| SB119 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing from more than $10,000 to more than $15,000, the amount in controversy in civil proceedings in which the right to a trial by jury may be limited by legislation; and submitting the constitutional amendment to the qualified voters of the Sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-05-04
Assigned a chapter number, enactment subject to |
| SB759 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to include information about participating agencies and programs, the agencies' and programs' expenditures, and enrollment and statewide performance data in its annual report relating to the Judith P. Hoyer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-12
Favorable Report by Ways and Means |
| SB770 | Engross
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution to prescribe different qualifications for judges of the Orphans' Court for Baltimore City; requiring judges of the Orphans' Court for Baltimore City to have been admitted to practice law in Maryland...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-12
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| SB797 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing a Blue Ribbon Commission on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders; providing for the membership of the Commission; requiring the Commission to examine specified population data, survey specified research, and assess existing services...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-12
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations |
| SB44 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting the use of specified firearms in the commission of crimes of violence or felonies; and defining "firearm".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-12
Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary |
| SB1101 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a State inspector to make periodic annual inspections of elevator units in any building used primarily for public religious worship that has a single level platform lift or stairway chairlift; and altering a requirement that third-party qua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-12
Re-referred Economic Matters |
| SB905 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from selling at retail an alcoholic beverage with an alcohol content of 95% (190 proof) or more; and providing for a specified penalty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-12
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| SB1104 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting, on or after July 1, 2014, a person from selling number 2 heating oil with a sulfur content exceeding 500 parts per million in the State to a consumer for end use.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Re-referred Economic Matters |
| SB343 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a person who receives a traffic citation for a violation that contributed to an accident that resulted in the death of another to comply with the notice to appear in court contained in the citation by appearance in person.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| SB604 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring specified State agencies, in consultation with institutions of higher education, to adopt a definition of college and career readiness; requiring the adoption of a common assessment and benchmarks to show progress toward college readiness; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Re-referred Ways and Means & Appropriations |
| SB865 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education, in collaboration with specified organizations and individuals, to develop and implement a specified program to provide awareness to coaches, school personnel, student-athletes, and the parents or guardians...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Re-referred Ways and Means & Health and Government Operations |
| SB125 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a police officer from conducting or supervising a strip search or body cavity search of a person arrested for a misdemeanor or traffic offense under specified circumstances, or of a minor detained for an act that would be a misdemeanor if...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-10
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| SB760 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the process and the criteria used for selecting capital projects to be included in the Consolidated Transportation Program; requiring that the annual Consolidated Transportation Program report include specified goals, specified criteria, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Third Reading Passed (37-9) |
| SB507 | Engross
Sine Die | Renaming the Injured Workers' Insurance Fund as the Chesapeake Employers' Insurance Company; providing that employees are not subject to specified laws, regulations, or executive orders governing State compensation; providing that the Company is the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Special Order later today (Delegate Davis) Adopted |
| SB1063 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study Unlicensed and Deceptive Real Estate Practices; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving compensation but entitling a member to re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| SB695 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that a defendant who has been sentenced to the Division of Correction after being convicted of a specified violent crime is not eligible for commitment for alcohol or drug abuse treatment until the defendant is eligible for parole.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| SB1012 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing specified individuals to purchase service credit in the Employees' Pension System; requiring individuals who choose to purchase service credit to pay to the Board of Trustees of the State Retirement and Pension System a specified amount f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Re-referred Appropriations |
| SB1036 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the office of the Commissioner of Financial Regulation to serve as a clearinghouse for information on financial education resources, services, and programs available to residents of the State; authorizing the Commissioner to include on th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Special Order later today (Delegate Howard) Adopted |
| SB378 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting the issuance of alcoholic beverages licenses in, or the transfer of licenses into, precincts 7 through 16, inclusive, of the 25th ward in the 46th alcoholic beverages district of Baltimore City; and lowering to 60% the percentage of avera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (136-2) |
| SB395 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting the earning of diminution credits to reduce the term of confinement of an inmate who is serving a sentence in a State or local correctional facility for a specified offense against a victim who is a child under the age of 16 years; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Hearing 4/9 at 1:00 p.m. |
| SB402 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring physicians licensed to practice medicine in the State to notify patients in writing of information relating to professional liability insurance coverage; requiring that the notification be provided to a patient and signed by a patient at th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations |
| SB914 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the rates for contributions required to be made to the Forest Conservation Fund and a local forest conservation fund on the basis of whether a project is inside or outside a priority funding area under specified circumstances; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (113-27) |
| SB922 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the governing body of Carroll County or of a municipal corporation in Carroll County to grant, by law, a tax credit against the county or municipal corporation property tax imposed on specified housing units at independent living retireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-07
Hearing 4/8 at 1:00 p.m. |
| SB929 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering a prohibition on the imposition of taxes on property transfers by a personal representative without consideration or the recordation of instruments effecting those transfers; prohibiting the imposition of specified taxes on specified transfe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-07
Hearing 4/8 at 1:00 p.m. |
| SB201 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifying that, in an appeal from a decision of the Board of License Commissioners of Prince George's County, the court may not stay an order of the Board to close a place of business that is licensed to sell alcoholic beverages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-07
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| SB992 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission to give notice of the filing of specified applications for a certificate of need that relates to a hospital to members of the governing body of each county that borders on the county where the action is p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-07
