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Gun Violence and the 2024 Session
Gun Safe Schools
UULM-MD created a curriculum in 2023 for Gun Safe Schools — “gun safes save lives”. Four million children in USA live in homes with easy access to guns. Unsecured guns are used in mass shootings in schools, accidental shootings, and suicides. In 2023, Maryland general assembly passed Jaelyn’s law to require that gun owners store their firearms in gun safes.
PASSED - HB 416/SB 432 - In 2024, UULM-MD supports the Trauma-Informed Active Shooter Safety Drill legislation. It will require schools to notify parents of Jaelyn’s law for gun safes and will standardize Active Shooter (Lockdown) Drills and ensure that they are utilizing trauma-informed practices. To this end, it requires practices that are trauma-informed (no loud noises, no fake blood, no actors with fake weapons) and requires that schools provide advance notification to families so gun violence survivors can be so informed.
UULM-MD hosted a UU Youth LEGICON on this legislation on January 15, 2024. Teens actively discussed the issues and voiced their concerns, and we created brave space for sharing of personal experiences. They practiced writing their stories into testimony for this legislation. They made rally posters, met the bill sponsor, and took a tour of the legislative buildings.
The Gun Safe Schools curriculum also includes two sessions for adults to BE SMART. Adults can learn about gun safes and discuss being responsible gun owners. Parents can review questions to ask when arranging playdates for their children: “do you own a gun?” Congregations can host a BE SMART meeting with local schools, or interfaith partners.
We are also hoping to present the “Gun Safe Schools” curriculum to members of the Maryland General Assembly.
This effort is supported by a grant from the Fund for Unitarian Universalist Social Responsibility.
Other Priorities for Gun Violence Prevention - We are with coalition partners to support our state priorities. State leaders are still discussing their priorities. We will update this issue area as we get more definitive set of priorities.
PASSED - SB 488 /HB 947 - Gun Industry Accountability - Currently, the gun industry has blanket immunity from liability for injuries from firearms through the federal Protect Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA). Meanwhile, we regulate cars, tobacco, baby seats, and other items of daily use. The proposed bill would hold firearm makers liable through civil suits in Maryland. If passed, it would give survivors and families of victims a way to hold the gun industry liable for their injury(ies) through nuisance laws. For more information, this video has discussion with bill sponsor on Gun Industry Accountability - http://tinyurl.com/ymorwkf5
SB 784 /HB 935 - Comprehensive Community Safety Funding Act - This bill would direct some funds from the purchase of guns or ammunition to funds that aid victims of gun violence. Communities are devastated by mass shootings and individuals endure continuing trauma and need various forms of assistance. Society needs to provide care and assistance to victims harmed by gun violence.
PASSED - HB 583/SB 475 - Maryland Center for Firearm Violence Prevention - This is Governor Wes Moore’s initiative and will create a center to oversee the enforcement of gun legislation. The center can coordinate law enforcement across multiple agencies to ensure enforcement adheres to the intent of the regulations.
SB 752 /HB 794 - Do Not Sell List - This measure would require the Department of State Police to create and maintain a Maryland Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearm Registry in which a person may voluntarily enroll for the purpose of being prohibited from obtaining a firearm. It would also prohibit a dealer or other person from selling, renting, loaning, or transferring a firearm to a purchaser, lessee, borrower, or transferee who the dealer or other person knows or has reason to believe is registered on the registry.
OPPORTUNITIES to get involved
The GVP Issue Lead welcomes individuals to join the GVP team. Individuals can follow one of
the priority issues in order to monitor: (a) committee hearings, (b) monitor monitor amendments proposed to chang the initial text of a bill, and (c) UULM-MD communications and discussions on the issue.
The GVP welcomes support for outreach to interfaith partners. We are more successful when
we have common purpose with other partners.
For more information, please contact Gun Violence Prevention Lead at gunviolence@uulmmd.org.
