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Legislator > Jared Solomon
State Delegate
Jared Solomon
(D) - Maryland
Maryland House District 18
In Office - Started: 01/09/2019
contact info
Capitol Office
House Office Building
6 Bladen St.
Annapolis, MD 21401
6 Bladen St.
Annapolis, MD 21401
Phone: 410-841-3130
Phone 2: 301-858-3130
Fax: 410-841-3053
| Bill | Bill Name | Summary | Progress |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB176 | Davis Martinez Public Employee Safety and Health Act | Requiring the Correctional Training Commission to adopt regulations for the training, issuance, and use of body-worn cameras by January 1, 2026; establishing the Public Employees' Safety and Health Unit in the Division of Labor and Industry to administer and enforce certain duties regarding the oversight of workplace safety and health of employees of certain public bodies; establishing and applying certain civil and criminal penalties to public bodies and persons in government; etc. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB666 | Maryland Medical Assistance Program and Health Insurance - Required Coverage for Calcium Score Testing | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations to provide coverage in accordance with the most recent guidelines issued by the American College of Cardiology that expand the scope of preventive care services for the benefit of consumers; and applying the Act to all policies, contracts, and health benefit plans issued, delivered, or renewed in the State on or after January 1, 2026. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB859 | Access to Health Insurance for Child Care Professionals - Outreach | Requiring the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange to promote access to health insurance for child care professionals; and requiring the Exchange to conduct a survey, in consultation with the State Department of Education and relevant nonprofit organizations, to assess current levels of health care access across the child care community. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB936 | Health Insurance - Cancellation and Nonrenewal of Coverage - Required Notice | Requiring that a carrier provide notice by certain electronic means, in addition to written notice, of cancellation or nonrenewal of a small group market health benefit plan and include information regarding additional health benefit coverage options in the notice; and applying the Act to all policies, contracts, and health benefit plans issued, delivered, or renewed in the State on or after January 1, 2026. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB974 | Health Insurance - Preventive Services - High Deductible Health Plans and Enforcement Authority | Clarifying the application of certain health insurance preventive services coverage requirements to certain high deductible health plans; and requiring the Insurance Commissioner to enforce certain provisions of law related to preventive services consistent with the recommendations and guidelines set by certain federal agencies in effect on December 31, 2024. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1222 | Public Safety - Immigration Enforcement (Maryland Values Act) | Requiring federal law enforcement officers to notify certain individuals of federal immigration action at certain sensitive locations; prohibiting certain schools, libraries, and units of State or local government that operate at certain sensitive locations from allowing certain federal personnel access to areas not accessible to the general public, subject to certain exceptions; requiring the Attorney General to develop and publish certain guidance regarding immigration enforcement actions at certain sensitive locations; etc. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1344 | Department of General Services - Assessment of State-Owned Facilities - Child Care Centers | Requiring the Department of General Services to conduct an assessment of facilities owned by the State and operated by the 16 State agencies the Department supports to evaluate whether the facility or a portion of the facility would be suitable to lease to a child care center; requiring the Department to report to the General Assembly the results of the assessment and a description of whether each facility is suitable to lease to a child care center by December 1, 2026; and requiring the report to be published on the Department's website. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1316 | Primary and Secondary Education - Youth-Centric Technology and Social Media Resource Guide | Requiring the National Center for School Mental Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to develop and publish a youth-centric technology and social media resource guide by the 2027-2028 school year; requiring the guide to be distributed, beginning with the 2027-2028 school year, to each public school and the parent teacher organization for each public school and posted on the websites of the Department and each county board; etc. | Vetoed |
| HB1076 | Residential Real Property - Landlord and Tenant - Notice of Landlord Entry | Requiring a landlord to provide a tenant with certain written notice in a certain manner at least 24 hours in advance of when the landlord intends to enter a leased premises, except in the event of a certain emergency; and authorizing the court to issue a certain injunction or assess certain damages under certain circumstances. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1126 | Unemployment Insurance - Child Support Arrearage to Work Pilot Program - Established | Establishing a Child Support Arrearage to Work Pilot Program within the Department of Labor to connect individuals who are unemployed and in arrears under a child support order with employment opportunities in the State; and requiring the Department to report on or before July 1, 2026, on the Department's findings and any recommendations related to the continuation of the Program. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB930 | Public Health Abortion Grant Program - Establishment | Establishing the Public Health Abortion Grant Program to provide grants to improve access to abortion care clinical services for individuals in the State; establishing the Public Health Abortion Grant Program Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to provide grants under the Program; and requiring that certain premium funds collected by health insurance carriers be used to provide certain coverage and to support improving access to abortion care clinical services under certain circumstances. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB527 | Maryland Transit Administration - Purple Line - Free Ridership and Promotional Materials and Services | Requiring the Maryland Transit Administration to develop and implement a program providing for the first month after transit service begins on the Purple Line, free ridership on Purple Line transit vehicles to individuals residing within a one-quarter-mile radius of the Purple Line track; and requiring the Administration to include, beginning on October 1, 2025, for 3 months after service on the Purple Lines begins promotional materials and services at no cost to small businesses located within a one-quarter-mile radius of the Purple Line track. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB517 | Workgroup on the Reorganization of the Maryland Transit Administration | Establishing the Workgroup on the Reorganization of the Maryland Transit Administration to study reorganizing the Maryland Transit Administration; requiring the Workgroup to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before December 1, 2025; and requiring the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the Department of Legislative Services, to submit to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House draft legislation to effectuate the recommendations of the Workgroup. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB744 | Motor Vehicles - Reckless, Negligent, and Aggressive Driving (Sergeant Patrick Kepp Act) | Altering the penalties and points assessments related to the offenses of reckless, negligent, and aggressive driving; and adding certain motor vehicle offenses as elements that may contribute to charges for reckless or aggressive driving. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB538 | Department of Human Services - Federal Commodity Supplemental Food Program - Administration | Requiring the Family Investment Administration in the Department of Human Services to be the central coordinating and directing agency of the federal Commodity Supplemental Food Program using certain funds and resources; and repealing the requirement that the Secretary of Aging administer the Program. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB458 | University of Maryland, College Park Campus - TerpsEXCEED Program - Funding | Authorizing the Governor to include in the annual budget bill, beginning in fiscal year 2027, an appropriation of $350,000 to the University of Maryland, College Park Campus TerpsEXCEED (EXperiencing College through Education and Employment Discovery) Program to provide educational and employment opportunities to students with intellectual disabilities. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB185 | Therapeutic Child Care Grant Program - Funding - Alterations | Altering the fiscal years to include fiscal year 2027 through fiscal year 2029, during which the Governor is required to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $3,700,000 to the Therapeutic Child Care Grant Program. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB910 | Property Tax - Exemption for Blind Individuals - Alteration | Increasing the amount of a certain property tax exemption for dwelling houses owned by blind individuals or their surviving spouses from $15,000 to $40,000. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB881 | Family Investment Program - Child Support | Phasing in a requirement that all child support received in a month pass through to a family seeking assistance under the Family Investment Program and prohibiting the consideration of child support in computing the amount of assistance received. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB879 | Task Force to Improve Attendance and Reduce Chronic Absenteeism in Schools | Establishing the Task Force to Improve Attendance and Reduce Chronic Absenteeism in Schools for the purpose of studying and making recommendations on practices to identify, prevent, and eliminate chronic absenteeism by students from schools in the State; and requiring the Task Force to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 31, 2025. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1121 | Child Care Scholarship Program - Youth Transitioning From Foster Placement to Successful Adulthood Program - Establishment | Establishing the Youth Transitioning From Foster Placement to Successful Adulthood Program in the Child Care Scholarship Program to remove certain application barriers for parenting foster youth and increase eligibility access to the Child Care Scholarship Program; | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1193 | Housing Development Permits - Local Reporting Requirements (Maryland Housing Data Transparency Act) | Requiring certain counties to report information quarterly about certain housing development permits to the Department of Planning, beginning January 1, 2027; authorizing municipalities to make certain quarterly reports to the Department regarding housing development permits issued by the municipality, beginning January 1, 2027; and requiring the Department of Planning to make certain permit information available on a public, interactive, and searchable website. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1085 | Housing Authorities - Tax-Exempt Status - Modifications | Exempting certain real property owned by certain nonprofit entities created by public housing authorities from State and local property taxation; directing certain nonprofit entities created by public housing authorities to make payment in lieu of taxes that may be set by mutual agreement with a political subdivision; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 2025. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1424 | Support and Protections for Individuals Affected by Federal Actions (Protect Our Federal Workers Act) | Renaming the Federal Government Shutdown Employee Assistance Loan Fund to be the Federal Government Employee Assistance Loan Fund; authorizing funds appropriated to the Catastrophic Event Account to be expended to assist in funding costs connected to a relocation, closure, or mass layoff of a unit of the federal government; establishing the Expedited Hiring Program in the Department of Budget and Management; authorizing an appointing authority to recruit for certain vacant positions in State government; etc. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB579 | Criminal Procedure - U Nonimmigrant Status Petitions and Immigration Enforcement at Sensitive Locations | Requiring federal law enforcement officers to notify certain individuals of federal immigration action at certain sensitive locations; altering the requirements for certification of a U Nonimmigrant Status Petition; altering the individuals eligible to request a certain official to certify victim helpfulness relating to certification of a U Nonimmigrant Status Petition; authorizing the disclosure of certain information under certain circumstances; etc. | Dead |
