May 9, 2030 Bill Signing

Thursday, May 9, 2030
House Bill 187 – Maryland Learning Success Program - Public School Class Size Reduction
Assistance (The Speaker (Administration), et al)
Establishing the Maryland Learning Success Program to provide grants to local education
agencies to reduce class sizes for reading instruction in grades 1 and 2; requiring local education
agencies to submit specified Maryland Learning Success Program plans and reports to the State
Superintendent of Education; providing the conditions for awarding Maryland Learning Success
Program grants; requiring the Governor to include funding in the budget to accomplish the
purposes of the Act; etc.
3/24 House: Third Reading Passed (138-0)

4/6 Senate: Third Reading Passed (46-1)
5/9 Approved by the Governor – Chapter 619
House Bill 189 – Higher Education - Maryland Teacher Scholarships - Maryland HOPE
Scholarships (The Speaker (Administration), et al)
Establishing the Maryland Teacher Scholarship Program and the Maryland HOPE Scholarship
Program; setting eligibility standards for scholarships under the programs; setting requirements
for scholarship recipients; setting the amount that may be awarded; providing for funding for the
programs; requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to draft a plan to administer
the Maryland HOPE Scholarship Program; etc.

House Bill 399 – Public Libraries - Technology Centers – Establishment (The Speaker
(Administration), et al)
Establishing a network of technology centers under the Division of Library Development and
Services; authorizing the Department of Education to include funds for the network in its budget;
requiring the State to fund all capital expenses for the network; establishing guidelines for the
network; funding the network; providing that funding for the network may not supplant other
existing funding for the statewide system of libraries; etc.

Senate Bill 1059 – Prescription Drug Repository Program (Senator Teitelbaum)

Establishing a Prescription Drug Repository Program regulated by the State Board of Pharmacy;
providing for the purpose of the Program; authorizing the Program to accept, for the purpose of
dispensing only, prescription drugs and medical supplies under specified conditions; providing
that any person may donate prescription drugs or medical supplies to the Program at designated
drop-off sites; requiring a designated drop-off site to meet specified requirements; etc.
House Bill 1092 – Education - Career Connections Sustainability Fund (The Speaker
Establishing the Career Connections Sustainability Fund; requiring the Governor to include
specified amounts in the State budget for the Fund; requiring the Department of Education to
administer the Fund in consultation with the State Management Team; providing for the
distribution of the Fund; requiring the Department to prepare an annual report; and requiring the
Department to adopt regulations to implement the Act.

House Bill 315 – Family Caregiver Assistance Program (The Speaker (Administration), et
al)
Establishing a Family Caregiver Assistance Program in the Department of Aging; specifying the
purpose of the Program; providing for funding of the Program; authorizing the Secretary of
Aging to accept specified moneys for specified purposes; authorizing the Program to provide
specified family caregivers with specified grants not to exceed a specified amount per year; etc.

House Bill 322 – Higher Education - Nurse Support Program Assistance Fund - Hospital
Rates (The Speaker (Administration), et al)
Establishing the Nurse Support Program Assistance Fund in the Maryland Higher Education
Commission; establishing a funding source for the Fund; providing for expenditures from the
Fund; and requiring money in the Fund to be used for competitive and statewide grants to
increase the number of bedside nurses in Maryland hospitals and to attract and retain minorities
to nursing and nurse faculty careers in Maryland.

House Bill 6 – Education - Maryland After-School Opportunity Act (The Speaker

Providing for the Maryland After-School Opportunity Act; creating the Maryland After-School
Opportunity Fund Program and the Maryland After-School Opportunity Fund in the Program;
requiring the Governor to include a specified amount in the fiscal year 2032 State budget for the
Fund; establishing an Advisory Board in the Program and an Executive Committee of the Board;
requiring the Department of Human Resources to administer the Fund as directed by the
Executive Committee; etc.

House Bill 7 – Income Tax - Credit for Child and Dependent Care Expenses (Delegate
Shriver, et al)
Allowing individuals whose federal adjusted gross income for the taxable year does not exceed
specified levels a credit against the State income tax for specified child and dependent care
expenses paid by the individual; defining specified terms; applying the Act to tax years after
2030; requiring the Office of the Comptroller to conduct a specified study and to report to
specified committees of the General Assembly by December 1, 2032; etc.

House Bill 9 – Quality Teacher Incentive Act of 2030 (Delegates Hixson and Rawlings, et al)
Providing State grants to county boards of education for specified mentoring programs;
providing for a 2-year probationary period, and on extension under certain circumstances, of
employment for certificated employees in a public school system, including a renewable 1-year
employment contract; providing for State stipends and bonuses for specified teachers and
requiring that funding be included in the annual operating budget; allowing specified teachers a
State income tax credit under specified circumstances; etc.

House Bill 43 – Health Insurance - Standard Policy Provisions - Task Force to Study the
Non-Group Health Insurance Market (Chairman, Economic Matters Committee
(Departmental - Insurance Administration, Maryland))
Requiring the Insurance Commissioner to adopt a specified language and format for standard
provisions for contracts and policies issued by insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health
maintenance organizations by January 1, 2031; repealing specified provisions of law relating to
standard health insurance policy provisions, subject to a contingency; establishing a Task Force
to Study the Non-Group Health Insurance Market; establishing the membership, duties, staff, and
reporting requirements of the Task Force; etc.

House Bill 131 – Higher Education - Educational Excellence Award Program (Chairman,
Appropriations Committee (Departmental - Higher Education Commission))
Allowing funds appropriated for the Educational Excellence Award Program that are not used by
its recipients to be carried forward to the next fiscal year for awarding scholarships to students;
and prohibiting the use of certain funds for administrative expenses.

House Bill 167 – Sewage Sludge Storage Facilities - Permit to Install, Alter, or Extend –
Issuance (Delegate W. Baker, et al)
Prohibiting the Department of the Environment from issuing a permit to install, materially alter,
or materially extend a sewage sludge storage facility until the facility meets all county zoning
and land use requirements.

House Bill 259 – Sales and Use Tax Exemption - Certain Wholesome Foods (Delegate
Healey, et al)
Exempting from the sales and use tax the sale through a vending machine of milk, fresh fruit,
fresh vegetables, or yogurt.

House Bill 387 – Real Property - Nuisance Abatement and Local Code Enforcement -
Community Associations (Delegate Hammen, et al)
Altering the definition of "community association" under certain provisions of law relating to the
standing of certain community associations in Baltimore City to seek judicial relief for
abatement of certain nuisances; altering certain notice requirements; etc.

House Bill 449 – Local Government Tort Claims Act - Interest on Judgment (Delegates K.
Kelly and Vallario)
Providing that the monetary limits on the liability of a local government for a judgment resulting
from a tortious act or omission of a local government employee do not include interest accrued
on the judgment.

House Bill 457 – Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation – Easements

(Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (Departmental - Agriculture))
Allowing each county governing body to rank applications to sell agricultural land easements
based on specified locally established priorities; requiring the county agricultural preservation
advisory board to recommend for ranking any application that qualifies and meets the priorities;
and requiring the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation to rank applications and
to submit offers to buy easements based on priorities.

House Bill 466 – Maryland Tort Claims Act - Limit on Liability (Delegates K. Kelly and
Vallario)
Increasing the limit on liability of the State and its units for injuries of a claimant arising from an
incident or occurrence.

House Bill 483 – Community Colleges - English for Speakers of Other Languages
Programs – Funding (Delegate Hixson, et al)
Increasing the maximum amount of funding allowed for annual grants for the English for
Speakers of Other Languages programs ("ESOL") at community colleges in the State, including
Baltimore City Community College; and requiring the Governor to include funds, subject to a
certain limitation, in the annual budget in any fiscal year in which the State appropriation to the
community colleges is insufficient to fund all grants eligible under the ESOL programs, in order
to fund all unfunded grants in the programs.

House Bill 502 – Ambient Air Monitoring Data - Public Access (Delegate Redmer, et al)
Requiring the Department of the Environment to make publicly available on the Internet by
January 1, 2031 and each year thereafter validated ambient air monitoring data for the two most
recent calendar years for which data are available; allowing the data to be presented in summary
form; and defining ambient air monitoring data.

House Bill 599 – Libraries - Funding - State Library Resource Center (Delegate Hixson, et
al)
Requiring the State Library Resource Center to receive a minimum allocation of funding for each
State resident to be used for operating and capital expenses; providing for the calculation of the
allocation; etc.

House Bill 603 – Civil Actions - Disclosure of Information and Service of Process (Delegates
Vallario and Dembrow)
Requiring an insurer or a person who has a self-insurance plan to provide information on the last
known home address, if known, of an insured defendant under specified circumstances;
providing civil and criminal immunity to a person who discloses information required under the
Act; and providing that service may be effected by delivering a copy of a summons and
complaint at a defendant's dwelling house or usual place of abode under specified circumstances.

House Bill 622 – Environment - Kent Island Citizens Oversight Committee (Delegate W.
Baker)
Requiring the Governor to appoint a Kent Island Citizens Oversight Committee; requiring the
Governor to determine the terms and qualifications of members of the Oversight Committee;
requiring the Oversight Committee to monitor the redeposit of dredge spoils off the shore of
Kent Island and to hear and respond to complaints; etc.

House Bill 636 – Tax Credit for Cost of Providing Commuter Benefits to Employees
(Delegate Carlson, et al)
Allowing a credit against the State income tax, financial institution franchise tax, and insurance
premiums tax for certain costs incurred by employers that provide commuter benefits to
employees, such as transit passes, transportation, or reimbursement for carpooling expenses; and
providing that an employer may claim a maximum credit amount of $30 per month per
employee.

