Subject Courts | Current
State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| MD | SB37 | 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] | 2013-03-28 |
| MD | HB10 | Prohibiting a court, except under specified circumstances or unless good cause for the award of custody or visitation is shown, from awarding custody of a child or visitation with a child to a parent who has been found guilty of sexual abuse of a min... [Detail][Text] | 2013-01-17 |
| MD | HB54 | Requiring individuals convicted of vulnerable-adult abuse to register with a specified supervising authority by a specified time and to register annually with a local law enforcement unit for a specified term; requiring a specified registration to in... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-19 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations |
| MD | SB52 | Prohibiting a court, except under specified circumstances or unless good cause for the award of custody or visitation is shown, from awarding custody of a child or visitation with a child to a parent who has been found guilty of sexual abuse of a min... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-28 |
| MD | SB86 | Altering the jurisdiction of the juvenile court to include jurisdiction over a specified former child in need of assistance (CINA); requiring the juvenile court to take specified actions in making a disposition on a voluntary placement petition for a... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 22 |
| MD | SB104 | Altering a ground for absolute divorce by reducing, from 12 months to 6 months, the amount of time required for the parties to have lived separate and apart without cohabitation. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-11 Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| MD | HB99 | Prohibiting a person from importing, selling, or offering for sale specified child care products containing flame-retardant chemicals (TCEP); providing that the Act does not apply to the sale or distribution of a child care product that is resold, of... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-02 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 349 |
| 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 | SB181 | Establishing a presumptive support obligation under specified circumstances; authorizing a party to seek a judicial determination of support or challenge a presumptive support obligation; establishing that a presumptive support obligation remains in ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-05 Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings Withdrawn |
| 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 | HB129 | Establishing the Task Force to Study Implementing a Civil Right to Counsel in Maryland; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving specified compensation, but authorizin... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| 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 | SB265 | Expanding the proceedings for which a local department of social services is required to provide specified notice to preadoptive parents and foster parents of a child under specified circumstances and at which preadoptive parents and foster parents h... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 37 |
| 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 | SB262 | Establishing the Task Force to Study Implementing a Civil Right to Counsel in Maryland; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving specified compensation, but authorizin... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 35 |
| MD | SB229 | Authorizing a person to file a specified petition for expungement of specified juvenile records; requiring the court to serve a specified petition on a specified State's Attorney; authorizing the court to order the expungement of a specified record u... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-11 Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| MD | HB197 | Requiring a court to notify the Motor Vehicle Administration of a specified violation of the Illegal Dumping and Litter Control Law; requiring the Chief Judge of the District Court and the Administrative Office of the Courts, in conjunction with the ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-28 |
| MD | HB189 | Altering the definition of "petitioner" under provisions of law relating to peace orders; authorizing a petitioner to file a petition for a peace order for specified acts against the petitioner's employee; authorizing a court to issue a peace order t... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-11 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary Withdrawn |
| MD | SB292 | Authorizing the Motor Vehicle Administration to modify a driver's license suspension or issue a restrictive license for a licensee who has committed specified alcohol-related driving offenses if the license is required for the purpose of complying wi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-13 |
| MD | HB264 | Authorizing the Department of Juvenile Services to provide access to and confidential use of juvenile court records by specified state agencies under specified circumstances; repealing provisions that authorized access to and confidential use of a ch... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 611 |
| MD | HB278 | Expanding the proceedings for which a local department of social services is required to provide specified notice to preadoptive parents and foster parents of a child under specified circumstances and at which preadoptive parents and foster parents h... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | HB282 | Authorizing a person to file a specified petition for expungement of specified juvenile records; authorizing the court to order the expungement of a specified record under specified circumstances; requiring the court to consider specified criteria in... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-01 Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| MD | SB354 | Requiring individuals convicted of vulnerable-adult abuse to register with a specified supervising authority by a specified time and to register annually with a local law enforcement unit for a specified term; requiring a specified registration to in... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-05 Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings Withdrawn |
| MD | HB250 | Expanding the applicability of specified appeal rights from a victim of a violent crime to a victim of a nonviolent crime; authorizing a victim to appeal to the Court of Special Appeals from a specified final order; etc. [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-02 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 363 |
