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Legislator > Jennifer White Holland

State Delegate
Jennifer White Holland
(D) - Maryland
Maryland House District 10
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: 410-841-3744
Phone 2: 301-858-3744
Bill | Bill Name | Summary | Progress |
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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 |
HB850 | Workgroup on the Creation of a Data Dashboard for Public Work Contracts and Apprentices - Establishment | Establishing the Workgroup on the Creation of a Data Dashboard for Public Work Contracts and Apprentices to study the most efficient and cost-effective method to create a publicly available data dashboard that disaggregates information regarding public work contracts with the State and apprentices working under the public work contracts; and requiring the Workgroup to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly by January 7, 2027. | 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
HB424 | Prescription Drug Affordability Board - Authority and Stakeholder Council Membership (Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for All Marylanders Now Act) | Altering the membership of the Prescription Drug Affordability Stakeholder Council; requiring the Prescription Drug Affordability Board, under certain circumstances, to establish a process for setting upper payment limits for purchases and payor reimbursements of prescription drug products that the Board determines have led or will lead to affordability challenges; authorizing the Board to reconsider an upper payment limit for a drug that becomes a current shortage; and altering requirements related to the setting of upper payment limits. | 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 |
HB1315 | Vaccinations by Pharmacists and Health Insurance Coverage for Immunizations | Altering the vaccinations that a pharmacist may administer, subject to certain requirements, to an individual of at least a certain age; and altering the vaccinations included in the minimum package of child wellness services for which certain health insurers and nonprofit health service plans are required to provide coverage to include those recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as of December 31, 2024. | 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 |
HB367 | Health Occupations Boards - English Proficiency Requirements and Licensure by Endorsement for Nursing | Prohibiting a health occupations board from requiring additional evidence of English proficiency as a condition for licensure, certification, or registration if an applicant holds a valid, unrestricted license, certification, or registration from another state that requires evidence of English proficiency; requiring each health occupations board that requires evidence of English proficiency to post a statement on their website that an applicant may not be required to provide additional evidence of proficiency; etc. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
HB729 | Public Health - Use of Opioid Restitution Fund and Training Under the Overdose Response Program | Altering the training that the Maryland Department of Health is authorized to provide under the Overdose Response Program to include emphasis on the restoration of breathing, avoiding withdrawal, and compassionate postoverdose support and care; clarifying that the use of the Opioid Restitution Fund is subject to certain restrictions; and altering the authorized uses of the Opioid Restitution Fund so as to include the addressing of racial disparities in access to prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery support services. | 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 |
HB268 | Hospitals - Financial Assistance and Collection of Debts - Policies | Altering provisions of law related to a hospital's financial assistance and collection of debts policies; specifying the percentage by which a hospital is required to reduce a patient's out-of-pocket expenses under certain circumstances; adding to the notice requirements relating to a hospital's financial assistance policy; prohibiting a hospital from filing a civil action to collect a debt against a patient whose outstanding debt is at or below $500; etc. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
HB1380 | Health Care Facilities - Hospitals and Freestanding Birthing Centers - Perinatal Care Standards | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in coordination with the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems, to adopt regulations establishing minimum perinatal care standards for hospitals that meet or exceed the Maryland Perinatal System Standards for each hospital that provides obstetrical services; and requiring each hospital that provides obstetrical services and freestanding birthing centers, as a condition of licensure, to comply with certain minimum perinatal care standards. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
HB718 | Maryland Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission - Established | Establishing the Maryland Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission to monitor and assess the impact of potential and actual federal changes to specified health care programs and to provide recommendations for State and local action to protect the access of residents of the State to affordable health coverage; and requiring the Commission to submit a report of its findings and recommendations, including any legislative proposals, to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 31 each year. | 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 |
