Maryland 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 243)

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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB569

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Report Pass
4/4/25  
Engrossed
4/4/25  
Authorizing the Anne Arundel County Board of Education to operate all of the schools within the county using a school scheduling model that eliminates early dismissal days to allow for less than 180 school days if the minimal hours of attendance are met; requiring a school operating under a scheduling model that results in a school being open for less than 180 days to provide school employees who receive pay at an hourly rate an opportunity to make up the lost wages through other duties before the beginning of the next school year; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB549

Introduced
1/24/25  
Establishing an immunity from liability for a person who discloses information about allegations of sexually assaultive behavior if the person acts in good faith; establishing a presumption of good faith unless it is shown by clear and convincing evidence that the person acted with actual malice or intentionally or recklessly disclosed false information; providing for the award of attorney's fees and costs in certain circumstances; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB523

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Report Pass
2/24/25  
Engrossed
2/28/25  
Providing that certain State employees are entitled to up to 4 hours of paid cancer screening leave in any 12-month period after obtaining approval from their appointing authorities.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB561

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Report Pass
2/10/25  
Engrossed
2/13/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Report Pass
4/5/25  
Enrolled
4/7/25  
Chaptered
4/22/25  
Providing that certain unclaimed money held by an electric cooperative and due to a past member is not considered abandoned property; and authorizing an electric cooperative to use this money only to assist members of the cooperative or make donations to nonprofit, charitable organizations approved by the cooperative's board of directors.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB560

Introduced
1/24/25  
Altering the membership of the Maryland Commission on Health Equity; and altering the purposes of the Commission to include employing a health equity framework to examine the impact of access to transportation, transit programs, and transit services and proximity to health care facilities and primary care providers on the health of residents of the State.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB517

Introduced
1/24/25  
Altering, beginning July 1, 2026, the minimum salary for certain public school employees to be $60,000; and establishing, subject to certain conditions, certain salary increases for certain public school employees.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB649

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Requiring a child placement agency to provide a background report concerning a child to a foster parent before the foster parent may consent to the placement of the child with the foster parent; and requiring the report to indicate whether the child has had any interaction with a law enforcement agency, including any arrests, been charged with or found guilty of a crime, been a member of or associated with a criminal gang, or been suspended or expelled from school.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB700

Introduced
1/24/25  
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to conduct certain prevalence studies concerning problem and pathological mobile gambling, with an initial study to be completed on or before July 1, 2030; requiring the Secretary of Health, on or before November 1 each year, beginning in 2026, to submit a report to the General Assembly on how the funds in the Problem Gambling Fund have been expended on treatment and prevention programs; and altering the distribution of certain fantasy competition and sports wagering proceeds.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB654

Introduced
1/24/25  
Repealing certain time restrictions that apply to the hunting of game birds and mammals on certain Sundays on private property and public land designated for Sunday hunting in Wicomico County.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB520

Introduced
1/24/25  
Authorizing the State Highway Administration to use speed monitoring systems in areas determined to be of high risk to vulnerable road users and priority corridors in the Administration's Pedestrian Safety Action Plan; and defining "vulnerable road users" as individuals not traveling in a motor vehicle, including pedestrians, bicyclists, other cyclists, persons using personal conveyance or a mobility device such as a wheelchair, and persons on foot in a highway work zone.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB694

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Report Pass
3/10/25  
Engrossed
3/11/25  
Requiring each local school system to identify in its regular safety evaluation issues of accessibility for individuals with disabilities; and requiring local school systems to include in a certain annual report instances in which a public school facility became inaccessible for a student with a disability in a manner that could impede evacuations or emergency response.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB709

Introduced
1/24/25  
Authorizing a county to adopt, by local law or ordinance, provisions prohibiting certain landlords of residential property from failing to renew a lease during the lease period or from terminating a holdover tenancy without good cause; establishing certain requirements and prohibitions for a local law or ordinance adopted in accordance with the Act; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB703

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 Senate Bill SB571

Introduced
1/24/25  
Refer
1/24/25  
Report Pass
3/10/25  
Engrossed
3/12/25  
Refer
3/13/25  
Report Pass
4/5/25  
Enrolled
4/7/25  
Chaptered
5/20/25  
Establishing a population ratio quota for certain Class A (off-sale) and Class D (off-sale) licenses in Anne Arundel County; specifying a certain official map to be used to identify certain tax assessment districts for purposes of the population ratio quota; and prohibiting the Board of License Commissioners for Anne Arundel County from approving the transfer of certain alcoholic beverages licenses under certain circumstances.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB708

Introduced
1/24/25  
Expanding eligibility for the Maryland earned income tax credit for individuals without qualifying children by altering the income thresholds at which the credit phases out; providing that, after the 2024 tax year, the income threshold and phase-out amounts are adjusted annually for inflation; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2024.