| HB885 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing a qualified taxpayer a credit against the State income tax for up to 50% of the qualified student loan payments made by the taxpayer during the taxable year; providing that the credit may not exceed the lesser of 20% of the average annual tu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-25
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB844 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting counties from exceeding a specified income tax rate on the Maryland taxable income of specified individuals who are at least 65 years old and whose income does not exceed $75,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-25
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB567 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the requirement that the State ensure that at least 50% of the vehicles in the State vehicle fleet using diesel fuel use a blend of fuel containing at least 5% biodiesel or other biofuel; requiring that 100% of the vehicles in the State vehi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations |
| HB1220 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that specified real estate development projects include the participation of minority business enterprises; requiring the Department of Business and Economic Development to establish specified parameters for the participation of minority bu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB1297 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study the Use and Trade of Illicit Opioids in Traditionally Rural Counties; providing for the composition, cochairs, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a Task Force member from receiving specified compensation,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-25
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB360 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a provision of law requiring the County Commissioners of Carroll County to pay 25% of the alcoholic beverages license fees collected from places of business in the County to the incorporated towns in which the places of business are located...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters Withdrawn |
| HB610 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring all counties to participate in a specified income tax refund withholding program for individuals with outstanding warrants; requiring the Comptroller to conduct a specified study and submit a report to the General Assembly on or before Dece...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-25
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB686 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the day on which interest begins to accrue on specified taxpayer refunds of specified tax payments; requiring a tax collector to pay interest on specified taxpayer refunds beginning on the date of the overpayment if the overpayment is attrib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-25
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB26 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering a specified provision of law to clarify that a promulgating unit is required to submit a specified fiscal impact statement with a proposed regulation to the Joint Committee on Administrative, Executive, and Legislative Review and the Departm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB884 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing a parent or guardian a credit against the State income tax for specified nonpublic education expenses; providing that the credit may not exceed $1,000; providing that the credit may be carried forward to the 5th taxable year after the taxabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-25
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB756 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing an individual who is a teacher a credit against the State income tax for classroom expenses and supplies; providing that the credit may not exceed the State income tax for the taxable year and that any unused credit may not be carried over t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-25
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB676 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from requiring a consumer to disclose the consumer's Social Security number to the person as a condition for the purchase or lease of consumer goods or consumer services; providing that the Act does not prohibit a person from req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters Withdrawn |
| HB616 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the total amount of research and development tax credits that the Department of Business and Economic Development may approve in a calendar year from $8,000,000 to $9,000,000; and applying the Act to tax credits certified after December 15...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-25
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB770 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the maximum amount for a subtraction modification under the State income tax for military retirement income from $5,000 to $10,000 of military retirement income received; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-25
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB652 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a merchant from using a negative option feature in connection with a sale of specified consumer goods or specified consumer services or a free trial offer for specified consumer goods or specified consumer services unless the merchant pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| HB5 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Plumbing to adopt regulations to require under specified circumstances a specified demonstration of professional competency as a condition of renewal of a master plumber or master natural gas fitters license; providing fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| HB887 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring specified corporations to compute Maryland taxable income using a specified method; requiring that, subject to specified regulations, specified groups of corporations file a combined income tax return; establishing the Small Business Person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-25
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB725 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring employers operating food, beverage, or retail operations within Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport to pay a specified wage to their employees; requiring employees' wages to increase by a specified amount; requiring...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-25
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB862 | Intro
Sine Die | Designating specified periods each year to be tax-free periods during which an exemption from the sales and use tax is provided for the sale of specified textbooks purchased by full-time or part-time students enrolled at specified higher education in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-25
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB966 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a special Sunday off-sale permit in Prince George's County; authorizing the Board of License Commissioners to issue the permit to specified license holders; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters Withdrawn |
| HB789 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering provisions of law concerning a credit against the State income tax for specified easements to allow an individual or a corporation that receives a specified tax credit certificate to claim the credit for an easement conveyed to the Maryland ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-25
Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m. (Ways and Means) |
| HB992 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Board of License Commissioners of Anne Arundel County to issue a retail establishment license to the owner of a licensed retail establishment; specifying that a retail establishment license authorizes the holder to provide without cha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters Withdrawn |