| HB862 | Child Care Affordability Commission - Establishment | Establishing the Child Care Affordability Commission to study and make recommendations regarding obstacles and barriers to child care affordability in the State; requiring the Commission to consider certain economic measures to support working families; and requiring the Commission to submit an interim report by January 1, 2026, and a final report of its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly by December 1, 2026. | Dead |
| HB911 | Real Property - Landlord and Tenant - Family Child Care Homes | Authorizing a landlord to impose an increased security deposit if a tenant operates or plans to operate a family child care home on the leased premises; prohibiting a landlord of certain residential rental property from prohibiting or unreasonably limiting the operation of a family child care home on the property; providing that landlords of certain residential rental property are immune from civil liability; authorizing a landlord to require a certain tenant to purchase a liability insurance policy; applying the Act prospectively; etc. | Dead |
| HB899 | General Provisions - Commemorative Months - Muslim American Heritage and Jewish American Heritage Months | Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim January as Muslim American Heritage Month and May as Jewish American Heritage Month; and requiring the proclamations to urge certain organizations to observe the months with certain programs and activities. | Dead |
| HB338 | State Buildings and State Highways - Collection and Disposal of Yard Waste | Prohibiting a person from disposing of yard waste collected on the grounds of a State building or State highway in a single-use plastic container; requiring a person to collect yard waste on the grounds of a State building or State highway in a container that will not be discarded with the yard waste or is a compostable paper bag; and requiring all yard waste collected on the grounds of a State building or State highway to be disposed of in a certain manner under certain circumstances. | Dead |
| HB1090 | Maryland Higher Education Commission - Maryland College Aid Processing System - Applications | Requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to add a certain question to the Maryland College Aid Processing System application asking if the applicant has missed a meal in the previous 6 months because of an inability to afford a meal; and prohibiting the Commission from requiring a student to answer the question. | Dead |
| HB339 | Real Property - Residential Rental Apartments - Air-Conditioning Requirements | Requiring a landlord to provide air-conditioning to residential rental units in apartment buildings with four or more individual dwelling units in a certain manner beginning June 1, 2025, for newly constructed residential rental units and beginning October 1, 2025, for residential rental units that undergo renovation that includes the replacement or substantial upgrade of electrical systems or heating systems. | Dead |
| HB205 | Employment Standards – Firefighters – Payment of Wages and Payroll Information | Requiring governmental units that employ firefighters to compute overtime pay for each hour over 168 hours that a firefighter works during a 28-day work period; requiring an employer to include all regularly scheduled hours; requiring counties and municipalities to provide certain payroll information to each employed firefighter; and authorizing a firefighter or their exclusive representative to initiate a certain grievance if a county or municipality does not provide the payroll information as required or wages due. | Dead |
| HB76 | Public Safety Officer - Performance of Duties - Death Benefits | Altering circumstances under which certain individuals are presumed to have died as a direct and proximate result of an injury sustained in the performance of duties for purposes of eligibility for death benefits. | Dead |
| HB610 | Criminal Procedure - Expungement - No Finding and Case Terminated Without Finding | Authorizing the expungement of a charge under a certain provision of law if the charge was not disposed of by an unequivocal conviction, but was instead disposed of by the court with a no finding designation or included in a case that was designated by the court as having been terminated without finding. | Dead |
| HB210 | Criminal Law - Mail and Package Theft (Porch Piracy Act of 2025) | Altering the prohibition against taking and breaking open a letter; prohibiting the theft of mail under certain circumstances; prohibiting a person from possessing an arrow key with the intent to use or allow the use of the arrow key in the commission of a violation of the Act; providing for concurrent jurisdiction in the District Court and circuit court to try a violation of the Act; and authorizing the use of facial recognition technology to investigate the commission of mail theft. | Dead |
| HB667 | State Government - Legal and Employee Holiday - Maryland Emancipation Day | Establishing November 1 as Maryland Emancipation Day and as a State legal holiday and State employee holiday; and repealing the requirement that the Governor declare a certain day as Maryland Emancipation Day. | Dead |
| HB1054 | Higher Education – High Impact Economic Development Activities – Alterations | Altering the definition of "high impact economic development activity" to exclude cost savings related to the reduction in the number of University System of Maryland employees; requiring the Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland to report the amount of State or University funds used on each high impact economic development activity, the net benefit of each activity, and whether the activity is in the best interest of the State; and making a high impact economic development activity subject to State procurement law. | Dead |
| HB694 | Public Schools - Individuals With Disabilities - Accessibility and Emergency Planning | Requiring each local school system to identify in its regular safety evaluation issues of accessibility for individuals with disabilities; and requiring local school systems to include in a certain annual report instances in which a public school facility became inaccessible for a student with a disability in a manner that could impede evacuations or emergency response. | Dead |
