| HB130 | Engross
Sine Die | Making it a misdemeanor to knowingly and willfully shine, point, or focus the beam of a laser pointer on an individual operating an aircraft; exempting specified individuals under specified circumstances from provisions of the Act; specifying a penal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-03
Special Order until later today (Senator King) |
| HB747 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring that specified wind energy conversion systems comply with specified setback requirements; authorizing specified variances under specified circumstances; requiring that, before a permit is issued for specified wind energy conversion systems,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-03
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB762 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing that specified communications made in the course of and relating to specified mediations may not be disclosed by the mediators, parties to the mediations, or specified persons who participate in or are present for the mediations, under s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-03
Senators Raskin, Getty, and Frosh |
| HB501 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Open Meetings Law Compliance Board to develop and offer an online training program on the requirements of the open meetings law to employees, officers, or members of a public body and members of the general public.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-02
Unfavorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs |
| HB927 | Engross
Sine Die | Allowing an entity or a specified qualified organization in Calvert County licensed to offer electronic or instant bingo under a commercial bingo license on December 31, 2008, to continue to operate a game of electronic or instant bingo under specifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-02
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation |
| HB1218 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing a Task Force to Study the Improvement of Maryland Public Charter Schools; providing for the membership and duties of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to study the use of federal definitions relating to high quality charter school...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-02
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) |
| HB247 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the State Board of Plumbing to adopt standards of the International Code Council as part of the State Plumbing Code; requiring the Board to periodically review specified standards of the International Code Council; requiring the Board to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-02
Unfavorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs |
| HB994 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Small Business Resources Workgroup; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Workgroup; prohibiting a member of the Workgroup from receiving compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement of specified expen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-02
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| HB582 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing vehicles of public service companies to be equipped with or display yellow or amber lights or signal devices; and making conforming and stylistic changes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-02
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB76 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the application of a specified dispute settlement mechanism under the Maryland Condominium Act; establishing a specified dispute settlement mechanism under the Maryland Homeowners Association Act; providing an exception to the application of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-02
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB662 | Engross
Sine Die | Stating the intent of the General Assembly with regard to a gas infrastructure replacement surcharge; allowing a gas company to recover specified costs associated with specified gas infrastructure replacement projects through a specified surcharge on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-02
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| HB119 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a police officer to charge a person by citation for specified misdemeanors and local ordinance violations; expanding the authority of a police officer to charge a person by citation to include specified misdemeanors and local ordinance viol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-01
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (41-6) |
| HB480 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a law enforcement agency to make a specified request to a specified State's Attorney to have a specified unexecuted warrant, summons, or other criminal process invalidated and destroyed under specified circumstances; authorizing the State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-01
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0) |
| HB10 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a county or municipal corporation to employ as electrical inspectors only individuals who hold, or have held within the previous 5 years, a State license or local license, as applicable, to provide electrical services as a master electricia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-01
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0) |
| HB771 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring an electric company, a gas company, or an electric and gas company, on request by a competitive supplier of electricity or gas, to provide specified information related to specified customer accounts to the supplier, subject to restrictions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-01
Second Reading Failed |
| HB740 | Engross
Sine Die | Making unenforceable a provision of a declaration, a bylaw, a contract for sale of a unit, or any other instrument made by a developer relating to residential condominiums that purports to shorten the statute of limitations for specified claims, purp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-01
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0) |
| HB666 | Engross
Sine Die | Expanding the applicability of specified appeal rights from a victim of a violent crime to a victim of a nonviolent crime; authorizing a victim to appeal to the Court of Special Appeals from a specified final order; providing that the filing of a spe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-01
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0) |
| HB814 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting an alcoholic beverages licensee in Prince George's County from making an off-site retail delivery of alcoholic beverages to the residence of a consumer; and specifying an exception in the portion of Oxon Hill known as National Harbor for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-31
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) |
| HB1194 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting the State Board of Plumbing from renewing specified apprentice plumber licenses or apprentice natural gas fitters licenses for more than three consecutive terms if the licensee has not taken or registered to take a journey plumber examina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-31
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB1248 | Engross
Sine Die | Allowing a credit against the State income tax for costs incurred to obtain federal security clearances and to construct or renovate specified compartmented information facilities; providing for applications to the Department of Business and Economic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-31
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) |
| HB1424 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering a provision that places a limit on the amount of specified bonds that may be issued by a local governing body in connection with a specified convention center facility in a resort area and a tax on the sale of food and beverages in the resor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-31
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB104 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing provisions of law that require enforcement as a secondary offense of specified violations involving the use of a wireless communication device while operating a motor vehicle; repealing provisions of law that apply prohibitions involving th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB842 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Transit Administration to extend to employees of the Judicial Branch and the Legislative Branch of State government the application of any program, policy, or practice through which free ridership on transit vehicles is offered...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Recommit to Committee Finance (Senator Pugh) |
| HB481 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing procedures for the election of the members of the Baltimore County Board of Education; repealing provisions governing the appointment of members of the county board; requiring members of the county board to reside in, be a registered vot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-30
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (34-9) |
| HB249 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the process under which the salary recommendations of the Judicial Compensation Commission go into effect; altering from 6% to 8% of earnable compensation the rate of member contributions for members of the Judges' Retirement System; requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-29
