| HB1506 | Pass | Renaming the Governor's Office of Minority Affairs to be the Governor's Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs; renaming the Special Secretary for the Office of Minority Affairs to be the Special Secretary for the Office of Small, Mino...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 633 |
| SJ2 | Enroll
Sine Die | Repealing and withdrawing specified applications to Congress to call a Constitutional Convention; and urging the legislatures of specified other states to repeal and withdraw such applications.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Signed by the President and the Speaker - Joint Resolution 2 |
| HB857 | Pass | Altering the definition of "small private group home" by increasing from 8 to 9 the maximum number of individuals who may be admitted by a small private group home for the purposes of specified provisions of law governing residences in which individu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 584 |
| SB957 | Pass | Altering specified provisions of law concerning the authority of a municipality to establish a land bank authority; making specified provisions of law concerning the establishment of a land bank authority applicable to a municipality or county; autho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 619 |
| HB1147 | Pass | Requiring specified insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to allow and apply a prorated daily copayment or coinsurance amount for a partial supply of a prescription drug dispensed by an in-network pharmacy und...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 766 |
| SB1 | Pass | Requiring county boards of education, beginning in the 2018-2019 school year, to report specified information relating to the provision of specialized intervention services to the State Department of Education and the General Assembly on or before De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 728 |
| SB319 | Pass | Establishing the Pathways in Technology Early College High (P-TECH) School Program; requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Maryland Higher Education Commission, to administer the Program; requiring P-TECH students to be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 591 |
| HB253 | Pass | Altering the requirements to renew specified licenses by authorizing specified registered nurses and licensed practical nurses to renew a license if the registered nurse or licensed practical nurse submits to the State Board of Nursing specified evid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 623 |
| HB653 | Pass | Increasing the statute of limitations to 3 years for the crime of solicitation to commit murder in the first degree, arson in the first degree, or arson in the second degree.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 647 |
| HB979 | Pass | Authorizing the governing body of a county or municipal corporation to grant, by law, a specified property tax credit against the county or municipal corporation property tax imposed on a specified dwelling that is owned by a specified public safety ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 686 |
| SB74 | Pass | Making stylistic changes to various provisions of law to standardize the terminology used to refer to nonprofit persons where appropriate; and providing that, except as expressly stated in the Act, the Act shall be construed as a nonsubstantive revis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 631 |
| HB1500 | Pass | Increasing from $98,500 to $136,000 the annual salary of the Sheriff of Harford County beginning December 1, 2018; providing that the Act does not apply to the salary or compensation of the Sheriff of Harford County while serving in a specified term ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 736 |
| SB580 | Pass | Providing that each employee in the State Personnel Management System, except a temporary employee, is entitled to 7 days, not to exceed 56 hours, of personal leave with pay at the beginning of the first full pay period of the calendar year during a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 680 |
| HB735 | Pass | Increasing the share of the intestate estate of a decedent inherited by a surviving spouse under specified circumstances from the first $15,000 to the first $40,000 plus one-half of the residue.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 626 |
| HB1150 | Pass | Altering the definition of "off-highway recreational vehicle" as it applies to the Maryland Vehicle Law to include a side-by-side utility vehicle; and altering the fee for a certificate of title for an off-highway recreational vehicle to $35.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 757 |
| HB390 | Pass | Repealing a specified provision of law relating to prequalification of bidders and offerors; increasing from $100,000 to $200,000 the total value of specified contracts, leases, or other agreements that require a business to file a specified disclosu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 586 |
| HB1329 | Pass | Requiring the State Court Administrator of the Administrative Office of the Courts to assess specified drug court programs to make specified determinations; stating the intent of the General Assembly that the Administrative Office request an appropri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 571 |
| HB1469 | Pass | Requiring that the first $100 for one child and $200 for two or more children collected in child support in a month pass through to a family seeking assistance under the Family Investment Program; and prohibiting the consideration of that child suppo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 737 |
| SJ8 | Enroll
Sine Die | Expressing the opposition of the General Assembly to the drastic cuts to the funding of the Chesapeake Bay Program and specified other programs proposed by the President of the United States in the federal budget blueprint for fiscal year 2018; urgin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Signed by the President and the Speaker - Joint Resolution 4 |
| HB721 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Juvenile Services to serve children in the juvenile services system with programming that provides females with services and programs to meet their specific needs, including diversion programs, community detention services...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 653 |
| SB83 | Pass | Authorizing the court, on motion of a party filed within 18 months after a final decree of absolute divorce is entered, to change the name of the requesting party to either the name given the party at birth or any other former name the party wishes t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 625 |
| HB926 | Pass | Defining the term "health insurance" to include medical insurance, dental insurance, prescription drug coverage, and vision insurance for purposes of calculating a child support obligation under the child support guidelines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 739 |
| SB220 | Pass | Requiring the Police Training Commission to require that the specified entrance-level and in-service police training conducted by the State and each county and municipal police training school include specified training relating to the criminal laws ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 645 |
| SB290 | Pass | Authorizing a specified motor vehicle insurer and the Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund to reinstate a specified private passenger motor vehicle liability insurance policy in a specified manner under specified circumstances; requiring a policyholder...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 725 |
| HB443 | Pass | Repealing a requirement that the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene adopt regulations requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to charge specified fees in a specified manner; and requiring the Department to adopt regulations that est...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 772 |
