Bills Signed On May 2, 2030

Thursday, May 2, 2030
Senate Bill 178 – Water Quality Improvement Act (The President (Administration), et al)
Establishing an Animal Waste Technology Fund; requiring specified commercial contract feed to
contain specified ingredients by a specified date and to a specified extent; requiring the
suspension, modification, or termination of the requirement under specified circumstances;
requiring the Governor to provide sufficient funding to maintain a specified level of field
personnel for soil conservation districts; requiring specified persons to have and to comply with
specified nutrient management plans by specified dates; etc.
3/5 Senate: Third Reading Passed (32-14)

3/20 House: Third Reading Passed (88-44)
5/2 Approved by the Governor – Chapter 391
House Bill 2 – Agricultural Stewardship Act (The Speaker (Administration), et al)

Requiring the Governor to appropriate specified funds to the Maryland Agricultural and
Resource-Based Industry Development Corporation for rural business development and
assistance; establishing an Agriculture and Natural Resources Internship Program at the
University of Maryland, College Park; requiring the Department of Agriculture to review
specified programs and technology infrastructure and to report to the Governor and the General
Assembly by September 30, 2030; etc.

House Bill 306 – Tax General - Income Tax Credit - Energy Efficient Residential Heating
Systems (The Speaker (Administration), et al)
Providing for specified income tax credits for energy efficient home heating systems under
specified circumstances; providing for the amount of the credit; defining specified heating
systems eligible for the credit; providing for specified limitations on the use of the credit;
providing for the creation of specified regulations to administer the credit; creating a specified
program to promote the credit; defining specified terms; and generally relating to income tax
credits for energy efficient heating systems.

House Bill 309 – Public Utility Companies - Net Energy Metering (The Speaker
(Administration), et al)
Authorizing an eligible customer-generator to carry over to the next 12-month period any
remaining amount of excess energy generated in a month as a credit against billings for net
energy supplied; increasing to 500 kilowatts the maximum capacity of an electric generating
system used by an eligible customer-generator for net metering; and repealing a petition
requirement for installing a generating system of specified capacity.
House Bill 3 – Ethics Law - Use of Prestige of Office (The Speaker, et al)
Making applicable to all State officials the provision of the Maryland Public Ethics Law that
prohibits the intentional use of an official's prestige of office for personal gain or that of another;
etc.

House Bill 319 – Health - Advance Directives - Registry - Drivers' Licenses and
Identification Cards (The Speaker (Administration), et al)
Establishing an advance directive registry in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene;
authorizing the Secretary to adopt regulations; requiring the Department to carry out educational
and outreach efforts about the registry; authorizing an individual to register an advance directive
with the Department; providing for the placement of a notation on a driver's license or
identification card that a person has made a registered advance directive; etc.

Senate Bill 142 – The Joseph Fund (The President (Administration) and Senators Currie,
Lawlah, McFadden, and Middleton)
Establishing the Joseph Fund as a nonlapsing fund within the State Reserve Fund; providing that
the Fund is established to set aside reserves in times of economic prosperity to be used to meet
the emergency needs of the poor in times of economic downturn; specifying the status and
sources of the Fund; authorizing the State Treasurer to invest moneys in the Fund in a specified
manner; establishing a Board to advise the Governor on the management of the Fund; specifying
how the money in the Fund is to be used; etc.

House Bill 15 – Beauty Salons - Prohibition on Use or Possession of Methyl Methacrylate

Liquid Monomer (MMA) (Delegate Hixson)
Prohibiting the use or possession of methyl methacrylate liquid monomer (MMA) in beauty
salons in the State; authorizing an inspector to take actions to determine whether a product is
illegal; and establishing criminal fines for violations of the Act.

House Bill 62 – Task Force to Study Increasing the Availability of Substance Abuse
Programs - Extension of Sunset and Time to Issue Final Report (Delegates Morhaim,
Nathan-Pulliam, and Menes)
Extending until December 31, 2031, the termination date of the Task Force to Study Increasing
the Availability of Substance Abuse Programs; and extending until January 1, 2032, the date by
which the Task Force is required to issue a final report.

House Bill 64 – Refusal of Psychiatric Medication - Clinical Review Panel (Chairman,

Environmental Matters Committee (Departmental - Health and Mental Hygiene))
Extending to June 30, 2032, the termination of provisions of law relating to the refusal of
psychiatric medication.

House Bill 72 – Family Law - Award of Expenses (Delegates Grosfeld, T. Murphy, Turner,
and Barkley)
Adding absolute divorce, limited divorce, and property disposition in annulment or divorce to the
types of proceedings in which a court may award to either party an amount for the reasonable
and necessary expense of prosecuting or defending the proceeding; requiring the court to
consider certain factors before making an award; authorizing the court to award reimbursement
for certain expenses previously paid; and providing for the payment of counsel fees directly to
certain persons.

House Bill 67 – Department of Agriculture - Cost Sharing for Water Pollution Control
(Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (Departmental - Agriculture))
Altering the maximum dollar amount available for certain projects under the Maryland Cost-
Share Program for Water Pollution Control to $100,000.

House Bill 125 – Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services - Internal
Investigative Unit (Chairman, Judiciary Committee (Departmental - Public Safety and
Correctional Services))
Creating an Internal Investigative Unit in the Department of Public Safety and Correctional
Services to investigate alleged criminal violations committed by employees of the Department
while on duty or by inmates, visitors, or other individuals in the Department's facilities or
programs, and to investigate professional misconduct by employees; providing that the
investigators in the Unit have the same authority as peace and police officers on specified
property and under specified circumstances; etc.

House Bill 129 – Morgan State University and St. Mary's College of Maryland - Auxiliary
and Academic Facilities Bonding Authority (Chairman, Appropriations Committee
(Departmental - Morgan State University))
Increasing the bonding authority of Morgan State University and St. Mary's College of Maryland
for the acquisition, development, and improvement of specified facilities; and approving the
issuance of bonds by Morgan State University to finance the construction of a fine arts center,
subject to specified requirements relating to review and comment by the General Assembly.

House Bill 150 – Morgan State University - Procurement Authority (Chairman, Commerce
and Government Matters Committee (Departmental - Morgan State University))
Expanding the procurement authority of Morgan State University to include the procurement of
supplies funded by the proceeds from State general obligation bonds.

House Bill 161 – Real Property - Sale of New Homes - Disclosure of Environmental
Hazards (Delegates Kach, Pendergrass, and Bobo)
Requiring new home builders to disclose or make a certain disclaimer as to the presence of
certain hazardous materials on the site of a new home to certain owners under certain
circumstances; providing that the requirements of the Act are intended to be in addition to the
requirements of any other ordinance, resolution, law, or rule and that the Act may not be
construed to preempt or prevail over any ordinance, resolution, law, or rule more stringent than
the Act; etc.

House Bill 203 – Harford County - Hotel Rental Tax – Repeal (Harford County Delegation)
Repealing the authority for Harford County to impose a hotel rental tax; repealing a requirement
that the Harford County Tourism Council submit its proposed annual budget to the Harford
County Executive and Harford County Council for review and comment; repealing authority for
the Harford County Executive and Harford County Council to audit the Harford County Tourism
Council; etc.

House Bill 271 – Residential Educational Facilities – Licensing (Delegate Hubbard)

Requiring a person to be licensed by the Social Services Administration of the Department of
Human Resources in order to operate a residential educational facility on or after January 1,
2031; authorizing the Department of Human Resources to adopt regulations relating to the
licensing of residential educational facilities; providing that a residential educational facility may
not be required to obtain a license from more than one State agency; etc.

House Bill 274 – Recordation and Transfer Taxes - Transfers Between Relatives (Delegate
O’Donnell)
Adding stepparent, stepson, stepdaughter, stepson-in-law, stepdaughter-in-law, and
stepgrandchild to the list of transferees included in the exemption, under the recordation tax and
State transfer tax, for the principal amount of debt assumed by the transferee when property is
transferred subject to a mortgage deed of trust.

House Bill 278 – Alcoholic Beverages - Interstate Shipment – Felony (Delegates Goldwater
and Bronrott)
Making it a felony for a person in the business of selling or distributing alcoholic beverages
outside the State to ship or deliver alcoholic beverages to a recipient in this State if the seller,
distributor, shipper, transporter, or recipient does not hold the requisite license or permit;
clarifying that this offense includes shipments of alcoholic beverages ordered or purchased
through a computer network; etc.

House Bill 287 – Health Care Workers' Safety Act - Bloodborne Pathogen Standard
(Delegate Morhaim, et al)
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to conduct a study on the exposures of
health care workers to blood and certain potentially infectious materials by objects that can
penetrate the skin; requiring the Department to hold hearings and prepare a report on the
establishment of a bloodborne pathogen standard in consultation with certain entities; requiring
the Department to complete the study and submit a report to the Secretary of the Department and
the General Assembly on or before January 1, 2031; etc.

