| SB745 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a landlord to withhold all or part of a security deposit under a residential lease for unpaid water and sewer bills if water and sewer bills are required to be paid by the tenant under the lease; making conforming changes to provisions re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| 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 |
| SB463 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from engaging in the nontherapeutic use of medically important antimicrobial drugs in specified cattle, swine, and poultry on or after October 1, 2016; requiring a specified farm operation to submit specified information under sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Recommitted to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs (Senator Pinsky) |
| 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Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |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Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |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Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |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 |
| SB807 | 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 behavioral hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Finance; 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 |
| SB421 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering specified 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; 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 |
| SB211 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the State Board of Plumbing to adopt standards of the International Code Council as part of the State Plumbing Code; requiring the Board to periodically review specified standards of the International Code Council; requiring the Board to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB117 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to allow a person in Caroline County or Dorchester County to hunt any game bird or game mammal, except migratory game birds and wetland game birds, on a Sunday on specified land during the open season f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| 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 |
| SB691 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the After-School and Summer Opportunity Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; specifying the purpose of the Fund; requiring the Governor's Office for Children to administer the Fund as directed by a specified committee; and requiring the G...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| 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 |
| SB514 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each institution of higher education in the State to meet specified requirements for specified net price calculators on or before July 1, 2016; prohibiting specified institutions of higher education from allowing specified personally identi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| 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 |
| SB825 | 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] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation; Withdrawn |
| 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 |
| SB278 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring specified local school systems to create specified dining menus; requiring a specified dining menu to include specified information under specified circumstances; requiring specified local school systems to post specified information on the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Second Reading Failed |
| 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 |
| SB279 | 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 Finance |
| 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 |
| HB321 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a specified buyer or beneficiary of a pre-need contract to contact the Maryland State Board of Morticians and Funeral Directors and request the Board to conduct an audit of specified licensees; requiring the Board to conduct a specified a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB711 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution to authorize the governing body of Charles County to provide for the immediate taking of private property situated in the County for right of way for County roads, streets, water, sewer, stormwater ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| HB865 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing an alcoholic beverages inspector for Kent County to issue a citation if the inspector has probable cause to believe that specified offenses involving the distribution of tobacco products or paraphernalia or the possession of tobacco produ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| HB551 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a store from distributing plastic disposable carryout bags to a customer at the point of sale; requiring a store to charge and collect a 10-cent fee for each paper disposable carryout bag the store provides to a customer; authorizing a st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| SB717 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring hospitals, related institutions, alternative health systems, and employers to report specified employment actions and terminations of employment of athletic trainers and physician assistants to the State Board of Physicians, subject to spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| HB355 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, beginning July 1, 2016, the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide dental services to postpartum women during a specified period; requiring that specified dental services for postpartum women be included as a benefit under a specif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB875 | Intro
Sine Die | Designating, beginning in calendar year 2015, the last 7 days of August through the first 7 days of September of each year to be tax-free periods during which an exemption from the sales and use tax is provided for the sale of specified textbooks pur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means |
| HB625 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing for the revocation of specified terms of a revocable trust on the absolute divorce of the settlor and the settlor's spouse or the annulment of their marriage occurring after the creation of the settlor's revocable trust, except under specif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB958 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a sales and use tax exemption period for the 7-day period from the third Sunday in April through the following Saturday for specified hunting and sporting goods shopping in Maryland during which the sales and use tax does not apply to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means |
| HB1117 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering a specified provision of law to provide that a match obtained between a specified evidence sample and a specified data base entry may be used as probable cause and is not admissible at a criminal trial to prove the guilt of the defendant who...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1066 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting specified employers from including a specified nondisclosure agreement in specified documents, requiring an employee to enter into a nondisclosure agreement, or establishing an expectation with an employee that a specified relationship ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| HB1068 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Natalie M. LaPrade Medical Marijuana Commission to issue, in a specified manner, a specified confirmation of registration to a nonresident cardholder within a specified time period under specified circumstances; requiring the Commission...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
