Maryland 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 148)

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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB969

Introduced
2/3/25  
Prohibiting the Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services from taking certain adverse employment actions against an employee or prospective employee solely because of the employee's or prospective employee's authorized use of medical cannabis; and authorizing the Department to prohibit an employee from working while impaired by cannabis or using cannabis within the 12 hours immediately precedeing the employee's shift.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB961

Introduced
2/3/25  
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain health insurers, nonprofit health services plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for single-gene and multigene pharmacogenomic testing in certain circumstances; and limiting the prior authorization requirements that certain health insurers, nonprofit health services plans, and health maintenance organizations may implement for pharmacogenomic testing.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB851

Introduced
2/3/25  
Requiring each county board of education, by September 1, 2025, and each September 1 thereafter, to publish on its website and report to the General Assembly on the number of main entrances to public school buildings in the county that are not accessible for individuals with disabilities and not in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act; requiring each local school system to send a copy of the local school system's emergency plan to the State Department of Education; requiring a certain report to the General Assembly; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB819

Introduced
2/3/25  
Authorizing a county board of education to adopt an open enrollment policy to authorize certain students to attend, free of charge, a public school in a county other than the county where the student is domiciled with the student's parent or guardian, subject to certain requirements; requiring county boards to include certain students in full-time equivalent enrollment counts; and directing certain funding to the county in which certain students are enrolled in a public school under an open enrollment policy.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB862

Introduced
2/3/25  
Refer
2/3/25  
Report Pass
3/10/25  
Engrossed
3/12/25  
Refer
3/13/25  
Report Pass
4/4/25  
Enrolled
4/7/25  
Chaptered
5/20/25  
Requiring the Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System to certify certain employer contribution rates each fiscal year; requiring the employer contribution rates to include recognition of certain administrative and operational expenses; repealing a requirement that certain administrative and operational expenses of the State Retirement and Pension System and the State Retirement Agency be funded by charging each participating employer an administrative fee for each system participant; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB877

Introduced
2/3/25  
Increasing to two the number of resident judges of the Circuit Court for Queen Anne's County.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB839

Introduced
2/3/25  
Refer
2/3/25  
Report Pass
3/3/25  
Engrossed
3/6/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Report Pass
4/7/25  
Enrolled
4/7/25  
Chaptered
5/20/25  
Authorizing certain Class A license holders in Dorchester County to conduct tastings of liquor under certain circumstances, in addition to tastings of beer and wine; and limiting the quantity of liquor allowed per individual for tastings to 0.5 ounces from each offering and 1.5 ounces from all offerings of liquor in 1 day.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB873

Introduced
2/3/25  
Refer
2/3/25  
Report Pass
3/14/25  
Engrossed
3/17/25  
Establishing the Workgroup to Study Adoption of a Statute for Assault in the Third Degree; requiring the Workgroup, if it recommends adoption of a third degree assault prohibition, to prepare draft legislation with the assistance of the Department of Legislative Services; and requiring the Workgroup to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 1, 2026.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB956

Introduced
2/3/25  
Refer
2/3/25  
Report Pass
3/10/25  
Engrossed
3/13/25  
Refer
3/14/25  
Report Pass
4/1/25  
Enrolled
4/3/25  
Chaptered
5/20/25  
Requiring a carrier to pay the same commission rates to an insurance producer for the sale of certain Medicare supplement policies without regard to whether the policies are sold during an open enrollment period, as underwritten policies, or under certain provisions of law.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB848

Introduced
2/3/25  
Refer
2/3/25  
Report Pass
3/14/25  
Engrossed
3/17/25  
Refer
3/17/25  
Report Pass
3/28/25  
Enrolled
3/31/25  
Chaptered
5/13/25  
Establishing the Public Health Abortion Grant Program to provide grants to improve access to abortion care clinical services for individuals in the State; establishing the Public Health Abortion Grant Program Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to provide grants under the Program; and requiring that certain premium funds collected by health insurance carriers be used to provide certain coverage and to support improving access to abortion care clinical services under certain circumstances.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB981

Introduced
2/3/25  
Refer
2/3/25  
Report Pass
3/10/25  
Engrossed
3/12/25  
Refer
3/13/25  
Report Pass
3/31/25  
Report Pass
3/28/25  
Enrolled
3/31/25  
Chaptered
5/20/25  
Excluding a civil action on a certain contract between a hospital and a consumer from a certain provision of law establishing the statute of limitations on civil actions on certain specialties; specifying the percentage by which a hospital is required to reduce a patient's out-of-pocket expenses under certain circumstances; adding to the notice requirements relating to a hospital's financial assistance policy; prohibiting a hospital from filing a civil action to collect a debt against a patient whose outstanding debt is at or below $500; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB983

Introduced
2/3/25  
Establishing a distributed generation certificate of public convenience and necessity to authorize the construction and operation of a certain distributed solar energy generating system; requiring the Power Plant Research Program, by July 1, 2026, to develop and submit to the Public Service Commission proposed siting and design requirements and licensing conditions; prohibiting a county from enacting certain zoning laws or adopting certain regulations regarding certain ground-mounted solar systems and facilities; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB891

Introduced
2/3/25  
Refer
2/3/25  
Report Pass
3/27/25  
Engrossed
3/28/25  
Refer
3/31/25  
Refer
4/2/25  
Report Pass
4/4/25  
Enrolled
4/7/25  
Chaptered
4/22/25  
Establishing the policy of the State to promote and encourage the creation of accessory dwelling units on land with a single-family detached dwelling unit as the primary dwelling unit in order to meet the housing needs of the citizens of the State; requiring, on or before October 1, 2026, the legislative body of certain counties or municipal corporations to adopt a local law authorizing the development of accessory dwelling units on land with a single-family detached dwelling unit as the primary dwelling unit; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB968

Introduced
2/3/25  
Refer
2/3/25  
Report Pass
3/14/25  
Engrossed
3/17/25  
Refer
3/17/25  
Report Pass
4/5/25  
Enrolled
4/7/25  
Chaptered
5/13/25  
Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to use mechanical or motorized equipment to retain, maintain, remove, or replace existing trails and remove, replace, or dispose of nonnative species within the Patuxent River Wildland to ensure clear and safe access to the wildland.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB859

Introduced
2/3/25  
Altering a certain limit on the unified credit used for determining the estate tax for decedents dying on or after a certain date; altering a certain limitation on the amount of the estate tax for decedents dying on or after a certain date; altering the definition of "qualified child" for purposes of a certain credit against the State income tax for certain dependent children; imposing a certain business transportation fee on certain taxable income of corporations and pass-through entities for certain taxable years; etc.