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB339 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing specified penalties for willful failure to file an admissions and amusement tax return under specified circumstances; increasing specified penalties for willfully making a false statement or misleading omission on specified admissions and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-29
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB965 | Engross
Sine Die | Allowing individuals or corporations to claim a credit against the State income tax for up to 50% of qualified preparation expenses related to specified General Services Administration program applications and contract proposals; providing for the ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-29
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB640 | Engross
Sine Die | Allowing an individual a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for income from the cancellation of consumer credit card debt unless the individual's federal adjusted gross income exceeds $50,000 for an individual or $80,000 for a mar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-29
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB529 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing a specified exception to an exemption from specified taxes, user charges, and utility fees relating to stormwater management for property owned by the State or a unit of State government; providing, with specified exceptions and under speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-29
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB576 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the policy of the State on public-private partnerships; altering provisions of law relating to public-private partnerships; establishing that the Court of Special Appeals has jurisdiction over specified immediate appeals related to speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-29
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB572 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study Retirement Benefits for Public Officials; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to study and make recommendations regarding the possible forfeiture or suspe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-28
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB1381 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring that, on or before August 1, 2012, the Maryland Higher Education Commission make all remaining necessary decisions for a 2+2 facility that a constituent institution of the University System of Maryland is planning to build on the campus of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-28
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB510 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Baltimore County Revenue Authority, when the estimated cost of specified commodities and services exceeds a specified amount, to use a specified competitive bidding process to purchase the commodities and services by written, formal con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-28
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB804 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Prince George's County Council to direct that voting by mail be utilized in specified special elections; applying specified provisions of law to a special election conducted by mail; requiring the local board of elections to mail a vo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-28
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB959 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempting from the recordation tax and the State transfer tax the transfer of real property between a parent partnership or limited liability company and its subsidiary or between subsidiaries wholly owned by the same parent partnership or limited li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-28
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB1448 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a person in Queen Anne's County to hunt deer on specified Sundays on private property using specified hunting equipment during specified months.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-28
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB439 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to designate specified areas as Health Enterprise Zones in a specified manner; specifying the purpose of establishing Health Enterprise Zones; authorizing the Secretary, in consultation with the Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-28
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB346 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing the exemptions from the tobacco tax for cigarettes and other tobacco products brought into the State by specified consumers; establishing mandatory fines for first and subsequent violations; and establishing additional penalties of terms o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-28
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB490 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the holder of a tax sale certificate to be reimbursed for specified postage and mailing expenses that are actually incurred if the property is redeemed before an action to foreclose a right of redemption is filed; and requiring a specifie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-28
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB1028 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Public Service Commission to study and make recommendations about the advisability of conducting specified auctions relating to the right of electric companies to provide electric service to customers using standard offer service in spe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-28
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB508 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a purchaser in a foreclosure sale, within 60 days after the entry of a final and nonappealable order ratifying a sale in an action to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on residential property, to close on a transaction to purchase real ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-27
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB513 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a police officer to keep custody of an arrested person from the time of arrest until the person is committed by lawful authority to a State or local correctional facility, released from custody, or in the custody of another police officer; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-27
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB300 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing that a handgun permit issued to a retired law enforcement officer of the State or a county or municipal corporation of the State expires on the last day of the holder's birth month following 5 years after the date the permit is issued an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-27
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB299 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring that the State Amusement Ride Safety Advisory Board, in consultation with the State Traumatic Brain Injury Advisory Board, determine if it is necessary to require a concussion warning at amusement park rides in which a specified passenger i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-27
Recommit to Committee Finance (Senator Astle) |
| HB634 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing for the circumstances under which a licensed physician assistant may perform non-fluoroscopic X-ray procedures using a mini C-arm or similar low-level radiation machine; and requiring a primary supervising physician to obtain specified appr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-27
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB193 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a manufacturer of home appliances or its agent to repair or correct a nonconformity in a home appliance at no cost to the consumer if the home appliance does not conform to the manufacturer's express warranties; requiring a manufacturer, un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB381 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Public Service Commission to consider all areas of the State when determining the need for additional electricity generation; requiring an electric company to reference generation potential in all areas of the State in a request for pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1412 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a county governing body, for a specified purpose and under specified circumstances, to set a property tax rate that is higher than the rate authorized under the county's charter or to collect more property tax revenues than are authorized...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB20 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring, under specified circumstances, a parent or other person who has permanent care or custody or responsibility for the supervision of a minor under a specified age to notify, within a specified period of time, the appropriate law enforcement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB1275 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Elections to make specified statements of contributions and expenditures for specified petitions available on its Internet site; and requiring a person with whom a specified statement of contributions and expenditures for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-22
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
