| SB437 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to require a nonresident to pay a surcharge in addition to any license fees imposed under specified laws and regulations for specified recreational fishing and crabbing licenses; requiring the Departmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-19
Recommitted to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs (Senator Pinsky) |
| SB463 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the defined term of "student credit hours" as used in the calculation of State aid for community colleges and Baltimore City Community College; defining "developmental education course"; and declaring that it is the intent of the General Ass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-19
Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m. |
| SB951 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $350,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of The Young Women's Christian Association of Annapolis and Anne Arundel County, Inc. for specified development or improveme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-19
Unfavorable Report by Senate Rules; Withdrawn |
| SB484 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the information regarding State payments that a specified searchable Web site is required to contain; and requiring the searchable Web site to allow a user to compare data for multiple fiscal years and access specified information regarding ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-19
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB509 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing a business entity to claim a credit against the State income tax for specified wages paid to specified qualified veterans; providing that the credit may not exceed a specified amount; providing for the carryforward of the credit; requiring t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-19
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB920 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the authority of a District Court commissioner to set bond or commit persons to jail in default of bond; authorizing a District Court commissioner to release a defendant charged with a felony from pretrial detention under specified circumst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-19
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB912 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to establish the Maryland Animal Abuse Registry; requiring the Registry to be updated in a specified manner and to include specified information; requiring a person convicted of spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-19
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB535 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposing a tax on the production of natural gas from specified wells in the State; setting the rate of the tax at 2.5% of the gross fair market value of natural gas produced at the wellhead; providing for the administration of the tax by the Comptrol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-19
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB537 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to apply to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for an amendment to the Rare and Expensive Case Management Program under a specified waiver; and requiring the application to authorize e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB629 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a county or municipal corporation to impose, by ordinance or resolution, an annual vehicle registration fee surcharge for the registration of a classified vehicle; providing that the surcharge may not exceed $20; requiring that revenue fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-19
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB959 | 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] | 2014-02-19
Unfavorable Report by Senate Rules; Withdrawn |
| SJ8 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging the United States Congress to support efforts to reinstate the separation of commercial and investment banking functions in effect under the Glass-Steagall Act and to support H.R. 129.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-19
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB388 | Intro
Sine Die | Excluding specified lease payments made by a local school district from the maintenance of effort calculation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-19
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB1058 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a war veterans' organization or fraternal organization in Anne Arundel County to operate not more than five electronic instant bingo machines if the organization obtains a license for each machine on or before June 1, 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-19
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB664 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the portion of motor fuel tax revenue that is distributed to a specified account that is shared with Baltimore City, counties, and municipalities; increasing the portion of highway user revenue that is shared with Baltimore City, counties,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-19
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB695 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide dental services to postpartum women under specified circumstances; and requiring that specified dental services for postpartum women be included as a benefit under a specified program under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB911 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifying that the model performance evaluation criteria adopted by the State Board of Education for the evaluation of teachers and principals are the default criteria to be used in the instance that a local school system and the exclusive employee ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-19
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB581 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the earning of diminution credits to reduce the term of confinement of an inmate committed to the custody of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services or sentenced to a term of imprisonment in a local correctional facility...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-19
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB260 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a District Court commissioner from issuing a summons if the defendant is charged with a specified crime of violence; prohibiting a commissioner from authorizing the pretrial release of a defendant charged with committing a crime while the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-19
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB487 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a specified adjuster, appraiser, insurance producer, or employee of an insurer from requiring a motor vehicle repair facility to use a specific vendor or process for the procurement of parts or other materials necessary for the repair of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB536 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Motor Vehicle Commission in the Department of Transportation; transferring the authority of the Motor Vehicle Administration concerning dealer licenses, manufacturer, distributor, or factory branch licenses, and vehicle salesman lice...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB609 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifying a Bay Restoration Fee for a group of not more than 25 mobile homes under single ownership that is connected to an onsite sewage disposal system and does not receive a water bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-18
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB561 | Intro
Sine Die | Creating in Carroll County a refillable container permit; authorizing the Board of License Commissioners to issue the permit to a holder of a Class A license, a Class B license, or a Class D license; specifying that a holder of the permit may sell dr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-18