House Bill 669 – Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation - Contract
Purchasers (Delegates Glassman and James)
Allowing a landowner, on behalf of a contract purchaser of land, to file a petition with the county
governing body requesting the establishment of an agricultural district; allowing a contract
purchaser, by written application and with the written approval of the landowner, to offer to sell
an easement to the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation on the entire contiguous
acreage of the agricultural land owned by the landowner; etc.

House Bill 728 – Condominiums – Common Elements - Eminent Domain (Delegates Barve
and Petzold)
Authorizing a board of directors of a council of condominium unit owners by majority vote to
settle an eminent domain proceeding or grant specified property interests to specified
governmental entities with condemnation authority for specified public purposes; specifying
notice and procedural requirements; and making technical corrections.

House Bill 729 – Group Life Insurance (Delegates McHale and Minnick)
Altering general requirements relating to issuance of policies of group life insurance; altering the
groups of individuals who are eligible for insurance under specified policies of group life
insurance; altering the requirements relating to funds from which the premium for specified
policies of group life insurance must be paid; authorizing an insurer to exclude or limit coverage
on specified individuals; altering requirements for policies of group life insurance covering
spouses and dependent children; etc.

House Bill 730 – Harness Racing - Racing Days (Delegate Bozman)

Authorizing the State Racing Commission to award racing days up to the number requested by
an applicant; and repealing certain limitations on the number of racing days that may be awarded
by the Commission.

House Bill 870 – State Personnel - Teleworking Pilot Program (Delegate Cadden, et al)
Reestablishing the statewide Telecommuting Pilot Program as the Teleworking Pilot Program;
repealing provisions of law requiring the Secretary of Budget and Management to reinstate and
adopt specified policies and guidelines; requiring the Secretary to adopt a telework policy and
guidelines necessary to establish and carry out the purposes of the Pilot Program; requiring the
Secretary to hire a telework consultant; specifying the duties of the consultant; etc.

House Bill 933 – Washington County - Public Facilities Bonds (Washington County
Delegation)
Authorizing the County Commissioners of Washington County to issue $50,000,000 in general
obligation bonds for public facilities in Washington County.

House Bill 944 – Wicomico County - Gaming Requirements and Guidelines (Wicomico
County Delegation)
Allowing additional organizations to become eligible for gaming licenses; requiring applications
for gaming licenses to contain certain information; and providing for the denial or suspension of
the licenses under certain conditions.

House Bill 960 – Telephones - Changes in Telecommunications Service (Delegate Bobo, et

al)
Prohibiting telephone companies and resellers from taking actions on behalf of a customer
concerning the selection of a telephone company or reseller, telecommunications service options,
or the person who bills the customer or the customer's billing arrangement except in compliance
with specified procedures; requiring specified notice to be provided to a customer when specified
changes are made in providers and options; imposing specified liabilities on entities that initiate
an unauthorized change; etc.

House Bill 971 – Real Property - Landlord and Tenant - Back Rent (Delegate Kach)
Limiting the amount of back rent a landlord or the transferee of the reversion in leased property
may recover in a suit, action, or proceeding for back rent of certain leased property to no more
than 3 years; and providing for the application of the Act.

House Bill 984 – Education - Noncertificated Employees - Prohibitions on Hiring (Delegate

Patterson, et al)
Requiring the State Board of Education to adopt regulations that prohibit county boards of
education from knowingly hiring, as noncertificated employees, individuals who have been
convicted of certain crimes; providing for the application of the Act; etc.

House Bill 1059 – Department of Human Resources - Welfare and Child Support
Enforcement Innovation Act of 2030 (Delegate Rawlings, et al)
Requiring the Executive Director of the Family Investment Administration of the Department of
Human Resources to perform specified duties; providing for specified audits; extending the
termination date for the Child Support Enforcement Privatization Pilot Program; altering the
reimbursement of private contractors for child support services under the Program; etc.

House Bill 1094 – Procurement Contract Dispute Resolution - Construction Contracts -

Notice of Claim and Limits on Recovery (Delegate Brinkley)
Altering the time period within which a contractor shall submit a written explanation of a
construction procurement contract claim to the government unit against which the claim is being
made from 30 days to 90 days; prohibiting recovery on a claim more than 30 days before the
required submission of a notice of a claim, except under specified circumstances; etc.

House Bill 1110 – Horse Racing - Special Fund - Taxes (Delegate C. Davis)
Extending to June 30, 2031, the termination date relating to the allocation of moneys from the
Special Fund to the Maryland-Bred Race Fund and to the Maryland Standardbred Race Fund;
and extending to June 30, 2031, the termination date relating to the allocation of specified
amounts bet on specified thoroughbred and harness races to certain taxes and purses.

House Bill 1112 – State Construction Contracts - Prompt Payment of Subcontractors

(Delegate Benson, et al)
Requiring a prime contractor under State construction contracts to pay subcontractors within 10
days of receiving payment from the State; providing a process to resolve payment disputes
involving undisputed amounts; establishing specified sanctions when a prime contractor
unjustifiably withholds payment; limiting the use or effect of a decision under the dispute
resolution process; etc.

House Bill 1155 – Delegate Scholarships - Use at Out-of-State Institutions - Disabled

Applicants (Delegate Harrison, et al)
Establishing that disabled applicants may use a Delegate Scholarship at out-of-state institutions
that make special provisions, not available at in-State institutions, for disabled students.

House Bill 1179 – Surplus Lines Insurance - Offers of Renewal (Delegate Love)
Clarifying that surplus lines insurance may not be procured on certain residential property that is
insured by an authorized insurer if the authorized insurer has offered to renew the policy on
substantially the same terms and conditions.

House Bill 1187 – Natural Resources - Wild Waterfowl - Issuance of Fishing and Hunting
Licenses (Delegates Guns and Weir)
Authorizing the Secretary of Natural Resources to delegate the authority to issue specified
fishing or hunting licenses; repealing provisions allowing specified clerks to issue the fishing or
hunting licenses; repealing provisions regarding the hunting of wild waterfowl; authorizing a
person to hunt wild waterfowl with specified weapons under specified circumstances;
authorizing specified riparian landowners to license their riparian shoreline to establish
stationary blinds or blind sites for specified purposes; etc.

House Bill 1195 – Higher Education - Educational Excellence Awards - Economic
Development Grants (Chairman, Ways and Means Committee (Departmental - Higher
Education Commission))
Allowing qualified recipients of an Educational Excellence Award to receive an award under the
Economic Development Student Assistance Grant Program and the Maryland Science and
Technology Scholarships Program; specifying the qualifications for an award; setting the
minimum award amount for an Educational Excellence Award; and clarifying that continuation
of the award is contingent upon the recipient's making satisfactory progress toward a degree.

House Bill 1216 – Health Insurance - Assignment, Transfer, or Subcontracting of Health

Care Providers' Contracts (Delegate McMillan)
Clarifying that a carrier may not impair the contract or employment of a health care provider
with the carrier on the basis that the health care provider refused to participate in a contract to
provide care for an insurer that offers personal injury protection.

Senate Bill 15 – Teachers' Retirement and Pension Systems - Reemployment of Retired

Teachers (Senator Green, et al)
Exempting from an offset of a retirement allowance specified retirees of the Teachers'
Retirement System or the Teachers' Pension System who are employed by public schools that
have been recommended for reconstitution or have been reconstituted or who are employed to
teach in a county or subject area in which there is a shortage of teachers; requiring the county
boards of education to notify the State Retirement Agency of any retired teachers who qualify;
etc.

Senate Bill 83 – Maryland Science and Technology Scholarships – Eligibility (Senator

Frosh)
Repealing the requirement that a recipient of a Maryland Science and Technology Scholarship
graduate from a secondary school in Maryland; and clarifying the residency requirement for a
recipient of a Maryland Science and Technology Scholarship.

Senate Bill 114 – Financial Institutions - Bank Charter Modernization and Other Banking
Law Reforms (The President (Task Force to Study Bank Charter Modernization))
Consolidating specified laws relating to real estate appraisal policies; repealing the requirement
that commercial banks file a list of stockholders with the Commissioner of Financial Regulation;
allowing banking institution directors to serve staggered terms; repealing specified obsolete
requirements relating to bills payable that limit the borrowing authority and flexibility of State-
chartered banks in comparison to national banks; etc.

Senate Bill 273 – State and Local Aid Program for Certification of Teachers - National
Board for Professional Teaching Standards (Senator Pinsky)
Continuing the State and local aid program for teachers who are selected to pursue certification
by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards in the State by extending the
termination date for the program; altering the name of the program; and altering the number of
teachers who may participate in the program each year.

Senate Bill 291 – Residential and Nonresidential Child Care Programs and Nonpublic
General Education Schools - Rate Setting (Senator Hoffman, et al)
Altering the rate setting structure for private residential or nonresidential child care programs and
nonpublic general education schools; placing the rate setting structure for private child care
programs and nonpublic general education schools under the authority of the Department of
Education; establishing the Department of Education as the fiscal agent of the Subcabinet Fund
for Children, Youth, and Families; defining terms; making the Act an emergency measure; etc.

Senate Bill 341 – Maryland Higher Education Investment Program – Revisions (Senator
Coulter, et al)
Authorizing the use of contracts made under the Maryland Higher Education Investment
Program at any eligible institution of higher education; altering the composition of the Board of
the Maryland Higher Education Investment Program; altering specified requirements for the
administration of the Program; and making the Act retroactive.

