Maryland 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 175)

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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB822

Introduced
2/3/25  
Providing a credit against the State, county, and municipal corporation property tax imposed on certain nonprimary residences under certain circumstances; providing that "nonprimary residence" does not include residential real property that is held primarily for rental, investment, or the generation of income; and requiring the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City and the governing body of each county and municipal corporation to set a certain nonprimary residence credit percentage for purposes of calculating the credit.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB887

Introduced
2/3/25  
Refer
2/3/25  
Report Pass
3/10/25  
Engrossed
3/12/25  
Refer
3/14/25  
Authorizing a county board of education to reappoint an incumbent county superintendent in a certain manner; and authorizing a county board to take action at a public meeting to reappoint the incumbent superintendent at any time after the end of the second year of the incumbent superintendent's term but not later than March 1 of the year in which the contract is being renewed to serve a new term of 4 years beginning the immediately following July 1.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB837

Introduced
2/3/25  
Prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from using federal funds for oyster restoration projects in State waters from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2030, both inclusive, subject to a certain exception.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB853

Introduced
2/3/25  
Prohibiting the Public Service Commission from authorizing, and a person from undertaking, the construction of an overhead transmission line outside of an existing transmission line right-of-way unless the applicant adequately demonstrates to the Commission that existing transmission line rights-of-way are not sufficient for the proposed overhead transmission line.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB938

Introduced
2/3/25  
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 a certain amount; altering the enforcement mechanisms of the Maryland Wage and Hour Law, the Maryland Wage Payment and Collection Law, workplace fraud laws, living wage laws, and prevailing wage laws; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB957

Introduced
2/3/25  
Altering the definition of "corporation" for the purpose of provisions relating to the provision of mortuary sciences and the operation of a funeral establishment to include a not-for-profit organization that is exempt from taxation under a certain provision of federal law; and authorizing the State Board of Morticians and Funeral Directors to issue and renew a license to practice funeral direction to a certain not-for-profit organization.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB974

Introduced
2/3/25  
Prohibiting the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations from applying a prior authorization requirement, step therapy protocol, or fail-first protocol for a nonopioid drug used for the treatment of pain that is more restrictive than any prior authorization requirement, step therapy protocol, or fail-first protocol applied to an opioid or narcotic drug used for the treatment of pain; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB902

Introduced
2/3/25  
Refer
2/3/25  
Report Pass
3/10/25  
Engrossed
3/12/25  
Refer
3/13/25  
Report Pass
3/28/25  
Enrolled
3/31/25  
Chaptered
5/20/25  
Repealing the June 30, 2025, termination date for certain provisions of law related to referrals to and reimbursement of specialists and nonphysician specialists who are not part of a carrier's provider panel; prohibiting certain carriers from imposing utilization review requirements other than would be required if the covered benefit was provided by a provider on the carrier's provider panel under certain circumstances; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB935

Introduced
2/3/25  
Authorizing certain counties to impose certain transportation authority sales tax surcharges, hotel surcharges, and transfer tax surcharges; establishing the Baltimore region, Capital region, and Southern Maryland region transportation authorities to develop and implement certain transportation plans; establishing the Baltimore region, Capital region, and Southern Maryland region transportation funds as special, nonlapsing funds; requiring interest earnings of the funds to be credited to the funds; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB925

Introduced
2/3/25  
Refer
2/3/25  
Report Pass
3/26/25  
Engrossed
3/27/25  
Authorizing a person who is at least 21 years of age to manufacture a personal use amount of cannabis products or concentrated cannabis for personal use or adult sharing at a private residence if the manufacturing process does not involve the use of a volatile solvent; specifying that manufacturing, distributing, dispensing, or possessing certain large quantities of certain controlled dangerous substances is a felony; altering the penalties for being a volume dealer and drug kingpin with regard to cannabis; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB836

Introduced
2/3/25  
Decreasing, over 5 taxable years, the State corporate income tax rate from 8.25% to 6.25%.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB960

Introduced
2/3/25  
Establishing that regulations of the Department of Natural Resources governing the catching of blue catfish shall establish a pilot program authorizing the use of electrofishing, shall authorize the use of finfish trotlines of up to 2,400 feet in length, may not set a limit on the number of hooks used, and shall authorize the use of hooks that are not corrodible; and requiring the Department of Agriculture to report on or before September 1, 2025, outlining needs and best practices for collecting, processing, and marketing blue catfish.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB857

Introduced
2/3/25  
Altering the use of Prekindergarten Expansion Grants to add slots for additional children and not supplant child care slots for infants and toddlers; requiring applications for the grant to use certain terminology and be accompanied by certain instructions; requiring the State Department of Education to establish a multiyear grant award process; requiring the Department to convene a workgroup to explore and make recommendations on opportunities to incentivize growth in certain child care providers with slots for infants and toddlers; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB963

Introduced
2/3/25  
Refer
2/3/25  
Report Pass
3/10/25  
Engrossed
3/12/25  
Refer
3/13/25  
Report Pass
4/2/25  
Enrolled
4/3/25  
Chaptered
5/6/25  
Establishing the Abandoned and Neglected Cemeteries Fund to provide for the care, preservation, maintenance, and restoration of abandoned and neglected cemeteries in the State; authorizing the Governor to include in the budget bill an appropriation of $250,000 to the Fund; and requiring an annual report by September 30 to the General Assembly on the donations to the Fund, promotional efforts undertaken with money from the Fund, and a detailed accounting of the use of the Fund.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB823

Introduced
2/3/25  
Establishing consumer protections related to service fees charged by food service facilities; specifying the State minimum wage rate; prohibiting, beginning July 1, 2028, employers of tipped employees from including a tip credit amount as part of the employees' wages; allowing a subtraction under the State income tax for certain qualified tips received by certain individuals; and allowing a person a credit against the State income tax for certain amounts paid to an employee based on the payment of certain wages and tips.