| SB480 | Pass | Authorizing an employee of the Injured Workers' Insurance Fund to register and maintain registration as a registered lobbyist under specified circumstances; and making the Act an emergency measure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 62 |
| SB103 | Pass | Changing the name of the Program for Hearing-Impaired Infants to the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program; replacing obsolete terminology related to infant hearing status that affects speech-language skills; altering the membership and du...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 30 |
| SB184 | Pass | Correcting specified errors and omissions in the Annotated Code and in specified uncodified laws; clarifying language; correcting specified obsolete references; reorganizing specified sections of the Annotated Code; ratifying specified corrections ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 45 |
| SB100 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Insurance Commissioner, when reviewing specified administrative expenses submitted by an authorized insurer that are associated with late payments, to include in the review the cost incurred by an authorized insurer or a vendor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 27 |
| SB40 | Pass | Increasing to $20 from $10 specified appearance of counsel fees collected or charged by the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Carroll County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 8 |
| SB418 | Pass | Lowering the funding cap on low intensity support services provided to specified individuals each fiscal year through the Low Intensity Support Services Program in the Developmental Disabilities Administration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 59 |
| SB441 | Pass | Abolishing the Worcester County Bingo Board; providing that the Worcester County Department of Development Review and Permitting take the place of the Bingo Board and adopt regulations to administer and enforce the bingo laws in the county; requiring...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 60 |
| SB62 | Pass | Specifying that the two-term limit for members of the Board of Trustees of the Chesapeake Bay Trust applies only to consecutive terms; and repealing a limitation on the ability of the Chesapeake Bay Trust to solicit or accept a gift, bequest, or leas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 10 |
| SB1044 | Pass | Requiring the Public Service Commission to report to the General Assembly on or before January 1, 2015, on the status of the Commission's efforts to provide appropriate protections for consumers in connection with competitive retail electricity suppl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 77 |
| SB555 | Pass | Authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of Carroll County, from time to time, to borrow not more than $20,000,000 in order to finance the construction, improvement, or development of specified public facilities in Carroll County and to ef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 63 |
| SB960 | Pass | Altering the composition of the Cox Creek Citizens Oversight Committee to reflect changes made to the State's legislative districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 75 |
| SB153 | Pass | Establishing the Task Force to Study Methods to Reduce the Rate of Uninsured Drivers; providing for the composition, cochairs, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving specified compensation, but authorizi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 41 |
| SB557 | Pass | Requiring that the Sheriff of Carroll County receive an annual salary of $90,000 beginning on December 1, 2014, and thereafter; providing that the Act does not apply to the salary or compensation of the Sheriff of Carroll County while serving in a sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 64 |
| SB77 | Pass | Altering the definition of "vehicle" to exclude specified farm vehicles for specified purposes relating to vehicle inspections and warnings for defective equipment; repealing a provision prohibiting the Motor Vehicle Administration from adopting regu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 14 |
| SB71 | Pass | Prohibiting, notwithstanding specified provisions of law, and with a specified exception, the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation from purchasing an agricultural land preservation easement for more than 75% or less than 25% of the fair...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 12 |
| SB102 | Pass | Authorizing the Governor to promulgate specified orders, rules, or regulations to authorize the use of specified alternate care sites by licensed health care facilities that have access to an emergency electrical power generator to provide medical se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 29 |
| SB129 | Pass | Altering specified fees that an official or a regulated lobbyist must pay for failing to file in a timely manner a required report or financial disclosure statement form with the State Ethics Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 37 |
| SB168 | Pass | Authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of Calvert County, from time to time, to borrow not more than $12,650,000 to finance the construction, improvement, or development of specified public facilities in Calvert County, and to effect suc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 43 |
| SB87 | Pass | Repealing the requirement that the Motor Vehicle Administration impose a specified period of suspension to be served before participation in the Ignition Interlock System Program when modifying a specified suspension imposed on specified repeat drunk...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 17 |
| SB91 | Pass | Requiring the State Ethics Commission to adopt specified model provisions for school boards; providing that a specified model provision may be adopted or imposed on a school board under specified circumstances; authorizing the State Ethics Commission...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 20 |
| SB99 | Pass | Providing that a criminal prosecution for engaging in insurance fraud may be brought in specified counties; authorizing the Maryland Insurance Commissioner, for a civil fraud violation, to impose administrative penalties and order restitution under a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 26 |
| SB89 | Pass | Establishing an exception to the requirement that a person have a certificate of need issued by the Maryland Health Care Commission before specified actions are taken relating to a health care facility by altering the definition of a "health care fac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 18 |
| SB564 | Pass | Increasing a specified penalty for specified violations of the water pollution control law from $5,000 to $10,000 for each violation and from $50,000 to $100,000 total.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 65 |
| SB84 | Pass | Changing the name of the Joint Committee on Access to Mental Health Services to the Joint Committee on Access to Behavioral Health Services; altering the duties of the Committee by requiring it to monitor access to specified behavioral health service...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 16 |
| SB93 | Pass | Establishing the Recreational Incentives Pilot Program in the Department of Natural Resources; stating that the purpose of the pilot program is to determine whether incentive discounts offered to specified individuals increase the purchase of recreat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 22 |
