| HB110 | Pass | Repealing a requirement relating to the measurement of the distance between coupled axles for purposes of applying weight limitations; repealing specified weight limitations; repealing an exception; altering weight limits for over-the-road buses and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB112 | Pass | Authorizing a public transit service vehicle to be equipped with and to display amber flashing lights, or a white flashing light installed on the roof of the vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB590 | Pass | Requiring a person to obtain a certificate of public convenience and necessity prior to beginning construction in the State of a qualified generator lead line; prohibiting a person from applying for a certificate of public convenience and necessity f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB117 | Pass | Increasing from $500 to $2,500 the penalty for willfully obliterating, damaging, or removing any stake, marker, monument, or other landmark set in the property of another person by any civil engineer, surveyor, or real estate appraiser or any of thei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB1049 | Pass | Authorizing a designee of a real estate broker to designate two members of a team as intracompany agents for the seller and the buyer in the same transaction under specified circumstances; and prohibiting the broker's designee from being a member of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB453 | Pass | Expanding the circumstances under which the Workers' Compensation Commission retains jurisdiction pending an appeal of a Commission order to include a request for approval of a proposed settlement of all or part of a claim.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB789 | Pass | Requiring an application of a minor for a driver's license to be cosigned by the director of a local department of social services or the director's designee if the license applicant is committed to the custody or guardianship of the local department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB653 | Pass | Providing an exception to specified requirements to practice law in the State for a person representing a landlord in a rent escrow proceeding in the District Court of Maryland and for a person representing a tenant in a rent escrow proceeding in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB666 | Pass | Altering the penalty, for a second or subsequent offense, for a person who fails to comply with the relief granted in an interim, a temporary, or a final peace order.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB496 | Pass | Expanding the definition of "life insurance" to include specified benefits; authorizing a policy of life insurance to include a rider or supplemental policy provision that safeguards the contract from lapse in the event of involuntary unemployment; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB345 | Pass | Adding specified human trafficking offenses to those crimes for which evidence may be gathered by, and a judge may grant an order authorizing, interception of oral, wire, or electronic communications.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB1085 | Pass | Prohibiting the use of specified discretionary clauses in disability insurance policies; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB204 | Pass | Extending to for-hire vehicles engaged in intrastate commerce that exceed a gross vehicle weight rating of 26,000 pounds and are designed to carry property, the authority of the Motor Vehicle Administration to adopt regulations in conformance with fe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB1118 | Pass | Requiring the juvenile court, in specified child in need of assistance hearings, to send written findings to specified individuals and agencies if the court finds that specified reasonable efforts were made but that a specified condition exists.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB203 | Pass | Repealing a provision exempting specified counties from specified State licensing laws on junk dealers and scrap metal processors; exempting specified licensed dealers and pawnbrokers from the scope of specified State licensing laws on junk dealers a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB198 | Pass | Authorizing the Commissioner of Financial Regulation, under specified circumstances, to enter into cooperative and information-sharing agreements and to exchange information about a financial institution with any federal or state law enforcement agen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB630 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development to encourage the construction of new residential structures as high- performance homes; and defining the term "high-performance home".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB751 | Pass | Requiring each local educational agency participating in the Jane Lawton Farm-to-School Program to report by January 1 each year to the Department of Agriculture the types and amounts of farm products purchased from farms in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB507 | Pass | Requiring a law enforcement agency that issues electronic control devices (ECDs) to its law enforcement officers to report annually on or before March 31 to the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention, information for each time a law enforc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB598 | Pass | Providing that employees of the Injured Workers' Insurance Fund are not subject to specified laws, regulations, or executive orders governing State employee compensation; and repealing a requirement that the Board for the Fund set compensation for it...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB831 | Pass | Establishing the Invasive Plants Advisory Committee in the Department of Agriculture; providing for the membership and charge of the Committee; requiring the Secretary of Agriculture to adopt regulations relating to invasive plants by October 1, 2012...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB258 | Pass | Altering the auctioneer's fee allowed as an expense and a lien against property to be sold at specified tax sales in Garrett County to be $8 for each property sold.