| SB125 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding the medical necessity exemption from the prohibition against operating specified vehicles with window tinting to apply the exemption to a member of the vehicle owner's immediate family; clarifying language; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| HB1171 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the governing body of Washington County to grant, by law, a property tax credit against the county property tax imposed on specified residential property owned by specified disabled veterans of active military, naval, or air service; prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1168 | Intro
Sine Die | Making it mandatory, rather than discretionary, for a secured party to offer prefile mediation to a mortgagor or grantor before filing an action to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on specified residential property; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1174 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing in Kent County a person to catch gizzard shad, also known as mud shad, under specified circumstances with a haul seine during the period from Friday midnight until sunrise on Monday; and requiring the Department of Natural Resources to ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB378 | Intro
Sine Die | Limiting the eligibility of qualifying biomass as a Tier 1 renewable source for the purposes of the renewable energy portfolio standard to qualifying biomass used at a generation unit that started commercial operation on or after January 1, 2005, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters; Withdrawn |
| HB1181 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing an individual who holds a Deer Management Permit to use a specified rifle to harvest deer throughout the year in Frederick County, subject to specified conditions; authorizing an agent of a permittee to use a specified rifle to harvest de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1170 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the due date, from September 1 to November 1, of specified annual reports on the county hotel rental tax revenue distribution; repealing specified reporting requirements relating to the County hotel rental tax revenue; requiring the Washingt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB98 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring drivers approaching a service vehicle that is stopped, standing, or parked on a highway and using specified visual signals, unless otherwise directed by a police officer or traffic control device, to change lanes into an available lane not ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB1162 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing Washington County to use the proceeds from the issuance of specified bonds for specified purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB462 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "mechanical repair contract" for purposes of specified provisions of law establishing requirements for mechanical repair contracts and persons who sell or offer them; establishing that an agreement or contract sold by the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| HB525 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Allegany County to issue a special beer festival license for specified purposes; authorizing the holder of the license to display and sell beer for consumption on or off the licensed premises on spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB82 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing, from 30 years to 40 years, the maximum term of imprisonment that may be imposed for the offense of second-degree murder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB101 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Uniform Real Property Transfer-on-Death (TOD) Act; authorizing an individual to transfer specified property to one or more beneficiaries effective at the transferor's death by a transfer-on-death deed; establishing that a tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB311 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting the issuance of a specified Class B or Class BLX on-sale beer, wine and liquor license for a specified corporation from specified residency requirements; exempting the issuance of a Class B or Class BLX on-sale beer, wine and liquor license...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB712 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the issuance of a Class 7 micro-brewery license to the holder of a Class D beer, wine and liquor (on-sale) license in Montgomery County; and providing that the holder of or an applicant for a Class D beer, wine and liquor (on-sale) licens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters; Withdrawn |
| SB317 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Court of Appeals to allow an applicant for admission to the Bar or a lawyer to use a credit or debit card to pay an examination fee or other fees required for admission to the Bar and any annual fee assessed against a lawyer; and author...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB692 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of State Police to establish and maintain a statewide database capturing specified information on police conduct and liability; and requiring the Secretary of State Police to adopt specified regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB143 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a claimant to send a notice of intent to file a claim to a health care provider at least 180 days before filing a claim with the Director of the Health Care Alternative Dispute Resolution Office against the health care provider for a medica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB241 | Intro
Sine Die | Making the crime of human trafficking in a case in which the victim of the crime is an adult a felony, rather than a misdemeanor; and making a conforming change.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1159 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a student who is a member of a student organization to sell beverages with caffeine and specified accompaniments on a public school campus under the supervision of a teacher under specified circumstances notwithstanding any federal law or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1157 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the maximum difference between the coinsurance percentage applicable to specified nonpreferred providers and the coinsurance percentage applicable to specified preferred providers; altering the reimbursement amount payable by specified insur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1145 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the State Board of Tree Experts in the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation; providing for the composition of the Board and the qualifications, appointments, removal, terms, and expenses of the Board members; requiring the Boar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1143 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing any rebates received by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene from the Maryland AIDS Drug Assistance Program to be used to provide specified services to eligible individuals under Part B of the federal Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1153 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Highway Administration to place a sign along a specified State highway indicating the presence of a public library if there is a public library within one-half mile of an exit ramp on the highway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1150 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, for fiscal year 2016, the payment of $700,000 to the video lottery operation licensee for the video lottery facility in