S 9854

Delays the zero-emission school bus mandate

Authorizes certain exemptions from school district real property taxes for volunteer firefighters

Prohibits the public display of kratom advertisements

Exempts the Caughdenoy Volunteer Fire Department, Inc. from the forty-five percent limit on non-resident members

Prohibits the sale of 7-hydroxymitragynine products

Relates to eligibility for paid sick leave

Relates to establishing the offense of false pretense

Enacts into law necessary legislation including extensions and technical corrections

Requires each violator of "Buster's Law" to register with the division of criminal justice services

Authorizes certified school psychologists to participate in the certification of certain persons as intellectually disabled or developmentally disabled

Provides for an adverse inference in disciplinary proceedings against testimony of correction officers who disable cameras

Relates to prohibiting county correction officers from dispensing medications to incarcerated individuals on the premises of a local correctional facility

Require electronic recordings of all parole board hearings

Mental health; criminal background, license status, and registry checks for owners, applicants, and employees of certain mental health facilities; provide

Criminal procedure: indigent defense; parent and child legal representation commission; create

Correctional Services - Maryland Parole Commission - Members and Hearing Examiners

Professions and Businesses; a preclearance process in the licensing of individuals with criminal records who make application to or are investigated by certain licensing boards and commissions; create

"Putting Georgia's Patients First Act""; enact"