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB1253 | Pass | Increasing to 21 the number of members of the Commission on African American History and Culture; repealing the requirement that the Commission survey historic buildings, sites, artifacts, archives, and repositories, and publish and disseminate the r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB49 | Pass | Authorizing the Circuit Administrative Judge of the Second Circuit to establish a Truancy Reduction Pilot Program in the juvenile court in Talbot County; and making provisions relating to Truancy Reduction Pilot Programs applicable to Talbot County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB166 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange as a public corporation and an independent unit of State government; establishing the purposes, powers, and duties of the Exchange; establishing the Board of Trustees of the Exchange; providing for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB1016 | Pass | Authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of Calvert County, from time to time, to borrow not more than $12,325,000 to finance the construction, improvement, or development of specified public facilities in Calvert County, and to effect suc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB667 | Pass | Authorizing a judge to extend the term of a final peace order under specified circumstances after a specified notice and a hearing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB170 | Pass | Altering the circumstances under which a person has the right to a hearing and the right to an appeal from an action of the Maryland Insurance Commissioner; requiring the Commissioner to file specified documents in a court in which a specified appeal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB58 | Pass | Extending the termination date for the Community Services Reimbursement Rate Commission to September 30, 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB176 | Pass | Reducing from 9 years to 5 years the number of years required after retirement for retirees of the Employees' Retirement or Pension System or the Teachers' Retirement or Pension System to be exempt from an earnings offset of their retirement allowanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB62 | Pass | Authorizing the governing body of Anne Arundel County or of a municipal corporation in Anne Arundel County to grant, by law, a property tax credit against the county or municipal corporation property tax imposed on real property leased to a public ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB1233 | Pass | Reducing to 25 the number of income tax withholding statements that a payor must be required to submit in order to be required to submit the information electronically; repealing an obsolete provision; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB183 | Pass | Authorizing the State Board of Nursing to approve an examination and clinical examination relating to the licensure of electrologists; and altering the term of a license to 2 years from 1 year beginning on January 1, 2013.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB247 | Pass | Establishing that provisions of law relating to durable powers of attorney apply to all powers of attorney; altering the authority of an agent under specified statutory form powers of attorney; providing that specified powers shall be deemed to be in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB280 | Pass | Authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of Carroll County, from time to time, to borrow not more than $16,000,000 in order to finance the construction, improvement, or development of specified public facilities in Carroll County, and to e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB700 | Pass | Increasing from 5 to 7 percent the maximum sales or use tax rate that Howard County is authorized to impose on room rentals in the county for sleeping accommodations for transients; requiring Howard County to distribute revenue attributable to a spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB281 | Pass | Specifying that a provision of law relating to the use of proceeds received by the Maryland Strategic Energy Investment Fund and credited to a specified account does not apply to residential customers of a small rural electric cooperative; and requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB408 | Pass | Clarifying that a person is prohibited from knowingly and willfully assuming the identity of a fictitious person to avoid identification, apprehension, or prosecution for a crime, or with fraudulent intent, to get a benefit, credit, good, service, or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB634 | Pass | Limiting the reemployment earnings offset for reemployed retirees of the State Retirement and Pension System to an amount not less than what is required to be deducted for the retiree's monthly State- approved medical insurance; requiring the Board o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB1041 | Pass | Altering the definition of "home builder" to include a person who enters into a contract with a consumer under which the person agrees to provide the consumer with a new home; excluding from the definition of "home builder" a real estate developer wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB197 | Pass | Establishing that decisions relating to unemployment insurance benefits claims that are appealed to the Lower Appeals Division or the Board of Appeals in the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation are final after 10 days after specified notic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB522 | Pass | Adding St. Mary's County to provisions of law relating to the Cecil County Correctional Officers' Bill of Rights; and altering the definition of "correctional officer" to exclude a correctional officer who is in probationary status on the officer's i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB509 | Pass | Clarifying the authority of the Commissioner of Financial Regulation to enforce the provisions of the Protection of Homeowners in Foreclosure Act (PHIFA) and the Maryland Mortgage Fraud Protection Act (MMFPA) by exercising specified investigative and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB966 | Pass | Requiring the Department of the Environment, in determining whether to restrict or lift any restrictions on an area for the catching or storing of shellfish, to use the most reliable available tests to determine whether a shellfish production area po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB265 | Pass | Requiring the Developmental Disabilities Administration or its agent to evaluate periodically, for a specified purpose, the performance of surveyors who carry out inspections of sites or offices operated by a licensee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB674 | Pass | Requiring the State Department of Education, in collaboration with the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, to provide awareness and training for Directors of Student Services in local education agencies on human trafficking; and requiring the De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
| HB298 | Pass | Establishing that an agreement between an employer and employee for the employee to work for less than the wage required under law to be paid to the employee is void.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-04-12
Approved by the Governor |
