Subject Civil Actions | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| MD | SB727 | Requiring the Attorney General to provide written notice of specified protections and remedies to members of the General Assembly; prohibiting an employer from taking or refusing to take personnel actions against employees who are members of the Gene... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-01 |
| MD | HB618 | Establishing that the owner of a dog running at large is liable for damages for personal injury or death caused by a bite from the dog, regardless of whether the dog has shown any vicious or dangerous propensities or whether the owner knew or should ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-07 |
| 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 [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-11 Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Withdrawn |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 | HB605 | Establishing the policy of the State on public-private partnerships; altering provisions of law relating to public-private partnerships; establishing that the Court of Special Appeals has jurisdiction over specified immediate appeals related to speci... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-12 Hearing cancelled (Environmental Matters) |
| MD | SB169 | Establishing that evidence of a communication or information contained in the communication between an individual reporting alleged criminal activity to a specified Crimesolvers/Crimestoppers organization and the individual who accepts the report is ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| MD | HB130 | Authorizing a court to award a prevailing party reasonable attorney's fees and expenses in specified civil actions; requiring a court to consider specified factors in determining whether to make an award to a prevailing plaintiff; authorizing a court... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | HB944 | Authorizing, with regard to a landlord and tenant case brought by a landlord in District 7 (Anne Arundel County), the case to be filed in any District Courthouse in the District, at the discretion of the landlord; and requiring that the case be heard... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-18 Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters Withdrawn |
| MD | SB609 | Expanding a provision of law prohibiting an employer from discharging a covered employee who files a claim for workers' compensation to include prohibiting the employer from retaliating in any way against the covered employee; applying a specified cr... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-19 |
| MD | SB816 | Establishing that an employee is civilly liable to an employer if, under specified circumstances, the employee appropriates or secretes money or a thing of value held in an employment capacity; providing for the award of damages, prejudgment interest... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-19 |
| MD | HB676 | Providing that an individual who resides in Montgomery County and has been harmed by a specified type of nuisance may bring an action to abate the nuisance or for other compensatory or equitable relief against the person found to have created the nui... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-21 |
| MD | SB668 | Prohibiting an employer from refusing to employ or refusing to continue to employ an individual based on membership or nonmembership in a labor organization; prohibiting an employer from requiring an individual to refrain from joining or from requiri... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-21 |
| MD | SB664 | Repealing provisions of law regarding prevailing wage rates for public work contracts; repealing provisions limiting the application of prevailing wage rates to a public work contract of $500,000 or more or a part of a public work contract that is re... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-21 |
| MD | HB78 | Establishing that, in an action against an owner of a dog for damages for personal injury or death caused by the dog, evidence that the dog caused the injury or death creates a rebuttable presumption that the owner knew or should have known that the ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-22 |
| MD | HB296 | Continuing the State Amusement Ride Safety Advisory Board, the Occupational Safety and Health Advisory Board, the Apprenticeship and Training Council, and the Board of Boiler Rules in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-26 Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB318 | Prohibiting an employer from requiring, as a condition of employment or continued employment, an employee or prospective employee to join or remain a member of a labor organization, pay charges to a labor organization, or pay a specified amount to a ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-26 Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB1280 | Requiring the State Labor Relations Board and the State Higher Education Labor Relations Board to decide specified controversies and disputes; authorizing the boards to order a respondent to make specified payments to a complainant under specified ci... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-26 |
| MD | HB660 | Transferring specified powers and duties of the Comptroller to the Secretary of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation, including the regulation and taxation of alcoholic beverages, cigarettes and other tobacco products, motor carriers, and motor fuel and ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-27 |
| MD | SB698 | Requiring specified employers to provide employees with specified earned sick and safe leave; providing for the manner in which earned sick and safe leave is accrued by the employee and treated by the employer; requiring an employer to allow an emplo... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-27 |
| MD | HB1204 | Specifying the amount of the State minimum wage rate that is in effect for specified time periods; requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to set the rate in a specified manner on or after a specified date or under specified circumstances; r... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-27 |
| MD | HB241 | Expanding the application of specified provisions of law relating to the protection of agricultural operations from nuisance actions under specified circumstances to apply to specified commercial fishing and seafood operations; exempting specified co... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-28 |