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 |
HB933 | Nursing Homes - Cost Reports | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to review the cost reports and other data submitted by each nursing home that participates in the Maryland Medical Assistance Program; and requiring the Department to report the findings resulting from the review conducted under the Act to the Governor and certain committees of the General Assembly by October 1, 2025, and each October 1 thereafter through 2029. | 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 |
HB991 | State Procurement - Minority Business Enterprise Program - Extension and Reports | Altering the termination date for certain provisions of law governing the Minority Business Enterprise Program and its application to public-private partnerships, offshore wind projects, video lottery terminals, and sports wagering licenses; and altering the date by which certain reports, studies, and guidelines must be submitted. | 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 |
HB765 | Hospitals - Medical Debt Collection - Sale of Patient Debt | Authorizing a hospital, under certain circumstances, to sell the medical debt of patients if the debt is sold to a governmental unit or an entity that is under contract with the unit or a nonprofit organization for the purpose of canceling the debt; 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; etc. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
HB334 | Workgroup on Newborn Nurse Home Visiting Services - Establishment | Establishing the Workgroup on Universal Newborn Nurse Home Visiting Services; requiring the Workgroup to compile updated participant data and expenditure per participant from the home visiting programs currently operating in the State, compare the data for home visiting programs to the data for evidence-based models, identify service gaps, and identify workforce needs; and requiring the Workgroup to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 31, 2025. | 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 |
HB500 | Procurement Reform Act of 2025 | Authorizing the Secretary of General Services to delegate certain powers and duties to the Chief Procurement Officer; altering the authority of the Department of General Services to engage in or control procurement of certain equipment and services; requiring the Department of Information Technology to establish a technical procurement team; altering the authority of the Department of Transportation and the Maryland Transportation Authority to engage in procurement for certain supplies and services; 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
HB1100 | Public Health - Health Equity Dashboard | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in collaboration with the Commission on Health Equity, to develop a clear and easy-to-understand graphic data dashboard that includes age-adjusted health disparity data disaggregated by race, ethnicity, and gender; and requiring the Department to update the data dashboard on a quarterly basis, as determined by data availability. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
HB1251 | Hospitals and Medical Professional Liability Insurers - Obstetric Services Policies (Doula and Birth Policy Transparency Act) | Requiring certain hospitals to adopt certain policies relating to obstetric services and to provide evidence to the Maryland Department of Health that the hospital has the policies; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to provide certain policies to the public on request; and requiring insurers that issue or deliver medical professional liability insurance policies in the State to provide the Maryland Department of Health, on request, with information regarding the insurer's policy regarding coverage of obstetric services. | 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 |
HB297 | Maryland Health Benefit Exchange - State-Based Young Adult Health Insurance Subsidies Pilot Program - Sunset Repeal | Renaming the State-Based Young Adult Health Insurance Subsidies Pilot Program to be the State-Based Young Adult Health Insurance Subsidies Program; repealing the termination date of certain provisions of law that establish and govern the funding for the Program; authorizing rather than requiring the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange to establish and implement the Program; and prohibiting the Exchange from implementing the Program if certain funds are not available. | 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
HB1473 | State Government - Equal Access to Public Services for Individuals With Limited English Proficiency and Individuals With Disabilities | Requiring the Governor's Office of Immigrant Affairs and the Department of Disabilities to convene the Maryland Language Advisory Group, by January 1, 2026, to make findings and recommendations on oversight, monitoring, investigation, and enforcement of certain provisions of law relating to equal access to public services for certain individuals; altering provisions of law relating to equal access to public services for individuals with limited English proficiency to include individuals with disabilities; etc. | 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 |