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB530 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the renewable energy portfolio standard for specified years; providing for specified thermal energy sources to be either Tier 1 thermal energy sources or Tier 2 thermal energy sources; requiring an electricity supplier to meet the renewable ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB640 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a police officer at a motor vehicle checkpoint from targeting only motorcycles for inspection or evaluation; creating a specified exception to the prohibition for a police officer at a motor vehicle checkpoint established as part of a pol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB545 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the circumstances under which the Motor Vehicle Administration is required to expunge the driving record or a probation before judgment of an individual; repealing a specified requirement that licensees apply for an expungement of specified ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB166 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a county to establish a minimum wage rate for employees working in the county; and altering the minimum wage that an employer is required to pay employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB371 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifying the amount of the State minimum wage rate that is in effect for specified time periods; requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to set the rate in a specified manner on or after a specified date; requiring that the Commissioner pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB451 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the maximum amount allowed as a subtraction modification under the State income tax for specified retirement income of an individual who is at least 70 years old or who is totally disabled; establishing a task force to study specified effe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-17
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation |
| SB273 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a county to establish a minimum wage rate for employees working in the county; and altering the minimum wage that an employer is required to pay employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB385 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing a subtraction modification under the Maryland corporate income tax for specified dividends included in federal taxable income as a result of a specified repatriation holiday enacted by federal legislation; requiring the Comptroller to provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-17
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation |
| SB885 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a concessionaire or other private entity that performs services under a public-private partnership that includes specified activities related to a transit facility and the employees of the concessionaire or other private entity to participa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-17
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation; Withdrawn |
| SB331 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifying the State minimum wage rate that is in effect for specified time periods; increasing, except under specified circumstances, the State minimum wage rate in effect for specified time periods based on the annual growth in the Consumer Price I...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-17
Hearing 2/17 at 12:00 p.m. (Finance) |
| SB696 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the amount of the State minimum wage rate to $8.25 per hour; authorizing employers to pay specified employees a specified training wage of $7.25 per hour; providing that employers may only pay specified employees a training wage for a spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB1039 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Governor, for each of fiscal years 2016 through 2025, to include in the annual State operating and capital budgets funding requested in the 10-year plans of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) submitted to the Maryland ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-14
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB514 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Examiners for Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, and Speech-Language Pathologists to waive specified continuing education requirements for the purpose of renewing a license to practice speech-language pathology for a l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-14
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB461 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a critical incident stress management team member from disclosing specified communications or information acquired from a law enforcement officer, a correctional officer, or an emergency responder in the course of providing critical incid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-13
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB359 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "impervious surface" as it relates to watershed protection and restoration programs to exclude gravel that is placed on top of a surface that allows stormwater to infiltrate into the ground.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-13
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB435 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Attorney General to bring a civil action for damages against a person who violates specified provisions of criminal law on behalf of a specified person; providing that a specified criminal conviction is not a prerequisite for maintena...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-13
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB1018 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the membership and duties of the Task Force to Study Housing and Supportive Services for Unaccompanied Homeless Youth; authorizing youth or young adult members of the Task Force to receive a specified stipend as compensation for serving on t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-13
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB397 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a county or municipality to satisfy a requirement to publish legal notices in a newspaper of general circulation by posting the notices on its Web site; requiring notices posted on a county or municipality Web site to be conspicuously dis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-13
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB251 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a public school or public institution of higher education from storing, distributing, holding for service, using in the preparation of any menu item, or serving food containing artificial trans fat; and defining "artificial trans fat".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-13
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB151 | 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] | 2014-02-13
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB217 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting employers or their insurers, except under specified circumstances, from being required to pay under workers' compensation law for a controlled dangerous substance that is prescribed by a physician for covered employees who have suffered a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-13
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB1023 | Intro
Sine Die | Extending the presumption of compensability under the workers' compensation law to include, under specified conditions, Allegany County correctional officers who suffer from heart disease or hypertension resulting in partial or total disability or de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-13
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB1021 | Intro
Sine Die | Including in the definition of an eligible customer-generator for the purposes of net energy metering a customer that owns and operates, leases and operates, or contracts with a third party that owns and operates a specified industrial combined heat ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-13
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB376 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a specified person to file a petition for expungement of a police, court, or other record if the person was convicted of a nonviolent misdemeanor and has never previously been convicted of a crime other than a nonincarcerable traffic viol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB375 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a person to petition the court to shield specified court records and police records relating to a conviction of the person no earlier than a specified number of years after the person satisfies the sentence imposed for the conviction, inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB478 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering a limitation on claiming the income tax credit for eligible long-term care insurance premiums for more than 1 year with respect to the same insured individual; altering the amount of the credit from a one-time $500 credit to a maximum of $25...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-12
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB165 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to request a specified waiver from the U.S. Department of Education within a specified period of time; prohibiting the Department from administering the Maryland School Assessment in the spring of 2014 unde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-12
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