House Bill 290 – Estates and Trusts - Petition for Guardianship of Disabled Person -
Certificates of Competency (Delegate Dembrow)
Requiring a petitioner for guardianship of a disabled person to submit with the petition a
combination of certificates of competency from a licensed physician and a licensed psychologist
or certificates from two licensed physicians; requiring that at least one examination or evaluation
by a health care professional who signs and verifies a certificate of competency occur within 21
days before filing the petition; etc.

House Bill 299 – Family Day Care Homes – Inspections (Delegate W. Baker, et al)
Requiring that regulations relating to family day care providers and homes provide for
unannounced inspections by the Department of Human Resources; and generally relating to the
inspection of family day care providers and homes.

House Bill 318 – Support Services - For-Hire Driving (Delegate Love, et al)
Exempting transportation services provided through specified agencies for clients of specified
support services from requirements of for-hire driving services; requiring criminal history
records checks to be requested through the Criminal Justice Information System for specified
purposes; providing specified procedures for applying for, issuing, and challenging a specified
criminal history records check; etc.

House Bill 332 – Insurance - Transfer of Business (Delegates Love and Cadden)
Allowing an insurer that accepts a transfer of the insurance business of a group of policyholders
from an independent agent to treat the policies transferred as renewals and not as new policies
for underwriting purposes.

House Bill 344 – City of District Heights (Prince George's County) - Urban Renewal
Authority for Slum Clearance (Prince George’s County Delegation)
Authorizing the City of District Heights, Prince George's County, to undertake and carry out
urban renewal projects for slum clearance and redevelopment; prohibiting any land or property
from being taken under the Act without just compensation being first paid to the party entitled to
the compensation; declaring that all land or property taken under the Act is needed for public
uses or purposes; permitting the powers granted by the Act to be exercised by a municipal
agency with specified powers; etc.

House Bill 354 – Harford County - Liquor Control Board – Disclosure (Harford County
Delegation)
Establishing that the members of the Harford County Liquor Control Board are subject to
provisions of law regarding financial disclosure, conflicts of interest, and lobbying activities;
establishing that employees of the Liquor Control Board are subject to provisions of law
regarding conflicts of interest and lobbying activities; and requiring members of the Liquor
Control Board to provide disclosure regarding conflicts between their duties and interests.

House Bill 360 – Continuing Care Communities - Certificate of Need Exemption -

Concurrent Direct Admissions (Delegates Hammen and Hubbard)
Providing that a continuing care community does not lose its exemption from certificate of need
requirements if the continuing care community admits to a nursing facility within the continuing
care community specified individuals under specified circumstances; etc.

House Bill 381 – Security Guards - Certifications and Renewals (Delegate Cryor, et al)
Requiring an applicant for certification as a security guard to be of good moral character and
reputation; establishing a renewal process for certifications of security guards; authorizing the
Secretary of the State Police to refuse to renew certifications under certain circumstances and to
take certain disciplinary action if an applicant or individual pleads guilty or nolo contendere to or
is convicted of certain crimes; etc.

House Bill 406 – Montgomery County - Supplemental Retirement Allowance for Retired
Teachers (Montgomery County Delegation)
Requiring the governing body for Montgomery County to appropriate to the school operating
budget an amount to fund a supplemental retirement allowance of employees of the county board
who retire as members of the Teachers' Pension System of the State of Maryland; requiring the
governing body to pay a certain supplemental retirement allowance to employees who retire as
members of the Teachers' Pension System on or after July 1, 2030; etc.

House Bill 434 – Estates and Trusts - Lien for Payment of Inheritance Tax (Delegate
Finifter)
Altering the duration of a lien for unpaid inheritance tax against the property of an estate
administered by a foreign personal representative.

House Bill 450 – Militia (Chairman, Commerce and Government Matters Committee
(Departmental - Military))
Updating the laws governing the organized and unorganized militia of the State; allowing the
Adjutant General to appoint an Executive Officer and subordinate unit directors; specifying the
duties and powers of the Adjutant General, the Maryland National Guard, the Maryland Defense
Force, and the unorganized militia; etc.

House Bill 499 – Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact (Delegates Weir and Guns)
Authorizing the Governor to enter into the Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact; providing for
the purposes of the Compact; providing for procedures for states issuing citations for wildlife
violations to persons residing in participating states; providing for procedures for home states of
residents receiving wildlife citations from participating states; providing for the reciprocal
recognition of suspension of specified privileges by participating states under specified
circumstances; etc.

House Bill 504 – Code Counties - Referendum - Special Election (Delegate Bozman)
Providing that a referendum on a local law enacted by the county commissioners of a code
county may be submitted to the voters at a special election; and requiring that the calling of the
special election be pursuant to a resolution enacted by the county commissioners.

House Bill 559 – Baltimore City - Property Tax - Exemption for Economic Development
Projects (Delegate Rawlings)
Providing for an exemption from Baltimore City property tax for economic development projects
located in designated urban renewal areas in certain parts of Baltimore City; providing a certain
tax exemption for certain existing commercial property; setting forth the requirements in order to
qualify for the property tax exemption; etc.

House Bill 572 – Patient Protection Act (Delegates Barve and Goldwater)
Requiring health insurance carriers to provide a copy of certain reimbursement schedules, coding
guidelines, and the methodology used to determine any bonuses or other incentive-based
compensation under certain circumstances; altering the circumstances under which certain health
insurance carriers may provide bonuses or other incentive-based compensation to a health care
practitioner; etc.

House Bill 576 – Continuity of Patient Care Act (Delegates Barve and Goldwater)
Requiring a health maintenance organization (HMO) that allows a member or subscriber to

receive specified emergency medical services to reimburse a specified health care provider who
provides specified medically necessary follow-up care; and prohibiting an HMO, under specified
circumstances, from imposing on a member or subscriber any co-payment or other cost-sharing
requirement that exceeds what the member or subscriber is required to pay for services rendered
by a health care provider who is a member of the provider panel of the HMO.

House Bill 595 – Maryland Vehicle Law - Equipment Standards (Delegate Malone)
Modifying provisions of the Maryland Vehicle Law pertaining to equipment approval and
standards; authorizing adoption of federal standards consistent with federal law; eliminating
obsolete or inaccurate references; etc.

House Bill 621 – Health Occupations - Professional Counselors - Licensing and

Certification (Delegate Hubbard)
Altering specified requirements for the licensing of clinical professional counselors, clinical
marriage and family therapists, and clinical alcohol and drug counselors; altering the
membership and authority of the State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors; altering
requirements for when the Board may take action against specified individuals; establishing
specified examination requirements; authorizing the Board to take specified actions against
applicants and licensees; etc.

House Bill 637 – Licensed Certified Public Accountants – Qualifications (Chairman,

Economic Matters Committee (Departmental - Labor, Licensing and Regulation))
Adding a requirement that new applicants for licenses as certified public accountants complete
2,000 hours of practical work experience that meets specified standards.

House Bill 639 – Health Insurance - Payment of Claims (Delegate Goldwater, et al)
Repealing certain provisions of law relating to the payment of certain claims for reimbursement
by health maintenance organizations and managed care organizations; and making provisions of
law relating to payment of claims that are applicable to insurers and nonprofit health service
plans also applicable to health maintenance organizations and managed care organizations.

House Bill 659 – Chartered Counties - Express Powers - County Board of Appeals
(Delegate Vallario)
Altering the review proceedings available to an aggrieved party from an appellate decision of a
circuit court that reviews a county board of appeals' decision in a chartered county; and making
stylistic changes.

House Bill 661 – Washington County - Land Use - Administrative Adjustments

(Washington County Delegation)
Authorizing the local legislative body of Washington County to designate the county planning
director or another designee to grant administrative adjustments to land use restrictions in
accordance with specified standards and criteria; requiring the local legislative body to consult
with entities in considering standards and criteria; authorizing the enabling of appeals of
administrative adjustments; etc.

House Bill 667 – Cigarettes – Regulation (Delegate Mitchell, et al)

Prohibiting specified persons from shipping, importing, or selling into or within this State any
brand of cigarette; requiring specified persons to comply with specified federal and State
requirements and to provide a specified assurance; providing a specified person is subject to
disciplinary action under specified circumstances; and specifying a penalty for violations of the
Act.

House Bill 672 – Cosmetologists - Practice Settings - Elderly, Homebound, and Other
Confined Individuals (Delegates Rudolph, Pitkin, and Cane)
Increasing the number of settings in which a licensed cosmetologist, under specified conditions,
may practice cosmetology on individuals who are confined to or located in specified settings;
establishing a pilot program in Cecil County that exempts a licensed cosmetologist from certain
restrictions on practicing cosmetology; etc.

House Bill 674 – Patient Prescription Access - Limited Physician Delegation to Physician
Assistants (Delegate RedmerM, et al)
Repealing specified provisions that require a physician assistant to obtain an approved job
description from the Board of Physician Quality Assurance in order to perform specified
delegated medical acts; substituting provisions that authorize a physician to delegate specified
medical acts to a physician assistant under a delegation agreement that has been approved by the
Board; authorizing a physician to delegate authority to an assistant to write medication orders
under an approved delegation agreement; etc.

House Bill 675 – Washington County - Right to Farm (Washington County Delegation)
Authorizing the County Commissioners of Washington County to adopt an ordinance or
regulation or take other action to protect a person's right to farm or engage in agricultural or
forestry operations; and requiring the County Commissioners to hold a public hearing and
provide reasonable notice of the hearing under certain circumstances.

House Bill 684 – Information Technology Board - Membership and Duties (Delegate
Rosenberg)
Altering the membership of the Information Technology Board; altering the powers and duties of
the Board to include studying existing and emerging Internet and information technology and
developing standards and making recommendations concerning Internet-based commerce,
Internet user privacy, Internet-based crime, and the use of the Internet in the health care industry;
etc.

House Bill 705 – Hospitals and Ambulatory Surgical Facilities - Quality of Care and
Performance Act (Delegates Guns, Hammen, and Cane)
Authorizing the Health Care Access and Cost Commission to develop a system to comparatively
evaluate hospital and ambulatory surgical facility quality of care outcomes and performance
measurements on an objective basis; authorizing the Commission to disseminate the findings of
performance measurements to consumers, hospitals, ambulatory surgical facilities, and certain
interested parties; allowing the Commission to contract with a private entity to implement the
evaluation system; etc.

House Bill 706 – Department of Agriculture - Soil Conservation and Water Quality Plans -
Use of Information (Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (Departmental -
Agriculture))
Requiring the supervisors of a soil conservation district to provide the Department of Agriculture
and the Department of the Environment with information in a soil conservation and water quality
plan for specified purposes; authorizing the Department of Agriculture to release the information
to the Department of the Environment for a specified compliance or enforcement purpose;
requiring the Department of Agriculture and the supervisors to maintain the information in a
specified manner; etc.

House Bill 711 – Crimes - Cruelty to Animals - Animals Used by a Law Enforcement Unit
(Delegate Sher, et al)
Prohibiting a person from intentionally inflicting bodily harm, disability, or death on an animal
used by a law enforcement unit, except in the case of self-defense; and authorizing, as a
condition of sentencing for a person convicted under the Act, a court to order the person to
participate in psychological counseling that is to be paid for by the person.

House Bill 722 – Motor Vehicle Administration - Privacy Protection Act of 2030 (Delegate
Barve, et al)
Prohibiting the disclosure, except under specified circumstances, of MVA records containing
personal information unless the subject of the record consents in writing; authorizing a person in
interest to withdraw consent to the disclosure of personal information; authorizing individuals to
allow the disclosure of personal information under specified circumstances; repealing provisions
requiring that a person be given specified notice and take specified actions before personal
information is protected from disclosure; etc.

Senate Bill 569 – Natural Resources - Marine Sanitation (Senators Pinsky and Frosh)
Requiring the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to conduct a survey of pumpout stations
and waste reception facilities, and of recreational vessels and the waters of the State in which the
vessels congregate, by a specified date; requiring DNR to identify sensitive waters of the State
by a specified date using specified criteria; requiring DNR to ensure that marine sanitation
facilities are reasonably available for use in sensitive areas by a specified date; requiring DNR to
submit a specified report by January 1, 2031; etc.

Senate Bill 427 – Natural Resources - Fish - Permits and Fees (Senator Jimeno, et al)
Increasing the cost of Chesapeake Bay sport fishing licenses by $2; increasing the commission of
a Chesapeake Bay sport fishing license agent from 50 cents to $1; authorizing the Department of
Natural Resources to provide by regulation for the issuance of an annual special Chesapeake Bay
sport fishing license to be affixed to a boat registered in any state; increasing the cost of the
annual special Chesapeake Bay sport fishing license for a boat from $30 to $40; repealing the
striped bass stamp and tag requirements; etc.

House Bill 783 – Recordation of Releases of Mortgages and Deeds of Trust - Copies of
Canceled Checks (Delegate Bozman)
Permitting a clerk to receive, index, and record a copy of a canceled check as a release of a
mortgage or deed of trust, provided that the check is accompanied by a certain certificate from
the institution on which the check was drawn; and providing that under certain circumstances a
copy of a canceled check accompanied by the certificate has the same effect as a release on
property for which a mortgage or deed of trust is a security.

House Bill 785 – Commercial Law - Maryland Fair Distributorship Act - Notice and
Arbitration Requirements (Delegate Minnick, et al)
Requiring that arbitration proceedings be conducted in Maryland at the request of either a
distributor or a grantor under specified circumstances; requiring a grantor, when notifying a
distributor of a proposed cancellation or nonrenewal of an agreement, to provide a notice of the
distributor's failure to comply with a reasonable requirement of the agreement and an opportunity
to cure or dispute the asserted deficiency; etc.

House Bill 788 – Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program - Termination – Repeal

(Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (Departmental - Environment and
Transportation))
Repealing the termination date for the vehicle emissions inspection program; authorizing the
Motor Vehicle Administration and the Secretary of the Environment to grant a waiver to a
vehicle owner if the vehicle fails an initial exhaust emissions test occurring in specified calendar
years and the owner has incurred a specified expenditure towards emissions related repairs to the
vehicle within a specified amount of time; etc.

House Bill 789 – Heritage Structure Rehabilitation Tax Credit - Mortgage Credit
Certificates (Delegate Rudolph, et al)
Allowing a business entity or individual under specified circumstances to elect to receive a
historical rehabilitation mortgage credit certificate in lieu of a specified tax credit allowed for
qualified expenses for the certified rehabilitation of certified heritage structures; providing that a
historical rehabilitation mortgage credit certificate may be transferred to a lending institution
subject to Maryland tax and may be used by the lending institution to claim a tax credit; etc.

House Bill 801 – Health Care Malpractice Claims - Neutral Case Evaluation (Delegate
Vallario)
Authorizing specified courts to refer specified health care malpractice claims to the Health
Claims Arbitration Office for the purpose of neutral case evaluation if the parties mutually agree;
establishing specified neutral case evaluation procedures; providing that, during the neutral case
evaluation period, the courts shall continue to have jurisdiction on specified matters; providing
for the compensation of evaluators; and providing for the application of the Act.

House Bill 862 – Genetic Information Nondiscrimination in Health Insurance Act of 2030
(Delegate Morhaim, et al)
Prohibiting the denial of health insurance to individuals based upon the individual's genetic
information; prohibiting the requirement of genetic information for the purpose of determining
whether to issue or renew health benefits coverage; prohibiting the disclosure of genetic
information without the prior written consent of the individual from whom the genetic
information was obtained; identifying permissible purposes for disclosure of an individual's
genetic information; defining specified terms; etc.

House Bill 884 – Universal Newborn Hearing Screening (Delegates Hixson and Bobo, et al)
Altering the Program for Hearing-Impaired Infants to include a universal newborn hearing
screening component; altering the composition and responsibilities of the Advisory Council for
the Program; requiring the Advisory Council to advise the Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene on the implementation of universal hearing screening of newborns; requiring hospitals
to provide the results of the universal hearing screening of a newborn to the Department as part
of the required birth event information; etc.

House Bill 893 – Motor Vehicle Insurance - Personal Injury Protection - Preclusion of
Subsequent Action (Delegate Giannetti)
Establishing that a final judgment in an action for personal injury protection does not preclude a
subsequent action from the same motor vehicle accident or occurrence.

House Bill 909 – Off-Site Outpatient Hospital Facility - Rate Regulation (Delegate Guns, et
al)
Altering certain reimbursement procedures for certain services in certain facilities under the
Maryland Medical Assistance Program; authorizing a hospital that has transferred certain
outpatient services to an off-site facility due to zoning restrictions at the hospital campus to elect
to have these services subject to Title 19, Subtitle 2 of the Health - General Article under certain
circumstances; etc.

House Bill 918 – Health Benefit Plans - Small Employers - Rates (Delegate Redmer, et al)
Increasing the percentage to 40% above or below a certain community rate that certain carriers
may charge for a health benefit plan issued to a small employer; and repealing a requirement that
the Insurance Commissioner, in conjunction with the Health Care Access and Cost Commission,
submit a certain report to the Governor and the General Assembly.

House Bill 923 – Medical Assistance - Specialty Mental Health Services - Reimbursement
(Delegate Hammen)
Requiring specified standards concerning the prompt payment of reimbursement of health
maintenance organization providers to be applicable to the delivery system for specialty mental
health services under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program.

House Bill 947 – Fire and Rescue Services - Local Government - Contracting with For-
Profit Entities (Delegate Benson)
Prohibiting counties or municipal corporations that collectively bargain with fire, emergency
medical services, paramedic, or rescue personnel from contracting with for-profit entities for fire,
emergency medical, paramedic, or rescue services without the enactment of an ordinance or
other local law authorizing the action; providing that the requirement that a county or municipal
corporation enact an ordinance or other local law may not be satisfied through the enactment of a
local budget bill; etc.