| HJ4 | Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - The American Dream | FOR the purpose of affirming Maryland’s commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) as a foundation of the American Dream; encouraging certain individuals and groups to adopt and uphold DEI principles; and generally relating to the American Dream and DEI. | Dead |
| HB609 | Legislative Scholarship Programs - Eligibility and Use - Real Estate Appraisal Program | Exempting certain applicants for a senatorial scholarship from certain examination requirements; and authorizing certain uses of senatorial and Delegate scholarships for applicants who plan to complete the Real Property Appraiser Qualification Criteria of the Practical Applications of Real Estate Appraisal Program. | Dead |
| HB1112 | PFAS Chemicals - Civil Actions and Prohibition on Consumer Product Sales | Altering the time limits for bringing an action for wrongful death or personal injury concerning exposure of a person to PFAS chemicals; and prohibiting a person, on or after July 1, 2026, from manufacturing, selling, or distributing in the State a consumer product that contains PFAS chemicals. | Dead |
| HB1254 | Community Eligibility Provision Expansion Program - Establishment | Establishing the Community Eligibility Provision Expansion Program in the State Department of Education to provide funding to eligible schools that participate in the federal community eligibility provision of the child nutrition programs. | Dead |
| HB1462 | Higher Education - Antihate and Antidiscrimination Policies and Workgroup (Maryland Campus Accountability and Modernization to Protect University Students Act) | Requiring institutions of higher education to adopt and enforce policies regarding antihate and antidiscrimination and time, place, and manner requirements for expressive conduct; requiring institutions of higher education to conduct certain meetings with certain approved student organizations; establishing the Campus Community Grant Program; and establishing the Workgroup on Combating Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Other Forms of Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Violence, Harassment, and Intimidation. | Dead |
| HB1457 | Alternative Fuel, Fuel-Efficient, and Electric Vehicles - Highway Use Fees | Repealing the annual surcharge required to register a zero-emission vehicle or plug-in electric drive vehicle; requiring the owners of certain alternative fuel vehicles, fuel-efficient vehicles, and plug-in electric drive vehicles to pay an annual highway use fee for each vehicle registered; establishing a voluntary annual Mileage-Based User Fee Program within the Department of Transportation; allowing the owners of certain vehicles to participate in the Program in lieu of paying the annual highway use fee; etc. | Dead |
| HB1328 | End-of-Life Option Act (The Honorable Elijah E. Cummings and the Honorable Shane E. Pendergrass Act) | Authorizing an individual to request aid in dying by making certain requests; establishing requirements and prohibitions governing aid in dying, including requirements related to requests for aid in dying, consulting physicians, mental health assessments, the disposal of drugs prescribed for aid in dying, health care facility policies, and the effect of aid in dying on insurance policies; authorizing a pharmacist to dispense medication for aid in dying only to certain individuals under certain circumstances; etc. | Dead |
| HJ5 | Elementary and Secondary Education - Curriculum - Importance of Diversity | FOR the purpose of acknowledging the importance of teaching a culturally diverse curriculum in elementary and secondary schools in the State; providing that curricula taught in elementary and secondary schools should include the history of communities that have experienced discrimination; affirming the State of Maryland’s commitment to a complete education; and generally relating to the curriculum taught in elementary and secondary schools in the State. | Dead |
| HB1006 | Immigration Enforcement - Sensitive Locations - Guidelines and Policies (Protecting Sensitive Locations Act) | Requiring the Attorney General to develop guidelines relating to immigration enforcement at sensitive locations; and requiring State agencies that operate at sensitive locations to adopt certain policies or provide notice of a decision not to adopt certain policies. | Dead |
| HB686 | Victims and Witnesses - U Nonimmigrant Status - Certification of Victim Helpfulness | Altering the criteria for determining whether a certain victim or the victim's parent, guardian, or next friend shall be considered to be helpful, to have been helpful, or likely to be helpful to the detection, investigation, or prosecution of certain criminal activity for a certain purpose; altering the time periods within which a certain certifying entity shall certify or decline a certain form under certain circumstances; etc. | Dead |
| HB973 | Maryland Building Performance Standards - Fossil Fuel Use, Energy Conservation, and Electric- and Solar-Ready Standards (Better Buildings Act of 2025) | Requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to adopt, by October 1, 2025, and as part of the Maryland Building Performance Standards, energy conservation requirements, an electric- and solar-ready standard for certain buildings, and a requirement that new buildings and significant improvements meet all laundry, water, and space heating demands of the building without the use of fossil fuels. | Dead |
| HB1324 | Hospitals - Medical Debt Collection - Sale of Patient Debt to Nonprofit Organizations | Authorizing a hospital to sell the medical debt of patients if the debt is sold to a nonprofit organization for the purpose of canceling the debt; and requiring that a hospital's financial policy require the hospital to dismiss actions pending against a patient for the collection of debt that was sold and prohibit the hospital from engaging in specified collection activities on patient debt that was sold. | Dead |
| HB1092 | Recycling - Prohibition on the Chemical Conversion of Plastic | Altering the definition of recycling to exclude certain chemical conversion processes, pyrolysis, hydropyrolysis, methanolysis, gasification, enzymatic breakdown, or similar processes as determined by the Department of the Environment; and prohibiting a person from building in the State a facility that converts plastic to fuel or feedstock through a chemical conversion process. | Dead |