Senate Bill 363 – Employees' and Teachers' Systems - Inclusion in Contributory Pension
Benefit Program - Participating Governmental Units and Selection C (Combination
Formula) Members (Senator Kasemeyer (Chairman, Joint Committee on Pensions))
Authorizing governmental units that participate in the Employees' Pension System to elect to
provide their employees with contributory pension benefits; providing that employees of such a
unit are entitled to specified benefits as of a specified date, except for those employees who
transferred from the Employees' Retirement System; making the election by a unit irrevocable;
providing for inclusion in the contributory benefits program of specified members of specified
retirement systems who are subject to Selection C; etc.

Senate Bill 469 – Cecil County - Public Facilities Bonds (Senators Baker and Hooper)
Authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of Cecil County to borrow not more
than $36,100,000 in order to finance the cost of the construction and improvement of specified
public facilities in Cecil County and to effect that borrowing by the issuance and sale at public or
private sale of its general obligation bonds; etc.

Senate Bill 505 – Parking Access for Individuals with Disabilities (Senator Dorman)
Clarifying and adding specified physical conditions that qualify an individual for special
registration plates, placards, and temporary placards; authorizing licensed physicians, podiatrists,
chiropractors, and optometrists to certify that individuals have the conditions necessary to
qualify for special registration plates, placards, and temporary placards; limiting the conditions
each medical professional can certify an individual has to those conditions the medical
professional is competent to judge; etc.

Senate Bill 590 – Nurse Multistate Licensure Compact (Senator Hollinger, et al)
Entering the State of Maryland into the Nurse Multistate Licensure Compact; stating the
purposes of the Compact; establishing the administration of the Compact for specified purposes;
providing for the powers of the administration of the Compact; providing for the regulation of
nurses under the Compact; establishing specified jurisdictional requirements for members of the
Compact; providing for the enforcement of the Compact; etc.

Senate Bill 625 – Mandated Health Insurance Services - Cost Determination (Senator
Bromwell)
Requiring the Health Care Access and Cost Commission to annually determine the cost of all
existing mandated health insurance services as a percentage of Maryland's average annual wage
and as a percentage of health insurance premium; requiring the Commission to report this
information to the General Assembly; requiring the Commission to perform a full evaluation of
existing mandates if and when the cost of existing mandates reaches or exceeds 2.2% of the
State's average annual wage; etc.

Senate Bill 679 – Financial Guaranty Insurance - Risk Limits (Senator Teitelbaum)
Authorizing the Insurance Commissioner to establish by regulation limits on the risk retained by
an insurer for a subject of financial guaranty insurance, including requirements for contingency
reserves used in determining compliance with the applicable risk limits.

Senate Bill 721 – Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Assisted Living Programs -
Report on Level of Care 3 Plus Waivers (Senator Hollinger)
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to submit a specified annual report on
or before December 15 of each year; specifying the content of the report as it relates to the
resident-specific waiver authority of the Department for assisted living programs; providing for
the termination of the Act; etc.

Senate Bill 759 – Elections - Directors and Administrators of County Boards of Elections
(Prince George’s County Senators)
Exempting the elections administrator of the Prince George's County Board of Elections from
specified provisions of law relating to employees of a county board of elections; prohibiting the
election director and elections administrator from participating in specified political activities;
etc.

House Bill 169 – Procurement - Security Requirements (Delegate Morhaim, et al)

Increasing the maximum amount of bonds that the Maryland Small Business Development
Financing Authority may issue as a surety for the benefit of a principal in connection with
specified contracts; expanding bid, payment, and performance security to include a bond
provided or executed by an individual surety if the individual surety provides a security interest
in specified assets at the time the bond is furnished and the individual surety pledges specified
assets in a specified amount; etc.

House Bill 206 – Education - Juvenile Services Alternative Education Program (Chairman,
Ways and Means Committee (By Request - Departmental - Education))
Repealing the juvenile services alternative education program and the Juvenile Services
Alternative Education Program Advisory Board.

House Bill 273 – Juvenile Services - State Comprehensive Juvenile Justice 3-Year Plan
(Chairman, Judiciary Committee (By Request - Departmental - Juvenile Services))
Altering the time frame from calendar year to fiscal year for which the State Comprehensive
Juvenile Justice 3-Year Plan is to be submitted to the General Assembly.

House Bill 298 – Residential Real Property Sales - Notice Requirements - Military
Operations and Testing (Delegate Bohanan)
Requiring a contract for the sale of residential real property to contain a specified statement
notifying the buyer that the property may be located near a military installation that conducts
specified military operations or testing; and providing for the application and construction of the
Act.

House Bill 453 – Child Support - Settlement of Arrearages - Best Interest of the Child
(Delegate Dumais)
Establishing that the authority of the Child Support Enforcement Administration to settle child
support arrearages is subject to the best interest of the child.

House Bill 460 – Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation - Restrictions of

Released Lots (Delegate Stocksdale, et al)
Authorizing the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation to waive, under specified
circumstances, restrictions concerning maximum lot sizes for released lots in preservation
easements.

House Bill 569 – Education - County Boards of Education - Competitive Bidding (Delegate
Morhaim, et al)
Increasing the threshold dollar amount of a contract for which a county board of education must
use competitive bidding; and providing that a specified amount be the same amount as applied to
specified State government units.

House Bill 586 – Community Colleges - Funding Formulas – Adjustment (Delegates Heller
and Hixson, et al)
Altering the Senator John A. Cade Funding Formula for the computation of State aid to
community colleges and the funding formula for Baltimore City Community College beginning
in fiscal year 2032.

House Bill 601 – Education - Child Care Quality Incentive Grant Program (Delegates
Hixson and Marriott)
Requiring the Child Care Quality Incentive Grant Program to be administered by the State
Department of Education; authorizing the Department to contract with specified agencies to
administer the grant program; authorizing the State Superintendent to delegate authority to
approve direct incentive grants to specified boards; and authorizing the Department to award
direct incentive grants to an applicant under specified circumstances.

House Bill 613 – Education - Public Schools - School Health Services Program Coordinator
(Delegate Healey, et al)
Requiring each county board of education to designate a school health services program
coordinator; permitting a county board to authorize the county health department to designate the
coordinator; requiring the coordinator to carry out specified duties; requiring the county board to
grant the coordinator specified authority; requiring the State Department of Education to conduct
specified meetings; and requiring school health services program coordinators to ensure that
public schools adhere to specified guidelines.

House Bill 653 – Juvenile Law - Informal Adjustment - Substance Abuse Treatment
Program (Delegate King, et al)
Extending the time period of an informal adjustment process concerning a child who is the
subject of a complaint filed with a Department of Juvenile Services intake officer under specified
circumstances.

House Bill 654 – Family Law - Child Support - Settlement of Arrearages (Delegate Dumais)
Establishing that it is in the best interest of the State for the Child Support Enforcement
Administration to settle child support arrearages if the obligor and the child who is the subject of
the support order have resided together for at least the 12 months immediately preceding a
request for settlement under specified circumstances; and providing for the construction of
provisions of the Act.

House Bill 688 – Procurement - Small Business Reserve Program – Reporting (Delegate
Murray, et al)
Requiring specified units to submit specified reports to the Governor's Office of Minority Affairs
by specified dates; requiring the Office to report to the Board of Public Works and the
Legislative Policy Committee of the General Assembly on or before December 31 of each year.

House Bill 700 – Family Law - Court-Appointed Lawyer for Child (Delegates Dumais and
Smigiel)
Authorizing the court to appoint a lawyer to represent a minor child in specified actions as a
child advocate attorney or a best interest attorney; and requiring a lawyer appointed under the
Act to exercise ordinary care and diligence in the representation of a minor child.

House Bill 710 – Education - Blind and Visually Impaired Students - Instructional
Materials (Delegate Heller, et al)
Requiring the State Department of Education to collaborate with and provide support to the
Instructional Resources Center to develop procedures to coordinate the statewide availability of
textbooks and supplementary instructional materials that may be accessed using specified
specialized formats using the federal National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard;
requiring the Department and county boards of education to include a specified provision in
textbook and instructional materials procurement contracts; etc.

House Bill 714 – State Board of Dental Examiners - Various Licensing and Regulatory
Requirements (Delegate Costa, et al)
Altering the qualifications for a teacher's license to practice dentistry or dental hygiene to include
part-time faculty members at specified colleges and universities; establishing qualifications for a
limited license to practice dentistry; altering the waiver requirements for specified applicants for
a limited license to practice dentistry to repeal a requirement that the applicant pass specified
tests given by the State Board of Dental Examiners; etc.

House Bill 717 – Trusts for Individuals with a Disability - Housing Programs and
Homeowners' Property Tax Credit – Eligibility (Delegates Costa and Barve, et al)
Altering the definition of "family of limited income" to include specified kinds of trusts for
specified housing assistance programs under the Department of Housing and Community
Development; authorizing the Department to limit the cumulative outstanding debt for a
specified program loan under specified circumstances; altering the definition of "homeowner" for
determining eligibility for the homeowners' property tax credit; etc.

