| HB987 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the Department of the Environment from issuing a specified air quality permit until specified requirements have been met; prohibiting the Department from recommending specified licensing conditions until specified requirements have been m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-01
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| HB1003 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the distribution of motor fuel tax revenue; requiring that motor fuel tax revenue attributable to specified motor fuel tax rates be distributed to counties, municipalities, and Baltimore City in a specified manner; requiring that motor fuel ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-01
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| HB833 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a manufacturer to make specified payments to dealers relating to benefits, incentives, and rebates; prohibiting manufacturers, distributors, and factory branches from taking specified coercive, punitive, and retaliatory actions against deal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-01
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| HB437 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Grant Program in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; requiring the Department to administer the Program to provide grants and contracts on a competitive basis to fund programs that repli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-31
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB1006 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a hospital to provide a specified patient or the legal guardian of the patient with a specified number of opportunities to designate a caregiver within a specified number of hours after the entrance of the patient to the hospital and before...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-31
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB1030 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring specified units of the State that provide health and human services to procure the services of 2-1-1 Maryland to operate public information telephone lines or hotlines in accordance with specified provisions of law unless the unit makes spe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-31
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB969 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an employer to provide employees with a specified work schedule within a specified time period, notify employees of specified changes, and provide employees with a new work schedule within 24 hours after making a change to the initial sched...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-30
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters; Withdrawn |
| HJ7 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to conduct an environmental impact study related to landing commercial booster rockets and spacecraft at its Wallops Flight Facility; recognizing the enormous economic potential value in the St...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-30
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HJ8 | Intro
Sine Die | Extending the profound hope of the General Assembly of Maryland that the historical record of the crimes against the "ianfu" or "comfort women" of World War II will serve as a lasting reminder to the world that crimes against humanity will not be con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-30
Hearing 3/30 at 3:00 p.m. |
| HB1051 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering a specified provision of law concerning equal pay for equal work to prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender identity; prohibiting an employer from discriminating between employees in any occupation by providing less favorable employme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-30
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters; Withdrawn |
| HB883 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the requirement that a well driller, when applying for a permit to drill a well, notify a municipality under specified circumstances; requiring the Department of the Environment to notify a municipality of an application for a permit to dri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| HB222 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from distributing heroin or fentanyl, the use of which is a contributing cause of the death of another; establishing penalties for a violation of the Act of up to 30 years in prison; providing that it is not a defense that the de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Recommitted to Judiciary (Delegate Dumais) |
| HB232 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a hearing of charges filed by the State Acupuncture Board from being stayed or challenged by specified procedural defects; prohibiting an order of the Board from being stayed pending judicial review; authorizing the Board to appeal from a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB371 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing from six to seven the number of video lottery operation licenses and from 16,000 to 19,000 the number of video lottery terminals that may be awarded by the Video Lottery Facility Location Commission to provide for the award of a license at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means |
| HB379 | Intro
Sine Die | Excluding a contract for architectural or engineering services from the requirement to include a liquidated damages provision that applies in the event the contractor fails to comply in good faith with specified provisions relating to minority busine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB59 | 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 and allows a player to compete directly against one or more other players; prohibiting a person from conducting a home ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn |
| HB282 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the contents of a renewal application for a continuing care retirement community by requiring that actuarial studies reviewed by qualified actuaries be submitted at least every 3 years and 5 years for specified continuing care agreements; et...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB762 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Highway Administration to grant or deny a request for a permit to make an entrance from a commercial or industrial property to specified State highways within 45 days after receiving the request; requiring the Administration to pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| HB550 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring corporations that receive at least $50,000 in specified State subsidies to file a specified disclosure report with the granting body that provides the subsidy; requiring the disclosure report to contain specified information; requiring the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB633 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing the Cigarette Restitution fund to be used to provide financial assistance to farmers for specified purposes; establishing the Watershed Implementation Plan Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to provide financial assistance to farmers for imp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| HB601 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that a written certification may include a specified statement from a certifying physician related to a 30-day supply of medical marijuana; providing that a qualifying patient in possession of an amount of medical marijuana that is greater ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB621 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Highway Administration to consider whether a proposed entrance to a State highway is consistent with the comprehensive plan when determining whether to grant or deny a permit for the entrance; requiring the Administration to deter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| HB1053 | 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] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations |
| HB458 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that exploration and production waste is a controlled hazardous substance for the purpose of specified laws and regulations if it exhibits specified characteristics; prohibiting the Department of the Environment from exempting exploratio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| HB986 | Intro
