Bill Watch List / 2025 Session

SUPPORT:

• HB108 – Introduced – Prohibits the abortion of an unborn child when a heartbeat can be detected.

• SB36 – Hearing – Budget and Taxation – 1/15 at 10:30 a.m. – Expands Maryland’s suicide prevention hotline, providing valuable resources to save lives.

• HB12 – Hearing – Economic Matters – 2/18 at 1:00 p.m. – Prohibits the sale or distribution of certain products that contain tetrahydrocannabinolm; authorizes the Executive Director of the Commission to seize, destroy, or confiscate a certain unlawful product. (Companion to SB214)
• SB214 – Hearing – Finance – 1/30 at 1:00 p.m. – Prohibits the sale or distribution of certain products that contain tetrahydrocannabinolm; authorizes the Executive Director of the Commission to seize, destroy, or confiscate a certain unlawful product. (Companion to HB12)

• HB282 – Hearing – Ways and Means – 1/23 at 1:00 p.m. – Prohibits sexually explicit materials in public school libraries.

• HB353 – Introduced – Constitutional Carry Act of 2025. Removes the requirement that a person have a permit before he carries, wears, or transports a handgun.

• HB95 – Introduced – Prohibits a health care provider from using the health care provider’s reproductive material when providing assistive reproductive treatment without the consent of the recipient of the treatment.

• HB1 – Hearing – Environment and Transportation – 1/30 at 1:30 p.m. – Requires the Maryland Department of Transportation to develop or identify and implement a training program for transportation–sector employees on the identification and reporting of suspected human trafficking victims. (Companion to SB7)

• HB156 – Hearing – Ways and Means – 1/29 at 1:00 p.m. – Prohibits biological boys from competing in girls’ sports and vice versa.

• HB5 – Hearing – Judiciary – 2/04 at 1:00 p.m. – Defines “computer–generated image” to include images created through AI software related to child pornography.
• HB364 – Hearing – Judiciary – 2/04 at 1:00 p.m. – Prohibits a person from possessing, viewing or distributing child pornography including child pornography created by artificial intelligence that looks like a real person.
• HB394 – Hearing – Judiciary – 2/05 at 1:00 p.m. – Requires a commercial entity that knowingly or intentionally publishes or distributes obscene material on the internet to use reasonable age verification methods to verify that the individual attempting to access the material is not a minor.

• HB47 – Hearing – Ways and Means – 1/23 at 1:00 p.m. – Offers a practical solution for Maryland families by making these critical needs tax-free.

OPPOSE:

• SB1 – Hearing – Finance – 1/23 at 3:45 p.m. – Alters the definition of “legally protected health care” to include abortion.

• HB2 – Introduced – Removes the word “church” and “synagogue” from Maryland code and replaces it with “faith institution” in most instances or “place of worship in a few instances.”

• HB204 – Hearing – Economic Matters – 2/18 at 1:00 p.m. – Establishes a wholesaler cannabis license. (Companion to SB221)
• HB413 – Hearing – Judiciary – 2/04 at 1:00 p.m. – Authorizes a person to manufacture a small amount of cannabis products or concentrated cannabis for personal use.
• SB221 – Hearing – Finance – 1/30 at 1:00 p.m. – Establishes a wholesaler cannabis license. (Companion to HB204)

• HB161 – Hearing – Ways and Means – 1/29 at 1:00 p.m. – Requires each county board of education to create an “age–appropriate” comprehensive health education curriculum that includes among other things, instruction on family life, human sexuality, gender identity and sexual orientation. Each county board must also establish procedures for a parent or guardian to opt their student out the family life and human sexuality topics, but they may NOT authorize the parent or guardian to opt their student out of the HIV and AIDS prevention curriculum. (There is no mention in the bill of allowing or not allowing a parent or guardian to opt their student out of the gender identity and sexual orientation topics.)

• HB52 – Hearing – Ways and Means – 1/21 at 1:00 p.m. – Allows children 16 or older to vote in Board of Education Elections, encouraging minors to manipulate the education process instead of focusing on learning.

• HB334 – Hearing – Health and Government Operations – 1/29 at 1:00 p.m. – Mandates the Department of Health to create a universal newborn nurse home visiting program to be available for all families, requires data collection and reporting, and obligates insurers to cover and reimburse these services.
• SB156 – Hearing – Finance – 1/29 at 1:00 p.m. – Establishes a program to provide universal newborn nurse home visiting services to all families with newborns.

• SB340 – Hearing – Budget and Taxation – 1/29 at 10:30 a.m. – Establishes the authorization and implementation of internet gaming within the state.

• HB417 – Introduced – Establishes a State universal health care program to provide health benefits to all residents Maryland through a single–payer (Government funded) system.

• HB242 – 1-15-25 Hearing canceled. – Prohibits against discrimination in housing based on consumer credit history.

• SB167 – Hearing – Judicial Proceedings – 1/15 at 12:00 p.m. – Obstructs the ability of injured parties to seek legal redress by overbroadly treating their suits as illegitimate.

• HB324 – Hearing – Ways and Means – 1/29 at 1:00 p.m. – Requires members of County Boards of Education to complete the same antibias training program currently required for most school employees including instruction on ways to achieve schools that are inclusive and tolerant of a person’s sexual orientation and gender identity. (Companion to SB293)
• SB293 – Hearing – Education, Energy, and the Environment – 1/29 at 1:00 p.m. – Requires members of County Boards of Education to complete the same antibias training program currently required for most school employees including instruction on ways to achieve schools that are inclusive and tolerant of a person’s sexual orientation and gender identity. (Companion to HB324)

WATCH:

• HB328 – Hearing – Ways and Means – 1/30 at 1:00 p.m. – Allows licenses to be given to certain nonprofit organizations, such as Veterans’ organizations, for instant ticket lottery machines.