Maryland 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 214)

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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB862

Introduced
1/30/25  
Refer
1/30/25  
Establishing the Child Care Affordability Commission to study and make recommendations regarding obstacles and barriers to child care affordability in the State; requiring the Commission to consider certain economic measures to support working families; and requiring the Commission to submit an interim report by January 1, 2026, and a final report of its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly by December 1, 2026.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB671

Introduced
1/30/25  
Refer
1/30/25  
Report Pass
4/4/25  
Engrossed
4/4/25  
Requiring the Office of Cemetery Oversight, in consultation with the Maryland Department of Health, the Maryland Department of Labor, and the Department of the Environment, to conduct a study of the environmental and public health impacts of deathcare and funeral practices in the State; and requiring the Office to submit an interim report by July 1, 2026, and a final report by January 1, 2027, to the Governor and the General Assembly including any recommended policy changes for sustainable deathcare and funeral practices.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB903

Introduced
1/30/25  
Prohibiting the State or a local government, or an agency of the State or a local government, from filing an action for monetary damages or alleged economic damages against a business for the adverse effects of global warming or climate change in the State.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB786

Introduced
1/31/25  
Prohibiting a person from depriving an individual in a private detention facility of any right, privilege, or immunity secured or protected by the United States Constitution, the Maryland Constitution, the Maryland Declaration of Rights, or any state or federal law; authorizing the Office of the Attorney General to investigate a violation of the Act; authorizing the Office of the Attorney General to file a civil action against a person for a violation of the Act under certain circumstances; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB757

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Report Pass
4/4/25  
Engrossed
4/4/25  
Prohibiting insurance carriers that offer life insurance or disability insurance policies or contracts from unfairly discriminating against an individual by taking certain actions relating to coverage based on medical information; prohibiting certain carriers from accessing sensitive medical information without first obtaining written consent or mandating certain genetic testing or full genome sequencing for a certain purpose; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB713

Introduced
1/31/25  
Requiring each institution of higher education in the State that admits first-time undergraduate students, by July 1, 2026, to prominently display on its publicly accessible website a link to the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard website; and requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to make certain data available to institutions of higher education in the State under certain circumstances.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB703

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Report Pass
4/5/25  
Engrossed
4/5/25  
Refer
4/7/25  
Phasing in a requirement that all child support received in a month pass through to a family seeking assistance under the Family Investment Program and prohibiting the consideration of child support in computing the amount of assistance received.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB849

Introduced
2/3/25  
Refer
2/3/25  
Report Pass
3/13/25  
Engrossed
3/14/25  
Refer
3/15/25  
Report Pass
3/31/25  
Enrolled
4/5/25  
Chaptered
5/20/25  
Altering the amount the Governor is authorized to include in the annual budget for the Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening Technologies Program from $500,000 to $1,000,000; and authorizing the Secretary of Health to use up to 20% of Program funds to support research centers in the collection, analysis, and processing of Program outcome data for the purposes of assessing, maximizing, and improving the effectiveness and clinical utility of the cancer screening funded by the Program.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB909

Introduced
2/3/25  
Refer
2/3/25  
Report Pass
3/31/25  
Engrossed
4/1/25  
Refer
4/2/25  
Refer
4/2/25  
Report Pass
4/3/25  
Enrolled
4/7/25  
Establishing the Strategic Energy Planning Office; requiring the Office to develop a Comprehensive Wholesale Energy Markets and Bulk Power System Risk Report and examine certain scenarios to support the development of the Risk Report; requiring the Risk Report to assess wholesale energy market financial resource adequacy and reliability risks and to identify any necessary cost-effective solutions that ensure electric system reliability while meeting the State's energy policy goals; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB984

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Report Pass
3/10/25  
Engrossed
3/11/25  
Refer
3/12/25  
Report Pass
3/28/25  
Enrolled
4/2/25  
Chaptered
5/13/25  
Applying to electric cooperatives certain provisions of law related to rate proceedings held by the Public Service Commission to determine whether additional revenues are required to allow certain public service companies to earn the existing fair rate of return authorized in a previous base rate proceeding; and requiring the Commission to order an electric cooperative to conduct a certain public hearing.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1006

Introduced
1/31/25  
Authorizing the Talbot County Board of Education to operate all the schools within the county using a scheduling model that eliminates early dismissal days to allow for less than 180 school days if the minimal hours of attendance are met; and requiring a school operating under a certain scheduling model to provide certain employees an opportunity to make up lost wages.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB994

Introduced
1/31/25  
Requiring the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners to develop and implement, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, a course on the consequences of a conviction for felony murder for middle school students in Baltimore City public schools.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB726

Introduced
1/31/25  
Requiring the Maryland Cannabis Administration to consider certain factors in determining if a labor organization is a "bona fide labor organization"; requiring a cannabis licensee, under certain circumstances, to execute a certain labor peace agreement and to maintain and abide by the agreement; authorizing a certain labor organization to file a protest with the Administration against the renewal of a cannabis license; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB991

Introduced
1/31/25  
Refer
1/31/25  
Report Pass
3/12/25  
Engrossed
3/13/25  
Refer
3/17/25  
Report Pass
3/28/25  
Enrolled
4/2/25  
Chaptered
5/20/25  
Altering the termination date for certain provisions of law governing the Minority Business Enterprise Program and its application to public-private partnerships, offshore wind projects, video lottery terminals, and sports wagering licenses; and altering the date by which certain reports, studies, and guidelines must be submitted.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB725

Introduced
1/31/25  
Authorizing the awarding of an additional video lottery operation license and up to 1,500 additional video lottery terminals for a video lottery facility in Charles County on a vessel on the Potomac River that can be accessed by the pier in Colonial Beach, Virginia; and authorizing the Governor to reconstitute the Video Lottery Facility Location Commission for the purpose of awarding the license.