State legislature
Official Maryland bill text, status, plain English summaries, and amendment notes tied back to the General Assembly's own records.
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2026
This law stops investor-owned electric and gas companies from charging customers through rates for certain high costs, including supervisor pay above a specific limit and most employee bonuses.
This law raises the amount of retirement income that public safety workers can exclude from their Maryland state taxes to $20,000.
This law exempts spouses and financially dependent children of state or local public safety employees who die in the line of duty from paying out-of-state or out-of-county tuition at Maryland public colleges.
This law changes the rule so a car must be at least 25 years old to register as historic and requires officials to restore registration status lost due to previous year's rules.
This law creates a program that gives tax credits to investors who put money into businesses located in low-income communities.
This law requires Maryland public colleges to collect data about students who are parents or pregnant, create support plans for them, and report the findings to state lawmakers.
This law allows a state board to issue temporary licenses to people who have met most requirements but still need to pass an exam, as long as they work under the supervision of a fully licensed music therapist.
Establishing the Dangerous Driver Abatement Program; establishing the purpose of the Program is to reduce motor vehicle-related deaths by requiring repeat offenders to complete a driver accountability and safety course or be subject to sanctions; requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to administer the Program and provide a certain notice to repeat offenders; requiring a repeat offender to successfully complete a certain course within 90 days after receiving the notice; etc.
This law creates a new board to oversee the expansion of nonemergency government information systems using artificial intelligence in Maryland, starting with four pilot counties before expanding statewide.
This law sets new rules that digital publications must follow to publish legal notices, including hiring local news staff and keeping public archives.
This law allows the Anne Arundel County Sheriff to appoint three majors who serve at the Sheriff's pleasure and earn a salary set by the County Council.
This law adds specific crimes that require a juvenile to be on the sex offender registry and allows local school superintendents or their representatives to view this list.
This law creates a temporary tax credit to help retired Maryland 9-1-1 specialists pay less state income tax on their retirement money.
This law changes how schools collect data on bullying by requiring forms to note if personal characteristics motivated the act, asking county boards to report specific trends about student groups, and setting rules for sharing summary information.
This bill changes Maryland law to treat certain documents from nonprofits that receive $50,000 or more annually in specific state or local funding as public records.
This law changes how many commissioners serve on the board, creates a panel to recommend new members for initial terms, limits temporary hearing examiners to 90 days, and requires a majority vote of all appointed commissioners to grant parole in certain cases.
This law changes the rules for deciding which Maryland county handles estate cases when a person who did not live in Maryland dies, defines where intangible property is located for tax purposes, and removes an exemption from inheritance taxes for non-residents.
This law sets the lowest amount ride-app companies must pay drivers for trips starting in Maryland beginning July 1, 2026.
Establishing the Maryland Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program to assist in the repayment of higher education loans owed by State employees in order to attract, recruit, and retain these employees; requiring the Office of Student Financial Assistance within the Maryland Higher Education Commission to administer the Program; and requiring the Office to report to the General Assembly on or before January 1 of each year on the implementation of the Program and any effects the Program has on State employee recruitment or retention.
This law reestablishes a permit in Baltimore City that allows promoters to host events selling alcohol during the annual Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) basketball tournament.
This law requires vloggers to pay children into a trust account if they earn money from videos featuring those minors and allows adults who were featured as children to request that platforms delete the content.
This law requires state prison officials to check for specific identification documents upon intake, keep them safe until release, and help eligible incarcerated individuals obtain or renew these documents before they leave.
This law stops the Motor Vehicle Administration from requiring parents to be present when minors aged 15 or older apply for an identification card and lists new documents these teens can use to prove where they live.
This law lets county school boards in Maryland use chaplains as volunteer helpers to provide support services to students.
This law changes the rules for when courts can or must give grandparents visitation rights to their grandchildren.
This law allows county school boards to create rules letting students attend public schools in a different county for free if space is available.
This law requires the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to create a program that gives grants and loans for research, product development, and manufacturing related to treating Long COVID.
This law allows the Secretary of Higher Education to let certain private career schools advertise and collect contact information before they get official approval, as long as they follow strict rules about what they share.
This law allows school districts to set income rules for charging fees for some college prep programs, guarantees free access for low-income students in those specific programs, extends the timeline for limiting dual enrollment caps until 2030, updates how career education committees work, and requires state agencies to use a list of occupations.
