MD
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB484
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Providing that all unhoused individuals have certain rights; authorizing the Attorney General or an individual harmed by a violation of the Act to bring a certain civil action against a political subdivision, a unit of State or local government, or a government official; establishing an affirmative defense of necessity to certain criminal charges relating to trespass or disturbing the peace; and repealing the authority of a municipality to prohibit vagrancy.
MD
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB485
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
3/26/25
Engrossed
3/27/25
Refer
3/28/25
Increasing civil penalties for violations recorded by speed monitoring systems on Maryland Route 210 (Piscataway Highway) in Prince George's County that involve exceeding the maximum speed limit by certain amounts.
MD
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB486
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
3/31/25
Engrossed
4/1/25
Refer
4/2/25
Refer
4/2/25
Requiring the State Department of Education and the Maryland Department of Health jointly to conduct an assessment of school health and wellness personnel each year; requiring the Departments, by December 1, 2027, and each December 1 thereafter, to jointly submit a report to the General Assembly on the findings of the assessment and publish the report on the website of each agency; and altering the membership of the Maryland Council on Advancement of School-Based Health Centers from 15 to 16 members to include one school nurse.
MD
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB487
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Requiring the Secretary of Information Technology to conduct a certain risk assessment of certain major information technology development projects under certain circumstances; authorizing the Secretary to recommend an increase in a certain limitation of liability amount under certain circumstances; requiring the Chief Procurement Officer to review a certain recommendation; authorizing the Chief Procurement Officer to approve a certain change to a certain limitation of liability; etc.
MD
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB488
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
3/14/25
Engrossed
3/17/25
Refer
3/17/25
Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county or municipal corporation to exempt all personal property, including manufacturing inventory, in the possession of a person engaged in a manufacturing business that employs 50 or fewer employees from the personal property tax; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 2025.
MD
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB489
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Prohibiting a person from possessing or claiming a right to possess residential real property the person does not lawfully possess or own, with the intent to defraud another; authorizing the owner of certain residential real property to file a certain sworn affidavit and requiring a sheriff to remove a certain person from residential real property under certain circumstances; and providing that the Act does not prohibit the owner of property from filing a wrongful detainer action.
MD
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB49
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
3/10/25
Engrossed
3/12/25
Refer
3/13/25
Report Pass
4/1/25
Enrolled
4/7/25
Chaptered
4/22/25
Passed
4/22/25
Requiring a person who makes an automatic renewal offer to consumers to allow a consumer to cancel the automatic renewal in a cost-effective, timely, and easy-to-use manner; requiring automatic renewal offers to be displayed in a certain manner and contain certain information; establishing that compliance with certain regulations or a certain license shall be considered to be compliance with the Act; establishing that a violation of the Act is an unfair, abusive, or deceptive trade practice; etc.
MD
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB490
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Eliminating citizenship requirements for boards and commissions; and requiring that members of boards, committees, commissions, task forces, and workgroups reflect the full diversity of the State to the extent practicable.
MD
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB491
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
3/14/25
Engrossed
3/17/25
Refer
3/17/25
Report Pass
4/2/25
Enrolled
4/7/25
Chaptered
5/6/25
Passed
5/6/25
Defining "honorable discharge" with respect to any State program of benefits, rights, or privileges applicable to a veteran to include certain discharges.
MD
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB492
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Establishing the Maryland Commission to Study the Dental Hygienist Shortage; providing that the purpose of the Commission is to support the State's efforts to improve the oral health of Marylanders by ensuring the stability and sustainability of the State's dental hygiene workforce; and requiring the Commission to submit an interim report by December 1, 2025, and a final report of its findings and recommendations by December 1, 2026, to the General Assembly, the Maryland Department of Health, and the Higher Education Commission.
MD
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB493
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Altering the fiscal years during which the Governor is required to include in the annual budget bill a certain appropriation to the Maryland Pediatric Cancer Fund; altering the funding source of the Maryland Pediatric Cancer Fund to include money from the Cigarette Restitution Fund; and altering uses of the Cigarette Restitution Fund to include the Maryland Pediatric Cancer Fund.
MD
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB494
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/24/25
Establishing requirements related to project labor agreements, community benefit agreements, and the use of registered apprentices under procurement contracts and public-private partnerships.
MD
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB495
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/24/25
Report Pass
3/14/25
Engrossed
3/17/25
Refer
3/17/25
Report Pass
3/28/25
Enrolled
3/31/25
Chaptered
5/20/25
Passed
5/20/25
Altering the allowable uses of the Opioid Restitution Fund to provide funds for the operating expenses and personnel costs for investigations, enforcement actions, and other activities conducted by the Opioids Enforcement Unit within the Office of the Attorney General that are related to the recovery of funds from opioid-related judgments or settlements; and requiring the Attorney General to report annually beginning October 1, 2025, on the status of activity of the Opioids Enforcement Unit.
MD
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB496
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/24/25
Requiring the Department of Commerce to create and maintain a complaint portal for reporting when a governmental unit takes longer than 60 days to process an application for a license, form, certificate, certification, permit, or registration for a business or nonprofit organization; and requiring the Department, by September 15, 2025, and each September 15 thereafter, to submit an annual report to certain committees of the General Assembly on the complaints filed through the portal.
MD
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Senate Bill SB497
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/24/25
Requiring the Department of Information Technology by December 1, 2025, and periodically thereafter, to update certain information available on the Maryland OneStop portal, the internet-based statewide licensing portal managed by the Department; requiring, beginning on July 1, 2026, each county and municipal corporation, in coordination with the Department, to make certain information available on the portal; and requiring each county and municipal corporation to periodically update certain information.