| HB1089 | Data Brokers - Registry and Gross Income Tax (Building Information Guardrails Data Act of 2025) | Establishing the Privacy Protection and Enforcement Unit within the Division of Consumer Protection in the Office of the Attorney General; establishing a data broker registry; requiring certain data brokers to register each year with the Comptroller; imposing a tax on the gross income of certain data brokers for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2026; requiring the revenue from the data broker tax be used by Maryland Public Television to provide digital literacy support to students in kindergarten through 12th grade; etc. | Dead |
| HB941 | University of Maryland Eastern Shore - Land-Grant Institution - Funding (Land-Grant Equity and Accountability Act) | Requiring, to address a certain funding disparity, that the Governor include at least $5,000,000 to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in the annual budget bill each fiscal year until a total amount of $321,181,312 is appropriated; and authorizing the University of Maryland Eastern Shore to use funds made available by the Act for development of infrastructure and academic programs, investment in faculty, scholarships, and certain other institutional needs. | Dead |
| HB696 | State Boards, Committees, Commissions, Task Forces, and Workgroups - Elimination of Citizenship Requirements and Establishment of Diversity Requirements | Eliminating citizenship requirements for boards and commissions; and requiring that members of boards, committees, commissions, task forces, and workgroups reflect the full diversity of the State to the extent practicable. | Dead |
| HB688 | Education - High School Graduation Requirements - Financial Aid Application | Requiring each public high school student, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, to submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) to the U.S. Department of Education, the Maryland State Financial Aid Application (MSFAA) to the Maryland Higher Education Commission, or a certain financial information form to a county board of education as a requirement for graduation. | Dead |
| HB607 | Maryland Higher Education Commission - PAREA Grant Program - Established | Establishing the Practical Applications of Real Estate Appraisal Grant Program to provide grants to certain individuals with the goal of becoming a real estate appraiser in certain communities; providing the purpose of the Program is to assist in closing appraisal gaps that occur in historically redlined neighborhoods and underrepresented communities; and requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to administer the Program. | Dead |
| HB981 | State Department of Education and Department of Information Technology - Evaluation on Artificial Intelligence in Public Schools | Requiring the State Department of Education to conduct an evaluation on the use and potential use of artificial intelligence in public schools; requiring that the evaluation consist of a survey of local school systems and a review of available systems that use artificial intelligence to assist with student learning; requiring the Department of Information Technology to assist the State Department of Education in performing its review; and requiring the Department to issue a final report on the results of the evaluation by December 15, 2026. | Dead |
| HB958 | Railroads - Safety Requirements (Maryland Railway Safety Act of 2025) | Establishing requirements and prohibitions related to the operation of railroads in the State, including provisions related to the size of the crew, blocking of railroad and highway grade crossings, the length of trains operating on a main or branch line, wayside detectors, and investigations by railroad labor union representatives; and requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to establish and maintain a reporting system regarding the transportation of hazardous materials and waste by rail in the State. | Dead |
| HB1014 | Fair Share for Maryland Act of 2025 | Altering a certain limit on the unified credit used for determining the estate tax for decedents dying on or after January 1, 2026; altering a certain limitation on the amount of the estate tax for decedents dying on or after a certain date; altering the definition of "qualified child" for purposes of a certain credit against the State income tax for certain dependent children; imposing a certain business transportation fee on certain taxable income of corporations and pass-through entities for certain taxable years; etc. | Dead |
| HB818 | Award of Attorney's Fees and Expenses - Violation of Maryland Constitutional Right | Authorizing a court to award to a prevailing plaintiff reasonable attorney's fees and expenses in certain actions seeking to remedy a violation of a Maryland constitutional right; authorizing a court to award reasonable attorney's fees and expenses to a prevailing defendant under certain circumstances; and establishing that certain limits on attorney's fees under the Maryland Tort Claims Act do not apply to a certain award of attorney's fees and expenses. | Dead |
| HB805 | Criminal Law - Mail and Package Theft | Altering the prohibition against taking and breaking open a letter; providing that a person may not knowingly and intentionally open mail addressed to another without permission of the person or an authorized designee; providing certain penalties for violations of the Act; prohibiting the theft of mail under certain circumstances; prohibiting a person from possessing an arrow key under certain circumstances; and providing for concurrent jurisdiction in the District Court and circuit court to try a violation of the Act. | Dead |
| HB940 | Criminal Procedure - Probation Before Judgment - Defendants Diagnosed With Autism or Intellectual Disabilities | Requiring a court to stay the entering of judgment, defer further proceedings, and place a defendant diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder or an intellectual disability on probation before judgment under certain circumstances. | Dead |
| HB697 | Health Insurance - Artificial Intelligence, Adverse Decisions, and Grievances - Reporting Requirements | Requiring a health insurance carrier to submit quarterly reports to the Maryland Insurance Commissioner on certain information related to the carrier's use of artificial intelligence or automated decision-making systems; and altering the information related to adverse decisions and grievances carriers are required to report to the Commissioner. | Dead |
| HB69 | Environment - Plastic Products - Postconsumer Recycled Content Program | Prohibiting certain producers of certain plastic products from selling, offering for sale, or distributing the products to any person in the State unless certain conditions are met; requiring certain producers of certain plastic products to, individually or as part of a representative organization, register yearly, beginning March 1, 2026, and pay a registration fee annually beginning May 15, 2026, to the Department of the Environment; establishing minimum postconsumer recycled content percentage requirements for certain products; etc. | Dead |