| MD | SB271 | Requiring a court to notify a person who is convicted of a specified litter disposal offense that the person's driver's license may be suspended; requiring a court to notify the Motor Vehicle Administration of a specified violation involving litter d... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-11 Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| MD | SB264 | Requiring the juvenile court to conduct specified hearings within specified periods of time to review the status of specified children under its jurisdiction; requiring the juvenile court to take specified actions at a review hearing under the Act; a... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 36 |
| MD | SB382 | Requiring that a petition for emergency evaluation of a specified individual include, under specified circumstances, a statement of whether the individual has possession of or access to firearms; authorizing a court, under specified circumstances, to... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-11 Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings Withdrawn |
| MD | SB383 | Establishing that a mortgage assistance relief service provider providing mortgage assistance relief in connection with a dwelling in the State that does not comply with specified provisions of federal law is in violation of the Act; authorizing the ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 464 |
| MD | HB245 | Requiring a health care practitioner involved in the delivery or care of a substance-exposed newborn to make a report to a local department of social services except under specified circumstances; establishing that a report made under the Act does no... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 90 |
| MD | HB291 | Establishing that a mortgage assistance relief service provider providing mortgage assistance relief in connection with a dwelling in the State that does not comply with specified provisions of federal law is in violation of the Act; authorizing the ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 465 |
| MD | HB468 | Altering 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... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-19 |
| MD | HB441 | Authorizing the General Assembly to create a Death Penalty Court that shall have original and exclusive jurisdiction over all presentments or indictments for offenses punishable by death; vesting the judicial power of the State in the Death Penalty C... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-25 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | HB437 | Repealing and revising provisions of law relating to trusts; providing that the Act may be cited as the Maryland Trust Act; providing for the scope of the Act; establishing whether a person has knowledge of a fact under the Act; establishing that a t... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-25 |
| MD | HB431 | Authorizing the Maryland Insurance Commissioner to participate in a specified supervisory college; providing for the confidentiality of specified documents; providing that specified persons must comply with specified requirements when seeking to acqu... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 115 |
| MD | HB401 | Authorizing the Adjutant General to adopt rules and regulations to govern, discipline, and establish criteria for the performance of duties of the organized militia of the State; exempting the rules and regulations from the requirements of the Admini... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 112 |
| MD | SB417 | Requiring a court to issue a permanent final protective order against an individual who is sentenced to, instead of who served, a term of imprisonment of at least 5 years for a specified act of abuse under specified circumstances and who has served a... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-02 |
| MD | SB409 | Altering the scope of the Maryland Mediation Confidentiality Act; and authorizing a specified agreement to exclude specified mediation communications from the application of the Maryland Mediation Confidentiality Act. [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-02 |
| 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 | SB348 | Requiring a court, in determining if a person has violated the prohibition against distributing, attempting to distribute, or possessing with intent to distribute a specified noncontrolled substance, to consider whether the chemical structure of the ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-12 |
| MD | HB277 | Requiring the juvenile court to conduct specified hearings within specified periods of time to review the status of specified children under its jurisdiction; requiring the juvenile court to take specified actions at a review hearing under the Act; a... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | SB419 | Requiring, when an individual is arrested for failure to appear in court to show cause why the individual should not be found in contempt for failure to answer interrogatories or to appear for an examination in aid of enforcement of a money judgment,... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-04 Delegates Anderson, Valentino-Smith, and McComas |
| MD | SB480 | Requiring a court or jury, in determining whether to impose a sentence of death, to consider as an aggravating circumstance whether the defendant committed the murder on the property of a private or public school, educational institution, or child ca... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-14 |
| MD | HB535 | Altering a specified surcharge on specified costs and charges in divorce petitions; requiring a maximum of $25 of a $70 surcharge on divorce petitions to be distributed to the Maryland Legal Services Corporation Fund and a maximum of $45 to be distri... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-04 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary Withdrawn |
| 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 | SB557 | Altering the circumstances under which a health care provider is required to disclose a medical record without the authorization of a person in interest; altering a specified notice that must be sent to specified parties in order to require a health ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-02 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 287 |
| MD | SB556 | 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] | 2013-03-21 Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
