| SB1092 | Intro
Sine Die | Excluding specified sales of raw milk from specified State regulation of milk products; creating an exception to the prohibition against the sale of raw milk; authorizing the sale of raw milk directly to the consumer in accordance with specified requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-06
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB749 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing collective bargaining rights for specified community college employees; requiring specified community colleges to determine whether specified employees are public employees for purposes of collective bargaining; establishing procedures f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB693 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Assessments and Taxation to allow persons required to file a personal property tax return to file the return and pay the filing fee electronically through the Department's Web site; and authorizing the Department to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-06
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB741 | 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] | 2014-03-06
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB285 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting an insurer from refusing to issue or renew a policy of homeowner's or renter's insurance solely because the applicant or insured owns a dog, regardless of the breed of dog; prohibiting a policy of homeowner's or renter's insurance that pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-06
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| SB452 | Intro
Sine Die | Adding Baltimore County to the provisions of law relating to the Allegany County, Cecil County, Garrett County, Harford County, and St. Mary's County Correctional Officers' Bill of Rights.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-06
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB1028 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $50,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Jewish Community Services, Inc. for specified development or improvement purposes related to the Jewish Community Serv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-06
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB1026 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the termination of a requirement that the racecourse at Timonium receive at least a specified amount of funds from the Racetrack Facility Renewal Account that is not subject to a specified matching funds requirement; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB825 | 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] | 2014-03-05
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB1011 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that, for purposes of calculating the Maryland estate tax in the case of a surviving spouse, the applicable exclusion amount includes the sum of a specified exclusion amount and a specified deceased spousal unused exclusion amount; prohibit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB543 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifying that 10% of the local impact grants provided to Prince George's County from proceeds of video lottery terminals is to be distributed to the Town of Forest Heights as enacted by Chapter 1 of the Acts of the 2012 Second Special Session.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB739 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the Senatorial and Delegate Scholarship Programs to require that the money appropriated under the programs be awarded by the Office of Student Financial Assistance in the Maryland Higher Education Commission; requiring the Office to ensure t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB755 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a lender from maintaining an action to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on residential property in the State for 6 months; establishing a specified penalty for a person who files an affidavit relating to a foreclosure notice when the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB820 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the information that a purchaser must receive before a contract for the sale or resale of a unit in a condominium or a lot in a homeowners association may be enforced by the vendor or seller; altering the time period within which a purchaser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB667 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Board of Trustees of the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange to develop a plan for the State to establish, on or before January 1, 2017, a universal health care program to provide health benefits to all residents of the State through a sin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB626 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland to study the creation of a potential Pay It Forward Pilot Program; requiring the study to consider specified items; requiring the Board of Regents to study whether public institution...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Hearing 3/05 at 2:30 p.m. (Budget and Taxation) |
| SB655 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering and defining terms in specified provisions of real property law concerning a contract for the initial sale of a new home in order to conform to terms and provisions of the Maryland Home Builder Registration Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB823 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Maryland Higher Education Commission to enter into the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement; exempting specified institutions that participate in the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement from the requirement to register with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB647 | Intro
Sine Die | Stating specified findings of the General Assembly; declaring a specified policy of the State; prohibiting specified institutions of higher education from using funds for specified purposes; and requiring a specified reduction to State funds under sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Hearing 3/05 at 2:30 p.m. (Budget and Taxation) |
| SB772 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Maryland Transit Administration to establish no more than two transit benefit districts; authorizing a transit benefit district to impose specified taxes to finance, construct, and operate transit facilities and transit services; prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB799 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the types of actions that a landlord of residential property may not take to include refusing to renew a lease for specified reasons under specified provisions of landlord-tenant law concerning retaliatory actions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB904 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Rental Housing Authority as an independent unit in the Executive Branch tasked with specified duties and authorized to adopt specified regulations; establishing the Office of the Tenant Advocate as an independent unit in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB324 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing a specified limit on the unified credit used for determining the Maryland estate tax; and providing that the Act applies to decedents dying after December 31, 2013.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB765 | Intro
