MD Legislation | 2014 | Regular Session | House | Bills | Introduced

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Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
HB879	Intro Sine Die	Altering the penalties for using and possessing marijuana in specified amounts; making the possession of 1 ounce or less of marijuana a civil offense; providing that an offender under 21 years of age may be ordered to attend a specified program; prov... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-04-04 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
HB1294	Intro Sine Die	Requiring a court exercising criminal jurisdiction in a case involving a child, or the District Court at a bail review or preliminary hearing, to order a child to be held in a secure juvenile facility pending a transfer determination except under spe... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-04-04 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary; Withdrawn
HB1502	Intro Sine Die	Repealing an exemption for specialties taken for use of the State from a specified statute of limitations period; altering the time period, to 12 years, within which a civil action on specialties taken for use by the State shall be filed; applying th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-04-04 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
HB1511	Intro Sine Die	Establishing the Maryland Background Check Program in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; providing for the purpose of the Program; requiring an adult dependent care provider to obtain a specified fitness determination from the Program for s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-04-04 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn
HB1540	Intro Sine Die	Amending the Maryland Consolidated Capital Bond Loan of 2006 to provide that a specified grant for the Winchester Street Potter's House may not terminate before June 1, 2016. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-04-03 Unfavorable Report by Appropriations; Withdrawn
HB1433	Intro Sine Die	Establishing the Task Force to Study Services and Resources Provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to study and make recommendations regarding how... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-04-03 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn
HB169	Intro Sine Die	Repealing the application to specified coverage in specified insurance markets of specified provisions of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act relating to annual limitations on cost sharing and deductibles, child-only plan offerings... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-04-03 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations
HB1408	Intro Sine Die	Providing that, if a public institution of higher education maintains a smoke-free or tobacco-free campus, any State support from the General Fund provided to the institution shall be reduced by a percentage equal to the ratio of revenues generated b... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-04-03 Unfavorable Report by Appropriations
HB584	Intro Sine Die	Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the University of Baltimore jointly to identify the location of each drug abuse treatment program in the State and study and evaluate the economic impact of each program on surrounding busines... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-04-03 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn
HB381	Intro Sine Die	Establishing that an intern is considered to be in an employment relationship with an employer for the purposes of specified protections from specified discriminatory acts, access to a specified complaint resolution procedure, and specified administr... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-04-03 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn
HB839	Intro Sine Die	Authorizing additional members of the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System to participate in the Deferred Retirement Option Program for 2 years if the member has at least 29 years and fewer than 34 years of creditable service; and altering the fo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-04-03 Unfavorable Report by Appropriations
HB875	Intro Sine Die	Requiring a pharmacy benefits manager to designate on a specified formulary the prescription drugs that are Tier I specialty drugs and Tier II specialty drugs; requiring a pharmacy benefits manager to submit a list of specified drugs to the Maryland ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-04-03 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn
HB391	Intro Sine Die	Prohibiting employers from prohibiting employees from inquiring about, discussing, or disclosing specified wage information; authorizing employers to provide employees with specified written policies that establish specified limitations concerning sp... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-04-03 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn
HB1555	Intro Sine Die	Providing that provisions of law governing the practice of perfusion do not apply to persons who preserve human organs for transplantation under an investigational device exemption clinical trial or a humanitarian device exemption that has been appro... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-04-03 Hearing 4/03 at 1:00 p.m.
HB655	Intro Sine Die	Reducing the rate of member contributions for specified members of the Employees' Pension System, Teachers' Pension System, and Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-04-03 Unfavorable Report by Appropriations
HB1488	Intro Sine Die	Requiring that a party filing a specified appeal with the State Board of Contract Appeals simultaneously submit to the Board a specified bond or other form of acceptable security; requiring, in a specified appeal, the Board to request a unit, in conj... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-04-03 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn
HB1265	Intro Sine Die	Prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity with regard to public accommodations, housing, and employment and by specified licensed or regulated persons; prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity with regard to... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-04-03 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn
HB1062	Intro Sine Die	Stating a specified finding of the General Assembly; requiring the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners to provide specified information to specified residents and community leaders; requiring the Board to provide an opportunity to specified ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-04-03 Unfavorable Report by Appropriations; Withdrawn
HB1229	Intro Sine Die	Repealing the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange; repealing the purpose, powers, duties, Board of Trustees, Executive Director and staff, functions and operations, funding, and administration of the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange; repealing the Maryl... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-04-03 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations
HB906	Intro Sine Die	Authorizing a person to advertise for, solicit business in the State for, offer, or perform direct-to-consumer genetic testing only if specified conditions are met. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-31 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn
HB29	Intro Sine Die	Providing that when an individual becomes eligible for release from State or local custody, a law enforcement or any other government official may not continue to detain the individual on the basis of an immigration detainer; providing that a detaine... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-31 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary; Withdrawn
HB1554	Intro Sine Die	Authorizing the transfer of one Class B-D-7 alcoholic beverages license from the 400 block of East Biddle Street in Baltimore City to the unit block of West North Avenue in Baltimore City. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-31 Referred House Rules and Executive Nominations
HB1380	Intro Sine Die	Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to reimburse specified providers of services to individuals with developmental disabilities in specified residential programs for a visitation absence day; prohibiting the Department from imposing... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-31 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn
HB1343	Intro Sine Die	Requiring the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a specified opioids time lock dispenser pilot program; requiring the Secretary to adopt specified regulations to carry out the pilot program; prohibiting the Secretary from requiring that a vet... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-31 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations
HB846	Intro Sine Die	Authorizing an owner of a life insurance policy with a face value of more than $10,000 to enter into a viatical settlement contract in exchange for payments to a health care provider for long-term care services for an individual; prohibiting the proc... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-31 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn
HB1489	Intro Sine Die	Repealing a requirement that the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene consider accreditation of specified mental health facilities by specified accrediting organizations; and authorizing the Secretary to consider accreditation of specified mental h... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-31 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn
HB1192	Intro Sine Die	Establishing a pilot program on community renewable energy generating systems under the authority of the Public Service Commission; stating when the pilot program will begin and terminate; providing for the structure and operation of the pilot progra... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-31 Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters
HB1435	Intro Sine Die	Authorizing a specified individual who believes that a record indexed in a filing office relating to a financing statement is false or inaccurate to file a specified information statement; authorizing a specified individual to petition a specified ci... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-28 Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters
HB840	Intro Sine Die	Repealing requirements for the holding of specified assets owned by a specified Methodist Church; and repealing provisions of law providing for the effect of the absence of a trust clause in a specified deed or other conveyance executed before a spec... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-28 Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters
HB1392	Intro Sine Die	Prohibiting a person from buying, selling, transporting, or offering or receiving for sale or transportation any equine carcass or the meat of any equine if the person knows or reasonably should know that the carcass or meat will be used for human co... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-27 Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters
HB1010	Intro Sine Die	Authorizing a person to plant, grow, harvest, process, possess, sell, and buy industrial hemp in the State; prohibiting specified persons from contracting with or providing specified assistance or support to a federal agency or federal official for t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-27 Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters
HB945	Intro Sine Die	Requiring the Department of the Environment to mail a copy of specified notices to the record owners of any property adjoining land for which the Department has received a specified sewage sludge utilization permit application; requiring the publicat... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-27 Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters; Withdrawn
HB576	Intro Sine Die	Requiring the State to pay just compensation to an owner of real property that experiences a diminution in fair market value as a result of specified land use or development restrictions; requiring a landowner to file a specified claim with the Depar... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-27 Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters
HB1402	Intro Sine Die	Increasing from $200,000 to $300,000 the maximum amount of specified tax proceeds required to be deposited by the Comptroller into the Mel Noland Woodland Incentives Fund; and altering the parcels of land for which specified counties are required to ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-27 Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters; Withdrawn
HB483	Intro Sine Die	Specifying that there is an Inspector General of the State; establishing the Office of the Inspector General; requiring the Inspector General to examine and investigate the management and affairs of units and conduct audits of the units; authorizing ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-26 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations
HB1315	Intro Sine Die	Excluding specified architectural and engineering services contracts from a specified requirement related to the inclusion of a liquidated damages provision in contracts that contain minority business enterprise participation goals. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-26 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn
HB481	Intro Sine Die	Establishing the office of the Inspector General; specifying qualifications that an individual must meet to be eligible for election to the office; providing that the Inspector General is subject to removal by the General Assembly under specified cir... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-26 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations
HB639	Intro Sine Die	Establishing the Task Force on Community-Partnered School-Based Mental Health; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving specified compensation, but authorizing the rei... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-26 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn
HB1257	Intro Sine Die	Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to adopt specified regulations on or before January 1, 2015; requiring the Department, if applicable, to receive specified approval from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; req... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-26 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn
HB1348	Intro Sine Die	Requiring that any advertisement that is paid for by the State and issued by or on behalf of specified courts, the Maryland General Assembly, or specified departments and units of the Executive Branch of State government include the statement, "This ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-26 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations
HB1532	Intro Sine Die	Establishing the Capital Grant Program for Public School Systems With Significant Enrollment Growth; requiring the Interagency Committee on Public School Construction to implement and administer the Program; specifying requirements for grants awarded... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-25 To House Appropriations Committee
HB1492	Intro Sine Die	Repealing the public service company franchise tax on the gross receipts of telephone companies; repealing the boxing and wrestling tax on specified telecasts; imposing the sales and use tax on specified communications services; establishing the sale... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-25 To House Ways and Means Committee
HB1504	Intro Sine Die	Exempting recent high school graduates from payment of tuition to attend a community college in the State under specified circumstances; providing a 50% discount on tuition to unemployed individuals attending a community college in the State under sp... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-25 To House Appropriations Committee
HB1434	Intro Sine Die	Repealing the Community Services Reimbursement Rate Commission; requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to establish and hire an independent contractor to verify a specified cost structure related to inflationary cost adjustments for co... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-24 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn
HB1272	Intro Sine Die	Requiring the administrative head of a specified institution or a designee of the administrative head or the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to provide a specified notice relating to security freezes to the mother, father, or legal guardian of... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-24 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations
HB411	Intro Sine Die	Extending the presumption of compensability under the workers' compensation law to include, under specified conditions, State correctional officers who suffer from heart disease or hypertension resulting in partial or total disability or death; requi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-24 Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters
HB783	Intro Sine Die	Establishing the Task Force to Study School-Based Health Centers; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving specified compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement of... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-24 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn
HB1072	Intro Sine Die	Requiring a registered sex offender who applies for admission to a nursing home or an assisted living program to provide a specified notification to the nursing home or assisted living program during the admission process; adding to the information t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-24 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations
HB816	Intro Sine Die	Repealing the prohibition on the neglect or refusal, by a specified adult child, to provide a destitute parent with food, shelter, care, and clothing; altering the definition of "responsible relative", as it relates to responsibility for the cost of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-24 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn
HB1321	Intro Sine Die	Expanding the scope of authority and the duties of the Natalie M. LaPrade Medical Marijuana Commission relating to the treatment of patients qualified to use medical marijuana; authorizing the Commission to set fees; providing that the fees are part ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2014-03-24 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn