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Legislator > Tom Hutchinson
State Delegate
Tom Hutchinson
(R) - Maryland
Maryland House District 37B
In Office - Started: 01/11/2023
contact info
Capitol Office
Lowe House Office Building
6 Bladen St.
Annapolis, MD 21401
6 Bladen St.
Annapolis, MD 21401
Phone: 410-841-3582
| Bill | Bill Name | Summary | Progress |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB738 | Department of Information Technology - Major Information Technology Development Projects - Oversight | Providing that a unit of State government may not purchase, lease, contract for, or rent an information technology service or product unless consistent with the master plan, as determined by the Secretary of Information Technology; providing that the Secretary is responsible for overseeing the implementation of major information technology development projects in the State; establishing the Maryland Office of Digital Experience in the Department to provide oversight, leadership, and strategic modernization for major technology projects; etc. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB757 | Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening Technologies Program - Funding | Altering the amount the Governor is authorized to include in the annual budget for the Program from $500,000 to at least $1,000,000; and authorizing the Secretary to use up to 20% of Program funds to support research centers, including the University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing, in the collection, analysis, and processing of Program outcome data for the purposes of assessing, maximizing, and improving the effectiveness and clinical utility of the cancer screening funded by the Program. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB838 | Health Occupations - Licensed Direct-Entry Midwives - Revisions | Altering the scope of practice of licensed direct-entry midwives; providing that the practice of direct-entry midwifery is independent and not does not require oversight by another health care practitioner; repealing the requirement that licensed direct-entry midwives report certain information to the Direct-Entry Midwifery Advisory Committee; altering the disciplinary actions that may be taken against a licensed direct-entry midwife or an applicant for a license; etc. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB776 | Maryland Medical Practice Act and Maryland Physician Assistants Act - Revisions | Repealing obsolete and redundant language in, clarifying language in, and making language consistent across certain provisions of law governing the State Board of Physicians and the regulation of physicians, physician assistants, and allied health professionals; altering certain licensure requirements; altering the grounds for discipline for physicians, physician assistants, and allied health professionals; authorizing the Board to impose a civil penalty for a certain report made in bad faith; etc. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1004 | Public Health - Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias - Information on Prevalence and Treatment | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in partnership with certain entities, to incorporate information regarding treatments approved by the Food and Drug Administration for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and to increase understanding and awareness of treatment of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias into relevant public health outreach programs; requiring the Department to establish and maintain a website with information on the prevalence and hospitalization rate for Alzheimer's and related dementias; etc. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1351 | Health Insurance - Provider Panels - Credentialing for Behavioral Health Care Professionals | Altering the providers of certain community-based health services that a carrier is prohibited from rejecting for participation on the carrier's provider panel; and altering the period of time in which certain carriers are required to accept or deny certain social workers, counselors, and psychology associates for participation on the carrier's provider panel to within 60 days after the date a carrier receives a completed application. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1087 | Health Insurance - Step Therapy or Fail-First Protocols - Drugs to Treat Associated Conditions of Advanced Metastatic Cancer | Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from imposing a step therapy or fail-first protocol for certain prescription drugs prescribed by a treating physician to treat a symptom of or side effect from the treatment of stage four metastatic cancer and use of the prescription drug is consistent with best practices for treatment of the condition. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1292 | Health Insurance - Provider Directory - Required Updates | Renaming "network directory" to be "provider directory" to conform to a certain federal law; altering the time period from 15 to 2 working days within which certain carriers are required to update the information that must be made available in the carrier's provider directory on the Internet; altering the information required to be included in a provider directory; requiring that a provider directory in printed form include a statement regarding the accuracy of the provider information; etc. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1474 | State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists - Temporary Telehealth Licenses - Establishment | Establishing a temporary telehealth license to be issued by the State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists authorizing the holder to provide clinical professional counseling services only to a student attending an institution of higher education in the State if the student and out-of-state licensed professional counselor have a previously established relationship that has existed for at least 6 months; limiting the term of the temporary license to 6 months; and prohibiting the renewal of a temporary licensed issued under the Act. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1478 | Public Health - Report on Establishing a Directory of Home Health Care Providers | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in consultation with certain stakeholders, to submit a report on the feasibility of establishing and maintaining an online directory of home health care providers to certain committees of the General Assembly by December 31, 2025. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1301 | Maryland Medical Assistance Program, Maryland Children’s Health Program, and Health Insurance – Transfers to Special Pediatric Hospitals – Prior Authorizations | Prohibiting the Maryland Medical Assistance Program, the Maryland Children's Health Program, managed care organizations, and certain health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from requiring prior authorization for a transfer to a special pediatric hospital. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB331 | Public Information Act - Public Access Ombudsman - Delegation of Powers | Authorizing the Public Access Ombudsman to delegate to a staff member of the Office of the Public Access Ombudsman any of the powers and duties granted to the Ombudsman that are appropriate to the staff member's training and expertise. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB848 | Health Insurance - Adverse Decisions - Notices, Reporting, and Examinations | Requiring that certain adverse decision and grievance decision notices include certain information in a certain manner; requiring that the information regarding criteria and standards for utilization review that a private review agent is required to post on its website or the carrier's website be posted on the member's and provider's pages of the websites; requiring that certain information submitted to the Maryland Insurance Commissioner be aggregated by zip code; etc. | 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 |