House Bill 948 – Well Drillers - Enforcement and Educational Requirements (Delegate
Conroy)
Authorizing the Board of Well Drillers to investigate violations involving the unlicensed practice
of well drilling; providing that a person who practices well drilling without a license is subject to
specified civil penalties; providing for administrative review of certain penalties; providing for
judicial review of certain penalties; etc.

House Bill 965 – Carroll County - Recordation - Assessment Books (Delegate Getty)
Providing that, in Carroll County, recordation by the Clerk of the Circuit Court of instruments
affecting property may be done, under certain circumstances, prior to the transfer of the property
on the assessment records; and providing for the formulation of certain procedures.

House Bill 983 – University of Maryland, Maryland Cooperative Extension - Dairy Farm
Nutrient and Business Management Program (Delegates Rudolph and Hecht , the Eastern
Shore Delegation, and the Western Maryland Delegation)
Establishing the Dairy Farm Nutrient and Business Management Program administered by the
University of Maryland, Maryland Cooperative Extension; requiring the Program to develop and
maintain a Dairy Nutrient and Business Management Team and a Dairy Advisory Team
Program; etc.

House Bill 989 – State Board of Examiners of Psychologists - Disciplinary and Regulatory
Authority (Delegate Nathan-Pulliam)
Authorizing the State Board of Examiners of Psychologists to disclose any information contained
in a record of the Board to specified health occupations boards on a written request; altering and
adding specified grounds for disciplinary action by the Board; authorizing the Board to impose a
monetary penalty under specified circumstances and in a specified manner; prohibiting a stay of
a specified decision of the Board pending specified judicial review; etc.

House Bill 990 – Insurance - Premium Finance Companies - Return of Premiums after
Cancellation of Insurance Contract (Delegate Kach)
Requiring that an insurer return any gross unearned premiums to a premium finance company
when an insurance contract is canceled regardless of whether the contract is canceled by the
premium finance company, the insurer, or the insured; and altering the computation of time
within which an insurer is required to return any gross unearned premiums to a premium finance
company when an insurance contract is canceled under specified circumstances.

House Bill 994 – Hospital Capacity and Cost Containment Act (Delegates Hammen and
Taylor)
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to ensure that payments for services
provided by specified hospitals are reduced by 20% if the hospital fails to submit discharge data
on specified patients to a specified commission in a specified manner; providing that a certificate
of need is not required for specified purposes, including moving an existing or previously
approved but unbuilt health care facility to another site or changing the type or scope of health
care services, under specified circumstances; etc.

House Bill 1019 – Insurance Commissioner - Stay of Order – Exception (Delegate

McMillan)
Providing that an order of the Insurance Commissioner resulting from a final decision on a
complaint in an emergency case against a health insurance carrier cannot be stayed by the
demand for a hearing; and making the Act an emergency measure.

House Bill 1031 – Office of Cemetery Oversight - Religious, Nonprofit Cemeteries

(Delegate J. Kelly, et al)
Repealing a provision that relates to the registration and permitting of a person that owns a bona
fide religious, nonprofit cemetery that sells preneed goods; expanding the scope of a provision
that exempts specified cemeteries from registration and permitting provisions; etc.

House Bill 1038 – Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program - Exemptions - Disabled

Individuals and Seniors (Delegate Mohorovic)
Providing an exemption from the mandatory inspection and testing requirements of the vehicle
emissions inspection program if the owners of the vehicle meet certain disability or age
requirements, the vehicle is driven less than a certain number of miles over certain periods, and
the exemption is not prohibited by federal law; etc.

House Bill 1039 – Maryland Building Performance Standards - Time Limits (Delegate
Bozman, et al)
Altering the time period within which the Department of Housing and Community Development
must incorporate subsequent versions of the BOCA National Building Code into the Maryland
Building Performance Standards from 9 months to 24 months; and altering the date on which the
Maryland Building Performance Standards shall apply to counties or municipalities that have
adopted the standard building code issued by the Southern Building Code Congress
International, Inc. from August 1, 2030, to August 1, 2032.

House Bill 1069 – Crimes - Destructive Devices - False Statement or Rumor - Biological
Substances (Delegate Bozman, et al)
Including biological substances in the definition of toxic material for purposes of prohibitions
concerning destructive devices; adding a prohibition against circulating or transmitting false
statements or rumors concerning the location or release of the toxic material; etc.

House Bill 1078 – Dorchester County - Alcoholic Beverages (Delegate Eckardt)

Increasing in Dorchester County the alcohol content of "light wine" to 22 percent; authorizing
the Dorchester County Board of License Commissioners to issue a 1-day wine tasting alcoholic
beverages (WT) license; specifying the conditions for the issuance and the fee of a WT license;
allowing on-sale consumption of alcoholic beverages for 1 hour after sales of alcoholic
beverages must cease; etc.

House Bill 1086 – Stop-Loss Insurance Policies (Delegate McMillan, et al)

Providing that a stop-loss insurance policy or contract delivered or issued for delivery in
Maryland may not have attachment points below certain amounts.

House Bill 1089 – Motor Vehicle Administration - Verification of Vehicle Registrations

(Delegates McClenahan and W. Baker)
Reducing the percentage from 10% to 5% of vehicle registrations verified by the Motor Vehicle
Administration on a random sample basis; repealing a provision relating to verification of certain
vehicle security requirements after January 1, 2031; etc.

House Bill 1146 – Somerset County - Alcoholic Beverages - Retail Sale of Wine (Somerset
County Delegation)
Adding Somerset County to provisions authorizing in specified jurisdictions the issuance of a
Class A light wine license for retail sale of wine.

House Bill 1191 – State Procurement Law - Application to Maryland Port Administration
and Modification of the Reciprocal Preference Program (Delegate Wood)
Altering the circumstances under which resident bidders can qualify for a preference when
competing against nonresident bidders under the State procurement law; exempting the
Maryland Port Administration from certain provisions of the State procurement law for limited
purposes and for a limited period; etc.

House Bill 1194 – Baltimore County - Special Wine Festival - Micro-Breweries (Delegate
Minnick)
Authorizing a special wine festival licensee in Baltimore County to display and sell at the
festival beer that is produced by a Class 5 brewery or a Class 7 micro-brewery in the State for
on- and off-premises consumption; and requiring a special beer and wine festival licensee to hold
a requisite alcoholic beverages license.

House Bill 1210 – Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Health Maintenance
Organization (HMO) Quality Assurance Unit - Quality Assurance Medical Director
(Delegate McMillan)
Establishing a Health Maintenance Organization Quality Assurance Unit in the Department of
Health and Mental Hygiene; requiring the Secretary to appoint a Quality Assurance Medical
Director for the Unit; providing for the qualifications of the Medical Director; requiring the Unit
to investigate quality of care complaints referred from the Insurance Commissioner and to
enforce other statutory and regulatory requirements; etc.

Senate Bill 91 – Department of the Environment - Location of Meetings and Hearings

(Senator Della)
Requiring the Department of the Environment to hold public informational meetings and public
hearings relating to specified permits issued by the Department at a location in the political
subdivision and in close proximity to the location where the individual permit applies.

Senate Bill 96 – Interstate Compact on Adoption and Medical Assistance (Senator
McCabe)
Authorizing the Social Services Administration of the Department of Human Resources to enter
into interstate compacts with agencies of other states to provide adoption and medical assistance
services for specified children; establishing procedures for the interstate delivery of adoption and
medical assistance services; establishing a penalty for providing false information; authorizing
the Administration to adopt regulations; etc.

Senate Bill 145 – Assisted Living Programs - Continuing Care Communities –

Requirements (Senator Kelley, et al)
Requiring that, if a provider's continuing care agreement includes a provision to provide assisted
living program services and the provider does not execute a separate assisted living agreement,
the provider must include information regarding the assisted living program in its disclosure
statement; requiring a provider to annually furnish the revised disclosure statement to each
subscriber, ensure that each subscriber initials the statement, and make the statement available to
the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to inspect; etc.

Senate Bill 271 – Electricity - Net Energy Metering – Schools (Senator Pinsky, et al)
Adding specified schools and educational institutions to the classes of electric customer that may
use net energy metering in connection with solar electric generation.

Senate Bill 370 – Insurance - Premium Financing – Discrimination (Senator Kelley, et al)
Prohibiting discrimination by insurers that market through independent agents against
independent agents, brokers, and insureds who use premium financing instead of paying
premiums in a different manner; requiring certain independent agents to provide a certain
disclosure to insureds with respect to personal lines automobile insurance; etc.

Senate Bill 448 – Community Services Reimbursement Rate Commission (Senator

Kasemeyer)
Prohibiting a member of the Community Services Reimbursement Rate Commission from being
reappointed to the Commission under specified circumstances; increasing the minimum required
number of annual meetings of the Commission; altering the factors the Commission must
consider in assessing specified issues concerning reimbursement rates for specified providers;
authorizing the Commission to have timely access to information from the Executive Branch
required to fulfill the Commission's responsibilities; etc.

