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Bill Tracking
2026
| Bill | Crossfile | Bill Title | Sponsor | Synopsis | MGA Committees | MDCC Policy Committee & Position | Leg. Comm. Position | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB 18 | Transportation Network Companies - Transportation Network Operators - Minimum Payments for Passenger Trips | Del. Joe Vogel (17-D) | Requiring a transportation network company to pay operators, after July 1, 2026, and for any passenger trip originating in the State, $1.66 per mile and $0.40 per minute, an additional $1.18 per mile for an operator using a wheelchair accessible vehicle, at least $5.00 for any passenger trip, and at least 80% of any cancellation fee charged by a transportation network company; and adjusting the minimum amount paid per mile and per minute by inflation each year. | Environment and Transportation | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/03 at 2:00 p.m. (1/19) | ||
| HB 45 | SB 417 | Labor and Employment - Mandatory Meetings on Religious or Political Matters - Employee Attendance and Participation (Maryland Worker Freedom Act) | Del. Joe Vogel (17-D) | Prohibiting employers and their agents, representatives, and designees from taking certain actions against an employee or applicant for employment because the employee or applicant takes certain actions regarding employer-sponsored meetings during which the employer communicates the opinion of the employer regarding religious matters or political matters; authorizing an employee to file a certain complaint with the Commissioner of Labor and Industry; etc. | Government, Labor, and Elections | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m. (2/9) | |
| HB 69 | Labor and Employment - Exemptions From Overtime Pay - Administrative, Executive, or Professional Capacity | Del. Joe Vogel (17-D) | Altering the exemption from overtime pay for individuals who are employed to work in an administrative, executive, or professional capacity. | Government, Labor, and Elections | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m. (2/9) | ||
| HB 78 | SB 457 | Property Taxes - Authority of Counties to Establish Subclasses and Set Separate Rates for Land and Improvements to Land | Del. Vaughn Stewart (19-D) | Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county to establish subclasses of real property consisting of land and improvements to land and set separate real property tax rates for each subclass. | Ways and Means | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 1/27 at 2:00 p.m. (1/26) | |
| HB 90 | SB 224 | Property Taxes - Authority of Counties to Establish a Subclass and Set a Special Rate for Commercial and Industrial Property | Del. Kris Fair (3-D) | Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county to establish, by law, a subclass of real property consisting of certain commercial and industrial property and to set a special property tax rate for certain commercial and industrial property for the purpose of financing certain transportation improvements or the approved budget of the county board of education; applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 2026; etc. | Ways and Means | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 1/27 at 2:00 p.m. (1/26) | |
| HB 103 | Consumer Protection - Consumer Contracts - Prohibited Waiver | Del. Vaughn Stewart (19-D) | Repealing certain exemptions relating to a prohibition on a consumer contract that sets a shorter time to bring an action under or on the consumer contract under certain circumstances; prohibiting a consumer contract from waiving, limiting, impairing, or disclaiming any right conferred or created or a manner of enforcement established by federal or State law; establishing that a violation of the Act is an unfair, abusive, or deceptive trade practice subject to enforcement and certain civil penalties; etc. | Economic Matters | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/10 at 1:00 p.m. (1/19) | ||
| HB 104 | SB 49 | Unhoused Individuals - Rights and Affirmative Defense | Del. Bernice Mireku-North (14-D) | Providing that all unhoused individuals have certain rights; establishing an affirmative defense of necessity to certain criminal charges relating to trespass or disturbing the peace; and repealing the authority of a municipality to prohibit vagrancy. | Judiciary | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/03 at 1:00 p.m. (1/16) | |
| HB 120 | Moratorium on Construction of New Data Centers - Co-Location and Generation Contingency | Del. Mark Fisher (27C-R) | Prohibiting a person from constructing a data center in the State; prohibiting a unit of State or local government from approving a proposal for the construction of a data center in the State; providing for the termination of the Act if the General Assembly enacts legislation regarding the co-location of data centers with a new or existing natural gas power generation facility, nuclear power generation facility, or small module reactor; applying the Act prospectively; etc. | Environment and Transportation | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/03 at 2:00 p.m. (1/19) | ||
| HB 148 | Consumer Protection and Labor and Employment - Surveillance-Based Price and Wage Setting - Prohibition | Del. Joe Vogel (17-D) | Prohibiting a person from engaging in certain surveillance-based price setting; making a certain violation of the Act an unfair, abusive, or deceptive trade practice that is subject to enforcement and penalties under the Maryland Consumer Protection Act; and prohibiting an employer from engaging in certain surveillance-based wage setting. | Economic Matters | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/10 at 1:00 p.m. (1/19) | ||
| HB 152 | Consumer Protection - Electronic Funds Transfers - Regulations (Elder Fraud Prevention Act of 2026) | Del. Vaughn Stewart (19-D) | Providing that consumer wire transfers involving electronic funds transfers made ancillary to bank-to-bank transfers via a wire service are subject to certain provisions of the federal Electronic Funds Transfer Act of 1978. | Economic Matters | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/10 at 1:00 p.m. (1/19) | ||
| HB 188 | SB 3 | Unemployment Insurance Modernization Act of 2026 | Del. Lorig Charkoudian (20-D) | Repealing and establishing the methodology used to calculate the weekly benefit amount; altering the taxable wage base used to determine employer contributions to the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund and the amount of earned wages subtracted from a weekly benefit amount; requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to determine and make available online the State annual average wage applicable to the rate of contribution; requiring, beginning in 2027, the maximum weekly benefit to be 40% of the state average weekly wage; etc. | Economic Matters | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/11 at 2:30 p.m. (2/6) | |
| HB 203 | Labor and Employment - Training Repayment Agreements - Prohibition | Del. Joe Vogel (17-D) | Prohibiting employers from requiring, as a condition of employment, employees or prospective employees to enter into training repayment agreements; defining "training repayment agreement" as one that requires an employee to pay an employer or a third party, such as a training provider, a sum of money if the employee voluntarily or involuntarily leaves employment with the employer; and providing that an agreement that constitutes a training repayment agreement is null and void as being against the public policy of the State. | Government, Labor, and Elections | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/05 at 2:00 p.m. (1/26) | ||
| HB 299 | SB 60 | Fraud Prevention, Prevailing Wage, and Living Wage - Prohibitions, Penalties, and Enforcement | Chair, Government, Labor Elections Committee | Prohibiting a person from knowingly making or using, or causing to be made or used, a false record or statement resulting in underpayments of unemployment insurance contributions or payment of unemployment insurance benefits of more than $15,000; altering the enforcement mechanisms related to workplace fraud laws, living wage laws, and prevailing wage laws, including authorizing the Attorney General to investigate and bring suit in a certain manner; etc. | Government, Labor, and Elections | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/12 at 2:00 p.m. (2/3) | |
| HB 314 | Automation Technology Deployment Assessment and Displaced Employee Retraining Fund - Established | Del. Vaughn Stewart (19-D) | Requiring employers with 100 or more employees that reduced their workforce in the State by a least 10 employees while using automation technology to submit certain information to the Secretary of Labor concerning the number of employees employed, automation technology deployed or used, and certain employees separated from employment during the immediately preceding calendar year; requiring a certain covered employer to pay a certain assessment for each displaced employee reported by the covered employer; etc. | Economic Matters | Oppose |
In the House - Withdrawn by Sponsor (2/17) | ||
| HB 317 | Recipients of Economic Development Assistance or State Contracts - Certification of Compliance With State Labor Laws | Del. Vaughn Stewart (19-D) | Requiring certain persons that receive certain State economic development assistance to make a certification each year that the person was not the subject of a certain final adverse determination and is not currently failing to comply with certain outstanding requirements under a prior final judgment or order; requiring a certain unit of State government to initiate a pause on disbursements or approvals of certain economic development assistance or the award or renewal of certain State contracts; etc. | Economic Matters | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/17 at 1:00 p.m. (1/19) | ||
| HB 331 | SB 342 | Maryland Beverage Container Recycling Refund and Litter Reduction Program | Del. Jen Terrasa (13-D) | Establishing the Maryland Beverage Container Recycling Refund and Litter Reduction Program to increase the reuse and recycling of beverage containers and reduce the litter, pollution, and costs associated with beverage containers; prohibiting a producer from selling, offering for sale, or distributing in or importing into the State a redeemable beverage container unless the producer is registered with the Department of the Environment, pays a certain fee, and is part of a beverage container stewardship organization; etc. | Economic Matters Environment and Transportation |
Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m. (Environment and Transportation) and Hearing canceled (Economic Matters) (2/3) | |
| HB 334 | State Procurement - Constitutional Violations - Prohibited | Del. Sheila Ruth (44B-D) | Requiring a procurement officer to require a certain certification from a bidder or offeror and to include a certain clause in a State procurement contract relating to unconstitutional activity. | Government, Labor, and Elections | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/10 at 1:00 p.m. (1/28) | ||
