| SB417 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a court to issue a permanent final protective order against an individual who is sentenced to, instead of who served, a term of imprisonment of at least 5 years for a specified act of abuse under specified circumstances and who has served a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB409 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the scope of the Maryland Mediation Confidentiality Act; and authorizing a specified agreement to exclude specified mediation communications from the application of the Maryland Mediation Confidentiality Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB646 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Secretary of State Police to accept a background check from an armored car company in place of a criminal history records check performed by the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services under specified circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB649 | Engross
Sine Die | Defining "serious crime" to provide that a register of wills or court may not grant letters of administration to a person convicted of a crime that reflects adversely on an individual's honesty, trustworthiness, or fitness to perform the duties of a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB472 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a motor scooter or moped dealer in Worcester County to apply to the Motor Vehicle Administration for the issuance of special dealer decals; authorizing a motor scooter or moped dealer in Worcester County that attaches a special dealer dec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB792 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Collaborative Reproduction Act; establishing the purposes of the Act; establishing rights and obligations of specified intended parents who use gamete or embryo donors to conceive a child through collaborative reproduction; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB490 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering, for specified purposes relating to domestic violence, the definition of "person eligible for relief" to include an individual who has had a sexual relationship with the respondent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB923 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing from 12 to 20 the number of members of a fire company in Harford County that a commanding officer may designate to be appointed by the sheriff as deputy sheriffs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB504 | Engross
Sine Die | Making it a misdemeanor to knowingly and willfully make specified threats against a deputy State's Attorney, an assistant State's Attorney, or an assistant Public Defender; and imposing penalties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB103 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the subtraction modification under the State income tax from $5,000 to $10,000 of military retirement income received for retirees at least 65 years old on the last day of the taxable year; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning aft...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-01
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB249 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a manufacturer, distributor, or factory branch from retaliating against a specified vehicle dealer because of legislation enacted by the General Assembly that regulates the franchise relationship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-01
Third Reading Failed (20-25) |
| SB1033 | Intro
Sine Die | Adding and modifying an exception to the requirement that specified students attend a public school regularly during the entire school year; requiring the State Department of Education to adopt standards for the suspension or expulsion of a student u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-01
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Withdrawn |
| SB859 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a specified business, when destroying a customer's records that contain specified personal or private information, to take specified steps to protect against unauthorized access to or use of the information; requiring a specified business t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-01
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Withdrawn |
| SB167 | Engross
Sine Die | Making unenforceable a provision of a declaration, bylaw, contract for sale of a unit, or other instrument made by a developer relating to residential condominiums that purports to shorten the statute of limitations for any warranty claim or other sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-01
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters |
| SB691 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education, a local school system, or any State agency responsible for providing education to students with disabilities to bear the burden of proof in a due process hearing relating to a dispute over the identificati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-01
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Withdrawn |
| SB399 | Engross
Sine Die | Expanding the applicability of specified provisions of law relating to the Motor Vehicle Administration's collection and forwarding of Selective Service registration information to women and minors between the ages of 17 and 25 years; altering the co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-29
To House Environmental Matters Committee |
| SB1071 | Intro
Sine Die | Revising the composition of the Prince George's County Board of Education; providing for the appointment of specified members of the county board by the County Executive of Prince George's County and the Prince George's County Council; requiring the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-29
Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m. |
| SB205 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a driver who has been given a visual or audible signal to stop by a police officer in a vehicle that is not an appropriately marked police vehicle but is displaying an activated flashing blue or red and blue light from attempting to elude...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-29
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| SB30 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting the driver of a motor vehicle in which a person who is under the age of 8 years is a passenger from smoking a tobacco product or allowing a passenger to smoke in the motor vehicle; establishing a fine of up to $50 for a violation of the A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-29
To House Environmental Matters Committee |
| SB179 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering specified requirements for the responsible member of an entity providing architectural services; authorizing the State Board of Architects to deny a firm permit to an applicant, reprimand a permit holder, suspend or revoke a permit, or impos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-29
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| SB503 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that, for purposes of granting a limited or an absolute divorce, parties may be considered to be living separate and apart without cohabitation even if the parties share living expenses and a residence, as long as the parties maintain separ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-29
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| SB684 | Engross
Sine Die | Limiting the eligibility of qualifying biomass as a Tier 1 renewable source for the renewable energy portfolio standard to qualifying biomass used at a generation unit that started commercial operation on or after January 1, 2005, and that achieves a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-29
