Maryland 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB488
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Requiring the State Department of Education to disaggregate certain discipline-related data in an electronic spreadsheet format for the Department's website, make the data available to the public, and report certain discipline-related information each year; and requiring the Department to maintain a certain risk ratio and State comparison threshold used to identify a school's disproportional disciplinary practices and report disproportionality data for high-suspending schools.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB489
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Report Pass
3/3/25
Engrossed
3/6/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
4/5/25
Enrolled
4/7/25
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.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB49
Introduced
1/8/24
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
3/12/25
Engrossed
3/17/25
Refer
3/17/25
Report Pass
4/5/25
Enrolled
4/7/25
Chaptered
5/25/25
Altering the requirements for certain regulations adopted by the Department of the Environment relating to building energy performance standards to include certain exclusions and considerations and a certain annual reporting fee to cover certain costs; requiring the Department to certify a certain building energy performance standards program adopted by a county under certain circumstances; requiring the Department to conduct an analysis of the potential costs and benefits of certain building energy performance standards policy options; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB490
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Report Pass
3/10/25
Engrossed
3/11/25
Refer
3/12/25
Report Pass
4/2/25
Enrolled
4/4/25
Chaptered
5/20/25
Passed
5/20/25
Increasing the minimum contract value to $50,000 to require a competitive bidding process in St. Mary's County for contracts for services or supplies.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB491
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Report Pass
3/10/25
Engrossed
3/11/25
Refer
3/12/25
Report Pass
4/3/25
Enrolled
4/5/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
Authorizing the St. Mary's County Metropolitan Commission to discontinue all or part of water or sewer service provided to an improved private property determined to be unsafe, unfit, or unsuitable for human occupancy due to an accident, artificial disaster, or natural disaster; requiring the suspension of the ready-to-serve charge on certain private properties; and authorizing the St. Mary's County Metropolitan Commission to utilize certain remedies for a violation related to certain public water and sewer use.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB492
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Report Pass
3/13/25
Engrossed
3/13/25
Refer
3/17/25
Report Pass
4/4/25
Enrolled
4/7/25
Chaptered
4/22/25
Passed
4/22/25
Authorizing the Director of Human Resources of Frederick County to request from the Criminal Justice Information System Central Repository of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services a State and national criminal history records check for a prospective or current county employee or county volunteer; requiring the Central Repository to forward certain information to certain persons; requiring that the information remain confidential and that it be used only for personnel-related purposes; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB493
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Report Pass
3/10/25
Engrossed
3/11/25
Refer
3/12/25
Designating November 14 as Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day to commemorate Ruby Bridges, who, on November 14, 1960, became the first African American student to integrate an all-while school in New Orleans, Louisiana; and requiring the State Department of Education to develop model content for a program of education for Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB494
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Report Pass
3/12/25
Engrossed
3/13/25
Refer
3/17/25
Report Pass
4/2/25
Enrolled
4/4/25
Chaptered
5/6/25
Passed
5/6/25
Establishing rules of interpretation related to the uniformed services; altering the rule of interpretation for "veteran"; altering the application of certain provisions of law governing public health and the regulation of health occupations to apply to all uniformed services, rather than only the armed forces; altering the circumstances under which licenses for fishing in tidal waters do not lapse; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB495
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Requiring certain schools that have an antidiscrimination policy to ensure that the policy includes certain information and is available to certain individuals in a certain manner; requiring a school to provide a certain training regarding antidiscrimination policies to students and employees in a certain manner; and requiring, if sufficient resources are not available to provide training, a school to coordinate with a community organization with certain expertise to provide the training to students and employees at no cost.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB496
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Reducing from 100 to 90 the number of training hours that certain health care practitioners are required to perform in a nursing program preceptor rotation in order to qualify for certain credits against the State income tax for certain health care practitioners serving as preceptors in areas with health care workforce shortages; and requiring the Department of Health by January 31 each year, to report to the Comptroller on the tax credit certificates issued and to the General Assembly on the utilization of the credit.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB497
Introduced
1/20/25
Refer
1/20/25
Report Pass
4/2/25
Engrossed
4/3/25
Refer
4/3/25
Refer
4/7/25
Report Pass
4/7/25
Enrolled
4/7/25
Chaptered
5/6/25
Passed
5/6/25
Prohibiting transportation companies that transport children to residential child care programs from using certain restraints unless there is a substantial likelihood of imminent serious physical harm to a child or others; prohibiting transportation companies that transport children to residential child care programs from picking up children between the hours of 9 p.m. and 6 a.m.; authorizing an individual and the Attorney General to bring a certain civil action against certain transportation companies; and applying the Act prospectively.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB498
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
1/22/25
Requiring the Department of Commerce to evaluate the potential employment and economic growth of the State's industry sectors and establish a certain list of industry sectors and activities to be considered for additional support; repealing the Maryland Economic Development Commission and Commerce Subcabinet; altering the designation, administration, and purposes of and eligibility for certain economic development programs; altering eligibility for and the calculation of certain economic development incentives; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB499
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
1/22/25
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.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB5
Introduced
1/8/24
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
3/13/25
Engrossed
3/14/25
Refer
3/17/25
Altering the term "child pornography" to be "child sexual abuse material" for purposes of certain criminal offenses; defining "computer-generated image" to include images created through the use of artificial intelligence software as the term pertains to provisions of law related to child sexual abuse material; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB50
Introduced
1/8/24
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/25
Adding to the conditions under which an individual who creates a trust may not be considered the settlor of that trust with regard to the individual's interest in the trust; and providing that a creditor may not attach, exercise, reach, or otherwise compel distribution of certain trust assets.