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MDHB372Exempting from the recordation tax and the State transfer tax the transfer of real property between a parent business entity and its wholly owned subsidiary or between subsidiaries wholly owned by the same parent business entity under specified circu...
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2013-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 453
MDHB523Including motorcycles in the definition of "short-term vehicle rental" for purposes of determining the sales and use tax rate for short-term vehicle rentals; including motorcycles in the definition of "rental vehicle" for purposes of the Motor Vehicl...
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2013-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 484
MDHB718Making specified members of the State Retirement and Pension System eligible to receive creditable service at retirement for the total amount of unused sick leave accrued by the member in specified systems in the State Retirement and Pension System u...
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2013-05-16
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative)
MDHB713Authorizing a State or local law enforcement agency, on process issued by a court of competent jurisdiction, to seize specified property used or intended for use in connection with a violation of specified criminal statutes relating to human traffick...
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2013-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 636
MDHB1176Requiring the development, review, and approval of online courses and services to include an assessment regarding the accessibility of the online course or service to individuals with disabilities, including the blind; authorizing the State Departmen...
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2013-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 471
MDHB1393Prohibiting a county board of education from claiming ownership rights, property rights, or the copyright to the student work product of students enrolled in specified public schools; and defining a term.
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2013-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 682
MDHB390Adding a trustee to the Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System to represent the interests of county governments; establishing the qualifications of the trustee; and requiring that the Governor appoint the trustee, who may be fr...
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2013-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 535
MDHB644Allowing an individual who files an income tax return electronically to elect to use all or a portion of the individual's income tax refund to purchase U.S. Series I Savings Bonds; specifying that the individual must make the designation in $50 incre...
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2013-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 507
MDHB1161Establishing the Commission on Special Education Access and Equity; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Commission; prohibiting a member of the Commission from receiving specified compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement ...
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2013-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 671
MDHB1017Allowing a credit against the State income tax for specified qualified expenditures at specified wineries and specified vineyards; requiring the Department of Business and Economic Development to administer the tax credit; providing for the maximum a...
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2013-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 659
MDHB167Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim November 1 as Maryland Emancipation Day.
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2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 352
MDHB408Providing a subtraction modification under the Maryland individual and corporate income tax for specified expenses incurred to buy and install enhanced agricultural management equipment under specified circumstances; defining "enhanced agricultural m...
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2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 258
MDHB537Prohibiting the Maryland Insurance Commissioner from disapproving a continuing education course for insurance producers solely on a specified basis; authorizing insurance producers to obtain all or part of the credit hours of continuing education req...
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2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 377
MDHB1209Exempting specified indemnity mortgage transactions from the recordation tax; making indemnity mortgage transactions subject to recordation tax after a specified date; authorizing a specified calculation or allocation of recordation tax on indemnity ...
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2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 268
MDHB386Defining "small business" as it relates to a refund in connection with a credit against the State income tax for research and development expenses incurred by an individual or corporation; altering the amount of research and development credits that ...
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2013-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 109
MDHB128Altering the dates by which specified applications for the homestead property tax credit for specified dwellings are required to be filed with the State Department of Assessments and Taxation; altering the taxable years in which the tax credit may no...
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2013-04-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 26
MDHB123Allowing an individual a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for income from the cancellation of consumer credit card debt unless the individual's federal adjusted gross income exceeds $50,000 for an individual or $80,000 for a mar...
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2013-04-04
MDHB532Establishing additional responsibilities for the Maryland Advisory Council for Virtual Learning; requiring the Advisory Council to study and make recommendations regarding virtual learning; requiring the Advisory Council to report findings and recomm...
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2013-04-04
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
MDHB743Altering the calculation of the maximum subtraction modification allowed under the Maryland income tax for specified retirement income under specified circumstances; including income from specified rollover individual retirement accounts in the subtr...
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2013-04-04
MDHB1302Establishing the Commission on Tax Policy, Reform, and Fairness; specifying the membership of the Commission; providing for the appointment of a Senate cochair and House cochair of the Commission; providing for the staffing of the Commission; prohibi...
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2013-04-04
MDHB817Authorizing the governing body of a county or municipal corporation to grant a property tax credit for alternate power sources at retail service stations; establishing when the tax credit may be granted; establishing that the tax credit shall be equa...
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2013-04-04
MDHB87Allowing a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for specified income of specified individuals from the discharge of student loan debt under specified circumstances; requiring an individual to submit specified documentation to qualif...
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2013-04-03
MDHB722Altering the determination of the Maryland estate tax under specified circumstances to exclude from the value of the gross estate $5,000,000 of the value of qualified family-owned business property; providing that the Maryland estate tax imposed on q...
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2013-04-03
Referred to interim study by Ways and Means
MDHB569Requiring the Department of the Environment, in consultation with local government officials, to conduct a review of State programs that provide financial assistance for costs relating to the planning, design, construction, and upgrade of wastewater ...