| HB820 | Health Insurance - Utilization Review - Use of Artificial Intelligence | Requiring that certain carriers, pharmacy benefits managers, and private review agents ensure that artificial intelligence, algorithm, or other software tools are used in a certain manner when used for conducting utilization review. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB406 | State Board of Examiners for Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and Music Therapists - Appointment of Hearing Aid Dispenser Members | Altering the appointment process for licensed hearing aid dispenser members of the State Board of Examiners for Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and Music Therapists by requiring the Board to notify all licensed hearing aid dispensers in the State of the vacancy and to solicit nominations to fill the vacancy. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB996 | Public Health - Phenibut Consumer Protection Act (JT Alvey Phenibut Consumer Protection Act) | Requiring a retailer that prepares, distributes, sells, or exposes for sale a phenibut product to disclose the factual basis on which any representations regarding the phenibut product are made; establishing prohibitions related to the preparation, distribution, and sale of phenibut products, including prohibitions related to the sale of phenibut to individuals under the age of 21 years and the marketing of phenibut to minors; establishing certain penalties for violations of the Act; etc. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB970 | Health Insurance - Insulin - Prohibition on Step Therapy or Fail-First Protocols | Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from imposing a step therapy or fail-first protocol for insulin or an insulin analog used to treat an insured's or enrollee's Type 1, Type 2, or gestational diabetes; 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 |
| HB459 | Counties - Cancer Screening for Professional Firefighters - Required Coverage (James "Jimmy" Malone Act) | Requiring counties that offer self-insured employee health benefit plans to provide to firefighters employed by the county coverage for preventive cancer screenings in accordance with certain guidelines; authorizing a county to satisfy the requirement by providing a no-cost annual examination or applying for a grant to pay for certain cancer screening technologies; prohibiting counties from imposing a copayment, coinsurance, or deductible requirement; and requiring the Maryland Health Commission to conduct a certain study. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1086 | Maryland Medical Assistance Program and Health Insurance - Coverage for Anesthesia - Prohibiting Time Limitations | Requiring, beginning January 1, 2026, the Maryland Medical Assistance Program, managed care organizations, and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations, if providing coverage for the delivery of anesthesia for a procedure for which a licensed medical professional issues an order, to provide the coverage for the duration of the procedure; prohibiting the establishment, implementation, or enforcement of policies or practices that place time limitations on the delivery of anesthesia; etc. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1243 | Health Insurance - Coverage for Specialty Drugs | Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from excluding coverage for certain specialty drugs that are administered or dispensed by a provider that is an in-network provider of covered medical oncology services and complies with State regulations for the administering and dispensing of specialty drugs, if the specialty drugs meet certain qualifications; and requiring the reimbursement rate for certain specialty drugs to meet certain criteria. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB813 | Maryland Insurance Administration and Maryland Department of Health - Workgroup to Study Pharmacy Benefits Managers | Requiring the Maryland Insurance Administration and the Maryland Department of Health, in consultation with the Prescription Drug Affordability Board, to convene a workgroup to study and review reimbursement for pharmacists; and requiring the workgroup to submit an interim report by December 31, 2025, and a final report on their findings and recommendations to certain committees of the General Assembly by December 31, 2026. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB798 | Opioid Restitution Fund - Interactive Dashboard | Requiring the Maryland Office of Overdose Response, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health, to develop and maintain an interactive dashboard on Opioid Restitution Fund spending to share prescription opioid-related settlement information with the public; requiring the dashboard to include links to the State, county, or municipal websites that provide access to additional information on the use of opioid-related settlement funds; etc. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB819 | Procurement - Employee Stock Ownership Plan Preference - Pilot | Authorizing the Maryland Stadium Authority, Morgan State University, St. Mary's College of Maryland, and Baltimore City Community College to establish a certain preference program for certain procurements; authorizing the establishment of a certain evaluation factor for certain proposals by an entity that utilizes certain employee stock ownership plans; requiring contractors to provide certain information to a unit regarding the use of an employee stock ownership plan; etc. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB871 | Health Services Cost Review Commission - Community Benefits - Community Health Worker Workforce Program | Altering the definition of "community benefit" to include a community health worker workforce program which is intended to provide services to patients of a nonprofit hospital and to improve health outcomes; authorizing a nonprofit hospital and a community-based organization to establish a community health worker workforce program; providing that a partnership that establishes a community health worker workforce program may be executed through a memorandum of understanding; establishing requirements for the memorandum of understanding; etc. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1066 | Commission on Behavioral Health Care Treatment and Access - Workgroups | Requiring the Commission on Behavioral Health Care Treatment and Access to establish a workgroup on the improvement of health, social, and economic outcomes related to substance use; requiring the workgroup to make recommendations on changes to State laws, policies and practices needed to mitigate the harm related to criminalization of substance use and related to the discharge of patients from substance use treatment programs; and requiring the workgroup to submit a certain report annually. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1142 | Public Health - Maryland Interested Parties Advisory Group - Establishment | Establishing the Maryland Interested Parties Advisory Group to ensure adequate access to applicable home- and community-based services in the State; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to provide certain support to the Advisory Group; and requiring by September 1 each year beginning in 2026, the Advisory Group to report its activities and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1146 | Maryland Behavioral Health Crisis Response System – Integration of 9–8–8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Network and Outcome Evaluations | Requiring the Maryland Behavioral Health Crisis Response System to have a State 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, rather than a crisis communication center, in each jurisdiction; requiring each State 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline in the System to coordinate with the national 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Network to provide supportive counseling, suicide prevention, crisis intervention, referrals to additional resources, and direct dispatch to other services as needed; etc. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1244 | Maryland Developmental Disabilities Administration Waiver Advisory Council - Establishment | Establishing the Maryland Developmental Disabilities Administration Waiver Advisory Council to advise and provide recommendations to the Developmental Disabilities Administration on system design, service delivery, and quality enhancement strategies for the Medicaid waiver programs operated by the Administration. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB602 | State Board of Nursing - Advanced Practice Nursing Licensure and Specialty Certification - Reciprocity Discussions (Maryland Border States Advanced Practice Nursing Act) | Requiring the State Board of Nursing to hold discussions with Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to pursue reciprocity agreements for advanced practice nursing licensure and specialty certification; and requiring the Board, by November 1, 2025, and each November 1 for the following 4 years, to submit a report to certain committees of the General Assembly on the status of the discussions, agreements reached, challenges in the negotiations, and any legislative recommendations. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB995 | Workgroup to Study the Rise in Adverse Decisions in the State Health Care System - Establishment | Establishing the Workgroup to Study the Rise in Adverse Decisions in the State Health Care System to make recommendations to improve State reporting on adverse decisions, reduce the number of adverse decisions, and develop recommendations for legislation to address the rise in adverse decisions; and requiring the Workgroup to report its findings and recommendations to certain committees of the General Assembly by December 1, 2025. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB11 | Health Insurance - Access to Nonparticipating Providers - Referrals, Additional Assistance, and Coverage | Repealing the June 30, 2025, termination date for certain provisions of law related to referrals to and reimbursement of specialists and nonphysician specialists who are not part of a carrier's provider panel; prohibiting certain carriers from imposing utilization review requirements other than would be required if the covered benefit was provided by a provider on the carrier's provider panel under certain circumstances; etc. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB553 | Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Maternal Health Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring | Requiring, beginning on January 1, 2026, the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide coverage for self-measured blood pressure monitoring for certain eligible Program recipients; and requiring reimbursement of health care provider and other staff time used for patient training, transmission of blood pressure data, interpretation of blood pressure readings and reporting, remote patient monitoring, and the delivery of co-interventions, including educational materials or classes. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB745 | State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists - Behavior Analysts - Licensure Applications | Requiring the State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists to issue a license to practice behavior analysis to qualified applicants within 30 days of receiving the completed application; requiring the State Board to issue a license within 50 days to an applicant who submitted an incomplete application but has presented additional information; and requiring the State Board to provide a certain e-mail notification regarding the status of an application for a license to practice behavior analysis. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB56 | Procurement - State Department of Education - Local Food Purchasing Program | Requiring the State Department of Education, in coordination with the Department of General Services and the Department of Agriculture, to establish a program to procure, when funding is available, local food for local school systems with preference to providers that are certified local farms or certified Chesapeake invasive species providers; altering the percentage price preference adopted by the Board of Public Works for locally grown food from 5% to 10%; etc. | Vetoed |
| HB384 | Maryland Disability Service Animal Program - Established | Establishing the Maryland Disability Service Animal Program in the Department of Disabilities to select one or more nonprofit training entities to participate in the Program and provide additional funding mechanisms to assist eligible individuals in the Program; requiring the Department to select at least one nonprofit training entity to develop and implement a training protocol and to select qualified participants; and establishing the Maryland Disability Service Animal Program Fund to pay a participating nonprofit training entity. | Vetoed |
| HB333 | Healthcare Ecosystem Stakeholder Cybersecurity Workgroup | Establishing the Healthcare Ecosystem Stakeholder Cybersecurity Workgroup to develop strategies to prevent cybersecurity disruptions to the healthcare ecosystem, ensure the continuous delivery of essential healthcare ecosystem services, and enhance recovery efforts of the healthcare ecosystem following a cybersecurity incident; and requiring the Workgroup to submit an interim report on or before January 1, 2026, and a final report of its findings and recommendations on or before December 1, 2026. | Vetoed |
| HB962 | Public Health - Pediatric Hospital Overstay Patients and Workgroup on Children in Unlicensed Settings and Pediatric Overstays | Specifying that the scope of the Maryland Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Registry and Referral System includes private and State inpatient and outpatient mental health and substance use services; requiring the Maryland Department of Health and the Department of Human Services, under certain circumstances, to ensure pediatric hospital overstay patients are placed in the least restrictive setting when clinically indicated and when possible; etc. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB869 | Preserve Telehealth Access Act of 2025 | Repealing the limitation on the period during which the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations are required to provide reimbursement for certain health care services provided through telehealth on a certain basis and at a certain rate; altering the circumstances under which health care practitioners are authorized to prescribe certain controlled dangerous substances for the treatment of pain through telehealth; etc. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB894 | Endangered and Threatened Species - Incidental Taking - Bats | Authorizing the Secretary of Natural Resources to issue an incidental taking permit for the Indiana bat, the northern long-eared bat, the tricolor bat, or the eastern small-footed bat if an applicant submits a certain conservation plan and the Secretary makes certain findings. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB580 | Terminology and Obsolete References – Maryland State Firefighters Association and Related Terms | Replacing obsolete references to the Maryland State Firemen's Association with references to the Maryland State Firefighters Association; and replacing related terminology. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB425 | Natural Resources - State Boat Act - Auctioneers | Exempting certain auctioneers from certain provisions of the State Boat Act. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB428 | Medical Debt - Complaints for Money Judgment and Real Property Liens | Establishing certain requirements for a complaint for a money judgment; defining "medical debt" as a debt owed by a consumer to a provider of medical services, products, or devices, but does not include debt charged to a credit card except under certain circumstances; prohibiting the creation of a lien on owner-occupied residential property by contract or as a result of a breach of contract for the payment of medical debt; and applying the Act prospectively. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB436 | Vehicle Laws - Medical Exemption for Enhanced Tinted Windows - Time Limitation | Repealing the 2-year time limitation on medical exemptions for enhanced tinted windows for vehicle owners with certain permanent medical conditions. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB893 | Tidal Fish Licenses - Oyster Authorizations - Administrative Penalties | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to suspend for up to 5 years for a first violation, rather than revoke, a person's oyster authorization for knowingly committing certain violations; providing for the reinstatement for certain persons of an oyster authorization and an entitlement to engage or work in the oyster fishery; altering a certain offense related to the use of prohibited gear; and repealing the 90-day time period within which a certain administrative hearing must be held. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB857 | Natural Resources - Pursuing Wounded Deer After Legal Hunting Hours and Using a Light - Authorization | Authorizing a person who is authorized by the Department of Natural Resources to hunt deer and who wounds a deer during legal hunting hours to pursue and kill the deer after legal hunting hours using the means authorized for the applicable hunting season or permit which may include use of a light or throw or cast the rays of a spotlight, a headlight, an artificial light, a battery, or any other device while pursuing the wounded deer. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB565 | State Board of Pharmacy - Renewal Notices - Electronic Means | Requiring the State Board of Pharmacy to send renewal notices to licensees, permit holders, and registrants by electronic means, rather than by first-class mail, unless the licensee, permit holder, or registrant requests to receive the renewal notice by first-class mail. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1007 | Disability and Life Insurance - Medical Information (Genetic Testing Protection Act) | Prohibiting insurance carriers that offer life insurance or disability insurance policies or contracts from unfairly discriminating against an individual by taking certain actions relating to coverage based on medical information; prohibiting certain carriers from accessing sensitive medical information without first obtaining written consent or mandating certain genetic testing or full genome sequencing as a prerequisite for life insurance or disability insurance eligibility or coverage; etc. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB509 | Maryland Inventory of Cemeteries and Burial Sites Workgroup - Establishment | Establishing the Maryland Inventory of Cemeteries and Burial Sites Workgroup for the purpose of studying issues related to the establishment and maintenance of a State cemetery inventory system; and requiring the Workgroup to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 1, 2025. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1069 | Life and Health Insurance Policies and Annuity and Health Maintenance Organization Contracts - Discretionary Clauses - Prohibition | Prohibiting the use of discretionary clauses in life insurance policies, health insurance policies, annuity contracts, and health maintenance organization contracts. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB535 | Abandoned and Neglected Cemeteries Fund - Establishment | Establishing the Abandoned and Neglected Cemeteries Fund to provide for the care, preservation, maintenance, and restoration of abandoned and neglected cemeteries in the State; authorizing the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $250,000 to the fund; and requiring an annual report by September 30 to the General Assembly on the donations to the Fund and promotional efforts undertaken by money from the Fund. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1481 | Disability Services - Adapted Vehicle Access Pilot Program - Established | Establishing the Adapted Vehicle Access Pilot Program to provide adapted vehicles to individuals who require a mobility aid; and requiring the Department of Disabilities to implement and administer the Program, request, apply for, and facilitate certain donations to the Program, study the impacts of the Program, and report to the Governor and the General Assembly on the Program on or before December 1, 2028. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB938 | Continuing Care Providers - Governing Bodies - Membership | Requiring the appointment of an alternate subscriber member to the governing body of a continuing care provider; and authorizing the alternate subscriber member to attend all meetings of the governing body and vote only if the regular subscriber is unable to fulfill the subscriber's duties as a regular member of the governing body. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB265 | Dental Services - Qualification for Maryland Dent-Care Program | Altering the eligibility criteria for Higher Education Loan Assistance Grants under the Maryland Dent-Care Program to include part-time employment. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB455 | Braille Flag Memorial Act of 2025 | Requiring the Department of Veterans and Military Families to designate a location for an American braille tactile flag to be placed on the grounds of one or more State veterans' cemeteries to honor members of the uniformed services, veterans, and other individuals in the State who are blind or visually impaired. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB448 | Modernization of Military Laws Act | Establishing rules of interpretation related to the uniformed services; altering the rule of interpretation for "veteran"; requiring the Secretary of Veterans and Military Families to develop certain policies related to life transitions of veterans, service members, and military families; and altering the application of certain provisions of law related to veterans, the uniformed services, and the filing of certificates of candidacy, the powers of the Governor, State veterans' cemeteries, and housing and employment discrimination. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB466 | Health Equality for Service Members Act | Establishing rules of interpretation related to the uniformed services; altering the rule of interpretation for "veteran"; and altering the application of certain provisions of law governing public health, the regulation of health occupations, and housing vouchers and assistance to apply to all uniformed services, rather than only the armed forces. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB699 | General Provisions - Veterans Benefits - Honorable Discharge | Defining "honorable discharge" with respect to any State program of benefits, rights, or privileges applicable to a veteran to include certain discharges. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB32 | Maryland Department of Health - Forensic Review Board - Established | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish a forensic review board at facilities that have charge of persons who have been committed to the facility as not criminally responsible; authorizing a forensic review board to make recommendations relating to the release or rehabilitation of a committed person; requiring the board to give notice at least 10 days before a meeting concerning the committed person; requiring the board to give consideration to a written statement offered by the committed person to the board; etc. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB616 | Criminal Law - Destroying Funerary Objects and Cemetery Elements - Statute of Limitations and Prohibition | Extending from 1 year to 3 years the statute of limitations for prosecutions relating to destroying funerary objects and other elements of a cemetery to begin at the time local authorities knew or reasonably should have known of the violation; and prohibiting a person from willfully destroying, damaging, defacing, or removing any part of the grounds of a cemetery. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB446 | Natural Resources - Invasive Blue Catfish Pilot Program | Establishing the Invasive Blue Catfish Pilot Program in the Department of Natural Resources to curb the spread of the invasive blue catfish in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries; requiring the Department to expand the use of practices determined to be effective under the Program; and requiring the Department to report to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 1, 2025, on its findings and recommendations based on the Pilot Program. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1200 | Property Tax - Credit for Law Enforcement Officer or Rescue Worker - Expansion to Judicial Officer | Authorizing the governing body of a county or municipal corporation or the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City to provide a certain property tax credit to certain judicial officers, surviving spouses, or cohabitants; requiring the county or municipal corporation to define, by law, who is a correctional officer and judicial officer; and applying the Act retroactively to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 2022. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB345 | Interstate Social Work Licensure Compact | Entering into the Social Work Licensure Compact for the purpose of authorizing regulated social workers who hold multistate licenses to practice social work in member states in order to improve public access to competent social work services; establishing requirements for multistate licensure; establishing the Social Work Licensure Compact Commission; providing for withdrawal from the Compact; and providing that the Act is contingent on the enactment of substantially similar legislation in six other states. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB514 | Health Occupations - State Board of Chiropractic Examiners - Revisions | Altering certain provisions of law governing the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners and the practice of chiropractic in the State related to Board membership, licensure of chiropractors, the discipline of chiropractors, and the denial of licenses to applicants; authorizing the Board to inspect chiropractor offices under certain circumstances; and requiring the Board to require a licensee or applicant to submit to an examination by a health care provider under certain circumstances. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB1027 | Workgroup to Study Implementation of an Expanded 3-1-1 Nonemergency System | Establishing the Workgroup to Study Implementation of an Expanded 3-1-1 Nonemergency System; requiring the Workgroup to review a certain study completed by the Department of Information Technology in order to establish a plan to implement the recommendations of the study; and requiring the Workgroup to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly by November 1, 2025. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB573 | State Board of Dental Examiners - Expanded Function Dental Assistants - Education and Reinstatement | Authorizing the State Board of Dental Examiners to approve a certain course of study for expanded function dental assistant certification; requiring that a course of study for initial dental assistant certification include at least 35 hours of in-person and online instruction; requiring the Board to reinstate a certain certification only under certain circumstances; requiring the Board to adopt regulations requiring continuing education, including clinical hands-on training, for expanded function dental assistants; etc. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB429 | Health Facilities - Augmentation of Survey Staff - Nursing Homes | Requiring the Secretary of Health, on request of a county, to delegate to the county the authority to augment State nursing home survey staff using county funds under certain circumstances; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to initiate a certain memorandum of understanding and develop a certain plan with a requesting county within 45 days after a county's request; requiring the Department, beginning July 1, 2025, to report to each area agency on aging the names and dates of each nursing home surveyed in the preceding 6 months; etc. | Dead |
| HB320 | Wicomico County - Vehicle Laws - Prohibition on Roadway Solicitations | Prohibiting a person in Wicomico County from standing in a roadway, median divider, or intersection to solicit in an aggressive manner money or donations from the occupant of a vehicle. | Dead |
| HB892 | Natural Resources - Canada Geese - Bag Limits | Requiring, during the migratory Canada goose (Atlantic population) hunting season, the bag limit for all Canada geese in certain areas of the State, including geese found in the Atlantic Flyway Resident Population Hunt Zone and the Atlantic Population Hunt Zone, to conform to the bag limit for Atlantic population Canada geese adopted annually by the Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. | Dead |
| HB1558 | Election Law - State Elected Officials - Fundraising Activities During General Assembly Session | Altering the entities with respect to which certain officials or persons acting on behalf of certain officials are prohibited from taking certain actions related to fundraising during a regular session of the General Assembly; and prohibiting certain officials or persons acting on behalf of certain officials from participating in certain fundraising events in a certain manner during a regular session of the General Assembly. | Dead |
| HB1208 | Public Health - Prohibited Ingredients in Food | Prohibiting a person, beginning on October 1, 2028, from manufacturing, selling, delivering, holding, or offering for sale in the State food that contains brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propylparaben, or Red Dye No. 3; and providing certain penalties for violations of the Act. | Dead |
| HB1555 | Funeral Establishments, Crematories, and Reduction Facilities - Oversight (Ensuring Dignity and Accountability in Crematory and Funeral Home Operations Act) | Requiring the Office of Cemetery Oversight and the State Board of Morticians and Funeral Directors to establish and maintain certain online databases and conduct certain inspections; establishing the authority of the Secretary of Health regarding staff for the Board; authorizing the Executive Director of the Board to direct an immediate investigation of certain complaints; establishing requirements for the review of complaints and investigations by the Board; providing a civil penalty of up to $25,000 for certain violations; etc. | Dead |
| HB321 | Pharmacy Benefits Managers – Definition of Purchaser and Alteration of Application of Law | Altering the definition of "purchaser" for the purpose of certain provisions of State insurance law governing pharmacy benefits managers to exclude certain nonprofit health maintenance organizations; requiring the Maryland Insurance Administration to convene a workgroup to review and make recommendations by January 1, 2026, on provisions of State law regarding pharmacy benefits managers, specialty pharmacies, and antisteering including any legislation necessary to carry out the recommendations; etc. | Dead |
| HB662 | Procurement - Indefinite Quantity Contracts - Authorization | Authorizing a procurement officer to award an indefinite quantity contract under certain circumstances; requiring the Board of Public Works to adopt certain regulations relating to the assignment of work under an indefinite quantity contract including assignment by right of first refusal in the order of ranking of contract awards and rotation among contractors; etc. | Dead |
| HB1314 | Health Care - Prior Authorizations - Prohibiting Fees | Prohibiting in-network health care providers from charging a fee to obtain a prior authorization from a carrier or managed care organization. | Dead |
| HB304 | State Procurement - Transparency and Procedures | Requiring a unit of State government to provide a certain debriefing of a contract award to certain persons on request; requiring each procurement contract to include a clause pertaining to certain contract modifications related to changes in law; altering from 30 to 60 days the time within which a written notice of a claim relating to a certain procurement contract shall be made; altering the procedures for reviewing and making a certain determination related to a certain contract claim; etc. | Dead |
| HB1499 | State Procurement - Construction and Services - Contract Modification | Requiring a procurement contract for 3 years or more in duration and valued at greater than $1,000,000 for construction or security services to include a clause requiring contract modification for increased costs for compensation and benefits as a result of statutory changes increasing required compensation or benefits or collective bargaining; and requiring a certain contract that is modified to be contingent on approval by the Board of Public Works. | Dead |
| HB1544 | Public Safety - Maryland Law Enforcement Public Service Medal and Key Bridge Collapse Victims Memorial Tribute | Establishing the Maryland Law Enforcement Public Service Medal as the highest State honor awarded to law enforcement officers for exceptional public service, valor, and heroism; establishing eligibility requirements for the medal and procedures for the nomination, selection, and awarding of the medal; authorizing the Governor to award no more than five medals per calendar year; and requiring a certain ceremony to annually honor and remember the sacrifices and contributions of certain workers. | Dead |
| HB1053 | Developmental Disabilities Administration - Self-Directed Services | Clarifying that a parent of the recipient may provide services for the recipient of self-directed services under certain circumstances; and altering the circumstances under which a family member or legal guardian may provide services for the recipient of self-directed services. | Dead |
| HB763 | Education - Sexual Abuse and Assault Awareness and Prevention Program - Human and Sex Trafficking | Requiring that a certain program on the awareness and prevention of sexual abuse and assault include, for students in grades 6 through 8, material promoting the awareness and prevention of human and sex trafficking. | Dead |
