Maryland 2024 Regular Session All Bills
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB546
Introduced
1/25/24
Refer
1/25/24
Prohibiting the Department of the Environment from exempting a person from the requirement to use certain shoreline stabilization measures for certain erosion protection projects solely on the basis of replacing a structural shoreline stabilization measure with the same or similar type of structural shoreline stabilization measure; and authorizing the Tidal Wetlands Compensation Fund to include grant funding for the replacement of structural shoreline stabilization measures with nonstructural shoreline stabilization measures.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB547
Introduced
1/25/24
Refer
1/25/24
Report Pass
2/26/24
Engrossed
3/1/24
Refer
3/4/24
Report Pass
4/1/24
Enrolled
4/5/24
Chaptered
5/9/24
Passed
5/9/24
Prohibiting a person from allowing for the participation of a bear, a cougar, an elephant, a jaguar, a leopard, a lion, a nonhuman primate, a tiger, or a hybrid of any of these animals in a traveling animal act; and providing a civil penalty of $2,000 per violation.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB548
Introduced
1/25/24
Refer
1/25/24
Altering the required contents of a certain plan that a gas company may file with the Public Service Commission for proposed eligible infrastructure replacement projects to include certain descriptions, demonstrations, analyses, and notifications; and altering the required findings of the Commission in considering whether to approve a certain infrastructure replacement plan.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB549
Introduced
1/25/24
Refer
1/25/24
Report Pass
3/11/24
Engrossed
3/14/24
Refer
3/15/24
Report Pass
3/29/24
Enrolled
4/3/24
Chaptered
5/16/24
Passed
5/16/24
Providing that certain provisions of law regarding the use of a certain forensic genetic genealogical DNA analysis and search (FGGS) do not apply when the FGGS is conducted solely for the purpose of identifying an individual who is deceased or the subject of a certain missing person report and whose whereabouts are unknown.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB55
Introduced
1/10/24
Refer
1/10/24
Report Pass
2/14/24
Engrossed
2/20/24
Refer
2/21/24
Report Pass
3/27/24
Enrolled
4/1/24
Chaptered
5/9/24
Passed
5/9/24
Authorizing the Motor Vehicle Administration to issue certain special disabled veteran registration plates to disabled veterans who are between 50% and 99%, inclusive, service-connected disabled as designated or classified by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; prohibiting the Administration from charging certain persons the fee required for replacement registration plates under certain circumstances; etc.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB550
Introduced
1/25/24
Refer
1/25/24
Report Pass
3/13/24
Engrossed
3/15/24
Refer
3/16/24
Report Pass
3/29/24
Enrolled
4/5/24
Chaptered
4/25/24
Passed
4/25/24
Altering the definition of "abuse" to include labor trafficking of a child by any individual for purposes of provisions of law governing children in need of assistance cases and child abuse and neglect reporting; and expanding provisions of law relating to the Safe Harbor Regional Navigator Grant Program to apply to child victims of labor trafficking.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB551
Introduced
1/25/24
Refer
1/25/24
Report Pass
3/15/24
Engrossed
3/18/24
Refer
3/19/24
Report Pass
4/3/24
Enrolled
4/6/24
Chaptered
5/16/24
Passed
5/16/24
Providing that certain provisions of the Maryland Rules relating to discovery in civil matters apply in a certain administrative proceeding; requiring a court that receives a certain report to promptly notify counsel of record for the committed person; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to notify the court and certain persons if the Department receives a certain report; requiring a court to hold a hearing on request by any party after a certain application is made; etc.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB552
Introduced
1/25/24
Refer
1/25/24
Requiring the Governor, beginning in fiscal year 2026, to include in the annual budget bill General Fund appropriations of certain amounts for the Broadening Options and Opportunities for Students Today Program.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB553
Introduced
1/25/24
Refer
1/25/24
Report Pass
2/26/24
Engrossed
2/29/24
Refer
3/1/24
Report Pass
4/5/24
Altering the composition of the Maryland Zero Emission Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Council to include a light-duty plug-in electric drive vehicle manufacturer, a heavy-duty plug-in electric drive vehicle manufacturer, the automotive dismantling and recycling industry, and the Secretary of General Services; and altering the dates by which certain reports shall be submitted by the Council to the Governor and the General Assembly.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB554
Introduced
1/25/24
Refer
1/25/24
Requiring the court, after a verdict of not criminally responsible for murder in the first degree to commit a defendant to a designated health care facility for life; and requiring a court, after a verdict of not criminally responsible for murder in the second degree to commit the defendant to a designated health care facility for a term of up to 40 years.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB555
Introduced
1/25/24
Refer
1/25/24
Prohibiting a person from conducting visual surveillance with prurient intent of an individual located in a residence or place of private use or accommodation without the consent of the individual; altering the penalties for the crime of visual surveillance with prurient intent by use of a camera if the victim was a minor at the time of the offense and the offender is at least 4 years older than the victim; and providing penalties for a violation of the Act of imprisonment of up to 5 years or a fine of $2,500 or both.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB556
Introduced
1/25/24
Refer
1/25/24
Report Pass
3/8/24
Engrossed
3/14/24
Refer
3/15/24
Report Pass
4/4/24
Enrolled
4/6/24
Chaptered
5/9/24
Passed
5/9/24
Altering the circumstances under which the Secretaries of Budget and Management and General Services may request the Board of Public Works to authorize a certain expenditure from the Construction Contingency Fund to include consideration of price adjustments for material price fluctuations of identified eligible project-specific materials.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB557
Introduced
1/25/24
Refer
1/25/24
Report Pass
3/12/24
Engrossed
3/14/24
Refer
3/15/24
Prohibiting an individual assisting a voter in marking or preparing a ballot at a polling place from assisting more than three unrelated voters during an election, unless the individual is an election judge, or from receiving compensation for assisting a voter in marking or preparing the ballot.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB558
Introduced
1/25/24
Refer
1/25/24
Report Pass
2/14/24
Engrossed
2/20/24
Refer
2/21/24
Report Pass
3/25/24
Enrolled
3/28/24
Chaptered
5/9/24
Passed
5/9/24
Increasing the minimum dollar amount of contracts for which the County Commissioners, or any employee of Garrett County, are required to advertise for bids from $25,000 to $50,000; exempting certain contracts for professional services from a requirement to advertise for bids; and authorizing contracts for professional services required to be licensed by the State to be solicited by written bids.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB559
Introduced
1/25/24
Refer
1/25/24
Report Pass
3/4/24
Engrossed
3/7/24
Refer
3/8/24
Report Pass
4/2/24
Enrolled
4/4/24
Chaptered
5/9/24
Passed
5/9/24
Establishing the Household Goods Movers Registration Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund in the Maryland Department of Labor; requiring the Secretary of Labor to annually calculate certain costs; authorizing the Department to set by regulation certain fees based on certain calculations; prohibiting certain fees from increasing by more than a certain amount each year; etc.