Maryland 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 3)

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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB385

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Report Pass
2/19/25  
Engrossed
2/25/25  
Requiring, beginning July 1, 2026, each business that uses a point-of-sale system that automatically prompts a customer to leave a tip to disclose that the tip is for employees and display a tip amount that is set at zero or a "no-tip" option, subject to certain conditions; requiring the Maryland Department of Labor and the Division of Consumer Protection in the Office of the Attorney General to make information about the requirements of the Act available on the agencies' public websites; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB429

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Report Pass
4/3/25  
Engrossed
4/3/25  
Requiring the Secretary of Health, on request of a county, to delegate to the county the authority to augment State nursing home survey staff using county funds under certain circumstances; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to initiate a certain memorandum of understanding and develop a certain plan with a requesting county within 45 days after a county's request; requiring the Department, beginning July 1, 2025, to report to each area agency on aging the names and dates of each nursing home surveyed in the preceding 6 months; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB445

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Report Pass
3/3/25  
Engrossed
3/6/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Report Pass
3/26/25  
Enrolled
4/2/25  
Chaptered
4/22/25  
Prohibiting a person from taking certain actions with the intent to interrupt or impair the functioning of a public safety answering point; and providing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a felony and on conviction is subject to imprisonment not to exceed 5 years or a fine of up to $25,000 or both.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB358

Introduced
1/16/25  
Establishing the Soccer Opportunities Program in the State Department of Education to increase opportunities for minority students to participate in soccer in their communities; and requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill for fiscal years 2027, 2028, and 2029 an appropriation of at least $100,000 for the Program.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB413

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Report Pass
3/12/25  
Engrossed
3/13/25  
Refer
3/17/25  
Report Pass
3/26/25  
Enrolled
4/2/25  
Chaptered
4/22/25  
Authorizing a person who is at least 21 years of age to manufacture a personal use amount of cannabis products or concentrated cannabis for personal use or adult sharing at a private residence if the manufacturing process does not involve the use of a volatile solvent; specifying that manufacturing, distributing, dispensing, or possessing certain large quantities of certain controlled dangerous substances is a felony; altering the penalties for being a volume dealer and drug kingpin with regard to cannabis; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB372

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Report Pass
3/10/25  
Engrossed
3/11/25  
Refer
3/12/25  
Report Pass
3/27/25  
Enrolled
4/2/25  
Chaptered
4/22/25  
Repealing the termination of certain provisions of law establishing the Prince George's Gateway Development Authority.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB414

Introduced
1/16/25  
Establishing the Mental Health Care Fund for Children and Youth to support improved access to mental health care services to children and youth in the State; imposing a tax on certain annual revenues derived from certain digital social media services in the State; providing for the calculation and collection of the tax; requiring the Comptroller to distribute revenue from the tax in a certain manner; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB358

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Report Pass
2/17/25  
Engrossed
2/20/25  
Refer
2/21/25  
Report Pass
4/5/25  
Enrolled
4/7/25  
Chaptered
5/6/25  
Requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $450,000 to the Maryland Deaf Culture Digital Library; and requiring the Deaf Culture Digital Library to submit its annual operating budget to the State Library Agency on or before June 1 each year.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB426

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Report Pass
3/10/25  
Engrossed
3/11/25  
Refer
3/12/25  
Report Pass
4/4/25  
Enrolled
4/5/25  
Chaptered
5/6/25  
Requiring the State Board of Elections, in collaboration with the local boards of elections, to conduct a risk-limiting audit after each statewide election; authorizing the State Board, in collaboration with the local boards, to conduct a risk-limiting audit after a special general election; authorizing the State Board, in collaboration with the local boards, to conduct an automated software audit after a statewide election; authorizing a local board to conduct a risk-limiting audit of a local contest under certain circumstances; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB428

Introduced
1/16/25  
Refer
1/16/25  
Report Pass
2/24/25  
Engrossed
2/27/25  
Refer
2/28/25  
Report Pass
3/27/25  
Enrolled
4/2/25  
Chaptered
5/13/25  
Establishing certain requirements for a complaint for a money judgment; defining "medical debt" as a debt owed by a consumer to a provider of medical services, products, or devices, but does not include debt charged to a credit card except under certain circumstances; prohibiting the creation of a lien on owner-occupied residential property by contract or as a result of a breach of contract for the payment of medical debt; and applying the Act prospectively.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB362

Introduced
1/17/25  
Providing that the distribution of a certain forged digital likeness to another constitutes a statement or communication for the purpose of an action for defamation; prohibiting a person from knowingly distributing a certain forged digital likeness under certain circumstances; and providing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to a term of imprisonment of up to 3 years or a fine of up to $1,000 or both.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB361

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
3/10/25  
Engrossed
3/12/25  
Refer
3/13/25  
Prohibiting a person from using fraud to influence or attempt to influence a voter's voting decision; and providing that fraud includes the use of synthetic media.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB378

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Report Pass
2/24/25  
Engrossed
2/27/25  
Refer
2/28/25  
Report Pass
4/2/25  
Enrolled
4/3/25  
Chaptered
5/6/25  
Establishing the Family Literacy Pilot Program administered by the State Library Agency in consultation with the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and the Correctional Education Council to foster and strengthen family relationships by enabling certain incarcerated individuals to read aloud to their children by preparing a recording of a children's book; and requiring the State Library Agency to submit a report to the General Assembly on the results of the Program on or before December 1, 2028.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB379

Introduced
1/17/25  
Refer
1/17/25  
Extending the termination date for the Workgroup on Social Worker Requirements for Licensure to June 30, 2027; altering the duties of the Workgroup to include an examination of alterations made to the examination developed by the Association of Social Work Boards and implemented beginning in 2026; and requiring the Workgroup to submit a report on whether to continue to use examinations developed by the Association of Social Work Boards as a requirement for licensure on or before December 1, 2026.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB384

Introduced
1/17/25  
Altering the calculation of the amount that the Governor is required to include in the annual State budget each year to provide grants to the Washington Suburban Transit District to pay the capital costs of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; making the Act contingent on enactment of certain legislation by the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia; etc.