| SB198 | Pass | Increasing the allowance for a surviving spouse of a decedent from $5,000 to $10,000; and increasing the allowance for an unmarried minor child of a decedent from $2,500 to $5,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 204 |
| SB54 | Pass | Amending provisions of the Educational Excellence Fund, the Edward T. Conroy Scholarship Fund, the Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts Scholarship Fund, and the Workforce Shortage Student Assistance Grant Fund to require each of the funds ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 172 |
| SB131 | Pass | Establishing a Reserve Account of the Harford County Liquor Control Board as a special, nonlapsing account; specifying the purpose of the Reserve Account; requiring the Board to hold the Account separately and account for the Reserve Account; specify...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 183 |
| SB436 | Pass | Exempting specified indemnity mortgage transactions from the recordation tax; making indemnity mortgage transactions subject to recordation tax after a specified date; authorizing a specified calculation or allocation of recordation tax on indemnity ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 267 |
| SB59 | Pass | Repealing an exemption for specified veterans' hospital patients from the requirement to obtain an angler's license under specified circumstances; repealing a provision of law that lists nontidal species for which the Department of Natural Resources ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 173 |
| SB321 | Pass | Altering the distribution of alcoholic beverages license fees in Frederick County; requiring that the County Treasurer receive all of the license fees that the Board of License Commissioners collects; and requiring that all of the salaries and expens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 229 |
| SB129 | Pass | Establishing a Class H-CC (corporate club/conference center) license in Harford County; authorizing the Liquor Control Board to issue the license for an establishment that meets specified requirements; requiring that a corporate dining room in a lice...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 182 |
| SB128 | Pass | Altering the hours of sale for a Class B Cafe licensee in Harford County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 181 |
| SB610 | Pass | Providing for an Overdose Response Program overseen by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; requiring the Department to adopt regulations and authorizing the Department to take other actions; specifying the requirements an individual must mee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 299 |
| SB195 | Pass | Requiring a hospital, under specified circumstances, to provide notice to a patient of the patient's outpatient status, the billing implications of the outpatient status, and the impact of the outpatient status on the patient's eligibility for Medica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 202 |
| SB69 | Pass | 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 altering the penalties for first and subsequ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 174 |
| SB70 | Pass | Altering the uses and composition of the Enterprise Fund in the Department of Business and Economic Development; authorizing the Department to acquire an ownership interest exceeding 25% when making an equity investment in one or more venture or priv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 175 |
| SB72 | Pass | Clarifying that a person who drives or moves overweight vehicle loads on a municipal highway is liable for specified damage caused to the highway; establishing that a person who drives or moves oversized loads on State, county, or municipal highways ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 176 |
| SB446 | Pass | 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 spe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 269 |
| SB87 | Pass | Repealing an exception to the requirement that a child under 16 years old riding in a vehicle be secured in a child safety seat or a seat belt that applies in instances where all passenger securing locations are in use by other children; prohibiting ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 179 |
| SB426 | Pass | Requiring that a hotline number to report information concerning suspected illegal drug activity be included on all new and replacement signs designating specified areas as drug free school zones in Anne Arundel County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 264 |
| SB80 | Pass | Adding the Division of Drug Control of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to the list of units of the Department to which the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program must disclose prescription monitoring data under specified circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 177 |
| SB424 | Pass | Authorizing the County Commissioners of Somerset County to adopt an emergency burning ban; prohibiting a person from starting or allowing any open air burning during an emergency burning ban, subject to specified exceptions; authorizing the County Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 263 |
| SB83 | Pass | Adding to the duties of the Secretary of Aging; establishing the Aging and Disability Resource Center Program in the Department of Aging; designating the Program as the State's Aging and Disability Resource Center for purposes of the federal Older Am...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 178 |
| SB422 | Pass | Requiring public school employers in all jurisdictions of the State to negotiate with employee organizations designated as the exclusive representatives for the public school employees a requirement of a service or representation fee to be charged to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 261 |
| SB624 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from knowingly and willfully possessing, obtaining, or helping another to possess or obtain personal identifying information with fraudulent intent to access health information or health care; prohibiting a person from using a sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 300 |
| SB142 | Pass | 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] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 185 |
| SB143 | Pass | Requiring each county board of education to evaluate the emergency management plan in each public school under the jurisdiction of the county board on or before February 1, 2014; requiring each county board of education to report to the State Departm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 187 |
| SB144 | Pass | Increasing, from 10% to 25%, the amount of restoration and preservation expenses for specified historic structures that the governing body of a county or municipal corporation may authorize to be claimed by specified taxpayers as a property tax credi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 189 |
| SB414 | Pass | Altering the definition of "foster care recipient" to include individuals who are placed into guardianship or who are adopted out of an out-of-home placement by a guardianship family, as specified; providing that specified foster care recipients are ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 259 |
| SB634 | Pass | Altering specified notice procedures required to enforce a lien on specified property stored in a leased space at a self-service storage facility; providing that a specified sale held on an online auction Web site to enforce a specified lien shall be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 302 |
