Rep. Teresa Woorman
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Environment - Water Bottle Filling Stations - Requirement [HB-277]
Requiring a water bottle filling station or a combined water bottle filling station and drinking fountain to be installed in certain new construction or as part of certain renovations beginning October 1, 2025, subject to certain exceptions; requiring the Maryland Department of Labor to adopt regulations to carry out the provisions of the Act; and applying the Act prospectively.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Stein
Referred Education, Energy, And The Environment on 02/21/2025
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Labor and Employment - Mandatory Meetings on Religious or Political Matters - Employee Attendance and Participation (Maryland Worker Freedom Act) [HB-233]
Prohibiting employers from taking certain adverse actions against an employee or applicant for employment because the employee or applicant declines to attend or participate in employer-sponsored meetings during which the employer communicates the opinion of the employer regarding religious matters or political matters.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joseline Pena-Melnyk
Referred Finance on 02/26/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
State Personnel - Collective Bargaining - Graduate Assistants [HB-211]
Providing collective bargaining rights to certain graduate assistants at a system institution, Morgan State University, or St Mary's College of Maryland; defining "graduate assistant" as a graduate student at a system institution, Morgan State University, or St. Mary's College of Maryland who is a teaching, administrative, or research assistant, or in a comparable position, a fellow, or a postdoctoral intern; and establishing a separate collective bargaining unit for the graduate assistants.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Healey
Referred Finance on 02/07/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Workgroup on Newborn Nurse Home Visiting Services - Establishment [HB-334]
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.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Kaiser
Referred Finance on 03/07/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
General Provisions - Commemorative Month - Maryland Native Plant Month [HB-368]
Requiring the Governor to annually proclaim May as Maryland Native Plant Month in recognition of the benefits that native plants have on Maryland's natural environment; and requiring the proclamation to urge educational and environmental organizations and businesses to observe Maryland Native Plant Month properly.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Stein
Hearing Canceled on 03/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Pesticides - PFAS Chemicals - Prohibitions [HB-386]
Requiring, by January 1, 2026, the Department of Agriculture to develop and maintain a list of certain registered pesticides that list PFAS chemicals as an active ingredient on the labeling accompanying the pesticide; prohibiting, beginning June 1, 2026, a person from using, for certain purposes, PFAS pesticides listed by the Department; prohibiting, beginning June 1, 2028, a person from using PFAS pesticides in the State; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Kaiser
Third Reading Passed (140-0) on 03/14/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Natural Gas - Strategic Infrastructure Development and Enhancement (Ratepayer Protection Act) [HB-419]
Altering the required contents of a certain plan that a gas company may file with the Public Service Commission for proposed eligible infrastructure replacement projects to include certain descriptions, demonstrations, analyses, and notifications; and altering the required findings of the Commission in considering whether to approve a certain infrastructure replacement plan.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robbyn Lewis
Hearing 3/11 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Comprehensive Community Safety Funding Act [HB-387]
Imposing an excise tax on certain gross receipts of certain firearms dealers derived from the sales of firearms in the State and sales of firearms to residents of the State; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jheanelle Wilkins
Hearing 2/13 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/31/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Disability Service Animal Program - Established [HB-384]
Establishing the Maryland Disability Service Animal Program in the Department of Disabilities to refer eligible individuals to certain training entities, provide additional funding mechanisms to assist eligible individuals, and encourage participants to reach out to other individuals who could benefit from the Program; requiring the Department to select a nonprofit training entity for participation in the Program; and establishing the Maryland Disability Service Animal Program Fund to pay a participating nonprofit training entity.
Sponsored by: Rep. Edith Patterson
Hearing 1/29 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/22/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Natural Resources - Roadside Tree Removal Permit Notification Act [HB-362]
Requiring an applicant for a roadside tree removal permit to provide notice of the application to all owners of property abutting and adjacent to the property subject to the application and the governing body of any common ownership community that has control over the land on which the tree subject to the application is located by certified mail, return receipt requested.
Sponsored by: Rep. Marc Korman
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/03/2025