Senate Bill 480 – Foster Care - Child Support Obligations (Senator Hafer)
Requiring the Social Services Administration to adopt regulations that authorize background
checks for child support arrearages for certain applicants for foster home approval who are also
biological or adoptive parents; and requiring the Administration to adopt regulations that
authorize the Administration to consider any child support arrearage of an applicant in
determining whether to approve or disapprove the application.

Senate Bill 483 – Life Insurers – Investments (Senator Della, et al)

Authorizing a separate investment account and a segregated asset account established by a life
insurer to invest in any investments contractually permitted for the account and specified in the
plan of operation issued to a qualified plan; providing that specified provisions of State insurance
laws do not apply to the investments contained in the separate investment account or the
segregated asset account under specified circumstances; etc.

Senate Bill 490 – Family Law - Permanency Plan Hearing for Out-of-Home Placement -
Opportunity to Speak (Senator Roesser)
Authorizing an attorney for the foster parent, preadoptive parent, or relative providing care for
certain children the opportunity to speak at the permanency plan hearing for out-of-home
placement of children; requiring the local department of social services to give notice of the
permanency plan hearing for out-of-home placement to an attorney for the foster parent,
preadoptive parent, or relative providing care for children; etc.

Senate Bill 572 – Agricultural Land Preservation - Sand and Gravel Pilot Program
(Senator Middleton)
Authorizing the Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation to establish a pilot program to
determine the impact of the extraction of sand and gravel from land in not more than three
specified agricultural districts; providing specified components of the pilot program; providing
for the adoption of specified regulations; requiring specified extractions of sand and gravel to be
in accordance with specified provisions of law; requiring the Foundation to submit a specified
report on or before January 1, 2035; etc.

Senate Bill 588 – Mental Health Care Providers - Patient's Violent Behavior - Duty to
Predict, Warn, or Take Precautions (Senator Hollinger)
Expanding the definition of a certain term to make certain provisions regarding the duty of a
mental health provider to predict, warn of, or take precautions to provide protection from a
patient's violent behavior applicable to certain facilities, corporations, partnerships, associations,
or other entities that provide treatment or services to individuals who have mental disorders.

Senate Bill 641 – Health Insurance - Carriers and Credentialing Intermediaries - Uniform
Credentialing Form (Senator Bromwell)
Requiring a carrier or its credentialing intermediary to accept the uniform credentialing form
established by regulation as the sole application for a health care provider to become credentialed
or recredentialed for participation on a provider panel of the carrier; requiring a carrier or its
credentialing intermediary to make the uniform credentialing form available to any health care
provider that is to be credentialed or recredentialed by that carrier or credentialing intermediary;
etc.

Senate Bill 655 – Income Tax - United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Members (Senator
Conway, et al)
Making members of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary who meet specified requirements
eligible for the subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for qualifying volunteer
fire, rescue, or emergency medical services members; providing that an individual may not
qualify for the subtraction modification based on membership in the United States Coast Guard
Auxiliary unless the Auxiliary maintains certain records and provides certain reports; and
applying the Act to tax years after 2029.
Senate Bill 672 – State Board of Dental Examiners (Senator Hollinger)

Authorizing the State Board of Dental Examiners to waive specified education requirements only
for applicants for a limited license to practice dentistry; providing for a waiver for a teacher's
license under specified circumstances; adding violations of professional ethics and violations of
Board orders to the grounds for disciplinary action; and authorizing the Board to recognize
specialties designated by the Commission on Dental Accreditation or its successor organization.

Senate Bill 699 – Health Insurance - Health Care Regulatory Fund and Complaint Process
for Adverse Decisions or Grievances (Senator Bromwell)
Exempting certain carriers from the health care regulatory assessment for the Health Care
Regulatory Fund and from the requirements relating to the adverse decision and grievance
process; making certain provisions of law applicable to certain health benefit plans; etc.

House Bill 55 – Labor and Employment – Minimum Wage – Application (Delegate D.

Davis, et al
Defining the term "employer" to include specified State and local governmental units for
purposes of minimum wage requirements.

House Bill 180 – Department of Agriculture - Maryland Agricultural Land Link Program
(Delegate Jennings, et al)
Establishing a Maryland Agricultural Land Link Program in the Department of Agriculture for
specified purposes; requiring the Department, if sufficient funds are provided in the annual
budget, to maintain an on-line database and to promote the lease or sale of specified agricultural
lands by farmers to farmers; and providing for a delayed effective date.

House Bill 204 – Assisted Living Program Facilities - Emergency Electrical Power
Generator (Delegate Hammen, et al)
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to require facilities offering assisted
living program services to have an emergency electrical power generator on the premises;
providing for the power and system requirements of the emergency power generator; requiring a
facility to conduct a monthly test of the emergency power generator; requiring an emergency
power system to provide lighting to specified areas in a facility; requiring emergency electrical
power to be provided to specified areas and equipment; etc.

House Bill 205 – Anne Arundel County - Deer Hunting on Private Lands – Sundays (Anne
Arundel County Delegation)
Removing Anne Arundel County from the list of counties in which deer hunting on private lands
on Sundays is prohibited.

House Bill 222 – Agriculture - Commercial Fertilizer - Required Signage at Retail

Outlets (Delegate Sossi, et al)
Requiring retail outlets distributing commercial fertilizer in bags weighing 50 pounds or more to
display a specified sign advising customers of specified damaging effects of fertilizer overuse
and recommending receipt of a specified chemical analysis of soil before using commercial
fertilizer; etc.

House Bill 239 – Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Agricultural Ombudsman
(Delegate Rudolph, et al)
Requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to designate an agricultural ombudsman;
and establishing specified duties of the agricultural ombudsman.

House Bill 245 – Insurance - Prior Approval Rating Law - Exempt Commercial
Policyholders (Delegate Vaughn)
Altering the annual property and casualty insurance premium dollar amount threshold above
which specified insurance policy forms and endorsements issued to specified commercial
policyholders are exempt from specified form filing requirements under prior approval insurance
rating law; and altering the definition of "exempt commercial policyholder".

House Bill 292 – Maryland Military Department - Maryland Defense Force Employment
Protection (Chairman, Economic Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental -
Military))
Providing employment protection to members of the Maryland Defense Force.

House Bill 294 – Bonds - Small Denominations (Delegate Heller (Joint Committee on the
Management of Public Funds))
Increasing the maximum denomination that qualifies for a small denomination bond.

House Bill 326 – Home Builder Registration - Application - Social Security Numbers
(Delegate Krysiak)
Repealing specified provisions of law requiring an applicant for a home builder registration to
provide the Social Security number of all principals of the applicant; and making specified
technical and conforming corrections.

House Bill 342 – Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Public Awareness and
Outreach - Hepatitis C Virus and Organ, Tissue, and Eye Donation (Delegate Nathan-
Pulliam, et al)
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to conduct a specified needs
assessment, initiate a public awareness campaign, and coordinate with specified units of State
government to activate a specified hepatitis C virus plan; requiring the Department to solicit
funding for hepatitis C outreach; etc.

House Bill 351 – Talbot County - Hotel Rental Tax Rate (Delegates Haddaway and
Eckardt)
Increasing from 3% to 4% the maximum hotel rental tax rate that may be set in Talbot County.

House Bill 358 – St. Mary's County - Special Taxing Districts – Creation (St. Mary’s
County Delegation)
Authorizing St. Mary's County to exercise specified powers concerning the creation of special
taxing districts, the levying of ad valorem or special taxes, and the issuing of bonds for
developing and financing specified infrastructure improvements when the improvement is
reasonably related to the development and utilization of the land; etc.

House Bill 367 – Family Law - Unregistered Family Day Care Homes and Unlicensed Child
Care Centers – Penalties (Delegate Patterson, et al)
Altering the criminal penalties for operating an unregistered family day care home; and altering
the criminal penalties for operating an unlicensed child care center.

House Bill 373 – St. Mary's County - Impact Fees (St. Mary’s County Delegation)
Increasing the number of units for which St. Mary's County may waive, defer, or amortize
building impact fees in any fiscal year; repealing a specified limit on the total amount of building
impact fees that may be waived, deferred, or amortized in any fiscal year; providing that the
county shall reflect the total amount of building impact fees waived, deferred, or amortized in the
annual capital budget; repealing the June 30, 2030, termination of the county's authority to
waive, defer, or amortize building impact fees; etc.

House Bill 397 – Agricultural Operations - Nuisance Actions – Requirements (Delegate

Elmore, et al)
Requiring a person filing a nuisance action against an agricultural operation in any court to first
file a complaint with a specified local agency or refer a complaint to the State agricultural
mediation program in the Department of Agriculture and to obtain a decision or recommendation
from the local agency or a specified certification from the Department on the nuisance
complaint; excepting government agencies from specified requirements; etc.

