Subject Telecommunications and Information Technology | Current
State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| MD | SB29 | Authorizing a personal representative to take control of, conduct, continue, or terminate an account of a decedent on a social networking Web site, microblogging or short message service Web site, or electronic mail service Web site. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| MD | HB98 | Altering the time period before a license expires by which the Board of Examiners of Psychologists is required to send a renewal notice to a licensee; requiring the Board, under specified circumstances, to send a renewal notice by electronic means to... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-02 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 219 |
| MD | HB136 | Requiring the Secretary of Budget and Management to establish a statewide telework program and adopt a statewide telework policy and telework guidelines; authorizing the head of a unit in the Executive Branch of State government to designate position... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 83 |
| MD | HB186 | Establishing the Law Enforcement Training and Technology Fund; adding a $5 additional fee to the costs of traffic and criminal case convictions; requiring the Comptroller to distribute the additional fees collected into the Fund; establishing the pur... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary Withdrawn |
| MD | SB254 | Altering the time period before a license expires by which the Board of Examiners of Psychologists is required to send a renewal notice to a licensee; requiring the Board, under specified circumstances, to send a renewal notice by electronic means to... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-02 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 218 |
| MD | HB246 | Authorizing a juvenile counselor to use video conferencing to satisfy a requirement that the juvenile counselor visit a child at the child's placement at specified intervals under specified circumstances. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-04 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | HB316 | Prohibiting a person from violating the federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act; prohibiting specified persons who engage in specified activities relating to the Internet or an online service from using specified information to display or tr... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-21 Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters Withdrawn |
| MD | SB339 | Repealing provisions of law that require enforcement as a secondary offense of specified violations involving the use of a wireless communication device while operating a motor vehicle; altering the penalty imposed for a violation of a specified proh... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 638 |
| MD | HB327 | Requiring the Council for the Procurement of Health, Education, and Social Services to establish a workgroup to determine a process for specified entities to submit specified electronic documents to specified agencies; requiring the Council to report... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | SB365 | Allowing an individual or a corporation a credit against the State income tax for costs directly associated with making a Web site accessible to blind individuals; requiring an individual or a corporation that claims the credit to provide verificatio... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-13 |
| MD | SB374 | Requiring the Office of the Attorney General to convene and direct a workgroup to examine specified issues relating to the protection of children's online privacy; requiring the workgroup to include specified representatives; requiring the Office of ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-02 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 246 |
| MD | SB385 | Requiring the Council for the Procurement of Health, Education, and Social Services to establish a workgroup to determine a process for specified entities to submit specified electronic documents to specified agencies; requiring the Council to report... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-02 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 250 |
| MD | HB377 | Prohibiting a person from receiving location information transmitted by a mobile communications device from a common communications carrier without first obtaining a court order, with a specified exception; establishing procedures by which an investi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | HB432 | Authorizing the ethics provisions enacted by Frederick County to allow specified former officials or employees of the county to engage in specified representation or assistance that related in a specified way to the officials' or employees' former go... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters Withdrawn |
| MD | HB396 | Prohibiting a person from using an interactive computer service to maliciously engage in a specified course of conduct that inflicts serious emotional distress on a minor or places a minor in reasonable fear of death or serious bodily injury under sp... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-02 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 369 |
| MD | HB475 | Authorizing a public school employer and an employee organization to use an alternative procedure regarding the renegotiation of allocated funds under specified circumstances; providing that, in connection with the Public School Labor Relations Board... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-02 |
| MD | SB423 | Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $450,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of County Commissioners of Garrett County for the planning, design, construction, repair, renovation, reconstruction, and capital equippi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-09 |
| MD | SB461 | Requiring 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... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 470 |
| MD | HB537 | Prohibiting 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... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-02 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 377 |
| MD | HB550 | Allowing an individual or a corporation a credit against the State income tax for costs directly associated with making a Web site accessible to blind individuals; requiring an individual or a corporation that claims the credit to provide verificatio... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 |
| MD | SB460 | Authorizing a physician assistant to complete a specified certificate that an individual of a specified age is pregnant or has given birth to a child; authorizing a physician assistant to provide specified information on a certificate of birth under ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-02 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 273 |
| MD | SB478 | Prohibiting a person from attempting to deliver a telecommunication device to a person detained or confined in a specified place of confinement; increasing the penalty for specified subsequent violations; and requiring a specified sentence to be serv... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-28 Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| MD | HB486 | Allowing a person to conduct a home game, which 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 players; prohibiting a home game from involving a player'... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-05 |
| MD | HB497 | Requiring merchants to provide to a consumer, at a specified time, a written receipt for a sale of consumer goods or services under specified circumstances; authorizing merchants to provide consumers with an electronic receipt in lieu of a written re... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB493 | Requiring a petition signature page to contain a specified notification and be completed on a specified form; altering the information an individual must provide to sign a petition; establishing specified requirements for an online petition system; e... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-21 |