Subject | Bill Number | XFile Bill Number | Sponsor | Title | Status | Current Location | Priority | Position | Action | Synopsis |
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1st Degree Assault with Handgun | HB0439 | SB0351 | Delegate Taylor | Criminal Law - First-Degree Assault - Assault With a Firearm | Unfavorable Report by Judiciary; Withdrawn | Adding a certain intent requirement to the elements of the crime of first degree assault, with regard to committing an assault with a firearm. | ||||
1st Degree Assault with Handgun | SB0351 | HB0439 | Senator Watson | Criminal Law - First-Degree Assault - Assault With a Firearm | Failed-no vote in original committee | Judicial Proceedings | Adding a certain intent requirement to the elements of the crime of first degree assault, with regard to committing an assault with a firearm. | |||
Active Shooter Drills | HB0416 | SB0432 | Delegate Solomon | Public Schools - Active Shooter Safety Drills or Trainings - Requirements | Passed Enrolled | Governor | X | Support | Requiring the Maryland Center for School Safety to collaborate with an institution of higher education or a designated federal or national research entity to study the effectiveness and impact of active shooter safety drills or trainings by researching and analyzing data collected by local school systems; requiring the Center to identify best practices for active shooter safety drills or trainings on or before October 1, 2024; requiring local school systems to provide parents with the annual schedule of active shooter safety drills; etc. | |
Active Shooter Drills | SB0432 | HB0416 | Senator Kagan | Public Schools - Active Shooter Safety Drills or Trainings - Requirements | Failed-not assigned to opposite standing committee | Rules and Executive Nominations | X | Support | Requiring the Maryland Center for School Safety to collaborate with an institution of higher education or a designated federal or national research entity to study the effectiveness and impact of active shooter safety drills or trainings by researching and analyzing data collected by local school systems; requiring the Center to identify best practices for active shooter safety drills or trainings on or before October 1, 2024; requiring local school systems to provide parents with the annual active shooter safety drill schedule; etc. | |
Balto. City School Resource Officers | SB0819 | Senator Jennings | Public Schools - School Resource Officers - Firearms Required | Failed-no vote in original committee | Education, Energy, and the Environment | Oppose | Requiring a Baltimore City school police officer and a school resource officer to carry a firearm while present on the premises of the school to which the officer is assigned. | |||
Business No-Firearm sign requirments | HB1301 | Delegate Baker | Wearing, Carrying, or Transporting Firearms – Business Sign Posting Requirements | Unfavorable Report by Judiciary; Withdrawn | Requiring a business that does not want firearms on the business's property to post a clear and conspicuous sign at the main or any secondary entrance of the business at least 24 inches from the edge of the entryway and 4 feet off the ground. | |||||
Center for Firearm Violence Prevention | HB0583 | SB0475 | Speaker | Center for Firearm Violence Prevention and Intervention - Establishment | Passed Enrolled | Governor | X | Support | Establishing the Center for Firearm Violence Prevention and Intervention in the Maryland Department of Health to reduce firearm violence, harm from firearm violence, and misuse of firearms in the State by partnering with federal, State, and local agencies and affected communities to implement a public health approach to firearm violence reduction; requiring the Center by May 1, 2025, to submit to the Governor and General Assembly a preliminary State Plan for a Public Health Approach to Reducing Firearm Violence; etc. | |
Center for Firearm Violence Prevention | SB0475 | HB0583 | President | Center for Firearm Violence Prevention and Intervention - Establishment | Passed Enrolled | Governor | X | Support | Establishing the Center for Firearm Violence Prevention in the Maryland Department of Health to reduce firearm violence, harm from firearm violence, and misuse of firearms in the State by partnering with federal, State, and local agencies and affected communities to implement a public health approach to firearm violence reduction; requiring the Center, by May 1, 2025, to submit to the Governor and the General Assembly a preliminary State Plan for a Public Health Approach to Reducing Firearm Violence; etc. | |
