| HB304 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing, subject to specified requirements, a person to place or maintain an advertising sign for specified agricultural businesses on a State highway; providing that specified provisions of law regulating the placement and maintenance of outdoor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters Withdrawn |
| SB241 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Joint Committee on Administrative, Executive, and Legislative Review to hold a public hearing regarding a proposed regulation if at least 5 members of the Committee request a hearing; requiring the Committee, under specified circumstanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| HB458 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that specified personal and business documents are admissible as evidence and presumed to be authentic if the account holder testifies as to their authenticity in any judicial or administrative proceeding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| HB589 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a specified public servant or dealer in the State from enforcing or attempting to enforce an act, a law, a statute, a rule, or a regulation of the United States government relating to a personal firearm, firearm accessory, or ammunition t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary Withdrawn |
| HB590 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the qualifications of an applicant for a direct wine shipper's permit to include a person licensed by the State or licensed outside the State to engage in the retail sale of wine for consumption off the premises, subject to a specified provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-25
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB445 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a driver of a vehicle from overtaking another vehicle going in the same direction unless a safe passing distance can be maintained while the other vehicle is being overtaken; repealing an exception to a requirement that a driver of a vehi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters |
| HB326 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a vulnerable adult abuse registry; requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to establish and maintain a registry containing the names of specified individuals; requiring that names and information contained in the registry b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| HB441 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the General Assembly to create a Death Penalty Court that shall have original and exclusive jurisdiction over all presentments or indictments for offenses punishable by death; vesting the judicial power of the State in the Death Penalty C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| HB340 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a specified form developed by the State Real Estate Commission in connection with the sale of residential real property to include a specified statement about the possibility of significant differences in the property tax bill previously pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters Withdrawn |
| HB1103 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing local jurisdictions to use speed monitoring systems to enforce specified speed laws on all highways in their jurisdictions under specified standards and procedures; requiring a Web site maintained or participated in under the Act to inclu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters Withdrawn |
| HB1197 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Comptroller to issue a winery special event permit to a Class 4 Maryland limited winery in Queen Anne's County for unlimited use for 1 day each week at specified farmers' markets in Queen Anne's County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-25
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB369 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to include in the deer muzzle loader season a minimum of 3 days in January for the hunting of both antlered and antlerless deer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters Withdrawn |
| HB1476 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a gas or an electric company to notify a specified customer of the customer's right to receive a repair service within a 2-hour period if the customer's presence is required; requiring a gas or an electric company and a customer to agree on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-25
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1043 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the requirement for the State to give notice to a defendant of the intention to seek a sentence of death if the defendant committed more than one murder in the first degree arising out of the same incident; requiring that a separate sentenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| HB648 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the number of winery special event permits that may be issued to specified wineries for use at specified farmers' markets in Montgomery County so as to authorize issuance of not more than one winery special event permit per week.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-25
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB910 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing to a specified amount the salary of each judge of the Orphans' Court for Anne Arundel County; authorizing a specified annual cost-of-living adjustment; and providing that the Act does not apply to the salary or compensation of the judges o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary Withdrawn |
| HB393 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering provisions relating to driving a motor vehicle while a license or privilege to drive issued by the State or any other state is refused, suspended, canceled, or revoked; providing that in a prosecution specified records are prima facie eviden...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| HB41 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that appointments to the Baltimore County Revenue Authority by the Baltimore County Executive are subject to the consent of the Baltimore County Delegation to the General Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters Withdrawn |
| HB488 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting, in Frederick County, a person from using, manufacturing, possessing, or distributing synthetic cannabinoids; establishing criminal penalties for a violation of the Act; defining a term; and making the Act an emergency measure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary Withdrawn |
| HB160 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a restriction on riding a bicycle, play vehicle, or unicycle on a sidewalk or sidewalk area under specified circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters |
| HB156 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing a prohibition on theft of a wheeled cart.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-22
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB1167 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a seller from imposing a surcharge, in any sales transaction, on a cardholder who elects to use a credit card instead of payment by cash, check, or similar means; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-22
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB1460 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a local department of social services and the Developmental Disabilities Administration to plan for the transfer of responsibility for the case management, care, supervision, and treatment of a medically fragile child with a developmental d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-22
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB798 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a State inspector to provide a podiatry office or facility or a chiropractic office or facility a specified written notice in accordance with specified requirements under specified circumstances; prohibiting the Department of the Environmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-22
To House Environmental Matters Committee |
| HB800 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the requirements for the issuance of a specified license, a specified permit, and a specified building permit for specified nonwater-dependent projects located on State wetlands or private wetlands; specifically authorizing the issuance of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-22
To House Environmental Matters Committee |
| HB1218 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a merchant that accepts payment by credit card from imposing a specified surcharge on a buyer who elects to use a credit card to make payment in a sales transaction for consumer goods or consumer services; providing that the Act does not ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-22
