| SB88 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Transportation, by resolution of the Secretary of Transportation, to borrow funds to finance the costs of transportation facilities, evidence specified borrowing by the issuance and sale of specified bonds, and pledge an... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 274 |
| SB701 | Pass | Requiring a local school system to provide to the parents or guardians of a child with a disability verbal and written information about access to habilitative services at specified times. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 329 |
| SB781 | Pass | Requiring a county to address the collection and recycling of recyclable materials from special events in the county's recycling plan; requiring a county to revise its recycling plan by October 1, 2015, to address specified requirements of the Act; e... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 338 |
| SB58 | Pass | Prohibiting the driver of a school vehicle from allowing an individual who is not a student or school employee to board or ride on the school vehicle, subject to specified exceptions; and authorizing specified individuals to board or ride on a school... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 267 |
| SB236 | Pass | Providing for the annual salaries of the Comptroller, Treasurer, Attorney General, and Secretary of State; and providing for the application of the Act. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 283 |
| SB999 | Pass | Authorizing the Maryland Insurance Commissioner to use information provided by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) committee process to take specified actions relating to an applicant for certification as a reinsurer in Marylan... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 366 |
| SB42 | Pass | Altering the membership of the Financial Education and Capability Commission to include the Secretary of Higher Education, or the Secretary's designee, rather than a member of the Higher Education Commission; and altering the duties of the Commission... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 264 |
| SB805 | Pass | Enacting the Maryland Uniform Collaborative Law Act; establishing requirements for a collaborative law participation agreement and the collaborative law process; establishing standards for the disclosure of information during the collaborative law pr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 342 |
| SB226 | Pass | Authorizing the Office of the Comptroller to issue a brewing company off-site permit to specified persons who meet specified requirements; requiring the Office to collect a fee for a brewing company off-site permit; authorizing a brewing company off-... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 280 |
| SB585 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from making specified assertions of patent infringement in bad faith; authorizing a court to consider specified factors as evidence of whether a person has made an assertion of patent infringement in bad faith or in good faith; a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 307 |
| SB716 | Pass | Requiring specified rules and regulations for licensing and operating child care centers to promote proper nutrition and developmentally appropriate practices by establishing specified training and policies promoting breast-feeding, requiring complia... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 331 |
| SB648 | Pass | Requiring the State Board of Morticians and Funeral Directors to issue an executor license to an applicant if the applicant is the appointed personal representative of a deceased surviving spouse's estate under specified circumstances; requiring an a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 322 |
| SB1040 | Pass | Extending to June 30, 2025, the termination date for specified provisions of law related to the Maryland Community Health Resources Commission. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 368 |
| SB1104 | Pass | Requiring the Board of Directors of the University of Maryland Medical System Corporation to establish a nonprofit subsidiary to operate all or a part of the University of Maryland Medical Center in order to bring specified Medical Center employees w... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 375 |
| SB203 | Pass | Increasing the salary of the chair of the Charles County Board of Education beginning in the year 2015 to $7,000 annually; increasing the salary for the vice chair and other nonstudent members of the county board beginning in the year 2015 to $6,000 ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 279 |
| SB764 | Pass | Authorizing volunteer fire companies in Caroline County to store alcoholic beverages on licensed premises in between specified licensed events under specified circumstances; requiring a license holder to keep specified records of specified alcoholic ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 337 |
| SB694 | Pass | Establishing the Behavior Analyst Advisory Committee within the State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists; requiring the Board to adopt regulations and a code of ethics; requiring the Board to set fees for services provided by the Board t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 328 |
| SB309 | Pass | Establishing for archery hunters in Montgomery County a safety zone of 100 yards within which archery hunting may not take place except under specified circumstances. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 290 |
| SB583 | Pass | Altering the interest rate payable by specified lending institutions on escrow accounts created in connection with loans secured by a first mortgage or first deed of trust on residential real property; altering the interest rate payable by specified ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 306 |
| SB687 | Pass | Prohibiting, except under specified circumstances, a manufacturer, distributor, factory branch, or affiliate from requiring or coercing a dealer to purchase specified goods or services from specified vendors under specified circumstances; requiring a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 326 |
| SB232 | Pass | Specifying the percentage of State money that must be used in an elementary or a secondary school construction project before the Prevailing Wage Law applies by altering specified definitions; etc. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 281 |
| SB508 | Pass | Requiring the Office of the Attorney General to establish a consumer affairs satellite office located in Prince George's County; providing for the purpose of establishing a consumer affairs satellite office; requiring the consumer affairs satellite o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 300 |
| SB901 | Pass | Providing a school bus may be operated in Kent County and Queen Anne's County for a period of 15 years under specified circumstances. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 358 |
| SB785 | Pass | Renaming the Community College Transfer Scholarship to be the 2+2 Transfer Scholarship and altering specified elements of the Program; altering the qualifications for the scholarship and the annual amount of the award; specifying that the scholarship... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 339 |
| SB238 | Pass | Requiring the Board of Public Works, in consultation with specified departments, to adopt regulations that include specifications relating to indoor air quality for the occupants of relocatable classrooms constructed after July 1, 2014, that are purc... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 284 |
| SB692 | Pass | Setting the seating capacity requirement for Class B alcoholic beverages (on-sale) restaurants and Class P alcoholic beverages (on-sale) restaurants in Washington County; and excepting Class P licenses rather than Class B licenses from calculations i... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 327 |
