Maryland 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB663
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/24/25
Authorizing a person to bring and maintain a civil action for defamation against another person who distributes a computer-generated visual representation that is indistinguishable from an actual visual representation of the person and falsely depicts the person with his or her intimate parts exposed or engaged in sexual activity; clarifying what constitutes a visual representation for a certain prohibition against distributing a certain visual representation in a certain manner; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB664
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/24/25
Report Pass
3/10/25
Engrossed
3/11/25
Refer
3/12/25
Report Pass
3/27/25
Enrolled
4/2/25
Chaptered
5/6/25
Passed
5/6/25
Clarifying that the State Board of Nursing may deny a license or grant a license, including a license subject to a reprimand, probation, or suspension, if an applicant for a license to practice direct-entry midwifery or a licensed direct-entry midwife violates a ground for discipline.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB665
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/24/25
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations, beginning on July 1, 2026, to provide coverage and certain reimbursement for annual behavioral health wellness visits; and applying the Act to all policies, contracts, and health benefit plans issued, delivered, or renewed in the State on or after January 1, 2026.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB666
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/24/25
Report Pass
3/10/25
Engrossed
3/12/25
Refer
3/12/25
Report Pass
3/24/25
Enrolled
4/1/25
Chaptered
5/20/25
Passed
5/20/25
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations to provide coverage in accordance with the most recent guidelines issued by the American College of Cardiology that expand the scope of preventive care services for the benefit of consumers; and applying the Act to all policies, contracts, and health benefit plans issued, delivered, or renewed in the State on or after January 1, 2026.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB667
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/24/25
Establishing November 1 as Maryland Emancipation Day and as a State legal holiday and State employee holiday; and repealing the requirement that the Governor declare a certain day as Maryland Emancipation Day.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB668
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/24/25
Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim November 7 as Victims of Communism Memorial Day; and directing the Department of Legislative Services to send a copy of the Act to the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB669
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/24/25
Authorizing a recording of a body-worn camera worn by a law enforcement officer to be used as evidence in certain proceedings; requiring a custodian to deny inspection of a recording made with the use of a body-worn camera used by a law enforcement officer, subject to certain exceptions; establishing minimum requirements for a body-worn camera policy for a law enforcement agency and the model policy created by the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB67
Introduced
1/8/24
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/25
Prohibiting a local board of elections from removing an absentee ballot from a return envelope or ballot/return envelope or counting the ballot unless the return envelope or ballot/return envelope is signed by the voter and, except under certain circumstances, a witness and the local board verify the voter's signature; and providing that the witness signature requirement does not apply to active duty uniformed services members serving overseas or their spouses or dependents who live overseas.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB670
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/24/25
Prohibiting a person from knowingly sending by electronic means to another person an image or video depicting obscene material that the sender knows or reasonably should know is unsolicited; authorizing a person to bring an action against a person who violates the Act; and exempting certain entities and individuals from the Act.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB671
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/24/25
Requiring, by January 1, 2026, a county water and sewerage plan to include a plan to minimize inundation risks to existing on-site sewage disposal systems and limit the installation of new on-site sewage disposal systems in climate vulnerable areas; prohibiting the installation of an on-site sewage disposal system in a climate vulnerable area to service a newly constructed building, and prohibiting the replacement of an on-site sewage disposal system in a climate vulnerable area, unless certain conditions are met; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB672
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/24/25
Report Pass
3/10/25
Engrossed
3/12/25
Refer
3/12/25
Report Pass
3/31/25
Enrolled
4/3/25
Chaptered
5/6/25
Passed
5/6/25
Requiring the State Department of Education and the Maryland Department of Health jointly to conduct an assessment of school health and wellness personnel each year; altering the membership of the Maryland Council on Advancement of School-Based Health Centers; and requiring the Department and the State Department of Education to annually report to the General Assembly on the findings of the assessment beginning December 1, 2027, and publish the report on the website of each agency.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB673
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/24/25
Prohibiting provisions of the governing documents of a condominium or homeowners association from unreasonably restricting the governing body from installing or authorizing the installation of electric vehicle recharging equipment; establishing that the installation or authorization of electric vehicle charging equipment by a governing body is subject to the ordinary budgeting process of the condominium or homeowners association; applying the Act retroactively; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB674
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/24/25
Report Pass
3/14/25
Engrossed
3/14/25
Refer
3/17/25
Report Pass
4/4/25
Enrolled
4/7/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
Prohibiting a person, with the intent to conceal a crime, from knowingly and willfully dismembering, destroying, removing, burying, disposing of, or obliterating by any means any portion of human remains; prohibiting a person from aiding or abetting another in committing a violation of the Act; and establishing that a violation of the Act is a felony with a penalty of imprisonment not exceeding 5 years.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB675
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/24/25
Report Pass
3/10/25
Engrossed
3/11/25
Refer
3/12/25
Report Pass
3/27/25
Enrolled
4/2/25
Chaptered
5/20/25
Passed
5/20/25
Altering from December 31, 2025, to March 31,2026, the date by which a certain report under a certain sexual assault evidence collection kit tracking program is required to be submitted; altering the purpose and use of the Rape Kit Testing Grant Fund; expanding the duties of the Executive Director of the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention and Policy relating to the Fund; and prohibiting the use of the Fund for a certain sexual assault evidence collection kit tracking program.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB676
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/24/25
Report Pass
4/3/25
Requiring the operator of a vessel involved in a collision, accident, or other casualty to stop the vessel as close as possible to the scene until the operator has rendered certain assistance and provided certain information; establishing certain criminal penalties for the operator of a vessel involved in a collision, accident, or other casualty who does not take certain actions; etc.