| HB1167 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to implement certain programs to provide certain discounted licenses, stamps, and permits to Maryland residents who meet certain criteria; authorizing the Department to issue certain complimentary license...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| HB1047 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a limitation on the number of Sunday off-sale permits that the Board of License Commissioners for Prince George's County may issue.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB1478 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a buyer from arranging, facilitating, or consummating a merchant cash advance transaction with a seller in the State; providing that a violation of the Act is an unfair, abusive, or deceptive trade practice subject to certain enforcement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB776 | Intro
Sine Die | Defining "health care facility-based physician" for the purpose of applying certain provisions of law relating to the assignment of benefits and the reimbursement of nonpreferred providers who are physicians to physicians based in certain health care...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| HB1593 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Maryland Insurance Commissioner to delegate to any Maryland Insurance Administration employee, rather than only one, who is designated by the Commissioner and admitted to the practice of law in the State the responsibility for holding...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB203 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the purpose of the Community Parks and Playgrounds Program to include making flexible grants available to the governing bodies of Baltimore County and Howard County for certain purposes; and altering a certain public policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| HB8 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding the Illegal Dumping and Litter Control Law to include yard waste; establishing a penalty for a violation of the Act; prohibiting a court from imposing less than the mandatory minimum fine of $50 for a violation of the Act; and requiring a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| HB849 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting certain rates from taking effect without prior approval from the Maryland Insurance Commissioner; altering the definition of "insurer" for the purposes of certain provisions of law governing the People's Insurance Counsel to include prope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters; Withdrawn |
| SB451 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that the Secretary of State has the authority to form and execute an international friendship agreement that functions as a foundation to build a sister-state relationship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB647 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Elections to maintain a page on its website that includes clear information about voter registration and voting by students enrolled in institutions of higher education, including links to information on voting by absente...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| HB1244 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each local board of elections to report certain information to the State Board of Elections on or before January 15 each year regarding certain voters who are placed into inactive status and certain voters who are removed from the statewide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn |
| HB1649 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a certain law enforcement agency to report a certain arrest of a certain student to the Maryland Center for School Safety, the State Board of Education, and the State's Attorney; requiring the State's Attorney to notify the Center and the S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1347 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each county board of education to keep a record of the race and gender of all applicants for a position with the local school system and of any individuals who are hired for a position with the local school system, compile the information i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn |
| HB1650 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the elements of the crime of first-degree assault by including an alternative prohibition against committing a battery with a firearm; altering the elements of the crime of second-degree assault by including an alternative prohibition agains...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB1070 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing a credit against the State income tax for certain rehabilitation expenses for certain catalytic projects; requiring the Secretary of Housing and Community Development to issue tax credit certificates in an amount equal to 20% of certain reha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB1069 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a prohibition on a State agency constructing any toll road, toll highway, or toll bridge in the Eastern Shore counties without the express consent of a majority of the governments of the affected counties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB1066 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that the use of force and deadly force by a police officer is justified under certain circumstances; establishing that records relating to complaints against law enforcement officers are not personnel records for certain purposes; author...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB1078 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Governor to appoint special prosecutors and to direct resources and personnel from any unit of State government for a certain purpose during a state of emergency that is declared because a homicide rate reached at least 3 homicides p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB1073 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the time period after which a court is required, under certain circumstances, to dismiss a charge of murder in the first degree against a defendant found incompetent to stand trial from 5 years to 10 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB1077 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the eligibility requirements for the Edward T. and Mary A. Conroy Memorial Scholarship Program and the Jean B. Cryor Memorial Scholarship Program by removing the residency requirement for certain categories of individuals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB1058 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the Comptroller from considering or investigating charitable contributions in the State of a taxpayer when making residency determinations for income tax purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn |
| SB1074 | Intro
Sine Die | Defining the term "transfer" as it relates to a certain exchange of a regulated firearm between two individuals under certain circumstances; providing that the term "transfer" does not include a change in possession that is temporary and occurs under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB1071 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Legislative Services to study and make recommendations on the procedures for obtaining and the effectiveness of peace orders and protective orders issued in the State; requiring the Department to solicit input from academi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB1076 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Youth and Amateur Sports Grants Program to provide grants from the Youth and Amateur Sports Fund to bring new youth and amateur sporting events to the State and attract sports fans, participants, and tourists; requiring Maryland Spor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB1072 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a licensed home inspector to give to a person for whom the licensed home inspector provides a home inspection for compensation or the person's representative a written report that states the home energy rating (HERS Index), a U.S. Departm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB1075 | Intro
