18 total bills, 4 anti-gun bills,
3 pro-gun bills for this session
Proposed Maryland Firearm Legislation
18 total bills, 4 anti-gun bills,
3 pro-gun bills for this session
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Title: Public Safety - Handgun Permits - Expiration and Renewal Periods for Retired Law Enforcement Officer
Description: Establishing alternative expiration and renewal periods for a handgun permit issued to a retired law enforcement officer who retired in good standing from service with a law enforcement agency of the State or a county or municipal corporation of the State; and providing that a handgun permit issued to a law enforcement officer who retired in good standing expires on the last day of the holder's birth month following five years after the date the permit is issued and may be renewed for successive periods of five years under certain circumstances.
Last Action: Hearing 1/29 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: January 10, 2025
Title: Income Tax - Credit for Firearm Safety Devices
Description: Allowing a credit against the State income tax for the purchase of certain firearm safety devices in an amount equal to the lesser of 100% of the purchase price or $200 during the taxable year; allowing an individual to carry over any excess credit to the next taxable year; requiring the Comptroller to establish a process to issue tax credit certificates; limiting the aggregate allowable amount of credits to $250,000 for any taxable year; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2024.
Last Action: Hearing 1/30 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: January 13, 2025
Title: Public Safety - Handgun Permit Requirement - Repeal (Maryland's Constitutional Carry Act of 2025)
Description: Repealing the requirement that a person have a certain permit before the person carries, wears, or transports a handgun; repealing certain criminal prohibitions against a person who is at least 21 years old wearing, carrying, or transporting a handgun; and establishing that a person may not wear, carry, or transport a handgun while under the influence of alcohol or drugs, with a penalty of imprisonment not exceeding 1 year or a fine not exceeding $1,000 or both on conviction.
Last Action: Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: January 27, 2025
Title: Criminal Law - Prohibitions on Wearing, Carrying, or Transporting a Handgun - Penalties
Description: Establishing a certain intent element for wearing, carrying, or transporting a handgun in certain prohibited places; repealing a certain rebuttable presumption that a person transporting a handgun under certain circumstances transports the handgun knowingly; and altering certain penalty provisions related to wearing, carrying, or transporting a handgun in certain prohibited places.
Last Action: Hearing 2/05 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: January 17, 2025
Title: Comprehensive Community Safety Funding Act
Description: Imposing an excise tax on certain gross receipts of certain firearms dealers derived from the sales of firearms in the State and sales of firearms to residents of the State; etc.
Last Action: First Reading Ways and Means
Last Action Date: January 16, 2025
Title: Criminal Law - Controlled Dangerous Substances and Firearms
Description: Authorizing a person who is at least 21 years of age to manufacture a personal use amount of cannabis products or concentrated cannabis for personal use or adult sharing at a private residence if the manufacturing process does not involve the use of a volatile solvent; specifying that manufacturing, distributing, dispensing, or possessing certain large quantities of certain controlled dangerous substances is a felony; altering the penalties for being a volume dealer and drug kingpin with regard to cannabis; etc.
Last Action: Hearing 2/04 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: January 17, 2025
Title: Frederick and Washington Counties - Bow Hunting - Openly Carrying Handguns
Description: Prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from prohibiting certain licensed bow hunters from openly carrying a handgun under certain circumstances in Frederick County and Washington County during deer hunting season.
Last Action: First Reading Environment and Transportation
Last Action Date: January 22, 2025
Title: Public Safety - Distribution of Literature to Purchasers of Firearms and Ammunition
Description: Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to prepare certain literature relating to firearms and ammunition and to distribute the literature to all county health departments in the State; requiring each county health department to distribute certain literature to all establishments that sell firearms or ammunition within the county; requiring establishments that sell firearms or ammunition in the State to make certain literature visible and available and to distribute the literature to purchasers of firearms and ammunition; etc.
Last Action: First Reading Judiciary
Last Action Date: January 27, 2025
Title: Public Safety - Handgun Permits - Expiration and Renewal Periods for Retired Law Enforcement Officer
Description: Establishing alternative expiration and renewal periods for a handgun permit issued to a retired law enforcement officer who retired in good standing from service with a law enforcement agency of the State or a county or municipal corporation of the State; and providing that a handgun permit issued to a law enforcement officer who retired in good standing expires on the last day of the holder's birth month following five years after the date the permit is issued and may be renewed for successive periods of five years under certain circumstances.
