Maryland 2024 Regular Session All Bills

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Maryland 2024 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB438

Introduced
1/22/24  
Exempting residents who are eligible for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children, or Medicaid from the annual fee for angler's licenses, trout stamps, and Chesapeake Bay and coastal sport fishing licenses.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB366

Introduced
1/17/24  
Refer
1/17/24  
Report Pass
3/7/24  
Engrossed
3/15/24  
Refer
3/15/24  
Report Pass
3/29/24  
Enrolled
4/4/24  
Chaptered
4/9/24  
Repealing a certain exemption from certain reemployed retiree earnings offsets for certain retirees of the Employees' and Teachers' Retirement and Pension Systems; repealing certain requirements that certain participating employers pay certain offsets under certain circumstances; establishing an exemption from a reemployed retiree earnings offset for retirees of the Teachers' Pension System who are reemployed by certain employers if the retiree's salary is funded from certain sources; etc.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB544

Introduced
1/24/24  
Refer
1/24/24  
Report Pass
3/16/24  
Engrossed
3/18/24  
Refer
3/18/24  
Report Pass
3/29/24  
Enrolled
4/4/24  
Chaptered
5/16/24  
Altering the statute of limitations applicable to the crime of sexual extortion to be 5 years; altering the statute of limitations applicable to the crime of stalking to be 10 years; providing that the State may institute a prosecution for revenge porn at any time; and providing that, for purposes of the Maryland Constitution, a person who commits revenge porn shall be deemed to have committed a misdemeanor whose punishment is confinement in the penitentiary and may reserve a point or question for a certain in banc review.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB417

Introduced
1/18/24  
Refer
1/18/24  
Report Pass
3/5/24  
Engrossed
3/11/24  
Refer
3/12/24  
Report Pass
4/6/24  
Enrolled
4/8/24  
Chaptered
5/9/24  
Requiring the State Board of Elections to evaluate the performance of the State Administrator of Elections; requiring the State Administrator to provide a performance evaluation of the election director of each local board of elections to the local board; requiring each local board to confer with the State Administrator in appointing an election director, maintain a warehouse, and provide for early voting center expenses; requiring, rather than authorizing, election directors to take certain actions; etc.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB471

Introduced
1/22/24  
Refer
1/22/24  
Report Pass
4/1/24  
Engrossed
4/2/24  
Altering the composition of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board; altering certain duties, powers, and procedures for the Board to make awards to victims of crime; altering the powers and duties of certain employees; altering the amount and types of awards the Board is authorized to make to certain victims of crime; authorizing reconsideration and judicial review of decisions of the Board; authorizing the Governor to include certain funding in the annual budget bill for the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund; etc.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB531

Introduced
1/24/24  
Refer
1/24/24  
Report Pass
3/5/24  
Engrossed
3/8/24  
Refer
3/11/24  
Report Pass
4/5/24  
Enrolled
4/8/24  
Chaptered
5/16/24  
Establishing a barbershop and beauty salon beer and wine license in Caroline County; authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Caroline County to issue the license to a holder of a certain barbershop or beauty salon permit; establishing a licensing fee of $100; etc.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB529

Introduced
1/24/24  
Prohibiting a limit on the number of veterans who are eligible to receive a scholarship under the Edward T. and Mary A. Conroy Memorial Scholarship Program.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB416

Introduced
1/18/24  
Refer
1/18/24  
Report Pass
3/13/24  
Engrossed
3/15/24  
Establishing the Customer-Sited Solar Program in the Maryland Energy Administration for the purpose of increasing deployment of customer-sited solar energy generating systems and providing grants to eligible customer-generators; authorizing a third party to apply for a grant on behalf of an eligible customer-generator under certain circumstances; requiring the Administration to develop a certain consumer protection policy; providing for the funding of Program grants from certain compliance fees in the Strategic Energy Investment Fund; etc.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB533

Introduced
1/24/24  
Refer
1/24/24  
Report Pass
2/19/24  
Engrossed
2/27/24  
Refer
2/28/24  
Report Pass
4/6/24  
Enrolled
4/8/24  
Chaptered
5/9/24  
Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to issue certain complimentary fishing and hunting licenses to certain veterans who the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs determines are unemployable; and exempting certain veterans who the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs determines are unemployable from the requirement to obtain a trout stamp.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB416

Introduced
1/18/24  
Refer
1/18/24  
Report Pass
2/19/24  
Engrossed
2/22/24  
Refer
2/26/24  
Report Pass
4/1/24  
Enrolled
4/2/24  
Chaptered
4/25/24  
Requiring the Maryland Center for School Safety to collaborate with an institution of higher education or a designated federal or national research entity to study the effectiveness and impact of active shooter safety drills or trainings by researching and analyzing data collected by local school systems; requiring the Center to identify best practices for active shooter safety drills or trainings on or before October 1, 2024; requiring local school systems to provide parents with the annual schedule of active shooter safety drills; etc.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB660

Introduced
1/25/24  
Establishing the Green and Renewable Energy for Nonprofit Organizations Loan Program in the Maryland Energy Administration to provide financial assistance in the form of no-interest loans to nonprofit organizations for the planning, purchase, and installation of qualifying energy systems; establishing the Green and Renewable Energy for Nonprofit Organizations Loan Fund; authorizing, in fiscal year 2026, the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $5,000,000 for the Fund; etc.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB376

Introduced
1/17/24  
Refer
1/17/24  
Report Pass
3/15/24  
Engrossed
3/18/24  
Refer
3/18/24  
Report Pass
3/29/24  
Enrolled
4/2/24  
Chaptered
4/25/24  
Requiring the Prince George's County Board of Education to hire an independent consultant to study and make recommendations on the feasibility of relocating the Prince George's County public school system headquarters and to report its recommendations by June 1, 2026; and requiring the County board to cover the cost of the study.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB398

Introduced
1/18/24  
Authorizing the reimbursement of certain physicians, qualified health care providers, and hospitals by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board for certain forensic examinations of and health care services provided to a victim of nonfatal strangulation without charge; and specifying that "strangulation" includes strangulation that is not related to rape, sexual offense, or sexual abuse.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB440

Introduced
1/22/24  
Refer
1/22/24  
Report Pass
3/16/24  
Engrossed
3/18/24  
Establishing exceptions to motor vehicle registration requirements for golf carts on Cobb Island in Charles County; requiring an operator of a golf cart on a highway on Cobb Island without a certain registration to operate the golf cart only on a highway with a maximum posted speed limit of 30 miles per hour and between dawn and dusk; requiring the vehicle to be equipped with certain lighting devices and to be kept to the far right of the roadway; and requiring the operator to possess a valid driver's license.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB474

Introduced
1/22/24  
Prohibiting a court from revoking a defendant's pretrial release or finding that a defendant has violated probation, and the Maryland Parole Commission from finding that a parolee has violated parole, based solely on the use of cannabis or a positive cannabis test unless the court or Commission, at the time of ordering pretrial release, makes a finding that the use of cannabis could create a danger to the defendant or others and includes as a condition of pretrial release, probation, or parole that the defendant may not use cannabis.