| SB65 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a requirement that the clerks of the circuit courts provide a hospital lien docket.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| HB23 | 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] | 2015-02-16
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary; Withdrawn |
| HB1103 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "practice athletic training" to include instruction to tactical athletes regarding the care and prevention of athletic injuries while engaging in tactical athletic activity; granting, except under specified circumstances, i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB26 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from leaving a dog outside and unattended by use of a specified restraint during a snow emergency declared by the State Police or during a specified period in which the temperature is 32 degrees Fahrenheit or below for at least 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB1102 | Intro
Sine Die | Reducing, by 0.2%, the percentage of the proceeds of table games at a video lottery facility that a video lottery operation licensee retains for each additional table game the licensee adds on or after July 1, 2016, under specified circumstances; inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB23 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a court or a register of wills, after an estate has been closed, to provide to the personal representative of the estate a document stating the amount of compensation received by the personal representative and informing the personal repres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| HB52 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a requirement that the clerks of the circuit courts provide a hospital lien docket.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary; Withdrawn |
| SB760 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting an electricity supplier from receiving renewable energy credits from a combustion source in an amount greater than a specified renewable energy credit amount on and after January 1, 2016; and stating that energy from a combustion source i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB99 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Legislative Services to obtain specified census data, adjust the census data for specified purposes, and provide the census data to a temporary redistricting commission within a specified time period; creating a temporary ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB765 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering from 80% to 77% the percentage of proceeds of table games at a video lottery facility that a video lottery operation licensee retains; increasing from 20% to 23% the percentage of the proceeds of table games at a video lottery facility paid ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB31 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a District Court commissioner from authorizing the pretrial release of a defendant charged with causing abuse or neglect of a vulnerable adult in the first or second degree; providing that a judge may authorize the pretrial release of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| HB20 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing from 10 to 20 years the maximum imprisonment and from $10,000 to $20,000 the maximum fine or both for the crime of causing abuse or neglect of a vulnerable adult in the first or second degree.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| SB485 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing an individual to resume participation in the Alternate Contributory Pension Selection in the Employees' Pension System or Teachers' Pension System if the individual has been separated from employment for more than 4 years, has accrued, by Ju...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation; Withdrawn |
| HB13 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a specified licensed firearms dealer or secondary seller to conditionally sell, rent, or transfer a firearm to a firearm applicant under specified circumstances; prohibiting a licensee or secondary seller from selling, renting, or transfe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary; Withdrawn |
| HB385 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring specified employers to provide employees with specified earned sick and safe leave; providing for the manner in which earned sick and safe leave is accrued by the employee and treated by the employer; requiring an employer to allow an emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-13
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB929 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the court to send the mortgagor or grantor a specified checklist when a specified foreclosure action is filed in Prince George's County; prohibiting a lender from maintaining an action to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on residential...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB800 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring Washington County to implement and enforce modifications of the Maryland Building Performance Standards adopted by the State no later than 6 months after adoption for specified portions of the Standards, starting with modifications that are...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB493 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study the Placement of Library Services Within the Annotated Code of Maryland; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to study and make recommendations regarding s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-13
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| HB152 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the requirement that any student financial aid, other than a student loan, received by a specified disabled student must be applied first to pay the student's tuition prior to receiving an exemption from the payment of tuition at community ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB159 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Education to adopt regulations that establish workload guidelines for special education teachers and related services providers; requring the State Board to conduct a specified analysis of the administrative responsibilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB220 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Collaborative Reproduction Act; establishing the purposes of the Act; establishing rights and obligations of specified intended parents who use gamete or embryo donors to conceive a child through collaborative reproduction; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB175 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from manufacturing, knowingly selling, or distributing in commerce any sales receipt containing bisphenol-A on or after January 1, 2017, except under specified circumstances; requiring a person to use a safe and legal alternative...