| MD | SB61 | Changing requirements for the contents of the notice of a public hearing by the Department of the Environment until October 1, 2014; requiring specified Web site publication beginning October 1, 2014; allowing the Department to comply with a requirem... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 12 |
| MD | HB611 | Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $450,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of County Commissioners of Garrett County for the planning, design, construction, repair, renovation, reconstruction, and capital equippi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-08 Unfavorable Report by Appropriations |
| MD | SB494 | Requiring the Commission on Maryland Cybersecurity Innovation and Excellence to study and develop specified strategies and recommendations for advancing telemedicine technologies and use. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 |
| MD | SB496 | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance program to provide a specified reimbursement for services delivered by telemedicine under specified circumstances; requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to adopt regulations for a specified pu... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-02 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 280 |
| MD | SB537 | Requiring a student to complete an online course to graduate from high school, beginning with students entering grade 9 in the 2015-2016 school year; and requiring that specified online courses be approved by the State Department of Education or the ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| MD | HB532 | Establishing 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... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-04 Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| MD | HB702 | Altering the definition of "electronic transmission", for purposes of provisions of law governing business entities, to clarify that it includes electronic mail, facsimile transmission, and Internet transmission; clarifying the authority of the State... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 68 |
| MD | HB651 | Prohibiting a person from attempting to deliver a telecommunication device to a person detained or confined in a specified place of confinement; increasing the penalty for specified subsequent violations; and requiring a specified sentence to be serv... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | SB591 | Requiring government units to destroy or arrange for the destruction of records that contain specified personal or private information in a specified manner; requiring a government unit that collects, maintains, or makes available specified personal ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-11 Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Withdrawn |
| MD | SB552 | Authorizing the creation of a State Debt in the amount of $200,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of Howard Park Civic Association, Inc. for the planning, design, construction, repair, renovation, reconstruction, and ca... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-09 |
| MD | SB593 | Authorizing specified health occupations boards within the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to establish an electronic system to distribute specified licenses, permits, certifications, or registrations; requiring specified boards to discontinu... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | SB622 | Altering the definition of "electronic transmission", for purposes of provisions of law governing business entities, to clarify that it includes electronic mail, facsimile transmission, and Internet transmission; clarifying the authority of the State... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 67 |
| MD | SB673 | Requiring a petition signature page to contain a specified notification and be completed on a specified form; altering the information an individual must provide to sign a petition; establishing specified requirements for an online petition system; e... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-28 |
| MD | SB676 | Requiring State and local government units, when destroying records of an individual that contain personal information of the individual, to take reasonable steps to protect against unauthorized access to or use of the personal information under spec... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-02 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 304 |
| MD | HB723 | Authorizing a physician assistant to complete a specified certificate that an individual of a specified age is pregnant or has given birth to a child; authorizing a physician assistant to provide specified information on a certificate of birth under ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-02 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 274 |
| MD | SB798 | Authorizing a hospital, in its credentialing and privileging process for a physician who provides medical services to patients at the hospital only through telemedicine from a distant-site hospital or distant-site telemedicine entity, to rely on cred... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-02 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 324 |
| MD | SB776 | Declaring the intent of the General Assembly that the Maryland Health Care Commission, in conjunction with the Maryland Health Quality and Cost Council, continue to study the use of telehealth throughout the State through the Telemedicine Task Force;... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-02 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 319 |
| MD | SB769 | Requiring health insurance carriers to provide a specified notice to insureds and enrollees, and post a specified notice on the carrier's Web site, that an insured or enrollee may access specified information and submit specified comments relating to... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-02 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 318 |
| MD | SB768 | Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to adopt regulations requiring that classroom instruction for the driver education program include a video course of a specified duration that pertains to organ, eye, and tissue donation in the State and bec... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-08 Favorable Report by Environmental Matters |
| MD | SB745 | Establishing a prepaid wireless E 9-1-1 fee of 60 cents per retail transaction; providing that the fee shall be collected for specified transactions in the State for the purpose of contributing to the 9-1-1 Trust Fund; authorizing specified percentag... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-02 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 313 |
| MD | HB824 | Requiring the Department of the Environment to publish all sewer overflow and treatment plant bypass reports on a single page on its Web site; requiring the Department to develop and maintain a list containing the electronic mail addresses of persons... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 |
| MD | HB753 | Repealing provisions of law that require enforcement as a secondary offense of specified violations involving the use of a wireless communication device while operating a motor vehicle; altering the penalty imposed for a violation of a specified proh... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 637 |
| MD | HB745 | Authorizing the creation of a State Debt in the amount of $200,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of Howard Park Civic Association, Inc. for the planning, design, construction, repair, renovation, reconstruction, and ca... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-08 Unfavorable Report by Appropriations |
| MD | SB845 | Requiring a custodian of a public record to deny inspection of the part of a public record that contains an electronic mail address of an individual who is not an employee of a unit or instrumentality of the State or of a political subdivision; exemp... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-03 |
| MD | SB844 | Requiring specified governmental units to post on the Web sites of the units a specified statement notifying the public that electronic mail addresses are public records; and defining "governmental unit". [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-27 Referred to interim study by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