House Bill 724 – Property Tax Assessment - Agricultural Use Property - Elderly or
Disabled Property Owner (Chairman, Ways and Means Committee (By Request -
Departmental - Assessments and Taxation))
Altering the applicability of the gross income requirement for land less than 20 acres to qualify
for agricultural use assessment for property tax purposes; authorizing the Director of
Assessments and Taxation to grant a waiver from the requirements of specified provisions
regarding valuation and assessment to property owners who are at least 70 years of age or are
disabled and meet specified conditions regarding ownership; and applying the Act to taxable
years beginning after June 30, 2030.

House Bill 732 – Washington County - County Attorneys – Hiring (Washington County
Delegation)
Authorizing the Washington County Board of County Commissioners to hire more than one
attorney for the Washington County Board of County Commissioners.

House Bill 733 – Washington County - Insurance - Certificates of Guarantee for County
Bond Requirements (Washington County Delegation)
Authorizing Washington County to honor certificates of guarantee that are issued by specified
nonprofit associations of contractors or on behalf of specified contractors in order to satisfy
specified county bond requirements; providing that Washington County is not required under the
Insurance Article to honor specified certificates of insurance; etc.

House Bill 739 – Insurance - Improper Premiums and Charges - Bail Bonds – Penalty
(Delegate Kelly, et al)
Establishing a penalty not exceeding $5,000 for collecting an improper premium or charge for
insurance with regard to a bail bond.

House Bill 769 – Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation - Easements -

Program Requirements (Delegate Glassman, et al)
Altering the maximum amount of funds available from the Maryland Agricultural Land
Preservation Foundation for matching purchases of easements; altering the period of time that
land is required to remain within an agricultural district; requiring the county governing body to
establish, by ordinance, a specified time period required for an agricultural district within its
jurisdiction; altering restrictions for the reapplication process for an easement; encouraging
counties to provide property tax credits for agricultural districts; etc.

House Bill 770 – Emergency Management - Emergency Plans for Human Service Facilities
(Delegate Rudolph)
Requiring specified human service facilities to develop an emergency plan; specifying the
required contents of the plan; requiring specified State agencies, in consultation with specified
human service facilities and specified State and local emergency management agencies, to adopt
specified regulations; requiring the Governor's Office of Homeland Security to report to the
Senate Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee and the House Health and
Government Operations Committee by January 31, 2031; etc.

House Bill 771 – Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Therapeutic Behavioral
Services - Rate Adequacy Study (Delegate Hubbard)
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to conduct a study of the adequacy of
rates paid to therapeutic behavioral services providers; requiring the Department to submit a
report to the Governor and specified standing committees of the General Assembly on or before
January 1, 2031; etc.

House Bill 781 – Park Police of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning
Commission - Identity Fraud and Notification of Investigations (Prince George's County
Delegation and Montgomery County Delegation)
Providing statewide jurisdiction for the park police of the Maryland-National Capital Park and
Planning Commission investigating the crime of fraudulent use of personal identifying
information; specifying limitations on the authority of the police; and requiring specified
notifications.

House Bill 794 – Education - Maryland Alternative Teaching Opportunity Program
(Delegate Rosenberg, et al)
Establishing the Maryland Alternative Teaching Opportunity Program in the State Department of
Education; authorizing the Department to select specified school districts and up to 150 teaching
candidates to participate in the Program; requiring the Department to share in the cost of
providing a specified stipend to teaching candidates participating in a preresidency internship
program; etc.

House Bill 813 – Contracts for Residential Child Care Programs (Delegate Morhaim, et al)
Requiring the Governor's Office for Children to develop the State Resource Plan for Residential
Child Care Programs in consultation with specified agencies, providers, counties, child
advocates, and consumers; establishing the content of the Plan; establishing specified
requirements for contracts between specified agencies and providers for residential child care
programs; requiring the members of the Children's Cabinet to adopt specified regulations; etc.

House Bill 851 – Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Adult Sickle Cell Anemia –
Study (Delegate Nathan-Pulliam, et al)
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, in consultation with the Office of
Minority Health and Health Disparities and interested stakeholders, to submit a specified report
on adult sickle cell anemia to specified committees on or before December 1, 2030; etc.

House Bill 861 – Insurance - Regulation of Premium Finance Companies (Delegate D.

Davis)
Altering the filing requirements and registration fee for an initial registration by a premium
finance company; altering the requirements for renewal of a registration; requiring a premium
finance company to report specified changes within 30 days after a change occurs; requiring a
premium finance company to file all changes to the form of the premium finance agreement used
by the premium finance company and to specified fees and charges applied by the premium
finance company; etc.

House Bill 868 – Health Insurance - Participation of Health Care Providers on Provider
Panels - Workers' Compensation Services (Delegate Nathan-Pulliam, et al)
Prohibiting a health insurance carrier that uses a provider panel for health care services from
requiring a health care provider, as a condition of participation or continuation on a provider
panel for health care services, to also serve on a provider panel for workers' compensation
services; etc.

House Bill 869 – Procurement - Minority Business Participation (Delegate Morhaim, et al)
Continuing until July 1, 2035, the provisions of the State Procurement Law relating to
procurement from minority businesses; and requiring a study and a final report on the study of
the Minority Business Enterprise Program to be submitted to the Legislative Policy Committee
before September 30, 2034.

House Bill 883 – Procurement - Percentage Price Preference - Locally Grown Foods
(Delegate Morhaim, et al)
Providing a 5% price preference for locally grown foods under specified circumstances;
requiring the Board of Public Works to adopt regulations concerning the establishment of a
specified percentage price preference; and requiring State schools and facilities to review
specified procurement specifications and, to the extent practicable, require the use of a
percentage price preference in their purchase of food.

House Bill 938 – Carroll County - Gaming - Senior Center Site Councils (Carroll County
Delegation)
Authorizing senior center site councils in Carroll County to conduct billiards, card games, and
bingo in senior centers; authorizing councils to award specified prizes of money to winners;
specifying that specified money be distributed to a senior center site council; etc.

House Bill 939 – Montgomery County - Deer Hunting on Private Lands – Sundays
(Montgomery County Delegation)
Removing Montgomery County from the list of counties in which deer hunting on private lands
on specified Sundays is prohibited; requiring the Department of Natural Resources to conduct
specified studies; and providing for the termination of the Act.

House Bill 951 – Sales and Use Tax - Bulk Vending Machines (Delegate Hogan, et al)
Increasing from 25 cents to 75 cents the maximum taxable price for purposes of an exemption
under the sales and use tax for a sale of tangible personal property through bulk vending
machines.

House Bill 953 – Property Tax - Real Property Information - Web-Based Services (Delegate
McKee, et al)
Requiring the Department of Assessments and Taxation to provide Internet access to specified
information concerning the calculation of the property assessment and description of the property
that is the subject of the assessment; providing that a fee may not be imposed for providing to a
property owner Internet access to information concerning the calculation of the assessment and
description of the property; and applying the Act to assessment notices sent after October 31,
2032.

House Bill 955 – State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists - Licenses and
Certificates – Reciprocity (Delegate Hubbard)
Authorizing the State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists to waive specified
certification requirements for specified applicants for certificates to practice as a professional
counselor-alcohol and drug, associate counselor-alcohol and drug, or supervised counselor-
alcohol and drug under specified circumstances; requiring specified applicants to meet specified
requirements to qualify for a specified waiver; etc.

House Bill 957 – Maryland Polysomnography Act (Delegate Benson, et al)

Requiring the State Board of Physicians to adopt regulations for the licensure and practice of
polysomnography; providing that the Act does not limit the rights of specified individuals to
practice specified health occupations; authorizing the Board to set fees; establishing the
Polysomnography Professional Standards Committee within the Board; providing for the
membership, powers, and duties of the Committee; establishing the terms and requirements for
the members of the Committee; etc.

House Bill 980 – Natural Resources – Terrapin (Delegate Bobo, et al)

Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to prepare a fishery management plan for
diamondback terrapin; requiring the Department to adopt regulations governing terrapin
resources and the catching of terrapin consistent with specified recommendations of the
Maryland Diamondback Terrapin Task Force; etc.

House Bill 988 – Higher Education - Workforce Shortage Student Assistance Grants
(Delegate Aumann, et al)
Consolidating specified workforce shortage and economic development student scholarship and
grant programs in the Maryland Higher Education Commission into the new Workforce Shortage
Student Assistance Grant program; requiring the Commission and the Office of Student
Financial Assistance in the Commission to administer the program; establishing eligibility
criteria for grant awards and award amounts under the program; requiring the Secretary of
Higher Education to appoint an Advisory Council on Workforce Shortage; etc.

House Bill 1003 – Health Insurance - Carrier Provider Panels - Participation by Providers
(Delegate Bromwell, et al)
Requiring a health insurance carrier that uses a provider panel to maintain specified standards if
the carrier is an insurer, nonprofit health service plan, or dental plan organization; requiring a
health insurance carrier that uses a provider panel to establish procedures to verify with each
provider on the carrier's provider panel at specified times whether the provider is accepting new
patients and to update specified information on participating providers; etc.

House Bill 1005 – Workers' Compensation - Civil Defense Volunteers – Emergencies

(Delegates Wood and Minnick (Workers' Compensation Benefit and Insurance Oversight
Committee))
Providing that specified civil defense volunteers are covered employees under specified
circumstances; designating the State as the employer for these covered employees; repealing
specified provisions under workers' compensation law that exclude workers' compensation
coverage for specified volunteers from specified counties; requiring volunteers who are covered
employees to meet specified qualifications; establishing a specified formula for calculating
specified benefits; and defining specified terms.

