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.