| SB98 | Pass | Requiring an insurance producer, when soliciting or advertising the sale of a Medicare Advantage Plan, Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug Plan, Medicare Prescription Drug Plan (Part D), or Medicare Section 1876 cost plan, to comply with the Centers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 25 |
| SB6 | Pass | Requiring that specified required inspections, maintenance, and repairs of specified commercial motor vehicles be performed by specified preventive maintenance technicians; defining "preventive maintenance technician" as a person who is able to provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 3 |
| SB399 | Pass | Requiring the Secretary of State Police to conduct an investigation that relates to any complaint alleging that an unauthorized person has provided security systems services; and specifying requirements for the complaint.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 57 |
| SB144 | Pass | Lowering, from 21 years to 18 years, the age that a person must be to serve as a kinship parent for a child in need of out-of-home placement; and repealing a provision authorizing a local department to waive the age requirement for a potential kinshi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 39 |
| SB1106 | Pass | Requiring applicants for a license or certificate to provide real estate appraisal services to apply for a national and State criminal history records check, submit a complete set of fingerprints, and pay the fees for the records checks; requiring th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 79 |
| SB644 | Pass | Establishing a State policy that open data be machine readable and released to the public in specified ways; establishing a Council on Open Data; providing for the composition, appointment, terms, chairs, and staffing of the Council; requiring the Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 69 |
| SB294 | Pass | Continuing the Maryland Horse Industry Board in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act (sunset law) by extending to July 1, 2026, the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority of the Boar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 52 |
| SB930 | Pass | Altering the deadline date for a campaign finance entity to file a pre-primary election campaign finance report and a post-general election campaign finance report.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 74 |
| SB404 | Pass | Requiring the State Department of Assessments and Taxation or other office that receives a specified financing statement for filing to provide a specified notice of the filing to the debtor identified on the financing statement under specified circum...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 58 |
| SB243 | Pass | Altering the number of regular members of the Cecil County Board of Elections; requiring the members of the local board to be of specified political parties; requiring that a vacancy on the local board be filled in a specified manner; and providing f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 47 |
| SB130 | Pass | Repealing a requirement that an employer send copies of specified reports of an accident or injury to the Commissioner of Labor and Industry; repealing a requirement that the Workers' Compensation Commission report to the Commissioner a determination...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 38 |
| SB269 | Pass | Providing that a voter in a municipal election is subject to the offenses and penalties related to voting specified in § 16-201 of the Election Law Article; and authorizing the State Prosecutor or the State's Attorney for a specified county to prose...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 50 |
| SB33 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from driving a vehicle in a high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane except under specified circumstances; authorizing specified vehicles to be driven in HOV lanes at all times; and defining "HOV Lane".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 6 |
| SB228 | Pass | Repealing the requirement that the election of a president, secretary, and treasurer of the State Board of Pharmacy be from among the pharmacist members of the Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 46 |
| SB380 | Pass | Authorizing the State Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners to issue cease and desist orders or obtain injunctive relief for a violation of specified provisions of law; and requiring the Board to assess specified fines in accordance with regulations; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 56 |
| SB35 | Pass | Repealing a requirement that a specified law enforcement unit provide a copy of a specified domestic violence incident report to the Department of State Police.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 7 |
| SB97 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from paying or allowing or giving, or from offering to pay or allow or give any valuable consideration to an insured as an inducement to use the services of a public adjuster.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 24 |
| SB790 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Insurance Commissioner to develop and make available a specified form for enrollees to use to request confidential communications from health insurance carriers in accordance with specified provisions of federal law; requiring ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 72 |
| SB90 | Pass | Requiring a specified regulated lobbyist to certify under oath or affirmation that the regulated lobbyist is authorized to engage in lobbying for a specified entity; providing for the contents of the certification; authorizing a regulated lobbyist re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 19 |
| SB92 | Pass | Requiring that specified regulated lobbyists complete an initial and subsequent ethics training course provided by the State Ethics Commission within 6 months of the regulated lobbyists initial registration; and requiring a specified regulated lobbyi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 21 |
| SB310 | Pass | Authorizing the Comptroller to issue a Class 7 micro-brewery license in Montgomery County to a holder of a Class D beer and light wine license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 55 |
| SB891 | Pass | Requiring that regulations adopted by the Maryland Health Care Commission provide for the voluntary relinquishment of the authority of specified acute care hospitals to provide cardiac surgery services under specified circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 73 |
| SB154 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from intentionally selling or using specified software to circumvent a security measure, an access control system, or any other control or measure on a specified Web site that is used to ensure an equitable ticket buying process;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 42 |
| SB119 | Pass | Requiring, on or before July 1, 2014, and on or before July 1 each year thereafter, an employer or its insurer that is liable for payment of specified Subsequent Injury Fund assessments to notify the Subsequent Injury Fund of the current billing addr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 34 |
| SB297 | Pass | Continuing the State Board of Individual Tax Preparers in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act (sunset law) by extending to July 1, 2026, the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 53 |