House Bill 398 – Secretary of State - Maryland Charitable Solicitations Act - Solicitations
Disclosure Statement (Chairman, Economic Matters Committee (By Request -
Departmental - Secretary of State))
Altering provisions of the Maryland Charitable Solicitations Act to require a charitable
organization to be in total compliance prior to soliciting the public; authorizing a noncompliant
applicant for registration to request a hearing with the Secretary of State under specified
circumstances; establishing the burden of proof in a court proceeding based on an appeal by a
charitable organization; etc.

House Bill 436 – Maryland Home Improvement Commission - Prosecution of Unlicensed

Contractors, Subcontractors, and Salespersons – Procedures (Chairman, Economic
Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Labor, Licensing and Regulation))
Clarifying that under specified circumstances, an administrative hearing and adjudication by the
Maryland Home Improvement Commission is not a prerequisite to criminal prosecution of
specified unlicensed home improvement contractors, subcontractors, or salespersons.

House Bill 440 – Garrett County - Property Tax Credit - Adventure Sports Center, Inc.
(Garrett County Delegation)
Authorizing the governing body of Garrett County to grant, by law, a property tax credit against
the county property tax imposed on property that is owned by Adventure Sports Center, Inc.;
authorizing the governing body of Garrett County to set the amount and duration of the credit, to
provide for additional eligibility criteria, regulations, and procedures relating to credit requests,
and to adopt any other provisions necessary to administer the credit; and applying the Act to tax
years beginning after June 30, 2030.

House Bill 448 – Revenue Collection – Offsets (Delegate Heller (Joint Committee on the
Management of Public Funds))
Authorizing the Comptroller to withhold tax refunds and other payments owed by the State to
specified persons, including vendors doing business with the federal government, and to pay
amounts to an agency of the federal government that has certified the delinquent nontax
liabilities of specified persons; etc.

House Bill 465 – Howard County - Steel Jaw Leghold Trap Prohibition (Howard County
Delegation)
Adding Howard County to the counties in which the use, setting, placement, and maintenance of
steel jaw leghold traps on land is prohibited.

House Bill 507 – Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Folic Acid Supplement
Distribution Program (Delegate Taylor, et al)
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to establish a program to distribute
folic acid supplements to women between the ages of 15 and 45 years old who have family
incomes at or below a specified level; requiring the program to provide the appropriate
recommended amount of folic acid, along with counseling and information regarding proper use
of the supplement, to specified women; etc.

House Bill 532 – Worcester County - Alcoholic Beverages - Class D Licenses (Delegates
Bozman and Conway)
Clarifying obsolete descriptions of the boundaries of areas in Worcester County in which Class
D beer, wine and liquor licenses may be issued; and specifying that specified license fees set by
the Worcester County Commissioners may not be less than specified amounts.

House Bill 549 – Health Insurance - Private Review Agents - Emergency Inpatient and
Residential Crisis Services Admission Determinations (Delegate Morhaim, et al)
Requiring a private review agent, under specified circumstances, to submit information to the
Maryland Insurance Commissioner regarding procedures and policies for making determinations
for emergency inpatient admissions, or admissions for specified residential crisis services, for the
treatment of a mental, emotional, or substance abuse disorder; requiring a private review agent,
under specified circumstances, to make specified admissions determinations within 2 hours; etc.

House Bill 583 – Surplus Lines Insurance - Compliance with Filing Requirement -
Electronic Transmission (Delegate Moe)
Providing that reports, affidavits, and returns required to be filed with regard to surplus lines
insurance are in compliance with the filing requirement if they are transmitted electronically on
or before the filing date in a manner approved by the Insurance Commissioner.

House Bill 597 – Insurance - Prohibited Acts - Inducements to Financing an Insurance

Contract (Delegate Haddaway, et al)
Prohibiting an insurance producer, employee of an insurance producer, or other person from
accepting, directly or indirectly, any valuable consideration as an inducement to facilitate an
agreement to finance a specified insurance premium.

House Bill 657 – Montgomery County - Housing Opportunities Commission – Powers

(Montgomery County Delegation)
Authorizing the Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County to enter into
specified development agreements to develop housing in which a specified minimum percentage
of the units are initially occupied by specified individuals; authorizing the Commission to
contract to furnish services, consultation, advice, and assistance to other housing authorities or
other persons in or outside of the State to assist in developing, managing, renovating, or
constructing specified housing.

House Bill 690 – State Board of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators - Study on
Licensure and Board Membership (Delegate Mandel, et al)
Requiring the State Board of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators, in conjunction with
specified other entities, to convene a specified workgroup to study the standards for licensure of
nursing home administrator applicants and the effectiveness of the Board in regulating nursing
home administrators in the State; requiring the study to include specified items; requiring the
workgroup to make a specified report; etc.

House Bill 698 – Open Meetings Act - Administrative Function - Reporting Requirement
(Delegate Weldon, et al)
Renaming the executive function exclusion under the Open Meetings Act as an exclusion for
administrative functions; and requiring a public body that recesses an open session to carry out
an administrative function in a meeting that is not open to the public to include specified
information in the minutes of its next open session.

House Bill 699 – Agriculture - Preservation of Historic Structures (Delegate Stull, et al)
Establishing the Maryland Advisory Committee on Historic Agricultural Structure Preservation;
providing for the membership, term, and compensation of the Committee; establishing a
Maryland Barn Preservation Fund to preserve historic agricultural structures; providing for the
uses of the Fund; requiring the Board of Public Works to make specified grants from the Fund;
etc.

Senate Bill 120 – Motor Fuel - Gasoline Commingling by Brand or Grade – Prohibition
(Chairman, Finance Committee (By Request - Departmental - Comptroller))
Prohibiting a marina from commingling gasoline under specified circumstances; prohibiting
specified motor fuel sellers and transporters from commingling gasoline by brand or grade;
making conforming changes; requiring the State Comptroller to notify marinas in the State of the
requirements of the Act; etc.

Senate Bill 125 – Falsifying and Altering Permits, Licenses, and Certificates - Criminal
Penalties (Chair, Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee (By Request -
Departmental - Environment))
Making it a misdemeanor to knowingly falsify, alter, or cause another to falsify or alter any
permit, license, or certificate issued or required by the Department of the Environment to
demonstrate compliance with any environmental regulation or permit condition; making it a
misdemeanor to knowingly possess, display, or submit any falsified or altered document issued
or required by the Department; creating specified penalties; requiring fines to be deposited into
applicable special funds; etc.

Senate Bill 126 – Department of Housing and Community Development - Partnership

Rental Housing Program - Individuals with Disabilities (Chair, Education, Health, and
Environmental Affairs Committee (By Request - Departmental - Housing and Community
Development))
Altering resident eligibility requirements under the Partnership Rental Housing Program;
authorizing the Secretary of Housing and Community Development to establish specified income
levels; altering the requirements to approve an application for a proposed partnership project;
authorizing the Department of Housing and Community Development to approve the use of
partnership rental housing funds under specified circumstances; etc.

Senate Bill 127 – Department of Housing and Community Development - Multifamily

Rental Housing Programs (Chair, Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
Committee (By Request - Departmental - Housing and Community Development))
Authorizing loans under the Multifamily Rehabilitation Program to acquire and rehabilitate
buildings that provide more than four dwellings; clarifying that specified loans for rehabilitation
projects may be made to sponsors and nonprofit sponsors in addition to families of limited
income; defining "elderly households"; etc.

Senate Bill 129 – Election Law - Ballots - Certification of Questions and Nomination of
Candidates (Chair, Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee (By Request
- Departmental - Elections, State Board of))
Authorizing specified political parties to nominate candidates to the ballot if the parties do not
nominate candidates by primary election; establishing filing requirements for specified
candidates; providing that unless a board of education race is partisan a candidate may not
qualify by petition or party nomination; clarifying the procedure by which political parties must
fill vacancies; requiring the county attorney to prepare and certify specified information for
specified ballot questions; etc.

Senate Bill 185 – City of Frostburg Employees - Participation in the Employees' Pension
System (Senator Hafer)
Requiring specified employees of the City of Frostburg to participate in the Employees' Pension
System of the State of Maryland as of the date that the City of Frostburg begins participating in
the Employees' Pension System; providing for specified employees of the City of Frostburg to
receive service credit for specified prior service; etc.

Senate Bill 197 – Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Umbilical Cord Blood
Donation - Educational Materials (Senator Jacobs, et al)
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, in consultation with specified entities,
to develop educational materials concerning the donation of umbilical cord blood; requiring
specified obstetricians and hospitals to distribute specified educational materials to specified
patients; etc.

Senate Bill 240 – Baltimore City - Special Traffic Enforcement Officers - Jurisdiction and
Requirements (Senator McFadden (By Request - Baltimore City Administration))
Altering the jurisdiction of special traffic enforcement officers of Baltimore City; limiting the
circumstances under which a special traffic enforcement officer in Baltimore City may exercise
specified authority; requiring special traffic enforcement officers in Baltimore City to take an
accredited conflict resolution training course; etc.

