| HB1118 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting specified nursing homes or nursing home management firms from knowingly employing or retaining as a consultant an individual who has surrendered a specified license under specified circumstances to the State Board of Nursing Home Administ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-26
of the Maryland Constitution |
| HB677 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that specified residential customers are entitled to only two directory assistance calls each month without charge; requiring the Public Service Commission to approve other charges for directory assistance, subject to an exception; and repe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Hearing 4/9 at 9:00 a.m. |
| HB1333 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering a requirement that the Department of the Environment pay a homeowner for specified costs associated with the installation of on- site sewage disposal systems utilizing nitrogen removal technology; requiring specified costs paid to a homeowne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Unfavorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs |
| HB1383 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the requirements an insurer must meet before refusing to issue or renew a policy of homeowner's insurance solely because the insured property or the applicant's or insured's address is located within a specified geographic area of the St...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Re-referred Finance |
| HB708 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering provisions relating to the expungement of specified criminal records by authorizing a person to file, and requiring a court to grant, a petition for expungement of a criminal charge transferred to the juvenile court under specified circumsta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Re-referred Judicial Proceedings |
| HB161 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing to $20 from $10 a specified appearance of counsel fee collected or charged by the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Re-referred Judicial Proceedings |
| HB373 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering from 16 to 17 the maximum age at which children are required to attend a public school regularly during the entire school year, subject to specified exceptions; requiring specified children to return to attendance at school under specified c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Favorable with Amendments Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs |
| HB538 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a campaign finance entity to report specified information on its campaign finance reports for each contribution the entity receives; authorizing a campaign finance entity to report a maximum of a cumulative amount of $25,000 in contribution...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Favorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs |
| HB1155 | Engross
Sine Die | Allowing a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for the amount of gain resulting from a payment made by the Maryland Department of Transportation for the acquisition of a portion of an individual's property on which the individual's...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Re-referred Budget and Taxation |
| HB21 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the court to dismiss a specified claim filed in a circuit court or a United States District Court against a person for injury caused by the ingestion of lead-based paint or lead-contaminated dust if the person does not file a certificate of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-07
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB31 | Engross
Sine Die | Making a specified conveyance, sale, or transfer of a specified project or part thereof, or a specified property or interest therein, by the Baltimore County Revenue Authority subject to the prior approval of the Baltimore County Council; and making ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-07
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation |
| HB797 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that a person standing in a roadway, median divider, or intersection in Baltimore County who solicits money or donations from the occupant of a vehicle and who does not have a specified permit is subject to a warning as a first-time offende...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-07
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB160 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifying the application of and altering security requirements for tow trucks; altering penalties for specified violations relating to tow truck vehicle registration; repealing a provision exempting abandoned vehicles from the application of provis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-07
Re-referred Judicial Proceedings |
| HB1237 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Board of Public Works to adopt regulations requiring design development documents relating to the use of solar technology in the construction of new school buildings or the improvement of existing buildings; requiring the Interagency Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-07
Re-referred Budget and Taxation |
| HB400 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "adjusted actual income" under the State child support guidelines; providing for the calculation of a specified allowance required to be deducted from adjusted actual income under the child support guidelines; requiring tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB365 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "community association" under specified provisions of law relating to the standing of specified community associations in Baltimore City to seek judicial relief for abatement of specified nuisances; prohibiting a community ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Special Order until later today (Senator Gladden) Adopted |
| HB1331 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a vendor of single family residential property to provide, on written request, specified utility information under specified circumstances; providing that the Act does not apply to specified sales or transfers of property; requiring the Sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Senate Refuses to Recede |
| HB861 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the circumstances under which it is an unfair claim settlement practice and a violation of specified provisions of law for an insurer, nonprofit health service plan, or health maintenance organization to refuse to pay a claim under a policy ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Hearing 4/6 at 1:00 p.m. |
| HB159 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing a Maryland standard of identity for honey; requiring the standard to be applied to specified products; authorizing the designation of specified products as honey; requiring specified products to be distinguished from pure honey under spe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Special Order until later today (Senator Brinkley) Adopted |
| HB543 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the establishment of a pretrial victim-offender mediation program by the Chief Judge of the District Court; requiring the Chief Judge of the District Court to establish procedures to implement a specified victim-offender mediation program; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB852 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering a specified provision of law so as to prohibit a judge from sentencing an individual to the jurisdiction of the Division of Correction for 12 months or less unless the individual is an inmate under the jurisdiction of the Division of Correct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB1292 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a person who was convicted of one or more charges in a specified unit to file a petition to shield specified information; specifying that a specified petition shall be filed with the Administrative Office of the Courts; specifying that a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB650 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing, with specified exceptions, an inmate to receive a specified deduction from the inmate's term of confinement for earning a specified diploma, degree, certification, or certificate of completion; and requiring the Commissioner of Correctio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB140 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to study the effectiveness of specified programs for offenders; authorizing the study to contain specified information; providing that, if a study is conducted, the intent of the G...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB1339 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifying that energy from a specified thermal biomass system is eligible for inclusion in meeting the renewable energy portfolio standard; specifying that a person that owns and operates a thermal biomass system is eligible to receive a renewable e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Third Reading Passed (132-5) |