| HB 346 | Workers' Compensation - Vocational Rehabilitation Services - Retroactive Compensation | Del. Andrew Pruski (33A-D) | Requiring an employer or its insurer to retroactively pay retroactive compensation to a covered employee as if the covered employee was temporarily totally disabled if the covered employee did not receive compensation during the period between the date maximum medical improvement was attained and the date vocational rehabilitation services began. | Economic Matters | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m. (2/17) | ||
| HB 366 | SB 993 | Workers' Compensation - Exemption From Exclusivity of Remedy - Action for Wrongful Death by Nondependent Child | Del. Andrew Pruski (33A-D) | Prohibiting the Maryland Workers' Compensation Act from being construed to prohibit a child of a covered employee who is determined not to be a dependent of the covered employee from filing an action for damages related to the wrongful death of the covered employee. | Economic Matters | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m. (2/17) | |
| HB 382 | SB 571 | Commercial Law - Broadband Access - Low-Income Consumer Programs (Maryland Broadband Opportunity and Fairness Act) | Del. Kris Fair (3-D) | Requiring certain broadband providers in the State to establish a program to provide certain broadband services to eligible low-income consumers by December 1, 2026; authorizing the Office of Statewide Broadband in the Department of Housing and Community Development to exempt certain service providers; authorizing a provider, once every 3 years, to increase the price of the service based on certain criteria; requiring the Office beginning November 15, 2027, to annually file a report detailing certain data relative to the program; etc. | Economic Matters | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m. (1/28) | |
| HB 385 | SB 269 | Courts and Judicial Proceedings - Evidence - Rebuttable Presumption of Medical Bills | Del. David Moon (20-D) | Establishing a rebuttable presumption in an action for personal injury or wrongful death that a medical bill from a health care provider or an agent of the health care provider is authentic, fair, and reasonable if the bill was properly provided in discovery; and establishing that a party may overcome the presumption that a medical bill is authentic, fair, and reasonable by proving, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the medical bill, or any charge in a medical bill, is not authentic, is unfair, or is unreasonable. | Judiciary | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m. (2/16) | |
| HB 434 | Residential Leases - Use of Algorithmic Device by Landlord to Determine Rent, Occupancy, and Lease Terms - Prohibition | Del. Julie Carr (17-D) | Prohibiting a landlord from using certain algorithmic devices to determine the amount of rent to charge for, occupancy levels of, and lease terms and conditions for a residential dwelling unit; making a violation of the Act an unfair, abusive, or deceptive trade practice under the Maryland Consumer Protection Act; and applying the Act prospectively. | Economic Matters | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m. (1/28) | ||
| HB 437 | SB 59 | Transportation - Major Highway Capacity Expansion Projects and Impact Assessments (Transportation and Climate Alignment Act of 2026) | Del. Mark Edelson (46-D) | Requiring the Department of Transportation, as part of the planning and implementation of certain major highway expansion projects, to perform an impact assessment of the project and develop and implement a corresponding multimodal transportation program; requiring the Department, beginning with a certain Consolidated Transportation Program, to evaluate certain major capital projects for their impact on greenhouse gas emissions and vehicle miles traveled; etc. | Appropriations Environment and Transportation |
Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/10 at 1:00 p.m. (Appropriations) (2/2) | |
| HB 466 | Civil Actions - Motor Vehicle Accidents Involving Vulnerable Individuals - Comparative Negligence | Del. Elizabeth Embry (43A-D) | Prohibiting recovery by a certain plaintiff from being barred in a certain civil action due to the plaintiff's negligence, except under certain circumstances; requiring any damages awarded under the Act to be diminished in proportion to the amount of negligence attributed to the plaintiff; and applying the Act prospectively. | Judiciary | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/11 at 2:00 p.m. (1/29) | ||
| HB 468 | Health and Taxation - Digital Social Media Services and the Mental Health Care Fund for Children and Youth | Del. Ashanti Martinez (22-D) | Establishing the Mental Health Care Fund for Children and Youth to support improved access to mental health care services for children and youth in the State; imposing a tax on certain annual revenues derived from certain digital social media services in the State; providing for the calculation and collection of the tax; requiring the Comptroller to distribute revenue from the tax in a certain manner; etc. | Ways and Means | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m. (1/23) | ||
| HB 476 | SB 474 | Civil Actions - Noneconomic Damages - Personal Injury and Wrongful Death | Del. Natalie Ziegler (9A-D) | Repealing certain limitations on noneconomic damages in civil actions for personal injury or wrongful death; and applying the Act prospectively. | Judiciary | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 3/04 at 1:00 p.m. (2/16) | |
| HB 480 | SB 740 | Transportation Network Companies - Deactivation of Operators | Del. Diana Fennell (47A-D) | Altering the definitions of "transportation network company" and "transportation network operator" for purposes of provisions of law regarding transportation network companies; requiring a transportation network company to maintain a deactivation policy that provides the policies and procedures for the deactivation of operators; prohibiting a transportation network company from deactivating an operator unless the deactivation is consistent with the company's deactivation policy; etc. | Environment and Transportation | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/24 at 1:00 p.m. (2/5) | |
| HB 484 | Corporate Income Tax - Addition Modification - Direct-to-Consumer Pharmaceutical Advertising | Del. Natalie Ziegler (9A-D) | Providing an addition modification under the corporate income tax for the amount of certain direct-to-consumer advertising expenses for certain covered drugs paid or incurred during the taxable year that are deducted under the Internal Revenue Code; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2025. | Ways and Means | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m. (1/23) | ||
| HB 516 | Maryland Department of Labor - Investigation of Complaints - Requirements (Worksite Enforcement Act of 2026) | Del. Joe Vogel (17-D) | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to establish certain procedures for receiving, reviewing, and investigating certain complaints regarding matters under the jurisdiction of the Department; requiring the Department to employ one investigators for each of five regions of the State to investigate complaints; and requiring, beginning fiscal year 2027, the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $500,000 for the hiring of five investigators. | Government, Labor, and Elections | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/12 at 2:00 p.m. (2/3) | ||
| HB 526 | Civil Actions - Settlement Agreements - Payment and Release | Del. Aaron Kaufman (18-D) | Requiring a settling defendant in a tort action for money damages to provide a proposed release to a plaintiff within 10 days and to pay all sums due to a plaintiff under a settlement agreement within 15 days; providing for the protection by a plaintiff of certain third-party rights of recovery or subrogation; and establishing the accrual of interest on settlement sums under certain circumstances. | Judiciary | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m. (1/29) | ||
| HB 540 | Investor-Owned Electric, Gas, and Gas and Electric Companies - Utility Rate Changes (Public Service Company Transparency Act) | Del. Mary Lehman (21-D) | Prohibiting certain electric, gas, and gas and electric companies from initiating a proceeding that may lead to a rate change unless the company provides customers with a certain notice; requiring certain electric, gas, and gas and electric companies to include a certain statement in each customer bill and automatic payment e-mail and distribute a certain annual rate report in a certain manner; requiring the Public Service Commission, in consultation with the Office of People's Counsel, to develop a certain report; etc. | Environment and Transportation | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/10 at 1:00 p.m. (1/28) | ||
| HB 560 | Sales and Use Tax and Property Tax - Exemptions for Data Centers - Repeal | Del. Julie Carr (17-D) | Repealing an exemption from the sales and use tax for certain sales of certain personal property for use at certain qualified data centers under certain circumstances; and repealing the authorization for a governing body of a county or municipal corporation to reduce or eliminate the assessment of certain personal property used in certain qualified data centers. | Ways and Means | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m. (1/28) | ||
| HB 572 | SB 432 | Attorney General Actions and Climate Crimes Accountability Fund (Climate Crimes Accountability Act) | Del. Sheila Ruth (44B-D) | Authorizing the Attorney General to investigate, commence, and prosecute or defend any suit or action that holds certain entities accountable for tortious or otherwise unlawful conduct that has contributed to climate change; authorizing the Attorney General to hire outside counsel to assist with an action under the Act if the Attorney General makes a certain determination; establishing the Climate Crimes Accountability Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; etc. | Judiciary | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/17 at 1:00 p.m. (1/30) | |
| HB 624 | SB 411 | Hospitals - Clinical Staffing Committees and Plans - Establishment (Safe Staffing Act of 2026) | Del. Jennifer Holland (10-D) | Requiring certain hospitals licensed in the State to establish and maintain a clinical staffing committee and to implement a clinical staffing plan; requiring each clinical staffing committee to develop a clinical staffing plan; requiring, on or before July 1 each year, each hospital's clinical staffing committee to conduct a review of the clinical staffing plan for certain purposes; requiring, on or before January 1, 2028, each hospital to implement a clinical staffing plan and assign personnel in accordance with the plan; etc. | Health | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/18 at 1:30 p.m. (2/5) | |