| SB148 | Pass | Adding Caroline County to the list of counties in which the Comptroller may issue a Class 7 micro-brewery (on- and off-sale) license; and adding the county to the list of counties in which a Class 7 micro-brewery licensee may sell at retail beer brew...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 191 |
| SB459 | Pass | Authorizing a licensed dental hygienist, without the supervision of a dentist, to provide specified services without compensation at specified community-based health fairs; requiring the Board of Dental Examiners, in consultation with the Department ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 271 |
| SB460 | Pass | Authorizing a physician assistant to complete a specified certificate that an individual of a specified age is pregnant or has given birth to a child; authorizing a physician assistant to provide specified information on a certificate of birth under ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 273 |
| SB151 | Pass | Altering the hospital outpatient services for which the Maryland Medical Assistance Program must pay according to specified rates, under specified circumstances; altering the date by which a hospital must notify the Health Services Cost Review Commis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 193 |
| SB462 | Pass | Authorizing a person to install a maximum of six personal watercraft lifts or hoists per pier, a maximum of four boat lifts or hoists per pier, or a combination of a maximum of six boat or personal watercraft lifts or hoists per pier of which not mor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 275 |
| SB154 | Pass | Abolishing the elected position of County Treasurer of Somerset County; transferring the duties and functions of the office of County Treasurer to the County Supervisor of Tax Collection, who shall work under the direction of the County Finance Direc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 194 |
| SB335 | Pass | Establishing that a funeral establishment that uses a central preparation room at another funeral establishment is not required to have its own preparation room or holding room.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 231 |
| SB155 | Pass | Authorizing the County Commissioners of Somerset County to sell the Small Boat Harbor Dock to the City of Crisfield at private sale under specified terms; requiring the Small Boat Harbor Dock to revert to the County Commissioners under specified circ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 195 |
| SB188 | Pass | Requiring the Special Secretary of Minority Affairs, in consultation with the Secretary of Transportation and the Attorney General, to establish guidelines for units of State government to consider when determining the appropriate minority business e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 200 |
| SB404 | Pass | Providing a subtraction modification under the Maryland individual and corporate income tax for specified expenses incurred to buy and install enhanced agricultural management equipment under specified circumstances; defining "enhanced agricultural m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 257 |
| SB798 | Pass | Authorizing a hospital, in its credentialing and privileging process for a physician who provides medical services to patients at the hospital only through telemedicine from a distant-site hospital or distant-site telemedicine entity, to rely on cred...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 324 |
| SB797 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Thermal Renewable Energy Credit Task Force; requiring the Task Force to analyze how to restructure the renewable energy portfolio standard to incorporate specified thermal energy sources; requiring the Task Force to make spe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 322 |
| SB849 | Pass | Authorizing a specified tenant to prevent the termination of specified utility service by applying for a new utility service account; specifying that a specified tenant may not incur liability for specified charges; requiring a specified utility serv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 326 |
| SB338 | Pass | Extending the termination date for specified provisions of law concerning medication technician graduates and certified medication technicians; and making the Act an emergency measure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 232 |
| SB846 | Pass | Altering the type and the number of specified employee positions to which the Baltimore City Sheriff may appoint employees; increasing a specified annual expense allowance for specified deputy sheriffs; altering specified surcharges on filing fees in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 325 |
| SB471 | Pass | Making exceptions to the prohibition against the Somerset County Board of License Commissioners approving a license to sell alcoholic beverages for specified establishments located within 300 feet of a school, church or other place of worship, public...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 277 |
| SB168 | Pass | Authorizing a guardian of the property of a minor or disabled person to petition the court to deposit cash belonging to the minor or disabled person in an amount not exceeding $200,000 into a single restricted account; requiring specified excess amou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 196 |
| SB171 | Pass | Altering provisions of law concerning voting by mail in special elections; authorizing the Governor, a county council, or a board of county commissioners to direct that voting by mail be utilized in specified special elections; requiring a local boar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 197 |
| SB484 | Pass | Allowing an individual or corporation a $1 credit against the State income tax for each bushel of oyster shells recycled during the taxable year; providing that the credit may not exceed $750 during a taxable year; requiring the Department of Natural...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 278 |
| SB175 | Pass | Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim the second Thursday in May as Maryland Centenarians Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 199 |
| SB963 | Pass | Establishing the Task Force to Study a Post-Labor Day Start Date for Maryland Public Schools; providing for the membership, chair, and staff for the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to study issues relating to a post-Labor Day start date for Mary...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 336 |
| SB344 | Pass | Establishing a maximum oyster inspection tax that may be imposed by the Potomac River Fisheries Commission; requiring the Potomac River Fisheries Commission to use the proceeds of the oyster inspection tax solely for planting seed or shell oyster on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 234 |
| SB920 | Pass | Exempting specified submerged land leases and water column leases from a specified setback requirement; authorizing a submerged land lease or a water column lease of a riparian owner or a lawful occupant of the riparian property to be located in Herr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 333 |
| SB496 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance program to provide a specified reimbursement for services delivered by telemedicine under specified circumstances; requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to adopt regulations for a specified pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-05-02
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 280 |
