Subject Petitions | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| MD | HB8 | Authorizing a guardian of the property of a minor or disabled person to petition the court to deposit cash belonging to the minor or disabled person in an amount not exceeding $200,000 into a single restricted account; requiring specified excess amou... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | HB895 | Authorizing employees of the Howard County Library System to form, join, and participate in an employee organization and bargain collectively through a representative; requiring the library system and the certified exclusive representative to enter i... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 648 |
| MD | HB1257 | Clarifying specified provisions of law relating to zoning, planning, subdivision, and other land use laws of the State; altering the contents of a specified annual report to refer to approved rather than adopted plans; requiring specified charter cou... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 674 |
| MD | HB854 | Authorizing a person to file a petition for expungement of criminal records if the person was found not criminally responsible under any State or local law that prohibits specified acts; specifying that a petition for expungement based on a finding o... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 643 |
| MD | SB168 | Authorizing a guardian of the property of a minor or disabled person to petition the court to deposit cash belonging to the minor or disabled person in an amount not exceeding $200,000 into a single restricted account; requiring specified excess amou... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-02 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 196 |
| 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 | 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 | HB1220 | Specifying that a provision of law relating to invalidation and destruction of an unexecuted warrant, summons, or other criminal process may not be construed to nullify or remove a failure to appear designation that has been placed on an individual's... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-02 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 409 |
| 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 | 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 | HB1397 | Requiring the State Ethics Commission to adopt specified model ethics provisions for school boards; providing that a model provision may be adopted by or imposed on a school board under specified circumstances; repealing a requirement that a regulate... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-08 Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0) |
| MD | HB1006 | Authorizing a person to petition the court to shield specified court records and police records relating to a conviction of the person no earlier than 5 years after the person satisfies the sentence imposed for the conviction, including parole, proba... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-08 Special Order until 11:55 (Senator Brochin) Adopted (28-19) |
| MD | SB701 | Authorizing a person to petition the court to shield court records and police records relating to a conviction of the person no earlier than 5 years after the person satisfies the sentence imposed for the conviction, including parole, probation, or m... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-08 |
| MD | SB1065 | Requiring the State Ethics Commission to adopt specified model ethics provisions for school boards; providing that a model provision may be adopted by or imposed on a school board under specified circumstances; repealing a requirement that a regulate... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-08 |
| MD | SB479 | Authorizing a person to file a petition for expungement of criminal records if the person was found not criminally responsible under any State or local law that prohibits specified acts; specifying that a petition for expungement based on a finding o... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-06 |
| MD | HB1191 | Designating specified firearms as assault weapons; prohibiting with specified exceptions a person from transporting an assault weapon into the State or possessing, selling, offering to sell, transferring, purchasing, or receiving an assault weapon; r... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-05 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | HB221 | Prohibiting a person from willfully and knowingly preventing, hindering, or delaying a person who has a lawful right to sign a petition from signing a petition through the use of fraud, duress, force, threat, menace, or intimidation. [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-04 |
| MD | SB792 | Establishing the Maryland Collaborative Reproduction Act; establishing the purposes of the Act; establishing rights and obligations of specified intended parents who use gamete or embryo donors to conceive a child through collaborative reproduction; ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-02 |
| 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 | HB302 | Authorizing the medical use of marijuana under specified circumstances; repealing criminal provisions that allow the imposition of a fine or the use of an affirmative defense for use or possession of marijuana or use or possession of drug paraphernal... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-25 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations Withdrawn |
| MD | HB515 | Clarifying that the requirements for party affiliation for a candidate for office do not apply to a candidate for judge of the orphans' court, except in Anne Arundel County; requiring that, except in Anne Arundel County, a certificate of candidacy fo... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-22 |
| 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 | HB872 | Requiring a court to hold a hearing on a petition to modify a child custody order or a petition to modify an order denying visitation within 14 days after the petition is filed. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | SB1008 | Applying specified standing requirements, legal processes for judicial review of environmental permits, and a specified prohibition against contested case hearings to specified sewage sludge utilization permits issued for land in the Chesapeake and A... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| 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 | 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 | SB327 | Establishing a method of electing judges of the orphans' courts on a nonpartisan basis, without regard to political party affiliation; establishing a primary election for candidates for nomination for a specified office to be administered in a specif... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Recommitted to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs (Senator Dyson) |
| MD | HB1177 | Requiring a local government to pay a specified electric company the fair market value of specified street lighting equipment as determined by an agreement between the local government and the electric company or as determined in a condemnation proce... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| 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 | 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 | SB623 | Designating specified firearms as assault weapons; prohibiting with specified exceptions a person from transporting an assault weapon into the State or possessing, selling, offering to sell, transferring, purchasing, or receiving an assault weapon; r... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-11 Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1199 | Creating the Citizens' Congressional Redistricting Commission; requiring the Commission to divide the State to create congressional districts, as specified; providing for the membership, qualifications, and duties of the Commission; specifying requir... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-11 |
| MD | SB706 | Altering the earliest date by which a nonemergency law may take effect; altering the date by which petitions to refer a law to referendum must be filed; requiring the Secretary of State to refer specified laws to referendum at specified elections if ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-07 |
| 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 | 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 | SB367 | Prohibiting public inspection of a petition after the petition is filed with the State Board of Elections or a county board of elections, with a specified exception; requiring a custodian to permit a person to inspect a petition if the person require... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-28 Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| 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 | HB1099 | Establishing the Maryland Collaborative Reproduction Act; establishing the purposes of the Act; establishing rights and obligations of specified intended parents who use gamete or embryo donors to conceive a child through collaborative reproduction; ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-28 |
| MD | HB875 | Authorizing parents and legal guardians of students attending public schools that are not meeting State accountability goals to petition county boards of education to implement interventions; requiring county boards to notify the State Superintendent... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-27 |
| MD | SB294 | Establishing a method for the election of judges to the circuit courts on a nonpartisan basis at a general election; providing that a candidate for election as judge of a circuit court may not be nominated at a primary election; providing that a cand... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-26 |
| 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 | 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 | HB729 | Prohibiting public inspection of a petition after the petition is filed with the State Board of Elections or a county board of elections, with a specified exception; requiring a custodian to permit a person to inspect a petition if the person require... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-21 |
| MD | HB49 | Prohibiting a sponsor or circulator of a petition from disclosing to the public specified information that an individual includes on a petition; prohibiting public inspection of a petition after the petition is filed with the State Board of Elections... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-20 Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means Withdrawn |
| MD | HB484 | Authorizing the Attorney General or a local State's Attorney, on the initiative of the Attorney General or a local State's Attorney or on receipt of a verified complaint from a person that a public body has failed or may fail to comply with specified... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-19 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations Withdrawn |
| 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 |
