| 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 |
| SB1076 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifying that prior convictions for specified alcohol- or drug-related driving offenses in this State and specified convictions under a federal law or a law of another state shall be considered prior convictions for the purpose of specified subsequ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-07
Re-referred Judicial Proceedings |
| SB1077 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the juvenile court in a disposition hearing to make a specified determination regarding a specified child; requiring the court to co-commit a specified child to specified agencies under specified circumstances; requiring the Department of J...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-07
Re-referred Judicial Proceedings |
| SB1078 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding the Child in Need of Supervision Pilot Program to include Cecil, Montgomery, and Prince George's counties; extending the termination date of the Pilot Program in Baltimore City and Baltimore County; requiring the Governor to include a speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-07
Re-referred Judicial Proceedings |
| 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. |
| SB1102 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Commission on Judicial Disabilities and the Attorney Grievance Commission to refer specified matters to the Office of the State Prosecutor if there are reasonable grounds to believe that an officer of the court may have committed a crim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-07
Re-referred Judicial Proceedings |
| 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 |
| SB673 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to establish a statewide pass for hand-launched vessels; requiring the Department to issue a pass to persons who apply and pay a specified fee to the Department; authorizing a holder of a pass to use spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-06
Unfavorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs Withdrawn |
| SB954 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring units that contract with community-based residential programs, residential child care programs, or group homes to collect data concerning certification as a minority-owned, woman-owned, or disability-owned business and suspensions or revoca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-06
Unfavorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs |
| SB952 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a vendor of single family residential property to include in the listing of the property specified utility information for the 12 months before the date of the listing; requiring the vendor to submit specified utility information to the Mar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-05
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB505 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a retail pet store from selling or taking specified other actions with a dog less than 9 months of age; exempting specified establishments from the requirements of the Act; establishing a specified civil penalty for a violation of the Act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-05
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| SB1057 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from leaving a dog outside and unattended by use of a specified restraint during a specified time period or during a snow emergency declared by the Maryland State Police; and establishing penalties for a violation of the Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-05
Second Reading Failed |
| 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) |
| SB741 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting charter schools and certificated professional employees of charter schools from provisions of law and regulation that govern other public schools and other public school employees under specified circumstances; authorizing these employees t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-02
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| 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) |
| SB577 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering specified grounds for divorce by reducing the amount of time required for the parties to have lived separate and apart without cohabitation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-02
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| 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 |
| SB930 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Silver-Haired Legislature; requiring the legislature to be a bicameral legislature with each house made up of specified members and modeled after the General Assembly; requiring the legislature to work with the Department of Aging to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-01
Unfavorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs |
| SB953 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the authority of the Workers' Compensation Commission to make specified determinations of dependency; altering the provisions relating to calculation of death benefits for individuals who are wholly or partly dependent; providing the amount ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-01
Recommit to Committee Finance (Senator Middleton) |
| 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 |
| SB281 | Engross
Sine Die | Allowing a tax credit against the motor vehicle excise tax for qualified plug-in electric drive vehicles; repealing an obsolete tax credit against the motor vehicle excise tax for qualified hybrid vehicles and electric vehicles; providing for the tra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-01
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (140-0) |
| SB284 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing collective bargaining rights for specified family child care providers who participate in the Maryland Child Care Subsidy Program; authorizing providers to designate an exclusive representative; requiring specified procedures to be gover...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-01
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB1053 | Intro
Sine Die | Including the performance of laboratory tests that are waived from the requirements of the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) as within the scope of practice of a pharmacist; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-01
Unfavorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs Withdrawn |
| SB1083 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the governing body of a county or the governing body of a municipal corporation to provide a semiannual payment schedule for State, county, municipal corporation, and special taxing district property taxes on small business real property; d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-01
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB1088 | Engross
Sine Die | Including in the definition of law enforcement officer, under a specified existing property tax credit program for permanently and totally disabled law enforcement officers, State Troopers and members of the police forces of the Department of Natural...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-01
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB888 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing members of the General Assembly to authorize the Office of Student Financial Assistance to award specified scholarship funds to student members of county boards of education; establishing the program of Public Service Scholarships for Stu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-04-01
Unfavorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs |
| SB667 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "sexual act" to include an act in which a part of an individual's body is used to penetrate specified body parts of another individual; and altering the definition of "sexual contact".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-03-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