HB783 | Health Occupations - Implicit Bias and Structural Racism Training | Requiring applicants for renewal of certain licenses and certain certificates issued by certain health occupation boards to attest that the applicant completed an implicit bias and structural racism training program, rather than an implicit bias training program, approved by the Cultural and Linguistic Health Care Professional Competency Program; authorizing certain health occupations boards to adopt regulations allowing applicants renewing licenses to receive continuing education credits for completing certain training; etc. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
HB1045 | Health Insurance, Family Planning Services, and Confidentiality of Medical Records - Consumer Protections - Updates | Updating references to federal law related to family planning services, grandfathered plans, explanation of benefits, summaries of benefits and coverage, medical loss ratios, catastrophic plans, annual limits for cost sharing, prescription drugs, and rescissions; altering the definitions of "legally protected health care" and "sensitive health services" to include gender-affirming care for purposes of law governing the disclosure of information regarding sensitive health services; 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 |
HB1082 | Health Insurance - Individual Market Stabilization - Establishment of the State-Based Health Insurance Subsidies Program | Establishing the State-Based Health Insurance Subsidies Program to provide subsidies to individuals in the State to mitigate the impact of a reduction in certain federal advance premium tax credits for calendar years 2026 through 2028; and requiring the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange to implement the Program under certain circumstances. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
HB767 | Real Property - Landlord and Tenant - Procedures for Failure to Pay Rent, Breach of Lease, and Tenant Holding Over | Requiring a landlord to provide certain notice to a tenant when a court has issued a warrant of restitution for a failure of a tenant to pay rent, a breach of lease, or a tenant holding over under certain circumstances; establishing certain procedures and requirements for the execution of a warrant for repossession; establishing that the Act does not restrict the authority of the State or a local jurisdiction to enact or enforce certain legislation; applying the Act prospectively; etc. | 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 |
HB939 | Maryland Commission for Women - Maryland Collaborative to Advance Implementation of Coverage of Over-the-Counter Birth Control | Requiring the Maryland Commission for Women to establish the Maryland Collaborative to Advance Implementation of Coverage of Over-the-Counter Birth Control to study access to over-the-counter birth control; and requiring the Collaborative to submit an interim report by January 1, 2026, and a final report of its findings and recommendations to the Governor and General Assembly by December 1, 2027. | 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 |
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 |
HB672 | School Health and Wellness Personnel Assessment and Maryland Council on Advancement of School-Based Health Centers | Requiring the State Department of Education and the Maryland Department of Health jointly to conduct an assessment of school health and wellness personnel each year; altering the membership of the Maryland Council on Advancement of School-Based Health Centers; and requiring the Department and the State Department of Education to annually report to the General Assembly on the findings of the assessment beginning December 1, 2027, and publish the report on the website of each agency. | 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
HB541 | Department of Commerce - Nonprofit Organizations Navigator - Established | Establishing a nonprofit organizations navigator within the Department of Commerce to provide technical assistance and work with nonprofits and units of State government to resolve complexities and delays in State grant-making processes, collect and share certain information, and represent nonprofit organizations' interests and concerns as a member of the Maryland Efficient Grant Application Council; and requiring the Department to report to certain committees of the General Assembly on the implementation of the navigator. | 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 |
HB853 | Postconviction Review - Procedure to Reduce Duration of Sentence (Maryland Second Look Act) | Authorizing a certain individual to file a motion to reduce the duration of a certain sentence if the individual was convicted between the ages of at least 18 and under 25, was not sentenced to life, is not a sex offender, has served at least 20 years of the term of confinement, and was not convicted of murder involving a victim who was a first responder who was killed in the line of duty; applying procedures for a proceeding under the Act; etc. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
