Maryland 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB703
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/24/25
Providing that certain evidence of certain diagnoses is admissible in a criminal proceeding if the evidence tends to show that the defendant, at the time of the alleged offense, did or did not have the mental state required for the offense charged and is otherwise admissible; and requiring a judge or a District Court commissioner to consider any diagnosis for the defendant of a certain developmental disability or intellectual disability when making a pretrial release determination.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB704
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/24/25
Report Pass
3/3/25
Engrossed
3/6/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
3/31/25
Enrolled
4/7/25
Chaptered
5/6/25
Passed
5/6/25
Expanding eligibility under the Maryland Graduate and Professional Scholarship Program to include certain students attending the Meritus School of Osteopathic Medicine.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB705
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/24/25
Prohibiting the governing body of a county or municipality from enacting a local law or ordinance prohibiting the offering of residential property as a short-term rental by an operator solely because the operator is a lessee or sublessee.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB706
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/24/25
Altering the statute of limitations applicable to a certain offense relating to the prohibition against intercepting and disclosing any wire, oral, or electronic communications and reclassifying the offense as a misdemeanor instead of a felony; and providing that certain provisions may not be construed to limit the amount of restitution that may be ordered for a certain violation.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB707
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/24/25
Report Pass
3/3/25
Engrossed
3/6/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
4/3/25
Enrolled
4/7/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
Requiring that an original and renewal application for a license, an identification card, or a moped operator's permit allow an applicant to choose to indicate on the document the applicant's nonapparent disability; requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to ensure that a certain license, identification card, or moped operator's permit include a notation of a nonapparent disability; requiring the immediate implementation of training for law enforcement concerning interactions with persons with nonapparent disabilities; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB708
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/24/25
Expanding eligibility for the Maryland earned income tax credit for individuals without qualifying children by altering the income thresholds at which the credit phases out; providing that, after the 2024 tax year, the income threshold and phase-out amounts are adjusted annually for inflation; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2024.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB709
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/24/25
Authorizing a county to adopt, by local law or ordinance, provisions prohibiting certain landlords of residential property from failing to renew a lease during the lease period or from terminating a holdover tenancy without good cause; establishing certain requirements and prohibitions for a local law or ordinance adopted in accordance with the Act; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB71
Introduced
1/8/24
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/24
Refer
1/8/25
Report Pass
3/17/25
Engrossed
3/17/25
Refer
3/17/25
Report Pass
4/5/25
Enrolled
4/7/25
Chaptered
5/6/25
Passed
5/6/25
Establishing the Holocaust Education Assistance Grant Program in the State Department of Education to assist local school systems with Holocaust education in public schools; authorizing a local school system to apply to the Department for a grant from the Program to be used for teacher training or teaching materials; and requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $50,000 for the Program.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB710
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/24/25
Requiring the State Board of Elections to provide a certain voter hotline for incarcerated individuals; and altering the circumstances under which an individual is not qualified to be a registered voter for the purpose of allowing individuals convicted of a felony and serving a court-ordered sentence of imprisonment for the conviction to register to vote.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB711
Introduced
1/27/25
Refer
1/27/25
Requiring the Office of Cemetery Oversight, in consultation with the Maryland Department of Health, the Maryland Department of Labor, and the Department of the Environment, to conduct a study of the environmental and public health impacts of deathcare and funeral practices in the State; and requiring the Office to submit an interim report by December 1, 2025, and a final report by July 2026, to the Governor and the General Assembly including any recommended policy changes for sustainable deathcare and funeral practices.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB712
Introduced
1/27/25
Refer
1/27/25
Report Pass
3/15/25
Engrossed
3/17/25
Refer
3/18/25
Report Pass
3/31/25
Enrolled
4/4/25
Chaptered
5/20/25
Passed
5/20/25
Authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Harford County to issue a Class GSF (golf simulator facility) license to a holder of a Class B license; and clarifying that the Class GSF (golf simulator facility) license counts toward the maximum number of nine Class B alcoholic beverages licenses a holder may be issued.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB713
Introduced
1/27/25
Refer
1/27/25
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to prepare certain literature relating to firearms and ammunition and to distribute the literature to all county health departments in the State; requiring each county health department to distribute certain literature to all establishments that sell firearms or ammunition within the county; requiring establishments that sell firearms or ammunition in the State to make certain literature visible and available and to distribute the literature to purchasers of firearms and ammunition; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB714
Introduced
1/27/25
Refer
1/27/25
Report Pass
3/15/25
Engrossed
3/17/25
Refer
3/18/25
Report Pass
3/31/25
Enrolled
4/4/25
Chaptered
5/20/25
Passed
5/20/25
Repealing certain incorrect references to the Comptroller of Maryland in certain provisions of law requiring the holder of a performing arts nonprofit organization license in Harford County to comply with certain record-keeping and reporting requirements; repealing the authority of the Comptroller to suspend the license of a license holder without a hearing under certain circumstances; and authorizing, rather than requiring, the Board to summon a license holder for a hearing and impose a fine under certain circumstances.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB715
Introduced
1/27/25
Refer
1/27/25
Report Pass
3/15/25
Engrossed
3/17/25
Refer
3/18/25
Report Pass
3/31/25
Enrolled
4/4/25
Chaptered
5/20/25
Passed
5/20/25
Altering the quota used to determine the maximum number of certain alcoholic beverages licenses that the Board of License Commissioners for Harford County may issue from every 4,000 to every 4,750 individuals in the county.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB716
Introduced
1/27/25
Refer
1/27/25
Report Pass
3/14/25
Engrossed
3/17/25
Refer
3/17/25
Report Pass
4/2/25
Enrolled
4/7/25
Chaptered
4/22/25
Passed
4/22/25
Including the Department of Housing and Community Development in the definition of "public housing agency" for the purposes of the Statewide Rental Assistance Voucher Program; authorizing a public housing agency to administer the Program in accordance with a local administrative plan; authorizing the Department to project-base up to 100% of its authorized voucher units; altering the manner in which the Department and each public housing agency shall prioritize vouchers and housing assistance payments for certain families; etc.