| SB474 | Pass | Repealing provisions of law relating to the requirements that must be met to qualify as a certified professional counselor-alcohol and drug; prohibiting the State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists from placing a certified professional c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| SB783 | Pass | Providing specified collective bargaining rights to specified State employees; specifying the responsibilities of the State Labor Relations Board in administering and enforcing specified provisions of law relating to the collective bargaining rights ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| HB1446 | Pass | Authorizing persons in Somerset County and Worcester County to hunt deer on specified Sundays on private property using specified hunting equipment during specified months.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| HB1445 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from employing an individual to provide or assist in providing plumbing or heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, or refrigeration services on a specified public work contract unless the person is licensed by the State Board of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| SB94 | Veto | Continuing the State Board for Certification of Residential Child Care Program Professionals in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act (sunset law) by extending to July 1, 2024, the termination provisions relating to sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| SB333 | Veto | Altering the definition of "transient charge", as it relates to Garrett County, for purposes of provisions of law authorizing specified counties to impose a hotel rental tax on transient charges collected by specified hotels; and increasing from 5% t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| SB343 | Pass | Making additional State units that are responsible for the management of specified funds subject to requirements under current law concerning the use of minority business enterprise brokerage and investment services firms, as specified; specifying th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| SB549 | Pass | Altering the definition of "small business" under the Small Business Reserve Program; including small businesses that meet either the limitation on employees employed by the business or the limitation on gross sales of the business under the Small Bu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| SB476 | Pass | Establishing the Financial Education and Capability Commission; providing for the composition, co-chairs, and staffing of the Commission; prohibiting a member of the Commission from receiving specified compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| HB900 | Pass | Repealing a limitation on a specified impact fee; altering the requirement that the Prince George's County Council provide credit in lieu of payment of development impact fees to include payments made regarding specified permanent or interim public t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| SB781 | Pass | Requiring insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for health care services delivered through telemedicine in a specified manner; prohibiting insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and heal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| SB135 | Pass | Prohibiting a ground lease holder from collecting ground rent payments, bringing a specified action, or obtaining a specified lien unless the ground lease is registered with the State Department of Assessments and Taxation and the ground lease holder...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| SB477 | Pass | Altering the termination provisions of a specified job creation tax credit earned by a qualified business entity under specified circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| HB1059 | Pass | Authorizing an insurer to rescind a policy or binder of personal automobile insurance if the applicant's initial premium payment is made by a check or other remittance that is not honored on presentation to a specified financial institution; requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| HB903 | Pass | Establishing the Adults with Developmental Disabilities Citizen's Advisory Committee in Prince George's County; providing for the purposes, membership, and duties of the Advisory Committee; requiring the Advisory Committee to elect officers from amon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| SB779 | Pass | Requiring the Governor's Office of Minority Affairs to conduct a study of the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System and all funds managed by the Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System to determine the capacity to select ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| SB405 | Pass | Establishing the purpose of the Life Sciences Advisory Board in the Department of Business and Economic Development; and altering the membership of the Advisory Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| SB778 | Pass | Requiring a specified lessor to maintain specified records for a specified period of time; requiring a lessor to provide a written receipt and a written statement to a consumer under specified circumstances; requiring that a written receipt contain s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| HB906 | Pass | Authorizing Prince George's County, by ordinance, to impose and collect a fee for the provision of administrative hearing services for the resolution of disputes involving a common ownership community located in the county; and authorizing Prince Geo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| SB1075 | Veto | Authorizing the Worcester County Board of License Commissioners to issue not more than three licenses each year for displaying and selling beer and wine at beer and wine festivals in the county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| SB990 | Pass | 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] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| SB335 | Pass | Altering the rate of member contributions for members of the Judges' Retirement System; requiring individuals who become members of the Judges' Retirement System on or after a specified date to earn a specified amount of eligibility service before be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| HB509 | Pass | Authorizing specified courts to order specified inmates to furnish blood samples or cheek swabs to be tested for the presence of HIV under specified circumstances; requiring specified courts to hold specified hearings under specified circumstances be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| HB910 | Pass | Renaming specified balances in the general fund of Frederick County; requiring that if a specified committed general fund balance is appropriated and expended by the County Commissioners of Frederick County, the County Commissioners shall replenish t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| HB1272 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from selling, distributing, or offering for sale to a minor electronic devices that can be used to deliver nicotine to the individual inhaling from the device, including electronic cigarettes, cigars, cigarillos, or pipes; specif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| SB670 | Veto | Authorizing the County Commissioners of Washington County to require that the Washington County Volunteer Fire and Rescue Association submit financial reports; authorizing the county commissioners to adopt specified regulations; authorizing the count...