| SB871 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study the Implementation of a Dyslexia Education Program; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving specified compensation, but authorizi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-26
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB729 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifying that self-defense can qualify as a good and substantial reason to wear, carry, or transport a handgun for purposes of the issuance by the Secretary of State Police of a permit to carry, wear, or transport a handgun.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-26
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB164 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the earning of diminution credits to reduce the term of confinement of an inmate committed to the custody of the Commissioner of Correction or sentenced to a term of imprisonment in a local correctional facility who is serving a sentence ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-26
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB590 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that for a specified amount of income distributed to specified members of an S corporation, specified partnerships, a limited liability company, or specified trusts, the State income tax rate is 2.875% and the county income tax rate may not...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-26
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB831 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that an application for assisted outpatient treatment may be submitted to a court by specified individuals; requiring, except under specified circumstances, a court to hold a hearing on a specified application within a specified time period...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB858 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing a subtraction modification under the State income tax for up to $50,000 of nonpassive income attributable to a pass-through entity; providing that the subtraction applies only to nonpassive income of a pass-through entity if specified condit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-26
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB758 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that specified provisions of law prohibiting the possession of specified assault weapons are not applicable to the possession of up to four assault weapons by a specified designated firearms collector or person who holds a specified fede...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-26
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB731 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Secretary of State Police to keep specified information confidential; and prohibiting the Secretary from providing specified information to any other agency, entity, or individual, except as necessary to participate in the National Inst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-26
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB715 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study Chronic Absenteeism in Maryland's Public Schools; requiring the Task Force to collect and analyze specified data, evaluate local and national strategies and best practices to address chronic absenteeism, identify ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-26
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB779 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring specified public agencies to bear a specified burden of proof in due process hearings that are held to resolve a dispute relating to the provision of a free appropriate public education to children with disabilities; and establishing that a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-26
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB565 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a requirement that, to be convicted of a specified offense of manslaughter, a person's failure to perceive a specified risk must constitute a gross deviation from a specified standard of care; altering the name of a violation of the Act to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-26
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB627 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "cost", as it relates to the authority of specified counties to create special taxing districts, to include specified operating expenses; authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-26
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB628 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study the Needs and Expenditures of State Programs; establishing the membership and staff of the Task Force; requiring the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House to designate the chair of the Task Force; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-26
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB978 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the purpose of a Maryland benefit corporation; clarifying that a director of a benefit corporation is required to perform the director's duties in accordance with a specified standard; authorizing a director to consider the effects of a spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-26
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB1022 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a law enforcement agency from bringing administrative charges against a law enforcement officer for excessive force under specified circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-26
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB584 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a provision of law requiring specified firearms manufacturers and dealers and the Department of State Police to take specified actions relating to identification of handguns.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-26
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB594 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring hospitals and specified health care practitioners who provide specified care in specified health care facilities to offer specified individuals a Hepatitis C screening test or a Hepatitis C diagnostic test; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB468 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a specified law enforcement agency to report, on an annual basis, specified information about each individual seizure and forfeiture completed by the agency under State or federal forfeiture law; authorizing the Maryland Statistical Analysi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-25
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB887 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the requirement that an insurer that issues a policy of homeowner's insurance file with the Maryland Insurance Commissioner for approval a specified underwriting standard that requires a specified deductible under specified circumstances be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB935 | Intro
Sine Die | Abolishing the Department of Natural Resources Police Force; transferring the duties and responsibilities of the Department of Natural Resources Police Force to the Department of State Police; specifying that the Department of State Police is respons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-25
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB844 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing for an alternative limitation on specified liability for an insurer that provides specified uninsured motorist coverage under specified circumstances; requiring specified insurers to offer underinsured motorist excess coverage; providing fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB802 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that engaging in sexual contact with another without the consent of the other in connection with a first, second, or third degree burglary constitutes sexual offense in the third degree; establishing that, to be convicted under a specifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-25
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB707 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a county to impose, by law, a specified fee on a store for the use of disposable carryout bags; requiring a store to charge and collect a specified fee for each disposable carryout bag the store provides to a customer under specified circ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-25
Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m. (Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs) |
| SB674 | Intro
Sine Die | Adding specified sexual crimes involving a minor to a list of crimes for which a court may order probation for a time longer than the sentence imposed subject to specified limitations; and repealing a specified requirement that a specified defendant ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-25