Crime of violence-include firearm off. | HB0422 | Delegate Attar | Criminal Law – Crime of Violence – Definition | Failed-no vote in original committee | Judiciary | Adding certain crimes relating to possession of a regulated firearm and possession of a rifle or shotgun to a certain definition of 'crime of violence'. | ||||
Crimes using machine gun | HB0421 | Delegate Attar | Criminal Law - Use or Possession of a Machine Gun in the Commission or Attempted Commission of a Felony | Failed-no vote in original committee | Judiciary | Providing that a person may not use or possess a machine gun in the commission or attempted commission of a felony. | ||||
Crimes with Guns-Increased Penalties | HB0041 | Delegate Mangione | Crimes – Firearms – Penalties and Procedures (Violent Firearms Offender Act of 2024) | Unfavorable Report by Judiciary; Withdrawn | Oppose | Establishing, altering, and clarifying penalties for and elements of certain firearm-related crimes; prohibiting a District Court commissioner from authorizing the pretrial release of a certain defendant charged with a certain firearm-related crime under certain circumstances; etc. | ||||
Crimes with Guns-Increased Penalties | HB0316 | SB0028 | Delegate Valentine | Crimes and Corrections - Penalties and Procedures (Violent Firearms Offender Act of 2024) | Failed-no vote in original committee | Judiciary | Oppose | Establishing that a violation of a condition of probation, parole, or mandatory supervision that involves the use or possession of a firearm is not a technical violation for certain purposes; requiring the Commissioner of Correction to provide a certain inmate with a certain reentry kit and assistance in obtaining Medicaid benefits under certain circumstances; altering the elements of certain prohibitions against using a certain firearm in the commission of a certain crime; etc. | ||
Crimes with Guns-Increased Penalties | SB0028 | HB0316 | Senator Folden | Crimes and Corrections - Penalties and Procedures (Violent Firearms Offender Act of 2024) | Failed-no vote in original committee | Judicial Proceedings | Oppose | Establishing that a violation of a condition of probation, parole, or mandatory supervision that involves the use or possession of a firearm is not a technical violation for certain purposes; requiring the Commissioner of Correction to provide a certain inmate with a certain reentry kit and assistance in obtaining Medicaid benefits under certain circumstances; altering the elements of certain prohibitions against using a certain firearm in the commission of a certain crime; etc. | ||
Crimes with Guns-Increased Penalties | SB0179 | Senator Watson | Crimes and Corrections - Penalties and Procedures (Violent Firearms Offender Act of 2024) | Failed-no vote in original committee | Judicial Proceedings | Oppose | Establishing that a violation of a condition of probation, parole, or mandatory supervision that involves the use or possession of a firearm is not a technical violation for certain purposes; requiring the Commissioner of Correction to provide a certain inmate with a certain reentry kit and assistance in obtaining Medicaid benefits under certain circumstances; altering the elements of certain prohibitions against using a certain firearm in the commission of a certain crime; etc. | |||
Extreme Risk Protective Orders | HB1267 | SB0905 | Delegate Lewis, R. | Public Safety - Extreme Risk Protective Orders - Review of Court Records | Failed-no vote in opposite committee | Judicial Proceedings | Authorizing researchers affiliated with institutions of higher education who are conducting academic or policy research to review a court record related to a petition for an extreme risk protective order. | |||
Extreme Risk Protective Orders | SB0905 | HB1267 | Senator Kelly | Public Safety – Extreme Risk Protective Orders – Review of Court Records | Passed Enrolled | Governor | Authorizing researchers affiliated with certain institutions of higher education who are conducting academic or policy research to review a court record related to a petition for an extreme risk protective order; requiring the Maryland Judiciary to require an institution of higher education that has researchers reviewing certain court records to enter into an agreement that provides for the storage and handling of the records; and establishing certain penalties. | |||
Firearm Background Checks | HB0869 | SB0753 | Delegate Bartlett | Public Safety – Firearm Background Checks, Victim Notification, and the Maryland State Police Gun Center | Failed-no vote in original committee | Judiciary | Requiring a law enforcement agency that receives a certain report of a prohibited person failing a background check to notify certain victims; requiring the Secretary of State Police to notify the Maryland State Police Gun Center of certain information if the Secretary disapproves a firearm application because a prospective purchaser, lessee, or transferee failed a background check; etc. | |||
