Maryland 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB622
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Altering a certain provision of law authorizing a law enforcement officer to conduct an otherwise lawful custodial interrogation of a child if the child's parent, guardian, or custodian consents to the custodial interrogation of the child without the child's consultation with an attorney.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB623
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
3/12/25
Engrossed
3/13/25
Refer
3/17/25
Requiring the registers of wills for each county and Baltimore City to, in coordination, establish a centralized website for use by all registers to publish certain notice; altering certain requirements for publication of notice relating to the appointment of a personal representative, a request for judicial probate, and estates administered by a foreign personal representative; and requiring each county and Baltimore City to report annually certain information to the Maryland Register of Wills Association beginning December 1, 2025.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB624
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Requiring that a statewide voter registration application include a return envelope or envelope template with prepaid postage that an applicant may use to return the application to the State Board of Elections; and requiring return envelopes or envelope templates to be preprinted with the address of the State Board for purposes of returning the statewide voter registration application.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB625
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Altering the Maryland Uniform Disclaimer of Property Interests Act to provide for the disclaimer of nonprobate transfers at death; providing for the creation, revocation, recordation, and effects of a transfer-on-death deed for real property; requiring the Administrative Office of the Courts to develop an informational sheet regarding transfer-on-death deeds; providing example forms for the creation and revocation of a transfer-on-death deed; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB626
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Requiring the installation of micro conduits in any utility easement and building power or telecommunication rooms during the new construction or major improvement of certain commercial and residential premises; requiring that buried fiber optic cable installed in a highway right-of-way include conduit containing at least seven microducts; requiring the Department of Transportation or a unit of local government to ensure a broadband service provider has access to the conduit on a neutral and nondiscriminatory basis; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB627
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Specifying that provisions of law prohibiting and penalizing certain disruptive and threatening behavior on certain school grounds and property do not apply to students who commit offenses at the institution they attend or students who commit offenses at another institution while participating in or attending a sporting event or other extracurricular program sponsored at that institution.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB628
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
3/14/25
Engrossed
3/17/25
Refer
3/17/25
Report Pass
4/4/25
Enrolled
4/7/25
Vetoed
5/16/25
Requiring the State Highway Administration to prioritize funding for the construction and reconstruction of sidewalks and bicycle pathways to sidewalks and bicycle pathways that are, or are adjacent to highways that are, subject to a complete streets policy or another similar Vision Zero program; requiring a local government to request certain funding from the Department of Transportation; and authorizing certain State funding for the construction or reconstruction of sidewalks or bicycle pathways.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB629
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Establishing an immunity from liability for a person who discloses information about allegations of sexually assaultive behavior if the person acts in good faith; establishing a presumption of good faith unless it is shown by clear and convincing evidence that the person acted with actual malice or intentionally or recklessly disclosed false information; providing for the award of attorney's fees and costs in certain circumstances; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB63
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
3/24/25
Enrolled
4/1/25
Chaptered
4/8/25
Passed
4/8/25
Continuing the State Board of Public Accountancy in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act (sunset law) by extending to July 1, 2030, the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority of the Board; and requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to submit a certain report to the Joint Audit and Evaluation Committee on or before July 1, 2028.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB630
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Requiring each county board of education to develop and implement, not later than the 2026-2027 school year, a policy limiting the use of a cellular phone by a student during the school day; and prohibiting the policy from restricting a student's use of a cellular phone for any purpose documented in the student's individualized education program, to monitor or address a student's documented health issue, during an emergency event, or when directed by an educator or administrator for educational purposes.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB631
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Prohibiting the State or any of its instrumentalities or political subdivisions from taking certain property that is subject to a perpetual agricultural or conservation easement.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB632
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Applying to all private sector employers, rather than only employers in the construction and landscape services industries, provisions of law that prohibit an employer from failing to properly classify an individual who performs work for remuneration paid by the employer.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB633
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
3/14/25
Engrossed
3/14/25
Refer
3/17/25
Report Pass
4/5/25
Enrolled
4/7/25
Chaptered
5/6/25
Passed
5/6/25
Altering the definition of "slot machine" to provide that certain skills-based amusement devices excluded from the definition may award merchandise, tickets, tokens, or other objects that do not exceed a certain minimal value per play and may be accumulated and exchanged for noncash merchandise or prizes of value that is similar to the cumulated value of the objects exchanged, and does not exceed a minimal wholesale value of $599.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB634
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Report Pass
3/10/25
Engrossed
3/13/25
Refer
3/17/25
Report Pass
4/4/25
Enrolled
4/7/25
Chaptered
5/20/25
Passed
5/20/25
Establishing the Income Tax Reconciliation Program in the State to allow certain justice-involved individuals to establish installment payment plans and receive a waiver of any interest and penalties that accrue for unpaid income tax due for a taxable year beginning after December 31, 2024, but before January 1, 2030; requiring the Comptroller to administer the Program; requiring the Comptroller, in collaboration with the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, to develop an awareness campaign about the Program; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB635
Introduced
1/23/25
Refer
1/23/25
Requiring a police officer to document all reasons for a traffic stop or other stop on a citation or police report resulting from the stop; establishing that certain evidence obtained during a traffic stop or other stop in violation of certain provisions may be or is inadmissible in certain proceedings; authorizing a police officer to enforce certain provisions of the Maryland Vehicle Law only as a secondary action; etc.