| HB387 | Comprehensive Community Safety Funding Act | Imposing an excise tax on certain gross receipts of certain firearms dealers derived from the sales of firearms in the State and sales of firearms to residents of the State; etc. | Dead |
| HB632 | Labor and Employment - Workplace Fraud - Application (Maryland Workplace Fraud Act of 2025) | Applying to all private sector employers, rather than only employers in the construction and landscape services industries, provisions of law that prohibit an employer from failing to properly classify an individual who performs work for remuneration paid by the employer. | Dead |
| HB488 | Public Schools - Discipline-Related Data - Collection and Publication | Requiring the State Department of Education to disaggregate certain discipline-related data in an electronic spreadsheet format for the Department's website, make the data available to the public, and report certain discipline-related information each year; and requiring the Department to maintain a certain risk ratio and State comparison threshold used to identify a school's disproportional disciplinary practices and report disproportionality data for high-suspending schools. | Dead |
| HB495 | Education - Antidiscrimination Policies - Policy and Notice Requirements | Requiring certain schools that have an antidiscrimination policy to ensure that the policy includes certain information and is available to certain individuals in a certain manner; requiring a school to provide a certain training regarding antidiscrimination policies to students and employees in a certain manner; and requiring, if sufficient resources are not available to provide training, a school to coordinate with a community organization with certain expertise to provide the training to students and employees at no cost. | Dead |
| HB519 | Public Health - Hospitals - Parking for Patients | Requiring hospitals in the State to offer parking at no cost for inpatients for the duration of the inpatient's admission and for outpatients attending a scheduled medical appointment for the duration of the appointment; and requiring hospitals in the State to display signage notifying inpatients and outpatients of the availability of parking at no cost. | Dead |
| HB524 | State Board of Education - Membership - Early Childhood Development Professional | Increasing the membership of the State Board of Education from 13 to 14 members to include, as a member, an early childhood development professional with extensive experience in the operations of a child care business and early childhood curriculum and development; and requiring the Governor to appoint the early childhood development member, with the advice and consent of the Senate, from a list of three qualified individuals submitted from the Office of Child Care Advisory Council. | Dead |
| HB1492 | Growing Family Child Care Opportunities Program - Funding | Increasing the appropriation that the Governor is required to make in the annual budget bill to $900,000 for the Growing Family Child Care Opportunities Program for fiscal years 2027 and 2028. | Dead |
| HB611 | Institutions of Higher Education - Mandatory Disclosures for New and Prospective Students (Informed Enrollment Act) | Requiring each institution of higher education in the State that admits first-time undergraduate students, by July 1, 2026, to prominently display on its publicly accessible prospective student website a link to the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard website; and requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to make certain data available to institutions of higher education in the State under certain circumstances. | Dead |
| HB464 | Special Education - Individualized Education Program Meetings - Secondary Transition Planning Materials | Requiring a local school system to provide information regarding certain secondary transition services to the parents of a child with a disability at certain individualized education program meetings. | Dead |
| HB665 | Maryland Medical Assistance Program and Health Insurance - Annual Behavioral Health Wellness Visits - Coverage and Reimbursement | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations, beginning on July 1, 2026, to provide coverage and certain reimbursement for annual behavioral health wellness visits; and applying the Act to all policies, contracts, and health benefit plans issued, delivered, or renewed in the State on or after January 1, 2026. | Dead |
| HB520 | State Personnel - Job Sharing Arrangements and Tri-Position Identification Number System (Maryland Workforce Retention, Recruitment, and Reentry Act) | Establishing, to the extent practicable, a certain Tri-Position Identification Number (Tri-PIN) system that is applicable to the Executive Branch of State government; requiring certain appropriate officials in State government to review vacant positions occurring on or after October 1, 2025, for potential placement into a Tri-PIN system that enables positions to be filled with part-time employees under a certain job sharing arrangement or a full-time employee; etc. | Dead |
| HB51 | Business Regulation - Sale of Local News Organizations - Required Notice | Requiring a local news organization, at least 120 days before the organization is sold, to provide written notice to certain employees affected by the sale, the Maryland Department of Labor, the governing body of the county where the local news organization is located, and certain nonprofit entities in the business of buying local news organizations; prohibiting the sale of a local news organization unless the written notice is provided; etc. | Dead |
