Data Privacy & Protection

HB0264

Maryland Data Privacy and Protection Act of 2026

Limiting the personal information that may be collected, maintained, processed, and retained by units of State government under certain circumstances; requiring certain personal information to be deleted or de-identified under certain circumstances; requiring each unit to post a certain privacy notice on its Internet website and establishing certain requirements for privacy notices and privacy policies; requiring each unit of State government to designate a Privacy Officer; etc.

First Reading Government, Labor, and Elections

Government, Labor, and Elections

Display of Ten Commandments

HB0067

State Government - State House Trust - Ten Commandments Monument Display Act

Requiring a certain Ten Commandments Monument to be placed on the grounds of the Maryland State House; requiring the Commission on Artistic Property to oversee the care and maintenance of the monument; and establishing the Commission on the Ten Commandments Monument.

First Reading Government, Labor, and Elections

Government, Labor, and Elections

Oppose

Fairness in Girls' Sports

HB0063

Education - Interscholastic and Intramural Junior Varsity and Varsity Teams and Locker Rooms - 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 and certain locker rooms 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 or sports or locker rooms for students of the female sex; etc.

First Reading Ways and Means

Ways and Means

Oppose

Fairness in Girls' Sports

SB0050

Education - Interscholastic and Intramural Junior Varsity and Varsity Teams and Sports - Designation (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 in a certain manner; prohibiting certain interscholastic and intramural junior varsity and varsity athletic teams or sports from including certain students; prohibiting certain entities from taking certain adverse actions against a school under certain circumstances; etc.

First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment

Education, Energy, and the Environment

Oppose

Unhoused Individuals

SB0049

HB0104

Unhoused Individuals - Rights and Affirmative Defense

Providing that all unhoused individuals have certain rights; stating it is the intent of the General Assembly that the Courts liberally construe the Act to maximize the protections afforded by it to unhoused individuals in the State; 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 1/27 at 1:00 p.m.

Judicial Proceedings

Unhoused Individuals

HB0104

SB0049

Unhoused Individuals - Rights and Affirmative Defense

Providing that all unhoused individuals have certain rights; 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.

First Reading Judiciary

Judiciary

Uniform Public Expression Protection Act

SB0251

Civil Actions - Maryland Uniform Public Expression Protection Act

Repealing a certain provision relating to strategic lawsuits against public participation; authorizing a person served with a pleading asserting a certain cause of action based on the person's communication related to a governmental proceeding or exercise of certain constitutional rights to file a special motion for expedited relief to dismiss the cause of action; generally relating to civil actions and public expression; and applying the Act prospectively.

First Reading Judicial Proceedings

Judicial Proceedings

Worker Attendance - Religious/Political

HB0045

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

Prohibiting employers and their agents, representatives, and designees from taking certain actions against an employee or applicant for employment because the employee or applicant takes certain actions regarding employer-sponsored meetings during which the employer communicates the opinion of the employer regarding religious matters or political matters; authorizing an employee to file a certain complaint with the Commissioner of Labor and Industry; etc.

First Reading Government, Labor, and Elections

Government, Labor, and Elections