| HB422 | Pass | Altering the calculation of the annual interest rate that the Comptroller sets for tax deficiencies and refunds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 322 |
| HB833 | Pass | Altering the definition of "agricultural land transfer tax" and defining "total rate of tax" to provide that, for purposes of specified provisions of law concerning the calculation of the agricultural land transfer tax, the tax does not include a spe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 373 |
| SB411 | Pass | Authorizing a credit against the State income tax for an individual who serves as a preceptor in specified preceptorship programs under specified circumstances and works in specified areas of the State with health care workforce shortages; establishi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 385 |
| SB605 | Pass | Altering a specified provision of law to require the Athletic Trainer Advisory Committee to recommend to the State Board of Physicians approval, modification, or disapproval of individual evaluation and treatment protocols; authorizing, under specifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 411 |
| SB707 | Pass | Exempting from the certificate of need requirements for change of scope or capital expenditures the conversion of a licensed general hospital to a freestanding medical facility, in accordance with specified requirements; increasing from 45 to 90 the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 420 |
| SB765 | Pass | Establishing that, in any custody or visitation proceeding, the disability of a party is relevant only to the extent that the court finds, based on evidence in the record, that the disability affects the best interest of the child; requiring in a spe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 423 |
| HB920 | Pass | Authorizing a specified action to be brought to establish title against adverse claims to property; providing for venue and the application of the Maryland Rules in an action under the Act; establishing requirements for a complaint, an answer to a co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 396 |
| SB620 | Pass | Requiring the Governor to proclaim annually the second week in June as Chesapeake Bay Awareness Week; and requiring the proclamation to urge educational and environmental organizations, including the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the Alliance for the Ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 415 |
| SB931 | Pass | Prohibiting the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene from collecting a fee for issuing a certified or abridged copy of a birth certificate to a homeless individual; requiring the Department to accept as proof of homelessness a signed written state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 452 |
| HB1303 | Pass | Requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene, after consultation with representatives of payors, health care practitioners, and freestanding ambulatory care facilities, to establish by regulation specified standards for the use of ultrasound ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 410 |
| HB1281 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Energy Administration to provide specified plans to the Strategic Energy Investment Advisory Board in specified years; requiring the Administration to provide reports on the implementation of the plans in specified years; requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 507 |
| HB1277 | Pass | Requiring a hospital to provide a patient or the legal guardian of a patient with an opportunity to designate a lay caregiver before the patient is discharged from the hospital; requiring a hospital to document the decision to not designate a lay car...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 377 |
| SB600 | Pass | Requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene, after consultation with representatives of payors, health care practitioners, and freestanding ambulatory care facilities, to establish by regulation specified standards for the use of ultrasound ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 409 |
| HB922 | Pass | Establishing that a park model recreational vehicle is considered to be a travel trailer for the purposes of the Maryland Vehicle Law; defining the term "park model recreational vehicle"; and making specified conforming changes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 408 |
| HB1378 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Small Business Retirement Savings Program and Trust for private sector employees; establishing the Maryland Small Business Retirement Savings Board to implement, maintain, and administer the Program and the Trust; requiring ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 324 |
| HB1299 | Pass | Providing an exemption from property tax for the interest of a person in property that is located on property owned by the State if the personal property is a crane used for cargo handling purposes; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning aft...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 508 |
| SB442 | Pass | Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim April 16 as National Healthcare Decisions Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 388 |
| SB958 | Pass | Authorizing a Class 7 micro-brewery license to be issued in Cecil County; authorizing a Class 7 micro-brewery license to be issued to a holder of a Class B beer, wine, and liquor license or a Class D beer, wine, and liquor license under specified cir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 454 |
| SB401 | Pass | Authorizing an individual who holds a Deer Management Permit in Charles County and St. Mary's County to use a shotgun or breech loading center fired rifle approved by the Department of Natural Resources to hunt deer throughout the year, including all...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 383 |
| SB853 | Pass | Authorizing a guardian of the property of a specified minor or disabled person to pay or apply income or principal from a specified estate to establish or fund a specified special needs trust, a pooled asset special needs trust account, or an Achievi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 438 |
| SB360 | Pass | Providing that another planned permanent living arrangement may be a child's permanency plan only if the child is at least 16 years old.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 381 |
| SB784 | Pass | Providing that, under specified circumstances, a first named insured under a specified policy of motor vehicle liability insurance is not required to obtain coverage for specified medical, hospital, and disability benefits that must be provided by sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 425 |
| HB440 | Pass | Requiring an electric company, subject to a specified provision, to issue acceptance and final approval to operate a customer-generator's solar electric generating facility on the electric company's distribution facilities within 20 business days aft...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 431 |
| SB630 | Pass | Authorizing the Comptroller to grant a distillery off-site permit to a holder of a Class 1 distillery license or a Class 9 limited distillery license for specified purposes under specified circumstances; establishing limitations on the times and loca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 418 |
| HB472 | Pass | Repealing a requirement that a register of wills in a county return specified estate files to the personal representative of the estate under specified circumstances; authorizing a register to dispose of specified estate files no sooner than 180 days...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 486 |