HB300 | State Government - Grants and Contracts - Reimbursement of Indirect Costs | Altering the rate at which nonprofit organizations receiving State-funded grants or contracts may be reimbursed for indirect costs to match the rate established under relevant federal guidelines; requiring the Maryland Efficient Grant Application Council to study and make certain recommendations to the Department of Budget and Management regarding the entire grants life cycle; requiring the Council to submit a report on its full recommendations to the Department and the General Assembly by July 1, 2027; etc. | 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 |
HB646 | Task Force on the Creation of a Division of Returning Citizens and Expanded Reentry Services - Extension of Report Deadline and Task Force | Extending the deadline for the reporting requirement for the Task Force on the Creation of a Division of Returning Citizens and Expanded Reentry Services to be October 31, 2026; and extending the termination date for the Task Force to be June 30, 2027. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
HB698 | Local Government - Development Impact Fees, Surcharges, and Excise Taxes - Reporting | Requiring county governments to make a certain report by July 1 each year to the Department of Planning on the amount, use, and location of the use of county development impact fees, surcharges, and excise taxes; and requiring county governments to make certain reports to the Department of Planning identifying certain local laws. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
HB601 | Economic Development - Small Business Guaranty Fund - Alterations | Authorizing the Maryland Small Business Development Financing Authority to authorize the provision of a guaranty under the Small Business Guaranty Fund in an irrevocable letter of credit, an official treasurer's check, funds on deposit in an escrow or other depository account, or any other legal instrument promising a financial institution restitution or reimbursement for its loan losses, within the limits of the guaranty. | 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 |
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 |
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 |
HB1246 | Health Benefit Plans - Calculation of Cost-Sharing Contribution - Requirements | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to include certain discounts, financial assistance payments, product vouchers, and other out-of-pocket expenses made by or on behalf of an insured or enrollee when calculating cost-sharing contributions for certain prescription drugs; requiring certain persons that provide financial assistance payments, discounts, product vouchers, or other out-of-pocket expenses to notify an insured or enrollee of certain information; etc. | Dead |
HB1468 | Cyber Maryland Program – Revisions | Transferring the Cyber Maryland Program from the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to the Maryland Department of Labor; altering the duties of the Program; requiring the Program to issue competitive grants and contracts to enhance cybersecurity workforce development, including cybersecurity for operational technology beginning in fiscal year 2026; requiring the Program in conjunction with other agencies to report on certain Program activities to the Governor and the General Assembly by December 1, 2026; etc. | Dead |
HB957 | State Procurement - Worker Residency Requirements | Requiring certain contractors to ensure that at least 35% of apprenticeship hours on certain projects are performed by State residents; requiring the Department of Labor to enforce certain residency requirements; providing that a contractor that fails to meet certain requirements is liable for an amount twice the number of apprentice hours at the apprentice rate by which the contractor failed to meet the applicable requirement; etc. | Dead |
HB1199 | Physicians - Licensing - Internationally Trained Physicians | Authorizing the State Board of Physicians, beginning October 1, 2027, to issue a license to practice medicine to an internationally trained physician under certain circumstances; requiring the Board to adopt regulations establishing minimum qualifications and application fees and to provide a pathway to full licensure; etc. | Dead |
HB1483 | Public Schools - High School Sports Officials - Payment and Fees | Requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association to develop by September 1, 2025, and periodically update, a list of similar high school sports that are categorized together; requiring a county board of education to ensure that certain high school sports officials for certain high school sports are provided equal pay; requiring a county board to conduct invitations for bids for high school sports officiating services in a certain manner; etc. | 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 |
HB905 | Hospitals - Clinical Staffing Committees and Plans - Establishment (Safe Staffing Act of 2025) | Requiring certain hospitals licensed in the State to establish and maintain a clinical staffing committee and to implement a clinical staffing plan; requiring each clinical staffing committee to develop a clinical staffing plan; requiring by July 1 each year, each hospital's clinical staffing committee to conduct a review of the clinical staffing plan for certain purposes; and requiring by January 1, 2027, each hospital to implement a clinical staffing plan and assign personnel in accordance with the plan. | Dead |
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 |