| HB 711 | SB 504 | Data Privacy - Consumer Data, Public Records, and Message Switching System (Data Privacy Act) | Del. Lorig Charkoudian (20-D) | Prohibiting a certain controller from selling the personal data of a consumer to a purchaser who seeks to use the data for immigration enforcement; requiring a custodian of a public record to take reasonable steps to determine whether a public record is accessed for enforcing immigration law; requiring an entity that operates a certain message switching system to take certain actions regarding system access; requiring certain procedures of certain governmental entities to account for data containing sensitive attributes; etc. | Economic Matters | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/24 at 1:00 p.m. (2/3) | |
| HB 712 | Civil Actions - Product Liability - Artificial Intelligence Systems | Del. Robin Grammer (6-R) | Establishing a cause of action against a developer of a certain artificial intelligence system for defective design, failure to provide adequate instruction or warning, and breach of express warranty; establishing that a deployer of a certain artificial intelligence system may be sued in lieu of a developer under certain circumstances; authorizing the Attorney General to bring an action against a developer or a deployer for harm caused by a certain dangerous or defective product; etc. | Judiciary | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m. (2/5) | ||
| HB 723 | SB 598 | Electric Companies - Cost Containment Plans - Requirement (Securing Affordable, Valuable Investments in Next Generation Grid Solutions (SAVINGS) Act) | Del. Lily Qi (15-D) | Requiring electric companies to submit to the Public Service Commission cost containment plans for electric distribution and transmission system planning on or before January 1, 2027, and every 3 years thereafter; requiring the plans to combine to reduce peak electric system loads in a certain manner; and requiring electric companies to submit certain progress reports on the implementation of the plan. | Environment and Transportation | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 3/03 at 1:00 p.m. (2/23) | |
| HB 724 | Employment Discrimination - Caregiver Status | Del. Lesley Lopez (39-D) | Prohibiting employment discrimination based on an individual's caregiver status. | Government, Labor, and Elections | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m. (2/9) | ||
| HB 737 | SB 416 | Health Maintenance Organizations - Payments to Nonparticipating Providers - Reimbursement Rate | Del. Terri Hill (12A-D) | Altering the reimbursement rate at which health maintenance organizations are required to pay certain nonparticipating health care providers for services. | Health | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/19 at 1:30 p.m. (2/19) | |
| HB 796 | Recycling - Prohibition on the Chemical Conversion of Plastic | Del. Jen Terrasa (13-D) | Altering the definition of recycling to exclude certain chemical conversion processes, pyrolysis, hydropyrolysis, methanolysis, gasification, enzymatic breakdown, or similar processes as determined by the Department of the Environment; and prohibiting a person from building in the State a facility that converts plastic to fuel or feedstock through a chemical conversion process. | Environment and Transportation | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m. (2/5) | ||
| HB 801 | Income Tax - Addition Modifications - Business Stock Gains, Fines, Penalties, and Bonus Depreciation | Del. Elizabeth Embry (43A-D) | Providing an addition modification under the Maryland income tax for the gain from the sale or exchange of certain small business stock excluded from federal gross income and a certain amount of fines, penalties, and trade or business expenses; providing certain modifications to the federal adjusted gross income of an individual or federal taxable income of a corporation for Maryland income tax purposes relating to certain deductions under the federal income tax for the depreciation of certain property; etc. | Ways and Means | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m. (2/5) | ||
| HB 862 | SB 156 | Railroads - Required Crew for Movement of Freight | Del. Dana Stein (11B-D) | Prohibiting a railroad train used in connection with the movement of freight from being operated in the State unless it has at least two crew members, subject to certain exceptions; providing a penalty for a first offense of up to $10,000 or in the case of a willful violation within the immediately preceding 3 years, or a fine of up to $25,000; etc. | Environment and Transportation | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m. (2/5) | |
| HB 864 | SB 964 | Public Works Contracts - Apprenticeship Requirements (Maryland Workforce Apprenticeship Utilization Act) | Del. Melissa Wells (40-D) | Altering certain apprenticeship requirements relating to public works contracts to require certain contractors and subcontractors to employ a certain number of qualified apprentices or journeyworkers necessary to meet a certain applicable percentage for the project; altering which projects are subject to certain apprenticeship requirements; repealing certain provisions of law that authorize contractors and subcontractors to make certain payments to a certain apprenticeship program in lieu of employing certain apprentices; etc. | Government, Labor, and Elections | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m. (2/9) | |
| HB 870 | Maryland Building Performance Standards - Energy Conservation Requirements (Large Buildings for Tomorrow Act) | Del. Marc Korman (16-D) | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to adopt, by October 1, 2028, and as part of the Maryland Building Performance Standards, energy conservation requirements for the new construction of buildings that are subject to the Building Energy Performance Standards adopted by the Maryland Department of the Environment. | Environment and Transportation | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m. (2/5) | ||
| HB 880 | Maryland Income Tax - Decoupling From Amendments to the Internal Revenue Code - Depreciation and Business Interest Expenses | Del. Julie Carr (17-D) | Providing certain modifications to the federal adjusted gross income of an individual or federal taxable income of a corporation for Maryland income tax purposes relating to certain deductions under the federal income tax for depreciation of certain property and certain business interest expenses; etc. | Ways and Means | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m. (2/5) | ||
| HB 883 | Consumer Protection - Artificial Intelligence - Behavioral Health Care Prohibitions | Del. Lily Qi (15-D) | Prohibiting a developer of artificial intelligence from making, or knowingly causing artificial intelligence to make, certain representations or statements relating to behavioral health care subject to a civil penalty not exceeding $1,000,000; requiring a developer artificial intelligence sold, leased, given, or otherwise provided to consumers in the State to include a certain notice or protocols; authorizing the Attorney General to bring an action for an alleged violation of the Act; etc. | Economic Matters Health |
Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 3/03 at 1:00 p.m. (Economic Matters) and Hearing canceled (Health) (2/13) | ||
| HB 895 | SB 387 | Food Retailers - Dynamic Pricing, Surveillance Data, and Collective Bargaining Agreements (Protection From Predatory Pricing Act) | The Speaker | Prohibiting a food retailer from engaging in the practice of dynamic pricing or using consumer surveillance data to set a price for consumer goods or services; prohibiting a food retailer from using protected class data to offer, advertise, or sell a consumer good or service under certain circumstances; prohibiting a food retailer from diminishing or impairing any right or benefit guaranteed to employees of the food retailer under an existing collective bargaining agreement or memorandum of understanding; etc. | Economic Matters | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 3/03 at 1:00 p.m. (2/9) | |
| HB 905 | SB 547 | Recipients of State and Local Government Funding - Reporting (Buy Maryland Reporting Requirements) | Del. Denise Roberts (25-D) | Requiring a unit of State and local government and a person that receives funding from the State operating or capital budget to report on or before October 15 each year to the Comptroller certain information regarding the use of the funds; requiring a certain individual or corporation that receives payments from a unit of State and local government for providing goods or services to the unit to include certain information on the individual's or corporation's income tax return or declaration; etc. | Ways and Means | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m. (2/6) | |
| HB 926 | Income Tax - Individual Itemized Deductions - Alterations | Del. Sheila Ruth (44B-D) | Requiring, for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2024, but before January 1, 2030, that certain individuals reduce their federal itemized deduction for purposes of determining their Maryland itemized deductions by the amount claimed as taxes paid on real property. | Ways and Means | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m. (2/5) | ||
| HB 944 | SB 494 | Maryland Health Care Commission - Certificates of Need and Material Change Transactions | Del. Bonnie Cullison (19-D) | Repealing the exemption from the certificate of need requirement for certain mergers; requiring certain health care entities to provide certain notice of a material change transaction to the Maryland Health Care Commission and the public; establishing a public interest review process for material change transactions, including criteria for determining whether a material change transaction is subject to a public interest review; etc. | Health | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m. (2/9) | |
| HB 981 | Investor-Owned Public Service Companies - Base Rate Proceeding - Equity Market Return | Del. Andre Johnson (34A-D) | Requiring the Public Service Commission, in a base rate proceeding, to determine a certain equity market return for certain public service companies; and authorizing the Commission to adjust certain rates based on the equity market return. | Environment and Transportation | Oppose |
In the House - Withdrawn by Sponsor (3/2) | ||
| HB 983 | State Tax Credits, Modifications, and Exemptions - Alterations and Repeal | Del. Julie Carr (17-D) | Altering the Enterprise Zone Program; altering and repealing certain credits, exemptions, and deductions to the State income, motor fuel, sales and use, tobacco, and property taxes; providing an addition modification under the Maryland income tax for the entire amount of certain deductions under the Internal Revenue Code for dividends paid for real estate investment trusts; requiring the Department of Commerce to evaluate the film production activity tax credit and submit a certain report on or before December 1, 2026; etc. | Economic Matters Ways and Means |