| SB882 | Pass | Renaming the Northeastern Maryland Additive Manufacturing Innovation Authority to be the Regional Additive Manufacturing Partnership of Maryland; altering specified definitions in order to codify a specified alternate name for the Partnership; alteri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 444 |
| SB1126 | Pass | Establishing the Linking Youth to New Experiences (LYNX) High School at Frederick High School in Frederick County; providing that the LYNX High School is a public school under the authority of the County Board of Education and the County Superintende...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 470 |
| SB775 | Pass | Authorizing a person to purchase and donate recreational hunting or fishing licenses and any corresponding stamps for specified purposes; authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to issue a donated license or stamp only for use by a Gold Star ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 424 |
| HB958 | Pass | Establishing the confidentiality, under specified circumstances, of information that an insurer files with the Maryland Insurance Commissioner as proprietary rate-related information; requiring the Commissioner, if the Commissioner makes a specified ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 499 |
| HB320 | Pass | Altering specified requirements for an existing business entity in Frederick County to qualify for a specified property tax credit imposed on real property owned or leased by the business entity; altering the definition of "full-time position" to inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 481 |
| HB501 | Pass | Prohibiting insurers that issue, sell, or deliver policies of motor vehicle liability insurance in the State from canceling the policy of a named insured or refusing to issue a policy to an applicant solely because the named insured or applicant is a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 488 |
| SB757 | Pass | Requiring the Comptroller to implement electronic filing of alcoholic beverage tax returns on or before January 1, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 421 |
| HB459 | Pass | Decreasing from $24 to $10 fees for certified copies of specified certificates; and decreasing from $20 to $10 the portion of each fee collected by local health departments required to be transferred to the General Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 316 |
| SB969 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from importing, manufacturing, distributing, selling, or offering for sale a counterfeit airbag or a nonfunctional airbag; prohibiting a person from installing a counterfeit airbag or a nonfunctional airbag in a motor vehicle; pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 456 |
| HB912 | Pass | Establishing in the Motor Vehicle Administration the Program to Incentivize and Enable Uninsured Vehicle Owners to Be Insured; specifying the eligibility requirements; requiring the Administration to waive 80% of a vehicle owner's delinquent uninsure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 447 |
| SB169 | Pass | Authorizing a local board of elections to commence the canvass of vote-by-mail ballots cast in a special election conducted by mail at 2 p.m. on the day of the special election; authorizing the State Board of Elections to adopt regulations authorizin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 357 |
| HB321 | Pass | Establishing for archery hunters in Anne Arundel County a safety zone of 100 yards from a dwelling house, residence, church, or any other building or camp occupied by human beings within which archery hunting may not take place except under specified...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 334 |
| HB439 | Pass | Altering the circumstances under which it is an unfair or deceptive trade practice for a seller in a door-to-door sale to fail to furnish a specified statement that specifies the time period in which a buyer has the right to cancel a transaction; req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 485 |
| SB425 | Pass | Authorizing specified counties to participate, for a specified period of time, in a specified income tax refund withholding program related to individuals with outstanding warrants if the sheriff of the county notifies the Comptroller of the county's...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 387 |
| HB497 | Pass | Continuing the State Board of Environmental Health Specialists in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act by extending to July 1, 2027, the termination provisions related to the specified authority of the Board; requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 360 |
| HB104 | Pass | Authorizing specified dentists, podiatrists, nurse midwives, and nurse practitioners, in addition to physicians, to issue written certifications to qualifying patients by substituting the defined term "certifying provider" for "certifying physician" ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 474 |
| SB859 | Pass | Authorizing, in Frederick County, a person aggrieved by a development rights and responsibilities agreement to file an administrative appeal; providing that if an agreement was entered into before July 1, 2016, a person aggrieved by an amendment to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 442 |
| HB727 | Pass | Requiring the State Racing Commission, before granting a permit to a person for satellite simulcast betting, to hold public hearings within 10 miles of the proposed satellite simulcast facility; requiring the Commission to advertise specified informa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 496 |
| HB1156 | Pass | Altering the wine festival license in Calvert County to be the beer or wine festival license; establishing that beer festivals and beer and wine festivals are subject to specified authorizations and requirements applicable to wine festivals; authoriz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 416 |
| HB326 | Pass | Expanding the areas in which the Neighborhood Business Development Program in the Department of Housing and Community Development is authorized to provide financial assistance; authorizing the Maryland Housing Fund and the Community Development Admin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 482 |
| HB1417 | Pass | Authorizing an individual who holds a Deer Management Permit in Charles County and St. Mary's County to use a shotgun or breech loading center fired rifle approved by the Department of Natural Resources to hunt deer throughout the year, including all...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 384 |
| SB354 | Pass | Authorizing a specified individual to file a motion requesting that court records relating to a specified petition for emergency evaluation be sealed; requiring the court to have a copy of the motion served on a specified petitioner at a specified ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 378 |
| HB507 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act; authorizing a user to direct a custodian of digital assets to disclose or not to disclose those assets under specified circumstances and in a specified manner; providing that the Act d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 365 |
| HB898 | Pass | Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City, a county, or a municipal corporation to provide a property tax credit against the county or municipal corporation property tax imposed on the dwelling of specified individuals who are elderly ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 498 |
| HB1128 | Pass | Altering which cycle of specified regulations adopted by the United States Environmental Protection Agency is the basis for the requirement that the WSSC conduct quarterly testing of drinking water in the Commission system for unregulated contaminant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 501 |