HB978 | Baltimore County - Speed Monitoring Systems - Interstate 695 and Interstate 83 | Authorizing the State Highway Administration to place and use not more than four speed monitoring systems on Interstate 695 and three systems on Interstate 83 in Baltimore County, subject to notice requirements; requiring that fines collected in Baltimore County as a result of violations enforced by speed monitoring systems on Interstate 695 and Interstate 83 be used to recover costs and assist in covering the cost of roadway and safety improvements on Interstate 695 and Interstate 83 in Baltimore County; etc. | Dead |
HB986 | Primary and Secondary Education - New Teachers - Retention Program | Requiring each county board of education to establish a new teacher retention program to provide support to new teachers to ensure that new teachers continue to be motivated and retain their passion to teach; requiring a county board to provide supplemental compensation to a public school employee who oversees a new teacher or serves as a mentor; and altering the content required to be included in certain teacher support and retention guidelines developed by the State Board of Education. | 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 |
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 |
HB1352 | Sickle Cell Disease - Institutions of Higher Education - Policies, Procedures, and Educational Campaigns | Prohibiting an institution of higher education from denying access or services to a student based on the student's diagnosis of sickle cell disease; requiring an institution of higher education to provide reasonable accommodations for students with sickle cell disease; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop an education and awareness campaign for institutions of higher education in the State regarding students with sickle cell disease; etc. | 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 |
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 |
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 |
HB1420 | Registers of Wills - Appointment of Personal Representatives - Noncitizens | Repealing the prohibition on a register of wills or court granting letters in administrative or judicial probate to certain individuals who are not citizens of the United States. | Dead |
HB1151 | Residential Real Property Sales – Appraisals | Providing that a seller or the seller's agent may provide certain information to an appraiser of residential real property at certain times and under certain circumstances; requiring an appraiser to provide a lender with certain information under certain circumstances and for the lender to provide notice of the information to a prospective buyer; requiring a buyer to work with a seller to provide certain information for an appraiser under certain circumstances; etc. | 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 |
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 |
HB1001 | State Designations - State Cocktail - Original Maryland Orange Crush | Designating the original Maryland orange crush as the State cocktail. | 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 |
HB1198 | Correctional Services - Comprehensive Rehabilitative Prerelease Services - Female Incarcerated Individuals (The Monica Cooper Prerelease Act) | Altering the required location and timeline for a certain prerelease facility for female incarcerated individuals; requiring the Commissioner of the Division of Correction to make certain services available to certain female incarcerated individuals; requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to implement certain comprehensive rehabilitative prerelease services by July 1, 2026; requiring the Department to report certain information to certain entities; etc. | Dead |
HB1341 | Health Insurance - Appeals and Adverse Decisions - Call Centers, Notification Requirements, and Required Survey | Requiring health insurance carriers to operate a 24-hour call center for appeals and adverse decisions, include certain information in a certain manner in the written notice of adverse decisions required to be sent to members, and conduct an annual survey on member experiences with the internal grievance process and submit the results of the survey to the Insurance Commissioner. | Dead |
HB592 | Prohibited Possession of Firearms - Assisted Outpatient Treatment Respondents | Prohibiting a person from possessing a regulated firearm, rifle, or shotgun if the person is currently a respondent subject to a court order to comply with certain assisted outpatient treatment; and requiring a court to promptly report certain information through a certain data portal if the court orders a person to comply with certain assisted outpatient treatment. | Dead |
HB1150 | Criminal Law - Personal Identifying Information and Images of Individuals - Dissemination | Prohibiting a person from intentionally disseminating the personal identifying information or image of an individual under the age of 25 years without express permission and with the intent to intimidate or harm the individual; and establishing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to imprisonment not exceeding 1 year or a fine not exceeding $5,000 or both. | Dead |
HB1129 | Constitutional Officers - Gender-Neutral Language | Altering terminology in the Maryland Constitution that refers to constitutional officers to be gender-neutral. | Dead |
