Maryland 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB230
Introduced
1/8/24
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
3/10/25
Engrossed
3/11/25
Refer
3/12/25
Report Pass
3/24/25
Enrolled
4/1/25
Chaptered
4/8/25
Passed
4/8/25
Altering the format and content of training on the requirements of the Maryland Public Ethics Law provided by the State Ethics Commission to certain State employees and regulated lobbyists to be either through online training or live presentation on the conflict of interest, financial disclosure, relevant administrative, and other applicable requirements of the law; and altering the scope of disclosure for the employment of an individual or a member of the individual's immediate family reported in a financial disclosure statement.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB231
Introduced
1/8/24
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/25
Prohibiting a certain increase of a State fee or the rate of a State tax from taking effect unless the General Assembly, by a yea and nay vote, explicitly approves the increased fee or tax rate; and requiring that the amendment to the Maryland Constitution be submitted to the qualified voters of the State at the next general election to be held in November 2026 for adoption or rejection.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB232
Introduced
1/8/24
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/25
Establishing the Maryland Beverage Container Recycling Refund and Litter Reduction Program to increase the reuse and recycling of beverage containers and reduce the litter, pollution, and costs associated with beverage containers; prohibiting a producer from selling, offering for sale, or distributing in or importing into the State a redeemable beverage container unless the producer is registered with the Department of the Environment, pays a certain fee, and is part of a certain stewardship organization; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB233
Introduced
1/8/24
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
2/19/25
Engrossed
2/25/25
Refer
2/26/25
Prohibiting employers from taking certain adverse actions against an employee or applicant for employment because the employee or applicant declines to attend or participate in employer-sponsored meetings during which the employer communicates the opinion of the employer regarding religious matters or political matters.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB234
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
Altering the penalties for causing the serious physical injury or death of a vulnerable individual as the result of an individual operating a motor vehicle in a negligent manner; including an individual who is lawfully operating or riding a golf cart or a unicycle on a highway, shoulder, crosswalk, or sidewalk as a vulnerable individual; and providing that an individual convicted of a certain violation is subject to not just a fine of $2,000 but also imprisonment of up to 2 months or both.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB235
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
Report Pass
4/3/25
Enrolled
4/5/25
Chaptered
4/22/25
Passed
4/22/25
Altering the duties of the Cyber Preparedness Unit in the Maryland Department of Emergency Management; altering the duties of the Office of Security Management in the Department of Information Technology; requiring the Office to submit a yearly report to the Governor and certain committees of the General Assembly on the State's cybersecurity expenditures and recommendations for changes to the budget; and altering the responsibilities of the Secretary of Information Technology with regard to information technology policies.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB236
Introduced
1/8/24
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
3/3/25
Engrossed
3/6/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
3/27/25
Enrolled
4/2/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
Expanding the relief that may be included in a final peace order; altering the acts that constitute criminal harassment to include certain visual surveillance of an area of another person's residence where the other has a reasonable expectation of privacy; and providing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction for a first offense is subject to imprisonment of up to 90 days or a fine of $500 or both, and for a second or subsequent offense, imprisonment of up to 180 days or a fine of $1,000 or both.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB237
Introduced
1/8/24
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
3/10/25
Engrossed
3/11/25
Refer
3/12/25
Establishing requirements for the filling of a vacancy in the office of Senator or Delegate in the General Assembly by a central committee of a political party under the Maryland Constitution relating to applications, public notice, public meetings, and voting; and requiring a member of the central committee who has applied to fill the vacancy to recuse themselves from voting on the individual to fill the vacancy.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB238
Introduced
1/8/24
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
3/13/25
Engrossed
3/17/25
Refer
3/17/25
Requiring a law enforcement agency to file any administrative charges arising out of an investigation of alleged police officer misconduct that is not required to be reviewed by an administrative charging committee within a certain period of time; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB239
Introduced
1/8/24
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
2/10/25
Engrossed
2/13/25
Refer
2/14/25
Report Pass
3/27/25
Enrolled
4/2/25
Chaptered
4/8/25
Passed
4/8/25
Authorizing the Secretary of State to suspend payment of certain late fees assessed to certain charitable organizations that fail to file an annual report under certain circumstances; and authorizing the Secretary of State to cancel a charitable organization's registration or reinstate a charitable organization's canceled registration under certain circumstances.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB24
Introduced
1/8/24
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/25
Altering the authorized uses of a certain account of the Bay Restoration Fund to include the cost of connecting certain property using an on-site sewage disposal system to an existing municipal wastewater facility under certain circumstances.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB240
Introduced
1/8/24
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/25
Requiring the Administrative Office of the Courts, beginning December 1, 2025, and each December 1 thereafter, to provide a report to the General Assembly containing certain information on the Maryland Judicial Public Text Messaging System; and requiring the report to include a review of any future plans for development, expansion, and implementation of the System.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB241
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
Report Pass
3/27/25
Enrolled
4/2/25
Chaptered
4/22/25
Passed
4/22/25
Clarifying that "spouse" includes a former spouse for purposes of disclosure of confidential communications occurring during marriage; and establishing that a spouse, who is the alleged victim, is competent to disclose a confidential communication between spouses occurring during their marriage in a criminal action in which one spouse is charged with a crime against the other spouse.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB242
Introduced
1/8/24
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/25
Prohibiting the inclusion of a consumer credit history, any written account by a credit reporting agency bearing on a consumer's creditworthiness, credit standing, or credit capacity, in a reusable tenant screening report; prohibiting certain discrimination in housing on the basis of consumer credit history; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB243
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
Report Pass
4/4/25
Enrolled
4/5/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
Limiting the requirement that a petitioner's spouse join in the petition for adoption to apply only when the prospective adoptee is a minor; authorizing a petitioner's spouse to join in the petition for adoption if the prospective adoptee is an adult; establishing that certain provisions of law requiring the issuance and service of a show-cause order on a prospective adoptee's parents do not apply if the prospective adoptee is an adult; etc.