| HB1462 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study a Later Starting Time for Maryland Public Schools; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting Task Force members from receiving compensation, but authorizing reimbursement fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-05
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| HB1004 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax in the amount of $3,500 for qualifying members of the Maryland Civil Air Patrol, subject to specified conditions; providing for a delayed effective date; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-05
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB1325 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Transportation to adopt regulations to establish a methodology for applying life cycle cost analysis to the evaluation of specified pavement projects; requiring that the methodology address specified matters; requiring the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB221 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from willfully and knowingly preventing, hindering, or delaying a person who has a lawful right to sign a petition from signing a petition through the use of fraud, duress, force, threat, menace, or intimidation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-04
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1302 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Commission on Tax Policy, Reform, and Fairness; specifying the membership of the Commission; providing for the appointment of a Senate cochair and House cochair of the Commission; providing for the staffing of the Commission; prohibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-04
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB743 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the calculation of the maximum subtraction modification allowed under the Maryland income tax for specified retirement income under specified circumstances; including income from specified rollover individual retirement accounts in the subtr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-04
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB974 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Elections to establish guidelines for a subsequent election absentee ballot list; requiring that a voter who receives an absentee ballot be provided the opportunity to request an absentee ballot for the next subsequent el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-04
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1173 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Public Service Commission to establish a Small Commercial Energy Efficiency On-Bill Financing Program; specifying the purpose of the Program; authorizing the Commission to require a utility company to participate in the Program; autho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB525 | Engross
Sine Die | Extending the period during which the Maryland Stadium Authority and Baltimore City must contribute a specified amount to the annual operating deficits of the Baltimore Convention facility; and extending to December 31, 2019, the date after which Bal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB965 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "legal interest" to include an interest in a dwelling as a settlor, grantor, or beneficiary of a trust under specified circumstances, so as to include specified settlors, grantors, or beneficiaries of trusts as eligible to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-04
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB532 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing additional responsibilities for the Maryland Advisory Council for Virtual Learning; requiring the Advisory Council to study and make recommendations regarding virtual learning; requiring the Advisory Council to report findings and recomm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-04
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| HB557 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring specified institutions of higher education in the State to report specified information on the cost of higher education at the institution to specified students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-04
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| HB817 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the governing body of a county or municipal corporation to grant a property tax credit for alternate power sources at retail service stations; establishing when the tax credit may be granted; establishing that the tax credit shall be equa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-04
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB412 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing an exemption from the vessel excise tax for the purchase of a vessel by a commercial enterprise if the use of the vessel will require the payment of at least 50% of the value of the exemption in admissions and amusement tax; requiring the D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-04
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB187 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing requirements for surety bonds that a person who sells health club services agreements must purchase under the Maryland Health Club Services Act; and specifying the manner in which the amount of specified surety bonds must be increased or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-04
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| HB40 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a vendor of single family residential real property to display or make available specified utility information under specified circumstances in a specified manner; providing that specified information is provided without warranties; providi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-04
Third Reading Failed (23-23) |
| HB123 | 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] | 2013-04-04
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB87 | Engross
Sine Die | Allowing a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for specified income of specified individuals from the discharge of student loan debt under specified circumstances; requiring an individual to submit specified documentation to qualif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB1186 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force on the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to study and make recommendations regarding matters including methods to adopt an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB1179 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a motor scooter or moped dealer to apply to the Motor Vehicle Administration for the issuance of special dealer decals; authorizing a motor scooter or moped dealer that attaches a special dealer decal to specified motor scooters or mopeds...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0) |
| HB1382 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring, in a sentencing or disposition hearing, a juvenile court to allow a victim or the victim's representative to address the court under oath before the imposition of sentence or other disposition under specified circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB1157 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring collectors of specified debt to disclose in writing specified information in any communication to the debtor relating to the alleged debt; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| HB685 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing a State cost share formula for county library capital projects that receive State funding and setting a minimum and a maximum State cost share percentage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB384 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing penalties for willful failure to file an admissions and amusement tax return under specified circumstances; increasing penalties for willfully making a false statement or misleading omission on specified admissions and amusement tax return...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB147 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the manner in which seized contraband tobacco products or specified conveyances used to transport tobacco products are processed following seizure; authorizing the Comptroller to destroy contraband tobacco products seized and forfeited under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-02
