Maryland 2023 Regular Session All Bills (Page 117)

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Maryland 2023 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB433

Introduced
2/2/23  
Establishing the Woman- and Minority-Owned Shellfish Aquaculture Enterprise Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to assist woman- and minority-owned businesses entering into or expanding in the shellfish aquaculture industry; requiring the Maryland Agricultural and Resource-Based Industry Development Corporation to develop partnerships with certain entities to facilitate the award of loans from the Fund and identify potential loan recipients; and requiring interest earnings of the Fund to be credited to the Fund.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB568

Introduced
2/3/23  
Prohibiting a public school from prohibiting a student from organizing or participating in a student-organized peaceful demonstration, imposing certain limits on a student's right to free speech while participating in a student-organized peaceful demonstration, or disciplining a student for organizing or participating in a student-organized peaceful demonstration under certain circumstances; and requiring each county board of education to develop a written policy regarding student-organized peaceful demonstrations.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB506

Introduced
2/3/23  
Refer
2/3/23  
Report Pass
3/17/23  
Engrossed
3/20/23  
Refer
3/20/23  
Report Pass
3/31/23  
Enrolled
4/10/23  
Chaptered
4/24/23  
Granting the Town of Forest Heights in Prince George's County the authority to exercise urban renewal powers in areas zoned for commercial use for blight clearance and redevelopment under Article III, Section 61 of the Maryland Constitution; and authorizing the municipality to levy certain taxes and issue general obligation bonds and revenue bonds to carry out urban renewal powers.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB419

Introduced
2/2/23  
Altering the requirements of the school health services program to allow participation by certain nonpublic schools; prohibiting a county board of education from expending more than $40 per student, adjusted for inflation, to provide school health services to students in certain nonpublic schools; prohibiting a county board from providing adequate school health services in nonpublic schools that discriminate in certain ways; and requiring the Governor to provide $4,000,000 in the annual budget bill starting in fiscal year 2025 for the program.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB580

Introduced
2/3/23  
Prohibiting a person from carrying or displaying a firearm on the premises of a privately or publicly owned building being used as a polling site during an election, including a parking lot, or carrying or possessing a firearm within 100 feet of a polling site during an election, subject to certain exceptions.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB556

Introduced
2/3/23  
Refer
2/3/23  
Report Pass
3/6/23  
Engrossed
3/10/23  
Refer
3/13/23  
Report Pass
4/7/23  
Enrolled
4/8/23  
Chaptered
5/3/23  
Renaming the Alcohol and Tobacco Commission to be the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission; establishing the Maryland Cannabis Administration as an independent unit of State government; establishing a regulatory and licensing system for adult-use cannabis; imposing a sales and use tax of 9% on the sale of cannabis; requiring the Administration, by July 1, 2023, to convert medical cannabis licenses to licenses to operate a medical and adult-use cannabis business; etc.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB494

Introduced
2/3/23  
Refer
2/3/23  
Report Pass
3/9/23  
Engrossed
3/14/23  
Requiring the Secretary of the Budget and Management to assign certain employees of the State Department of Education to the executive, management, professional, and skilled services of the State Personnel Management System and to assign certain employees to certain bargaining units; and requiring that these employees suffer no diminution of pay or benefits.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB435

Introduced
2/2/23  
Refer
2/2/23  
Report Pass
3/2/23  
Engrossed
3/7/23  
Refer
3/9/23  
Report Pass
3/30/23  
Enrolled
4/5/23  
Chaptered
5/8/23  
Requiring a county or municipal corporation to define, by law, who is a law enforcement officer or rescue worker; and altering eligibility for the tax credit to include certain disabled law enforcement officers or rescue workers who were domiciled in the State within a certain number of years before the officer or worker died or was determined to be disabled; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 2023.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB457

Introduced
2/3/23  
Refer
2/3/23  
Report Pass
3/2/23  
Engrossed
3/7/23  
Refer
3/9/23  
Report Pass
4/4/23  
Enrolled
4/7/23  
Chaptered
4/24/23  
Authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of St. Mary's County, from time to time, to borrow not more than $56,000,000 in order to finance the construction, improvement, or development of certain public facilities in St. Mary's County, and to effect such borrowing by the issuance and sale at public or private sale of its general obligation bonds; etc.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB526

Introduced
2/3/23  
Refer
2/3/23  
Report Pass
3/29/23  
Engrossed
3/30/23  
Refer
3/31/23  
Refer
4/5/23  
Report Pass
4/7/23  
Enrolled
4/10/23  
Chaptered
5/8/23  
Altering the definition of "qualified conservation" for purposes of provisions of law related to forest mitigation banks; altering exemptions from certain afforestation, reforestation, and preservation requirements; altering certain methods of calculating forest afforestation, reforestation, and preservation requirements; adding certain tree plantings and practices as methods that certain municipal corporations may use to meet afforestation or reforestation requirements; providing for judicial review of certain plans; etc.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB497

Introduced
2/3/23  
Refer
2/3/23  
Report Pass
3/30/23  
Engrossed
3/31/23  
Refer
3/31/23  
Refer
4/5/23  
Report Pass
4/6/23  
Enrolled
4/7/23  
Chaptered
5/3/23  
Designating Maryland Rye or Maryland Rye Whiskey as the State spirit.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB622

Introduced
2/3/23  
Refer
2/3/23  
Report Pass
3/13/23  
Engrossed
3/15/23  
Refer
3/16/23  
Report Pass
4/6/23  
Enrolled
4/8/23  
Chaptered
5/8/23  
Establishing the Industry 4.0 Technology Grant Program in the Department of Commerce to provide grants to certain small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises to assist those manufacturers with implementing new Industry 4.0 technology or related infrastructure for certain purposes; establishing the Industry 4.0 Technology Grant Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; and requiring the Governor to include in the budget bill for fiscal years 2025 through 2028 an appropriation of $1,000,000 to the Fund.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB430

Introduced
2/2/23  
Authorizing the Director of the State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency to issue certain fraternal organizations a license for not more than five instant ticket lottery machines; providing that proceeds from instant ticket lottery machine sales by a fraternal organization are to be distributed in a certain manner; and declaring the intent of the General Assembly that the Agency solicit proposals from multiple vendors for the lease or purchase of instant ticket lottery machines under the Act.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB604

Introduced
2/3/23  
Exempting from certain requirements relating to the offering of health benefit plans to individuals and small employers in the State health benefit plans issued through a professional employer organization, coemployer, or other organization that engages in employee leasing.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB460

Introduced
2/3/23  
Refer
2/3/23  
Report Pass
3/17/23  
Engrossed
3/20/23  
Refer
3/21/23  
Report Pass
3/29/23  
Enrolled
3/31/23  
Chaptered
5/3/23  
Requiring, beginning on January 1, 2023, the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide gender-affirming treatment in a nondiscriminatory manner; requiring that the gender-affirming treatment be assessed according to nondiscriminatory criteria that are consistent with current clinical standards; prohibiting the issuance of an adverse benefit determination related to gender-affirming treatment unless a certain experienced health care provider has reviewed and confirmed the appropriateness of the determination; etc.