| SB1062 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the Maryland Transit Administration from constructing, acquiring, or incurring a commitment or obligation in connection with specified light rail or heavy rail transit facilities unless the Administration recovers a specified percentage o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-29
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation Withdrawn |
| SB1064 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the amount of the State grants to the Washington Suburban Transit District for transit service, as specified; altering the amount of the State grants to local bus systems in Montgomery County and in Prince George's County, as specified; requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-29
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation Withdrawn |
| SB1076 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the composition of the Maryland Veterans Commission by replacing the member appointed from a list of individuals submitted by the Black Veterans of All Wars, Inc. with a member appointed from a list of individuals submitted by the National A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-29
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB991 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the calculation of workers' compensation death benefits for a dependent of a deceased covered employee who died due to an occupational disease.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-29
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1363 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Baltimore City Board of Liquor License Commissioners to reject a license renewal application if it is submitted after April 30 in any year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-29
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| 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 |
| HB1090 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring hospitals with 50 beds or more to implement a palliative care program on or before a specified date; requiring palliative care programs to provide and facilitate access to specified information and palliative care services and to implement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-29
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations |
| HB948 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Division of Labor and Industry in the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation to collect and retain a specified civil penalty rather than have the penalty paid into the General Fund; requiring a contractor to pay specified liquid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-29
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| HB627 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a food service facility from using food containing artificial trans fat for specified purposes; providing for an exception to the use of trans fat by a food service facility; prohibiting a retail establishment from selling specified food ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-29
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations Withdrawn |
| SB747 | Engross
Sine Die | Revising, updating, reorganizing, and clarifying Title 1 of the Maryland Uniform Commercial Code (MUCC) relating to general provisions applicable to the MUCC; establishing a short title; clarifying the transactions to which Title 1 of the MUCC applie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-29
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB530 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Physicians to adopt regulations for the licensure and practice of kinesiotherapy; providing that the Act does not limit the rights of specified individuals to practice specified occupations; requiring the Board to set spe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-29
Unfavorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs Withdrawn |
| SB839 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to endorse and promote competency-based postsecondary education as an important component of Maryland's higher education system; requiring the Commission to develop and execute, in cooperation with W...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-29
Unfavorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs Withdrawn |
| SB363 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering to 10 p.m. the time at which establishments issued Class A beer and wine or beer, wine and liquor beverages licenses in the Park Heights Redevelopment Area in Baltimore City must stop selling alcoholic beverages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-29
Unfavorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs |
| 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 |
| SB1053 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing a contingency on provisions of law that authorize specified depository institutions and credit unions to conduct savings promotion raffles; altering the circumstances under which depository institutions may conduct savings promotion raffles...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-29
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1266 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a local licensing board that issues alcoholic beverages licenses to adopt rules allowing the sale of alcoholic beverages between 10 a.m. Sunday and 2 a.m. the following Monday; and specifying that rules of a local licensing board regardin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-29
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| 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 |
| HB665 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Governor to proclaim each year the last full week in September as Fall Prevention Awareness Week; and requiring the Secretary of Aging and the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene, on or before January 1, 2013, to develop a statewide ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-29
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations Withdrawn |
| 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 |
| HB869 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Career Pathways Program in the Division of Employment and Training in the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation; providing for the Program's purpose and priorities; requiring the Director of the Division to make grants for s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-29
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| 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 |
| SB261 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Northeast Maryland Higher Education Advisory Board; providing for the composition, appointment, and terms of the Board members; providing for a chair of the Board and the establishment of committees; prohibiting Board members from re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB257 | Engross
Sine Die | Allowing specified students to participate in interscholastic athletic activities in another public high school in Talbot County if that athletic activity is not offered at the public secondary school in the student's geographical attendance area; re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-28
To House Ways and Means 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 |
| SB661 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing specified organizations in Carroll County to conduct a card game, card tournament, or casino night under specified circumstances; requiring an organization to obtain a permit from the Board of License Commissioners of Carroll County befor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-28
To House Ways and Means 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 |
| HB1198 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a Maryland Biotech SBIR and STTR Bridge Program to be administered by the Maryland Technology Development Corporation for specified purposes; authorizing the Program to provide grants to specified eligible biotechnology businesses; stati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-28
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| SB498 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2012-03-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1066 | Engross
Sine Die | Extending, from July 1, 2014, to July 1, 2016, the termination provisions for the credit allowed against the State income tax for specified film production activities; increasing to $22,500,000, for fiscal years 2013 through 2016, the annual amount o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-28
To House Ways and Means 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 |
| SB622 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "amusement device" as it relates to the operation and regulation of amusement devices in Washington County to include a game activated by an object or other consideration of value; and altering the definition of "gross prof...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB611 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring an individual attending a woman for pregnancy to submit to a medical laboratory a blood sample taken from the woman at the time the individual first examines the woman and, under specified circumstances, at the time of delivery; and requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-28
To House Health and Government Operations 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 |
| SB447 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing a restriction that prohibits specified gaming licensees in Dorchester County from holding gaming events or carnivals on a Sunday.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-28
To House Ways and Means 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 |
| SB1093 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring that an individual who has served on the Calvert County Board of County Commissioners for only three terms between 1994 through 2002 and between 2006 through 2010 receive a specified pension; and requiring that the pension be paid in period...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-28
To House Appropriations 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 |
| SB264 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing in Frederick County a specified limitation on the number of specified raffles that may be held on a single day; and authorizing the Board of County Commissioners of Frederick County to determine the number of permits to conduct a raffle tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-28
To House Ways and Means 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 |
| SB570 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the amount of research and development credits that the Department of Business and Economic Development may approve in a calendar year; and applying the Act to Maryland research and development tax credits certified after December 15, 2012.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-28
To House Ways and Means 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 |
| SB555 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the circumstances under which a retail establishment that has a toilet facility for its employees is required to allow specified customers to use the facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-27
Unfavorable Report by Finance Withdrawn |
| SB1100 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a specified person to bring an action in a court of competent jurisdiction to challenge provisions of recorded covenants and restrictions as unenforceable under specified circumstances; providing for a specified rebuttable presumption; pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-27
Hearing 4/3 at 1:00 p.m. |
| 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 |
| SB677 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a person to be licensed by the Public Service Commission to engage in the business of providing solar water heating services as a solar water heating utility provider in Prince George's County; establishing specified application and other r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-27
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| 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 |
| SB758 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Containment Laboratory Oversight Division in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; requiring the Division to establish and enforce specified standards and requirements relating to specified containment laboratories in the Stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-27
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