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB514 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing that the Department of Natural Resources may require an applicant to provide only specified information on an application for a recreational hunting or fishing license; altering the information that a request for information from a recre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-02
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB269 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a new school or a renovated school that receives State public school construction funds, including Aging Schools Program funds and Qualified Zone Academy Bonds, to be constructed or renovated to have controlled access to allow visitors to e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-02
Hearing 4/02 at 1:30 p.m. (Budget and Taxation) |
| HB569 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of the Environment, in consultation with local government officials, to conduct a review of State programs that provide financial assistance for costs relating to the planning, design, construction, and upgrade of wastewater ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-02
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| HB475 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a public school employer and an employee organization to use an alternative procedure regarding the renegotiation of allocated funds under specified circumstances; providing that, in connection with the Public School Labor Relations Board...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-02
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1350 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring, on or before August 1, 2013, the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to report to the Governor and the General Assembly on the savings it has achieved through the efficient use of resources and how a portion of these savi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-02
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB282 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a person to file a specified petition for expungement of specified juvenile records; authorizing the court to order the expungement of a specified record under specified circumstances; requiring the court to consider specified criteria in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-01
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB155 | 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] | 2013-03-28
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB220 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Attorney General to institute an action in a circuit court for injunctive relief to prohibit a person from engaging in or continuing to engage in specified violations of election law; providing that injunctive relief may be granted un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m. (Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs) |
| HB1222 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing a defense to any nuisance action brought under State or local law against a landlord if the tenant's actions are the sole basis for the action and specified actions have been taken by the landlord or the District Court in a suit to repos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB592 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a local board of canvassers to prepare a statement of election results by precinct that includes all votes cast by voters registered in each precinct who voted early on specified voting machines; and requiring the State Board of Elections t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB324 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing to $10,000 the maximum fine that may be imposed for specified offenses relating to voting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB822 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the governing body of Calvert County to enter into a payment in lieu of taxes agreement with the owner of a facility for the liquefaction of natural gas; requiring an agreement for payment in lieu of taxes to include specified provisions;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB907 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring that, to the extent practicable, all candidates for the same office appear on the same ballot face on a direct recording electronic voting system device.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB125 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that a plaintiff or holder of a certificate of sale in a foreclosure action may be reimbursed for reasonable attorney's fees up to $1,200 for specified participation in a bankruptcy proceeding or for opening an estate for specified purposes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB701 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing specified obsolete provisions of the State alcoholic beverages law, including the repeal of a requirement that the Comptroller prescribe specified maximum discounts that may be allowed by specified persons, the repeal of a requirement that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-27
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB878 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a merchant from requiring a consumer to accept a store credit card, instead of cash, a check, or a credit to the consumer's credit or debit card account, for a rebate or returned merchandise unless the merchant displays at the point of sa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB719 | Engross
Sine Die | Adding an additional venue in which a person may be prosecuted for a false statement concerning a destructive device or toxic material.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-27
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB840 | Engross
Sine Die | Expanding the membership of the Joint Committee on Gaming Oversight; and specifying that the Director of the State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency, the Special Secretary of the Governor's Office of Minority Affairs, and the Governor appoint as memb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-27
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB811 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempting an action to foreclose a lien on residential property that is brought by the governing body of a common ownership community under the Maryland Contract Lien Act from specified foreclosure procedures; subjecting an action to foreclose a lien...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-27
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB71 | 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] | 2013-03-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB628 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifying that, if the owner of property subject to a lien is personally liable for alleged damages under the Maryland Contract Lien Act, the party entitled to enforce the lien may bring suit, without waiving the lien, for a monetary judgment for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-27
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB1346 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing from 65 miles per hour to 70 miles per hour the maximum speed limit that may be established on specified highways in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-27
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB60 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a specified professional counselor or therapist from engaging in a sexual act, sexual contact, or vaginal intercourse with a person who is receiving counseling from the professional counselor or therapist or received counseling from the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-27
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB520 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the salary of the Treasurer of St. Mary's County, the Sheriff of St. Mary's County, the Judges of the Orphans' Court for St. Mary's County, the President of the Board of County Commissioners of St. Mary's County, and the County Commissioners...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-26
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB309 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a judgment creditor to obtain discovery in aid of enforcement of a money judgment entered or recorded in a circuit court or in the District Court by use of a court ordered examination under oath before a judge or examiner of a judgment de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-26
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
