Transportation Trust Fund - Revenue and Distribution (Maryland Mobility Act of 2025) [SB-1043]
Imposing a 1% transportation trust fund surcharge on certain sales or uses in the State; providing that a certain annual budget request for certain modal units may not exceed a certain amount; requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill certain appropriations for certain modal units of the Department of Transportation and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; altering the definition of "transportation facilities project" to include projects included in the Consolidated Transportation Program; etc.
SB-1043: Transportation Trust Fund - Revenue and Distribution (Maryland Mobility Act of 2025)
Sponsored by: Sen. Joanne Benson
First Reading Senate Rules on 03/03/2025
Sales and Use Tax - Taxable Business Services - Alterations [HB-1554]
Altering the definitions of "taxable price" and "taxable service" for the purposes of certain provisions of law governing the sales and use tax to impose the tax on certain labors and services if both the provider of the service and the buyer are business entities; and specifying the rate of the sales and use tax for certain labor and services.
HB-1554: Sales and Use Tax - Taxable Business Services - Alterations
Sponsored by: Rep. David Moon
Rereferred To Ways And Means on 03/06/2025
Sales and Use Tax - Taxable Business Services - Alterations [SB-1045]
Altering the definitions of "taxable price" and "taxable service" for the purposes of certain provisions of law governing the sales and use tax to impose the tax on certain labors and services if both the provider of the service and the buyer are business entities; and specifying the rate of the sales and use tax for certain labor and services.
SB-1045: Sales and Use Tax - Taxable Business Services - Alterations
Sponsored by: Sen. Shelly Hettleman
Rereferred To Budget And Taxation on 03/06/2025
Residential and Commercial Utility Taxes and Fees - Tax- and Fee-Free Period [HB-1536]
Providing that, for 60 days, certain State taxes and fees imposed on or paid by customers of certain residential and commercial electric and gas utilities for those utilities are suspended; and requiring the Comptroller and public service companies to issue refunds under certain circumstances.
HB-1536: Residential and Commercial Utility Taxes and Fees - Tax- and Fee-Free Period
Sponsored by: Rep. Robin Grammer
First Reading House Rules And Executive Nominations on 02/27/2025
Transportation - Regional Transportation Authorities [HB-1370]
Establishing the Baltimore region, capital region, and Southern Maryland region transportation authorities to develop and implement certain transportation plans; establishing the Baltimore region, capital region, and Southern Maryland region transportation funds as special, nonlapsing funds; imposing certain transportation authority sales tax surcharges, hotel surcharges, and transfer tax surcharges; etc.
Income, Sales and Use, and Property Taxes - Rescission of Exempt Status for Nonprofit Organizations for Supporting Terrorist Organizations [HB-1192]
Requiring, as practicable, the Comptroller and the Director of the State Department of Assessments and Taxation to jointly determine on a regular basis whether a certain nonprofit organization in the State has been found to be a certain terrorist-supporting organization; requiring that the Comptroller and the Director rescind a terrorist-supporting organization's tax-exempt status with respect to certain Maryland income tax, sales and use tax, and property tax exemptions; etc.
HB-1192: Income, Sales and Use, and Property Taxes - Rescission of Exempt Status for Nonprofit Organizations for Supporting Terrorist Organizations
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Buckel
Hearing 3/04 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/21/2025
You have voted HB-1192: Income, Sales and Use, and Property Taxes - Rescission of Exempt Status for Nonprofit Organizations for Supporting Terrorist Organizations.
Transportation - Regional Authorities - Established [SB-935]
Authorizing certain counties to impose certain transportation authority sales tax surcharges, hotel surcharges, and transfer tax surcharges; establishing the Baltimore region, Capital region, and Southern Maryland region transportation authorities to develop and implement certain transportation plans; establishing the Baltimore region, Capital region, and Southern Maryland region transportation funds as special, nonlapsing funds; requiring interest earnings of the funds to be credited to the funds; etc.
SB-935: Transportation - Regional Authorities - Established
Sponsored by: Sen. Joanne Benson
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. (budget And Taxation) on 02/05/2025
Data Centers - Fast Track Pass for Co-Location and Sales and Use Tax [SB-903]
Establishing an expedited certificate of public convenience and necessity review process for certain co-located energy generation projects that have received a fast track pass; establishing a Data Center Fast Track Advisory Committee in the Public Service Commission to facilitate the application for and review and awarding of fast track passes; altering the requirements for qualified data center personal property to be eligible to be exempt from the sales and use tax; etc.
SB-903: Data Centers - Fast Track Pass for Co-Location and Sales and Use Tax
Sponsored by: Sen. Katie Hester
Hearing Canceled (education, Energy, And The Environment) on 03/04/2025
Transportation - Regional Transportation Authorities [SB-881]
Establishing the Baltimore region, capital region, and Southern Maryland region transportation authorities to develop and implement certain transportation plans; establishing the Baltimore region, capital region, and Southern Maryland region transportation funds as special, nonlapsing funds; imposing certain transportation authority sales tax surcharges, hotel surcharges, and transfer tax surcharges; etc.
State Tax Credits, Exemptions, and Deductions - Alterations and Repeal [HB-919]
Altering the termination dates of the Job Creation Tax Credit, Opportunity Zone Enhancement Program, research and development tax credit, biotechnology investment incentive tax credit, security clearance administrative expense tax credit, and cybersecurity technology and service tax credit; providing for the termination of the One Maryland Economic Development Tax Credit Program on a certain date; altering eligibility for a certain tax credit for certain qualified vehicles; etc.
HB-919: State Tax Credits, Exemptions, and Deductions - Alterations and Repeal
Sponsored by: Rep. Julie Palakovich Carr
Hearing Canceled on 02/13/2025
Consumer and Display Fireworks - Regulation and Tax [HB-1002]
Authorizing the sale and possession of certain consumer fireworks, subject to certain requirements and restrictions; altering certain provisions to establish that certain provisions authorizing the State Fire Marshal to issue a certain permit relating to fireworks apply only to certain display fireworks; authorizing a county to opt out of certain provisions regulating the sale and possession of consumer fireworks; establishing a certain sales and use tax for certain fireworks; etc.
HB-1002: Consumer and Display Fireworks - Regulation and Tax
Sponsored by: Rep. Kevin Hornberger
Hearing 2/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/06/2025
Transportation Access and Revenue Act [HB-846]
Altering the definitions of "taxable price" and "taxable service" for the purposes of certain provisions of law governing the sales and use tax to impose the tax on certain transportation-related services; requiring the Comptroller to distribute revenue attributable to the sales and use tax on certain transportation-related services to the Transportation Trust Fund; and providing that revenue the Comptroller distributes may not be credited to the Gasoline and Motor Vehicle Revenue Account in the Transportation Trust Fund.
HB-846: Transportation Access and Revenue Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Marvin Holmes
Hearing 2/18 At 1:00 P.m. (ways And Means) on 02/04/2025
Sales and Use Tax - Tax-Free Day - Veterans' Day [SB-528]
Establishing November 11 as a tax-free day each year during which an exemption from the sales and use tax is provided for sales to certain veterans; requiring an individual, in order to qualify for the exemption, to provide the vendor evidence of eligibility for the exemption; and providing that evidence of eligibility may consist of a valid driver's license or government-issued identification card that includes a notation indicating that the individual is a veteran.
SB-528: Sales and Use Tax - Tax-Free Day - Veterans' Day
Sponsored by: Sen. Mary Carozza
Hearing Canceled on 02/07/2025
Tax Relief and State Personnel Equality for Service Members Act [HB-691]
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 personnel and taxation to apply to all uniformed services, rather than only the armed forces.
HB-691: Tax Relief and State Personnel Equality for Service Members Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Buckel
Third Reading Passed (138-0) on 03/17/2025