| SB63 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifying that the reasonable fees that the clerk of a circuit court may charge for recording an affidavit of affixation or an affidavit of severance for a manufactured home shall be set by the State Court Administrator.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB177 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the subtraction modification under the State income tax from $5,000 to $10,000 of military retirement income received for retirees at least 65 years old on the last day of the taxable year; applying the Act to taxable years beginning after...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB603 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing conditional parole as a form of release from incarceration for inmates over the age of 64 years under specified circumstances; establishing a means of initiating consideration by the Maryland Parole Commission of the appropriateness of g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB406 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the State Board of Education and specified county boards of education from establishing specified educational policies, curriculum, and guidelines that include or are based on the Common Core State Standards; prohibiting the State Board f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB436 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the State Department of Education, the State Board of Education, a county board of education, a local school system, a primary school, or a secondary school to collect or disclose the education records or personally identifiable informati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB229 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person who owns and operates a specified business in Calvert County that engages in the retail sale of tobacco products from storing or displaying a tobacco product in a specified manner; prohibiting a person in Calvert County from dist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m. |
| SB396 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a unit from placing specified requirements on prospective responsible bidders or offerors; and prohibiting a unit from drafting specifications requiring unnecessary experience or excessive bonding on prospective responsible bidders or off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB171 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City to use a portion of specified Program Open Space funding for grants to acquire property in the Windsor Hills area of Baltimore City that will protect and enhance Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park and asso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB336 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing compassionate release as a form of release from incarceration for inmates under specified circumstances; establishing a means of initiating consideration by the Maryland Parole Commission of the appropriateness of granting compassionate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB487 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing a tax credit against the State income tax for contributions made to specified student assistance organizations; requiring the Department of Business and Economic Development to administer the tax credit; requiring an entity to submit an appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1210 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the period of time from 12 months to 18 months in which the Department of Housing and Community Development is required to adopt each subsequent version of the Maryland Building Performance Standards; and altering the period of time from 6 m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1207 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, for a specified purpose, to require that specified forensic laboratories be accredited by a nonprofit accreditation body; specifying that specified required inspections be conducted for specified...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB628 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that it is lawful under a specified provision of law for a law enforcement officer to intercept an oral communication with a specified device under specified circumstances; and defining terms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB404 | Intro
Sine Die | Defining the term "property of another" as used in specified provisions prohibiting arson, burning, and the malicious destruction of property to conform with the definition found in provisions relating to theft and related crimes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB566 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the requirements for making a specified complaint against a law enforcement officer for a reason that may lead to a specified action; altering the individuals who may conduct a specified investigation, interrogation, or hearing against a spe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB486 | Intro
Sine Die | Including employees of public charter school operators under provisions of law relating to collective bargaining; authorizing public charter schools to give greater weight to specified students during a lottery to determine admission to the public ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB502 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Financial Advisory Board within the State Department of Education to assist the State Superintendent in making preliminary assessments of waiver requests; providing for the membership of the Board; requiring the Board to take specifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB648 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study the Effect of the Drug Ritalin on School Children; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving specified compensation, but authorizin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB294 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Youth Wellness Leadership Pilot Program in the State Department of Education; requiring the Department, after consultation with the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, to implement the Program for 125 students in public high sch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| HB641 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a family child care home that participates in the Maryland Child Care Subsidy Program to register with the State Department of Education and comply with specified regulations concerning registration; and altering a specified definition of "...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB311 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Elections and local boards of elections to emphasize in public communications specified information about casting a ballot by mail; and specifying public communications that are subject to the Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB342 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to establish a consortium of qualified substitute related services providers who may assist in delivering specified services in the absence of the regular related services provider.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB389 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting public schools and publicly funded prekindergarten programs from opening for pupil attendance prior to the day after Labor Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB283 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering specified financial disclosure provisions governing an elected local official of a municipal corporation; prohibiting the disclosure of specified information concerning specified relatives, interests in specified real property or business en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB697 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to convene a workgroup to evaluate and make findings and recommendations regarding the state of mental health care delivery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland; requiring the workgroup to include spe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB616 | Intro