House Bill 1006 – Real Property - Condominium Conversions - Income Eligibility for
Extended Leases - Purchase of Rental Facility by Local Government or Housing Agency
(Delegate Lawton, et al)
Altering the method of calculating specified income eligibility figures prepared by the Secretary
of State; establishing the income eligibility figure to be used in Baltimore City; authorizing a
county or incorporated municipality, except Baltimore City, to select the income eligibility figure
to be used in the county or incorporated municipality; altering the options for disposition of a
rental facility purchased by a county, incorporated municipality, or housing agency; etc.

House Bill 1016 – Consumer Protection - Merchant Contact Information for Contract
Cancellation (Delegate Murray, et al)
Requiring a merchant that provides consumer goods or consumer services over the Internet under
a specified contract to include on a merchant's website a toll-free telephone number or an address
which a consumer may use to cancel the contract; providing that a violation of the Act is an
unfair or deceptive practice within the meaning of the Maryland Consumer Protection Act and is
subject to specified enforcement and penalty provisions; etc.

House Bill 1024 – Jury Selection and Service (Chairman, Judiciary Committee (By Request
- Maryland Judicial Conference))
Revising substantively and nonsubstantively the laws relating to juries and selection of jurors,
including duties and rights as to jury service, selection policies, a ban against discrimination in
selection, a ban against recommendations and volunteers for jury service; etc.

House Bill 1032 – State Personnel - Disciplinary Actions - Costs of Appeals to the Office of
Administrative Hearings (Delegate F. Turner, et al)
Requiring principal units that employ employees who appeal decisions concerning disciplinary
actions to pay the costs related to the appeal incurred by the Office of Administrative Hearings;
and providing for a delayed effective date.

House Bill 1046 – State Retirement and Pension System - Disability Retirement (Delegate
James (Chairman, Joint Committee on Pensions))
Exempting from earnings limitations and reemployment restrictions specified retirees of the
State Retirement and Pension System; and providing for the application of the Act.

House Bill 1060 – Real Property - Mechanics' Liens - Professional Services (Delegate
Shank)
Establishing that work done for or about a building, for purposes of establishing a mechanic's
lien, includes specified professional services.

House Bill 1066 – Washington County - Deputy Sheriffs (Washington County Delegation)
Altering the period of time that Washington County deputy sheriffs are required to be placed on
a probationary status; and providing that a Washington County deputy sheriff having the rank of
major or below, rather than lieutenant or below, has tenure.

House Bill 1080 – State Board of Nursing - Nurses, Nursing Assistants, Medication
Technicians, and Electrologists - Licensing and Regulation (Delegate Murray, et al)
Altering the powers and duties of the State Board of Nursing to include setting the standards for
the practice of certified nursing assistants and certified medication technicians; authorizing the
Rehabilitation Committee in the Board to provide for the rehabilitation of or provide assistance
to medication technicians, electrologists, and applicants; altering the requirements for sending
renewal notices for specified licenses and certificates; etc.

House Bill 1083 – Corporations and Associations - Filing Fees - Family Farms (Delegate
Bates, et al)
Altering a specified fee collected by the State Department of Assessments and Taxation for the
filing of an annual report by a specified family farm; requiring an individual to file a charter
amendment for a specified family farm under specified circumstances; defining a specified term;
and making technical changes.

House Bill 1091 – Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission - Collective
Bargaining (Prince George's County Delegation and Montgomery County Delegation)
Providing that if a petition that demonstrates that specified employees in a bargaining unit
support representation by an exclusive representative for collective bargaining and another
petition that demonstrates that specified employees in a bargaining unit no longer support the
current exclusive representative are filed at the same time, one election shall be held to determine
an exclusive representative, if any; providing for the contents of the ballot; etc.

House Bill 1118 – Community Health Resources Commission Fund - Mental Health and
Substance Abuse Services (Delegate Hammen, et al)
Requiring the Maryland Community Health Resources Commission, in developing specified
regulations, to give priority to community health resources that provide a clinical home for
specified individuals who access hospital emergency departments for mental health services,
substance abuse services, or both; etc.

House Bill 1127 – Statewide Commission on the Shortage in the Health Care Workforce
(Delegate Mandel, et al)
Establishing the Statewide Commission on the Shortage in the Health Care Workforce; providing
for the membership of the Commission; authorizing the Commission to consult with specified
individuals and entities in performing the duties of the Commission; requiring the Secretary of
Health and Mental Hygiene to chair the Commission, make specified appointments to the
Commission, and establish subcommittees; providing for the duties of the Commission; requiring
the Commission to make specified recommendations; etc.
House Bill 1141 – Land Use - Local Government Planning (Delegate McIntosh, et al)
Requiring a planning commission of a county or municipal corporation to include specified plan
elements when developing a comprehensive plan; requiring the water resources plan element and
mineral resources plan element to be reviewed by the Department of the Environment and the
Department of Natural Resources; establishing a Task Force on the Future for Growth and
Development in Maryland; exempting specified regulated lobbyists from provisions of the
Maryland Public Ethics Law; etc.

House Bill 1144 – Workers' Compensation - Permanent Partial Disability - Howard County
Deputy Sheriffs (Howard County Delegation)
Extending enhanced workers' compensation benefits, under specified circumstances, for a
compensable permanent partial disability of less than 75 weeks to Howard County deputy
sheriffs; and providing for the application of the Act.

House Bill 1145 – State Board of Dietetic Practice - Licensing Provisions – Changes
(Delegate McHale)
Altering the quorum requirements for the State Board of Dietetic Practice; establishing additional
powers of the Board; providing that a member of the Board is entitled to specified compensation;
altering the sources of funds for the State Board of Dietetic Practice Fund; repealing a provision
that allows specified individuals to practice dietetics without a license; altering the qualifications
for licensure as a dietitian-nutritionist; etc.

House Bill 1149 – State Board of Nursing - Electrologists - License Renewal and Discipline
(Delegate V. Turner)
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; etc.

House Bill 1160 – Workforce Housing Grant Program – Establishment (Delegate

McIntosh, et al)
Establishing the Workforce Housing Grant Program; requiring a local government to meet
specified criteria to participate in the Program; requiring qualifying local governments to provide
specified matching funds; establishing specified criteria for distribution and use of Program
funds; requiring local governments to use Program funds for specified costs and in accordance
with specified plans; etc.

House Bill 1164 – Maryland Trauma Physician Services Fund - Reimbursement Rates –
Grants (Delegate Rudolph, et al)
Increasing the reimbursement rate for the cost incurred by level II and III trauma centers to
maintain trauma physicians on-call; increasing the total amount of reimbursements made to
trauma physicians from the Maryland Trauma Physician Services Fund; requiring the Health
Services Cost Review Commission to develop guidelines for the approval of a specified grant to
subsidize stand-by costs for specified out-of-state pediatric trauma centers; etc.

House Bill 1180 – Calvert County - Public Facilities Bonds (Calvert County Delegation)
Authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of Calvert County, from time to time,
to borrow not more than $26,100,000 in order to finance the construction, improvement, or
development of public facilities in Calvert County, and to effect such borrowing by the issuance
and sale of its general obligation bonds; etc.

House Bill 1183 – Calvert County - Property Tax Credits - Economic Development
(Calvert County Delegation)
Authorizing the governing body of Calvert County to grant a property tax credit against the
county property tax to new or expanding businesses when the business creates at least 25 new
jobs with salaries higher than the county annual average and invests at least $2,500,000 in the
county; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after June 30, 2030.

House Bill 1188 – Natural Resources - Aquaculture Operations (Delegates O'Donnell and
Aumann)
Requiring the Aquaculture Coordinating Council to investigate and to report to the Department
of Natural Resources on or before December 31, 2030, regarding specified shellfish seed
production, sale, and use and the feasibility and impacts of exempting aquaculture operations
from specified harvesting restrictions; etc.

House Bill 1200 – High Schools - Automated External Defibrillators Program –

Requirements (Delegate Lee, et al)
Requiring each county board of education to develop and implement an automated external
defibrillator program that meets specified requirements in high schools; requiring that the
automated external defibrillator program include provisions requiring the presence of an
automated external defibrillator and a trained operator at all school-sponsored athletic events;
etc.

House Bill 1207 – Natural Resources - Hunting Wild Waterfowl - Harford and Baltimore
Counties (Harford County Delegation and Baltimore County Delegation)
Altering the distance from 800 to 400 yards that a person must be from shore when hunting wild
waterfowl in the waters of Harford and Baltimore counties while the person is standing in water
on the natural bottom, in a boat that is drifting or being sculled, or in a boat that is anchored.

House Bill 1211 – Task Force on Green Building (Delegate Rosenberg, et al)
Establishing a Task Force on Green Building; requiring the Task Force to evaluate and make
recommendations regarding studying low-impact development codes and green building
techniques, evaluating best practices to improve communication regarding a green building
program to communities and businesses and developers, and identifying statewide potential for
low-impact development projects and potential for cost reduction for stormwater management
and road building and other infrastructure for communities in low-impact zoning areas; etc.

House Bill 1223 – Sales and Use Tax - Production Activity - Taxable Laundering Services
(Delegate Haynes, et al)
Altering the definition of "production activity" under the sales and use tax to include laundering,
maintaining, or preparing of textile products in providing the taxable service of commercial
cleaning or laundering of textiles for a buyer who is engaged in a business that requires the
recurring service of commercial cleaning or laundering of the textiles; etc.

House Bill 1232 – Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission - Municipal
Corporations (Prince George's County Delegation and Montgomery County Delegation)
Clarifying that municipal corporations in Montgomery County may impose additional or stricter
building requirements for the protection of water as well as land; etc.

