| SB1051 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Private Sector Employees Pension Plan Task Force; requiring the Task Force to study and make recommendations regarding the implementation of a private sector employees pension plan and to report its findings to the Governor ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-04
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| 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 |
| SB419 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring, when an individual is arrested for failure to appear in court to show cause why the individual should not be found in contempt for failure to answer interrogatories or to appear for an examination in aid of enforcement of a money judgment,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-04
Delegates Anderson, Valentino-Smith, and McComas |
| 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) |
| SB781 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing pharmacists to substitute biosimilar biological products for prescribed biological reference products only under specified circumstances; requiring pharmacists or their designees to give specified notices and record specified information ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-04
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| 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 |
| SB511 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifying the manner in which a specified fine shall be made payable in Calvert County; and authorizing the Board of License Commissioners in Calvert County to issue a fine not exceeding a specified amount for violations of specified alcoholic bever...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-04
To House Economic Matters 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 |
| SB845 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a custodian of a public record to deny inspection of the part of a public record that contains an electronic mail address of an individual who is not an employee of a unit or instrumentality of the State or of a political subdivision; exemp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
To House Health and Government Operations 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 |
| SB1039 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that a candidate may join a slate or continue as a member of a slate only under specified circumstances; altering limits on the aggregate amount of contributions a person may make in an election cycle; requiring that contribution limits and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB211 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a licensed tree expert from supervising more than one company that provides tree expert services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters |
| SB1032 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing from 2 to 3 the maximum number of days per week that the Department of Natural Resources may authorize a specified dredge boat to operate under the power of an auxiliary yawl boat while dredging for oysters in the Chesapeake Bay.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
To House Environmental Matters Committee |
| SB200 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring that a head of a principal department or of an independent agency in the State must be a resident of the State; and providing for the prospective application of the Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB875 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the basis for calculating a specified license fee credited to the Maryland Oil Disaster Containment, Clean-Up and Contingency Fund; altering the date by which the Department of the Environment is required to report annually to specified subc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
To House Environmental Matters Committee |
| SB197 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the purposes for which a meeting of the board of directors of a condominium council of unit owners may be held in closed session.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters |
| SB57 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the State Board of Individual Tax Preparers to impose a civil penalty of up to $5,000 against a person who violates specified provisions of law; requiring the Board to consider specified factors to determine the amount of the penalty; and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| 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 |
| SB77 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Plumbing to adopt regulations to require under specified circumstances a demonstration of professional competency of 16 educational hours as a condition of renewal of a master plumber license or a master natural gas fitte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| SB78 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing to $15,000 the maximum amount of a claim against the Home Improvement Guaranty Fund for which the Maryland Home Improvement Commission may issue a proposed order without a hearing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| 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 |
| SB162 | 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 of directors within 180 days after...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-03
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters |
| SB770 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from filing false liens or encumbrances against specified individuals; providing for penalties for a violation of the Act; authorizing a specified person to file a specified action and obtain relief in specified circumstances; an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB522 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Frederick Regional 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] | 2013-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations 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 |
| SB939 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Juvenile Services to provide a specified notice to the head of a specified law enforcement agency before contracting for, or authorizing the creation of, a specified group home or institution; and requiring that specified ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB534 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting an individual from preventing or interfering with the making of a specified report of suspected child abuse or neglect; and making a violation of the Act a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment not exceeding 5 years or a fine not exceedi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB578 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that a Maryland corporation or a real estate investment trust has the power to renounce specified business opportunities in its charter or declaration of trust or by a specified resolution; repealing specified provisions of law relating to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations 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 |
| SB234 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Office of the Attorney General to establish a consumer affairs satellite office located in Prince George's County; providing for the purpose of establishing a consumer affairs satellite office; requiring the consumer affairs satellite o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-02
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB546 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing an exception to the immunity from civil and criminal action for specified government officials for words spoken at specified meetings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB545 | Engross
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution to provide that the legislative immunity or privilege for words spoken in debate does not apply in a prosecution for bribery; and submitting the amendment to the qualified voters of the State for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB293 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing a requirement that the Motor Vehicle Administration suspend the registration of specified vehicles owned by specified judgment debtors; authorizing the Administration to modify a driver's license suspension or issue a restrictive license fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-02
To House Judiciary 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) |
| SB987 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the authority of a person who tows or removes a vehicle from a parking lot to charge specified persons for providing the required notice of the tow or removal; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB1011 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the length of time a school bus may be operated in Cecil County from 12 years to 15 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| 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 |
| SB368 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund annual report to include information on each award recipient's employer, a specified summary of award recipients' research results and accomplishments, and specified award tracking information; requiring...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-02
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB26 | Engross
Sine Die | Designating the soft-shell crab sandwich as the State sandwich.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB444 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing the maximum penalty for being an accessory after the fact to murder in the first degree from 5 years to 10 years; increasing the maximum penalty for being an accessory after the fact to murder in the second degree from 5 years to 10 years;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-04-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| 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 |