Oppose |
In the House - Hearing canceled (Ways and Means) (3/3) | ||
| HB 992 | SB 655 | Electronic Device Producer Responsibility Program - Established | Del. Dana Stein (11B-D) | Altering the contents and use of the State Recycling Trust Fund; establishing a separate covered electronic device producer responsibility program plan and annual report, registration, and review fee account within the Fund; repealing certain provisions of law relating to existing covered electronic device takeback programs; altering certain provisions of law relating to registration fees for certain manufacturers of covered electronic devices; etc. | Environment and Transportation | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/27 at 1:30 p.m. (2/26) | |
| HB 1016 | SB 900 | Labor and Employment - Noncompete and Conflict of Interest Clauses - Employer Relocation | Del. Andrew Pruski (33A-D) | Applying certain provisions of law establishing that certain noncompete and conflict of interest provisions in certain employment contracts are null and void as being against the public policy of the State to employees of certain employers that relocate, reorganize, or otherwise cease to have the majority of its employees or principal place of business located in the State. | Government, Labor, and Elections | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m. (2/9) | |
| HB 1022 | SB 686 | PFAS Chemicals - Product Phase Outs and Registration Requirements | Del. Sheila Ruth (44B-D) | Prohibiting manufacturers from selling, offering for sale, distributing, or distributing for sale in the State, certain products containing intentionally added per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) chemicals on or after certain dates; establishing registration requirements for certain products that contain intentionally added PFAS chemicals; providing for the testing of certain products to determine compliance with the Act; etc. | Health Environment and Transportation |
Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m. (Health) and Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m. (Environment and Transportation) (3/4) | |
| HB 1037 | SB 605 | Public Service Commission - Broadband and Voice Over Internet Protocol Service - Oversight (Broadband Accountability and Affordability Act) | Del. Linda Foley (15-D) | Authorizing the Public Service Commission to exercise certain oversight of broadband service and voice over Internet protocol service; requiring the Commission to assess the adequacy of certain plans for each Internet service provider; authorizing the Commission to conduct certain evaluations or audits and require certain remedial action under certain circumstances; and repealing provisions of law prohibiting the Commission from regulating voice over Internet protocol service. | Environment and Transportation | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 3/03 at 1:00 p.m. (2/12) | |
| HB 1080 | Income Tax - Addition Modifications - Excluded Opportunity Fund Gains, Foreign-Derived Deduction Eligible Income, and Interest | Del. Jared Solomon (18-D) | Prohibiting the Governor, on or after July 4, 2025, from nominating a census tract for designation as a qualified opportunity zone; providing an addition modification under the Maryland income tax for the capital gains from certain qualified opportunity funds; providing an addition modification under the Maryland corporate income tax for certain foreign-derived deduction eligible income and the amount of interest paid on loans that secure certain rural property; etc. | Ways and Means | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m. (2/10) | ||
| HB 1089 | Consumer Protection - Data Broker Registry - Establishment | Del. Chao Wu (9A-D) | Establishing a data broker registry; defining "data broker" as a business that knowingly collects and sells or licenses personal consumer data to third parties with whom the consumer does not have a direct relationship; requiring certain data brokers to register each year with the Office of the Attorney General; requiring a data broker to report certain material changes to the Office of the Attorney General; and requiring the Office of the Attorney General to establish a certain publicly accessible, searchable database. | Economic Matters | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m. (2/17) | ||
| HB 1105 | SB 979 | Statute of Limitations - Prosecution or Enforcement of Local Consumer Protection Codes | Del. Elizabeth Embry (43A-D) | Increasing from 1 year to 3 years the statute of limitations for the prosecution or suit for enforcement of local consumer protection codes for which equitable relief, a fine, or a penalty is provided. | Judiciary | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m. (2/16) | |
| HB 1108 | SB 887 | Labor and Employment - Greenhouse Workers - Collective Bargaining and Heat Protection | Del. Vaughn Stewart (19-D) | Establishing collective bargaining rights for employees of employers who operate controlled-environment agricultural operations; requiring the Secretary of Labor to establish by regulation certain procedures related to collective bargaining; authorizing the Secretary to investigate violations regarding and enforce certain provisions of the Act related to collective bargaining; and requiring employers who operate controlled-environment agricultural operations to provide to their employees certain rest breaks under certain circumstances. | Government, Labor, and Elections | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m. (2/16) | |
| HB 1165 | SB 673 | State Procurement - Apprenticeship Program Accountability and Completion | Del. Nicole Williams (22-D) | Requiring certain apprenticeship programs utilized in certain State procurements to have at least a 25% completion rate, as determined by the Maryland Department of Labor. | Government, Labor, and Elections | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m. (2/19) | |
| HB 1175 | Land Use - Residential Housing - Oversight, Regulation, and Taxation (Building Affordably in My Back Yard Act) | Del. Nick Allen (8-D) | Establishing certain policies and processes to facilitate the development of residential housing in the State; requiring an entity that owns residential real property in the State to make a certain certification to the Department of Housing and Community Development; authorizing a local jurisdiction to establish an administrative process to review, approve, modify, or deny certain housing development project applications; etc. | Economic Matters Ways and Means |
Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 3/05 at 1:30 p.m. (Economic Matters) (3/3) | ||
| HB 1213 | State Transfer Tax - Rate - Alterations (Housing Affordability for Buyers and Sellers) | Del. Sheila Ruth (44B-D) | Altering the State transfer tax rate and applying the Act to instruments of writing recorded on or after July 1, 2026. | Ways and Means | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 3/03 at 1:00 p.m. (2/11) | ||
| HB 1220 | SB 616 | Business Regulation - Data Broker Registry | Del. Jared Solomon (18-D) | Establishing a data broker registry; requiring by January 31 each year a business entity that acted as a data broker during the previous calendar year to submit a certain form to the Comptroller and pay a fee determined by the Comptroller; requiring the Comptroller to make the information submitted by business entities publicly available on the Office's website; requiring the Comptroller to report certain information to the General Assembly by December 31 annually; etc. | Economic Matters | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 3/03 at 1:00 p.m. (2/18) | |
| HB 1229 | SB 886 | Consumer Protection and Labor and Employment - Food Service Facilities and Minimum Wage | Del. Vaughn Stewart (19-D) | Establishing that every person, as a central component of an individual's right to liberty and equality, has the fundamental right while engaged in employment in the State to be paid at a wage rate that is at least equal to the State minimum wage rate set by law without regard to tips that the individual receives; repealing exemptions from Maryland Wage and Hour Law; specifying the State minimum wage rate and tip credit amount that is in effect for certain time periods; etc. | Government, Labor, and Elections | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m. (2/16) | |
| HB 1238 | Taxation - Ultra-High-Net-Worth Individual Surtax and Wealth Tax | Del. Gabriel Acevero (39-D) | Imposing a surtax on the Maryland taxable income of individuals with a net worth in excess of $1,000,000,000; providing for the calculation, administration, and enforcement of the surtax; imposing a one-time wealth tax on the amount by which the net worth of a Maryland resident exceeds a certain amount; providing for the calculation, administration, collection, and enforcement of the one-time wealth tax; etc. | Ways and Means | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m. (2/12) | ||
| HB 1241 | Labor and Employment - Bereavement Leave - Qualified Relationships | Del. Gabriel Acevero (39-D) | Altering categories of individuals whose deaths would allow an employee to use leave with pay for bereavement leave under a certain provision of law to include an individual with whom the employee had a qualified relationship; and defining "qualified relationship" to include an immediate family member, a grandparent, sibling, domestic partner, step-relation, adoptive relation, foster relation, and a de facto relation. | Government, Labor, and Elections | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m. (2/16) | ||
| HB 1250 | SB 827 | Consumer Protection and Product Liability - Chatbots | Del. Lily Qi (15-D) | Regulating the manner in which a developer designs and creates and an operator makes available to users in the State a chatbot, including establishing safety and privacy protections for users; establishing, an enhanced protection for users who are minors under the age of 13 years; requiring the display of certain warnings when using a chatbot; establishing that a chatbot is considered a product for certain product liability actions; applying certain provisions of the Act to governmental units; etc. | Economic Matters | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 3/03 at 1:00 p.m. (2/18) | |
| HB 1253 | Gas Companies - Infrastructure Investments - Cost Recovery and Customer Notification (Break STRIDE Act) | Del. Dylan Behler (30A-D) | Repealing certain provisions authorizing a gas company to file a plan to invest in eligible infrastructure replacement projects with the Public Service Commission and recover related costs through a certain surcharge; prohibiting the Commission from allowing a gas company or a combination gas and electric company to recover certain infrastructure replacement costs using an alternative form of regulation beginning on October 1, 2026; etc. | Environment and Transportation | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m. (2/13) | ||
| HB 1261 | Consumer Protection - Artificial Intelligence Toys (Artificial Intelligence Toy Safety Act) | Del. Derrick Coley (24-D) | Establishing certain child safety and data privacy requirements for certain toys featuring artificial intelligence; requiring an artificial intelligence toy to contain certain labeling; prohibiting the manufacturer of an artificial intelligence toy from using certain data for certain marketing; etc. | Economic Matters | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 3/03 at 1:00 p.m. (2/18) | ||
| HB 1268 | SB 781 | Environmental Permits - Requirements for Burden Analysis, Issuance and Renewal, and Public Participation (Cumulative Harms for Environmental Restoration for Improving Shared Health - CHERISH Our Communities Act) | Del. Dylan Behler (30A-D) | Requiring an application for the issuance or renewal of a covered individual environmental permit for a site or facility located within an at-risk census tract after a certain date to include in the permit application a report describing the environmental and public health burdens in the at-risk census tract; requiring the Department of the Environment to issue a determination as to whether approving a covered individual environmental permit will cause or contribute to adverse environmental or public health stressors; etc. | Environment and Transportation | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m. (2/17) | |
| HB 1271 | Reparations - Board, Fund, and Excise Tax on Endowments - Establishment | Del. Malcolm Ruff (41-D) | Establishing the Reparations Board to make certain examinations regarding reparations payments and make recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly to provide grants to persons impacted by historic inequality; imposing an excise tax on nonpublic institutions that have an endowment of at least $2,000,000,000; requiring the revenue from the endowment excise tax to be deposited into the Maryland Reparations Fund to provide grants to persons impacted by historic inequality; etc. | Ways and Means Government, Labor, and Elections |
Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m. (Government, Labor, and Elections) (2/19) | ||
| HB 1307 | State Finance and Procurement - Employers Receiving State Public Funds - Unfair Labor Practices | Del. C. Wilson (28-D) | Requiring certain employers that receive $250,000 or more in State public funds as part of a single transaction or contract with the State, as a condition of receiving the funds, to agree not to engage in certain unfair labor practices and to make other related agreements and acknowledgements; authorizing the State to recapture the State public funds received by an employer who violates certain agreements; etc. | Government, Labor, and Elections | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing canceled (3/3) | ||
| HB 1356 | SB 857 | Labor and Employment - Civic and Related Activities - Protection (Maryland Employee Civic Activity and Lawful Expression Protection Act) | Del. Lesley Lopez (39-D) | Authorizing an employer to require an applicant to disclose the applicant's engagement in certain actions only if the disclosure is related to certain job requirements; prohibiting an employer from taking certain adverse action against an employee if the employee engages in certain activity; and providing that adverse action taken against an employee within 120 days after the employee engages in activity protected under the Act creates a rebuttable presumption of retaliation. | Government, Labor, and Elections | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m. (2/20) | |
| HB 1411 | Data Center Planning and Transparency Act | Del. Sheila Ruth (44B-D) | Requiring an owner or operator of a large-scale data center to submit a disclosure report to certain State and local agencies and elected officials under certain circumstances; specifying the contents of the disclosure report; requiring the Department of the Environment to publish the disclosure report on its website within 30 days of receiving the report; requiring, by June 30, 2027, each local jurisdiction with a population of at least 10,000 residents to adopt by local law a large-scale data center plan; etc. | Environment and Transportation | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m. (2/13) | ||
| HB 1460 | Landlord and Tenant - Investor-Owned Single-Family Rental Property - Landlord Requirements | Del. Deni Taveras (47B-D) | Prohibiting a landlord of an investor-owned single-family rental property from charging a tenant more than a certain amount in rent, utilities, and additional mandatory fees; requiring a landlord to disclose the fair market rent, last sale price of a home, and the maximum allowable rent to a tenant or prospective tenant; authorizing the Department of Housing and Community Development or the Office of the Attorney General to impose certain penalties under certain circumstances; etc. | Economic Matters | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 3/12 at 1:00 p.m. (2/17) | ||
| HB 1475 | Consumer Protection - Dynamic Pricing Disclosure and Prohibition on Rent-Setting | The Speaker | Prohibiting a merchant from setting the price of consumer goods or services using personalized algorithmic pricing and issuing a certain communication in a certain manner unless the merchant includes a certain disclosure; prohibiting a person from knowingly or recklessly operating or licensing in a certain manner to perform a coordinating function to facilitate a certain agreement; prohibiting residential rental property owners or managers from knowingly or recklessly setting or adjusting rental terms in a certain manner; etc. | Economic Matters | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 3/03 at 1:00 p.m. (2/16) | ||
| HB 1479 | Labor and Employment - Minimum Wage - Increase (Maryland Raise the Wage Act) | Del. Adrian Boafo (23-D) | Increasing the State minimum wage rate to $18 for calendar year 2028 for large employers and for calendar year 2029 for small employers; and increasing, beginning January 1, 2029, and January 1, 2030, for large employers and small employers, respectively, the State minimum wage rate in effect for certain periods of time based on annual growth in a certain consumer price index, as determined by the Commissioner of Labor and Industry. | Government, Labor, and Elections | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing canceled (3/3) | ||
| HB 1480 | SB 831 | Labor Law - Child Labor Penalties, Private Sector Employee Labor Relations, and State Employee Labor Standards | Del. Luke Clippinger (46-D) | Establishing certain civil penalties for violations of law involving the employment of minors; prohibiting employers from allowing the formation of a certain organization or entity under certain circumstances; authorizing certain private employees to petition the Public Employee Relations Board to resolve certain matters under certain circumstances; prohibiting Executive Branch units from applying for a waiver of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act; etc. | Government, Labor, and Elections | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 3/12 at 1:00 p.m. (3/2) | |
| HB 1512 | Business Regulation - Rounding Cash Transactions - Remittance to Comptroller | Del. Frank Conaway (40-D) | Requiring, if a merchant rounds up the price of a cash transaction for a good or service in a certain manner, the merchant to remit to the Comptroller the difference between the total price the customer is required to pay after the rounding occurs and the price before the rounding occurs; and requiring the Comptroller to distribute certain revenue to the General Fund of the State. | Economic Matters | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m. (2/17) | ||
| HB 1515 | Labor and Employment - Noncompete and Conflict of Interest Clauses - Employer Relocation | Del. Christopher Adams (37B-R) | Applying certain provisions of law establishing that certain noncompete and conflict of interest provisions in certain employment contracts are null and void as being against the public policy of the State to employees of certain employers that relocate majority of its employees or principal place of business outside the State. | Government, Labor, and Elections | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing canceled (3/3) | ||
| HB 1524 | Labor and Employment - Paid Leave - Attendance at School Functions | Del. Jeffrie Long (27B-D) | Requiring employers that employ 15 or more individuals or are governmental units to provide full-time and part-time employees who are parents at least 20 hours of paid leave each year to attend school functions at the public or nonpublic elementary or secondary school at which the employee's child is enrolled. | Government, Labor, and Elections | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m. (2/16) | ||
| HB 1534 | Data Centers - Standards for Operation and Siting | Del. April Miller (4-R) | Requiring an owner or operator of a data center to comply with certain standards under certain circumstances; requiring the Department of the Environment to establish by regulation certain sound and vibration controls and requirements for backup power generation for data centers; prohibiting a local approving authority from authorizing the construction of a data center on certain agricultural land; and requiring a certain applicant to submit a certain report to a local approving authority under certain cirucmstances. | Environment and Transportation | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m. (2/13) | ||
| HB 1539 | Maryland Labor Relations Act | Del. C. Wilson (28-D) | Establishing the Maryland Labor Relations Board as an independent unit of State government to oversee collective bargaining activities for certain private sector employees; establishing certain rights for employees and employers related to collective bargaining; establishing certain procedures related to elections and certification of exclusive representatives; and prohibiting an employer and employee organizations from engaging in certain unfair labor practices. | Government, Labor, and Elections | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m. (2/20) | ||
| HB 1543 | Labor and Employment - Temporary Workers | Del. Harry Bhandari (8-D) | Establishing the Temporary Worker Oversight Unit in the Maryland Department of Labor; requiring recruiters of temporary workers that operate in the State to register with the Department and post a certain bond; prohibiting employers and recruiters of temporary workers from taking certain actions; prohibiting an employer from employing a temporary worker before filing a certain affidavit; authorizing temporary workers to allow representatives of certain organizations to enter employer-provided housing; etc. | Government, Labor, and Elections | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m. (2/20) | ||