Allegany County from the proceeds of video lottery terminals at the facility; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1155 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering a specified exception to the prohibition against the Somerset County Board of License Commissioners approving a license to sell alcoholic beverages for specified establishments located within 300 feet of a school, church or other place of wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB815 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person in Anne Arundel County from distributing a tobacco product to a minor except under specified circumstances, distributing cigarette rolling papers to a minor, or distributing to a minor a coupon redeemable for a tobacco product ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB97 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding the medical necessity exemption from the prohibition against operating specified vehicles with window tinting to apply the exemption to a member of the vehicle owner's immediate family; clarifying language; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| HB1144 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifying that specified costs incurred by the holder of a tax sale certificate shall be reimbursed on redemption of the property; providing that the holder of a tax sale certificate shall be reimbursed $500 for attorney's fees if an action to forec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB303 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing specified provisions that provide that inmates serving a term of life imprisonment may be paroled only with the Governor's approval, subject to specified provisions; requiring specified parole decisions to be transmitted to the Governor und...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB543 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force on Procurement and Cybersecurity; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to conduct a study and make recommendations regarding specified law, policies, procedures, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB95 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Workers' Compensation Children's Scholarship Fund; requiring the Workers' Compensation Commission to impose, in addition to payment of specified compensation, a $5000 assessment against an employer or its insurer per award of compens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| HB677 | Intro
Sine Die | Limiting the conditions under which a person may file a written claim with the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission for a refund of the amount that exceeds the amount that is properly and legally payable; establishing an Independent Review Board t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| HB103 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing specified restrictions on investments of money of the Chesapeake Bay Trust.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| HB1128 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Why Try Program in Baltimore County; specifying the purpose of the Program is to assist a student with an unweighted grade point average of less than 2.0 per quarter and an attendance rate of less than 94% of the required days of sch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1141 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting a child with a disability from taking a Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) assessment or its equivalent in a public school; making a specified exception; and defining a specified term.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB155 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing funds from video lottery proceeds that are used for grants for investment capital and loans to small, minority, and women-owned businesses surrounding the video lottery facility in Allegany County to be used for those purposes anywhere in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB167 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing Anne Arundel County to enact a local law that authorizes secondary employment of county police officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19
Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m. |
| HB1142 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the requirement for the Comptroller to withhold Maryland income tax refunds of specified individuals with outstanding warrants to include residents of Allegany County or individuals who have outstanding warrants from Allegany County; making ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB157 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing a person to conduct a home game that is a game of chance or skill involving wagering that is conducted in a person's home or a residential property restricted to housing for persons at least 55 years old and allows a player to compete direct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB161 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution prohibiting a member of the General Assembly from being expelled from or denied voting rights on the standing committee on which the member serves except under specified circumstances; submitting an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB58 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Community Development Administration in the Department of Housing and Community Development to provide written notice and a reasonable opportunity to comment to the Senate and House delegations for the county in which a proposed communi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB165 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the payment of retirement benefits payable from the State Retirement and Pension System to specified constitutional officers who are convicted of or enter a plea of nolo contendere for specified crimes; requiring a specified court to orde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB166 | 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] | 2015-02-19
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB256 | 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] | 2015-02-19
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB196 | Intro
Sine Die | Making specified provisions of law relating to the Motor Vehicle Administration's collection and electronic forwarding of Selective Service registration information gender neutral and expanding their applicability to specified minors; repealing provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB276 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifying that an applicant for a Class H-CC (corporate club/conference center) beer, wine and liquor license is not required to own at least 25 percent of a business in order to qualify as a responsible operator for the purpose of obtaining an alco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| HB503 | Intro
Sine Die | Excluding as a father of a child, for purposes of specified provisions relating to the paternity of a child in a guardianship or adoption proceeding, a man who has committed a specified sexual crime against the child's mother; requiring a court to co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB248 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Education to develop curriculum content for a semester-long course in financial literacy; requiring each county board of education to implement the financial literacy curriculum content developed by the State Board in eve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB357 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the driver of a motor vehicle in which a person who is under the age of 8 years is a passenger from smoking a tobacco product or allowing a passenger to smoke in the motor vehicle; establishing a fine of up to $50 for a violation of the A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