Senate Bill 251 – Insurance - Loans and Advances Made to Stock Insurers and Mutual
Insurers (Senators Kelley and Gladden)
Repealing a specified limitation on the interest allowed on a specified loan or advance made to a
stock insurer; requiring that the instrument evidencing a specified loan or advance be approved
in a specified manner by the Maryland Insurance Commissioner; providing that a specified loan
or advance and any interest on it made to a mutual insurer is payable only out of the surplus
remaining after the mutual insurer provides for all reserves and other liabilities; etc.

Senate Bill 267 – State Buildings Energy Efficiency and Conservation Act (Senator
Garagiola, et al)
Requiring the Department of General Services, in cooperation with the Maryland Energy
Administration, to set specified energy performance standards to require reductions of energy
consumption in State buildings by specified dates; providing an exception for specified buildings
under the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation; requiring State agencies to conduct
energy consumption analyses; requiring State agencies to update energy conservation plans; etc.

Senate Bill 287 – Baltimore City - Orphans' Court Judges - Retirement Allowances
(Senator McFadden)
Increasing the annual retirement allowances of the associate judges and the Chief Judge of the
Orphans' Court for Baltimore City; and providing that the Act does not apply to the salaries or
compensation of the incumbent associate judges and the Chief Judge of the Orphans' Court for
Baltimore City.

Senate Bill 301 – Baltimore County - Sheriff - Salary Increase Senator Stone (By Request -
Baltimore County Administration))
Increasing the annual salary of the Sheriff of Baltimore County to $90,000 over a 4-year period;
and providing that the Act does not apply to the salary or compensation of the incumbent Sheriff.

Senate Bill 304 – Baltimore City - Alcoholic Beverages - After Hours Food Service by Class
D Licensees - 46th Legislative District (Senator Della)
Authorizing the Board of Liquor License Commissioners for Baltimore City to allow holders of a
Class D beer, wine and liquor license that operate a restaurant in the 46th Legislative District to
remain open after hours only to serve food under a specified condition; and making a conforming
change.

Senate Bill 328 – Vehicle Laws - Motor Vehicles Operated Exclusively on Islands –
Registration (Senator Stoltzfus)
Including within a specified motor vehicle registration class specified motor vehicles that are
operated exclusively on specified islands; prohibiting a motor vehicle registered within a
specified registration class as an island vehicle from being operated on a State highway that is
not on a specified island; providing that a transfer of a used vehicle registered, or to be
registered, within a specified registration class as an island vehicle is not subject to safety
inspection requirements; etc.

Senate Bill 334 – Local Government - Tri-County Council for Western Maryland –
Membership (Senator Hafer)
Altering the membership of the Tri-County Council for Western Maryland; altering the method
by which specified members are selected for membership to the Tri-County Council for Western
Maryland; providing for specified limitations on the terms of at-large members of the Tri-County
Council; etc.

Senate Bill 342 – Garrett County - Beer Tax – Repeal (Senator Hafer)
Repealing the county tax on beer sold or delivered in Garrett County.

Senate Bill 369 – Health Care Decisions Act - Advance Directives - Selection of Health Care
Agent and Treatment Preferences (Senator Hollinger)
Clarifying the forms relating to the selection of a health care agent, treatment preferences (living
wills), and organ donations; clarifying that surrogate decision-makers may make decisions when
health care agents are unavailable; altering a definition; etc.

Senate Bill 371 – State Board of Pharmacy - Registration of Pharmacy Technicians

(Senator Hollinger)
Authorizing the State Board of Pharmacy to regulate pharmacy technicians; requiring the Board
to adopt specified standards for approving specified examinations; authorizing a licensed
pharmacist to delegate pharmacy acts to registered pharmacy technicians, pharmacy students,
and pharmacy technician trainees under specified circumstances; altering the grounds for
disciplinary action; altering prescription drug labeling requirements; etc.
Senate Bill 375 – Health - General - Residential Treatment Centers - Required Notice
(Senator Della, et al)
Requiring residential treatment centers to attempt to notify residents and their representatives,
family members, legal guardians, or custodians of a change in condition, an adverse event, and
corrective action within 24 hours of an occurrence; authorizing specified individuals to send a
specified response to specified residential treatment centers; etc.

Senate Bill 405 – State Board of Nursing - Electrologists - License Renewal and Discipline
(Senator Conway)
Altering the term for license renewal for electrologists; requiring the State Board of Nursing to
place a licensee on inactive status if the licensee fails to provide satisfactory evidence of
compliance with specified continuing education requirements on renewal; and specifying
additional grounds for taking specified disciplinary actions against specified licensees and
applicants subject to specified hearing requirements.

Senate Bill 437 – Maryland Public Broadcasting Commission - Donor Information –

Confidentiality (Senator Hollinger, et al)
Requiring the Maryland Public Broadcasting Commission to keep confidential specified
information of an individual who makes a donation to the Commission; authorizing the
Commission to share specified information about an individual who makes a donation to the
Commission with nonprofit or governmental entities under specified circumstances; etc.

Senate Bill 484 – Income Tax - Extensions for Filing Returns (Senator Schrader, et al)
Increasing to 7 months the period for which the Comptroller may under specified circumstances
extend the time for a corporation to file an income tax return; and applying the Act to tax years
after 2029.

Senate Bill 491 – Health Insurance - Coverage for Home Visits After Mastectomy or
Surgical Removal of a Testicle - Repeal of Sunset (Senator Teitelbaum, et al)
Repealing a specified termination date for mandated insurance coverage for specified home visits
following a mastectomy or surgical removal of a testicle.

Senate Bill 544 – Residential Property - Municipalities - Authority to Establish

Condominium Regimes (Senator Giannetti)
Authorizing a municipal corporation to establish a condominium regime on residential property
owned by the municipal corporation.

Senate Bill 550 – Estates and Trusts - Transfers to Minors - Joint Custodians (Senator
Stone)
Authorizing a specified joint custodianship of property under the Maryland Uniform Transfers to
Minors Act; providing that each joint custodian has full power and authority to act alone under
specified circumstances; and providing that a joint custodian may serve as a sole custodian under
specified circumstances.

Senate Bill 562 – Public Safety - Fire Companies - Limited Access to Private Water Sources
(Senator Haines)
Authorizing a fire company, if there is no other water system available to extinguish a fire or
mitigate an emergency, to enter private property to obtain water from a private water source to
extinguish the fire or mitigate the emergency incident; etc.

Senate Bill 636 – Health Insurance - Credentialing and Recredentialing of Health Care
Providers (Senator Teitelbaum, et al)
Altering the time period within which a health insurance carrier must make a decision regarding
the participation of a health care provider on the carrier's provider panel; prohibiting specified
health insurance carriers from requiring a specified health care provider to be recredentialed
based on a change in the federal tax identification number of the health care provider or the
health care provider's employer or a change in the health care provider's employer under
specified circumstances; etc.

Senate Bill 678 – Limited Liability Companies - Inspection Authority of Personal

Representative, Trustee, or Fiduciary (Senator Giannetti)
Authorizing a personal representative, trustee, or fiduciary to inspect the property and assets of a
limited liability company in which the personal representative, trustee, or fiduciary holds an
interest to determine compliance with an environmental law and respond to liability relating to
the property; etc.

Senate Bill 747 – Financial Institutions - Certificates of Deposit - Claims for Payment
(Senator Kelley)
Establishing a specified limitations period on actions to enforce an obligation of a depository
institution to pay specified certificates of deposit; altering the limitations period on actions to
enforce an obligation of a depository institution to pay negotiable certificates of deposit; and
applying the Act.

Senate Bill 766 – Hunting - Exemptions from License and Stamp Requirement (Senator
Colburn)
Altering the list of persons eligible for exemptions from the requirement to obtain a hunting
license and stamp; and including bow and arrow and black powder stamps in the exemption.

Senate Bill 805 – State Board of Social Work Examiners - Various Licensing and
Regulatory Requirements (Senator Hollinger)
Altering the quorum requirements for the State Board of Social Work Examiners; altering the
educational qualifications for specified licenses to practice social work to allow for the
accreditation of specified degree and educational programs by a specified accreditation
organization or a specified equivalent organization; and altering the requirements for which the
Board may grant a waiver of specified examination requirements for licensure by applicants who
are licensed or registered to practice social work in another state.

Senate Bill 812 – Alcoholic Beverages - Limited Wine Wholesaler's License and
Nonresident Winery Permit (Senator Middleton)
Creating a Class 6 limited wine wholesaler's license and a nonresident winery permit; providing
for a specified permit fee; authorizing the Office of the Comptroller to issue a nonresident
winery permit to a person that meets specified requirements; authorizing the holder of a
nonresident winery permit to sell and deliver its own wine from a location outside the State to
specified persons; etc.