Hearing 4/8 at 1:00 p.m. |
| SB499 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to explain and provide specified information to a releasee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-07
Delegates Waldstreicher, Rosenberg, and McConkey |
| SB7 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the membership of the State Amusement Ride Safety Advisory Board to remove one consumer member and add one representative of amusement ride rental operators; and requiring that the race and gender composition of the Board reflect the composi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-07
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| SB27 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from excluding benefits for expenses arising from in vitro fertilization procedures when the patient's oocytes are fertilized with donor sperm under specified ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-07
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations |
| SB287 | Engross
Sine Die | Extending until December 31, 2015, a specified credit against the State income tax for electricity produced by qualified Maryland facilities from qualified energy resources; extending until December 31, 2015, the time period in which the Maryland Ene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-07
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (140-0) |
| SB548 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing specified 1-day alcoholic beverages license fees in Anne Arundel County; authorizing the Board of License Commissioners to charge a late fee for filing a license renewal application after April 1; and authorizing the Board to charge a $200...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-07
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| SB1084 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to review program proposals; requiring the Commission to adopt regulations that provide for the receipt of comments and objections from appropriate parties following submission of a completed proposa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-07
Hearing 4/8 at 1:00 p.m. |
| SB836 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a local school superintendent and a school principal to consider prohibiting a student who is arrested for a reportable offense involving rape or a sexual offense from attending the same school or riding on the same school bus as the allege...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-07
Hearing 4/8 at 1:00 p.m. |
| SB1107 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that energy from a specified solar water heating system is eligible for inclusion in meeting the renewable energy portfolio standard; providing that a person that owns and operates a specified solar water heating system shall receive a spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-07
Hearing 4/8 at 1:00 p.m. |
| SB857 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing the limit on the number of permits to operate gaming devices that the County Commissioners for Queen Anne's County may issue to an organization in a single year; and authorizing the county commissioners to determine the number of permits to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-07
Hearing 4/8 at 1:00 p.m. |
| SB114 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Attorney General or a registered voter to institute an action in a circuit court for injunctive relief when a person has engaged in, or there is reason to believe a person is about to engage in, specified violations of election law; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-07
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (105-36) |
| SB635 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the term of the members of the Kent County Board of Education; requiring the County Commissioners of Kent County to appoint a qualified individual to fill any vacancy on the Board; repealing provisions providing for the election of a specifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-07
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (136-4) |
| SB662 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring specified pharmacies to require an adult to sign for the delivery of specified controlled dangerous substances to a residence; requiring the State Board of Pharmacy to waive specified requirements for specified pharmacies under specified ci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-06
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations |
| SB259 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to establish a program in Calvert, Charles, and St. Mary's counties to train rifle shooters to hunt deer during daylight hours for the purpose of controlling the deer population in those counties; requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-04
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (126-10) |
| SB310 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the date by which a county governing body must make a request to the State Board of Education for a waiver from the maintenance of effort requirement; requiring the State Board of Education to consider specified factors when making a decisio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-04
Delegates Rice, Olszewski, and Kaiser |
| SB70 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the maximum allowable noise level from 90dB(a) to 88dB(a) for a vessel on the waters of the State with an engine manufactured on or after a specified date; prohibiting a person from owning or operating a vessel in State waters unless the ves...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-04
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (133-5) |
| SB627 | Engross
Sine Die | Making marijuana a Schedule II controlled dangerous substance; requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to issue a specified request for proposals to select authorized growers of marijuana for medical use; providing for specified require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-04
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB1091 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing requirements for the holding of specified assets owned by a specified Methodist Church; repealing provisions of law providing for the effect of the absence of a trust clause in a specified deed or other conveyance executed before a specifie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-03
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB485 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners to send license renewal notices by electronic mail if the licensee has authorized notification by electronic mail; altering the amount of the maximum penalty from $5,000 to $10,000 for any vio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-02
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (137-0) |
| SB513 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to provide reports to the Governor and the General Assembly on the establishment of a no- discharge zone in all waters of the State; requiring a final report on or before December 1, 2011, that addresses ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB796 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Human Resources and the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention jointly to establish and sustain child advocacy centers in the State; specifying the organizations and entities in which the centers may be based; s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-02
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (139-0) |
| SB598 | Engross
Sine Die | Removing the sunset applicable to a specified motor carrier permit exemption relating to bus service provided by the University of Maryland, College Park to specified persons; altering provisions of law relating to the geographic area in which the Un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-02
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| SB703 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting the distribution of tobacco-related products to minors; requiring specified persons to inspect a customer's driver's license before distributing specified tobacco-related products; repealing specified prohibitions, procedures, and disposi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-01
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB975 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study Erosion in Areas of Puritan Tiger Beetle Habitat; providing for the membership and duties of the Task Force; designating a chair of the Task Force; providing for the staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-01
To House Environmental Matters Committee |
| SB481 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a police officer to arrest a person without a warrant if the police officer has probable cause to believe that the person has committed a second degree assault; and requiring a police officer to consider whether a person acted in self-def...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-01
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary Withdrawn |