Last Action: Second Reading Passed
Last Action Date: January 28, 2025
Title: Judicial and Public Safety for Service Members Act
Description: Establishing rules of interpretation related to the uniformed services; altering the rule of interpretation for "veteran"; and altering the application of certain provisions of judicial proceedings, corrections, criminal, family, public safety, and real property laws to apply to all uniformed services, rather than only the armed forces.
Last Action: Hearing 1/30 at 1:00 p.m. (Judicial Proceedings)
Last Action Date: January 16, 2025
Title: Criminal Law - Theft of a Handgun
Description: Establishing the felony of theft of a handgun; establishing a penalty for theft of a handgun of, for a first conviction, imprisonment of up to 5 years or a fine of up to $1,000 or both and, for a second or subsequent conviction, imprisonment of up to 10 years or a fine of up to $2,500 or both; and requiring that a sentence imposed under the Act be separate from and consecutive to a sentence for any other offense.
Last Action: Withdrawn by Sponsor
Last Action Date: January 27, 2025
Title: Gun Theft Felony Act of 2025
Description: Classifying the theft of a firearm as a felony; and establishing a penalties for a first conviction of imprisonment of up to 5 years or a fine of up to $1,000 or both, and for subsequent convictions, imprisonment not to exceed 10 years or a fine of up to $2,500 or both, for theft of a firearm.
Last Action: Hearing 1/30 at 1:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: January 20, 2025
Title: Trafficking Regulated Firearms - Felony Classification
Description: Reclassifying the prohibition against transporting a regulated firearm into the State for the purpose of unlawfully selling or trafficking the firearm as a felony; and establishing a penalty on conviction of imprisonment of up to 10 years or a fine of up to $25,000 or both.
Last Action: Hearing 2/05 at 2:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: January 28, 2025
Title: Public Safety - Gun Buyback Programs - Destruction of Firearms
Description: Requiring a person or an entity operating a gun buyback program to destroy a firearm, including all components and parts attached to the firearm, that is traded in at a certain gun buyback program; authorizing a certain person or entity to contract with a law enforcement agency, an organization, or a business to destroy certain firearms; and requiring the Secretary of State Police to revoke a certain person's dealer's license if the person violates the provisions of the Act.
Last Action: Hearing 2/05 at 2:00 p.m.
Last Action Date: January 28, 2025
Title: Frederick and Washington Counties - Bow Hunting - Openly Carrying Handguns
Description: Prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from prohibiting certain licensed bow hunters from openly carrying a handgun under certain circumstances in Frederick County and Washington County during deer hunting season.
Last Action: First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment
Last Action Date: January 22, 2025
Title: Prohibited Possession of Firearms - Assisted Outpatient Treatment Respondents
Description: Prohibiting a person from possessing a regulated firearm, rifle, or shotgun if the person is currently a respondent subject to a court order to comply with certain assisted outpatient treatment; and requiring a court to promptly report certain information through a certain data portal if the court orders a person to comply with certain assisted outpatient treatment.
Last Action: First Reading Judicial Proceedings
Last Action Date: January 24, 2025
Title: Public Safety - Distribution of Literature to Purchasers of Firearms and Ammunition
Description: Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to prepare certain literature relating to firearms and ammunition and to distribute the literature to all county health departments in the State; requiring each county health department to distribute certain literature to all establishments that sell firearms or ammunition within the county; requiring establishments that sell firearms or ammunition in the State to make certain literature visible and available and to distribute the literature to purchasers of firearms and ammunition; etc.
Last Action: First Reading Judicial Proceedings
Last Action Date: January 24, 2025
Title: Criminal Law - Exception to Armed Trespass Prohibition - Retired Law Enforcement Officials
Description: Establishing an exception to the prohibition against entering or trespassing on real property while wearing, carrying, or transporting a firearm for a retired law enforcement official who has retired in good standing from a law enforcement agency of the United States, the State or another state, or a local unit in the State or another state under certain circumstances.
Last Action: First Reading Judicial Proceedings
Last Action Date: January 27, 2025