| SB487 | Pass | Prohibiting a ground lease holder from taking specified actions against the current leasehold tenant of specified abandoned property in Baltimore City to recover ground rent due and owing from a former leasehold tenant before the date that the curren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 595 |
| SB717 | Pass | Establishing the Task Force on Rural Internet, Broadband, Wireless, and Cellular Service; requiring the Task Force to study and make recommendations on ways Western Maryland counties, Southern Maryland counties, Eastern Shore counties, and Frederick,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 621 |
| HB1383 | Pass | Authorizing the Behavioral Health Administration to establish an outpatient civil commitment pilot program to allow for the release of an individual who is involuntarily admitted for inpatient treatment under a specified provision of law on the condi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 576 |
| SB311 | Pass | Altering provisions of State procurement law; altering the dollar value threshold that triggers the requirement to publish notice in eMaryland Marketplace; specifying a preferred procurement method for human, social, cultural, or educational services...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 588 |
| HB786 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, in conjunction with the State Department of Education, to recommend best practices for county boards of education to provide to students specified needs assessments and specified behavioral healt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 583 |
| HB83 | Pass | Altering a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for specified income of specified individuals resulting from the discharge of student loan indebtedness by repealing a requirement that the discharge must be due to total and permanent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 685 |
| HB437 | Pass | Authorizing the Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland to make a one-time transfer of no more than $50,000,000 from the State-supported fund balance to a quasi-endowment fund; and limiting the use of specified proceeds for facility ren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 741 |
| HB1287 | Pass | Establishing the Commission on the School-to-Prison Pipeline and Restorative Practices; providing that the purpose of the Commission is to study current disciplinary practices in Maryland public schools and examine national best practices for trainin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 762 |
| SB117 | Pass | Authorizing the boards of trustees of community colleges with service areas that border other states to set an out-of-state fee for students who reside in out-of-state counties that border Maryland; requiring that this fee be more than the out-of-cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 691 |
| SB73 | Pass | Increasing the share of the intestate estate of a decedent inherited by a surviving spouse under specified circumstances from the first $15,000 to the first $40,000 plus one-half of the residue.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 627 |
| HB439 | Pass | Increasing the annual salary of the State's Attorney for Somerset County from $98,000 to $113,066; and providing that the provisions of the Act will take effect at the beginning of the next following term of office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 734 |
| HB459 | Pass | Requiring, under specified circumstances and subject to specified funding recommendations, postsecondary education and workforce training programs developed and recommended by the Correctional Education Council to provide inmates in correctional inst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 687 |
| HB1381 | Pass | Establishing an Adult High School Pilot Program to establish an alternative method for adults who did not graduate from high school to earn a diploma; providing that the Program is under the authority and supervision of the State Department of Educat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 608 |
| HB830 | Pass | Requiring a specified pollinator habitat plan to include specified best management practices for the designation of specified habitat areas; requiring that a specified pollinator habitat plan established by the Department of Natural Resources, the Ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 755 |
| SB61 | Pass | Establishing that a specified coverage requirement that applies to specified insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations includes coverage for digital tomosynthesis, a radiologic breast cancer screening procedure, u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 677 |
| HB81 | Pass | Repealing "confinement" as a condition of disability for purposes of guardianship proceedings to protect a disabled individual's property; and repealing "confinement" as a condition of incapacity as defined under the Maryland Trust Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 666 |
| HB1522 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the State Department of Education to conduct a needs assessment for student school-based behavioral health services; and requiring the assessment to contain specified matters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 585 |
| SB707 | Pass | Authorizing waste or recycling collection vehicles to be equipped with or display yellow or amber lights or signal devices; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 752 |
| HB1017 | Pass | Altering the standards and procedures applicable to the expungement of public driving records by the Motor Vehicle Administration; prohibiting the Administration from expunging specified driving record entries; and requiring the Administration to ado...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 717 |
| HB1107 | Pass | Requiring a specified procurement officer to make a specified determination before a primary procurement unit is authorized to take specified action regarding an intergovernmental cooperative purchasing agreement; requiring a primary procurement unit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 774 |
| HB82 | Pass | Repealing provisions relating to the Woodrow Wilson Bridge and Tunnel Compact; repealing a requirement that the Governor execute the compact with the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia under specified circumstances; repealing the W...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 681 |
| HB887 | Pass | Prohibiting specified insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from applying a preauthorization requirement for a prescription drug to be used for treatment of an opioid use disorder and that contains methadone, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 581 |
| HB1067 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Human Resources to make available to specified entities specified supplies of feminine hygiene products for female residents in shelters and specified homeless female students; requiring, alternatively, if a specified cont...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 641 |
| SB996 | Pass | Altering the definition of "abuse" for the purpose of specified child abuse and neglect statutes to include the physical or mental injury of a child by a person who, because of the person's position or occupation, exercises authority over the child u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 652 |
| HB1246 | Pass | Expanding a specified liability exemption for a landowner who agrees to the use of a defined part of the landowner's property for cross-country skiing or off-highway vehicle use to apply to hunting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 746 |