| HB15 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing that it is an affirmative defense to a prosecution for the possession of specified drug paraphernalia that the marijuana or drug paraphernalia was intended for medical use by an individual with a specified debilitating medical condition ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Third Reading Passed (86-42) |
| HB22 | Engross
Sine Die | Changing the interest rate paid on a security deposit both under a residential lease at the end of a tenancy and when an evicted or ejected tenant makes a timely written demand for return of the security deposit from 3% per annum to the daily U.S. Tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB624 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the court, in a criminal case, to provide the defendant with a brochure containing detailed, comprehensive, and current information about the law of expungement in Maryland when all of the charges against the defendant are disposed of in a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB701 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the student member of the Montgomery County Board of Education to attend an executive session of the Board of Education that relates to a specified matter; and authorizing the student member of the Montgomery County Board of Education to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Special Order until later today (Senator Frosh) Adopted |
| HB337 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a judgment creditor to obtain discovery in aid of enforcement of a money judgment entered or recorded in circuit court or in the District Court by use of a court ordered examination under oath before a judge or examiner of a judgment debt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB605 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifying that the factors the Maryland Transit Administration must consider in conducting the Baltimore Corridor Red Line Transit Study apply for fiscal years 2013 through 2018; altering the period during which a provision applies prohibiting the A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Special Order until later today (Senator Pugh) |
| HB450 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring that a specified form developed by the State Real Estate Commission in connection with the sale of residential real property state the possibility of significant differences in the property tax bill previously paid by the seller of the prop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB356 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing that the owner of a rental vehicle may satisfy a specified insurance requirement by maintaining a specified security that is secondary to any other valid and collectible coverage; requiring the owner of a rental vehicle to provide a spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Hearing 4/5 at 1:00 p.m. |
| HB279 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing from $20,000 to $30,000 the maximum amount payable from the Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund for specified claims on account of injury to or death of one individual arising from a motor vehicle accident; increasing from $40,000 to $60,00...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| HB6 | Engross
Sine Die | Including as an allowable expenditure of funds from a campaign account under the State election law a disbursement to pay for travel, lodging, meals, and registration expenses associated with attendance of an office holder or a candidate at meetings ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Special Order until later today (Senator Shank) Adopted |
| HB983 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring specified local critical area programs to, with a specified exception, prohibit the location of junkyards, scrap storage yards, and other scrap metal facilities in the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Critical Area; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Senate Refuses to Recede |
| HB441 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the Maryland renewable energy portfolio standard program to include a specified amount of energy derived from offshore wind energy; prohibiting the portion of the renewable energy portfolio that represents offshore wind energy from applying ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Re-referred Finance |
| HB990 | Engross
Sine Die | Creating an exception for the use of a remote keyless ignition system to the prohibition against leaving a motor vehicle unattended under specified circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-05
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB883 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a judge, in a final protective order, to order the respondent to remain a specified distance away from the residence, place of employment, school, or temporary residence of a person eligible for relief.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB1042 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a labor organization or an agent of a labor organization from being compelled to disclose under specified circumstances any communication or information received or acquired in confidence while acting in a representative capacity concerni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB1365 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Department of Juvenile Services to refer all restitution accounts to the Central Collection Unit of the Department of Budget and Management for collection; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Senators Shank, Forehand, and Raskin |
| HB409 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Public Service Commission to adopt regulations or to issue orders on or before October 1, 2013, to require or allow electric companies to offer LED street lighting to specified local governments; and defining terms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| HB1166 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the operation of specified instant bingo games using electronic machines; altering the definition of "slot machine"; clarifying that a specified handheld device is not considered a slot machine; authorizing the State Lottery Commission to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB1281 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Board of Education of Baltimore County and the County Executive of Baltimore County to enter into agreements for the cooperative or joint administration of specified programs, subject to a specified limitation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Special Order until later today (Senator Zirkin) Adopted |
| HB1105 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting an insurer, with respect to homeowner's insurance or renter's insurance, from denying, refusing to renew, or canceling coverage solely because the applicant or policyholder does not carry private passenger motor vehicle insurance with the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| HB1407 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, in consultation with the Department of the Environment, to convene a workgroup to examine issues relating to the investigation of potential cancer clusters in the State and potential environmenta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Special Order until later today (Senator Muse) |
| HB579 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing an exemption from specified requirements to complete a specified firearms training course if an individual is a retired law enforcement officer of a unit of the federal government, the State, or any local law enforcement agency in the State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Special Order until later today (Senator Pipkin) Adopted |
| HB664 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from committing a crime of violence when the person knows or reasonably should know that a minor is present; establishing circumstances under which a minor is present in a residence; establishing penalties for a violation of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-04
Special Order until later today (Senator Kittleman) Adopted |
| HB907 | Engross
Sine Die | Imposing a severance tax on the removal of natural gas from specified gas wells in the State; requiring a permit holder or producer to submit to the Department of the Environment specified reports in a specified manner; providing for the collection o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-03
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB947 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing for specified years the use of Purse Dedication Account funds by Ocean Downs Race Course and Rosecroft Raceway for operating assistance to support at least 40 live racing days annually at each course; placing restrictions on the receipt o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-03
To Senate Rules Committee |
