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Testimony
The Maryland General Assembly meets from January to April. Written testimony submitted by the Maryland Catholic Conference is posted here after a hearing.
SB 0876 | Maryland Medical Assistance Program – Limited Behavioral Health Services
Favorable
SB 0944 | Nonprescription Drugs and Devices – Provision by Registered Nurses and Sale of Contraceptives Through Automatic Devices
Unfavorable
SB 1142 | Tax Clinics for Low-Income Marylanders – Funding
Favorable
HB 0961 | State Government – Commission on New Americans – Established
Favorable
HB 1069 | State Government – Commission for the Deaf, Deafblind, and Hard of Hearing
Favorable
HB 1412 | Abortion Care Access Grant Program and Fund – Establishment
Unfavorable
SB 0103 | Overdose Awareness Day
Favorable
SB 0387 | Korean American Day
Favorable
SB 0615 | General Provisions – Commemorative Days – Maryland Veterans Suicide Awareness Day
Favorable
SB 0991 | Behavioral Health – Language Assistance Services Pilot Program
Favorable
SB 0992 | Real Property – Landlord and Tenant – Procedures for Failure to Pay Rent, Breach of Lease, and Tenant Holding Over
Favorable
HB 0037 | Reentry Services for Women – Commission and Pilot Program – Establishment
Favorable
HB 0061 | Correctional Services – Formerly Incarcerated Individuals and Individuals on Probation – Re-Entry Services
Favorable
HB 0209 | Prison Education Delivery Reform Commission
Favorable
HB 1037 | Task Force on the Creation of a Division of Returning Citizens and Expanded Reentry Services – Establishment
Favorable
HB 1144 | Corrections – Segregated Housing – Limitations
Favorable
HB 1372 | Health and Taxation – Digital Social Media Services and the Mental Health Care Fund for Children and Youth
Favorable
HB 1136 | Human Services – Youth Services Bureaus – Funding (Youth Services Bureau Restoration Act)
Favorable
SB 0796 | Maryland Disability Service Animal Program – Established
Favorable
SB 0818 | Information Technology – Artificial Intelligence – Policies and Procedures (Artificial Intelligence Governance Act of 2024)
Favorable
SB 0946 | Landlord and Tenant – Failure to Repair Serious and Dangerous Defects – Tenant Remedies (Tenant Safety Act of 2024)
Favorable
HB 1304 | Maryland Department of Health and Department of Human Services – Earned Income Tax Credit – Distribution of Information
Favorable
HB 1394 | Education – Provision of 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline and Safe Schools Maryland Telephone Numbers
Favorable
HB 1397 | Human Relations – Discrimination – Protected Characteristics
Information only
SB 0947 | Abortion Care Access Grant Program and Fund – Establishment
Unfavorable
SB 0975 | Public Safety – Reproductive Health Care Clinic Security Grant Program – Establishment (Protecting Reproductive Health Care Clinics Act)
Unfavorable
SB 1085 | Corrections – Segregated Housing – Limitations
Favorable
HB 0543 | Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – Seniors – State Supplement
Favorable
HB 0704 | Primary and Secondary Education – Education Savings Account Program – Established
Favorable
HB 0815 | Economic Development – Maryland Financial Empowerment Center Network Pilot Program – Establishment
Favorable