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| HB1068 | Pass | Requiring insurers that issue policies of homeowner's insurance in the State to provide applicants and insureds with a notice that states the claim-related grounds under which the insurer may cancel or refuse to renew the policy; requiring insurers t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| SB869 | Pass | Requiring that guest rooms in newly constructed hotels be equipped with a device that turns off light fixtures after a specified period of time; authorizing the required device to control heating, ventilation, or air conditioning default settings; re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| HB1316 | Pass | Expanding the privileges of a rectifying license so that the holder of the license may conduct guided tours of the licensed premises, and serve not more than a specified number of samples of products manufactured at the licensed premises; prohibiting...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| SB66 | Veto | Removing the requirement in Harford County for a country club to maintain a specified number of tennis courts to be eligible for a Class C-3 club alcoholic beverages license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| SB678 | Pass | 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] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| SB867 | Pass | Requiring the State Department of Education to support and facilitate specified oral health education, develop a process to monitor specified implementation of oral health education, and submit a summary to the Governor and General Assembly on or bef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| HB916 | Pass | Requiring the Governor's Office of Minority Affairs to conduct a study of the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System and all funds managed by the Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System to determine the capacity to select ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| SB969 | Pass | Altering the membership of the State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists; requiring specified individuals to be licensed by the Board as clinical professional art therapists before performing specified work in the State; establishing educ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| HB511 | Pass | Renaming the State Board of Environmental Sanitarians to be the State Board of Environmental Health Specialists; transferring the Board and specified functions, powers, duties, assets, liabilities, and records from the Department of the Environment t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| HB101 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from using sperm or eggs from a known donor for the purpose of assisted reproduction under specified circumstances; establishing requirements for a valid consent; establishing penalties for violation of provisions of the Act; alt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| SB663 | Veto | Altering the number of regular members and eliminating substitute members on the Carroll County Board of Elections; requiring the members of the board to be of specified political parties; requiring that a vacancy on the board be filled in a specifie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| SB662 | Veto | Establishing for archery hunters in Carroll County a 50-yard safety zone within which archery hunting may not take place except under specified circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| HB918 | Pass | Altering the sales and use tax rate for a mandatory gratuity charge or service charge in the nature of a tip under specified circumstances; modifying the calculation of the sales and use tax rate applicable to charges for labor, materials, or propert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| HB71 | Pass | Exempting the Family Security Trust Fund, under specified circumstances, from a requirement that specified interest accrue to the General Fund; and requiring the State Treasurer, under specified circumstances, to pay investment earnings into the Gene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| SB337 | Pass | Exempting individuals who provide gratuitous care for specified individuals from the requirement that an individual must be licensed or certified before practicing specified health occupations; exempting individuals who respond to a disaster situatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| HB395 | Veto | Continuing the State Board of Nursing by extending to July 1, 2023, the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority of the Board; requiring that an evaluation of the Board and the statutes and regulations that relate to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| HB919 | Pass | Prohibiting the Board of License Commissioners for Prince George's County from issuing or renewing a license unless the Board is provided verification that undisputed taxes have been paid or that payment has been provided for; authorizing the Board t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| HB807 | Pass | Clarifying how contribution rates for the employees' and teachers' retirement and pension systems are calculated to reflect legislative changes that result in a change to normal cost or accrued liabilities; repealing a requirement that the Board of T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| HB920 | Pass | Altering the definition of "agency contract" to include a specified agreement in which a student-athlete authorizes a person to assess and plan for the financial benefits that may arise out of the student- athlete's professional sports career; alteri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| SB864 | Pass | Authorizing the operation of instant bingo games using electronic machines; altering the definition of "slot machine"; clarifying that a specified handheld device is not considered a slot machine; specifying that provisions of law do not apply to pap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| HB806 | Pass | Authorizing the Board of Trustees of the State Retirement and Pension System to determine the qualifications and compensation for the deputy chief investment officer and managing director in the Investment Division of the State Retirement Agency; pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| SB251 | Pass | Exempting from a specified offset of a retirement allowance specified retirees of the Teachers' Retirement System or the Teachers' Pension System who are employed by the Maryland School for the Deaf; providing that the superintendent of the Maryland ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| SB542 | Pass | Expanding the list of participants that may place specified funds in the Local Government Investment Pool to include specified units of State Government or specified entities created by the State in addition to specified local governmental entities; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
| SB659 | Pass | Requiring, under specified circumstances, a bidder to disclose specified information regarding whether services required under a procurement contract will be performed outside the United States; prohibiting a public employer from knowingly contractin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-05-22
Approved by the Governor |