House Bill 1234 – Department of Natural Resources - State Boat Act (Chairman,
Environmental Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Natural Resources))
Repealing specified provisions of the State Boat Act relating to out-of-state manufacturers and
dealers; repealing specified provisions of law relating to the issuance of temporary certificates of
boat number; repealing the Boat Dealer Assurance Fund; and requiring that funds in the Boat
Dealer Assurance Fund, as of October 1, 2030, revert to the General Fund.

House Bill 1237 – Department of Human Resources - Local Social Services Boards –
Membership (Delegate Gaines, et al)
Authorizing an increase in the size of the boards of the local departments of social services as
provided by local law, subject to a specified maximum number of members; and repealing
language relating to specified counties to conform to the Act.

House Bill 1247 – Higher Education - Alcohol and Drug Workforce - Tuition Assistance
Program (Delegates Marriott, Griffith, Morhaim, and Nathan-Pulliam)
Expanding the tuition assistance program to include employees of community-based programs
serving individuals with alcohol or drug dependency.
House Bill 1248 – Tax - Filing Requirements for Employer Withholding Tax Returns
(Delegate King, et al)
Providing for a waiver that entitles persons subject to withholding tax liability of a specified
level to file employer withholding tax returns on a monthly schedule; etc.

House Bill 1261 – Homeowner's Insurance - Summary of Coverage , Notice Regarding

Flood Insurance, and Statement of Additional Optional Coverage (Delegates Trueschler
and Minnick, et al)
Requiring specified insurers to provide specified policyholders with specified annual written
statements that summarize specified coverages and exclusions under a specified policy; requiring
the statement to be clear and specific; describing information that must be included in the
statement; providing that the statement is not part of the policy or contract of insurance and does
not create a private right of action; requiring specified insurers or insurance producers to provide
specified applicants with a notice regarding flood insurance; etc.

House Bill 1275 – Property Tax - Assessment of Conservation Property (Delegate James, et
al)
Altering the valuation and assessment for property tax purposes of specified property subject to
specified perpetual conservation easements under specified circumstances; providing for a new
subclass of real property for assessment purposes; and providing for the application of the Act to
taxable years beginning after June 30, 2030.

House Bill 1277 – Protected Lands - Local Land Use Applications - County Authority
(Delegate James, et al)
Authorizing a county or municipal corporation to deny applications for local land use, under
specified circumstances, when the land is protected under specified land conservation programs
within the Department of Natural Resources.

House Bill 1288 – Credit Regulation - Loans Secured by Real Property - Insurance
Coverage Requirements (Delegate Kullan, et al)
Clarifying that specified lenders and credit grantors may not require a borrower, as a condition to
receiving or maintaining specified loans, to provide or purchase insurance coverage in an amount
exceeding the replacement cost of the improvements on real property; clarifying the manner in
which specified lenders and credit grantors may determine the replacement cost of improvements
on real property that secures specified loans made by the lenders and credit grantors; etc.

House Bill 1304 – Baltimore County - Gaming - Casino Events (Delegate Malone, et al)
Authorizing specified organizations in Baltimore County to conduct during each calendar month
a casino event that includes a card game and also a casino event during each calendar year that
includes roulette; requiring a person that holds a casino event to prohibit a player from betting
more than $10 in any one game within the calendar month; altering a period of time for which a
permit holder for a specified casino event must ensure that a specified person has not sponsored a
casino event; etc.

House Bill 1318 – Health Occupations - State Board of Nursing - Criminal History Records
Checks (Delegate Mandel, et al)
Requiring specified applicants for licensure or certification by the State Board of Nursing to
submit to a criminal history records check as a condition of licensure or certification; requiring
the applicants to submit fingerprints and specified fees to the Criminal Justice Information
System Central Repository of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services;
requiring the Board to begin a specified process of requiring criminal history records checks as a
condition of license or certificate renewal; etc.

House Bill 1322 – Assisted Living Programs – Licensure (Delegate Mandel, et al)
Requiring a person to be licensed by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to conduct,
operate, or maintain an assisted living program; exempting specified housing provided under a
specified care program from assisted living requirements; requiring the Secretary of Health and
Mental Hygiene to develop the application for an assisted living program license; providing that
an assisted living program license is valid for 2 years; authorizing the Secretary to issue a
specified probationary license; etc.

House Bill 1323 – Electric Companies - Net Energy Metering - Accrual of Generated
Electricity - Crediting to Customer's Account (Delegate Walkup, et al)
Allowing customer-generators that own and operate or lease and operate specified solar,
biomass, or wind electric generating facilities and that have a net energy metering contract with
an electric company to accrue electricity generation credit for a specified period; requiring the
electric company to carry forward a negative kilowatts per hour reading for a specified period
under specified circumstances; etc.

House Bill 1330 – Maryland Medicaid Advisory Committee - Membership, Staffing, and
Reimbursement (Delegate Hubbard, et al)
Altering the membership of the Maryland Medicaid Advisory Committee; requiring the
Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to seek recommendations from specified individuals
and groups when selecting consumer representatives to the Committee; requiring the Department
of Health and Mental Hygiene to staff the Committee; requiring the chair and staff of the
Committee to provide specified information to Committee members at a specified time and in a
specified manner; etc.

House Bill 1364 – Correctional Officers' Retirement System - Reemployment of Retirees

(Delegate Myers, et al)
Exempting from the earnings limitation placed on a retirement allowance retirees of the
Correctional Officers' Retirement System who are reemployed as correctional officers in
correctional facilities; requiring the Division of Corrections in the Department of Public Safety
and Correctional Services to provide the State Retirement Agency with information; providing
that retirees of the Correctional Officers' Retirement System may only be reemployed for 4
years; etc.

House Bill 1375 – Motor Vehicle Administration - Restricted Driver's License - Vision
Standards (Delegate McIntosh)
Authorizing the Motor Vehicle Administration to issue a restricted license subject to specified
restrictions to a specified applicant who does not meet vision standards under specified
circumstances.

House Bill 1380 – Libraries - County Library Capital Project Grants (Delegate Hixson, et
al)
Establishing a grant program in the State Department of Education to assist in the funding of
county library capital projects; requiring the Division of Library Development and Services in
the Department to develop and administer the program; requiring a grant application to contain
specified information; requiring the State Board of Education to approve specified projects by a
specified date; requiring the Governor to fund the program; etc.

House Bill 1381 – Higher Education - Tuition Affordability Act of 2030 (Delegate Hixson,
et al)
Prohibiting in the 2030-2031 academic year an increase in the tuition that may be charged a
resident undergraduate student at specified public senior higher education institutions in
Maryland; limiting, in the 2030-2031 academic year, an increase in tuition to a maximum of
4.8% at St. Mary's College of Maryland; establishing a Commission to Develop the Maryland
Model for Funding Higher Education; requiring the Commission to make recommendations
relating to funding for the State's Historically Black Institutions; etc.

House Bill 1387 – Personal Insurance - Premium – Notice (Delegates Burns and Conroy)
Requiring specified insurers to send a specified notice to a specified insured and insurance
producer, if any, stating the amount of a specified renewal policy premium and the amount of a
specified expiring policy premium in a specified manner; etc.

House Bill 1389 – Disclosure of Medical Records - Investigations – Fee (Delegate Barve)
Authorizing a health care provider to charge a fee for the disclosure of a medical record for a
specified investigation; and prohibiting a health care provider from charging a government unit
or agency a fee for the disclosure of a medical record for a specified investigation.
House Bill 1405 – Health Insurance - Coverage for Part-Time Students With Disabilities
(Delegate Heller, et al)
Providing that specified insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance
organizations that provide health benefits to specified full-time students may not exclude benefits
for students over a specified age who do not attend an institution of higher education on a full-
time basis as a result of a specified disability under specified circumstances; authorizing
specified entities to require specified individuals to provide specified verification; etc.

House Bill 1407 – Washington County - Building Excise Tax (Washington County
Delegation)
Exempting a specified portion of nonresidential addition construction from the building excise
tax imposed in Washington County; providing that the exemption may not apply more than once
to the same building in a specified period; authorizing the County Commissioners of Washington
County to provide for individual exemptions for specific construction projects; requiring the
County Commissioners to make a specified report; etc.

House Bill 1430 – State Retirement and Pension System - Administration – Simplification
(Delegate James (Chairman, Joint Committee on Pensions))
Repealing a requirement that specified compensation be included in the calculation of the
retirement allowance of specified individuals; requiring the Board of Trustees of the State
Retirement and Pension System to reduce the retirement allowance of a member of the State
Retirement and Pension System if the member does not make member contributions by a
specified amount, including regular interest at a specified rate; etc.

House Bill 1431 – Linked Deposit Program - State Depository Financial Institutions -
Loans to Minority Business Enterprises (Delegate Vaughn, et al)
Establishing a Linked Deposit Program in the Department of Housing and Community
Development for the purpose of stimulating opportunities for minority business enterprises to
have access to credit by assisting these businesses in obtaining loans at lower than market
interest rates; specifying that specified loans qualify under the Program; requiring the
Department to confirm with a specified certification agency that specified loans are made to
specified businesses; etc.

House Bill 1432 – Education - Residential Boarding Education Programs - At-Risk Youth
(Delegate Marriott, et al)
Authorizing the establishment of residential boarding education programs to be operated under
the supervision of the State Department of Education; requiring the Board of Trustees to submit
to the Department on or before July 1 each year specified information regarding the program,
including the students who participate and budget information; requiring the Governor to
appropriate at least $2,000,000 to the Department to cover the transportation, boarding, and
administrative costs of a program serving up to 80 students; etc.

