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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB547

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Report Pass
2/24/25  
Engrossed
2/27/25  
Refer
2/28/25  
Report Pass
4/1/25  
Enrolled
4/3/25  
Chaptered
5/20/25  
Establishing the Commission to Study Health Insurance Pooling to study the pooling of public employee health insurance purchasing between the State, counties, municipal corporations, and county boards of education in the State to maximize value and efficiency while maintaining a broad package of benefits and reasonable premiums for public employees; and requiring the Commission 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 SB551

Introduced
1/24/25  
Prohibiting an insurer, with respect to private passenger motor vehicle insurance, from increasing a premium, adding a surcharge, or removing, altering, or refusing to consider a discount based on accidents or losses caused by a collision with a free-roaming wild animal and for which the insured was not at fault for the loss.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB553

Introduced
1/24/25  
Altering the criteria for determining whether a certain victim or the victim's parent, guardian, or next friend shall be considered to be helpful, to have been helpful, or likely to be helpful to the detection, investigation, or prosecution of certain criminal activity for a certain purpose; altering the time periods within which a certain certifying entity shall certify or decline a certain form under certain circumstances; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB576

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Prohibiting employers from taking certain adverse actions against an employee or applicant for employment because the employee or applicant declines to attend or participate in employer-sponsored meetings during which the employer communicates the opinion of the employer regarding religious matters or political matters.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB528

Introduced
1/24/25  
Establishing November 11 as a tax-free day each year during which an exemption from the sales and use tax is provided for sales to certain veterans; requiring an individual, in order to qualify for the exemption, to provide the vendor evidence of eligibility for the exemption; and providing that evidence of eligibility may consist of a valid driver's license or government-issued identification card that includes a notation indicating that the individual is a veteran.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB650

Introduced
1/24/25  
Establishing the Maryland Fair and Agricultural Education Promise Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to advance agricultural fairs and education in the State; requiring interest earnings of the Fund to be credited to the Fund; requiring a $1,450,000 of proceeds from the State lottery, before being allocated to the General Fund, to be allocated to the Fund; and repealing the requirement that a certain amount of annual proceeds from the State horse racing special fund be used to promote State agricultural fairs and education.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB559

Introduced
1/24/25  
Requiring the Department of Transportation to conduct a study on the implications of requiring the speed limit to deviate by only 5 miles per hour at locations where a highway in the State connects to Interstate 495; and requiring the Department to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 31, 2025.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB672

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Report Pass
3/10/25  
Engrossed
3/12/25  
Refer
3/12/25  
Report Pass
3/31/25  
Enrolled
4/3/25  
Chaptered
5/6/25  
Requiring the State Department of Education and the Maryland Department of Health jointly to conduct an assessment of school health and wellness personnel each year; altering the membership of the Maryland Council on Advancement of School-Based Health Centers; and requiring the Department and the State Department of Education to annually report to the General Assembly on the findings of the assessment beginning December 1, 2027, and publish the report on the website of each agency.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB533

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Report Pass
2/17/25  
Engrossed
2/26/25  
Refer
2/27/25  
Report Pass
4/1/25  
Enrolled
4/7/25  
Chaptered
5/13/25  
Altering the deadlines for the completion of the process of review and investigation by a certain investigating unit through disposition by an administrative charging committee under certain circumstances; and requiring a law enforcement agency to file any administrative charges arising out of an investigation of alleged police officer misconduct that is not required to be reviewed by an administrative charging committee within 1 year and 1 day after the date that the appropriate official of the law enforcement agency became aware of the incident.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB665

Introduced
1/24/25  
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations, beginning on July 1, 2026, to provide coverage and certain reimbursement for annual behavioral health wellness visits; and applying the Act to all policies, contracts, and health benefit plans issued, delivered, or renewed in the State on or after January 1, 2026.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB537

Introduced
1/24/25  
Applying certain provisions of law regarding the adoption of dogs and cats used for scientific research purposes to testing facilities; requiring certain research facilities and testing facilities to submit to the Department of Agriculture certain information regarding dogs and cats on or before January 31 each year; and requiring a school or an institution of higher education that uses animals for certain purposes to submit a report on the results of certain inspections to the General Assembly on or before December 31 each year.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB507

Introduced
1/24/25  
Providing that certain evidence of certain diagnoses is admissible in a criminal proceeding if the evidence tends to show that the defendant, at the time of the alleged offense, did or did not have the mental state required for the offense charged and is otherwise admissible; and requiring a judge or a District Court commissioner to consider any diagnosis for the defendant of a certain developmental disability or intellectual disability when making a pretrial release determination.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB684

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Report Pass
3/10/25  
Engrossed
3/11/25  
Decreasing from $1,000,000 to $500,000 the mandatory appropriation to the State Lakes Protection and Restoration Fund in fiscal years 2027 and 2028; and extending to June 30, 2028, the termination date applicable to certain provisions relating to the purpose, use, and funding of the Fund.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB697

Introduced
1/24/25  
Requiring a health insurance carrier to submit quarterly reports to the Maryland Insurance Commissioner on certain information related to the carrier's use of artificial intelligence or automated decision-making systems; and altering the information related to adverse decisions and grievances carriers are required to report to the Commissioner.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB698

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Report Pass
3/3/25  
Engrossed
3/6/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Report Pass
4/3/25  
Enrolled
4/7/25  
Chaptered
4/22/25  
Requiring county governments to make a certain report by July 1 each year to the Department of Planning on the amount, use, and location of the use of county development impact fees, surcharges, and excise taxes; and requiring county governments to make certain reports to the Department of Planning identifying certain local laws.