This law adds rules for towing light-duty vehicles, defines weight limits for different types of towing, updates the duties of a committee that recommends prices, and bans per-pound billing.
This law allows a police officer denied a right under the subtitle to ask a circuit court for an order requiring their agency to explain why that right should not be granted.
This law requires all local law enforcement vehicles to carry an automated external defibrillator and mandates that agencies keep these devices working starting October 1, 2026.
Excluding certain charitable contributions from a limitation on the amount of itemized deductions allowed for certain individuals under the Maryland income tax; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2025.
This law requires Maryland municipalities to list and prioritize open drainage inlets by April 1, 2028, install approved grating systems on them, and provides $250,000 annually from fiscal years 2029 through 2031 for matching grants.
This law allows local governments in Maryland to make rules about specific invasive trees and create programs that reward people for removing them.
This bill changes words in Maryland state law to use 'member of the clergy' instead of 'clergyman' and 'faith institution' or 'place of worship' instead of 'church'.
This law stops employers from firing or punishing employees who are members of the Maryland General Assembly because they miss work to do their legislative duties.
This law changes how insurance agents who also start mortgage loans get licensed and requires their sponsoring companies to meet specific rules before the state approves them.
This bill allows eligible customers in Maryland to use portable solar systems under net energy metering programs.
This law updates the definition of special power lines to include advanced technologies, requires companies building new high-voltage overhead lines to provide specific details in their applications, and asks the Public Service Commission to review certain evidence before approving these projects.
Requiring certain members of the Baltimore County Board of Education to be elected from certain districts in certain elections; and requiring the chair of the Baltimore County delegation to the General Assembly to introduce legislation to reapportion certain school board districts in a certain manner after each decennial census of the United States.
This law sets a deadline for registered massage practitioners to become fully licensed, updates education requirements for new applicants including out-of-state graduates, removes hearing rules for certain address update fines, and stops the issuance of new registrations.
This law sets a goal for state government units to spend at least half of their print and digital advertising budget directly with qualified local news organizations.
This law changes how petition signature pages and ballots are written to use simple, clear language without legal jargon or confusing sentence structures.
This law stops employers from punishing workers or job applicants who refuse to attend meetings where the employer shares opinions about religion or politics.
This law creates a test program to use technology that stops online sports betting on college campuses in Maryland.
This law creates a new independent group to find state or local government property with names related to the Confederacy, recommend changes to those names, and report its findings by October 1, 2033.
This bill stops courts from skipping family reunification services just because a parent lost rights to another child.
This law requires abortions to be performed by licensed physicians, mandates testing for a fetal heartbeat before the procedure with specific record-keeping rules, bans the procedure if a heartbeat is found (with exceptions), repeals previous state laws on abortion interference, and allows private citizens to sue violators.
This bill proposes a change to the Maryland Constitution requiring special elections, held alongside regular statewide primaries and general elections in even-numbered years, to fill vacancies for Delegates or Senators if those seats become empty early enough.
This law creates a special state fund to hold money seized from illegal gambling and allows the State Treasurer to invest that money in cryptocurrency.
This law requires the State Board of Elections to create a toll-free hotline for incarcerated people and changes rules so that some individuals convicted of felonies can register while serving their sentences.
This law shortens the time non-residents can travel through Maryland with prohibited wild animals from ten days to forty-eight hours and removes an exception that allowed people with severe mobility disabilities to keep certain trained animals.
This law creates a task force to study options for changing how electric utilities work in Maryland, compare costs with other states, and report its findings by November 1, 2027.
This law updates rules to allow speed monitoring systems on specific roads inside residential districts and other designated areas across Maryland.
This bill requires each legislative district to contain three single-member delegate districts and creates a Redistricting Convention elected by voters to draw new maps.
This law creates a program in public high schools to recognize students who show civic readiness and engagement by completing a special project.
This law requires Maryland counties applying for state transportation funds to plan and list specific shared bus routes that connect different health care systems across county lines.
This law creates faster court timelines and specific notice rules when a landlord tries to remove someone from a property that is currently listed for sale or lease.
This law stops colleges from denying access to students with sickle cell disease, requires them to provide reasonable accommodations and reporting procedures, and directs the state health department to create education campaigns and support frameworks.