House Bill 1435 – Higher Education - Financial Assistance - Community College Access
Initiative (Delegate Ramirez, et al)
Requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to use a specified percent of financial
need for specified fiscal years when calculating an award for a community college student
receiving an Educational Excellence Award.

House Bill 1450 – Environment - Reducing Lead Risk in Housing – Penalties (Delegate
Oaks, et al)
Increasing the maximum administrative and civil penalty that may be imposed for specified
violations relating to reducing lead risk in housing.

House Bill 1451 – Environment - Gas and Oil - Coalbed Methane Production (Delegate
Edwards)
Establishing the minimum required distance from an unleased property boundary for a coalbed
methane well; authorizing the Department of the Environment to make inspections it determines
necessary to ensure compliance under specified circumstances; and altering the requirement that
the owner of leased lands surrender the lands under specified circumstances.
House Bill 1454 – Anne Arundel County - Alcoholic Beverages - Deluxe Restaurant License
(Anne Arundel County Delegation)
Creating a Class BLX (deluxe restaurant) (on-sale) beer, wine and liquor license in Anne
Arundel County; allowing a licensee to hold a specified maximum number of licenses under
specified conditions; specifying areas in which restaurants for which BLX licenses are sought
must be located; requiring the Anne Arundel County Economic Development Corporation to
conduct a study on dividing the county into alcoholic beverages districts; etc.

House Bill 1455 – Cultural Competency and Health Outcomes - Pilot Program (Delegate
Nathan-Pulliam, et al)
Requiring the Family Health Administration in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, in
consultation with the Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities, to provide technical
assistance to specified community-based entities for a specified pilot program that addresses the
cultural competency training of specified health care providers and addresses specified health
outcomes; requiring the pilot program to be implemented in a specified hospital system; etc.

House Bill 1460 – Title Insurers and Title Insurance Producers (Delegate Doory)
Altering the interval at which a specified on-site review of specified practices of title insurance
producers must be conducted; altering the circumstances under which a title insurer is required to
report a suspected violation to the Maryland Insurance Commissioner as the result of an
examination; requiring a title insurance producer to notify any title insurer with whom the title
insurance producer holds an appointment whenever a specified person is employed by or
associated with the title insurance producer; etc.

House Bill 1466 – Education - Task Force on Universal Preschool Education (Delegate
Rudolph)
Establishing a Task Force on Universal Preschool Education; providing for the membership and
staffing of the Task Force; specifying the purposes and goals of the Task Force; requiring the
Task Force to evaluate and make recommendations regarding specified issues by a specified date
and to submit a report to the Governor and the General Assembly; providing for the termination
of the Act; etc.

House Bill 1487 – Rural Maryland Prosperity Investment Fund (Delegate Conway, et al)
Establishing the Rural Maryland Prosperity Investment Fund as a special fund for specified
purposes; providing for the administration of the Fund; providing for the disbursement of money
from the Fund equally among specified categories; authorizing the inclusion of appropriations in
the State budget in specified fiscal years; providing for the award of grants from the Fund for
specified purposes; requiring an annual report to the Governor and the General Assembly; stating
findings of the General Assembly; etc.

House Bill 1495 – Education - Student Behavioral Intervention and Support Programs –
Applicability (Delegate Marriott)
Altering the standard by which a county board of education and the Board of School
Commissioners of Baltimore City shall require specified elementary schools to implement a
positive behavioral interventions and support program or a specified alternative program.

House Bill 1532 – Property Tax Credit - Structures Using Qualifying Energy Conservation
Devices for Electricity Generation (Delegate Bartlett, et al)
Adding generation of electricity to be used in a structure as one of the purposes for which a
structure may use specified energy devices for purposes of qualifying for local tax credits for
structures using energy conservation devices; and making the Act applicable to all taxable years
after June 30, 2030.

House Bill 1537 – Dorchester County - Transfer Tax Revenues - Use for Costs of School
Buildings (Delegates Eckardt, Cane, and Haddaway)
Authorizing the County Council for Dorchester County to use specified revenues generated from
the Dorchester County transfer tax to pay costs associated with school buildings, under specified
circumstances and subject to specified conditions.
House Bill 1540 – Low Speed Vehicles - Slow Moving Vehicle Emblem – Application
(Delegate Malone)
Providing that a requirement that specified vehicles display a slow moving vehicle emblem does
not apply to specified low speed vehicles.

House Bill 1560 – State Board of Dental Examiners - Waiver of Education Requirements -
Pediatric Specialists – Repeal (Delegate Donoghue)
Repealing a provision that provides for the termination of the authority of the State Board of
Dental Examiners to waive specified education requirements for applicants for a specified
limited license to practice dentistry.

House Bill 1562 – Telephone Companies - Telephone Lifeline Service (Delegate D. Davis)
Altering and expanding the types of telephone lifeline service that are available to eligible
subscribers; requiring specified local telephone companies to provide telephone lifeline service
at the direction of the Public Service Commission; requiring telephone companies that provide
telephone lifeline service to obtain access to information on eligible subscribers from the
Department of Human Resources in a specified manner; requiring the Commission to conduct a
study and report its findings; etc.

House Bill 1566 – Harford County - Property Tax Credit - Family Farms - Child Lot
Exclusions (Harford County Delegation)
Authorizing the governing body of Harford County to grant, by law, a tax credit against the
county property tax imposed on specified real property adjacent to a family farm and owned by a
child of the owner of the family farm who continues to help operate the family farm; and
applying the Act to tax years beginning after June 30, 2030.

House Bill 1569 – State Board of Pharmacy - Revocation of License - Sale of Drug Different
from that Ordered (Delegates Elliott, Bozman, and Sophocleus)
Requiring that the State Board of Pharmacy revoke a license to practice pharmacy if the holder
of the license is convicted of knowingly selling or delivering a specified substance without
specified authorization; and authorizing the Board to reinstate a license to practice pharmacy
under specified circumstances.

House Bill 1574 – Medicaid Advisory Committee - Medical Assistance Program -

Amendments and Waiver Applications (Delegate Hubbard, et al)
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, if the Department applies for a
Medical Assistance Program waiver or modifies or amends an existing Medical Assistance
Program waiver, to submit the application or amendment to the Medicaid Advisory Committee
for discussion at a meeting; requiring the Department to submit specified amendments to the
Committee within a specified period; etc.

House Bill 1583 – Allegany County and Garrett County - Vehicle Laws - Exceptional
Hauling Permits - Forestry Products (Delegate Edwards, et al)
Authorizing the State Highway Administration to issue an exceptional hauling permit valid in
Allegany County and Garrett County for a combination of vehicles that carries specified forestry
products and has an axle configuration that meets specified requirements; requiring a specified
combination of vehicles to comply with specified weight limits; requiring a specified
combination of vehicles, twice each year, to submit to and pass a specified inspection and be
allowed only a specified load limit tolerance; etc.

House Bill 1594 – Benefits and Services for Individuals Who Are Incarcerated or
Institutionalized - Work Group Report (Delegate Hubbard)
Extending to October 1, 2030, the date by which a work group convened by the Department of
Health and Mental Hygiene, the Department of Human Resources, and the Department of Public
Safety and Correctional Services is required to issue a final report including specified findings
and recommendations.

House Bill 1604 – Maryland Health Care Commission and Health Services Cost Review
Commission - Administrative Costs (Chair, Health and Government Operations
Committee (By Request - Departmental - Health and Mental Hygiene))
Increasing to $10,000,000 the maximum amount of user fees the Maryland Health Care
Commission may assess; altering the method for computing the administrative costs to be paid to
the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene by the Maryland Health Care Commission and
Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission; etc.

House Bill 1620 – Real Property - Residential Leases - Surety Bonds in Lieu of Security
Deposits (Delegate Stern, et al)
Authorizing a tenant to purchase a surety bond in lieu of paying all or part of a security deposit
to a landlord for the purpose of providing specified protection to the landlord; providing that the
amount of a surety bond, or the aggregate amount of a surety bond and a security deposit, may
not exceed a specified sum; specifying the claims for which a surety bond may be used;
establishing the rights and responsibilities of a tenant, landlord, and a surety under the Act; etc.

House Bill 1624 – Sales and Use Tax - Exemption for Sales by Religious and Nonprofit
Organizations (Delegate C. Davis, et al)
Providing an exemption to the sales and use tax for specified sales by religious or nonprofit
organizations that are exempt from taxation under { 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; and,
for specified sales, limiting the exemption to that portion of the sale price that qualifies for a
specified deduction under the federal income tax as a charitable contribution.

House Bill 1626 – Harford County - Alcoholic Beverages - Class B Restaurant Beer, Wine
and Liquor Licenses Within an Integrated Community Shopping Center – Exception
(Harford County Delegation)
Providing that the Harford County Liquor Control Board may waive specified restrictions
relating to distance from a public or private school building with respect to the issuance of
specified alcoholic beverages licenses for a restaurant in the county or in a municipal corporation
of the county if the restaurant is located in a shopping center designated as an integrated
community shopping center and the Board takes into account specified comments by specified
parents; etc.
House Bill 1628 – Frederick County - Board of Education – Compensation (Frederick

County Delegation)
Increasing the compensation of the president of the Board of Education of Frederick County to
$11,000 and the compensation of the other members of the Board of Education of Frederick
County to $10,000; and providing that the Act does not apply to the salary or compensation of
the incumbent president of the Board of Education of Frederick County and the other members
of the Board of Education of Frederick County.