| Bill | Bill Name | Motion | Vote Date | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SB96 | Environment - Water Bottle Filling Stations - Requirement | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB81 | Criminal Law - Interference With a Public Safety Answering Point - Penalties | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB149 | Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation - Total Assessed Cost of Greenhouse Gas Emissions - Study and Reports | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB181 | Correctional Services - Geriatric and Medical Parole | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB128 | Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation - Total Assessed Cost of Greenhouse Gas Emissions - Study and Reports | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB185 | Therapeutic Child Care Grant Program - Funding - Alterations | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB168 | Confined Aquatic Disposal Cells - Construction - Moratorium | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB131 | Anne Arundel County - Property Tax Credit - Supermarkets | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB51 | Accountants - Licensed Out-of-State Practice Privileges - Qualifications | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB154 | Access to Counsel in Evictions - Task Force and Special Fund | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB130 | Education - Student Personal Electronic Device Use Policy - Required | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB215 | Cannabis Reform - Revisions | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB200 | Board of Trustees of the Maryland Teachers and State Employees Supplemental Retirement Plans - Renaming | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB246 | Maryland Veterans Trust - Assistance to Members of the Maryland National Guard | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB207 | Drunk and Drug-Impaired Driving and Failure to Remain at the Scene - Revocation of Driver's License | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB219 | Uninsured Employers' Fund - Assessments and Special Monitor | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB227 | Workers' Compensation - Payment From Uninsured Employers' Fund - Revisions | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB117 | Environment - Bay Restoration Fund - Septic System Upgrade Program | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB204 | Property Tax - Deadline to Set County and Municipal Corporation Tax Rates - Alteration | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB120 | Restrictions on Use - Solar Collector Systems - Alteration | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB26 | Davis Martinez Public Employee Safety and Health Act | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB123 | Boating Accidents - Duty to Stop at the Scene, Render Assistance, and Provide Information - Penalties | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB230 | Human Services - Local Departments of Social Services - Audits | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB49 | Environment - Building Energy Performance Standards - Alterations and Analysis | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB89 | Department of the Environment - Notation of Veteran Status | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB178 | Anne Arundel County - Property Tax Credit - Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake, Incorporated | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB177 | Procurement - State Department of Education - Local Food Purchasing Program | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB3 | Workgroup on the Creation of a Data Dashboard for Public Work Contracts and Apprentices - Establishment | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB49 | Consumer Protection - Automatic Renewals | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB54 | Motor Vehicles - Specially Designed Vintage Reproduction Registration Plates | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB15 | Corporations and Associations - Limited Worker Cooperative Associations - Authorization (Maryland Limited Worker Cooperative Association Act) | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB208 | Human Services - Maryland Assistive Technology Program - Establishment | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB252 | Child Care Centers - Certificated Staff Ratio Requirement - Alteration | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB250 | Department of the Environment - Fees, Penalties, Funding, and Regulation | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB148 | State Board of Public Accountancy - Emeritus Status | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB262 | Election Law - Special Elections | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB231 | State Government - Public Employee Relations Act - Alterations | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB73 | Chesapeake Conservation Corps Program - Renaming | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB19 | Health Occupations - Nursing - Loan Repayment, Education, and Sunset Extension (Building Opportunities for Nurses Act of 2025) | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB144 | Corporations and Associations - Limited Worker Cooperative Associations - Authorization (Maryland Limited Worker Cooperative Association Act) | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB127 | State Government - Grants and Contracts - Reimbursement of Indirect Costs | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB93 | Election Law - Absentee Ballots - Notice to Request Application | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB93 | Election Law - Absentee Ballots - Notice to Request Application | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB176 | Davis Martinez Public Employee Safety and Health Act | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB80 | Criminal Law - Animal Abuse or Neglect - Penalties | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB116 | Data Center Impact Analysis and Report | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB265 | Environment - Reservoir Augmentation Permit - Establishment | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB102 | Insurance Pooling - Public Entity - Definition | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB222 | Public Safety - Fuel Gas Piping Systems and Corrugated Stainless Steel Tubing - Prohibitions and Study | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB46 | Real Property - Wrongful Detainer - Time of Hearing and Service of Process | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB292 | Cooperative Housing Corporations, Condominiums, and Homeowners Associations - Funding of Reserve Accounts and Preparation of Funding Plans | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB301 | Criminal Procedure - Forensic Genetic Genealogical DNA Analysis and Search - Affidavit for Judicial Authorization | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB269 | Maryland Community College Promise Scholarship Program - Revisions | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB271 | Maryland Tort Claims Act - Employees of an Office of a Sheriff | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB278 | Tax Relief and State Personnel Equality for Service Members Act | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB299 | Security Guards and Security Guard Employers - Registration, Certification, and Regulation | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB294 | Maryland Cybersecurity Council - Alterations | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB295 | Income Tax - Income Tax Reconciliation Program - Established (Maryland Fair Taxation for Justice-Involved Individuals Act) | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB295 | Income Tax - Income Tax Reconciliation Program - Established (Maryland Fair Taxation for Justice-Involved Individuals Act) | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB281 | Transportation Equality for Service Members Act | Third Reading Passed with Amendments | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB276 | Educational Equality for Service Members Act | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB310 | Education - Youth Suicide Prevention School Program - Revisions | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB309 | Department of Veterans and Military Families - Communications, Outreach, and Advocacy Program - Alterations | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB318 | Higher Education - Janet L. Hoffman Loan Assistance Repayment Program - Eligibility | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB308 | Election Law – Chief Election Judges – Party Affiliation | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB335 | Natural Resources - Canada Geese - Bag Limits | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB333 | Criminal Procedure - Victims and Witnesses - Out of Court Statement of Child to Forensic Interviewer | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB350 | Budget Bill (Fiscal Year 2026) | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB350 | Budget Bill (Fiscal Year 2026) | Motion Special Order until Later This Session (Delegate Grammer) Rejected | 04/07/2025 | Nay |
| SB327 | Affordable Housing Payment In Lieu of Taxes Expansion Act | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB359 | Therapeutic Child Care Grant Program - Funding - Alterations | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB359 | Therapeutic Child Care Grant Program - Funding - Alterations | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB424 | Prescription Drug Affordability Board - Authority and Stakeholder Council Membership (Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for All Marylanders Now Act) | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB384 | Maryland Disability Service Animal Program - Established | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB352 | Baltimore County - Political Party Central Committee - Elections | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB431 | Consumer Protection - Consumer Contracts - Limitation Periods | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB352 | Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act of 2025 | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB352 | Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act of 2025 | Motion Vote Previous Question (Delegate J. Lewis) Adopted | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB351 | Creation of a State Debt - Maryland Consolidated Capital Bond Loan of 2025, and the Maryland Consolidated Capital Bond Loans of 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB337 | Elections - Local Boards of Elections - Open Meeting Requirements (Local Boards of Elections Transparency Act) | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB376 | Maryland Cybersecurity Council - Alterations | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB358 | Maryland Deaf Culture Digital Library - Funding and Budget Submission | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB338 | Baltimore County - Speed Monitoring Systems - Interstate 695 and Interstate 83 | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB341 | Baltimore City - Raffles - Organizations Affiliated With a Professional Major League Baseball Team | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB357 | Prescription Drug Affordability Board - Authority and Stakeholder Council Membership (Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for All Marylanders Now Act) | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB361 | Election Law - Influence on a Voter's Voting Decision By Use of Fraud - Prohibition | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB391 | Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission - Review of Report and Recommendations | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB365 | Department of Commerce – Nonprofit Organizations Navigator – Established | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB373 | State Personnel - BWI Airport Fire and Rescue Department - Collective Bargaining and Arbitration Processes | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB360 | Revenge Porn - Definition of Visual Representation and Civil Action | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB376 | Maryland Department of Health and Office of Health Care Quality - Nursing Home Inspections - Reporting | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB376 | Maryland Department of Health and Office of Health Care Quality - Nursing Home Inspections - Reporting | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB478 | Hagerstown Community College Police Force - Jurisdiction | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB482 | Occupational Licensing and Certification - Criminal History - Predetermination Review Process | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB477 | State Department of Education - Family Child Care Homes and Child Care Centers - Regulatory Analysis | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| HB489 | Maryland Department of Labor - Study on Building Code Requirements for Single-Staircase Buildings | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB425 | Environment - Coal Combustion By-Products - Fees, Coordinating Committee, and Regulations | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB396 | Public Safety Officer - Performance of Duties - Death Benefits | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB423 | Maryland Medical Practice Act and Maryland Physician Assistants Act - Revisions | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB399 | Natural Resources - Wildland Areas - Overhead Transmission Lines | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| State | District | Chamber | Party | Status | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD | Maryland House District 18 | House | Democrat | In Office | 01/09/2019 |