Senate Bill 818 – Health Occupations - Physician Assistants - Delegation Agreements

(Senator Hollinger)
Authorizing physician assistants to practice in accordance with a pending delegation agreement
if the supervising physician has been previously approved to supervise one or more physician
assistants in the proposed practice setting for the same scope of practice and the physician
assistant has been previously approved to practice in a comparable scope of practice in a
different practice setting; etc.

Senate Bill 846 – Vehicle Laws - Bicycles and Motor Scooters - Operation and Equipment
(Senators Giannetti and Lawlah)
Altering provisions relating to braking, lighting, and audible equipment for a bicycle or motor
scooter; etc.

Senate Bill 853 – Homeowners Property Tax Credit Program - Local Supplement -
Municipal Corporation (Senator Forehand)
Altering the calculation of a local supplement to the State Homeowners Property Tax Credit
Program granted by a municipal corporation; specifying additional eligibility criteria that the
governing body of a municipal corporation may provide, by law, for purposes of a local
supplement; authorizing the governing body of a municipal corporation to alter the calculation of
the credit and eligibility criteria for purposes of the local supplement; etc.

Senate Bill 860 – Local Government - Investment of Other Postemployment Benefits Funds
(Chairman, Anne Arundel County Senators)
Providing that the trustees or other officers in charge of specified postemployment benefits funds
may only invest the funds in a specified manner; and defining a specified term.

Senate Bill 872 – Allegany County - Salary Study Commission - Recommendations and
Establishment of Recommended Salaries (Senator Hafer)
Requiring the Allegany County Salary Study Commission to meet with each person who holds a
specified office for specified purposes before submitting specified salary recommendations to the
Board of County Commissioners of Allegany County; providing that, notwithstanding a
specified provision of law, the Board of County Commissioners of Allegany County shall set by
local law the salaries of specified offices by a specified date; etc.

Senate Bill 888 – Vehicle Laws - Rental Vehicle Companies - Separately Stated Charges
(Senator Stone)
Authorizing a rental vehicle company to charge a consumer a fee to recover specified costs;
authorizing a rental vehicle company to determine the amount of a separately stated fee under
specified circumstances; requiring a rental vehicle company to adjust the amount of the fee under
specified circumstances; requiring a rental vehicle company to include specified information
relating to the fee in an advertisement; etc.

Senate Bill 897 – Procurement - Commercial Nondiscrimination Policy (Senator Lawlah, et

al)
Establishing a "Commercial Nondiscrimination Policy" under the State procurement law;
specifying the purpose, intent, and scope of the policy; defining terms; specifying rules of
construction; establishing a period of limitations during which a person must file a specified
discrimination complaint; authorizing specified persons to file specified complaints alleging
discrimination; specifying investigation procedures, duties, and responsibilities for handling
complaints; etc.

Senate Bill 903 – Calvert County - County Officials – Salaries (Senators Coulter and
Dyson)
Altering the salaries of the County Commissioners of Calvert County, Calvert County Treasurer,
Sheriff of Calvert County, and Orphans' Court Judges for Calvert County; and providing that the
Act does not apply to the salary or compensation of the incumbent County Commissioners of
Calvert County, Calvert County Treasurer, Sheriff of Calvert County, or Orphans' Court Judges
for Calvert County.

Senate Bill 905 – Calvert County and Charles County - Alcoholic Beverages - License for
Luxury-Type Restaurants (Senators Coulter and Dyson)
Creating in the 27th Legislative District in Calvert County a Class BLX license for luxury-type
restaurants; restricting the number of Class BLX licenses in which any person or group may have
a direct or indirect interest in Calvert County; altering the provisions for a Class BLX license in
Charles County; etc.

Senate Bill 1039 – Dorchester County - Water and Sewerage Systems - Benefit Assessments
and Connection Charges (Senator Colburn)
Authorizing a sanitary commission in Dorchester County to set reasonable benefit assessments
on specified property to pay the cost of capital improvements and repairs to the water or
sewerage system.

Senate Bill 1064 – Election Law - Baltimore City Democratic Party Central Committee –
Membership (Senator Della)
Altering the membership of the Baltimore City Democratic Party Central Committee; and
specifying that each member of the Baltimore City Democratic Party Central Committee shall
reside in, and be elected by the voters of, the legislative district that the member represents.
Senate Bill 1076 – Department of Housing and Community Development - Neighborhood

and Community Assistance Program - Community Investment Tax Credit (Senator Jones)
Providing that a business entity is entitled to a tax credit for a contribution of real property to an
approved project operated by a nonprofit organization under the Neighborhood and Community
Assistance Program of the Department of Housing and Community Development; increasing the
maximum tax credit allowed to $250,000 for specified contributions; etc.

Senate Bill 1080 – Office of Administrative Hearings - Disciplinary Appeals - Additional

Actions (Senator Kelley)
Authorizing the Office of Administrative Hearings to order repayment of employee benefits to a
State employee who has won an appeal of a disciplinary action against the State employee.

Senate Bill 1089 – Howard County - Annexation of Land in Columbia (Senator Kasemeyer)
Authorizing, under specified circumstances, a specified parcel of land subject to a specified deed,
agreement, and declaration, and located in a specified area of Howard County that is not part of a
village or town center, to be annexed into the village or town center in which the parcel of land is
located; etc.

Senate Bill 1100 – Baltimore City - Alcoholic Beverages - Golf Course License (Senators
Gladden and Brochin)
Authorizing the Board of Liquor License Commissioners for Baltimore City to issue a special
Class M-G beer, wine and liquor license for use at a specified golf course; specifying that a
licensee shall be a golf course manager; providing for a $500 annual license fee; specifying that
the license may be used to sell beer, wine, and liquor for consumption only on the land and in the
facilities used for golfing purposes; etc.


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Thursday, May 2, 2030

3/5 Senate: Third Reading Passed (32-14)

House Bill 2 – Agricultural Stewardship Act (The Speaker (Administration), et al)

3/22 House: Third Reading Passed (138-0)

3/29 House: Third Reading Passed (136-3)

3/19 House: Third Reading Passed (137-0)

4/1 House: Third Reading Passed (136-0)

3/18 Senate: Third Reading Passed (38-6)

House Bill 15 – Beauty Salons - Prohibition on Use or Possession of Methyl Methacrylate

3/5 House: Third Reading Passed (127-0)

2/12 Senate: Third Reading Passed (139-0)

House Bill 64 – Refusal of Psychiatric Medication - Clinical Review Panel (Chairman,

3/18 House: Third Reading Passed (133-3)

2/18 House: Third Reading Passed (121-10)

3/12 House: Third Reading Passed (138-0)

3/5 House: Third Reading Passed (134-0)

3/12 House: Third Reading Passed (136-0)

3/25 House: Third Reading Passed (133-3)

2/16 House: Third Reading Passed (132-2)

3/12 House: Third Reading Passed (136-2)

House Bill 271 – Residential Educational Facilities – Licensing (Delegate Hubbard)

3/24 House: Third Reading Passed (135-1)

3/11 House: Third Reading Passed (135-1)

3/24 House: Third Reading Passed (125-8)

3/18 House: Third Reading Passed (134-2)

3/4 House: Third Reading Passed (134-4)

3/24 House: Third Reading Passed (124-7)

3/12 House: Third Reading Passed (133-4)

3/5 House: Third Reading Passed (136-0)

3/11 House: Third Reading Passed (134-0)

3/24 House: Third Reading Passed (135-0)

House Bill 360 – Continuing Care Communities - Certificate of Need Exemption -

3/18 House: Third Reading Passed (131-1)

3/5 House: Third Reading Passed (136-0)

4/1 House: Third Reading Passed (131-6)

3/18 House: Third Reading Passed (137-0)

3/12 House: Third Reading Passed (132-4)

3/18 House: Third Reading Passed (134-1)

3/4 House: Third Reading Passed (139-0)

3/26 House: Third Reading Passed (107-29)

3/18 House: Third Reading Passed (135-0)

Requiring a health maintenance organization (HMO) that allows a member or subscriber to

3/22 House: Third Reading Passed (135-2)

3/18 House: Third Reading Passed (136-0)

House Bill 621 – Health Occupations - Professional Counselors - Licensing and

3/27 House: Third Reading Passed (135-0)

House Bill 637 – Licensed Certified Public Accountants – Qualifications (Chairman,

3/27 House: Third Reading Passed (131-4)

3/18 House: Third Reading Passed (136-0)

3/18 House: Third Reading Passed (137-0)

House Bill 661 – Washington County - Land Use - Administrative Adjustments

3/11 House: Third Reading Passed (137-0)

House Bill 667 – Cigarettes – Regulation (Delegate Mitchell, et al)

3/24 House: Third Reading Passed (131-1)

3/28 House: Third Reading Passed (136-0)

3/27 House: Third Reading Passed (115-20)

3/24 House: Third Reading Passed (135-0)

3/24 House: Third Reading Passed (137-2)

3/12 House: Third Reading Passed (138-1)

3/28 House: Third Reading Passed (138-0)

3/18 House: Third Reading Passed (126-6)

3/25 House: Third Reading Passed (133-2)