| SB846 | Pass | Specifying that the Board of Liquor License Commissioners for Baltimore City consists of one alternate and three regular members; authorizing the Board to waive a food requirement for a restaurant operated by a not-for-profit organization in a specif... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 346 |
| SB881 | Pass | Altering the formula in accordance with which a title insurer domiciled in the State shall reduce the reserves applicable to specified contracts of title insurance for purposes of a statutory or unearned premium reserve; altering a provision of law r... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 350 |
| SB74 | Pass | Requiring public senior higher education institutions and community colleges in the State to provide specified information on the cost of higher education at the institution to all first-time, full-time undergraduate freshmen beginning in the 2014-20... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 269 |
| SB383 | Pass | Repealing the requirement that the Chair of the Board of County Commissioners of Allegany County or any county commissioner serve as an ex officio member of the Allegany County Board of Education; repealing the requirement that the Chair or Vice Chai... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 295 |
| SB391 | Pass | Providing that a register of wills may comply with specified provisions of law by retaining specified files under specified circumstances; and requiring a register, in consultation with the Comptroller and the State Archives, to develop specified rec... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 296 |
| SB893 | Pass | Consolidating the insurance laws of the State that apply to health maintenance organizations; clarifying the application of the insurance laws of the State to health maintenance organizations; declaring the intent of the General Assembly; etc. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 355 |
| SB622 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission to work with payors and providers to attain benchmarks for overriding a payor's step therapy or fail-first protocol; requiring the benchmarks to include, on or before July 1, 2015, establishment by a spec... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 316 |
| SB612 | Pass | Authorizing a County Commissioner of Calvert County to participate in the Calvert County Employees Retirement Savings Plan; altering the salaries of the Sheriff of Calvert County, Orphan's Court Judges for Calvert County, and Calvert County Treasurer... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 310 |
| SB909 | Pass | Altering the designation of the "Developmental Disabilities Waiting List Equity Fund Contribution" checkoff on the individual income tax return form to the "Developmental Disabilities Services and Support Fund Contribution". [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 361 |
| SB620 | Pass | Altering the standard for approval by specified clinical review panels of the administration of specified medication to specified individuals with mental disorders admitted to specified facilities. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 314 |
| SB939 | Pass | Authorizing the Executive Director of the State Retirement Agency, under specified circumstances, to extend the period of time during which specified members of the State Retirement and Pension System who are separated from employment may purchase se... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 362 |
| SB293 | Pass | Continuing the Elevator Safety Review Board in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act (sunset law) by extending to July 1, 2019, the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority of the Board... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 288 |
| SB575 | Pass | Clarifying that specified references to individual retirement accounts include traditional and Roth individual retirement accounts; clarifying that a member of the Employees' Pension System who resumes employment before a specified date may resume pa... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 304 |
| SB302 | Pass | Continuing an off-sale privilege to the Class B beer and light wine license issued for hotels and restaurants in the City of Takoma Park. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 289 |
| SB618 | Pass | Authorizing the Board of License Commissioners of Frederick County to issue a Class B-CI (country inn) on-sale beer, wine and liquor license for the use of an establishment that meets specified requirements in a specified election district. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 313 |
| SB160 | Pass | Extending to March 15, 2015, a specified reporting requirement of a registered debt settlement services provider; extending the deadline for specified reporting requirements of the Office of the Commissioner of Financial Regulation in the Department ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 276 |
| SB321 | Pass | Defining "serious crime" to provide that a register of wills or court may not grant letters of administration to a person convicted of a crime that reflects adversely on an individual's honesty, trustworthiness, or fitness to perform the duties of a ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 291 |
| SB586 | Pass | Authorizing unannounced inspections by the State Board of Morticians and Funeral Directors of licensed funeral establishments to include advance notice that an inspector may be in the region to conduct the inspections under specified circumstances; a... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 308 |
| SB75 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from selling at retail an alcoholic beverage with an alcohol content of 95% (190 proof) or more; and stating that a person who violates the provision is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to a fine not exceeding... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 271 |
| SB340 | Pass | Prohibiting an establishment, with the exception of a volunteer fire department, rescue squad, or emergency medical services organization, in Calvert County that is not licensed by the Board of License Commissioners from giving, serving, dispensing, ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 292 |
| SB737 | Pass | Providing specified employees a total of 6 workweeks of unpaid parental leave in a 12-month period under specified circumstances; authorizing an employer to deny unpaid parental leave to an eligible employee under specified circumstances; authorizing... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 333 |
| SB587 | Pass | Authorizing the State Board of Examiners in Optometry to issue a cease and desist order or obtain injunctive relief for a violation of specified provisions of law; providing that specified actions may be brought by specified persons in specified coun... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 309 |
| SB952 | Pass | Requiring a pharmacy benefits manager to include, in each contract with a contracted pharmacy, the sources used to determine maximum allowable cost pricing; requiring the pharmacy benefits manager to update its pricing information with a specified fr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 363 |
| SB624 | Pass | Altering specified information that a title insurer is required to include in specified disclosures; providing that a title insurance commitment or a specified sample form constitutes a specified written statement, is not a representation as to the s... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-05 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 318 |