MD
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB43
Introduced
1/8/24
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
3/14/25
Engrossed
3/17/25
Refer
3/17/25
Report Pass
3/28/25
Enrolled
4/1/25
Chaptered
4/22/25
Passed
4/22/25
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish a forensic review board at facilities that have charge of persons who have been committed to the facility as not criminally responsible; authorizing a forensic board to make recommendations relating to the release or rehabilitation of a committed person; requiring the Board to give notice at least 10 days before a meeting concerning the committed person; requiring the Board to give consideration to a written statement offered by the committed person to the Board; etc.
MD
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB430
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development and the Department of Planning to calculate certain regional housing infrastructure gaps; providing for the apportionment of regional housing infrastructure gaps to counties and incorporated municipalities; authorizing local jurisdictions to reduce local housing infrastructure gaps in a certain manner; establishing that certain local jurisdictions have an affirmative obligation to expeditiously approve housing development project applications; etc.
MD
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB431
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
3/14/25
Engrossed
3/17/25
Refer
3/17/25
Report Pass
3/31/25
Enrolled
4/2/25
Chaptered
4/8/25
Passed
4/8/25
Altering the duties of the Maryland Apprenticeship and Training Council; repealing the Youth Apprenticeship Advisory Committee; establishing the Maryland Office of Registered Apprenticeship Development to scale registered apprenticeships across industries and occupations to meet the needs of the State's economy; establishing the Maryland Pay Per Apprentice Program within the Maryland Department of Labor; establishing the Maryland Pay Per Apprentice Program Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; etc.
MD
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB432
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
3/13/25
Engrossed
3/14/25
Refer
3/15/25
Report Pass
4/1/25
Enrolled
4/3/25
Chaptered
4/22/25
Passed
4/22/25
Altering certain provisions of law relating to waiting periods for the filing of certain petitions for expungement to authorize the filing of a petition a certain amount of time after the completion of the sentence; adding to the list of misdemeanor convictions that a person may expunge under certain circumstances; prohibiting the Maryland Judiciary Case Search from in any way referring to the existence of a charge of possession of cannabis if the conviction was later pardoned by the Governor; etc.
MD
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB433
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Report Pass
4/3/25
Engrossed
4/3/25
Refer
4/4/25
Establishing the Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy within the Department of Disabilities; establishing the Maryland as a Model Employer Initiative within the Office of Disability Employment Advancement and Policy to facilitate efforts that improve outcomes in the hiring, recruitment, retention, and advancement of people with disabilities in the State government workforce; and requiring the Office to report annually on the progress and outcomes of the Initiative.
MD
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB434
Introduced
1/21/25
Refer
1/21/25
Renaming the "renewable energy portfolio standard" to be the "clean energy portfolio standard"; altering the minimum required percentage of energy that must be derived from clean energy sources in certain years under the clean energy portfolio standard; altering the contents of and approval criteria for an application for an offshore wind project; establishing a process for the Public Service Commission to review and approve an application for a proposed nuclear energy generation project; etc.
MD
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB435
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
1/22/25
Requiring the governing board of each institution of higher education in the State and local school systems to designate a Title VI Coordinator to ensure compliance with Title VI of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964; and authorizing a person alleging discrimination under certain provisions of law to file a complaint with a Title VI Coordinator of a local school system, as applicable.
MD
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB436
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
1/22/25
Report Pass
3/11/25
Engrossed
3/12/25
Refer
3/13/25
Report Pass
3/31/25
Enrolled
4/1/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to study building code requirements for single-staircase buildings in the State and other states and analyze best practices when drafting building code requirements; requiring the Department to make legislative and regulatory recommendations for the purpose of increasing the affordable housing supply by reducing barriers to multifamily housing development; and requiring the Department to report to the Governor and certain committees of the General Assembly by December 1, 2026.
MD
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB437
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
1/22/25
Altering the reimbursement rate at which health maintenance organizations are required to pay certain nonparticipating health care providers for services.
MD
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB438
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
1/22/25
Altering the reimbursement levels for drug products that the Maryland Medical Assistance Program is required to establish and that pharmacy benefits managers that contract with a pharmacy on behalf of a managed care organization are required to reimburse the pharmacy; and altering the definition of "purchaser" for purposes of certain provisions of law regulating pharmacy benefits managers to include certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations.
MD
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB439
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
1/22/25
Report Pass
3/13/25
Engrossed
3/14/25
Refer
3/15/25
Altering the definition of "high impact economic development activity" to exclude cost savings related to the reduction in the number of University System of Maryland or Morgan State University employees; requiring the Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland and the Board of Regents of Morgan State University to report certain information relating to high impact economic development activities; making a high impact economic development activity subject to State procurement law; etc.
MD
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB44
Introduced
1/8/24
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
2/17/25
Engrossed
2/20/25
Refer
2/21/25
Providing that a person charged with reckless or negligent driving must appear in court and may not prepay the fine if the reckless or negligent driving contributed to an accident that resulted in the death of another person, unless a court for good cause shown waives the requirement to appear.
MD
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB440
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
1/22/25
Requiring the Anne Arundel County Council to establish an Office of the Inspector General in the county; requiring the County Council to establish certain ordinances and include a projected budget for the Office of the Inspector General in the county's annual operating budget proposal; and establishing an Office of the Inspector General Advisory Board to select and appoint and, under certain circumstances, remove the Inspector General.
MD
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB441
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
1/22/25
Requiring a developer, builder, broker, or real estate agent to enter the final sale price of a new home into a multiple listing service or similarly accessible database.
MD
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB442
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
1/22/25
Report Pass
4/4/25
Engrossed
4/4/25
Refer
4/5/25
Requiring a landlord to provide certain notice to a tenant when a court has issued a warrant of restitution for a failure of a tenant to pay rent, a breach of lease, or a tenant holding over under certain circumstances; establishing certain procedures and requirements for the execution of a warrant for repossession; establishing that the Act does not restrict the authority of the State or a local jurisdiction to enact or enforce certain legislation; and applying the Act prospectively.