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2013-04-02
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
MDHB673Requiring the Video Lottery Facility Location Commission to award a video lottery operation license in Prince George's County to the applicant whose application represents the highest prospective total revenues to be derived by the State.
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2013-03-29
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means
MDHB914Altering the calculation of State distributions made to specified counties and Baltimore City based on per capita yield of county income taxes; providing for the effective dates of specified provisions of the Act; and providing for the termination of...
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2013-03-23
Favorable with Amendments 124565/2 Report Adopted
MDHB969Establishing a Commission to Consider Mental Health-Related Ways to Limit Mass Violence by Individuals with Antisocial Personality Disorders, Depressive Disorders, or Other Mental Illness; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Com...
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2013-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations Withdrawn
MDHB652Prohibiting the State from disclosing until the start of a criminal trial the identity of a minor who has furnished information about an alleged criminal offense to specified persons.
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2013-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
MDHB780Providing that specified employees are not members of the Employees' Pension System or the Teachers' Pension System of the State Retirement and Pension System if the employees make an election to join the optional retirement program of the State Reti...
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2013-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations
MDHB834Requiring individuals applying for or receiving temporary cash assistance benefits under the Family Investment Program to comply with specified eligibility requirements related to drug testing; requiring individuals applying for or receiving temporar...
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2013-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations Withdrawn
MDHB1384Adding two trustees to the Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System to represent the interests of county governments; establishing the qualifications of the trustees; providing for the appointment of the trustees; and providing t...
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2013-03-20
MDHB1414Requiring the Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System to submit a report on or before December 31, 2013, to specified committees of the General Assembly on specified transitional statutory provisions that may be necessary if leg...
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2013-03-20
MDHB223Increasing from 65 to 70 miles per hour the maximum speed limit that may be established on specified highways in the State; and increasing to 70 miles per hour the maximum speed limit on the Intercounty Connector.
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2013-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters
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
MDHB1046Providing that specified taxes, fees, charges, and revenues deposited into the Transportation Trust Fund may be used only for specified purposes; repealing obsolete provisions; and repealing provisions relating to the transfer of specified funds from...
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2013-03-14
MDHB317Declaring that it is the public policy of the State to restrict and deter the use of unauthorized alien workers in the performance of public contracts and grants in the State; specifying criteria for mandatory registration in a federal E-Verify progr...
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2013-03-13
MDHB681Repealing the requirements of the Invest Maryland Program regarding the allocation and use of designated capital by specified venture firms, the Enterprise Fund, the Rural Maryland Council, and the Maryland Small Business Development Financing Author...
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2013-03-12
MDHB691Altering the State income tax rate to 4.75% on all taxable income of individuals; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2013.
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2013-03-12
MDHB904Altering from 8.25% to 4% the State income tax rate on the Maryland taxable income of corporations.
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2013-03-12
MDHB850Reducing the Maryland corporate income tax rate from 8.25% to 6% for a corporation that makes specified qualifying investments in the State; requiring the corporation to submit a specified calculation and a specified declaration to the Comptroller; r...
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2013-03-12
MDHB819Prohibiting the State or a county or municipality from issuing specified bonds or other evidences of obligation for the purpose of funding specified pension liabilities; prohibiting the Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System or...
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2013-03-12
MDHB1392Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration and the Maryland Department of the Environment jointly to study the feasibility and desirability of establishing, in whole or in part, a specified decentralized emissions inspection and testing program to im...
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2013-03-12
MDHB363Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution to require the approval of two-thirds of the members elected to each House of the General Assembly to pass legislation to increase the rate of an existing tax or to impose a tax on an individual or ...
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2013-03-11
MDHB812Exempting veterans and persons serving on active duty in the armed forces of the United States from any practical or field components of the course of instruction in competency and safety in the handling of firearms; and requiring the Department of N...
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2013-03-11
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters
MDHB856Providing an exemption from personal property tax for property that is owned by a business that has organized under the laws of Maryland during the current tax year or that relocates its headquarters to Maryland during the current tax year; exempting...
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2013-03-07
MDHB1264Establishing the Task Force to Study Forfeiture of Retirement Benefits for Public Officials Charged with or Convicted of a Crime; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to study and make recomme...
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2013-03-07
MDHB1198Allowing an individual or a corporation to claim a credit against the State income tax for 15% of the cost of a renewable energy system; requiring a renewable energy system for which a credit is claimed to satisfy specified requirements; providing th...
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2013-03-07
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
MDHB570Specifying that there is an Inspector General of the State; establishing the Office of the Inspector General; requiring the Inspector General to examine and investigate the management and affairs of units and conduct audits of the units; authorizing ...
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2013-03-05
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations
MDHB574Establishing the office of the Inspector General; specifying qualifications that an individual must meet to be eligible for the office; providing that the Inspector General is subject to removal by the General Assembly under specified circumstances; ...
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2013-03-05
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations
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