HB1306 | Public Health - Sickle Cell Disease - Specialized Clinics and Scholarship Program for Medical Residents | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to establish certain specialized clinics for the management and treatment of sickle cell disease and establish a scholarship program for medical residents who specialize in benign or classical hematology with a focus on sickle cell disease; and requiring the Governor for fiscal year 2027 to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $6,000,000 to support clinic operations, staffing, training, and social support services. | 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 |
HB631 | Eminent Domain - Agricultural and Conservation Easements - Prohibited Taking | Prohibiting the State or any of its instrumentalities or political subdivisions from taking certain property that is subject to a perpetual agricultural or conservation easement. | 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 |
HB1084 | Correctional Services – Medication–Assisted Treatment Funding | Requiring the Maryland Secretary of Health to provide funding to counties for medication-assisted treatment programs; requiring counties that receive funding to submit a certain report; authorizing the Governor to appropriate certain funds in the annual budget bill; altering the requirements for a certain report; authorizing funds in the Opioid Restitution Fund to be used for medication-assisted treatment programs; etc. | Dead |
HB499 | Criminal Records - Expungement and Maryland Judiciary Case Search (Expungement Reform Act of 2025) | Altering certain provisions of law relating to waiting periods for the filing of certain petitions for expungement to authorize the filing of a petition a certain amount of time after the completion of the sentence; adding to the list of misdemeanor convictions that a person may expunge under certain circumstances; prohibiting the Maryland Judiciary Case Search from in any way referring to the existence of a charge of possession of cannabis if the conviction was later pardoned by the Governor; etc. | Dead |
HB868 | Estates and Trusts - Interpretation of Wills - Evidence of Intent (Granny's Law) | Authorizing, under certain circumstances, a personal representative to petition the orphans' court to interpret a decedent's will in accordance with the decedent's intent as demonstrated by certain extrinsic evidence; establishing a certain rebuttable presumption as to a decedent's intent; authorizing the personal representative to require a certain legatee to demonstrate the use of a legacy under the decedent's will; requiring the court to interpret a will in a certain manner if certain language is included in the will; etc. | 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 |
HB1476 | Labor and Employment - Disclosure of Employee's Immigration Status - Prohibition | Prohibiting an employer from disclosing or threatening to disclose an employee's immigration status to a public body for the purpose of concealing an employer's violation of certain labor, benefit, or tax laws; authorizing the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to investigate a violation of the Act on the Commissioner's own initiative or on receipt of a written complaint; and authorizing an alleged violator to request an administrative hearing. | Dead |
HB1431 | State and Local Agencies - Enforcement of Federal Immigration Law - Restrictions on Access to Information (Maryland Data Privacy Act) | Altering certain provisions of law to require a law enforcement agency or a unit of State or local government to deny access to certain databases by certain individuals seeking access for the purpose of enforcing federal immigration law, under certain circumstances; requiring the Attorney General to enforce certain provisions of the Act; and providing that a State employee who violates certain provisions of the Act is subject to certain discipline. | 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 |
HB923 | State Board of Education - Membership - Educational Support and Administrator Members | Altering the membership of the State Board of Education to include an educational support member who is actively working in a public school as a noncertificated, nonsupervisory public school employee and an administrator member that may be a principal, an assistant principal, or any other administrative level professional who is actively working in a public school; and providing for the qualifications, terms, powers, and elections of the new members. | 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 |
HB1422 | State Government - Maryland Reparations Commission | Establishing the Maryland Reparations Commission to study and make recommendations relating to appropriate benefits to be made to individuals whose ancestors were enslaved in the State or were impacted by certain inequitable government policies; and requiring the Commission to submit a preliminary report by January 1, 2027, and a final report of its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly by November 1, 2027. | Dead |
HB640 | Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity – Overhead Transmission Lines – Conservation Easements | Requiring the Public Service Commission to consider the impact of the development of overhead transmission lines on certain properties subject to an existing conservation easement in certain proceedings for a certificate of public convenience and necessity; and requiring the Commission to require an applicant for a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the development of overhead transmission lines to consider alternative routes for transmission lines affecting conservation easements or alter proposed routes. | 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 |
