| HB1060 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each local school system to offer the services of an independent facilitator to specified parents and school personnel; authorizing specified parents and school personnel to request the participation of an independent facilitator in a speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1248 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a medical school from using a live or dead animal in the medical education or training of students if alternate methods are used by specified other medical schools in the State; and establishing a penalty for violation of the Act not to e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1249 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Improve Suicide Prevention Programs for Veterans; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to study specified suicide prevention programs and develop a specified pla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1251 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding the scope of the training requirements under the Open Meetings Act to include all employees, officials, and members of a public body; requiring that specified individuals complete specified training within a specified time period; requiring...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB668 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an administrative law judge or a court to award reasonable attorney's fees to a prevailing parent in due process hearings that are held to resolve a dispute relating to the provision of a free appropriate public education to children with d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB529 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the process for filling a vacancy in the office of United States Senator; repealing the authority of the Governor to make an appointment to fill a vacancy in the office of United States Senator under specified circumstances; requiring the Go...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB937 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Prince George's County Board of Education to develop curriculum content for a course in financial literacy as a part of the county board's high school curriculum; requiring the county board to implement specified curriculum content in h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB667 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a political committee to file a contribution report within 48 hours after receiving a single contribution, transfer, or loan of $1,000 or more during the year of an election in which the political committee is participating; requiring contr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB648 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting specified individuals who enroll as full-time certificate or associate's degree students at a community college in the State from payment of tuition under specified circumstances; providing the conditions under which an individual is no lon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB538 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study a Program for Interest-Free Loans to STEM College Students in Maryland; providing for the composition, including one member each from the Senate and House of Delegates of Maryland, cochairs, and staffing of the Ta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB478 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a fiscal note for a bill to include a criminal justice policy impact statement if the bill creates a criminal offense, significantly alters the elements of an existing criminal offense, alters the penalties applicable to a criminal offense,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB888 | Intro
Sine Die | Creating a rebuttable presumption in specified court proceedings that specified custodial arrangements are in the best interests of a child; and authorizing the court to grant sole custody under specified circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB763 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study the Effectiveness of Teacher Education Programs in the Instruction of Reading; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving specified ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB565 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a redeemable ground rent to be redeemed on the occurrence of specified events; requiring that, if a collection or enforcement procedure has been instituted to collect a past due ground rent, the default must be cured before the ground rent ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB587 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a motor vehicle manufacturer, distributor, or factory branch from committing specified acts relating to motor vehicle pricing; requiring a manufacturer, distributor, or factory branch to ensure that any advertisement it directs to consume...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m. (Finance) |
| HB344 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring specified public agencies to bear a specified burden of proof in due process hearings that are held to resolve a dispute relating to the provision of a free appropriate public education; providing a specified exception for a parent or guard...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB713 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring specified Executive Branch agencies and the Department of Legislative Services to prepare economic impact analyses for specified bills that impact local government land use decisions; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB611 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an official publisher that publishes legal material in an electronic record to designate the electronic record as official, under specified circumstances, and authenticate the electronic record in a specified manner; providing that specifie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB673 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting specified individuals who enroll as full-time certificate or associate's degree students at a community college in the State from payment of tuition under specified circumstances; providing the conditions under which an individual is no lon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB292 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from causing a specified instrument to be recorded in the land records of a county under specified circumstances; requiring a clerk of the circuit court to send a specified notice to the parties named in a deed or other instrumen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB350 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a court, in any child custody or visitation proceeding, from making any negative inference regarding a parent's past, present, or future deployment; altering specified provisions relating to expedited hearings; authorizing a party or witn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB448 | Intro
Sine Die | Adding a new article to the Maryland Constitution to govern congressional districts; requiring congressional districts to conform to specified standards and that due regard be given to specified boundaries; requiring the Governor to prepare a congres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB364 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Delegate Howard P. Rawlings Program of Educational Excellence Awards in the State to be awarded to the neediest students to ensure the payment of 100 percnet of educational costs and to low and moderate income students for payment as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB519 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a system of public financing of campaigns for specified General Assembly candidates; requiring the State Board of Elections to administer the system; requiring the Comptroller to credit to the Fair Campaign Financing Fund money collected...