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB387 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person, with fraudulent intent, from knowingly and willfully possessing, obtaining, or helping another to possess or obtain personal identifying information of a specified vulnerable child in order to use, sell, or transfer the informat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB388 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Human Resources to assist a child who has been identified as a victim of identity fraud to apply for an identity theft passport under specified circumstances; and requiring the Department of Juvenile Services to assist a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB285 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Physicians, in cooperation with the State Board of Chiropractic and Massage Therapy Examiners, the State Board of Occupational Therapy Practice, the State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners, and other stakeholders, to st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations Withdrawn |
| SB274 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering eligibility requirements for the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and the definition of "former foster care adolescent" to conform to federal eligibility requirements; authorizing the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to provide spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB908 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring retirees of the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System who are reemployed under specified circumstances to terminate participation in a Deferred Retirement Option Program and receive a specified lump sum payment before being reemployed by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB297 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the penalty for use or possession of less than 10 grams of marijuana; making the violation a civil offense punishable by a fine not exceeding $100; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB298 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that the maximum speed limit on Interstate 68 may be up to 70 miles an hour.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB377 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "person in a position of authority" relating to prohibiting an individual from engaging in a sexual act, sexual contact, or vaginal intercourse with a minor under specified circumstances to remove a limitation to full-time ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB206 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing to 60 miles an hour the maximum speed limit on the Intercounty Connector; and making the Act an emergency measure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB119 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing the amount of a property tax exemption for dwelling houses owned by specified blind individuals or surviving spouses of blind individuals from $15,000 of the assessed value of the dwelling to $30,000; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB831 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Committee on State Budget Evidence-Based Policy Options; requiring the Committee annually to determine the policy areas in the State operating budget that should receive an analysis of evidence-based policy options and to report on t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB37 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a court to order a defendant convicted of a specified charge of animal cruelty, as a condition of sentencing, to pay, in addition to any other fines and costs, all reasonable costs incurred in removing, housing, treating, or euthanizing a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB43 | 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] | 2013-03-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB318 | Engross
Sine Die | Expanding the eligibility for the property tax credit in Frederick County granted to offset specified increases in county or municipal corporation income tax revenues; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB817 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the State from disclosing until the start of a criminal trial the identity of a minor who has furnished information about an alleged criminal offense to specified persons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB71 | Engross
Sine Die | Including retirement accounts in the definition of "account" in provisions relating to information and assistance by financial institutions to the Child Support Enforcement Administration; altering an exemption for specified retirement plans from the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB619 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the funding sources for and clarifying the uses of the State Wildlife and Management Protection Fund; clarifying that a 3-day nonresident hunting license does not authorize bear hunting; increasing the fees for specified hunting licenses; re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
To House Environmental Matters Committee |
| SB105 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the definition of a "person in a position of authority" relating to prohibiting an individual from engaging in a sexual act, sexual contact, or vaginal intercourse with a minor under specified circumstances; prohibiting a person from engagin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB856 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing the requirement that the Monday after Easter be a public school holiday; and specifying that, at the option of a county board, the Monday after Easter may be a public school holiday.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means Withdrawn |
| SB637 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing to $20 from $10 specified appearance of counsel fees collected or charged by the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Carroll County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB847 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a requirement that, to be convicted of a specified offense of manslaughter, a person's failure to perceive a specified risk must constitute a gross deviation from a specified standard of care; altering the name of a violation of the Act to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings Withdrawn |
| SB654 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a minimum age at which a person may be charged with prostitution offenses; establishing a presumption that if a minor who is 16 or 17 years of age is charged with a prostitution offense, the minor was coerced into committing the offense;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings Withdrawn |
| SB657 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the requirement that the prosecution of a misdemeanor offense of the prohibition against a specified person in a position of authority engaging in a sexual act or sexual contact with a minor, under specified circumstances, be instituted wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB478 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from attempting to deliver a telecommunication device to a person detained or confined in a specified place of confinement; increasing the penalty for specified subsequent violations; and requiring a specified sentence to be serv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB178 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing that a laboratory report of a blood or genetic test constitutes a presumptive finding of paternity in specified cases if the test was conducted in a specified laboratory and the report establishes a statistical probability of paternity o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB785 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the authority of counties and municipalities in the State to use speed monitoring systems to enforce highway speed laws; repealing the authority to use work zone speed control systems to enforce highway speed laws within work zones; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB985 | Intro
Sine Die | Granting the District Court exclusive original civil jurisdiction in a specified proceeding to abate a public nuisance; providing that a gas pipeline shall be considered a public nuisance under specified circumstances; authorizing specified persons t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings Withdrawn |
| SB778 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and the managing official of a local correctional facility with an inmate welfare fund to adopt specified regulations regarding the use of profits derived from telephone commissions;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-03-28
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings Withdrawn |