| HB468 | Petitions for Emergency Evaluation (Arnaud and Magruder Memorial Act) | Specifying that a petition for emergency evaluation is effective for 5 days after being endorsed by a certain court; authorizing a court, on a certain motion and for good cause shown, to extend a petition for up to 5 days at a time, not to exceed a total of 30 days; requiring the court to include the date the petition expires on the petition; and authorizing peace officers to use reasonable and necessary force when executing a petition. | Dead |
| HB386 | Pesticides - PFAS Chemicals - Prohibitions | Requiring, by January 1, 2032, the Department of Agriculture to develop, maintain, post on its website, and distribute to all certified applicators a list of certain registered pesticides that list PFAS chemicals as an active ingredient on the labeling accompanying the pesticide; prohibiting, beginning June 1, 2032, a person from using, for certain purposes, PFAS pesticides listed by the Department; prohibiting, beginning June 1, 2032, a person from using PFAS pesticides in the State; etc. | Dead |
| HB830 | Health Insurance - Genetic Testing and Cancer Imaging - Required Coverage | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for genetic testing for certain individuals who may have an increased risk of developing cancer and follow-up evidence-based cancer imaging for individuals with an increased risk of developing cancer; etc. | Dead |
| HB1001 | State Designations - State Cocktail - Original Maryland Orange Crush | Designating the original Maryland orange crush as the State cocktail. | Dead |
| HB889 | Fisheries - Striped Bass or Rockfish - Juvenile Survey | Expanding the scope of the annual young-of-the-year juvenile survey of striped bass or rockfish by requiring the Department of Natural Resources to conduct the survey at at least a certain number of additional sampling sites in the central region of the Maryland waters of the Chesapeake Bay; and requiring the Department to report the results of the survey to certain Commissions and committees of the General Assembly by December 31 each year. | Dead |
| HB1417 | Department of General Services - Clean Energy Procurement Program - Establishment | Requiring the Department of General Services, in consultation with the Maryland Green Purchasing Committee, the University System of Maryland, and the Maryland Clean Energy Center, to establish a Clean Energy Procurement Program in the Department on or before January 1, 2026; requiring the Department, in consultation with certain entities, to issue a certain solicitation for a biogas contract; authorizing the Department to enter into a contract to procure biogas; etc. | Dead |
| HB649 | Family Law - Children in Foster Care - Background Information | Requiring a child placement agency to provide a background report concerning a child to a foster parent before the foster parent may consent to the placement of the child with the foster parent; and requiring the report to indicate whether the child has had any interaction with a law enforcement agency, including any arrests, been charged with or found guilty of a crime, been a member of or associated with a criminal gang, or been suspended or expelled from school. | Dead |
| HB1263 | Natural Resources - Public Clam Fishery Area - Establishment | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources, in consultation with the Tidal Fisheries Advisory Commission, to identify by regulation the public clam fishery area in the Chesapeake Bay based on commercial harvesting activity during the 3 years preceding June 1, 2025, any surveys conducted by the Department, and other quantitative data known or made available to the Department; and prohibiting the lease of the public clam fishery area for shellfish aquaculture. | Dead |
| HB1399 | Health Occupations - Cross-Sex Hormone Therapy for Minors - Prohibition (Protect the Kids Act) | Prohibiting a licensed health care practitioner from prescribing, dispensing, or administering a cross-sex hormone or otherwise providing cross-sex hormone therapy for the treatment of certain mental health diagnoses to an individual who is a minor. | Dead |
| HB1451 | Climate Solutions Affordability Act of 2025 | Specifying that certain requirements under the Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022 are to be carried out to the extent economically practicable, including requirements concerning achieving certain direct greenhouse gas emissions reductions from certain buildings, measuring and reporting direct emissions data to the Department of the Environment, achieving certain greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals, and achieving zero-emission vehicle goals relating to the State vehicle fleet and local school buses; etc. | Dead |
| HB1374 | Prekindergarten - 3-Year-Olds - Private Providers (Parental Choice for Prekindergarten Act) | Altering the definition of "Tier I child" for purposes of publicly provided prekindergarten to not include 3-year-olds and only include certain 4-year-olds; authorizing an eligible private prekindergarten provider to elect to enroll 3-year-olds in publicly provided prekindergarten; requiring an eligible private provider that elects to enroll a Tier I 3-year-old to enter into a certain memorandum of understanding with the State Department of Education and the county board of education; etc. | Dead |
| HB1166 | State Finance and Procurement - Retention Proceeds | Requiring that undisputed retention proceeds retained by a unit or a certain contractor under a State procurement contract be paid within 90 days after the date of substantial completion. | Dead |
| HB1396 | Property Rights Protection Act of 2025 | Prohibiting certain persons from exercising a right of condemnation to acquire property for the purpose of constructing a power line or a certain generating station that produces electricity from wind energy or solar energy; and prohibiting the State or any of its instrumentalities or political subdivisions from acquiring by condemnation property that is encumbered by certain conservation easements or will be used for the construction of a power line or a certain generating station. | Dead |
| HB742 | Public Utilities - Solar Energy Generating Stations - Eminent Domain | Prohibiting a person constructing a solar energy generating station from exercising a right of condemnation in connection with that construction. | Dead |
| HB739 | Public Utilities - Solar Energy Generating Stations - Local Approval | Prohibiting the Public Service Commission from approving a certificate of public convenience and necessity for a solar energy generating station unless the Commission receives written approval for the construction of the generating station from each county or municipal corporation where the generating station is proposed to be located. | Dead |
| HB653 | Correctional Services - Transfers to Federal Authorities - Undocumented Immigrants (Protecting Marylanders From Violent Crime Act of 2025) | Requiring a certain State or local correctional facility, on request of the United States Department of Homeland Security, to transfer a certain undocumented immigrant to the United States Department of Homeland Security under certain circumstances. | Dead |
| HB403 | Correctional Services - Transfers to Federal Authorities - Undocumented Immigrants (Protecting Marylanders From Violent Offenders Act of 2025) | Requiring a State or local correctional facility with custody of an undocumented immigrant who is serving a sentence in the facility for conviction of a crime, on request of the United States Department of Homeland Security, to transfer the undocumented immigrant to the United States Department of Homeland Security under certain circumstances. | Dead |
| HB1414 | Building Energy Performance Standards - Public Safety, Emergency, and Public Utility Buildings - Exclusion (Safe Solutions Now Act of 2025) | Altering the definition of "covered building" for purposes of certain building energy performance standards to exclude certain public safety, emergency, and public utility buildings. | Dead |
| HB982 | Gun Theft Felony Act of 2025 | Classifying the theft of a firearm as a felony; establishing a penalty for a first conviction for theft of a firearm of imprisonment not exceeding 5 years or a fine not exceeding $1,000 or both; and establishing a penalty for subsequent convictions of imprisonment not exceeding 10 years or a fine not exceeding $2,500 or both. | Dead |
