocking of highway grade crossings, wayside detectors, and investigations by railroad labor union representatives; and requiring the Commission of Labor and Industry to establish and maintain a database regarding the transportation of hazardous materials and waste by rail in the State.