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MDHB381Authorizing a member of the General Assembly who is self-employed, a consultant to a business entity doing business in the State, or an independent contractor who contracts with a business entity doing business in the State to include in a business c...
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2013-01-25
MDHB295Repealing the death penalty; repealing procedures and requirements related to the death penalty; providing that in specified cases in which the State has filed a notice to seek a sentence of death, the notice shall be considered withdrawn and it shal...
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2013-02-14
MDHB1321Prohibiting a unit of State government from procuring gas from a gas transmission company that has not installed specified safety equipment on gas transmission lines under its ownership or control, that does not employ specified best practices and te...
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2013-02-14
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters Withdrawn
MDHB198Requiring the Maryland Transportation Authority to submit a report to specified committees of the General Assembly on or before January 1 of each year concerning electronic toll violations; requiring that the report include specified information; and...
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2013-02-18
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters Withdrawn
MDHB864Proposing amendments to the Maryland Constitution to limit the condemnation of private property to public uses under specified circumstances; prohibiting the General Assembly from enacting any law for the taking of private property for public use wit...
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2013-02-18
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters Withdrawn
MDHB1097Establishing that the award of damages when land, or any part of it, is taken in a specified condemnation proceeding by specified entities is three times the fair market value of the part taken; authorizing that the fair market value of property in c...
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2013-02-18
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters Withdrawn
MDHB195Providing a subtraction modification under the State income tax for 50% of military retirement income of an individual whose federal adjusted gross income does not exceed $65,000 and who commits to living and working in the State for a specified peri...
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2013-02-19
MDHB468Altering the circumstances under which a unit of State government is required to report to the Office of Legislative Audits on specified corrective actions related to repeat audit findings to require that the report be submitted if there are four, ra...
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2013-02-19
MDHB726Establishing the Sickle Cell Disease Research Program to be administered by the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to provide grants for sickle cell disease research projects; establishing the purposes of the Program; establishing specified ...
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2013-02-19
MDHB289Authorizing the Office of Student Financial Assistance to assist in the repayment of an education loan owed by a physician who practices primary care and participates in the provider network of a Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) that sells...
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2013-02-20
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means Withdrawn
MDHB590Altering the qualifications of an applicant for a direct wine shipper's permit to include a person licensed by the State or licensed outside the State to engage in the retail sale of wine for consumption off the premises, subject to a specified provi...
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2013-02-25
MDHB883Establishing that a circuit court has exclusive, original jurisdiction over all proceedings for the acquisition of private property for public use by condemnation; and providing that specified provisions of the Act establishing jurisdiction apply to ...
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2013-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters Withdrawn
MDHB322Establishing the Yellow Dot Program in the Motor Vehicle Administration to provide specified health information to emergency responders under specified circumstances; requiring the Administration to design and make available specified materials neces...
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2013-02-26
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations Withdrawn
MDHB903Establishing that specified foods offered for retail sale in the State and produced with genetic engineering are misbranded if specified disclosure or labeling requirements are not met; establishing that specified requirements of the Act do not apply...
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2013-02-26
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations Withdrawn
MDHB825Requiring the Public Service Commission to make available on its Web site video and audio streaming of specified hearings and proceedings; and requiring the Commission to maintain specified video and audio recordings on its Web site for at least 2 ye...
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2013-02-26
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations Withdrawn
MDHB683Increasing the tobacco tax rate on cigarettes and other tobacco products; providing that the Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Program shall receive funding from the Other Tobacco Products Tax Fund under specified circumstances; requiring money fr...
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2013-02-28
Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m. (Ways and Means)
MDHB896Prohibiting the use of specified funds under Program Open Space to build new or to replace specified athletic fields with artificial or synthetic turf surfaces; etc.
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2013-03-01
MDHB185Requiring the Secretary of Budget and Management, in consultation with the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, to establish a wellness pilot project in the State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program; requiring the wellness pi...
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2013-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations
MDHB446Altering the number of video lottery operation licenses and video lottery terminals that may be awarded by the Video Lottery Facility Location Commission to provide for the award of a license at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Ai...
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2013-03-05
MDHB1174Requiring the State Department of Education to extend the pilot program for the Educator Evaluation System until specified assessments are aligned with the Maryland Common Core State Curriculum and the assessments are fully implemented; and requiring...
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2013-03-06
MDHB1247Requiring that a Frederick Douglass Memorial Statue and a Harriet Tubman Memorial Statue be placed on the grounds of the State House, one on each side of the Roger Brooke Taney Statue; establishing the Commission on the Frederick Douglass and Harriet...
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2013-03-06
MDHB1128Establishing a pilot program on community energy-generating facilities under the authority of the Public Service Commission; requiring the Commission to adhere to specified guidelines in conducting the pilot program; authorizing the Commission to ass...
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2013-03-07
MDHB1027Prohibiting a public service company from purchasing gas from a company for distribution that has not installed specified safety equipment on gas transmission lines under its ownership or control, that does not employ specified best practices and tec...
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2013-03-07
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters Withdrawn
MDHB1324Prohibiting a person from coercing, threatening, or intimidating a property owner in a specified manner to induce the property owner to enter into a contract to sell property or grant an easement on a property; establishing that a contract entered in...
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2013-03-07
MDHB1086Requiring specified stores to charge and collect a 5-cent fee for each disposable carryout bag the store provides to a customer; authorizing specified stores to retain a specified amount of the fee; requiring the operator of specified stores to remit...
