Subject Crimes and Punishments | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| MD | SB456 | Prohibiting, except in specified circumstances, the performance or inducement or attempted performance or inducement of an abortion of a pregnant woman unless a determination as to the probable age of the unborn child is made by a specified physician... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 |
| MD | HB652 | Prohibiting 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. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | HB755 | Prohibiting a person from using a specified wireless communication device while operating a transit vehicle; etc. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters |
| MD | HB885 | Prohibiting a person from making, distributing, or selling a counterfeit airbag or a substandard airbag; prohibiting a person from installing a counterfeit airbag or a substandard airbag in a motor vehicle; prohibiting a person from selling or instal... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary Withdrawn |
| MD | HB972 | Prohibiting a person from disclosing or helping another person to disclose an individual's personal identifying information without the individual's consent; prohibiting a person from possessing, obtaining, disclosing, or helping another person to po... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary Withdrawn |
| MD | HB848 | Requiring a specified child for whom the juvenile court has waived jurisdiction under specified circumstances to remain detained in a juvenile facility except under specified circumstances; requiring a specified child to be transferred to a specified... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary Withdrawn |
| MD | HB866 | Authorizing a State's Attorney to file a petition to freeze assets of a defendant charged with a specified financial crime involving a vulnerable or elder adult under specified circumstances; requiring that a petition to freeze assets be served in ac... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | HB870 | Providing that specified police and court records pertaining to a minor are confidential and their contents may not be divulged except under specified circumstances; etc. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | SB871 | Authorizing that a specified crime involving circulating or transmitting a false statement or rumor about the location of a destructive device or toxic material be prosecuted in the county in which the destructive device or toxic material was alleged... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 |
| MD | HB1125 | Requiring the Department of Human Resources to assist a child who has been identified as a victim of identity fraud to apply for an identity theft passport under specified circumstances; and requiring the Department of Juvenile Services to assist a c... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | HB1154 | Repealing the crime of knowingly transferring or attempting to transfer the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to another individual. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1093 | Prohibiting individuals from using obscene language in transit vehicles and trains owned or controlled by the Maryland Transit Administration or operated by a railroad company under contract to the Administration; limiting the Act to the operator of ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters |
| MD | HB1311 | Prohibiting a person from recruiting, transporting, transferring, harboring, or receiving an individual, either living or deceased, for the purpose of removing one or more of the individual's organs by specified means; prohibiting a person from trans... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1259 | Prohibiting a District Court commissioner from authorizing the pretrial release of a defendant charged with causing abuse or neglect of a vulnerable adult in the first or second degree; providing that a judge may authorize the pretrial release of the... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1260 | Increasing the penalties for the crime of causing abuse or neglect of a vulnerable adult in the first or second degree. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1225 | Prohibiting a person, while in or having just exited a motor vehicle, from recklessly discharging a firearm at or toward another motor vehicle or building or at or toward another person or an occupied building or motor vehicle; and requiring the forf... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | SB894 | Repealing the requirement that a prosecution for an offense under § 14-601 of the Health Occupations Article of practicing, attempting to practice, or offering to practice medicine without a license be instituted within 3 years after the offense was... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 |
| MD | SB956 | Establishing the Mental Health and Law Enforcement Advisory Board; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Board; requiring the Board to make recommendations regarding the establishment of a Maryland Criminal Justice and Behavioral ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Unfavorable Report by Finance Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1490 | Prohibiting a person who is detained for specified alcohol- or drug- related driving offenses from knowingly refusing to take a specified blood or breath test if the person was detained previously for specified alcohol- or drug-related driving offens... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 |
| MD | SB865 | Providing that an inmate who is serving a sentence in a State or local correctional facility for a second or subsequent conviction of a specified firearm related crime is not entitled to a specified deduction from the inmate's term of confinement; et... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 |
| MD | HB152 | Providing that a prosecution under a State criminal statute is barred if the defendant was previously prosecuted in a United States District Court for a crime arising out of the same incident, the elements of the crime are identical in the State and ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-19 Third Reading Failed (46-89) |
| MD | HB283 | Authorizing an employer to file an appeal with the Lower Appeals Division within 15 days after the employer discovered, or should have discovered, that an individual receiving benefits committed a financial crime against the employer while employed b... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-19 Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB1144 | Prohibiting a junk dealer or scrap metal processor from purchasing from an individual a shopping cart, flatbed cart, or similar wheeled device under specified circumstances, or copper or other metal piping unlawfully taken from a house; providing for... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-19 Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB1100 | Establishing 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... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-19 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1354 | Eliminating immunity from civil liability or criminal penalty for an owner or seller of real property or the owner's or seller's agent who fails to disclose a homicide, suicide, accidental death, or felony that occurred on a property offered for sale... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-19 Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters |
| MD | HB1291 | Requiring the licensure as a private process service agency of any person who provides specified private process service; providing for the terms and renewals of the licenses, qualifications for and duties of licensees, display of licenses, and requi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-19 Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters Withdrawn |
| MD | SB935 | Establishing the Energy-Efficient and Green Homes Construction Loan Program; providing for the purpose of the Program; establishing specified loan categories and criteria; establishing the Energy-Efficient and Green Homes Construction Fund as a speci... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-19 Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m. (Budget and Taxation) |
| MD | HB1427 | Requiring the Secretary of State to establish the Human Trafficking Address Confidentiality Program for victims of human trafficking; stating the purpose of the Program; establishing eligibility requirements of the Program; establishing application a... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-19 |
| MD | HB1453 | Repealing specified criminal violations for the use, possession, and sale of marijuana; establishing specified exemptions from prosecution for specified persons for using, obtaining, purchasing, transporting, or possessing marijuana in specified circ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-19 |
| MD | SB454 | Requiring a specified child for whom the juvenile court has waived jurisdiction under specified circumstances to remain detained in a juvenile facility except under specified circumstances; requiring a specified child to be transferred to a specified... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| MD | HB480 | Altering a provision of law relating to the expungement of criminal records so as to require a court, before disposing of a charge against a defendant, to provide a detailed explanation to the defendant of specified expungement provisions; and requir... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | SB531 | Prohibiting a person from storing or leaving a loaded or unloaded firearm in a location where specified individuals could gain access to the firearm; and altering the penalty for a violation of the Act. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings Withdrawn |
| MD | SB532 | Altering the penalty for storing or leaving a loaded firearm in a location where the person knew or should have known that an unsupervised child would gain access to the firearm. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings Withdrawn |
| MD | HB699 | Providing that the statute of limitations for the crime of solicitation to commit murder in the first degree, murder in the second degree, or arson in the first degree, or arson in the second degree is the statute of limitations for the prosecution o... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| 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 | SB628 | Prohibiting a person who knows or has reason to believe that a police or an executive investigation is underway or soon will be instituted from willfully altering, destroying, concealing, or removing a specified item with the intention of impairing t... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings Withdrawn |
| MD | SB651 | Listing synthetic cannabinoids on Schedule I to designate controlled dangerous substances that may not be legally used, possessed, or distributed; defining "synthetic cannabinoids"; and establishing criminal penalties for a violation of the Act. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| MD | HB732 | Creating an exception to the prohibition against attempting to elude a police officer under specified circumstances to allow a driver who has been given a visual or an audible signal to stop by a police officer in a vehicle that is not an appropriate... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | HB738 | Excluding from the jurisdiction of the juvenile court specified juvenile offenders who violate a specified prohibition on making a false statement about a destructive device or toxic material. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | HB1112 | Requiring the State's Attorney to be a party to, and have specified rights in, specified proceedings relating to the release of a person committed to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene as not criminally responsible under the test for crimina... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | HB1010 | Prohibiting a public servant from conducting a specified inappropriate search of a minor without probable cause that the minor is concealing contraband or a weapon or without the consent of the parent or guardian of the minor; establishing penalties ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | HB898 | Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to establish a mandatory abortion survey system; requiring specified hospitals and facilities to report abortions to the Department using a specified form, in a specified manner, and on or before ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-15 |
| MD | HB917 | Requiring a specified residential property disclosure statement to contain specified information relating to whether the property has been used for illegal drug production; requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to maintain a specified ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-15 Hearing 3/15 at 1:00 p.m. (Health and Government Operations) |
| MD | SB879 | Imposing a tax on the production of natural gas from specified wells in the State; setting the rate of the tax at 2.5% of gross fair market value of natural gas produced; providing for the administration of the tax by the Comptroller; providing for t... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-15 |
| MD | HB1312 | Prohibiting, except in specified circumstances, the performance or inducement or attempted performance or inducement of an abortion of a pregnant woman unless a determination as to the probable age of the unborn child is made by a specified physician... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-15 |
| MD | SB789 | Establishing a specified participation goal for specified rural county business enterprises for specified procurement contracts; requiring specified solicitation documents to establish the degree of participation based on specified information; provi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| MD | SB823 | Establishing a direct tobacco shipper's permit to be issued by the Office of the Comptroller; requiring a person to obtain a direct tobacco shipper's permit before the person may engage in selling and shipping pipe tobacco or premium cigars directly ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 |
| MD | HB865 | Authorizing a court to order a defendant convicted of a specified charge of animal cruelty, as a condition of sentencing, to pay, in addition to any other fines and costs, all reasonable costs incurred in removing, housing, treating, or euthanizing a... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 |
| MD | HB1044 | Creating a public financing system for General Assembly candidates; repealing the Public Financing Act for gubernatorial candidates; altering limits on contributions and transfers, as specified; providing that specified contributions be considered as... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 |
| MD | SB248 | Prohibiting a person from breaking and entering the dwelling of another and committing a violent crime against a victim who is a lawful occupant of the dwelling; prohibiting a person from employing or displaying a dangerous weapon during the commissi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 |