| MD | HB586 | Altering the standard of review for an appeal in a criminal case in which a defendant has been charged with a specified nonincarcerable traffic violation from being tried de novo to being heard on a specified record. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-04 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | HB876 | Authorizing the Attorney General to institute a civil action against specified professionals who fail to report child abuse or neglect under specified circumstances; establishing a civil penalty for each violation; requiring a civil penalty collected... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-04 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | SB263 | Authorizing a court to award a prevailing party reasonable attorney's fees and expenses in specified civil actions; requiring a court to consider specified factors in determining whether to make an award to a prevailing plaintiff; authorizing a court... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-05 Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1156 | Establishing that the common law doctrine of contributory negligence, as it existed under its judicially determined meaning on January 1, 2011, shall remain an affirmative defense that may be raised by a party under specified circumstances; and makin... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-06 |
| MD | SB772 | Prohibiting a Maryland corporation or a foreign corporation doing business in the State from making a contribution to a campaign finance entity or an independent expenditure unless a specified condition is met; authorizing a stockholder alleging a vi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-07 |
| MD | HB1324 | Prohibiting 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... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-07 |
| MD | SB719 | Prohibiting, except under specified circumstances, a unit of State or local government from granting economic aid to specified employers; requiring an employer that receives specified economic aid to adhere to specified terms of employment for a spec... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-08 Hearing 3/08 at 1:00 p.m. (Budget and Taxation) |
| MD | SB394 | Making the possession of marijuana a civil offense punishable by a fine not exceeding $100; etc. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-11 Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings Withdrawn |
| MD | HB837 | Authorizing a court to award reasonable attorney's fees and expenses in a civil suit against a family farm alleging that the family farm caused water pollution in any waters of the State as the result of an agricultural operation; and applying the Ac... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-11 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 | SB163 | Expanding the application of specified provisions of law relating to the protection of agricultural operations from nuisance actions under specified circumstances to apply to specified commercial fishing and seafood operations; exempting specified co... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 |
| MD | SB396 | Prohibiting 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... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-13 |
| MD | SB677 | Requiring the State Labor Relations Board and the State Higher Education Labor Relations Board to decide specified controversies and disputes; authorizing the boards to order a respondent to make specified payments to a complainant under specified ci... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 Unfavorable Report by Finance Withdrawn |
| MD | HB956 | Prohibiting, except under specified circumstances, a unit of State or local government from granting economic aid to specified employers; requiring an employer that receives specified economic aid to adhere to specified terms of employment for a spec... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB953 | Requiring 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... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters Withdrawn |
| MD | SB827 | Transferring specified powers and duties of the Comptroller to the Secretary of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation, including the regulation and taxation of alcoholic beverages, cigarettes and other tobacco products, motor carriers, and motor fuel and ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-14 Hearing 3/14 at 1:00 p.m. (Finance) |
| 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 | SB210 | Requiring elected officials of a local government, under specified circumstances, to reimburse the local government for specified costs related to legal defenses provided by the local government; providing that, under specified circumstances, specifi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| MD | HB1066 | Prohibiting an electric company from disclosing specified data to a third party, subject to a specified exception; authorizing a customer to submit a specified complaint to the Public Service Commission under specified circumstances; requiring the Co... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-19 Referred to interim study by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB1038 | Requiring an electric company to give specified written notice to specified customers before installing smart meters on a customer's premises under specified circumstances; specifying the contents of a specified notice; establishing a process by whic... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-19 Referred to interim study by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB1243 | Altering the maximum civil and administrative penalties for water pollution control violations; and requiring the Department of the Environment to distribute specified proceeds from the penalties to the Fisheries Research and Development Fund for spe... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-19 Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters |
| MD | HB1233 | Prohibiting a law enforcement agency from using a drone to gather evidence or other information without a warrant, except under specified circumstances; authorizing an aggrieved party to initiate a specified civil action against a law enforcement age... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-19 |
| MD | SB970 | Creating a cause of action under specified circumstances for an owner of property to use against the Department of Agriculture, the Department of the Environment, the Department of Natural Resources, or the Department of Planning if the application o... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-19 |
| MD | SB986 | Authorizing a person bringing an action for damages resulting from a gas explosion or gas leak to be awarded compensatory damages in the amount of three times the amount of actual damages, plus punitive damages, reasonable attorney's fees and expert ... [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 | SB819 | Establishing that the common law doctrine of contributory negligence, as it existed under its judicially determined meaning on January 1, 2011, shall remain an affirmative defense that may be raised by a party under specified circumstances; and makin... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-19 |
| MD | HB421 | Requiring 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... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters |
| 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 | HB509 | Prohibiting specified actions constituting false claims against a governmental entity; providing specified penalties for making false claims; requiring the court to consider and give special attention to specified factors in determining the amount of... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary Withdrawn |
