| SB534 | Pass | Altering which salaries the Washington County Salary Study Commission is required to study; increasing the number of regular members of the Washington County Board of Elections to five; requiring the members of the local board to be of specified poli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| HB587 | Pass | Altering the definition of "qualified Maryland biotechnology company" for purposes of the biotechnology investment tax credit for fiscal years 2012 and 2013 only, to allow investments in companies that have been in active business for up to 15 years ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| SB120 | Pass | Repealing the requirement that procurement procedures seek to award 7 percent and 10 percent of a unit's total dollar value of contracts to African-American-owned and women-owned businesses respectively; clarifying that it is a goal that 25 percent o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| HB739 | Pass | Transferring responsibilities for sexual assault crisis programs and domestic violence programs from the Department of Human Resources to the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention; transferring specified appropriations held by the Departm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| HB510 | Pass | Altering the penalty for harassment for a second or subsequent offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| HB899 | Pass | Establishing the Warrant Apprehension Unit within the Division of Parole and Probation; providing that specified employees of the Warrant Apprehension Unit also have specified additional powers; including specified employees of the Warrant Apprehensi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| SB850 | Pass | Authorizing a licensed insurance producer to provide to a specified small employer information about State health programs in accordance with regulations adopted by the Maryland Insurance Commissioner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| SB514 | Pass | Authorizing the Maryland Community Health Resources Commission to provide specified assistance to community health resources; authorizing the Commission to examine specified issues and potential challenges to community health resources in preparing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| SB787 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Juvenile Services to provide a report to the General Assembly on or before December 1, 2011, including statewide and regional information on the utilization of prevention and diversion services, alternatives to detention, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| SB693 | Pass | Providing that employees of the Injured Workers' Insurance Fund are not subject to specified laws, regulations, or executive orders governing State employee compensation; and repealing a requirement that the Board for the Fund set compensation for it...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| HB643 | Pass | Prohibiting the use of State funds to install or replace a permanent outdoor luminaire for lighting on the grounds of any State building unless the luminaire meets specified requirements; providing specified exceptions to the requirements of the Act;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| SB997 | Pass | Authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Baltimore County under specified circumstances to extend an alcoholic beverages license for not more than 2 years if the licensed premises is forced to close because of a casualty loss; and making th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| SB692 | Pass | Requiring the Public Service Commission to adopt regulations on or before July 1, 2012, that implement specified service quality and reliability standards relating to the delivery of electricity to retail customers by electric companies through their...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| HB1116 | Pass | Increasing to 30 days from 18 days the period of time during which secondhand precious metal object dealers in Prince George's County must keep precious metal objects in the county; and providing an exception for specified pawned precious metal objec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| SB362 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and the appropriate local detention center, on the release of an individual supervised by the Division of Parole and Probation, to provide the individual with an oral and a written n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| HB450 | Pass | Authorizing the Maryland Community Health Resources Commission to provide specified assistance to community health resources in preparing to implement specified health care reform; authorizing the Commission to examine specified issues and potential ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| HB972 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Housing and Community Development to adopt by regulation the International Green Construction Code; authorizing local jurisdictions to adopt and make local amendments to the International Green Construction Code; definin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| SB512 | Pass | Prohibiting the Video Lottery Facility Location Commission from awarding a video lottery operation license for a location in Allegany County unless an applicant agrees to purchase the Rocky Gap Lodge and Resort; limiting the number of video lottery t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| SB746 | Pass | Establishing the Task Force on Industrial Job Creation in Baltimore County; specifying the membership, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to determine the causes of the loss of employment opportunities in specified indust...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| HB407 | Pass | Authorizing a District Court Commissioner, in a specified interim protective order, and a judge, in a temporary protective order or final protective order, to award temporary possession of any pet of a person eligible for relief or a respondent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| SB658 | Pass | Requiring specified persons to register as appraisal management companies with the State Commission of Real Estate Appraisers and Home Inspectors; requiring an appraisal management company's registration to include specified information in a specifie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| HB600 | Pass | Adding to the list of entities to which the Health Services Cost Review Commission may disclose physician information; altering the list of entities that may be medical review committees charged by law to evaluate matters relating to health care prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| HB613 | Pass | Altering the date from November 1 to January 15 before which the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission is required to prepare and submit a 6-year capital improvements program to the county governing body of Prince George's County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| HB4 | Pass | Prohibiting the State from purchasing infant formula in containers and prohibiting the manufacture, sale, or distribution of containers containing a specified amount of bisphenol-A on or after July 1, 2014; requiring the Department of Health and Ment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| SB839 | Pass | Requiring a person to obtain a kennel license if the person owns or has custody of 15 or more unspayed female dogs over the age of 6 months kept for the purpose of breeding the dogs and selling their offspring and sells dogs from six or more litters ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| SB765 | Pass | Requiring