Maryland 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB500
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
1/22/25
Report Pass
3/15/25
Engrossed
3/17/25
Refer
3/17/25
Report Pass
4/3/25
Enrolled
4/7/25
Chaptered
5/20/25
Passed
5/20/25
Authorizing the Secretary of General Services to delegate certain powers and duties to the Chief Procurement Officer; altering the authority of the Department of General Services to engage in or control procurement of certain equipment and services; requiring the Department of Information Technology to establish a technical procurement team; altering the authority of the Department of Transportation and the Maryland Transportation Authority to engage in procurement for certain supplies and services; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB501
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
1/22/25
Authorizing the State Board of Plumbing to waive the license examination requirement for a journey plumber license; authorizing the Secretary of Labor to waive the examination for certain licenses; 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 market and advance the registered apprenticeship system throughout the State; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB502
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
1/22/25
Report Pass
3/12/25
Engrossed
3/13/25
Refer
3/14/25
Report Pass
4/3/25
Enrolled
4/7/25
Chaptered
4/8/25
Passed
4/8/25
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; authorizing the Governor for fiscal year 2027, to include $250,000 in the annual budget bill for the Office; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB503
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
1/22/25
Report Pass
3/31/25
Engrossed
4/1/25
Refer
4/1/25
Refer
4/3/25
Requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development to periodically establish housing production targets for the State and certain local jurisdictions; requiring the Department to publish housing production targets on its website and notify certain local jurisdictions; requiring the Department to publish an annual report assessing the progress of the State and certain local jurisdictions with meeting specified housing targets; establishing the Housing Opportunities Made Equitable Commission; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB504
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
1/22/25
Report Pass
3/3/25
Engrossed
3/11/25
Refer
3/12/25
Report Pass
3/28/25
Enrolled
4/7/25
Chaptered
5/6/25
Passed
5/6/25
Authorizing local governing bodies to exceed certain tax and revenue limitations for a certain purpose; altering the source of funds for the Blueprint for Maryland's Future Fund to include the interest earnings of the Academic Excellence Fund; authorizing the Department to establish a national teacher recruitment campaign; establishing the Academic Excellence Program in the Department to address critical academic needs in public schools; requiring local school systems to develop certain countywide community school implementation plans; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB505
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
1/22/25
Report Pass
4/3/25
Engrossed
4/7/25
Refer
4/7/25
Refer
4/7/25
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; and applying the Act retroactively; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB506
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
1/22/25
Report Pass
3/15/25
Engrossed
3/17/25
Refer
3/17/25
Report Pass
3/28/25
Enrolled
4/3/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
Establishing the Maryland Leaders in Environmentally Engaged Farming (LEEF) Program; establishing the Maryland Leaders in Environmentally Engaged Farming (LEEF) Program Fund to support actions associated with the Program's purpose; altering the definition of "healthy soils" for purposes of the Maryland Healthy Soils Program; exempting certain holders of certain fishing licenses from the requirement to obtain a food establishment license from the Maryland Department of Health; establishing the Water Quality Monitoring Program; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB507
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
1/22/25
Report Pass
3/3/25
Engrossed
3/6/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
3/27/25
Enrolled
4/2/25
Chaptered
5/20/25
Passed
5/20/25
Clarifying a prohibition on including in State contracts provisions pertaining to limitations of liability for damage to real or tangible personal property; and clarifying a prohibition on including in State contracts provisions limiting the recovery of costs related to the use of replacement contractors under certain circumstances.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB508
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
1/22/25
Report Pass
3/3/25
Engrossed
3/6/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
3/27/25
Enrolled
4/2/25
Chaptered
5/20/25
Passed
5/20/25
Requiring a State or State aided or controlled entity to require a prime contractor to procure certain janitorial products packaged or repackaged by Blind Industries and Services of Maryland.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB509
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
1/22/25
Report Pass
3/15/25
Engrossed
3/17/25
Refer
3/17/25
Report Pass
4/3/25
Enrolled
4/5/25
Chaptered
5/6/25
Passed
5/6/25
Establishing the Maryland Inventory of Cemeteries and Burial Sites Workgroup for the purpose of studying issues related to the establishment and maintenance of a State cemetery inventory system; and requiring the Workgroup to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 1, 2025.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB51
Introduced
1/8/24
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/25
Requiring a local news organization, at least 120 days before the organization is sold, to provide written notice to certain employees affected by the sale, the Maryland Department of Labor, the governing body of the county where the local news organization is located, and certain nonprofit entities in the business of buying local news organizations; prohibiting the sale of a local news organization unless the written notice is provided; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB510
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
1/22/25
Authorizing certain fire, rescue, and ambulance organizations conducting certain gaming events in Frederick County to accept credit from a person as payment to play a gaming device at the gaming event.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB511
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
1/22/25
Prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from prohibiting certain licensed bow hunters from openly carrying a handgun under certain circumstances in Frederick County and Washington County during deer hunting season.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB512
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
1/22/25
Report Pass
3/15/25
Engrossed
3/17/25
Refer
3/18/25
Report Pass
3/31/25
Enrolled
4/2/25
Chaptered
5/20/25
Passed
5/20/25
Increasing from 5 to 6.5 ounces of wine by the glass that a holder of a barbershop or beauty salon beer and wine license in Frederick County may provide to a certain customer for on-premises consumption.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB513
Introduced
1/22/25
Refer
1/22/25
Report Pass
3/10/25
Engrossed
3/12/25
Refer
3/12/25
Report Pass
3/31/25
Enrolled
4/4/25
Chaptered
4/22/25
Passed
4/22/25
Prohibiting, beginning January 1, 2027, a certain person from keeping a rooster movement-constrained through use of a certain enclosure or tether, subject to certain exceptions; establishing that a violation of the Act is a civil offense; and providing the Act may be enforced by any State or local law enforcement officers or local animal control authority for the jurisdiction where the violation occurs.