| HB 1562 | Consumer Protection - Telecommunications Service Outage - Automatic Credit (Automatic Telecommunications Service Outage Credit Act) | Del. Chao Wu (9A-D) | Requiring a commercial telecommunications service provider to automatically provide a service disruption credit to the account of a customer impacted by a material service outage; establishing the minimum amount of the credit for the service outage; and establishing that a violation of the Act is an unfair, abusive, or deceptive trade practice subject to enforcement and penalty provisions under the Maryland Consumer Protection Act. | Environment and Transportation | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m. (2/13) | ||
| HB 1584 | Delivery Network Companies and Delivery Network Services - Regulation and Transparency | Del. Vaughn Stewart (19-D) | Establishing a framework for the regulation of delivery network companies and delivery network services in the State, including establishing permitting and licensing requirements, digital network requirements, reporting requirements, and payment, earnings, and receipt requirements. | Economic Matters | Oppose |
In the House - Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m. (2/17) | ||
| HB 1595 | SB 427 | Property Taxes - Authority of Counties to Establish a Subclass and Set a Special Rate for Personal Property of Data Centers | Del. Kevin Hornberger (35B-R) | Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county to establish, by law, a subclass of personal property consisting of all the personal property of certain qualified data centers and set a special personal property tax rate for the subclass; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 2026. | Rules and Executive Nominations | Oppose |
In the House - First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations (2/15) | |
| SB 3 | HB 188 | Unemployment Insurance Modernization Act of 2026 | Sen. Benjamin Kramer (19-D) | Repealing and establishing the methodology used to calculate the weekly benefit amount; altering the taxable wage base used to determine employer contributions to the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund and the amount of earned wages subtracted from a weekly benefit amount; requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to determine and make available online the State annual average wage applicable to the rate of contribution; requiring beginning in 2027, the maximum weekly benefit to be 40% of the State average weekly wage; etc. | Finance | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 2/11 at 2:00 p.m. (1/29) | |
| SB 49 | HB 104 | Unhoused Individuals - Rights and Affirmative Defense | Sen. C. Muse (26-D) | Providing that all unhoused individuals have certain rights; stating it is the intent of the General Assembly that the Courts liberally construe the Act to maximize the protections afforded by it to unhoused individuals in the State; establishing an affirmative defense of necessity to certain criminal charges relating to trespass or disturbing the peace; and repealing the authority of a municipality to prohibit vagrancy. | Judicial Proceedings | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 1/27 at 1:00 p.m. (1/13) | |
| SB 59 | HB 437 | Transportation - Major Highway Capacity Expansion Projects and Impact Assessments (Transportation and Climate Alignment Act of 2026) | Sen. Shelly Hettleman (11-D) | Requiring the Department of Transportation, as part of the planning and implementation of certain major highway expansion projects, to perform an impact assessment of the project and develop and implement a corresponding multimodal transportation program; requiring the Department, beginning with a certain Consolidated Transportation Program, to evaluate certain major capital projects for their impact on greenhouse gas emissions and vehicle miles traveled; etc. | Budget and Taxation | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m. (2/5) | |
| SB 60 | HB 299 | Fraud Prevention, Prevailing Wage, and Living Wage - Prohibitions, Penalties, and Enforcement | Chair, Finance Committee | Prohibiting a person from knowingly making or using, or causing to be made or used, a false record or statement resulting in underpayments of unemployment insurance contributions or payment of unemployment insurance benefits of more than $15,000 in a calendar year; altering the enforcement mechanisms related to workplace fraud laws, living wage laws, and prevailing wage laws, including authorizing the Attorney General to investigate and bring suit in a certain manner; etc. | Finance | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 1/28 at 2:00 p.m. (1/19) | |
| SB 143 | Public Works Contracts - Apprenticeship Requirements (Maryland Workforce Apprenticeship Utilization Act) | Sen. Joanne Benson (24-D) | Altering certain apprenticeship requirements relating to public works contracts to require certain contractors and subcontractors to employ a certain number of qualified apprentices or journeyworkers necessary to meet a certain applicable percentage for the project; altering which projects are subject to certain apprenticeship requirements; repealing certain provisions of law that authorized contractors and subcontractors to make certain payments to a certain apprenticeship program in lieu of employing certain apprentices; etc. | Budget and Taxation Finance |
Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m. (Finance) (2/11) | ||
| SB 156 | HB 862 | Railroads - Required Crew for Movement of Freight | Sen. Arthur Ellis (28-D) | Prohibiting a railroad train used in connection with the movement of freight from being operated in the State unless it has at least two crew members, subject to certain exceptions; providing a penalty for a first offense of up to $10,000 or in the case of a willful violation within the immediately preceding 3 years, or a fine of up to $25,000; etc. | Finance | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 2/04 at 1:00 p.m. (1/21) | |
| SB 224 | HB 90 | Property Taxes - Authority of Counties to Establish a Subclass and Set a Special Rate for Commercial and Industrial Property | Sen. Karen Young (3-D) | Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county to establish, by law, a subclass of real property consisting of certain commercial and industrial property and to set a special property tax rate for certain commercial and industrial property for the purpose of financing certain transportation improvements or the approved budget of the county board of education; applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 2026; etc. | Budget and Taxation | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 1/21 at 10:00 a.m. (1/15) | |
| SB 267 | Land Use - Residential Housing - Oversight, Regulation, and Taxation (Building Affordably in My Back Yard Act) | Sen. Benjamin Brooks (10-D) | Establishing certain policies and processes to facilitate the development of residential housing in the State; requiring an entity that owns residential real property in the State to make a certain certification to the Department of Housing and Community Development; authorizing a local jurisdiction to establish an administrative process to review, approve, modify, or deny certain housing development project applications; requiring the Governor to establish certain housing production targets at certain intervals; etc. | Budget and Taxation Education, Energy, and the Environment |
Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 2/17 at 1:00 p.m. (Education, Energy, and the Environment) (1/23) | ||
| SB 269 | HB 385 | Courts and Judicial Proceedings - Evidence - Rebuttable Presumption of Medical Bills | Sen. Shaneka Henson (30-D) | Establishing a rebuttable presumption in an action for personal injury or wrongful death that a medical bill from a health care provider or an agent of the health care provider is authentic, fair, and reasonable if the bill was properly provided in discovery; and establishing that a party may overcome the presumption that a medical bill is authentic, fair, and reasonable by proving, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the medical bill, or any charge in a medical bill, is not authentic, is unfair, or is unreasonable. | Judicial Proceedings | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 2/03 at 2:00 p.m. (1/27) | |
| SB 342 | HB 331 | Maryland Beverage Container Recycling Refund and Litter Reduction Program | Sen. Benjamin Brooks (10-D) | Establishing the Maryland Beverage Container Recycling Refund and Litter Reduction Program to increase the reuse and recycling of beverage containers and reduce the litter, pollution, and costs associated with beverage containers; prohibiting a producer from selling, offering for sale, or distributing in or importing into the State a redeemable beverage container unless the producer is registered with the Department of the Environment, pays a certain fee, and is part of a beverage container stewardship organization; etc. | Education, Energy, and the Environment | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 2/10 at 1:00 p.m. (1/23) | |
| SB 387 | HB 895 | Food Retailers - Dynamic Pricing, Surveillance Data, and Collective Bargaining Agreements (Protection From Predatory Pricing Act) | The President | Prohibiting a food retailer from engaging in the practice of dynamic pricing or using consumer surveillance data to set a price for consumer goods or services; prohibiting a food retailer from using protected class data to offer, advertise, or sell a consumer good or service under certain circumstances; prohibiting a food retailer from diminishing or impairing any right or benefit guaranteed to employees of the food retailer under an existing collective bargaining agreement or memorandum of understanding; etc. | Finance | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 2/17 at 1:00 p.m. (2/6) | |
| SB 411 | HB 624 | Hospitals - Clinical Staffing Committees and Plans - Establishment (Safe Staffing Act of 2026) | Sen. Malcolm Augustine (47-D) | Requiring certain hospitals licensed in the State to establish and maintain a clinical staffing committee and to implement a clinical staffing plan; requiring each clinical staffing committee to develop a clinical staffing plan; requiring, on or before July 1 each year, each hospital's clinical staffing committee to conduct a review of the clinical staffing plan for certain purposes; requiring, on or before January 1, 2028, each hospital to implement a clinical staffing plan and assign personnel in accordance with the plan; etc. | Finance | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 2/17 at 1:00 p.m. (2/3) | |
| SB 416 | HB 737 | Health Maintenance Organizations - Payments to Nonparticipating Providers - Reimbursement Rate | Sen. Clarence Lam (12-D) | Altering the reimbursement rate at which health maintenance organizations are required to pay certain nonparticipating health care providers for services. | Finance | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m. (2/4) | |
| SB 417 | HB 45 | Labor and Employment - Mandatory Meetings on Religious or Political Matters - Employee Attendance and Participation (Maryland Worker Freedom Act) | Sen. Clarence Lam (12-D) | Prohibiting employers and their agents, representatives, and designees from taking certain actions against an employee or applicant for employment because the employee or applicant takes certain actions regarding employer-sponsored meetings during which the employer communicates the opinion of the employer regarding religious matters or political matters; authorizing an employee to file a certain complaint with the Commissioner of Labor and Industry; etc. | Finance | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m. (2/4) | |
| SB 427 | HB 1595 | Property Taxes - Authority of Counties to Establish a Subclass and Set a Special Rate for Personal Property of Data Centers | Sen. Karen Young (3-D) | Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county to establish, by law, a subclass of personal property consisting of all the personal property of certain qualified data centers and set a special personal property tax rate for the subclass; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 2026. | Budget and Taxation | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m. (2/4) | |
| SB 432 | HB 572 | Attorney General Actions and Climate Crimes Accountability Fund (Climate Crimes Accountability Act) | Sen. Sara Love (16-D) | Authorizing the Attorney General to investigate, commence, and prosecute or defend any suit or action that holds certain entities accountable for tortious or otherwise unlawful conduct that has contributed to climate change; authorizing the Attorney General to hire outside counsel to assist with an action under the Act if the Attorney General makes a certain determination; establishing the Climate Crimes Accountability Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; etc. | Judicial Proceedings Education, Energy, and the Environment |
Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 2/10 at 1:00 p.m. (Judicial Proceedings) (2/2) | |
| SB 457 | HB 78 | Property Taxes - Authority of Counties to Establish Subclasses and Set Separate Rates for Land and Improvements to Land | Sen. Jim Rosapepe (21-D) | Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county to establish subclasses of real property consisting of land and improvements to land and set separate real property tax rates for each subclass. | Budget and Taxation | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m. (2/4) | |
| SB 474 | HB 476 | Civil Actions - Noneconomic Damages - Personal Injury and Wrongful Death | Sen. Jeff Waldstreicher (18-D) | Repealing certain limitations on noneconomic damages in civil actions for personal injury or wrongful death; and applying the Act prospectively. | Judicial Proceedings | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m. (2/4) | |
| SB 494 | HB 944 | Maryland Health Care Commission - Certificates of Need and Material Change Transactions | Sen. Pamela Beidle (32-D) | Repealing the exemption from the certificate of need requirement for certain mergers; requiring certain health care entities to provide certain notice of a material change transaction to the Maryland Health Care Commission and the public; establishing a public interest review process for material change transactions, including criteria for determining whether a material change transaction is subject to a public interest review; etc. | Finance | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 2/24 at 1:00 p.m. (2/9) | |
| SB 504 | HB 711 | Data Privacy - Consumer Data, Public Records, and Message Switching System (Data Privacy Act) | Sen. Clarence Lam (12-D) | Prohibiting a certain controller from selling the personal data of a consumer to a purchaser who seeks to use the data for immigration enforcement; requiring a custodian of a public record to take reasonable steps to determine whether a public record is accessed for enforcing immigration law; requiring an entity that operates a certain message switching system to take certain actions regarding system access; requiring certain procedures of certain governmental entities to account for data containing sensitive attributes; etc. | Finance | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m. (2/11) | |
| SB 520 | Property Tax - Charter Counties - Application of County Tax Limitation on Public Safety Budget | Sen. Benjamin Kramer (19-D) | Authorizing a county council of a charter county, notwithstanding certain provisions of law, to set by simple majority vote of its members then serving a property tax rate that is higher than the property tax rate authorized under a county's charter or collect more property tax revenues than the revenues authorized under the county's charter for the purpose of funding the approved public safety budget of the county; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 2026. | Budget and Taxation | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 2/24 at 1:00 p.m. (2/5) | ||
| SB 547 | HB 905 | Recipients of State and Local Government Funding - Reporting (Buy Maryland Reporting Requirements) | Sen. Nick Charles (25-D) | Requiring a unit of State and local government and a person that receives funding from the State operating or capital budget to report on or before October 15 each year to the Comptroller certain information regarding the use of the funds; requiring a certain individual or corporation that receives payments from a unit of State and local government for providing goods or services to the unit to include certain information on the individual's or corporation's income tax return or declaration; etc. | Budget and Taxation | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 2/24 at 1:00 p.m. (2/5) | |
| SB 569 | Commercial Law - Online Data Privacy - Limits on Data Collection | Sen. Arthur Ellis (28-D) | Altering certain requirements for a controller relating to the collection of personal data; and prohibiting a controller, unless consumer consent is obtained, from collecting, processing, sharing, or selling precise geolocation data for the purpose of targeted advertising. | Finance | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m. (2/4) | ||
| SB 571 | HB 382 | Commercial Law - Broadband Access - Low-Income Consumer Programs (Maryland Broadband Opportunity and Fairness Act) | Sen. Arthur Ellis (28-D) | Requiring certain broadband providers in the State to establish a program to provide certain broadband services to eligible low-income consumers on or before December 1, 2026; authorizing the Office of Statewide Broadband in the Department of Housing and Community Development to exempt certain providers from the requirement to establish a program; altering the duties of the Office; and establishing a Broadband Affordability Advisory Board. | Finance | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m. (2/11) | |
| SB 598 | HB 723 | Electric Companies - Cost Containment Plans - Requirement (Securing Affordable, Valuable Investments in Next Generation Grid Solutions) (SAVINGS Act) | Sen. Katie Hester (9-D) | Requiring electric companies to submit to the Public Service Commission cost containment plans for electric distribution and transmission system planning on or before January 1, 2027, and every 3 years thereafter; requiring the plans to combine to reduce peak electric system loads in a certain manner; and requiring electric companies to submit certain progress reports on the implementation of the plan. | Education, Energy, and the Environment | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m. (2/23) | |
| SB 605 | HB 1037 | Public Service Commission - Broadband and Voice Over Internet Protocol Service - Oversight (Broadband Accountability and Affordability Act) | Sen. Mary Washington (43-D) | Authorizing the Public Service Commission to exercise certain oversight of broadband service and voice over Internet protocol service; requiring the Commission to assess the adequacy of certain plans for each Internet service provider; and authorizing the Commission to conduct certain evaluations or audits and require certain remedial action under certain circumstances. | Finance | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m. (2/11) | |
| SB 616 | HB 1220 | Business Regulation - Data Broker Registry | Sen. Katie Hester (9-D) | Establishing a data broker registry; requiring certain data brokers to register each year with the Comptroller; requiring by January 31 each year, a business entity that acted as a data broker during the previous calendar year to submit a certain form to the Comptroller and pay a fee determined by the Comptroller; requiring the Comptroller to make the information submitted by business entities publicly available on the Office's website; requiring the Comptroller to report certain information to the General Assembly by December 31 annually; etc. | Finance | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m. (2/11) | |
| SB 655 | HB 992 | Electronic Device Producer Responsibility Program - Established | Sen. Malcolm Augustine (47-D) | Altering the contents and use of the State Recycling Trust Fund; establishing a separate covered electronic device producer responsibility program plan and annual report, registration, and review fee account within the Fund; repealing certain provisions of law relating to existing covered electronic device takeback programs; altering certain provisions of law relating to registration fees for certain manufacturers of covered electronic devices; etc. | Education, Energy, and the Environment | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 2/24 at 1:00 p.m. (2/10) | |
| SB 673 | HB 1165 | State Procurement - Apprenticeship Program Accountability and Completion | Sen. Alonzo Washington (22-D) | Requiring certain apprenticeship programs utilized in certain State procurements to have at least a 25% completion rate, as determined by the Maryland Department of Labor. | Budget and Taxation | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m. (2/11) | |
| SB 686 | HB 1022 | PFAS Chemicals - Product Phase Outs and Registration Requirements | Sen. Sara Love (16-D) | Prohibiting manufacturers from selling, offering for sale, distributing, or distributing for sale in the State, certain products containing intentionally added per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) chemicals on or after certain dates; establishing registration requirements for certain products that contain intentionally added PFAS chemicals; providing for the testing of certain products to determine compliance with the Act; etc. | Education, Energy, and the Environment | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 2/24 at 1:00 p.m. (2/10) | |