| HB1345 | Consumer Protection - Agricultural Equipment Warranties | Requiring, to make a claim under a warranty for certain agricultural equipment, a consumer to provide written notice to certain parties to report a nonconformity, defect, or condition occurring in certain agricultural equipment; requiring certain parties to correct the nonconformity, defect, or condition in a certain manner; requiring certain parties to provide a consumer with the opportunity to replace agricultural equipment or receive a refund under certain circumstances; and applying the Act prospectively. | Dead |
| HB1356 | Criminal Procedure - Pretrial Release - Bail | Prohibiting a District Court commissioner from authorizing the pretrial release of a defendant on personal recognizance or unsecured bail under certain circumstances; and authorizing a judge to authorize the pretrial release of a certain defendant on secured bail bond and certain conditions. | Dead |
| HB1271 | Health - Abortion - Ultrasound and Wait Time | Prohibiting a qualified provider from performing or inducing an abortion on a pregnant woman within 24 hours after the woman receives certain ultrasound imaging; establishing certain requirements related to the performance of a certain transabdominal ultrasound; and providing that a woman is not required to accept anything offered during certain transabdominal ultrasound imaging. | Dead |
| HB1215 | Common Ownership Communities - Time to Attain Reserve Funding Level - Extension | Extending from 3 to 5 fiscal years the time in which the governing body of a cooperative housing corporation, condominium, or homeowners association is required to attain a certain recommended annual reserve funding level following an initial reserve study. | Dead |
| HB1180 | Education - Primary and Secondary Schools - Alternative School Options (Right to Learn Act) | Requiring, on or before January 1 each year, each county board of education to provide certain information to the parents or legal guardians of students who attend a failing school; requiring that a failing school continue to be designated as a failing school until certain conditions are met; requiring that a student who is attending a failing school be provided the opportunity to attend an alternative school; establishing the Broadening Options and Opportunities for Students Today Program; etc. | Dead |
| HB773 | Public Middle and High Schools - Student Discipline (Right to Teach Act of 2025) | Authorizing a teacher in a public middle or high school in the State to take certain disciplinary actions in response to certain student behavior and to direct students to certain school officials; and prohibiting a county board of education from taking disciplinary action against a certain teacher for certain actions. | Dead |
| HB760 | Counties and Municipalities - Approval of Projects Denied by Maryland Historical Trust - Authorization | Authorizing the governing body of a county or municipality to approve a certain project that was previously denied by the Maryland Historical Trust under certain circumstances; and requiring a local planning commission to hold a certain public hearing within 60 days after the request by a project applicant and to make a recommendation to the governing body of the county or municipality on whether or not to approve the project. | Dead |
| HB1249 | Natural Resources - Blue Catfish - Population Control | Establishing that regulations of the Department of Natural Resources governing the catching of blue catfish shall establish a pilot program authorizing the use of electrofishing, shall authorize the use of finfish trotlines of up to 2,400 feet in length, may not set a limit on the number of hooks used, and shall authorize the use of hooks that are not corrodible; and requiring the Department of Agriculture to report on or before September 1, 2025, outlining needs and best practices for collecting, processing, and marketing blue catfish. | Dead |
| HB1357 | Public Health - Reproductive Health Care Data - Report | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to collect and compile annual data on the costs of birth, postpartum care, pregnancy care, and abortion; requiring the Department to post on its website and submit to the General Assembly a reproductive health care data report each December 1, beginning in 2025; and requiring the report to include the aggregated cost data for certain categories of care, comparative data by region within the State, analysis of trends in the cost of care, and recommendations for improving cost efficiency. | Dead |
| HB903 | Courts - Global Warming and Climate Change - Prohibited Actions (Ratepayer Protection Act of 2025) | Prohibiting the State or a local government, or an agency of the State or a local government, from filing an action for monetary damages or alleged economic damages against a business for the adverse effects of global warming or climate change in the State. | Dead |
| HB735 | Certificate of Need - Psychiatric Health Care Facilities and Psychiatric and Mental Health Services - Exemption | Altering the definition of "medical service" for the purpose of providing an exemption to the certificate of need requirement by removing psychiatry and any subcategory of psychiatry; and providing that a certificate of need is not required to establish or operate a psychiatric health care facility or to offer psychiatric or other mental health services at a health care facility. | Dead |
| HB622 | Juvenile Law - Custodial Interrogation (Juvenile Justice Restoration Act of 2025) | Altering a certain provision of law authorizing a law enforcement officer to conduct an otherwise lawful custodial interrogation of a child if the child's parent, guardian, or custodian consents to the custodial interrogation of the child without the child's consultation with an attorney. | Dead |
| HB652 | Department of Juvenile Services - Employees - Prohibited Convictions | Prohibiting the Department of Juvenile Services from hiring or retaining an individual convicted of certain crimes. | Dead |
| HB1170 | Maryland Home Improvement Commission - Residential Solar Power System Installation - Contractor License Required | Requiring a person to have a contractor license to install residential solar power system equipment. | Dead |
| HB1022 | Oyster Restoration - Use of Federal Funds - Prohibition | Prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from using federal funds for oyster restoration projects in State waters from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2030, both inclusive, subject to a certain exception. | Dead |
| HB1023 | Environment - Wetlands - Landward Boundaries | Requiring certain land created under a tidal wetlands license to be described by metes and bounds; and requiring the Department of the Environment to update, on a scale of 1 inch to 200 feet, the landward boundaries of certain wetlands following the completion of improvements consisting of certain shoreline stabilization measures. | Dead |
| HB1024 | Agriculture - Catastrophic Damage Caused by Deer | Authorizing the Department of Agriculture to take extraordinary measures to control local deer populations and prevent future crop loss if the Department determines that deer have caused catastrophic damage to a field; and defining "catastrophic damage" as the loss of 50% or more of crops from a single field. | Dead |
| HB732 | Public Schools - Career Ladder - Teacher Classroom Teaching Time | Altering certain requirements of the career ladder for educators to increase the required percentage of working time a certain teacher must spend teaching in the classroom from 60% to 80%. | Dead |
| HB725 | Institutions of Higher Education - Dually Enrolled Students - Alterations | Altering the definition of "dually enrolled student" to include a nonpublic secondary school student and a home school student to be eligible to apply for the Part-Time Grant Program and the Early College Access Grant. | Dead |
| HB885 | Public Safety - Police Accountability - Investigation Records Relating to Unfounded and Exonerated Complaints | Requiring that all investigation records relating to a complaint of misconduct by a police officer be removed from the police officer's personnel record 3 years after an administrative charging committee or a trial board issues a finding that the complaint is unfounded or exonerated. | Dead |
