| HB1312 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing a Task Force to Study Creation of the Maryland Center for School Safety; providing that a member of the Task Force may not receive compensation but may be reimbursed for specified expenses; requiring the Task Force to study establishing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0) |
| HB298 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Office of Student Financial Assistance in the Maryland Higher Education Commission to require specified individuals to attend a specified financial counseling session under specified circumstances; specifying that the financial counseli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Special Order later today (Senator Pinsky) Adopted |
| 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 |
| HB325 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners to send license renewal notices by electronic mail; altering the amount of the maximum penalty from $5,000 to $10,000 for any violation of the laws relating to the licensure and regulation of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Senators Harris, Conway, and Dyson |
| HB1108 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing specified nonprofit organizations in Carroll County to conduct a gaming contest that is a card game, card tournament, or casino night; authorizing the county commissioners to issue a permit to conduct a gaming contest; specifying conditio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB858 | Engross
Sine Die | Expanding the application of the prohibition against the use, setting, placement, or maintenance of a leghold or body-gripping trap in Montgomery County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Special Order later today (Senator Colburn) 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 |
| HB1120 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing for the statewide application for provisions of law governing the towing or removal of vehicles from parking lots; establishing a motor vehicle towing and storage lien on a towed motor vehicle on behalf of the tower for specified towing and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (42-0) |
| HB126 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the definition of an outstanding warrant for arrest for purposes of specified provisions of the Maryland Vehicle Law governing suspension of drivers' licenses and vehicle registrations to provide that the arrest warrant shall be at least 61 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB639 | Engross
Sine Die | Creating a Task Force on Military Service Members, Veterans, and the Courts; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; providing that a member of the Task Force may not receive specified compensation but may be reimbursed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| HB1457 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing that specified broadcasters and their employees, officers, directors, members, managers, or agents are not liable for damages for any act or omission in broadcasting or disseminating an AMBER, a Silver, or an Emergency Alert after receiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Special Order later today (Senator Zirkin) Adopted |
| HB192 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from using a text messaging device to read a text message while operating a motor vehicle in motion or in the travel portion of the roadway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Senators Raskin, Stone, and Forehand |
| HB1218 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from affixing, erecting, or placing a noose or swastika on a specified building or real property without the express permission of the owner, owner's agent, or lawful occupant of the building or property, with the intent to threa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Special Order later today (Senator Harris) Adopted |
| HB1222 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Division of Parole and Probation to recommend to the Parole Commission that a specified supervisee be exempt wholly or partly from a specified fee; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-09
Senators Gladden, Raskin, and Mooney |
| 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 |
| HB1270 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that a person who operates or attempts to operate a vessel on the waters of the State is deemed to have consented to take a specified test of the person's breath or blood to determine alcohol concentration or drug or controlled dangerous su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Third Reading Passed (133-6) |
| HB51 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that a contract, deed, covenant, restriction, instrument, declaration, rule, bylaw, lease agreement, rental agreement, or any other document may not prohibit a homeowner or tenant from installing or using clotheslines on specified residenti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Third Reading Passed (133-6) |
| 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 |
| HB817 | Engross
Sine Die | Imposing a 2% tax on the gross receipts from the short-term lease or rental of heavy equipment property by a person whose principal business is the short-term lease or rental of heavy equipment property at retail; requiring a person who owns a busine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Third Reading Passed (139-1) |
| HB1334 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring nonpublic schools that accept State funds to adopt a policy prohibiting bullying, harassment, and intimidation by a specified date; requiring the policy to include specified provisions; encouraging a nonpublic school to develop the policy i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Third Reading Passed (111-27) |
| 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 |
| HB1193 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a person operating a bicycle to ride the bicycle in or through a crosswalk in specified locations under specified circumstances; requiring a vehicle to yield the right-of-way under specified circumstances to a bicycle that is lawfully in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-08
Third Reading Passed (127-10) |
| 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. |
| HB509 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifying that only specified disability retirees of the State Police Retirement System who are not reemployed as specified law enforcement officers are exempt from a temporary suspension of their disability retirement allowance if they are reemploy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-07
Re-referred Budget and Taxation |
| 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. |
| HB1051 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the governing body of a county or a municipal corporation to adopt an ordinance or local law that prohibits a person from selling drug paraphernalia to a minor; and authorizing a county or a municipal corporation to impose specified crimi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-07
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (44-0) |
| HB50 | Engross
Sine Die | Lowering the threshold for the phosphoric acid content of lawn fertilizers to which specified prohibitions and requirements apply; altering the applicability date for provisions of the Act from April 1, 2011 to April 1, 2012; providing for an excepti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-07
Special Order later today (Senator Pinsky) Adopted |
| 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 |
| HB56 | Engross
Sine Die | Adding Worcester County to the list of counties in which specified nonprofit fraternal, religious, and war veterans' organizations may own and operate not more than five slot machines under specified circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-07
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (34-12) |
| 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 |
| HB1125 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring an approving body to require a redevelopment project design to reduce existing impervious area within the limit of disturbance by at least 50% as determined by the 2000 Maryland Stormwater Design Manual, Volumes I and II; implementing envir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-07
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB620 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the description of the common elements in a condominium declaration that is recorded on or after October 1, 2010, to include specified improvements; providing that specified provisions of the Act do not apply to a condominium that is occupi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-07
Special Order later today (Senator Frosh) Adopted |
| 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) |
| HB1458 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting members or former members of the State Police Retirement System who are charged with committing specified criminal offenses during the period of time the member or former member was an employee of the Department of State Police from apply...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-07
Re-referred Budget and Taxation |
| 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 |