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB709 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing Prince George's County to impose, by law, a fee on specified retail establishments for use of disposable bags as part of a retail sale of products; limiting the amount of the fee to 5 cents for each disposable bag used; and defining "disp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB64 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Court Administrator to assess a surcharge on specified fees, charges, and costs in specified cases in the Court of Appeals, Court of Special Appeals, and circuit courts; requiring the Chief Judge of the District Court to assess a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB173 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the deployment of a SWAT team only under specified circumstances; requiring a law enforcement agency to create a specified report before the deployment of a SWAT team, with a specified exception; requiring, at specified intervals beginnin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB212 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the College of Southern Maryland to offer specified bachelor's degree programs and award bachelor's degrees; requiring specified bachelor's degree programs to include specified components; and requiring the College of Southern Maryland, i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB47 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Office of Student Financial Assistance of the Maryland Higher Education Commission to assist in the repayment of a higher education loan owed by a special education teacher who has taught in the State of Maryland for at least 2 years an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB693 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the limit from $25,000 to $40,000 on the amount of annual revenue that is used for the purpose of defining "cottage food business"; prohibiting counties and municipal corporations from limiting cottage food businesses to selling cottage food...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB96 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each early voting center to have sufficient parking on-site to accommodate the maximum number of voters expected to be present at the early voting center at one time.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB704 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing Prince George's County to enact a law that prohibits specified retail establishments from using disposable bags as part of a retail sale of products; and defining "disposable bag" as a paper or plastic bag provided by a store to a custome...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB137 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that the statute of limitations for the crime of solicitation to commit murder in the first degree, murder in the second degree, assault in the first degree, assault in the second degree, rape in the first degree, rape in the second degree,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB138 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to reimburse through the Maryland Medical Assistance Program specified assisted living services provided to specified individuals; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| HB166 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Seal of Biliteracy Program; providing for the purpose of the Program; providing that participation in the Program by a local school system is voluntary; providing that, beginning with the graduating class of 2016, specified ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB147 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a specified notice requirement for a claim under the Local Government Tort Claims Act; repealing a requirement that a claimant submit a claim within a specified time to the State Treasurer or a designee of the State Treasurer under the Mary...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB105 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a licensing and regulatory system for the practice of direct-entry midwifery under the State Board of Nursing; establishing the Direct-Entry Midwifery Advisory Committee; requiring the Board to set fees for the issuance and renewal of li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB181 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the portion of highway user revenues that is distributed to local governments; altering the allocation of the local share of highway user revenues among Baltimore City, counties, and municipalities; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB149 | Intro
Sine Die | Reducing from 110% to 105% the homestead property tax credit percentage for the State property tax; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after June 30, 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB131 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an exemption from the payment of tuition at the Baltimore City Community College for any student eligible for in-State tuition who is a graduate of a Baltimore City public high school; and requiring that a specified individual be counted in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m. (Budget and Taxation) |
| SB179 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the State Department of Assessments and Taxation from imposing a fee for the filing of specified documents by corporations or business entities with 10 or fewer employees; requiring specified corporations to compute Maryland taxable incom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB85 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing an individual a credit against the State income tax for the purchase price of equipment used to install or maintain a floating garden; providing that the credit may not exceed a specified amount; providing that the credit may not be carried ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB115 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax under specified circumstances for specified retirement income attributable to a resident's employment as a law enforcement or correctional officer or the individual's service as fire,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB42 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that an employer is liable under specified circumstances in an action concerning a violation of specified provisions of employment discrimination and retaliation law based on quid pro quo harassment or the creation or continuation of harass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB69 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting from the Calvert County property tax specified personal property purchased by businesses from July 1, 2015, to June 30, 2018; exempting specified personal property from the Calvert County property tax beginning on July 1, 2018; providing th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB148 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the calculation of the annual interest rate that the Comptroller sets for tax deficiencies and refunds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB118 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Workers' Compensation Commission to adopt regulations about payment for the examination of a covered employee and the preparation of a report by a medical expert engaged by a party; authorizing the Commission to regulate fees and othe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB122 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study the Impact of State and Local Taxes on Small Businesses; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving specified compensation, but auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB126 | 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 Carroll County or individuals who have outstanding warrants from Carroll County; making no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB87 | 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 Montgomery County or individuals who have outstanding warrants from Montgomery County; mak...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB205 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the State Board of Dental Examiners to issue a cease and desist order or obtain injunctive relief against a specified person under specified circumstances; establishing that, for a specified cease and desist order, proof is not required o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-09
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB18 | Intro
Sine Die | Adding specified grounds on which the State Board of Dental Examiners may take specified disciplinary action against applicants for a license to practice dentistry or dental hygiene, licensed dentists, or licensed dental hygienists.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-09
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
