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Maryland 2024 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB168

Introduced

1/10/24

Refer

1/10/24

Establishing the Task Force to Study Aggressive and Reckless Driving to study data, research, initiatives, and policies regarding aggressive and reckless driving; and requiring the Task Force to submit an interim report by December 1, 2024 and a final report by December 1, 2025, on its recommendations on actions, interventions, and policies that could reduce aggressive and reckless driving including legislation to be introduced in the 2026 legislative session.

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Maryland 2024 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB169

Introduced

1/10/24

Refer

1/10/24

Report Pass

2/8/24

Engrossed

2/13/24

Refer

2/14/24

Establishing the Green and Renewable Energy for Nonprofit Organizations Loan Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to provide financial assistance in the form of no-interest loans to nonprofit organizations for the planning, purchase, and installation of qualifying energy systems; establishing the Green and Renewable Energy for Nonprofit Organizations Loan Fund; authorizing, in fiscal year 2026, the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $5,000,000 for the Fund; etc.

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Maryland 2024 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB17

Introduced

1/10/24

Refer

1/10/24

Report Pass

3/15/24

Engrossed

3/18/24

Refer

3/19/24

Report Pass

4/4/24

Establishing that each domestic or farm animal harmed in a violation of a prohibition against animal cruelty is a separate offense and shall be deemed an individual victim for purposes of the sentencing guidelines stacking rule; and establishing that a conviction for a crime relating to animals may not merge with a conviction for any other crime based on the act establishing the violation and that a sentence imposed may be separate from and consecutive to or concurrent with a sentence based on the act establishing a violation.

MD

Maryland 2024 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB170

Introduced

1/10/24

Refer

1/10/24

Report Pass

1/29/24

Engrossed

2/1/24

Refer

2/2/24

Report Pass

3/29/24

Enrolled

4/4/24

Chaptered

4/25/24

Passed

4/25/24

Requiring county boards of education to post certain hearing notices and bid advertisements on the websites of certain local school systems; increasing the threshold amount of costs of school buildings, improvements, supplies, and equipment that require county boards to advertise for bids from $25,000 to $100,000; and updating the reference to the State's centralized procurement platform on which county boards may advertise for bids for school buildings, improvements, supplies, or equipment.

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Maryland 2024 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB171

Introduced

1/10/24

Refer

1/10/24

Report Pass

2/19/24

Engrossed

2/22/24

Refer

2/23/24

Report Pass

4/1/24

Enrolled

4/5/24

Chaptered

4/25/24

Passed

4/25/24

Adding gas and electric utility services to the types of services for which landlords of buildings that contain six or more units are required to provide a written notice to a tenant, at the initiation of a lease and each term thereafter, providing the total utility costs billed to the landlord in the immediately preceding year for utility services, disaggregated by utility type; and applying certain requirements relating to payment of utility services to landlords of buildings that contain five or fewer residential dwelling units.

MD

Maryland 2024 Regular Session

2/29/24

Refer

3/1/24

Report Pass

3/25/24

Enrolled

3/28/24

Chaptered

5/16/24

Passed

5/16/24

Requiring an applicant for a license to practice optometry and certain applicants for the renewal of a license to submit to a criminal history records check obtained from the Criminal Justice Information System Central Repository of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services; and providing that information obtained from the Central Repository is confidential, may not be redisseminated, and shall be used only for licensing purposes.

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Maryland 2024 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB176

Introduced

1/10/24

Refer

1/10/24

Establishing November 11 as a tax-free day each year during which an exemption from the sales and use tax is provided for sales to certain veterans; requiring an individual, in order to qualify for the exemption, to provide the vendor evidence of eligibility for the exemption; and providing that evidence of eligibility may consist of a valid driver's license or government-issued identification card that includes a notation indicating that the individual is a veteran.

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Maryland 2024 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB177

Introduced

1/10/24

Refer

1/10/24

Report Pass

4/3/24

Altering the prohibition against certain sex acts between a law enforcement officer and certain individuals; altering the penalty relating to sexual contact between a law enforcement officer and a person in the custody of the officer by making a violation of the prohibition a felony and imposing a period of imprisonment of up to 10 years or a fine of up to $3000 or both; and requiring a person convicted of a certain offense to register on a certain sex offender registry.

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Maryland 2024 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB178

Introduced

1/10/24

Refer

1/10/24

Report Pass

3/4/24

Engrossed

3/7/24

Refer

3/8/24

Report Pass

3/27/24

Enrolled

4/1/24

Chaptered

5/9/24

Passed

5/9/24

Requiring the State Highway Administration's pollinator habitat plan to include policies and procedures regarding the use of pollinator habitat areas along State highways; requiring the Administration to track and evaluate federal programs that provide funding for pollinator habitats, native plants, and invasive species control and to apply for any funding that the Administration determines appropriate and beneficial to pollinator habitats; requiring the Administration to update the plan by October 1 each year; etc.

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Maryland 2024 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB179

Introduced

1/10/24

Refer

1/10/24

Establishing that a violation of a condition of probation, parole, or mandatory supervision that involves the use or possession of a firearm is not a technical violation for certain purposes; requiring the Commissioner of Correction to provide a certain inmate with a certain reentry kit and assistance in obtaining Medicaid benefits under certain circumstances; altering the elements of certain prohibitions against using a certain firearm in the commission of a certain crime; etc.

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Maryland 2024 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB18

Introduced

1/10/24

Refer

1/10/24

Report Pass

3/7/24

Engrossed

3/14/24

Refer

3/15/24

Report Pass

3/25/24

Enrolled

3/28/24

Chaptered

4/25/24

Passed

4/25/24

Authorizing a pharmacist to order and administer certain vaccinations to individuals in certain age groups if certain requirements are met; altering the vaccinations that a pharmacist can administer to individuals who are at least 3 years old; and altering the circumstances under which a pharmacist may administer certain vaccinations.

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Maryland 2024 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB180

Introduced

1/10/24

Refer

1/10/24

Report Pass

2/19/24

Engrossed

2/27/24

Refer

2/28/24

Report Pass

4/1/24

Enrolled

4/5/24

Chaptered

4/25/24

Passed

4/25/24

Requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with certain groups, to develop training for certain school personnel to identify symptoms of anaphylaxis, asthma, and respiratory distress in students; requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in consultation with county boards, and authorizing nonpublic schools to establish a policy to obtain, administer, and train school personnel to administer in emergency situations bronchodilators to a student who is determined to be, or is perceived to be, experiencing certain symptoms; etc.

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