Maryland 2025 Regular Session All Bills
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB730
Introduced
1/27/25
Refer
1/27/25
Altering certain requirements relating to online platforms and qualifying paid digital communications; repealing certain provisions of law establishing and governing a compliance waiver; and requiring an online platform to make certain records relating to qualifying paid digital communications available for public inspection on the online platform's website rather than to provide the records to the State Board on request.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB731
Introduced
1/27/25
Refer
1/27/25
Report Pass
3/15/25
Engrossed
3/17/25
Refer
3/17/25
Report Pass
3/28/25
Enrolled
4/2/25
Chaptered
5/13/25
Passed
5/13/25
Establishing the Maryland Connectivity Coalition to foster collaboration among State and federal agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and other stakeholders for the purpose of protecting endangered wildlife from habitat fragmentation; requiring the State Highway Administration to have final decision-making authority regarding decisions related to placement, funding, or design of wildlife crossings; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB732
Introduced
1/27/25
Refer
1/27/25
Altering certain requirements of the career ladder for educators to increase the required percentage of working time a certain teacher must spend teaching in the classroom from 60% to 80%.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB733
Introduced
1/27/25
Refer
1/27/25
Authorizing a candidate for election to a county board of education to disclose the candidate's party designation or party affiliation on the candidate's certificate of candidacy; prohibiting a local board of elections from disqualifying a candidate for election to a county board for disclosing the candidate's party designation or party affiliation; and requiring each local board to include certain information on a ballot under certain circumstances.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB734
Introduced
1/27/25
Refer
1/27/25
Prohibiting the earning of diminution credits to reduce the term of confinement of an incarcerated individual who is serving a sentence for murder in the first degree or murder in the second degree in a State or local correctional facility; prohibiting a deduction of diminution credits of more than 10% of an incarcerated individual's aggregate sentence for crimes of violence for an incarcerated individual who is serving a sentence for a crime of violence; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB735
Introduced
1/27/25
Refer
1/27/25
Altering the definition of "medical service" for the purpose of providing an exemption to the certificate of need requirement by removing psychiatry and any subcategory of psychiatry; and providing that a certificate of need is not required to establish or operate a psychiatric health care facility or to offer psychiatric or other mental health services at a health care facility.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB736
Introduced
1/27/25
Refer
1/27/25
Adding an adjustment for the local cost-share for school construction projects for certain counties under certain circumstances.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB737
Introduced
1/27/25
Refer
1/27/25
Authorizing a competent individual to make a nonopioid advance directive stating that the individual refuses the offer or administration of opioid medication including during an emergency; and requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop a model nonopioid advance directive form and make the form available on the Department's website.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB738
Introduced
1/27/25
Refer
1/27/25
Report Pass
4/3/25
Engrossed
4/5/25
Refer
4/5/25
Refer
4/5/25
Report Pass
4/7/25
Enrolled
4/7/25
Chaptered
5/25/25
Providing that a unit of State government may not purchase, lease, contract for, or rent an information technology service or product unless consistent with the master plan, as determined by the Secretary of Information Technology; providing that the Secretary is responsible for overseeing the implementation of major information technology development projects in the State; establishing the Maryland Office of Digital Experience in the Department to provide oversight, leadership, and strategic modernization for major technology projects; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB739
Introduced
1/27/25
Refer
1/27/25
Prohibiting the Public Service Commission from approving a certificate of public convenience and necessity for a solar energy generating station unless the Commission receives written approval for the construction of the generating station from each county or municipal corporation where the generating station is proposed to be located.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB74
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
Establishing certain requirements for the print or digital publication of legal advertisements and notices in counties and municipalities in the State; requiring digital publications that publish a legal advertisement or notice to maintain a certain digital archive that shall be available to the public; and requiring digital publications that publish a legal advertisement or notice to employ at least one employee whose duties include reporting, writing, or editing local news and information.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB740
Introduced
1/27/25
Refer
1/27/25
Requiring that candidates, campaign finance entities, and specified other persons, or agents of candidates, campaign finance entities, or specified other persons, that publish, distribute, or disseminate, or cause to be published, distributed, or disseminated, to another person in the State campaign materials that use or contain synthetic media include a specified disclosure in a specified manner; and defining "synthetic media" as an image, an audio recording, or a video recording that has been intentionally manipulated in a certain manner.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB741
Introduced
1/27/25
Refer
1/27/25
Altering the definition of "hunt" to no longer exclude the sport of fox chasing; establishing the Deer Management Assistance Program in the Department of Natural Resources; requiring the Department to require, through a certain phasing-out process, the use of nonlead ammunition on or before July 1, 2029; and establishing certain exemptions and requirements for any person who participates in the sport of fox chasing.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB742
Introduced
1/27/25
Refer
1/27/25
Prohibiting a person constructing a solar energy generating station from exercising a right of condemnation in connection with that construction.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland House Bill HB743
Introduced
1/27/25
Refer
1/27/25
Establishing the Health Care Quality Fund for Community-Based Behavioral Health Programs in the Maryland Department of Health to provide funding for training, grant awards, demonstration projects, or other purposes designed to improve behavioral health care services in the State; requiring the Department to pay to the Comptroller certain civil penalties collected from behavioral health programs and the Comptroller to distribute the penalties into the Fund; and requiring interest earnings of the Fund to be credited to the Fund.