Sine Die | Renaming the Alcohol and Tobacco Commission to be the Alcohol, Cannabis, and Tobacco Commission; providing that a member of the Commission may not have a certain interest, ownership, or management in the cannabis industry; establishing the Advisory C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB996 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Information Technology, in consultation with the Maryland Cybersecurity Council, to establish a Cybersecurity Response Team; setting forth the duties of the Cybersecurity Response Team; altering the purposes of the 9-1-1 T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB1441 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding the requirement that the Maryland Tourism Development Board provide grants to certain tourism organizations by including nongovernmental tourism organizations as authorized recipients of grants from the Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn |
| HB131 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Director of the State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency to issue certain fraternal organizations a license for not more than five instant ticket lottery machines; providing that proceeds from instant ticket lottery machine sales by a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn |
| HB400 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring vaping product tax revenue to be used for the State Reinsurance Program; providing for the distribution of vaping product tax revenues; imposing a tax on vaping products; authorizing a county to impose a tax on vaping products; establishing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-28
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn |
| HB1640 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Morgan State University Police Force to exercise powers granted to peace and police officers when requested or authorized to do so by the Mayor of Baltimore City or the Commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB697 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a certain exemption from certain insurance laws for certain voluntary noncontractual religious publication arrangements; exempting from certain insurance laws certain health care sharing ministries; requiring a person to obtain a certificat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB688 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to issue a stop work order requiring the cessation of all business operations to certain employers for certain violations of certain wage and hour laws or workplace fraud laws; providing that a certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB1026 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Interagency Commission on School Construction,in approving public school construction projects, to give priority to a project located in or near a school facility that closed during the school year due to a severe issue in the facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB1648 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Healthy Maryland Program as a public corporation and a unit of State government; stating that the General Assembly finds that millions of dollars have been diverted or wasted as part of a multipayer health care system; stating that i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1647 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study Online Gaming; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to study online gaming in other states and make recommendations regarding how online gaming could be i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1646 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Secretary of Health to authorize an employee of a State facility to work according to an "alternative workweek" which means a work schedule under which a certain employee can work atypical shifts and may work less than 40 hours in a w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB1043 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to establish certain new units to assist in evaluating and reviewing certain proposals for new programs and substantial modifications of existing programs; requiring the Governor, in each of fiscal y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-27
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB1034 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from intentionally causing physical injury to another if the person knows or has reason to know that the other is an official, an umpire, a referee, or a judge officiating at a sporting event; authorizing a police officer to arre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-26
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB925 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that, for certain areas of water or land or easements that have been subdivided in Garrett County or Allegany County, the Department of Natural Resources may acquire the area only if the acquisition of the area will not, when added to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-26
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB1645 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that a certain law prohibiting a registered sex offender from entering onto real property used for public or nonpublic elementary or secondary education applies to a student who is a registered sex offender and has been convicted of a sexua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-26
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1643 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of the Environment, in consultation with the Maryland Environmental Service, to establish a grant program to assist counties with certain costs associated with the collection, recycling, and composting of organics and other c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-26
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB1060 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2025 an appropriation of $1,000,000 to Morgan State University to enhance the Office of Technology Transfer and increase the capacity of the Office to m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-26
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB360 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution to authorize a law that provides for the forfeiture of certain retirement benefits for a member or former member of the General Assembly who is found guilty of a crime committed while in office; inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-26
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB1019 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Public Service Commission to adopt regulations requiring electric companies and electric cooperatives to adopt a method for an electricity supplier enrolling a certain customer to provide certain information to adequately identify the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters; Withdrawn |
| HB29 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting auctioneers who conduct a certain auction of secondhand precious metal objects owned by a certain estate from the licensing and regulatory requirements for secondhand precious metal object dealers and pawnbrokers; and defining the terms "au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| HB752 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from using a scanning device to scan or swipe an individual's identification card or a driver's license to obtain personal information; prohibiting a person from retaining, selling, or transferring any information collected from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters; Withdrawn |
| HB163 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting an employer from requiring, as a condition of employment or continued employment, an employee or a prospective employee, under certain circumstances, to join or remain a member of a labor organization, pay charges to a labor organization,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| HB1547 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a producer of synthetic turf and turf infill, on or before January 1, 2021, to individually or as part of a stewardship organization submit a synthetic turf and turf infill stewardship plan to the Department of the Environment for review an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| HB927 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a gift basket permit in Baltimore County; authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Baltimore County to issue the permit to certain persons; providing that the permit authorizes a permit holder to sell and deliver gift baskets c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters; Withdrawn |