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB658 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing specified criminal prohibitions against the use, possession, and sale of marijuana; establishing specified exemptions from prosecution for specified persons for using, obtaining, purchasing, transporting, or possessing marijuana under speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-25
Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m. (Judicial Proceedings) |
| SB662 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that a rental vehicle company or its designee has a specified right of subrogation against specified persons for specified claims paid by the rental vehicle company or the designee that arose out of the use or operation of the rental veh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB720 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that, subject to specified requirements and limitations, in a prosecution for a specified sexual offense, evidence of another criminal act of the defendant is admissible for any purpose; requiring the State's Attorney to make a specified...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-25
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB725 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a specified chicken manure pollution fee payable to the Comptroller by a specified poultry integrator in a specified manner; requiring the Comptroller to transfer revenue from the fee to the Maryland Agriculture Water Quality Cost Share ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-25
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB12 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from attempting to deliver a telecommunication device to a person detained or confined in a specified place of confinement; increasing the penalty for a second or subsequent violation; and requiring a specified sentence to be ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB23 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a court or a register of wills, after an estate has been closed, to provide to the personal representative of the estate a document stating the amount of compensation received by the personal representative and informing the personal repres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB1080 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that an organization representing a majority of standardbred owners and trainers set an amount to be deducted from open purses to be paid to the organization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB47 | Intro
Sine Die | Limiting to property placed in service before January 1, 2014, the applicability of Maryland income tax modifications for specified deductions for the cost of business property that is treated as an expense for federal income tax purposes; limiting t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation |
| SB863 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a local official or State official from asking or directing a law enforcement officer to perform an activity in the role of a law enforcement officer or to use law enforcement resources to serve a personal purpose of the official that doe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB199 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the assessed valuation of specified real property used in calculating the wealth of a jurisdiction for purposes of education aid to remain at a specified assessment for a specified period of time; defining terms; and applying the Act to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation |
| SB121 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, on request of a mortuary science practitioner, a police officer called to a residence where an individual has died to remain at the residence until the body has been removed from the residence by the mortuary science practitioner or medica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB61 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that appellate review of final judgments in specified criminal proceedings be sought by application for leave to appeal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB519 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $250,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Mayor and Town Council of the Town of University Park for specified development or improvement purposes related to the University Park Communit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation; Withdrawn |
| SB275 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an official publisher that publishes legal material in an electronic record to designate the electronic record as official, under specified circumstances, and authenticate the electronic record in a specified manner; providing that specifie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB261 | 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] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB176 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing a credit against the State income tax for the diminution in value of specified agricultural land resulting from enactment of the Sustainable Growth and Agricultural Preservation Act of 2012 and adoption of specified regulations related to nu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation |
| SB113 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from attempting to deliver a telecommunication device to a person detained or confined in a specified place of confinement; making it a felony instead of a misdemeanor to commit a specified offense; and altering a penalty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB312 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a retail alcoholic beverages licensee in Montgomery County from selling alcoholic beverages by means of a self-scanning cash register or a specified other automated system that may be operated on a self-service basis by a customer; and sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-21
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB287 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a limited kosher wine seller's permit; requiring an applicant for the permit to meet specified qualifications; authorizing a limited kosher wine seller to sell kosher wine to a consumer by receiving and filling orders that the consumer t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-21
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB888 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing to two the number of Class A, Class C, and Class D alcoholic beverages licenses that may be issued to an individual for specified purposes; and limiting to one the number of licenses that may be issued for the use of an establishment that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-21
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB313 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the description of commercial areas in the Town of Kensington in Montgomery County in which the Board of License Commissioners may issue special B-K alcoholic beverages licenses for use on the premises of restaurants located in those areas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-21
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB735 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Tobacco-Related Disease Products Research, Development, and Commercialization Program and Fund; specifying the purposes of both the Program and the Fund; requiring the Maryland Biotechnology Center in the Department of Business and E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-20
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB738 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "public body" for the purposes of the Open Meetings Act to include a multimember subcommittee of a standing committee of either house of the General Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-20
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB838 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring any individual who provides private process service to be licensed by the Secretary of State Police; providing for the terms and renewals of the licenses, qualifications for and duties of licensees, and required records of a licensee; estab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-20
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB877 | Intro
Sine Die | Changing the name of the State Board of Master Electricians to the Board of Electricians; authorizing the Board to issue an apprentice license and a journeyperson license; authorizing the Board to adopt a State electrical code; altering specified dut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-20
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB394 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a beverage distributor operating within the State to register with the Department of the Environment on or before April 1, 2015; requiring a redeemable beverage container sold in the State to bear specified information indicating a refund v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-20
Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m. (Finance) |