Sine Die | Allocating specified motor fuel tax revenue to a specified account that is shared with local governments; increasing the portion of highway user revenue that is distributed to local governments; altering the allocation of the local share of highway u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB671 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations that provide specified health insurance benefits under specified insurance policies or contracts to provide coverage for specified equipment and supplies used fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB625 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Commission on Tax Policy, Reform, and Fairness; specifying the membership of the Commission; providing for the appointment of a Senate cochair and House cochair of the Commission; providing for the staffing of the Commission; prohibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB721 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to apply to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for a specified waiver in order to receive federal matching funds for specified services to specified children with Down syndrome who are...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-05
Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m. |
| SB443 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from knowingly creating, building, or installing a specified hidden compartment in a motor vehicle; prohibiting a person from knowingly owning or operating a motor vehicle that contains a specified hidden compartment; authorizing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB174 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a landlord or mobile home park owner to require a tenant or mobile home park resident to tender specified forms of payment in order to exercise the tenant's or resident's right to redemption of leased premises under specified circumstance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB32 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Court Administrator to assess a surcharge on specified fees, charges, and costs in specified cases in the Court of Appeals, Court of Special Appeals, and circuit courts; requiring the Chief Judge of the District Court to assess a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB442 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting a vehicle used by a law enforcement agency from a prohibition against affixing specified tinting materials to a vehicle's windows.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB786 | 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] | 2014-03-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB862 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring specified medical and scientific research facilities that use dogs and cats for research purposes to be licensed by the State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners; requiring the Board to set a license fee in a specified manner; prohibiting...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB801 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to develop the Maryland Teach It Forward Pilot Program that allows specified students at a specified public institution of higher education to enroll without paying tuition or fees and requires speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB859 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a licensed retailer from possessing on the premises specified advertising items with a value exceeding a specified amount; specifying that the Comptroller may authorize a specified licensed retailer to possess on the premises specified ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB880 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an electric company 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 specified notice; establishing a process by whic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB578 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each county board of education to determine the implementation timeline for the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), notwithstanding any other provision of law; and making the Act an emergency measure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB387 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to make available to an applicant for a driver's license, identification card, or moped operator's permit the opportunity to upgrade the document to be an enhanced identification document; establishing that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB866 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting specified school principals from suspending specified students or recommending specified students for expulsion unless the student commits a specified act or a specified offense under specified circumstances; requiring specified principal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB281 | 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] | 2014-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB579 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Education to determine the implementation timeline for the evaluation of teachers and principals in public schools in the State, notwithstanding any other provision of law; and making the Act an emergency measure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB919 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing an infrastructure to provide transportation network services; authorizing an individual to submit an application for registration as a transportation network operator; requiring a transportation network application company to approve or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB408 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each county board of education to determine the implementation timeline for the Common Core State Standards notwithstanding any other provision of law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB209 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that a civil action for specified damages may be brought under specified circumstances against an alcoholic beverages licensee or the licensee's employee who sells or furnishes alcoholic beverages to an individual who was visibly under the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB856 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a refillable container in Garrett County to be branded with an identifying mark of the permit holder who sells the container.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB733 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the renewable energy portfolio standards for electricity derived from Tier 1 renewable sources for years 2017 through 2022; increasing the minimum required percentage of Tier 1 renewable energy that must be derived from solar energy in yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB280 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting an electric company from disclosing specified data to a third party, subject to specified exceptions; authorizing a customer to submit a specified complaint to the Public Service Commission under specified circumstances; requiring the Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB734 | Intro
Sine Die | Limiting the eligibility of qualifying biomass as a Tier 1 renewable source for the purposes of the renewable energy portfolio standard to qualifying biomass used at a generation unit that started commercial operation on or after January 1, 2005, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB193 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $125,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Magnum Enterprises, LTD. and the Board of Directors of the Rockbridge Academy, Inc. for the acquisition, planning, design, construction, repair...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation; Withdrawn |
| SB835 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting from regulation by the Office of Cemetery Oversight a cemetery that was incorporated under a specified law and that has been in continuous existence and operation for at least 150 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-03
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