HB534 | Interstate Dental and Dental Hygiene Licensure Compact | Entering into the Interstate Dental and Dental Hygiene Licensure Compact; authorizing a dentist or dental hygienist to practice in a member state; establishing the Interstate Dental and Dental Hygiene Compact Licensure Commission to oversee the Compact and its powers and duties; and providing that the Act is contingent on enactment of substantially similar legislation in four other states. | Dead |
HB635 | Motor Vehicles - Secondary Enforcement and Admissibility of Evidence | Requiring a police officer to document all reasons for a traffic stop or other stop on a citation or police report resulting from the stop; establishing that certain evidence obtained during a traffic stop or other stop in violation of certain provisions may be or is inadmissible in certain proceedings; authorizing a police officer to enforce certain provisions of the Maryland Vehicle Law only as a secondary action; etc. | Dead |
HB629 | Civil Actions - Immunity - Disclosure of Allegations of Sexually Assaultive Behavior (Stop Silencing Survivors Act) | Establishing an immunity from liability for a person who discloses information about allegations of sexually assaultive behavior if the person acts in good faith; establishing a presumption of good faith unless it is shown by clear and convincing evidence that the person acted with actual malice or intentionally or recklessly disclosed false information; providing for the award of attorney's fees and costs in certain circumstances; etc. | Dead |
HB606 | Real Property - New Home Sales - Entry of Final Sale Price in Multiple Listing Service | Requiring a developer, builder, broker, or real estate agent to enter the final sale price of a new home into a multiple listing service or similarly accessible database. | Dead |
HB642 | Election Law - Registered Voter List and Petitions (Ballot Petition Modernization Act) | Requiring the State Board of Elections to adopt regulations for the secure storage and use of voter data from the list of registered voters and specifying procedures and requirements relating to electronic signatures; establishing and altering certain provisions governing the petition process, including provisions regarding the collection and invalidation of signatures, the use of electronic signatures, and attestations by petition circulators; etc. | Dead |
HB613 | Criminal Procedure - Protection of Identity of Victim of Sexual Assault | Prohibiting a court or a party in a criminal or juvenile delinquency case from disclosing or allowing inspection of a certain court filing unless the court or the party redacts identifying information relating to a victim of sexual assault that appears in the filing, subject to a certain exception; requiring a court to redact identifying information relating to a victim of sexual assault from an existing filing on a written request; requiring the Supreme Court of Maryland to adopt a certain rule regarding the redaction of certain information; etc. | Dead |
HB965 | Transportation - Locally Operated Transit System Grant Program - Equitable Distribution of Funds | Requiring, beginning in fiscal year 2027, the Department of Transportation to establish a method to determine funding under the Locally Operated Transit System Grant Program that will result in a fair and equitable distribution of Program funds for each county; requiring the Department to develop criteria for the distribution of Program funds; etc. | Dead |
HB341 | Property Tax Credit - Retail Service Station Conversions | Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county or municipal corporation to grant, by law, a credit against the county or municipal corporation property tax on real property if use of the real property has been converted from a retail service station to other certain uses; and requiring, as provided in the State budget, the State to pay to each county or municipal corporation that grants the property tax credit under the Act 50% of forgone revenue. | Dead |
HB474 | Public Health - Maryland Commission on Health Equity - Advisory Committee and Hospital Reporting | Requiring the Maryland Commission on Health Equity, in coordination with the Maryland Department of Health, to establish a health equity measures advisory committee to determine the 10 widest disparities in health care quality, access, or outcomes for vulnerable populations; and requiring the health equity advisory committee to review the health equity reports submitted annually to the Department by licensed State hospitals. | Dead |
Bill | Bill Name | Motion | Vote Date | Vote |
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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 |
Committee | Position | Rank | |
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Detail | Maryland House Health and Government Operations Committee | 22 |
State | District | Chamber | Party | Status | Start Date | End Date |
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MD | Maryland House District 10 | House | Democrat | In Office | 01/11/2023 |