Maryland 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 207)

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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB257

Introduced
1/8/24  
Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/24  
Establishing a Food Forests and Foraging Program on areas owned or managed by the Department of Natural Resources; defining "foraging" as harvesting plant materials, including seeds, nuts, mushrooms, roots, tubers, and berries for noncommercial personal consumption; requiring individuals who forage in a food forest to obtain a permit; requiring the Department to charge a permit application fee and establish a fee waiver process for individuals who demonstrate financial need; establishing the Food Forests and Foraging Fund; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB110

Introduced
1/8/24  
Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/24  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
3/3/25  
Engrossed
3/6/25  
Prioritizing the payment of unpaid child support over certain other claims on an estate of a decedent with insufficient assets to pay all claims in full.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB134

Introduced
1/8/24  
Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/24  
Establishing the On-Farm Organics Diversion and Recycling Grant Program in the Department of Agriculture to award grants to eligible entities to develop and implement on-farm organics recycling and compost use, wasted food prevention, and food rescue; establishing a solid waste disposal surcharge on the final disposal of solid waste in the State; requiring the Department to report to the General Assembly yearly beginning December 31, 2027, on the grants awarded, and the impact on jobs creation, producers, and food waste reduction; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB42

Introduced
1/8/24  
Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/24  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
2/19/25  
Engrossed
2/28/25  
Requiring the Department of the Environment to designate the watersheds of Carroll Creek in Frederick City and Frederick County, Gwynns Falls and Jones Falls in Baltimore City and Baltimore County, and Herring Run, including the Herring Run Stream in Baltimore City and Baltimore County and all their headwaters and tributaries as interjurisdictional flood hazard watersheds.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB56

Introduced
1/8/24  
Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/24  
Prohibiting a State correctional facility and a telephone service provider from charging an incarcerated individual or a third party, for an incarcerated individual's use of telephone equipment or telephone services while in the facility; requiring a State correctional facility to pay any costs charged by a telephone service provider; and establishing the Costs of Telephone Communications Advisory Committee to review prison and jail phone call programs and report to the Governor and General Assembly by December 31, 2025.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB254

Introduced
1/8/24  
Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/24  
Prohibiting a public library, a recipient of a certain award from the Department of Housing and Community Development, the Department, a public housing agency, a county, or a municipality from requiring an individual experiencing homelessness to provide a current address in certain circumstances.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB50

Introduced
1/8/24  
Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/24  
Adding to the conditions under which an individual who creates a trust may not be considered the settlor of that trust with regard to the individual's interest in the trust; and providing that a creditor may not attach, exercise, reach, or otherwise compel distribution of certain trust assets.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB279

Introduced
1/8/24  
Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/24  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
2/17/25  
Engrossed
2/20/25  
Refer
2/21/25  
Report Pass
3/24/25  
Enrolled
4/1/25  
Chaptered
4/8/25  
Adding the Department of Planning to the list of entities to which a municipality must send a copy of an annexation resolution with the new municipal boundaries.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB31

Introduced
1/8/24  
Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/24  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
3/15/25  
Engrossed
3/17/25  
Refer
3/17/25  
Report Pass
3/27/25  
Enrolled
4/2/25  
Chaptered
5/13/25  
Requiring, in order to make repairs to powered wheelchairs, that a certain manufacturer make available certain documentation, parts, embedded software, firmware, and tools to a certain independent repair provider or owner of a powered wheelchair; providing that a violation of the Act constitutes an unfair, abusive, or deceptive trade practice subject to certain enforcement and penalty provisions; and applying the Act prospectively.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB92

Introduced
1/8/24  
Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/24  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
2/10/25  
Engrossed
2/18/25  
Refer
2/19/25  
Report Pass
3/31/25  
Enrolled
4/2/25  
Chaptered
5/13/25  
Expanding the relief that may be included in a final peace order; altering the acts that constitute criminal harassment to include certain visual surveillance of an area of another person's residence where the other has a reasonable expectation of privacy; and providing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction for a first offense is subject to imprisonment of up to 90 days or a fine of $500 or both, and for a second or subsequent offense, imprisonment of up to 180 days or a fine of $1,000 or both.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB220

Introduced
1/8/24  
Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/24  
Altering the definition of "Tier 1 renewable source" for purposes of excluding energy derived from waste and refuse from being eligible for inclusion in the renewable energy portfolio standard; and applying the Act to all renewable energy portfolio standard compliance years starting on or after January 1, 2025.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB217

Introduced
1/8/24  
Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/24  
Refer
1/8/25  
Report Pass
2/3/25  
Engrossed
2/6/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Report Pass
3/28/25  
Enrolled
3/31/25  
Chaptered
4/8/25  
Continuing certain health occupations boards and the Behavior Analyst Advisory Committee within the State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act (sunset law) by extending to a certain date the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority of the boards and Committee; and altering the membership of the State Board of Massage Therapy Examiners.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB269

Introduced
1/8/24  
Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/24  
Increasing, from 2 years to 3 years, the statute of limitations applicable to the crime of theft of property or services with a value of less than $100.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB174

Introduced
1/8/24  
Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/24  
Proposing a constitutional amendment to require that a special election be held at the same time as the regular statewide primary and general elections that are held in the second year of the term to fill a vacancy in the office of Delegate or Senator in the General Assembly if the vacancy occurs on or before the date that is 55 days before the deadline for filing certificates of candidacy for the regular statewide election.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB128

Introduced
1/8/24  
Introduced
1/8/25  
Refer
1/8/24  
Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to print an assigned permanent identification number in a certain manner for a person who completes the course of instruction in conservation and in competency and safety in the handling of firearms.