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2013-03-08
Hearing 3/08 at 1:00 p.m. (Environmental Matters)
MDHB16Altering the effective date of specified regulations adopted under the Administrative Procedure Act.
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2013-03-11
MDHB337Prohibiting a person from engaging in the hydraulic fracturing of a well for the exploration or production of natural gas.
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2013-03-12
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters Withdrawn
MDHB440Increasing the maximum amount allowed as a subtraction modification under the State income tax for specified retirement income of an individual who is at least 70 years old or who is totally disabled; reducing the maximum amount of retirement income ...
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2013-03-12
MDHB953Requiring the Public Service Commission to act under a specified certification or agreement with the U.S. Secretary of Transportation as an interstate authority agent for the purpose of implementing specified federal pipeline safety laws; requiring a...
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2013-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters Withdrawn
MDHB1274Prohibiting the Department of the Environment from issuing a permit for the hydraulic fracturing of a well for the exploration or production of natural gas until specified conditions are met; requiring the Department of the Environment and the Depart...
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2013-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters Withdrawn
MDHB578Altering a limitation on claiming the income tax credit for eligible long-term care insurance premiums for more than 1 year with respect to the same insured individual; altering the amount of the credit from a one-time $500 credit to an annual $200 c...
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2013-03-15
MDHB1459Requiring in each county and in Baltimore City, by no later than December 31 each year, specified representatives of the county board of education and the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners and a specified governing board to meet and confer...
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2013-03-15
MDHB341Prohibiting a person from storing, treating, discharging, or disposing of, in the State, wastewater resulting from hydraulic fracturing.
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2013-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters
MDHB1316Altering the legal rate of interest on a money judgment for a medical injury; and providing for the prospective application of the Act.
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2013-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
MDHB1100Establishing an independent Medical Marijuana Oversight Commission; providing for the purpose and membership of the Commission; providing for the terms of the members of the Commission; providing for the appointment of a chair and vice chair of the C...
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2013-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations Withdrawn
MDHB421Requiring that specified time-stamped images of a motor vehicle provide sufficient information to allow for the calculation of a specified speed of the motor vehicle; altering a requirement relating to the issuance of warnings; requiring a court to i...
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2013-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters
MDHB1001Requiring health maintenance organizations and carriers that offer specified contracts, certificates, and policies to submit to the Maryland Insurance Commissioner a report certifying and outlining how each contract, certificate, and policy complies ...
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2013-03-21
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations Withdrawn
MDHB1185Prohibiting a person from intentionally causing physical injury to another if the person knows or has reason to know that the other is a health care practitioner engaged in performing the practitioner's official duties; establishing a specified penal...
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2013-03-22
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
MDHB1114Requiring periodic payments of specified damages in excess of $1,500,000 for specified health care malpractice causes of action under specified circumstances; establishing procedures and requirements relating to periodic payments and annuities for fu...
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2013-03-22
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary Withdrawn
MDHB943Reclassifying as a felony a specified offense relating to child kidnapping and prostitution involving an individual under the age of 16 years; and altering the penalty for a specified provision of law relating to child kidnapping and prostitution inv...
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2013-03-22
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
MDHB1085Requiring a beverage distributor operating within the State to register with the Department of the Environment on or before April 1, 2014; requiring a redeemable beverage container sold in the State to bear specified information indicating a refund v...
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2013-03-25
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters
MDHB685Establishing a State cost share formula for county library capital projects that receive State funding and setting a minimum and a maximum State cost share percentage.
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2013-04-03
MDHB1191Designating specified firearms as assault weapons; prohibiting with specified exceptions a person from transporting an assault weapon into the State or possessing, selling, offering to sell, transferring, purchasing, or receiving an assault weapon; r...
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2013-04-05
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
MDHB1118Requiring the Public Service Commission to adopt regulations to classify specified gas leaks and to require specified gas transmission companies to remediate and monitor those leaks in a specified manner; requiring the Commission to adopt regulations...
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2013-04-05
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters
MDHB1045Requiring the Public Service Commission to adopt regulations that establish safety standards and practices applicable to the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of gas pipelines; requiring the Commission to adopt regulations that require...
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2013-04-05
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters
MDHB1028Requiring a gas transmission company to submit a specified report on the state of its gas pipelines to the Public Service Commission and to an owner of real property on which the gas pipeline is located or adjacent to or contiguous to real property o...
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2013-04-05
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters
MDHB984Prohibiting a gas transmission company from beginning construction on a gas pipeline before the finalization of specified legal proceedings, including approval by the Board of Public Works, permit and license applications, condemnation proceedings, e...
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2013-04-05
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters
MDHB979Requiring that an easement negotiated for the construction, operation, or maintenance of a natural gas pipeline be for a single pipeline and be limited in scope to the construction, operation, or maintenance of the pipeline; prohibiting a specified e...
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2013-04-05
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters
MDHB1310Altering the definition of "health care provider" for purposes of health care malpractice claims.
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2013-04-05
MDHB1224Requiring the Maryland Emergency Management Agency (MEMA), in consultation with specified persons, to establish emergency response standards for specified gas transmission companies; requiring a gas transmission company to submit to MEMA an emergency...
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2013-04-05
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters
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