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB512 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring hospitals and specified health care practitioners who provide specified care in specified health care facilities to offer, to the extent practicable, specified individuals a hepatitis C screening test or a hepatitis C diagnostic test; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB424 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering a specified provision of law concerning equal pay for equal work to prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender identity; prohibiting an employer from discriminating between employees in any occupation by providing less favorable employme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB445 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that the Judicial Ethics Committee rather than the Commission on Judicial Disabilities shall administer and implement specified provisions of law that apply to State officials of the Judicial Branch; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB480 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Commission on Rental Housing Stabilization; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Commission; prohibiting a member of the Commission from receiving specified compensation; requiring the Commission to investigate s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB996 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a requirement that a homeowner submit a specified application to the Department of Assessments and Taxation to receive the homestead property tax credit; repealing specified deadlines and procedures for filing the application for the homest...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB876 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an animal shelter to develop and adhere to a specified written veterinary care protocol; stating specified requirements for the written veterinary protocol; requiring an animal shelter to meet specified veterinary care requirements; requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB213 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a specified holder of an alcoholic beverages license or a specified employee to sell or furnish beer or wine for consumption on the premises of a bar or restaurant to an active duty member of the armed forces of the United States who is a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB440 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring all expenditures of revenues in the major budget categories to be reported by a county board of education to the State Department of Education at both the school level and the local education agency level.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB872 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an individual who is convicted of a specified alcohol offense to participate in the Ignition Interlock System Program for specified periods of time and to successfully complete the Program; requiring the Administration to suspend for an ind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB197 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the governing body of a municipality, by ordinance, to establish a Vacant and Blighted Buildings Registry and to require an owner of a vacant building to register it within 30 days after the building becomes vacant under specified circums...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB324 | Intro
Sine Die | Excluding a contract for architectural or engineering services from the requirement to include a liquidated damages provision that applies in the event the contractor fails to comply in good faith with specified provisions relating to minority busine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB569 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a prohibition on the inclusion, in a policy that insures a health care provider against damages due to medical injury arising from providing or failing to provide health care, of coverage for the defense of a health care provider in a speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
Recommitted to Finance (Senator Middleton) |
| SB57 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing or altering the distribution of specified revenue; altering or repealing specified required appropriations; authorizing the use of specified funds for specified purposes; providing for the transfer of specified funds; repealing a specifie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB625 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding the responsibility of service centers established by the Department of Veterans Affairs; requiring the Department to provide veterans with employment-related services; specifying the types of employment-related services provided to veterans...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB646 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that a specified defendant or party may not be provided a specified representation by specified personnel of the Office of the Public Defender if the representation would violate specified caseload standards; providing that a specified defe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB901 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that a specified organization representing standardbred owners and trainers set an amount not less than 1% or more than 2% to be deducted from purses offered in specified races to be paid to the organization; and repealing specified require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB1236 | Intro
Sine Die | Decreasing from 3 years to 2 years the number of years of experience in providing specified real estate brokerage services that an individual applying for a real estate broker license is required to have to qualify for the license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1235 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a specified court to refer a specified matter to the Department of Juvenile Services for a specified informal adjustment under specified circumstances; prohibiting a specified court from referring a specified matter if there is an objecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB900 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a physician who performs or induces an abortion to have admitting privileges at a hospital that meets specified criteria; requiring a physician, before performing or inducing an abortion, to provide the woman terminating her pregnancy with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB806 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution requiring a special election to fill a vacancy in the office of Delegate or Senator if the vacancy occurs at a specified time during the term of office; requiring that a special election be held con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1240 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing in Frederick County a Class B-CC (conference center) license, a Class BLX (luxury restaurant) license, and a Class MEC (micro-brewery/entertainment center) license; specifying requirements for the licensed establishments; specifying the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1246 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Law Enforcement Communications Technology Procurement Task Force; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to study and make recommendations about any changes that may be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB595 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the process for filling a vacancy in the office of United States Senator; repealing the authority of the Governor to make an appointment to fill a vacancy in the office of United States Senator under specified circumstances; requiring the Go...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB532 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a police officer to direct a person to submit to specified tests if the person is involved in a motor vehicle accident that results in the death of, or a life-threatening injury to, another person and the police officer has reasonable groun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB733 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a pharmacist to substitute an interchangeable biological product for specified prescribed products only under specified circumstances; requiring a pharmacist or a specified designee of a pharmacist to inform retail consumers of the availa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB604 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution authorizing the counties and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to enact legislation authorizing a special election to fill a vacancy in the office of Delegate or Senator; establishing that if ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