Firearm Background Checks | SB0753 | HB0869 | Senator Hettleman | Public Safety - Firearm Background Checks, Victim Notification, and the Maryland State Police Gun Center | Failed-no vote in original committee | Judicial Proceedings | Requiring a law enforcement agency that receives a report of a prohibited person failing a background check to immediately notify certain victims; requiring the Secretary of State Police to notify the Maryland State Police Gun Center of certain information if the Secretary disapproves a firearm application because a prospective purchaser, lessee, or transferee failed a background check; etc. | |||
Gun Buy-Backs | SB1097 | Senator Smith | Public Safety - Firearm Safety and Firearm Crimes | Failed-no vote in opposite chamber | House Floor | Exempting an employee of the Department of Natural Resources in the course of performing official duties from certain prohibitions against knowingly wearing, carrying, or transporting a firearm in certain locations; requiring a person or entity operating a gun buyback program to destroy a firearm, including all components and parts attached to the firearm, that is surrendered at a certain gun buyback program; classifying the theft of a firearm or the trafficking of a regulated firearm as a felony; etc. | ||||
Gun Industry Accountability | HB0947 | SB0488 | Delegate Phillips | Civil Actions - Public Nuisances - Firearm Industry Members (Gun Industry Accountability Act of 2024) | Returned Passed | Governor | X | Support | Prohibiting firearm industry members from knowingly creating, maintaining, or contributing to a public nuisance through the sale, manufacture, distribution, importation, or marketing of a firearm-related product under certain circumstances; requiring a firearm industry member to establish and implement certain reasonable controls regarding the sale, manufacture, distribution, importation, marketing, possession, and use of certain firearm-related products; authorizing certain civil actions for violations of the Act; etc. | |
Gun Industry Accountability | SB0488 | HB0947 | Senator Waldstreicher | Civil Actions - Public Nuisances - Firearm Industry Members (Gun Industry Accountability Act of 2024) | Failed-no final vote in opposite chamber | House Floor | X | Support | Prohibiting firearm industry members from knowingly creating, maintaining, or contributing to harm to the public through the sale, manufacture, distribution, importation, or marketing of a firearm-related product under certain circumstances; requiring a firearm industry member to establish and implement certain reasonable controls regarding the sale, manufacture, distribution, importation, marketing, possession, or use of certain firearm-related products; authorizing certain civil actions for violations of the Act; etc. | |
Gun Theft = Felony | HB0304 | SB0039 | Delegate Munoz | Gun Theft Felony Act of 2024 | Failed-no vote in original committee | Judiciary | Classifying the theft of a firearm as a felony; and establishing a penalty for theft of a firearm of imprisonment not exceeding 5 years or a fine not exceeding $1,000 for a first offense, and imprisonment not exceeding 10 years or a fine not exceeding $2,500 for a second or subsequent offense. | |||
Gun Theft = Felony | SB0039 | HB0304 | Senator Ready | Gun Theft Felony Act of 2024 | Failed-no vote in original committee | Judicial Proceedings | Classifying the theft of a firearm as a felony; and establishing a penalty for theft of a firearm of imprisonment not exceeding 5 years or a fine not exceeding $1,000 for a first offense, and imprisonment not exceeding 10 years or a fine not exceeding $2,500 for a second or subsequent offense. | |||
Handgun Permits-accidental discharges | HB0546 | SB0324 | Delegate Williams | Handgun Permits - Accidental Discharge and Training Requirements - Maryland State Police Gun Center (Firearm Safety Act of 2024) | Failed-no vote in original committee | Judiciary | Requiring a person who holds a handgun permit and accidentally discharges a firearm to register within 90 days for a certain firearms safety training course and complete the course within 6 months of the incident; requiring the Secretary of State Police to revoke a handgun permit of a certain person who fails to successfully complete a certain firearms safety training course; requiring the Secretary to provide certain written notice to a person whose handgun permit is revoked; etc. | |||
Handgun Permits-accidental discharges | SB0324 | HB0546 | Senator McCray | Handgun Permits - Accidental Discharge and Training Requirements - Maryland State Police Gun Center (Firearm Safety Act of 2024) | Failed-no vote in original committee | Judicial Proceedings | Requiring a person who holds a handgun permit and accidentally discharges a firearm to register within 90 days for a certain firearms safety training course and complete the course within 6 months of the incident; requiring the Secretary of State Police to revoke a handgun permit of a certain person who fails to successfully complete a certain firearms safety training course; requiring the Secretary to provide certain written notice to a person whose handgun permit is revoked; etc. | |||
Handgun Wear/Carry Penalties | HB0684 | Delegate Grammer | Criminal Law - Prohibitions on Wearing, Carrying, or Transporting a Handgun - Penalties | Failed-no vote in original committee | Judiciary | Establishing a certain intent element for wearing, carrying, or transporting a handgun in certain prohibited places; repealing a certain rebuttable presumption that a person transporting a handgun under certain circumstances transports the handgun knowingly; and altering certain penalty provisions related to wearing, carrying, or transporting a handgun in certain prohibited places. | ||||
Increased taxes on firearms & ammunition | HB0935 | SB0784 | Delegate Mireku-North | Comprehensive Community Safety Funding Act | Failed-no vote in original committee | Ways and Means | X | Support | Imposing an excise tax on certain gross receipts of certain firearms dealers derived from the sales of firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition in the State; etc. | |
Increased taxes on firearms & ammunition | SB0784 | HB0935 | Senator Elfreth | Comprehensive Community Safety Funding Act | Failed-no vote in opposite committee | Ways and Means | X | Support | Altering the sales and use tax rate imposed on firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition from 6% to 11%; and providing that the sales and use tax does not apply to the sale of certain firearm accessories and ammunition. | |
Insurance for carrying | HB0430 | Delegate Hill | Firearms - Liability Insurance - Public Wearing and Carrying | Failed-no vote in original committee | Judiciary | Altering the circumstances under which a person is disqualified from possessing a regulated firearm, a rifle, and a shotgun; prohibiting a person from wearing or carrying a firearm under certain circumstances unless the person has obtained certain liability insurance related to wearing and carrying a firearm up to $300,000; providing for the form and issuance of a citation for a violation of the Act; etc. | ||||
Juvenile firearm offences-data reporting | SB0073 | Senator Watson | Department of Juvenile Services - Firearm Offenses - Reporting | Failed-no vote in original committee | Judicial Proceedings | Requiring the Department of Juvenile Services to report to the General Assembly, by January 1 each year, on the number of assessments completed during the intake process involving children who commit firearm offenses. | ||||
Open carry while bow hunting | HB1480 | SB0611 | Frederick County Delegation | Frederick and Washington Counties - Bow Hunting - Openly Carrying Handguns | Failed-no vote in original committee | Environment and Transportation | Prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from prohibiting certain licensed bow hunters from openly carrying a handgun under certain circumstances in Frederick County and Washington County during deer hunting season. | |||
Open carry while bow hunting | SB0611 | HB1480 | Senator Folden | Frederick and Washington Counties – Bow Hunting – Openly Carrying Handguns | Failed-no vote in original committee | Education, Energy, and the Environment | Prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from prohibiting certain licensed bow hunters from openly carrying a handgun under certain circumstances in Frederick County and Washington County during deer hunting season. | |||
Permit Renewal for retired police | HB0329 | SB0102 | Delegate Grammer | Public Safety - Handgun Permits - Expiration and Renewal Periods for Retired Law Enforcement Officer | Failed-no vote in original committee | Judiciary | Establishing alternative expiration and renewal periods for a handgun permit issued to a certain retired law enforcement officer. | |||
Permit Renewal for retired police | SB0102 | HB0329 | Senator Carozza | Public Safety - Handgun Permits - Expiration and Renewal Periods for Retired Law Enforcement Officer | Failed-no vote in original committee | Judicial Proceedings | Establishing alternative expiration and renewal periods for a handgun permit issued to a retired law enforcement officer who retired in good standing. | |||
Possess/Carry - Medical Cannabis Use | HB0296 | SB0348 | Delegate Grammer | Firearms - Right to Purchase, Own, Possess, and Carry | Failed-no vote in original committee | Judiciary | Providing that a person may not be denied the right to purchase, own, possess, or carry a firearm solely on the basis that the person is authorized to use medical cannabis. | |||
Possess/Carry - Medical Cannabis Use | SB0348 | HB0296 | Senator McKay | Firearms - Right to Purchase, Own, Possess, and Carry | Failed-no vote in opposite committee | Judiciary | Providing that a person may not be denied the right to purchase, own, possess, or carry a firearm solely on the basis that the person is authorized to use medical cannabis. | |||
Reporting of firearm violations | HB0315 | SB0319 | Delegate Bartlett | Regulated Firearms - Maryland Judiciary - Reporting Requirements | Returned Passed | Governor | Repealing and altering a reporting requirement to require the Maryland Judiciary, instead of the State Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy, to report on the number of charges, convictions, and sentences for certain regulated firearm violations; and requiring by October 1, 2024 and each October 1 thereafter, that the Maryland Judiciary submit its report to the Governor and the General Assembly and include information disaggregated by jurisdiction, race, and gender. | |||
Reporting of firearm violations | SB0319 | HB0315 | Senator West | Regulated Firearms - Maryland Judiciary - Reporting Requirements | Returned Passed | Governor | Repealing and altering a reporting requirement to require the Maryland Judiciary, instead of the State Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy, to report to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before October 1 each year on the number of charges, convictions, and sentences for certain regulated firearm violations, disaggregated by jurisdiction, race, and gender. | |||
Sacred Places Safety | HB0547 | SB1158 | Delegate Alston | Crime of Violence - Educational Facilities, Medical Facilities, and Places of Worship - Penalty (Sacred Places Safety Act) | Failed-no vote in original committee | Judiciary | Prohibiting a person from committing a crime of violence while the person is in an educational facility, a medical facility, or a place of worship. | |||
Sacred Places Safety | SB1158 | HB0547 | Senator Muse | Crime of Violence - Educational Facilities, Medical Facilities, and Places of Worship - Penalty (Sacred Places Safety Act) | Failed-no vote in original committee | Judicial Proceedings | Prohibiting a person from committing a crime of violence while the person is in an educational facility, a medical facility, or a place of worship; and providing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a felony and, in addition to any other penalty imposed for the underlying crime of violence, on conviction is subject to imprisonment of up to 10 years. | |||
School Firearm Detection | SB0127 | Senator Watson | Maryland Center for School Safety - Firearm Detection Platforms - Evaluation (Maryland Firearm Detection Platform Act) | Failed-no vote in original committee | Education, Energy, and the Environment | Requiring the Maryland Center for School Safety, in collaboration with in collaboration with public safety agencies, the State Department of Education, local school systems, the University System of Maryland, and other public institutions of higher education in the State, to conduct an evaluation of firearm detection platforms; and authorizing funds from the Safe Schools Fund to be used to assist local school systems in the procurement and maintenance of firearm detection platforms. | ||||
State Parks and Forests | HB1178 | Delegate Hornberger | Handgun Permit Holders - Authority to Carry Handguns in State Parks and Forests | Failed-no vote in original committee | Judiciary | Prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from prohibiting an individual to whom a handgun permit has been issued from wearing, carrying, or transporting a handgun in a State park or forest. | ||||
Straw Purchase-Warrantless Arrest | HB0021 | Delegate Attar | Criminal Procedure - Warrantless Arrest - Straw Purchase Participant | Failed-no vote in original committee | Judiciary | Adding the crime of knowingly being a participant in a straw purchase of a regulated firearm to the list of crimes subject to warrantless arrest; and providing a penalty on conviction of imprisonment not to exceed 10 years or a fine of up to $25,000 or both. | ||||
Theft of Handgun = Felony | HB0659 | SB0378 | Delegate Munoz | Criminal Law - Theft of a Handgun | Failed-no vote in original committee | Judiciary | Establishing the felony of theft of a handgun; and establishing a penalty for theft of a handgun of, for a first conviction, imprisonment of up to 5 years or a fine of up to $1,000 or both and, for a second or subsequent conviction, imprisonment of up to 10 years or a fine of up to $2,500 or both. | |||
Theft of Handgun = Felony | SB0378 | HB0659 | Senator West | Criminal Law - Theft of a Handgun | Failed-no vote in original committee | Judicial Proceedings | Establishing the felony of theft of a handgun; and establishing a penalty for theft of a handgun of, for a first conviction, imprisonment of up to 5 years or a fine of up to $1,000 or both and, for a second or subsequent conviction, imprisonment of up to 10 years or a fine of up to $2,500 or both. | |||
Victim Compensation Reform | HB0575 | SB0471 | Speaker | Criminal Procedure - Victim Compensation - Alterations (Victim Compensation Reform Act of 2024) | Returned Passed | Governor | Altering the composition of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board; altering certain duties, powers, and procedures for the Board to make awards to victims of crime; altering the powers and duties of certain employees; altering the amount and types of awards the Board is authorized to make to certain victims of crime; authorizing reconsideration and judicial review of decisions of the Board; authorizing the Governor to include certain funding in the annual budget bill for the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund; etc. | |||
Victim Compensation Reform | SB0471 | HB0575 | President | Criminal Procedure - Victim Compensation - Alterations (Victim Compensation Reform Act of 2024) | Failed-not assigned to opposite standing committee | Rules and Executive Nominations | Altering the composition of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board; altering certain duties, powers, and procedures for the Board to make awards to victims of crime; altering the powers and duties of certain employees; altering the amount and types of awards the Board is authorized to make to certain victims of crime; authorizing reconsideration and judicial review of decisions of the Board; authorizing the Governor to include certain funding in the annual budget bill for the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund; etc. | |||
Voluntary Do Not Sell List | HB0794 | SB0752 | Delegate Moon | Regulated Firearms - Maryland Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearm Process | Failed-no vote in original committee | Judiciary | x | Support | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to create and maintain a Maryland Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearm Registry in which a person may voluntarily enroll for the purpose of being prohibited from obtaining a regulated firearm by December 31, 2024; prohibiting a dealer or other person from selling, renting, loaning, or transferring a regulated firearm to a purchaser, lessee, borrower, or transferee who the dealer or other person knows or has reason to believe is registered on the registry; etc. | |
Voluntary Do Not Sell List | SB0752 | HB0794 | Senator Hettleman | Regulated Firearms - Maryland Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearm Process | Failed-no vote in original committee | Judicial Proceedings | x | Support | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to create and maintain a Maryland Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearm Registry in which a person may voluntarily enroll for the purpose of being prohibited from obtaining a regulated firearm by December 31, 2024; prohibiting a dealer or other person from selling, renting, loaning, or transferring a regulated firearm to a purchaser, lessee, borrower, or transferee who the dealer or other person knows or has reason to believe is registered on the registry; etc. | |
Weapon Crimes - Switch/Auto-Sear | HB0810 | Speaker | Criminal Law - Rapid-Fire Activator - Switch/Auto-Sear | Passed Enrolled | Governor | Altering the term 'rapid fire trigger activator' to be 'rapid fire activator'; adding 'switch/auto-sear' to the definition of 'rapid fire activator' for purposes of certain prohibitions on rapid fire activators; and prohibiting a person from transporting a rapid fire activator into the State or manufacturing, possessing, selling, offering for sale, transferring, purchasing, or receiving a rapid fire activator with a certain exception. |
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