| 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 |
| SB737 | 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] | 2012-05-24
of the Maryland Constitution |
| SB892 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the awarding of an additional video lottery operation license and 4,750 additional video lottery terminals for a video lottery facility in a specified location in Prince George's County; requiring, after a specified date, specified video ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means |
| 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. |
| SB413 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing fees for service of process of papers by a sheriff; requiring that $10 of the fees be distributed to a fund established for the Rental Allowance Program of the Department of Housing and Community Development; establishing the Rental Allowa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| SB786 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing a prefile mediation process between a secured party and a mortgagor or grantor before the commencement of a specified foreclosure action under specified circumstances; providing that a specified mortgagor or grantor is not entitled to pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Re-referred Environmental Matters |
| SB255 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Board of License Commissioners for Garrett County to apply to the Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS) Central Repository of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services for a specified criminal history records check ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| 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 |
| SB995 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing that it is an affirmative defense to a prosecution for the possession of marijuana or the possession of specified drug paraphernalia that the defendant was a specified caregiver and possessed the marijuana or paraphernalia for a specifie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Hearing 4/9 at 4:30 p.m. |
| 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 |
| SB437 | Engross
Sine Die | Creating in Frederick County a Middletown Wine Festival License; authorizing the Frederick County Board of License Commissioners to issue a license to a holder of specified licenses; specifying that the license entitles the holder to display and sell...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| SB616 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Commission to Study the Retirement of Judges; providing for the membership and staffing of the Commission; requiring the Governor to designate a chair of the Commission; establishing that the members of the Commission may not receive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| SB168 | Engross
Sine Die | Making victims of domestic violence who are eligible for an award as the result of an injury resulting from a specified domestic violence incident and who sought temporary lodging to avoid further injury eligible to receive an award from the Criminal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| SB610 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the governing body of a county or a municipal corporation to adopt a local law that authorizes the county or municipal corporation to revoke or not renew the business license of an establishment for the second or subsequent conviction of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| SB999 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Joint Committee on Fair Practices and State Personnel to convene a workgroup to study and make recommendations regarding methods of strengthening existing remedies and any new remedies needed to address abuse suffered by State employees...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-09
Re-referred Appropriations |
| 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 |
| SB673 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing the prohibition on a person convicted of perjury testifying in a proceeding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-07
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| SB391 | Engross
Sine Die | Lowering to $450,000 the minimum capital investment for dining room facilities and kitchen equipment required for a restaurant to qualify for a Class BLX on-sale license in Cecil County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-07
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| 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 |
| SB389 | Engross
Sine Die | Adding Cecil County to the list of jurisdictions in which the holder of a Class 6 pub-brewery license may sell malt beverages for off- premises consumption in sealed refillable containers under specified circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-07
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| 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 |
| SB26 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a sixth video lottery operation license and 1,000 additional video lottery terminals in the State under specified circumstances; authorizing a video lottery license for a specified location in Prince George's County; specifying the maximu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-07
Hearing 4/9 at 9:30 a.m. |
| SB840 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the City Council of the City of Laurel to make a determination regarding the granting of a license to sell alcoholic beverages in a specified building within a specified distance of a church.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-07
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| SB726 | Engross
Sine Die | Expanding the definition of "consumer" under the Maryland Consumer Protection Act to include a nonprofit organization that purchases, rents, or leases goods or services for the benefit of the members of the nonprofit organization; establishing that a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-07
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| SB588 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from restricting licensed bow hunters who are at least 21 years old from carrying a handgun for personal protection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-07
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| SB882 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Mayor and city Council of Baltimore to establish an Investment in Our Youth (IO-YOUth) Pilot Program; providing that the Program must be established as a qualified organization eligible to receive specified contributions under a speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Second Reading Passed |
| SB1078 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a local board of elections to send specified voters an absentee ballot by the Internet or facsimile transmission under specified circumstances; requiring the State Board of Elections to provide an online ballot marking tool for voters to us...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Motion Rules Suspended two readings same day (Delegate Cardin) Rejected (91-44) |
| SB80 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that, on specified testimony by a party or specified other persons, a written vehicle repair estimate prepared by an insurer or its authorized representative is admissible, without the testimony of the preparer of the estimate, as evidence ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Special Order until later today (Davis) Adopted |
| SB183 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing, without liability for the termination and on 30 days' notice to the contractor, the board of directors of a condominium to terminate a contract entered into by the developer, officers, or previous board within 180 days after the board of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters |
| 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 |
| SB252 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Baltimore City Community Enhancement Transit-Oriented Development Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund for specified purposes; providing for the contents and uses of the Fund; providing that a portion of revenues from projects and othe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Special Order until later today (Delegate McIntosh) Adopted |
| SB544 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring that an elected official of the State or of a county or municipal corporation who is found guilty of a felony or specified misdemeanors be suspended, and, under specified circumstances, removed from office by operation of law; requiring tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Special Order until later today (Delegate Ivey) Adopted |
| 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 |
| SB198 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing to $20 from $10 specified appearance of counsel fees collected or charged by the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (120-15) |
| 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 |
| SB976 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing a subtraction modification under the Maryland individual and corporate income tax for 100% of the expenses incurred to buy and install enhanced agricultural management equipment under specified circumstances; providing a subtraction modific...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Second Reading Passed |
| 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 |
| SB358 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the policy of the State on public-private partnerships; altering provisions of law relating to public-private partnerships; authorizing a reporting agency to establish a public-private partnership and execute a partnership agreement in c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-04-06
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (91-45) |
| 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 |
