| SB1024 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Office of Home Energy Programs, in coordination with the United Way of Central Maryland and the Fuel Fund of Maryland, to establish the Power to the People Pilot Program on or before July 1, 2021, to expand access to the Critical Medica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB1047 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Office of the Attorney General to study and identify certain information relating to certain firearm crimes, injuries, fatalities, and crime firearms; requiring all State and local law enforcement agencies and other governmental units t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB1048 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering a certain definition of "serious offense" to remove a certain limitation on offenses that are included for purposes relating to representation by the Office of the Public Defender.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Second Reading Passed |
| SB1053 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Baltimore County Hub and Spoke Pilot Program to offer and provide addiction treatment on demand through a model that offers ongoing opioid use disorder treatment integrated with general health and wellness services; requiring the Bal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB885 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to design a voluntary developmental disability self-disclosure card; establishing certain requirements for the card; requiring the Administration to consult with certain groups in designing the card; requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB1011 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring certain investor-owned gas or electric companies to require certain contractors and subcontractors to pay their employees not less than the prevailing wage rate for certain projects involving the construction, reconstruction, installation, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Second Reading Passed |
| SB846 | Intro
Sine Die | Making certain provisions of law relating to the filing, issuance, and modification of certain peace orders and to the shielding of certain court records of certain peace order proceedings apply to certain peace orders filed by certain employers on t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB963 | Intro
Sine Die | Renaming the Office of the Inspector General in the Maryland Department of Health to be the Maryland Office of the Inspector General for Health and providing that the Office is an independent unit of the State, rather than a unit in the Department; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB313 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a store from distributing plastic carryout bags to a customer at the point of sale; requiring a store to charge and collect at least 10 cents for each durable carryout bag the store provides to a customer; authorizing a store to retain al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator Ready) Adopted |
| SB649 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a custodian of records for the Motor Vehicle Administration to deny inspection by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement of the part of a public record that contains personal information unless the custodian is provided with a va...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator Smith) Adopted |
| SB927 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a certain entity to register with the State Ethics Commission as a regulated lobbyist if, during a certain reporting period, the entity spends a certain amount for issue lobbying communications; requiring a certain regulated lobbyist to rep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
Motion Recommit to Committee (Senator Kagan) Adopted |
| SB613 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the candidates authorized to receive public contributions from the Fair Campaign Financing Fund to include candidates for Attorney General of the State and State Comptroller; requiring the Comptroller to distribute public contributions to a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB1032 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering from 30 to 60 megawatts the capacity of certain hydroelectric power plants in the definition of a Tier 1 renewable source for the renewable energy portfolio standard; and extending the renewable energy portfolio standard percentage derived f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB1039 | 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] | 2020-03-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB1017 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a pharmacy benefits manager to maintain an adequate and accessible pharmacy benefits manager network consisting of contracted pharmacies that provide convenient patient access to pharmacy services; authorizing the Maryland Insurance Commiss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB1064 | 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] | 2020-03-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB1063 | 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 works atypical shifts and may work less than 40 hours in a wee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB1004 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the membership of the Correctional Officers' Retirement System to include certain individuals serving as a case management specialist I, II, or III, or a case management specialist supervisor in the Department of Juvenile Services; providin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-14
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB319 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a State or local law enforcement agency and State or local volunteer fire company, rescue squad, fire department, and ambulance service to place a move over safety monitoring system on, or integrate a move over safety monitoring system in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB1068 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a direct wine shipper to sell wine to a consumer through a holder of a fulfillment warehouse permit; establishing a fulfillment warehouse permit that authorizes the holder to deliver wine through a common carrier to a consumer in the Stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-14
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB906 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing, from 106 to 120 days, the period during which an employer is not required to allow an employee to use earned sick and safe leave; altering the circumstances under which an employer is required to reinstate certain unused sick and safe lea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB831 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the circumstances under which general contractors are jointly and severally liable for violations of the wage payment and collection law by subcontractors; prohibiting an obligation of contract right from being impaired by the Act; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB1067 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of the Environment, in consultation with the Maryland Department of Health, the State Department of Education, the Department of Housing and Community Development, and the Department of General Services, to adopt certain regu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-14
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB1054 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that the system of multiyear vehicle registration adopted by the Motor Vehicle Administration include for Class A (passenger) vehicles and Class D (motorcycle) vehicles options for registration for 1- or 2-year periods to be phased in over ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB944 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a hospital to provide certain instructions to the parent or legal guardian of an infant before the hospital discharges the infant into the care of the parent or legal guardian; requiring a hospital before discharging an infant to inquire as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB2 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "other tobacco products" to include certain consumable products and the components or parts of those products and to exclude certain other products; altering the sales and use tax rate imposed on sales of certain electronic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-14
