Maryland 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB1458
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Establishing that every person, as a central component of an individual's right to liberty and equality, has the fundamental right to be paid at a wage rate that is at least equal to the State minimum wage rate set by law without regard to tips that the individual receives; and prohibiting the State from, directly or indirectly, denying, burdening, or abridging the right unless justified by a compelling State interest achieved by the least restrictive means.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB1459
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
3/15/25
Engrossed
3/17/25
Refer
3/17/25
Report Pass
4/5/25
Enrolled
4/7/25
Chaptered
5/6/25
Passed
5/6/25
Altering the composition of the Western Maryland Economic Future Investment Board; providing that the Executive Director serves as a nonvoting member of the Board, but may vote to break a tie; providing criteria for the awarding of grant and loan funding to include the creation or retention of at least 25 jobs, creation or retention of at least 10 jobs each with wages that exceed 120% of the State minimum wage, or creates significant population growth in the area in which the project is located; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB146
Introduced
1/8/24
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
2/24/25
Engrossed
2/27/25
Refer
2/28/25
Report Pass
3/27/25
Enrolled
4/2/25
Chaptered
4/22/25
Passed
4/22/25
Authorizing the trustee of a trust to resign under the Maryland Trust Act on 30 days' notice to qualified beneficiaries, the settlor, if living, all cotrustees, and any person that has a right to replace or appoint a successor to the resigning trustee.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB1460
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Prohibiting a procurement officer from requiring a certain certification from a bidder or offeror or including a certain clause in a State procurement contract or contract renewal relating to boycotts of foreign countries.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB1461
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Requiring institutions of higher education to adopt and enforce policies regarding antihate and antidiscrimination and time, place, and manner requirements for expressive conduct; requiring institutions of higher education to conduct certain meetings with certain approved student organizations; establishing the Campus Community Grant Program; and establishing the Workgroup on Combating Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Other Forms of Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Violence, Harassment, and Intimidation.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB1462
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Requiring institutions of higher education to adopt and enforce policies regarding antihate and antidiscrimination and time, place, and manner requirements for expressive conduct; requiring institutions of higher education to conduct certain meetings with certain approved student organizations; establishing the Campus Community Grant Program; and establishing the Workgroup on Combating Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Other Forms of Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Violence, Harassment, and Intimidation.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB1463
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Requiring the Governor to include, for each of fiscal years 2030 through 2039, an appropriation of $550,000,000 in the State budget from the Transportation Trust Fund to the Maryland Transit Administration for certain operating and capital needs of the Administration.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB1464
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
3/14/25
Engrossed
3/17/25
Refer
3/17/25
Report Pass
4/3/25
Enrolled
4/4/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
Establishing an alternative registration process for rental fleet vehicles; requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to issue distinctive registration plates for rental vehicles registered under the alternative process; and requiring, in addition to an annual registration fee, the owner of a registered rental vehicle to pay a one-time initial registration fee not to exceed $8.50 when the new registration plates are issued.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB1465
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
3/15/25
Engrossed
3/17/25
Refer
3/17/25
Report Pass
3/26/25
Enrolled
4/1/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
Requiring the Maryland Transportation Authority to establish programs to offer installment payment plans for the payment of certain tolls, in excess of $300.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB1466
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
3/15/25
Engrossed
3/17/25
Refer
3/17/25
Report Pass
3/27/25
Enrolled
4/2/25
Chaptered
4/22/25
Passed
4/22/25
Establishing the policy of the State to promote and encourage the creation of accessory dwelling units on land with a single-family detached dwelling unit as the primary dwelling unit in order to meet the housing needs of the citizens of the State; requiring, on or before October 1, 2026, the legislative body of certain counties or municipal corporations to adopt a local law authorizing the development of accessory dwelling units on land with certain single-family detached dwelling units subject to certain requirements; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB1467
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
3/15/25
Engrossed
3/17/25
Refer
3/17/25
Report Pass
4/7/25
Enrolled
4/7/25
Chaptered
4/22/25
Passed
4/22/25
Requiring interest earnings on money deposited for a certain taxing and assessment district to be credited to that district; specifying that a certain provision of law governing the petition process for the construction of an erosion prevention project or erosion control project in a certain district in Anne Arundel County does not apply to certain planning, permitting, or cost estimate activities; authorizing certain entities to use tax funds for upkeep or reconstruction of an existing shore erosion control project; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB1468
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
4/3/25
Engrossed
4/3/25
Refer
4/4/25
Refer
4/7/25
Transferring the Cyber Maryland Program from the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to the Maryland Department of Labor; altering the duties of the Program; requiring the Program to issue competitive grants and contracts to enhance cybersecurity workforce development, including cybersecurity for operational technology beginning in fiscal year 2026; requiring the Program in conjunction with other agencies to report on certain Program activities to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 1, 2026; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB1469
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Imposing a tax on certain distributors of certain sugary beverages, syrups, and powders for the privilege of selling those products to certain retailers or offering those products for sale to consumers in the State.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB147
Introduced
1/8/24
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
3/12/25
Engrossed
3/13/25
Refer
3/17/25
Report Pass
4/5/25
Requiring certain county boards of education to develop and adopt a policy on the use of a personal electronic device during school hours; requiring that the policy limit the use of a smartphone and a device connected to a smartphone during instructional time except for any purpose documented in the student's education program or Section 504 plan, to monitor or address a student's health issue, or for certain educational purposes; requiring the policy to be published on the county board's website and in student handbooks; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB1470
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
3/31/25
Engrossed
4/1/25
Refer
4/1/25
Refer
4/3/25
Report Pass
4/5/25
Enrolled
4/7/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
Providing that, in Prince George's County, to enforce a certain violation involving the clearing or cutting of trees in the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Critical Area, the Prince George's County Department of Permitting, Inspections, and Enforcement must record a lien on property that is the subject of the violation in a certain manner; establishing certain limits, prohibitions, requirements, and authorizations on actions certain local jurisdictions may take if a lien is not recorded as required by the Act; etc.