Sine Die | Changing the name of the State Board of Master Electricians to the Board of Electricians; authorizing the Board to issue an apprentice license and a journeyperson license; authorizing the Board to adopt a State electrical code; altering duties and me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| HB407 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a public high school in Baltimore County to adopt a school schedule for that school; requiring the principal of a public high school to convene a school schedule committee to study and recommend a school schedule; providing for the 20-mem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1213 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the One Maryland Blue Ribbon Commission; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Commission; requiring the Commission to review the current State procurement process and develop policy recommendations to ensure greater ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-26
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB156 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to establish, before June 1, 2016, a specified sickle cell disease outreach program; requiring that the program provide specified programs, support, and services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m. |
| SB357 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing, from $1,500,000 to $6,000,000, a specified statutory minimum grant to Baltimore City, payable from the State's share of the proceeds of Program Open Space, for specified purposes related to Program Open Space; requiring the Department of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m. (Budget and Taxation) |
| SB365 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering eligibility criteria for credits under the One Maryland Economic Development Tax Credit to include persons who establish or expand a business facility that, for specified business incubators, creates at least 25 qualified positions at the fa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB397 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to adopt rules and regulations for licensees of the Developmental Disabilities Administration to obtain and provide information on employees; requiring the rules and regulations to require a licens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1205 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing evidence of a defendant's past sex crime or past sex abuse of a minor to be admitted in specified prosecutions; requiring a prosecutor who intends to offer specified evidence to disclose the evidence to the defendant at least 15 days befo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1202 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each highway construction or maintenance project that includes a pavement component to use at least 10% recycled aggregate in all bound pavement layers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1203 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a Class S motor vehicle registration classification for motor vehicles used by a drivers' school to give highway driving instruction; establishing specified annual registration fees for Class S (drivers' school) vehicles; providing for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1196 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Commission on the Long-Term Care Medical Assistance Program Eligibility Determination Process; providing for the composition, chair, duties, and staffing of the Commission; requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB475 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing from $15,000 to $30,000 the maximum amount in controversy in a civil action in which a party may not demand a jury trial; providing for the construction and application of the Act; and making the Act contingent on the passage and ratificat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB1201 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists to issue a provisional license for 1 year to an individual to practice clinical alcohol and drug counseling, clinical marriage and family therapy, clinical professional art therapy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1204 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Sheriff of Anne Arundel County to appoint an administrative or executive assistant to serve at the pleasure of the Sheriff; exempting the administrative or executive assistant to the Sheriff from the county merit system; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1197 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a secured party from obtaining a deficiency judgment or taking any other action to collect a deficiency in an action to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on owner-occupied residential property that was recorded on or after October 1, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1200 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Education to include in the graduation requirements for public high schools a requirement that each student take a standardized government high school assessment; requiring, beginning with the 2016-2017 school year, the g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1199 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the calculation of specified property tax relief provided to specified renters in Baltimore City by altering the percentage of rent used to determine the amount of assumed property tax and altering the calculation of combined income for a Ba...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB390 | 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] | 2015-02-25
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB574 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing an exemption from the sales and use tax for specified sales of bottled water; clarifying that the exemption does not apply to specified sales of bottled water; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB405 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing a tax credit against the State income tax for contributions made to specified student assistance organizations; requiring the Department of Business and Economic Development to administer the tax credit; requiring specified entities to subm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB722 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a credit against the State income tax for the expense of registering specified qualified vehicles in the State; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2014.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB584 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing a credit against the State income tax for 50% of an investment, not to exceed specified amounts, made in a qualified innovation business; requiring a qualified investor to meet specified requirements in order to be eligible for the credit; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB474 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing, from more than $15,000 to more than $30,000, the amount in controversy in civil proceedings in which the right to a jury trial may be limited by legislation; and submitting the constitutional amendment to the qualified voters of the State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB281 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Blue Ribbon Commission to Study Maryland's Behavioral Health System; providing for the composition, chair, staffing, and duties of the Commission; requiring, to the extent practicable, that the membership of the Commission reflect th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB280 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing a qualified farm a credit, for tax years 2015 through 2017, of up to $5,000 against the State income tax; providing that the credit is equal to 50% of the value of an eligible food donation or 75% of the value of donated certified organic pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
