Maryland 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB321
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/15/25
Establishing or altering certain administrative penalties; altering or repealing certain required appropriations; authorizing the use of certain funds for certain purposes; establishing certain funds; authorizing, requiring, or altering the distribution of certain revenue; altering the rates and rate brackets under the State income tax on certain income of individuals; requiring certain groups of corporations to file a combined income tax return reflecting the aggregate income tax liability of all members of the group; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB322
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/15/25
Report Pass
4/4/25
Engrossed
4/4/25
Refer
4/5/25
Prohibiting a person from obscuring or modifying any vehicle registration plate in a manner that may prevent identification and enforcing the prohibition as a secondary offense; prohibiting a person from advertising for or promoting the sale of certain registration plate covers by falsely claiming that the registration plate cover is lawful in the State; and establishing that a violation of the Act is an unfair, abusive, or deceptive trade practice subject to certain enforcement and penalties.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB323
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/15/25
Requiring that a statewide voter registration application include a return envelope or envelope template with prepaid postage that an applicant may use to return the application to the State Board of Elections; requiring a statewide voter registration application to be accompanied by certain instructions for postage; and requiring the return envelopes or envelope templates to be preprinted with the address of the State Board for purposes of the returning the statewide voter registration application.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB324
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/15/25
Report Pass
4/2/25
Authorizing a county or a municipal corporation to impose the admissions and amusement tax on certain gross receipts derived from the sale of food or beverages for consumption on the premises; prohibiting the imposition of the admissions and amusement tax on certain sales of food or beverages; establishing a maximum tax rate of 3% that a county or a municipal corporation may set on the sale of food or beverages; and providing that a certain combined maximum tax rate does not include a tax rate on the sale of food or beverages.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB325
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/15/25
Altering the definition of "eligible apprentice" for purposes of a certain credit against the State income tax for the employment of certain eligible apprentices by repealing a certain wage requirement; extending the termination of the credit until June 30, 2031; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2024.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB326
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/15/25
Report Pass
2/17/25
Engrossed
2/20/25
Refer
2/21/25
Report Pass
3/31/25
Enrolled
4/2/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
Establishing certain confidentiality requirements for peer support counseling programs for law enforcement agencies; prohibiting a peer support specialist from disclosing the contents of any written or oral communication regarding a peer support interaction; and providing certain exceptions.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB327
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/15/25
Report Pass
3/10/25
Engrossed
3/12/25
Refer
3/13/25
Report Pass
4/3/25
Enrolled
4/7/25
Chaptered
4/22/25
Passed
4/22/25
Authorizing an owner of real property used for rental housing and the governing body of a county to enter into a payment in lieu of taxes agreement for maintaining at least 25% of the rental housing units located at the real property as affordable dwelling units for at least 15 years; and authorizing the governing body of the county to require the owner of real property to maintain a higher percentage of rental housing units as affordable dwelling units than the minimum percentage specified in the Act.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB328
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/15/25
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations, beginning on July 1, 2026, to provide coverage and certain reimbursement for annual behavioral health wellness visits; and applying the Act to all policies, contracts, and health benefit plans issued, delivered, or renewed in the State on or after January 1, 2026.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB329
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/15/25
Altering the benefit multiplier from 2.0% to 2.5% for service earned on or after July 1, 2025, by members of the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System; altering the maximum benefit that certain retirees of the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System may receive, from 65% to 70% of the member's average final compensation; clarifying the eligibility requirement of certain Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System members in the Deferred Retirement Option Program; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB33
Introduced
1/8/24
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/25
Requiring the Office of the Comptroller and the Department of Legislative Services to study and make recommendations regarding the State's business tax structure and the imposition of combined reporting; and requiring the Office of the Comptroller and the Department of Legislative Services to report their findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 15, 2026.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB330
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/15/25
Report Pass
2/17/25
Engrossed
2/20/25
Refer
2/21/25
Altering, for purposes of a certain property tax credit for a certain dwelling, the definition of "fallen law enforcement officer or rescue worker" to include disabled law enforcement officers or rescue workers who have died regardless of the cause of death; authorizing, under certain circumstances, the amount of the credit for a dwelling owned by a disabled or fallen law enforcement officer or rescue worker or the surviving spouse or cohabitant to be in the same proportion as the property tax credit initially granted for the dwelling; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB331
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/15/25
Repealing the requirement that certain members of the State Police Retirement System retire at age 60; clarifying the eligibility requirement of State Police Retirement System members in the Deferred Retirement Option Program (DROP); and repealing the requirement that certain members of the State Police Retirement System may participate in the DROP up to age 60.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB332
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/15/25
Establishing the Task Force to Study the Premature Retirement of Electricity Generation Facilities; requiring the Task Force to make recommendations to address challenges and enhance decision making regarding the premature retirement of electricity generation facilities, and that include energy reliability solutions that address the imminent reliability gap and balance the need between economic considerations and cleaner energy goals; and requiring the Task Force to report on or before January 1, 2026.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB333
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/15/25
Report Pass
3/26/25
Engrossed
3/27/25
Refer
3/28/25
Refer
4/4/25
Report Pass
4/7/25
Enrolled
4/7/25
Chaptered
4/22/25
Passed
4/22/25
Expanding the evidentiary rule on the admissibility of out of court statements made by child victims or witnesses to make admissible an out of court statement made by a child to a forensic interviewer.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB334
Introduced
1/15/25
Refer
1/15/25
Report Pass
2/10/25
Engrossed
2/18/25
Refer
2/19/25
Report Pass
3/31/25
Enrolled
4/2/25
Chaptered
4/22/25
Passed
4/22/25
Prohibiting a person from committing a certain crime of malicious or fraudulent burning that causes the death of or serious physical injury to a firefighter; and establishing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a felony and on conviction is subject to imprisonment not to exceed 10 years.