| SB 740 | HB 480 | Transportation Network Companies - Deactivation of Operators | Sen. Benjamin Kramer (19-D) | Altering the definitions of "transportation network company" and "transportation network operator" for purposes of provisions of law regarding transportation network companies; requiring a transportation network company to maintain a deactivation policy that provides the policies and procedures for the deactivation of operators; prohibiting a transportation network company from deactivating an operator unless the deactivation is consistent with the company's deactivation policy; etc. | Finance | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m. (2/11) | |
| SB 757 | Consumer Protection - Disclosure of Tariffs and Local Sourcing | Sen. Jim Rosapepe (21-D) | Prohibiting a person from not making a certain disclosure on the price of a consumer good; requiring the Department of Commerce to develop and maintain a searchable online database to connect businesses in the State with local sources for supplies and inventory; and requiring the Department to report on or before December 31 each year on the use and effectiveness of the database. | Finance | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m. (2/12) | ||
| SB 781 | HB 1268 | Environmental Permits - Requirements for Burden Analysis, Issuance and Renewal, and Public Participation (Cumulative Harms for Environmental Restoration for Improving Shared Health - CHERISH Our Communities Act) | Sen. Benjamin Brooks (10-D) | Requiring an application for the issuance or renewal of a covered individual environmental permit for a site or facility located within an at-risk census tract after a certain date to include in the permit application a report describing the environmental and public health burdens in the at-risk census tract; requiring the Department of the Environment to issue a determination as to whether approving a covered individual environmental permit will cause or contribute to adverse environmental or public health stressors; etc. | Education, Energy, and the Environment | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 3/03 at 1:00 p.m. (2/10) | |
| SB 827 | HB 1250 | Consumer Protection and Product Liability - Chatbots | Sen. Katie Hester (9-D) | Regulating the manner in which a developer designs and creates and an operator makes available to users in the State a chatbot, including establishing safety and privacy protections for users, establishing an enhanced protection for users who are minors under the age of 13 years, and requiring the display of certain warnings when using a chatbot; establishing that a chatbot is considered a product for certain product liability actions; applying certain provisions of the Act to governmental units; etc. | Finance | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 3/12 at 1:00 p.m. (2/12) | |
| SB 831 | HB 1480 | Labor Law - Child Labor Penalties, Private Sector Employee Labor Relations, and State Employee Labor Standards | Sen. Bill Ferguson (46-D) | Establishing certain civil penalties for violations of law involving the employment of minors; prohibiting employers from allowing the formation of a certain organization or entity under certain circumstances; authorizing certain private employees to petition the Public Employee Relations Board to resolve certain matters under certain circumstances; prohibiting Executive Branch units from applying for a waiver of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act; etc. | Finance | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m. (2/12) | |
| SB 853 | Economic Development Activity - Nondisclosure Agreements | Sen. Charles Sydnor (44-D) | Prohibiting certain individuals from entering into a nondisclosure agreement with a person involved in an economic development activity, including establishing or operating a data center; including public service companies as an instrumentality of the State for the purpose of the Public Information Act; etc. | Finance Education, Energy, and the Environment |
Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m. (Education, Energy, and the Environment) (2/16) | ||
| SB 857 | HB 1356 | Labor and Employment - Civic and Related Activities - Protection (Maryland Employee Civic Activity and Lawful Expression Protection Act) | Sen. Jeff Waldstreicher (18-D) | Authorizing an employer to require an applicant to disclose the applicant's engagement in certain actions only if the disclosure is related to specific job requirements; prohibiting an employer from taking certain adverse action against an employee if the employee engages in certain activity; and providing that adverse action taken against an employee within 120 days after the employee engages in activity protected under the Act creates a rebuttable presumption of retaliation. | Finance | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m. (2/12) | |
| SB 871 | Civil Actions - Punitive Damage Awards - Surcharge | Sen. William Smith (20-D) | Providing that punitive damages may be awarded in a civil action only if the plaintiff proves by clear and convincing evidence that the defendant acted with gross negligence; requiring the State Court Administrator to assess a certain surcharge on a defendant against whom a judgment for punitive damages is entered; requiring the Administrator to deposit money collected from the surcharge into the Blueprint for Maryland's Future Fund; applying the Act prospectively; etc. | Judicial Proceedings | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m. (2/12) | ||
| SB 886 | HB 1229 | Consumer Protection and Labor and Employment - Food Service Facilities and Minimum Wage | Sen. C. Muse (26-D) | Establishing that every person, as a central component of an individual's right to liberty and equality, has the fundamental right while engaged in employment in the State to be paid at a wage rate that is at least equal to the State minimum wage rate set by law without regard to tips that the individual receives; repealing exemptions from Maryland Wage and Hour Law; specifying the State minimum wage rate and tip credit amount that is in effect for certain time periods; etc. | Finance | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m. (2/12) | |
| SB 887 | HB 1108 | Labor and Employment - Greenhouse Workers - Collective Bargaining and Heat Protection | Sen. Clarence Lam (12-D) | Establishing collective bargaining rights for employees of employers who operate controlled-environment agricultural operations; requiring the Secretary of Labor to establish by regulation certain procedures related to collective bargaining; authorizing the Secretary to investigate violations regarding and enforce certain provisions of the Act related to collective bargaining; and requiring the employers who operate controlled-environment agricultural operations to provide to their employees certain rest breaks under certain circumstances. | Finance | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m. (2/12) | |
| SB 889 | Consumer Protection and Labor and Employment - Electronic Shelving Labels and Surveillance-Based Price and Wage Setting - Prohibitions | Sen. Clarence Lam (12-D) | Prohibiting a person from engaging in surveillance-based price setting to set the price of consumer goods or services; prohibiting a food retailer from using electronic shelving labels to display the prices of consumer goods, and instead requiring the use of nondigital presentations of price; making a certain violation of the Act an unfair, abusive, or deceptive trade practice under the Maryland Consumer Protection Act; and prohibiting an employer from engaging in surveillance-based wage setting. | Finance | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 3/12 at 1:00 p.m. (2/12) | ||
| SB 900 | HB 1016 | Labor and Employment - Noncompete and Conflict of Interest Clauses - Employer Relocation | Sen. Justin Ready (5-R) | Applying certain provisions of law establishing that certain noncompete and conflict of interest provisions in certain employment contracts are null and void as being against the public policy of the State to employees of certain employers that relocate majority of its employees or principal place of business outside the State. | Finance | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m. (2/12) | |
| SB 932 | Consumer Protection - Social Media Platforms - Display of User Location | Sen. Kevin Harris (27-D) | Requiring a person that operates a social media platform to display to State users of the social media platform the general geographical location of each adult user whose account is visible to the State user on the platform. | Finance | Oppose |
In the Senate - Hearing 3/12 at 1:00 p.m. (2/12) | ||
| SB 964 | HB 864 | Public Works Contracts - Apprenticeship Requirements (Maryland Workforce Apprenticeship Utilization Act) | Sen. Cory McCray (45-D) | Altering certain apprenticeship requirements relating to public works contracts to require certain contractors and subcontractors to employ a certain number of qualified apprentices or journeyworkers necessary to meet a certain applicable percentage for the project; altering which projects are subject to certain apprenticeship requirements; repealing certain provisions of law that authorize contractors and subcontractors to make certain payments to a certain apprenticeship program in lieu of employing certain apprentices; etc. | Rules | Oppose |
In the Senate - First Reading Senate Rules (2/13) | |
| SB 979 | HB 1105 | Statute of Limitations - Prosecution or Enforcement of Local Consumer Protection Codes | Sen. Cory McCray (45-D) | Increasing from 1 year to 3 years the statute of limitations for the prosecution or suit for enforcement of local consumer protection codes for which equitable relief, a fine, or a penalty is provided. | Rules | Oppose |
In the Senate - First Reading Senate Rules (2/15) | |
| SB 987 | Corporate Income Tax - Addition Modification - Direct-to-Consumer Pharmaceutical Advertising | Sen. Karen Young (3-D) | Providing an addition modification under the corporate income tax for the amount of certain direct-to-consumer advertising expenses for certain covered drugs paid or incurred during the taxable year that are deducted under the Internal Revenue Code; providing for the distribution of revenue attributable to the addition modification; etc. | Budget and Taxation | Oppose |
In the Senate - Rereferred to Budget and Taxation (3/4) | ||
| SB 993 | HB 366 | Workers' Compensation - Exemption From Exclusivity of Remedy - Action for Wrongful Death by Nondependent Child | Sen. Carl Jackson (8-D) | Prohibiting the Maryland Workers' Compensation Act from being construed to prohibit a child of a covered employee who is determined not to be a dependent of the covered employee from filing an action for damages related to the wrongful death of the covered employee; and applying the Act prospectively. | Rules | Oppose |
In the Senate - First Reading Senate Rules (2/19) |