Education - Antidiscrimination Policies

HB0495

Education - Antidiscrimination Policies - Policy and Notice Requirements

Requiring certain schools that have an antidiscrimination policy to ensure that the policy includes certain information and is available to certain individuals in a certain manner; requiring a school to provide a certain training regarding antidiscrimination policies to students and employees in a certain manner; and requiring, if sufficient resources are not available to provide training, a school to coordinate with a community organization with certain expertise to provide the training to students and employees at no cost.

First Reading Ways and Means and Appropriations

Ways and Means

Support

Girls Sports - Anti-Trans

HB0156

Education - Interscholastic and Intramural Junior Varsity and Varsity Teams - Designation Based on Sex (Fairness in Girls' Sports Act)

Requiring certain interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and varsity athletic teams or sports sponsored by certain schools to be expressly designated based on biological sex; prohibiting certain entities from taking certain adverse actions against a school for maintaining separate interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and varsity athletic teams and sports for students of the female sex; and providing that certain individuals have the right to bring a civil action under certain circumstances.

Hearing 1/29 at 1:00 p.m.

Ways and Means

Oppose

HIV Transmission - Repeal Prohibition

HB0039

SB0356

Public Health - Prohibition on Transfer of Human Immunodeficiency Virus - Repeal

Repealing the prohibition on an individual from knowingly transferring or attempting to transfer the human immunodeficiency virus to another individual.

Hearing 1/28 at 1:00 p.m.

Judiciary

Support

HIV Transmission - Repeal Prohibition

SB0356

HB0039

Public Health - Repeal of Prohibition on Transfer of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (Carlton R. Smith Act)

Repealing the prohibition on an individual from knowingly transferring or attempting to transfer the human immunodeficiency virus to another individual.

Hearing 1/29 at 11:00 a.m.

Judicial Proceedings

Support

Health Occupations - Racism Training

SB0458

Health Occupations - 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.

Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.

Finance

Interference - religious facility

HB0305

SB0287

Criminal Law - Interference With Access to or Egress From a Religious Facility - Prohibition

Prohibiting a person, acting alone or with others, from preventing another from entering or exiting a religious facility; and establishing that a violation of the Act is a misdemeanor with a penalty of imprisonment not exceeding 90 days or a fine not exceeding $1,000 or both on conviction.

Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.

Judiciary

Interference - religious facility

SB0287

HB0305

Criminal Law - Interference With Access to or Egress From a Religious Facility - Prohibition

Prohibiting a person, acting alone or with others, from preventing another from entering or exiting a religious facility; and providing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to imprisonment of up to 90 days or a fine not to exceed $1,000 or both.

Hearing 1/30 at 1:00 p.m.

Judicial Proceedings

No manatory religious/political meetings at work

HB0233

SB0576

Labor and Employment - Mandatory Meetings on Religious or Political Matters - Employee Attendance and Participation (Maryland Worker Freedom Act)

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.

Hearing 1/30 at 1:00 p.m.

Economic Matters

Support

No manatory religious/political meetings at work

SB0576

HB0233

Labor and Employment - Mandatory Meetings on Religious or Political Matters - Employee Attendance and Participation (Maryland Worker Freedom Act)

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.

First Reading Finance

Finance

Support

Remove Discrimination in Education Act

HB0086

SB0435

Institutions of Higher Education and Elementary and Secondary Schools - Title VI Coordinators

Requiring the governing board of each institution of higher education in the State and local school systems to designate a Title VI Coordinator to ensure compliance with Title VI of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964; and authorizing a person alleging discrimination under certain provisions of law to file a complaint with a Title VI Coordinator of a local school system, as applicable.

Hearing 2/04 at 1:00 p.m. (Appropriations)

Appropriations

Remove Discrimination in Education Act

SB0435

HB0086

Institutions of Higher Education and Elementary and Secondary Schools - Title VI Coordinators (Remove Discrimination in Education Act)

Requiring the governing board of each institution of higher education in the State and local school systems to designate a Title VI Coordinator to ensure compliance with Title VI of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964; and authorizing a person alleging discrimination under certain provisions of law to file a complaint with a Title VI Coordinator of a local school system, as applicable.

First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment

Education, Energy, and the Environment

Reparations Commission

SB0469

State Government - Maryland Reparations Commission - Establishment (Harriet Tubman Community Investment Act)

Establishing the Maryland Reparations Commission to develop and administer a program to provide compensatory benefits to the descendants of individuals enslaved in the State; providing that any individual whose ancestors were enslaved in the State is eligible to receive certain benefits; authorizing the Commission to seek the assistance of State agencies to develop and evaluate processes and applications; requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill such sums as necessary to carry out the Act; etc.

First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment and Budget and Taxation

Education, Energy, and the Environment

State Board, etc.-Diversity Requirements

HB0696

SB0490

State Boards, Committees, Commissions, Task Forces, and Workgroups - Elimination of Citizenship Requirements and Establishment of Diversity Requirements

Eliminating citizenship requirements for boards and commissions; and requiring that members of boards, committees, commissions, task forces, and workgroups reflect the full diversity of the State to the extent practicable.

First Reading Health and Government Operations

Health and Government Operations

State Board, etc.-Diversity Requirements

SB0490

HB0696

State Boards, Committees, Commissions, Task Forces, and Workgroups - Elimination of Citizenship Requirements and Establishment of Diversity Requirements

Eliminating citizenship requirements for boards and commissions; and requiring that members of boards, committees, commissions, task forces, and workgroups reflect the full diversity of the State to the extent practicable.

First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment

Education, Energy, and the Environment

Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation

HB0434

SB0167

Courts - Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation

Altering the conditions under which a lawsuit is considered a strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP suit); altering the conditions under which a defendant in a SLAPP suit is not civilly liable for certain communications; establishing certain standards and requirements relating to a motion to dismiss an alleged SLAPP suit; and applying the Act prospectively.

Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.

Judiciary

Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation

SB0167

HB0434

Courts - Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation

Altering the conditions under which a lawsuit is considered a strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP suit); altering the conditions under which a defendant in a SLAPP suit is not civilly liable for certain communications; establishing certain standards and requirements relating to a motion to dismiss an alleged SLAPP suit; and applying the Act prospectively.

Hearing 1/15 at 12:00 p.m.

Judicial Proceedings

Unhoused Individuals - Rights, etc.

HB0487

SB0484

Unhoused Individuals - Rights, Civil Action, and Affirmative Defense

Providing that all unhoused individuals have certain rights; authorizing the Attorney General or an individual harmed by a violation of the Act to bring a certain civil action against a political subdivision, a unit of State or local government, or a government official; establishing an affirmative defense of necessity to certain criminal charges relating to trespass or disturbing the peace; and repealing the authority of a municipality to prohibit vagrancy.

Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.

Judiciary

Unhoused Individuals - Rights, etc.

SB0484

HB0487

Unhoused Individuals - Rights, Civil Action, and Affirmative Defense

Providing that all unhoused individuals have certain rights; authorizing the Attorney General or an individual harmed by a violation of the Act to bring a certain civil action against a political subdivision, a unit of State or local government, or a government official; establishing an affirmative defense of necessity to certain criminal charges relating to trespass or disturbing the peace; and repealing the authority of a municipality to prohibit vagrancy.

Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m.

Judicial Proceedings