House Bill 1633 – Department of Aging - Assisted Living Program Subsidies - Rate Setting
Authority (Delegate Elmore, et al)
Requiring the Secretary of Aging to provide for and set by regulation the amount of State
subsidies necessary to assist low income elderly individuals to reside in assisted living facilities
under specified circumstances.

House Bill 1641 – Frederick County - Alcoholic Beverages - Beer and Wine Sampling or
Tasting License (Frederick County Delegation)
Altering the wine tasting license issued in Frederick County to be a beer and wine sampling or
tasting license; setting the annual fee of the license at $200; setting a specified limit on the
quantity of a given brand of beer an individual may consume at a beer and wine sampling or
tasting event; repealing the restriction on the number of events that may be held in a licensing
period; etc.

House Bill 1642 – Business Occupations and Professions - Stationary Engineers –

Qualifications (Delegate Krysiak)
Requiring the State Board of Stationary Engineers to waive examination requirements under the
Maryland Stationary Engineers Act and issue specified individuals specified stationary engineer
licenses under specified circumstances; authorizing the Board to permit an applicant to take a
specified license examination under specified circumstances; requiring the Board to consider
specified factors in evaluating the work experience of a specified applicant; etc.
House Bill 1648 – Department of Human Resources - Child Abuse and Neglect -
Differential Response System Study (Delegate Branch, et al)
Requiring the Department of Human Resources to conduct a Differential Response System Study
on the implementation of a differential response system for allegations of child abuse and neglect
in the State; providing for the purpose of the Study; requiring the Department to submit a report
on the findings and statutory recommendations of the Study on or before December 1, 2030; and
providing for the termination of the Act.

House Bill 1655 – Washington County Health Officer - Civil Citations (Washington County
Delegation)
Authorizing a health officer in Washington County to issue civil citations for violations of
specified nuisance control laws and regulations; providing for the contents of specified citations
issued for a violation of specified nuisance control laws and regulations; providing for the legal
rights of individuals who receive civil citations for specified violations; etc.

House Bill 1659 – State Personnel - Student Loan Repayment Pilot Program (Delegate
Rosenberg)
Altering the manner in which a unit of State government that participates in the student loan
repayment pilot program may repay a student loan previously taken out by an employee of the
unit; altering the terms for the repayment of a student loan that an employee must agree to in
order to be eligible for benefits under the pilot program; and extending the termination date of
the pilot program.

House Bill 1676 – Lead Poisoning - Lead Testing (Delegate Oaks, et al)
Altering the definition of "elevated blood level"; requiring that the elevated blood lead
concentration of a blood sample be determined in a specified manner on or after July 1, 2030;
etc.

House Bill 1681 – Community Colleges - Supplemental Services and Supports for Students
with Disabilities - Grant Program (Delegate Heller)
Requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to establish and administer a grant
program for supplemental services and supports for students with disabilities in community
colleges; requiring the Commission, in cooperation with the Department of Disabilities, to
establish a competitive review process and adopt guidelines or regulations for the administration
of the grant program; etc.

House Bill 1687 – Dorchester County Board of Education - Commencement of Member's

Term of Office Following Election (Delegate Eckardt)
Altering the date of the commencement of the term of office of a member of the Dorchester
County Board of Education following the member's election.

House Bill 1696 – Retirement and Pensions - Service Retirement Allowance - Creditable
Service (Delegate James, et al)
Providing that specified members and retirees of the Employees' Pension System may receive up
to 5 years of service credit for specified employment with the State; and providing for the
termination of the Act.

House Bill 1701 – Maryland AIDS Drug Assistance Program - Rebates - Special Fund
(Delegate Bohanan, et al)
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to distribute any rebates received by
the Department from the Maryland AIDS Drug Assistance Program to a special fund to fund the
Maryland AIDS Drug Assistance Program.

House Bill 1702 – Baltimore County - Alcoholic Beverages - Class B (B, W, L) (TSB)
Restaurant-Service Bar Licenses (Chairman, Baltimore County Delegation and Delegates
Aumann , Weir, Frank, and Trueschler (By Request - Baltimore County Administration))
Authorizing the Baltimore County Board of Liquor License Commissioners to issue not more
than three Class B (B,W,L)(TSB) restaurant-service bar beer, wine and liquor (on-sale) licenses
in the Towson Commercial Revitalization District or the Loch Raven Commercial Revitalization
District; specifying requirements for a Class B (B,W,L)(TSB) license and for a restaurant for
which a Class B (B,W,L)(TSB) license is issued; providing for the termination of the Act; etc.

House Bill 1703 – Baltimore County - Alcoholic Beverages Licenses - Transfers into
Towson Commercial Revitalization District (Chairman, Baltimore County Delegation (By
Request - Baltimore County Administration) and Delegates Aumann, Frank, and
Trueschler)
Authorizing the Baltimore County Board of Liquor License Commissioners to authorize the
transfer of not more than two beer, wine and liquor (on-sale) licenses into the Towson
Commercial Revitalization District; requiring that a license that is transferred be converted into a
Class B (B,W,L)(TRCD) license; specifying requirements for a Class B (B,W,L)(TRCD) license
and for the restaurant for which a Class B (B,W,L)(TRCD) license is issued; providing for the
termination of the Act; etc.

House Bill 1708 – Environment - Oil and Other Unctuous Substances - Zoning and Land
Use Requirements (Delegates Hubbard and Conroy)
Prohibiting a person from engaging in an operation involving specified activities related to oil
and other unctuous substances unless the person submits to the Department of the Environment
satisfactory evidence that the operation meets all applicable county zoning and land use
requirements.

House Bill 1724 – Baltimore County - Sheriff's Office - Collective Bargaining (Delegate
Malone, et al)
Authorizing full-time deputy sheriffs at the rank of lieutenant and below in the Baltimore County
Sheriff's Office to take specified actions or refrain from taking specified actions in connection
with specified labor organizations and collective bargaining activities; authorizing specified
deputy sheriffs to select a labor organization as their exclusive representation unit; authorizing
specified deputy sheriffs to engage in specified collective bargaining with the Baltimore County
Administration, or its designee; etc.


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3/24 House: Third Reading Passed (138-0)

3/24 House: Third Reading Passed (108-22)

3/27 House: Third Reading Passed (137-2)

Senate Bill 1059 – Prescription Drug Repository Program (Senator Teitelbaum)

3/29 House: Third Reading Passed (135-5)

3/16 House: Third Reading Passed (138-0)

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

House Bill 6 – Education - Maryland After-School Opportunity Act (The Speaker

3/9 House: Third Reading Passed (110-27)

3/27 House: Third Reading Passed (137-0)

3/29 House: Third Reading Passed (108-20)

3/5 House: Third Reading Passed (131-2)

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

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

3/18 House: Third Reading Passed (133-0)

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

2/25 House: Third Reading Passed (125-8)

House Bill 457 – Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation – Easements

3/25 House: Third Reading Passed (136-0)

3/4 House: Third Reading Passed (124-12)

3/26 House: Third Reading Passed (133-1)

3/12 House: Third Reading Passed (139-0)

3/26 House: Third Reading Passed (132-1)

3/12 House: Third Reading Passed (122-12)

3/24 House: Third Reading Passed (136-0)

3/26 House: Third Reading Passed (137-1)

3/25 House: Third Reading Passed (134-1)

3/26 House: Third Reading Passed (137-0)

3/27 House: Third Reading Passed (137-0)

House Bill 730 – Harness Racing - Racing Days (Delegate Bozman)

3/25 House: Third Reading Passed (127-3)

3/22 House: Third Reading Passed (139-0)

3/22 House: Third Reading Passed (140-0)

3/18 House: Third Reading Passed (129-2)

House Bill 960 – Telephones - Changes in Telecommunications Service (Delegate Bobo, et

3/27 House: Third Reading Passed (138-0)

3/12 House: Third Reading Passed (134-3)

House Bill 984 – Education - Noncertificated Employees - Prohibitions on Hiring (Delegate

3/25 House: Third Reading Passed (132-0)

3/28 House: Third Reading Passed (132-2)

House Bill 1094 – Procurement Contract Dispute Resolution - Construction Contracts -

3/24 House: Third Reading Passed (135-2)

3/24 House: Third Reading Passed (128-8)

House Bill 1112 – State Construction Contracts - Prompt Payment of Subcontractors

3/24 House: Third Reading Passed (136-0)

House Bill 1155 – Delegate Scholarships - Use at Out-of-State Institutions - Disabled

3/29 House: Third Reading Passed (137-1)

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

4/6 House: Third Reading Passed (131-5)

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

House Bill 1216 – Health Insurance - Assignment, Transfer, or Subcontracting of Health

3/26 House: Third Reading Passed (134-3)

Senate Bill 15 – Teachers' Retirement and Pension Systems - Reemployment of Retired

3/4 Senate: Third Reading Passed (45-0)

Senate Bill 83 – Maryland Science and Technology Scholarships – Eligibility (Senator

3/12 Senate: Third Reading Passed (47-0)

3/23 Senate: Third Reading Passed (47-0)

3/6 Senate: Third Reading Passed (46-0)

3/18 Senate: Third Reading Passed (44-0)

3/25 Senate: Third Reading Passed (47-0)

3/18 Senate: Third Reading Passed (45-0)