| HB733 | Elections for County Boards of Education - Party Designation or Affiliation - Certificates of Candidacy and Ballots | Authorizing a candidate for election to a county board of education to disclose the candidate's party designation or party affiliation on the candidate's certificate of candidacy; prohibiting a local board of elections from disqualifying a candidate for election to a county board for disclosing the candidate's party designation or party affiliation; and requiring each local board to include certain information on a ballot under certain circumstances. | Dead |
| HB989 | On-Farm Home Processing License - Revenue Limit - Prohibition | Prohibiting the Maryland Department of Health from limiting the amount of revenue the holder of an on-farm home processing license may derive from food processed under the license. | Dead |
| HB1015 | Public Middle, High, and Charter Schools - Start Time for Instruction | Requiring, beginning in the 2027-2028 school year, each public middle school and each public high school to begin instruction not earlier than 8 a.m. and 8:30 a.m., respectively, unless granted a waiver by the State Board of Education under certain circumstances; and requiring each county board of education and each public charter school to implement a certain public service campaign to raise awareness on sleep deprivation and later school start times. | Dead |
| HB1153 | Maryland Estate Tax - Unified Credit | Altering a certain limit on the unified credit used for determining the Maryland estate tax for decedents dying on or after January 1, 2026; and altering a certain limitation on the amount of the Maryland estate tax for decedents dying on or after January 1, 2026. | Dead |
| HB1005 | Income Tax - Tips or Gratuities - Subtraction Modification (No Income Taxes on Tips Act) | Providing a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for compensation received in the form of a tip or gratuity for the performance of certain work in a food service facility, business licensed for on-sale consumption of alcoholic beverages, or hotel, for providing passenger-for-hire services, or for providing taxicab services; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2024. | Dead |
| HB1101 | Corporate Income Tax - Rate Reduction (Economic Competitiveness Act of 2025) | Decreasing, over 5 taxable years, the State corporate income tax rate from 8.25% to 6.25%. | Dead |
| HB1329 | Public Utilities - Energy Generation and Transmission | Stating the authority to construct, permit, and operate in the State an energy generating system that produces energy from natural gas; authorizing investor-owned electric companies and electricity suppliers in the State to construct, acquire, or lease and operate their own generating facilities and construct, acquire, or lease, and operate, certain transmission facilities; stating the General Assembly's support for the development of additional nuclear energy in the State; etc. | Dead |
| HB766 | Wildlife Advisory Commission - Membership - Alterations | Requiring that the Wildlife Advisory Commission member appointed to represent the farming community be selected from a list of candidates provided by the Maryland Farm Bureau. | Dead |
| HB734 | Real Time for Violent Crime Act | Prohibiting the earning of diminution credits to reduce the term of confinement of an incarcerated individual who is serving a sentence for murder in the first degree or murder in the second degree in a State or local correctional facility; prohibiting a deduction of diminution credits of more than 10% of an incarcerated individual's aggregate sentence for crimes of violence for an incarcerated individual who is serving a sentence for a crime of violence; etc. | Dead |
| HB548 | Public Safety - Militia - Active Duty Combat (Defend the Guard) | Prohibiting the Governor from ordering the militia or a member of the militia into active duty combat unless the U.S. Congress has passed an official declaration of war or taken a certain official action; and establishing that this prohibition does not limit or prohibit the Governor from deploying the militia or a member of the militia under certain circumstances. | Dead |
| HB1008 | Vehicle-Miles-Traveled Tax and Associated Mandated Devices - Prohibition (Transportation Freedom Act of 2025) | Prohibiting the State or a local jurisdiction from imposing or levying a vehicle-miles-traveled tax or certain other similar fees, tolls, or taxes; prohibiting the State or a local jurisdiction from requiring the installation of a device in or on a privately owned vehicle to facilitate the reporting of vehicle miles traveled; etc. | Dead |
| HB727 | Motor Vehicles - Driving Records - Disclosure of Medical Diagnosis (Safeguarding American Families Everywhere Act) | Authorizing an applicant for a driver's license or a license holder to voluntarily disclose to the Motor Vehicle Administration certain information regarding certain medical diagnoses; requiring the Administration to include a description of the voluntary disclosure in the applicant's or license holder's driving record; and providing that the voluntary disclosure may be removed from an individual's driver's record on request. | Dead |
| HB800 | Income Tax - Subtraction Modification for Military Retirement Income - Individuals Under the Age of 55 | Increasing, from $12,500 to $20,000, the amount of a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for military retirement income for individuals who are under the age of 55 years; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2024. | Dead |
| HB792 | Income Tax - Subtraction Modification - Public Safety Employee Retirement Income | Increasing, from $15,000 to $20,000, the amount allowed as a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for retirement income attributable to an individual's employment as a public safety employee; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2024. | Dead |
| HB695 | Repair the Transportation Trust Fund Act | Repealing a requirement that certain motor fuel tax rates be adjusted in future years based on growth in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers; prohibiting the State or a local jurisdiction from imposing or levying a vehicle-miles-traveled tax or certain other similar fees, tolls, or taxes; requiring that the Maryland Transit Administration achieve a certain farebox recovery requirement for certain transit services; etc. | Dead |
| Bill | Bill Name | Motion | Vote Date | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SB96 | Environment - Water Bottle Filling Stations - Requirement | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| SB181 | Correctional Services - Geriatric and Medical Parole | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Nay |
| HB128 | Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation - Total Assessed Cost of Greenhouse Gas Emissions - Study and Reports | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Abstain |
| SB231 | State Government - Public Employee Relations Act - Alterations | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| SB93 | Election Law - Absentee Ballots - Notice to Request Application | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Abstain |
| 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 | Nay |
| SB295 | Income Tax - Income Tax Reconciliation Program - Established (Maryland Fair Taxation for Justice-Involved Individuals Act) | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| HB350 | Budget Bill (Fiscal Year 2026) | Motion Special Order until Later This Session (Delegate Grammer) Rejected | 04/07/2025 | Yea |
| SB327 | Affordable Housing Payment In Lieu of Taxes Expansion Act | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| HB352 | Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act of 2025 | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Nay |
| HB352 | Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act of 2025 | Motion Vote Previous Question (Delegate J. Lewis) Adopted | 04/07/2025 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| SB361 | Election Law - Influence on a Voter's Voting Decision By Use of Fraud - Prohibition | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| SB373 | State Personnel - BWI Airport Fire and Rescue Department - Collective Bargaining and Arbitration Processes | Third Reading Passed | 04/07/2025 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 |
| Committee | Position | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detail | Maryland House Health and Government Operations Committee | 9 |
| State | District | Chamber | Party | Status | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD | Maryland House District 37B | House | Republican | In Office | 01/11/2023 |