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB1466 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to conduct a study of whether genetically modified organisms in food have an adverse effect on human health; requiring the study to include a review of academic literature and scientific studies; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-22
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1465 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a specified agency to mail a warning notice instead of a citation for a first violation by the owner or driver recorded by a speed monitoring system in the local jurisdiction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-22
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB382 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the imposition of specified court costs if a defendant is sentenced to probation before judgment for or pleads nolo contendere to a specified crime or offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-22
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB78 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing that, in an action against an owner of a dog for damages for personal injury or death caused by the dog, evidence that the dog caused the injury or death creates a rebuttable presumption that the owner knew or should have known that the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-22
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB391 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the Sustainable Growth and Agricultural Preservation Act of 2012; repealing specified provisions of law relating to the adoption of specified growth tier designations by specified local jurisdictions; repealing a prohibition against the sal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-21
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| HB259 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that campaign finance contributions by two or more business entities be attributed to one business entity if one is a wholly owned subsidiary of another or if the business entities are owned or controlled by at least 80% of the same individ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-21
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB89 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a person to hunt turkey on private property on Sundays during the spring turkey hunting season in Kent County; and making the Act an emergency measure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-21
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Withdrawn |
| SB732 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the continued detention, beyond emergency detention, of a child under the age of 14, unless the child is alleged to have committed an act that, if committed by an adult, would be punishable by death or life imprisonment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-21
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB204 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from restricting specified licensed bow hunters from openly carrying a handgun under specified circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-21
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB310 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing, notwithstanding a specified regulation, Garrett County to store coal combustion by-products used as a traction aide in winter driving conditions in the same locations and in the same manner that the coal combustion by-products were store...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-21
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| HB325 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an election judge to establish a voter's identity and verify the voter's address if the voter seeks to vote a regular ballot; requiring an election judge to qualify a voter by requesting the voter to present a current government-issued phot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-21
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB603 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding the housing policy of the State regarding the provision of fair housing to include providing for fair housing regardless of source of income; prohibiting specified discriminatory acts based on a person's source of income; establishing speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-21
To House Environmental Matters Committee |
| HB729 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting public inspection of a petition after the petition is filed with the State Board of Elections or a county board of elections, with a specified exception; requiring a custodian to permit a person to inspect a petition if the person require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-21
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB41 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a person to hunt deer on private property in Kent County using specified hunting equipment on specified Sundays during specified hunting seasons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-21
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Withdrawn |
| SB317 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting Frederick County from the requirement to adopt a watershed protection and restoration program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-21
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB818 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Community Juvenile Services Program; requiring the Governor to appoint a State Coordinator for Community Juvenile Services; establishing the compensation of the State Coordinator; establishing the Community Juvenile Services Committe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-21
Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m. |
| SB325 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting Frederick County from specified soil erosion and sediment control standards; requiring completion of specified stabilization measures within specified time periods; eliminating a specified limit on a specified area to be graded; and elimina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-21
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| HB676 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that an individual who resides in Montgomery County and has been harmed by a specified type of nuisance may bring an action to abate the nuisance or for other compensatory or equitable relief against the person found to have created the nui...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-21
To House Environmental Matters Committee |
| SB329 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an appointing authority to apply a credit of one point on a selection test for specified positions in the State Personnel Management System for each degree successfully completed by an applicant at specified public institutions of higher ed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-21
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| SB146 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Governor to appoint the members of the Board of Trustees of Chesapeake College from a list of at least three qualified individuals submitted to the Governor by each county that supports Chesapeake College.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-21
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| HB17 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the General Assembly to provide by suitable enactment a process to allow a qualified voter to register and vote on election day at a specified polling place in a specified precinct or on a specified day before election day at a specified ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-21
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB648 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that the juvenile court has jurisdiction over a specified child alleged to have committed specified acts that, if committed by an adult, would be specified crimes, or over a specified child who has previously been convicted of a felony; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-21
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB475 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the requirement to reduce specified amounts the Governor is required to include in the budget bill for payment to the State Retirement and Pension System by the amount of administrative and operational expenses for the Board of Trustees and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-21
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB664 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing provisions of law regarding prevailing wage rates for public work contracts; repealing provisions limiting the application of prevailing wage rates to a public work contract of $500,000 or more or a part of a public work contract that is re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
