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Requiring the Maryland Cannabis Administration to consider certain factors in determining if a labor organization is a "bona fide labor organization"; requiring a cannabis licensee, under certain circumstances, to execute a certain labor peace agreement and to maintain and abide by the agreement; authorizing a certain labor organization to file a protest with the Administration against the renewal of a …

Authorizing the awarding of an additional video lottery operation license and up to 1,500 additional video lottery terminals for a video lottery facility in Charles County on a vessel on the Potomac River that can be accessed by the pier in Colonial Beach, Virginia; and authorizing the Governor to reconstitute the Video Lottery Facility Location Commission for the purpose of …

Increasing from $250,000 to $700,000 the annual revenue threshold at which the Legislative Auditor may alter the frequency that certain municipalities or special taxing districts are required to have audits of their financial records performed.

Requiring the Department of Information Technology by December 1, 2025, and periodically thereafter, to update certain information available on the Maryland OneStop portal, the internet-based statewide licensing portal managed by the Department; requiring, beginning on July 1, 2026, each county and municipal corporation, in coordination with the Department, to make certain information available on the portal; and requiring each county …

Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program, beginning July 1, 2026, to provide supportive housing and health services to certain Program recipients; establishing requirements for professionals seeking certification as a certified supportive housing and health services professional and entities that employ or contract with supportive housing and health services professionals; requiring, by January 1, 2026, the Department to approve at least …

Requiring the State Board of Elections to issue a certain notice to persons the State Board believes are committing or have committed certain campaign finance violations; requiring the State Board to adopt comprehensive regulations establishing an appeal process for persons issued the notice; altering the circumstances under which the State Board is authorized to issue a citation to persons the …

Altering certain requirements for a controller relating to the collection of personal data; and prohibiting a controller, unless consumer consent is obtained, from collecting, processing, sharing, or selling precise geolocation data for the purpose of targeted advertising.

Prohibiting a political subdivision from adopting or enforcing an ordinance, a regulation, or a policy that requires payment of a fee for parking a motor vehicle in an on-street parking space served by a meter if the vehicle has disabled veteran special registration plates; and prohibiting a State agency from adopting or enforcing a regulation or a policy that requires …

Establishing the Summer Academy for Mathematics and Service Pilot Program within the Maryland Department of Labor to provide targeted instruction in a 6-week course offered during summer break to eligible students in Charles County who are not proficient in algebra or geometry; requiring the Charles County public school system to implement the Program; and requiring the Department to provide grants …

Shortening, from 120 to 90, the maximum interval of days that certain carriers may impose as a frequency limitation on dental preventive care; and applying the Act to all policies, contracts, and health benefit plans issued, delivered, or renewed in the State on or after January 1, 2027.

Establishing requirements and prohibitions for parametric insurance policies that are issued to a resident of the State or are sold, solicited, negotiated, or offered in the State; and authorizing the Maryland Insurance Commissioner to establish a pilot program to provide insurers participating in the pilot program additional opportunities to provide parametric insurance products, serve a public need, protect vulnerable populations, …

Requiring certain providers and laboratories to provide certain written information to patients receiving prostate-specific antigen testing; and requiring clinical laboratories that administer prostate-specific antigen tests to follow certain disclosure requirements, use standard calibration for testing assays and report test results in a standard manner, make certain disclosures to ordering providers, and follow guidelines from certain organizations.

Requiring the State Board of Elections, as part of the training program for election judges, to include instruction on best practices for assisting elderly voters and voters with disabilities; requiring the Board to establish guidelines for the local boards of election to implement a process to accommodate and expedite voting for elderly voters and voters with disabilities at each early …

Prohibiting a railroad train used in connection with the movement of freight from being operated in the State unless it has at least two crew members, subject to certain exceptions; providing a penalty for a first offense of up to $10,000 or in the case of a willful violation within the immediately preceding 3 years, or a fine of up …

Requiring certain broadband providers in the State to establish a program to provide certain broadband services to eligible low-income consumers by December 1, 2026; authorizing the Office of Statewide Broadband in the Department of Housing and Community Development to exempt certain service providers; authorizing a provider, once every 3 years, to increase the price of the service based on certain …

Altering the definition of "baby food" for purposes of certain provisions of law governing baby food testing to include, rather than exclude, infant formula and to include infant cereal; and altering the defined term "toxic heavy metal" to be "toxic element" for purposes of certain provisions of law governing baby food testing.