| HB435 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting an employer from requiring, as a condition of employment or continued employment, an employee or a prospective employee to join or remain a member of a labor organization, pay charges to a labor organization, or pay a specified amount to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| HB491 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from intentionally causing serious emotional distress by distributing an identifiable image or video of another person, without the consent of the other person, that depicts specified portions of the other person's body; and esta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| HB952 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting Baltimore County from the requirement to establish a watershed protection and restoration program on or before a specified date.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters; Withdrawn |
| HB324 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting Frederick County from the requirement to adopt a watershed protection and restoration program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters; Withdrawn |
| HB458 | Intro
Sine Die | Reducing the State income tax rate on the Maryland taxable income of corporations for tax years 2014 and 2015; and terminating the Act at the end of June 30, 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn |
| HB342 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that a minor who, in good faith, seeks medical assistance for another person who is experiencing a medical emergency after ingesting alcohol or drugs may not be charged with or prosecuted for drug possession or underage possession of alcoho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| HB164 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution to impose a limit of three consecutive terms that a person may serve in the office of Senator or Delegate in the General Assembly; making stylistic changes; and submitting the amendment to the quali...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1496 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an electric company that deploys smart meters in Baltimore City to give specified written notice to specified customers before installing smart meters on a customer's premises under specified circumstances; specifying the contents of a spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB88 | Intro
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 specified minors; altering the conditions under which speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters |
| HB311 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the court, on request of the State's Attorney, to make a finding as to whether a crime for which a defendant is convicted or receives a probation before judgment disposition is a gang-related crime; establishing that the State has the burde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| HB1150 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting an individual from operating or riding on an all-terrain vehicle unless the individual is wearing protective headgear and an eye-protective device that meet specified standards; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters; Withdrawn |
| HB499 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $500,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Interfaith Works, Inc. for specified development or improvement purposes related to the Interfaith Works Resource Vil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations; Withdrawn |
| HB484 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a community college to establish a tuition reduction program for specified individuals receiving unemployment benefits; establishing a specified amount of time a specified individual may qualify for a specified tuition reduction; requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn |
| HB71 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a court that finds that a citation for an alleged violation recorded by a speed monitoring system was issued erroneously to require the person responsible for maintaining the speed monitoring system to pay a penalty of $125 to the person to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters |
| HB674 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a Task Force to Review Property Tax Assessment Procedures and the Assessment Appeals Process; establishing the composition of the Task Force; requiring the Governor to designate the chair of the Task Force; providing for the staffing for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn |
| HB541 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Board of County Commissioners of Garrett County to extend, by ordinance or resolution, the availability of a specified property tax credit available under a specified enterprise zone program for an additional 10 years; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn |
| HB57 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that specified time-stamped images of a motor vehicle provide sufficient information to allow for the calculation of a specified speed of the motor vehicle; altering a requirement relating to the issuance of warnings; requiring a court to i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters |
| HB678 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the requirements for placing warning devices for specified motor vehicles that are not disabled but are stopped on the shoulder of a roadway; providing that a violation of the Act is not a moving violation for the purpose of assessing points...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters |
| HB551 | 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] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters |
| HB933 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing an owner of residential real property in Baltimore City to request that real property tax notices be sent to a specified address; requiring Baltimore City to send a specified notice to an owner of real property after a specified request h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn |
| HB677 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a vehicle emissions inspection facility, at the request of the owner of a vehicle that has failed an on-board diagnostics test, to immediately conduct an exhaust emissions test of the vehicle at no cost to the owner of the vehicle; and esta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters |
| HB358 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention to develop a training program for law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, public defenders, juvenile detention center staff, and others involved in the criminal justice system and juvenil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| HB70 | Intro
Sine Die | Creating a public financing system for General Assembly candidates; repealing the Public Financing Act for gubernatorial candidates; repealing specified provisions of law related to the authority of a governing body of a county to establish, by law, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn |
| HB377 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the payment of retirement benefits payable from the State Retirement and Pension System to employees of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services who are convicted of or enter a plea of nolo contendere for specified crimes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations; Withdrawn |
| HB974 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission to allow a developer to upgrade an existing facility for a specified use necessary for the developer's project under specified circumstances; requiring that a specified upgraded facility be desi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters; Withdrawn |
| HB1065 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the number of general education, elective, and major course credits that are earned at specified community colleges in the State and that are transferable to a senior higher education institution in the State toward a bachelor's degree; pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn |
| HB581 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that a member of a property tax assessment appeal board is entitled to compensation at an hourly rate equal to $40 per hour.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn |
| HB670 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing for archery hunters a safety zone of 50 yards within which archery hunting may not take place except under specified circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters |
