Brian Feldman D

Exempting from certain requirements relating to offering health benefit plans to small employers in the State health benefit plans issued through a professional employer organization, coemployer, or other organization located in the State.

Requiring each school board to certify to the State Ethics Commission, on or before October 1 each year, that the school board is in compliance with certain requirements of the Maryland Public Ethics Law.

Establishing that the exercise by the Public Service Commission of its authority is an essential government function; altering the duties of the Commission and the Executive Secretary of the Commission; providing for the designation of a certain employee as Deputy Executive Secretary of the Commission; requiring the Commission to submit certain information to the Department of Budget and Management each …

Altering the uses of the Maryland Strategic Energy Investment Fund and certain compliance fees; requiring the Maryland Energy Administration, in consultation with the Public Service Commission, to develop and conduct certain annual, competitive, low-bid alternative compliance fee auctions for the development of certain renewable energy generation projects; establishing the purpose and procedures for an auction and the eligibility requirements for …

Establishing a rebuttable presumption that a social media platform has made an independent expenditure to a certain candidate if the social media platform knowingly and purposefully alters its algorithm to amplify certain political content for the benefit of the candidate; prohibiting a foreign national from using a bot to publish, distribute, or disseminate campaign material or artificially amplify political content …

Extending to December 31, 2027, the Task Force on Responsible Use of Natural Psychedelic Substances to study and make recommendations related to the use of natural psychedelic substances; adding a representative of a historically Black college or university in the State to the Task Force; and requiring the Task Force to submit an updated report of its findings and recommendations …

Altering the conditions under which a certain standard contract or tariff for net energy metering will no longer be available; requiring the Public Service Commission to develop and implement a successor program to the existing net energy metering program; establishing the conditions under which the successor program will no longer be available; requiring the Commission to conduct a certain proceeding …

Exempting from certain requirements relating to the offering of health benefit plans to small employers in the State health benefit plans issued through a professional employer organization located in the State; and requiring professional employer organizations that enter into agreements with small employers to provide health benefit plans to disclose certain information in writing.

Requiring the Office of Home Energy Programs to administer, or through a local administering agency administer, certain programs and activities regarding low- and moderate-income households and the Community Solar Energy Generating Systems Program; altering the method by which certain rated generating capacity is counted toward the statewide net energy metering limit; requiring the Public Service Commission to establish a certain …

Requiring the State Department of Education to make available a continuing professional development course on educator well-being and flourishing to school personnel and administrators on or before July 1, 2027.