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB1001 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Comptroller to distribute the sales and use tax revenue on the sale or use of certain digital products to The Blueprint for Maryland's Future Fund; defining "digital product" as one that is obtained electronically by the buyer or delive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-14
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB168 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "qualifying biomass" for purposes of excluding energy derived from certain material from being eligible for meeting certain Tier 1 obligations under the renewable energy portfolio standard; providing that existing obligatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| SB67 | Intro
Sine Die | Decreasing the time periods within which a custodian is required to grant or deny a certain application to inspect a public record and produce a public record in response to an approved application; altering the circumstances under which and the time...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB945 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring certain alcoholic beverages license holders in Baltimore City to install and operate a digital surveillance system on the licensed premises in accordance with regulations adopted by the Board of License Commissioners for Baltimore City; req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB686 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring certain persons to submit to the Public Service Commission beginning July 1, 2021, monthly reports containing detailed billing information on the supply of electricity and gas to certain residential customers; requiring certain initial repo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| SB383 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Harford County Liquor Control Board to issue a Class B-3 restaurant 7-day beer, wine, and liquor license to a person who has operated a restaurant under a Class BNR (newly opened restaurant) beer, wine, and liquor license under certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-13
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB815 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing minimum fines of $150 for certain traffic violations relating to the driver of a vehicle failing to stop or yield to certain pedestrian and bicycle traffic; altering the source of funds for the Pedestrian Safety Fund; and requiring the S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB876 | Intro
Sine Die | Limiting the in-person sales or distributions of vaping liquid by electronic smoking devices retailers and vape shop vendors to age-restricted areas; requiring electronic smoking devices retail licensees and vape shop vendors selling vaping liquid to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB415 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution relating to the selection and tenure of circuit court judges; altering the method of filling vacancies in the office of a judge of a circuit court; providing for retention elections following an app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB664 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution to establish that each individual has a natural, essential, and inherent right to privacy that guarantees freedom from government intrusion; providing that the right to privacy includes the right of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB370 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the assessment of points and penalties associated with driving a motor vehicle while the person's driver's license or privilege to drive is suspended for failure to satisfy a certain judgment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB756 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that a public general law may not be construed to limit a power or function of a local government unless the public general law specifically states that it limits concurrent jurisdiction or that the State's jurisdiction is exclusive; provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB703 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution relating to the selection and tenure of circuit court judges; requiring Senate confirmation of individuals appointed by the Governor to the office of judge of a circuit court; providing for conteste...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB380 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a Class DLR license in Harford County in accordance with certain requirements; authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Harford County to issue a Class DLR license to a certain license holder; authorizing the holder of a Class ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB972 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing provisions of law establishing and relating to the Civilian Review Board of Baltimore City; establishing the Community Oversight and Accountability Commission of Baltimore City; specifying the purpose of the Commission; providing for the co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB405 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the Anne Arundel County Board of License Commissioners from revoking an alcoholic beverages license for an entertainment facility for a violation of certain nudity and sexual display restrictions if the holder of the license operates a pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB773 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a Class MD beer, wine, and liquor license in Baltimore County; authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Baltimore County to issue the license for use by an establishment that is located in an arts and entertainment district and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB974 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifying an exception to the definition of the term "entity" to include a governmental unit that employs an individual regulated lobbyist for the purposes of allowing certain officials and employees to accept certain gifts under certain circumstanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB689 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a minimum fine of $2,000 and maximum fine of $3,000 for unlawfully taking oysters from a submerged land lease or water column lease under certain circumstances; requiring a person who unlawfully takes oysters from a submerged land lease ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB648 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing certain provisions of law concerning the composition of Democratic Party Central Committees in certain counties; requiring the members of each county Democratic Party Central Committee to be elected in accordance with certain rules and byla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Motion Recommit to Committee (Senator Lam) Adopted |
| SB243 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to allow a person to hunt any migratory game birds on Sundays during the open season on private property or public land designated for hunting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB948 | Intro
Sine Die | Removing the authorization to harvest oysters from the list of activities authorized under an unlimited tidal fish license; requiring the Department of Natural Resources to, by regulation, modify the total number of certain commercial oyster authoriz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB964 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the Maryland Department of Agriculture from certifying and registering a site that will be used to grow or cultivate hemp under the Hemp Research Pilot Program if the area on which the hemp will be grown is located within 2 miles of a res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB1037 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifying certain elements required to establish a defense to serving an alcoholic beverage to an underage individual; and providing that reliance by an establishment or a seller on the results of an electronic identification scanner that verifies th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