State agencies to provide specified data to the State Board of Elections for the purpose of maintaining an accurate statewide voter registration list; prohibiting the State Board from disclosing specified data it receives except under speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| SB620 | Pass | Altering the actions that a landlord or mobile home park owner is prohibited from taking against a tenant or resident, respectively, for specified reasons; altering the reference to a specified prohibited action of a landlord or park owner to be a "r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| SB883 | Pass | Establishing the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; establishing the mission of the Program; requiring the Program to carry out its mission by monitoring the prescribing and dispensing of specified su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| HB11 | Pass | Providing a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax in the amount of $3,500 for qualifying members of the Maryland Defense Force; providing that an individual may not qualify for the subtraction modification based on membership in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| HB12 | Pass | Prohibiting a public employer, under specified circumstances, from knowingly buying, furnishing, or requiring an employee to buy or acquire for use while on duty specified uniforms and other equipment unless the uniforms or equipment are manufactured...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| SB244 | Pass | Requiring the Public Service Commission to educate consumers about customer choice in accordance with a specified provision of law; requiring the Commission to host a section on its Web site related to customer choice; requiring the Web site to compl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| SB695 | Pass | Distinguishing between public, private nonprofit, and for-profit institutions of higher education; clarifying that a person is prohibited from engaging in unfair or deceptive practices in the offer for sale of specified educational services; authoriz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| HB1020 | Pass | Altering retroactive applicability of specified provisions of law so as to include a person who is convicted under specified circumstances; altering the predicate offenses and minimum age for inclusion on a registry of juvenile sex offenders; requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| HB678 | Pass | Authorizing the sanitary district in Somerset County to charge a late fee for unpaid water and sewer usage charges; authorizing the Sanitary Commission in Somerset County to require the payment of specified late fees before reconnecting specified wat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| SB416 | Pass | Authorizing a county health officer, subject to the consent of the governing body of the county and the written approval of the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene, to enter into a contract or other written agreement to assist or participate in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| HB632 | Pass | Requiring the Comptroller to publish the maximum income eligibility for the State earned income tax credit on or before January 1 of each calendar year; requiring the Comptroller to prepare and mail to all employers in the State a specified notice; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| HB728 | Pass | Requiring a notice of intent to foreclose for an owner-occupied residential property to be accompanied by an envelope addressed to a specified person; altering the documents that must accompany an order to docket or complaint to foreclose on resident...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| HB435 | Pass | Altering the methods available to members of the Optional Retirement Program for making employee contributions to supplemental retirement accounts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| SB196 | Pass | Increasing from 1 year to 3 years the period of time within which a prosecution for a specified sexual offense in the fourth degree must be instituted after the offense was committed, if the victim was a minor at the time of the offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| HB456 | Pass | Repealing the requirement that procurement procedures seek to award 7 percent and 10 percent of a unit's total dollar value of contracts to African American-owned and women-owned businesses respectively; clarifying that it is a goal that 25 percent o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| SB639 | Pass | Establishing a Task Force on the Establishment of a Statewide Spay/Neuter Fund; specifying the membership, chair, and staff of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to review specified spay/neuter programs, collect and review specified data, and m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| SB950 | Pass | Increasing to 30 days from 18 days the period of time during which secondhand precious metal object dealers in Prince George's County must keep precious metal objects in the county; and providing an exception for specified pawned precious metal objec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| HB823 | Pass | Providing an exemption from the sales and use tax for sales of food, bottled water, soft drinks or carbonated beverages, and candy or confectionery by a nonprofit food vendor at a youth sporting event or 4-H youth event for individuals under the age ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| HB1005 | Pass | Providing that a motor carrier permit is not required, under specified circumstances, for a shuttle bus service operated by the University of Maryland, College Park for its students that is also used to provide, in exchange for payment by the municip...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| SB200 | Pass | Requiring the Secretary of Juvenile Services to report to the General Assembly on or before January 1 of each year on the recidivism rates of children committed to the Department of Juvenile Services for placement in residential care; establishing th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| HB466 | Pass | Requiring the Board of Public Works, in consultation with the Department of General Services, to adopt regulations to require that a bidder or offeror responding to a solicitation for a service contract for janitorial services delineate its costs by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| HB109 | Pass | Prohibiting the State Highway Administration from issuing a permit for an outdoor sign along or near a federal-aid primary highway if the sign is along or near a scenic byway located on the federal-aid primary highway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| SB516 | Pass | Prohibiting a foreclosure sale purchaser from exercising any right to collect rent payments from a bona fide tenant in possession of a residential property unless the purchaser conducts a specified reasonable inquiry concerning the occupancy of the r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| SB204 | Pass | Altering the definition of "sexual act" to include an act in which a part of an individual's body is used to penetrate specified body parts of another individual; and altering the definition of "sexual contact".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
| SB980 | Pass | Authorizing the election of the board of directors of a credit union to be conducted electronically under specified circumstances; requiring the secretary of a credit union, for an election of directors conducted electronically, to provide specified ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-05-10
Approved by the Governor |