Sine Die | Creating the Maryland Commission on Efficiency in Government; specifying the duties of the Commission; providing for the membership, election of a chair, quorum, terms, and reimbursement of members of the Commission; authorizing the appointment of an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB973 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a requirement that an AIDS Prevention Sterile Needle and Exchange Program may only be established in the Prince George's County Health Department; authorizing the establishment of an AIDS Prevention Sterile Needle and Syringe Exchange Progr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB766 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the exemptions from the authority of the State Board of Dental Examiners; providing that the Board's authority does not apply to specified clinics, government agencies, or nonprofit organizations; repealing the exemption from the Board's aut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB418 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing an individual who adopts a cat or dog from an animal shelter or a rescue facility a maximum credit of $100 against the State income tax; providing that an individual may not claim the credit for more than 1 taxable year with respect to the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means |
| HB988 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the penalty for specified violations of the prevailing wage rate law related to the posting of specified statements of prevailing wage rates; increasing the amount of liquidated damages for which a contractor is liable for specified violat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters; Withdrawn |
| HB1062 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that care and custody by a funeral establishment begins and ends when specified activities occur for human remains intended for final disposition by interment at a cemetery, final disposition by cremation, or final disposition outside the S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB193 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene, instead of the State Board of Morticians and Funeral Directors, to employ specified staff; authorizing the Secretary to designate one of the staff as executive director; requiring the executive ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB1092 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Worker's 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] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| HB1173 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to apply to the federal Department of Health and Human Services for a planning grant to have the State selected as a demonstration state for the establishment of certified community behavior healt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB404 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a prospective bidder or offeror when submitting a bid or offer for a public work contract to submit to the public body a specified contractor safety and health plan and a specified attestation; requiring a contract safety and health plan to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| HB1184 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a lender from maintaining an action to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on residential property in the State for a specified period of time; requiring the Office of the Attorney General to study, evaluate, and make recommendations re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| HB632 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the penalty to $500 for a person who is convicted of driving an unregistered vehicle on a highway while operating an off-highway recreational vehicle in Prince George's County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| HB1187 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a supervisor, an appointing authority, and the head of a law enforcement agency from threatening or taking specified retaliatory actions against a specified law enforcement officer under specified circumstances; authorizing a law enforcem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1169 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to establish a program to control the spread of black flies in the State; requiring that the program be implemented initially on specified property in Washington County; requiring the Department, in conju...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| HB262 | Intro
Sine Die | Applying a specified provision of law relating to the reversal or modification of an award for permanent partial disability compensation to the Workers' Compensation Commission; clarifying that, for purposes of a specified provision of law relating t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| HB796 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that the Governor rather than the Northeast Maryland Waste Disposal Authority appoint the executive director and the general counsel for the Authority; and requiring the Northeast Maryland Waste Disposal Authority to recommend to the Govern...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| HB946 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that specified noncompete and conflict of interest provisions that restrict the ability of an employee to enter into employment with a new employer in the same or similar business or trade are null and void as being against the public polic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| HB1012 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring insurers that provide homeowner's insurance and renter's insurance in the State to employ specified adjusters in the State for specified purposes; prohibiting an adjuster who is employed by an insurer from making specified representations; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| HB840 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a secured party from obtaining a deficiency judgment in an action to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on specified owner-occupied residential property that was recorded on or after October 1, 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| HB451 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study Regulation of Teletherapy; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement of expenses; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB959 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifying, for purposes of specified provisions of law concerning assessments of real property, that the definition of "phased in value" means, under specified circumstances, the value determined in the most recent valuation if the value of the prop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means |
| HB528 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring employers to keep wage records for each pay period for at least three years; expanding the types of wage records that employers are required to keep for each pay period; requiring employers to give employees a specified written notice withi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters; Withdrawn |
| HB26 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "smoking" for purposes of the Clean Indoor Air Act to include the use of an electronic smoking device; defining "electronic smoking device" as an electronic device that can be used to deliver nicotine or other substances to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| HB261 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing an exemption from the sales and use tax for bottled water sold with food for immediate consumption; clarifying that the exemption does not apply to specified sales of bottled water; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means |
| HB893 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an electric company to notify customers regarding the reasons for which a customer may be required to pay a security deposit by prominently publishing notice in specified manners; requiring an electric company to give written notice to an e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| HB752 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring specified engineering documents prepared in connection with specified projects conducted by, jointly with, or under contract with the State or a political subdivision of the State, where specified skills are required, to be signed, sealed, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
