Voting Sessions Take Center Stage
With the General Assembly session approaching its last month, attention now shifts to committees as they vote on the hundreds of bills...
The LGBTQ+ Task Force is inactive, but we are tracking legislation involving civil rights:
Subject | Bill Number | XFile Bill Number | Sponsor | Title | Status | Current Location | Position | Synopsis |
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Harrassment-Employment | HB1393 | SB0450 | Delegate Queen | Harassment and Sexual Harassment - Definitions - Employment Discrimination and Sexual Harassment Prevention Training | Failed: not referred to standing committee | Rules and Executive Nominations | Altering the definition of 'harassment' for purposes of certain provisions relating to discrimination in employment to include sexual harassment and certain unwelcome and offensive conduct; and altering the definition of 'sexual harassment' for purposes of certain provisions relating to State government sexual harassment prevention training. | |
Harrassment-Employment | SB0450 | HB1393 | Senator Smith | Harassment and Sexual Harassment - Definitions - Employment Discrimination and Sexual Harassment Prevention Training | Returned Passed | Governor | Altering the definition of 'harassment' for purposes of certain provisions relating to discrimination in employment to include sexual harassment and certain unwelcome and offensive conduct; and altering the definition of 'sexual harassment' for purposes of certain provisions relating to State government sexual harassment prevention training. | |
Hate Crime-False Report | HB0645 | SB0151 | Delegate Jackson | Hate Crimes - False Statement to a Law Enforcement Officer | Approved by the Governor - Chapter 166 | Clarifying that the making or causing to be made a false statement, report, or complaint that a person knows to be false, in whole or in part, to a law enforcement officer of the State, of a county, municipal corporation, or other political subdivision of the State, or of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Police about a person or group with the intent to deceive and to cause investigation or other action may form the basis for a certain hate crime. | ||
Hate Crime-False Report | SB0151 | HB0645 | Senator Carter | Hate Crimes - False Statement to a Law Enforcement Officer | Approved by the Governor - Chapter 167 | Clarifying that the making of a certain false statement, report, or complaint that a person knows to be false as a whole or in material part to a law enforcement officer of the State, of a county, municipal corporation, or other political subdivision of the State, or of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Police may form the basis for a certain hate crime. | ||
Implicit Bias Awareness Training | HB0455 | Delegate Wells | State Personnel - Implicit Bias Awareness Training - Required | Failed: no vote in committee | Appropriations | Requiring each State employee to complete a certain amount of implicit bias awareness training at certain times; requiring that the training include certain information; requiring each unit to designate a representative to coordinate with the Maryland Commission on Civil Rights to implement the training; authorizing a unit to incorporate the training into existing employment training; requiring the Commission to train certain representatives in the prevention of implicit bias; etc. | ||
Perverted Practice Repeal | HB0209 | SB0022 | Delegate Moon | Criminal Law – Unnatural or Perverted Sexual Practice – Repeal | Failed: no vote in committee | Judicial Proceedings | Support | Repealing the crime of unnatural or perverted sexual practice. |
Perverted Practice Repeal | SB0022 | HB0209 | Senator Lam | Criminal Law - Unnatural or Perverted Sexual Practice - Repeal | Failed: no vote in committee | Judicial Proceedings | Support | Repealing the crime of unnatural or perverted sexual practice. |
Reparations Commission | HB0594 | Delegate Fisher, W. | State Government - Maryland Reparations Commission - Establishment (Harriet Tubman Community Investment Act) | Failed: no vote in committee | Health and Government Operations | Establishing the Maryland Reparations Commission to develop and administer a program to provide compensatory benefits to the descendants of individuals enslaved in the State; providing that any individual whose ancestors were enslaved in the State is eligible to receive certain benefits; authorizing the Commission to seek the assistance of State agencies to develop and evaluate processes and applications; requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill such sums as necessary to carry out the Act; etc. | ||
School Sports-Sex at Birth | HB0757 | Delegate Szeliga | Education – Interscholastic and Intramural Teams and Sports – Designation Based on Biological Sex (Save Women’s Sports Act) | Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means | Oppose | Requiring certain interscholastic and intramural athletic teams or sports sponsored by certain schools to be expressly designated based on biological sex; prohibiting certain entities from taking certain adverse actions against a school or county board of education for maintaining separate interscholastic and intramural athletic teams and sports for students of the female sex; and providing that certain individuals have the right to bring a civil action under certain circumstances. | ||
Trans Health Equity | HB0746 | SB0682 | Delegate Kaiser | Maryland Medical Assistance Program – Gender–Affirming Treatment (Trans Health Equity Act of 2022) | Failed: no vote in committee | Health and Government Operations | Support | Requiring, beginning on January 1, 2023, the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide gender-affirming treatment; and prohibiting the Program from issuing an adverse benefit determination related to gender-affirming treatment unless a health care provider with experience prescribing or delivering gender-affirming treatment has reviewed and confirmed the appropriateness of the determination. |
Trans Health Equity | SB0682 | HB0746 | Senator Washington | Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Gender-Affirming Treatment (Trans Health Equity Act of 2022) | Failed: no vote in committee | Health and Government Operations | Support | Requiring, beginning on January 1, 2023, the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide gender-affirming treatment in a nondiscriminatory manner; requiring that the gender-affirming treatment be assessed according to nondiscriminatory criteria that are consistent with current clinical standards; prohibiting the issuance of an adverse benefit determination related to gender-affirming treatment unless a certain experienced health care provider has reviewed and confirmed the appropriateness of the determination; etc. |
Trans, Nonbinary, Intersex Inmates | HB0453 | SB0550 | Delegate Lopez | Correctional Facilities - Transgender, Nonbinary, and Intersex Inmates (Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act) | Failed: no vote in committee | Judiciary | Support | Prohibiting an employee of a correctional facility from discriminating against inmates on the basis of certain protected classes; requiring the managing official of a correctional facility to develop a written nondiscrimination policy regarding inmates; and establishing certain requirements for correctional facilities relating to the gender identity of inmates and inmates who are transgender, nonbinary, or intersex. |
Trans, Nonbinary, Intersex Inmates | SB0550 | HB0453 | Senator Carter | Correctional Facilities - Transgender, Nonbinary, and Intersex Inmates (Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act) | Failed: no vote in committee | Judicial Proceedings | Support | Prohibiting an employee of a correctional facility from discriminating against inmates on the basis of certain protected classes; requiring the managing official of a correctional facility to develop a written nondiscrimination policy regarding inmates; and establishing certain requirements for correctional facilities relating to the gender identity of inmates and inmates who are transgender, nonbinary, or intersex. |
Use of data | HB0244 | SB0313 | Delegate Moon | Civil Actions - Damages - Use of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Data | Returned Passed | Governor | Prohibiting a calculation of damages for loss of earnings resulting from personal injury or wrongful death from being reduced based on race, ethnicity, or gender; and applying the Act prospectively. | |
Use of data | SB0313 | HB0244 | Senator Watson | Civil Actions - Damages - Use of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Data | Failed: not referred to standing committee | Rules and Executive Nominations | Prohibiting a calculation of damages for loss of earnings resulting from personal injury or wrongful death from being reduced based on race, ethnicity, or gender; and applying the Act prospectively. |