| SB661 | Pass | Altering the purpose of the Equity Participation Investment Program to encourage and help socially or economically disadvantaged individuals to create and develop small businesses and acquire existing businesses in the State; making conforming change...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 70 |
| SB53 | Pass | Clarifying that the Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund may not discriminate among insureds by charging different premiums to insureds who select, as a payment option, the Fund's installment payment plan instead of a premium finance agreement; and mak...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 9 |
| SB306 | Pass | Repealing a specified restriction prohibiting a barbershop in Montgomery County from being open for business more than 6 days per week.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 54 |
| SB70 | Pass | Clarifying specified fertilizer labeling requirements and specified restrictions on the use and sale of specified fertilizers and altering the definitions of the terms "guaranteed analysis", "organic fertilizer", and "soil conditioner".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 11 |
| SB641 | Pass | Altering the scope of specified provisions of law relating to coverage of cancer chemotherapy to include specified policies or contracts issued or delivered by specified entities that provide essential health benefits required under specified provisi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 67 |
| SB292 | Pass | Continuing the State Board of Stationary Engineers in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act (sunset law) by extending to July 1, 2024, the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 51 |
| SB332 | Pass | Expanding prekindergarten services to specified 4-year-old children; establishing the Prekindergarten Expansion Grant Program; requiring the administration of the Program as a competitive grant program for specified providers; requiring a specified r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 2 |
| SB127 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Agriculture to determine the amount of specified cost-share matching funds provided under the Manure Transportation Project; and repealing specified caps on the per ton amount of cost-share matching funds available under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 36 |
| SB16 | Pass | Authorizing the Chesapeake Employers' Insurance Company to issue policies for employer's liability insurance and insurance under a federal compensation law; providing an exception to a specified prohibition to allow the Company to cancel or refuse to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 4 |
| SB118 | Pass | Repealing a requirement that the Department of Juvenile Services adopt regulations requiring the provision of year-round educational services in residential programs; repealing a requirement that the State Department of Education develop and implemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 33 |
| SB975 | Pass | Repealing the termination provision of a specified provision of law relating to the definition of "small business" as used for the purposes of the Small Business Reserve Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 76 |
| SB26 | Pass | Establishing that specified administrative penalties and procedures that apply to a holder of a commercial driver's license for specified motor vehicle violations under specified circumstances also apply to the holder of a commercial instructional pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 5 |
| SB247 | Pass | Establishing that, in an action against an owner of a dog for damages for personal injury or death caused by the dog, evidence that the dog caused the injury or death creates a rebuttable presumption that the owner knew or should have known that the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 48 |
| SB105 | Pass | Altering the period of time, from 72 hours to 5 calendar days after a birth occurs, within which specified persons must prepare and file a birth certificate with the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, specified persons must provide specified in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 31 |
| SB101 | Pass | Authorizing the use of the Maryland Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund to provide assistance in the form of grants, negative interest loans, forgiveness of principal, subsidized interest rates, or other forms of financial assistance, as authorized or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 28 |
| SB109 | Pass | Requiring that specified financial disclosure statements be filed electronically with the State Ethics Commission on or before April 30 of each year; and requiring the Ethics Commission to develop and implement specified procedures for the electronic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 32 |
| SB152 | Pass | Amending the Maryland Consolidated Capital Bond Loan of 2013 to change the grantee of the grant for the Cambridge Marine Terminal Redevelopment grant from the Maryland Economic Development Corporation to the Mayor and City Commission of the City of C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 40 |
| SB1033 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering a specified restriction on the number of bottles of wine that may remain open at any one time at a wine sampling or tasting event in Frederick County; prohibiting a single individual at a wine sampling or tasting event in the county from con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| SB433 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Newborn Screening Program Fund; requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to administer the Fund; providing for the uses, purposes, sources of funding, investment of money, and auditing of the Fund; providing that the Fund...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB1051 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing from $7,500,000 to $18,500,000 the amount of film production activity income tax credit certificates that the Secretary of Business and Economic Development may issue during fiscal year 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Delegates Hixson, F. Turner, and Barve |
| SB37 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing specified organizations in Carroll County to conduct a card game, card tournament, or casino night under specified circumstances; requiring an organization to obtain a permit from the Board of License Commissioners for Carroll County befo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (134-1) |
| SB1095 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering a specified definition for purposes of specified provisions of law prohibiting nonjudicial actions to take possession of property; repealing specified provisions of law providing that the establishment of a lien is the remedy for nonpayment ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Senators Frosh, Raskin, and Shank |
| SB593 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim November as American Indian Heritage Month; and requiring the proclamation to urge educational and cultural organizations to observe the month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB229 | Engross
Sine Die | Limiting the amount of the fee that a condominium council of unit owners may charge a unit owner to the lesser of either $100 or the actual cost to furnish a certificate with the information necessary for the unit owner to comply with specified resal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Delegates Beidle, McMillan, and Norman |
| SB611 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing in Calvert County a special event (charity) beer, wine and liquor (on-sale) license; specifying the type of organization or group of individuals to which the Board of License Commissioners may issue the license, subject to limitations; s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| SB240 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing and revising provisions of law relating to trusts; providing that the Act may be cited as the Maryland Trust Act; providing for the scope of the Act; establishing whether a person has knowledge of a fact under the Act; establishing that a t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB1117 | Engross
Sine Die | Adding Ward 25, precinct 4 of the 44th Legislative District in Baltimore City to the list of areas in which the Board of Liquor License Commissioners may issue a Class BWLT beer, wine, and liquor tasting license to a holder of a Class A beer, wine an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB929 | Engross
Sine Die | Expanding the application of specified provisions of law relating to the protection of agricultural operations from nuisance actions under specified circumstances to apply to specified commercial fishing and seafood operations; exempting specified co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
To House Environmental Matters Committee |
| SB521 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing a Poultry Litter Energy-Generating Cooperative Program; prohibiting the rates and structure of the Program from being used for distributed generation from other sources of energy; requiring the Public Service Commission to consult with t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (136-0) |
| SB409 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a restaurant, beginning March 1, 2015, to request that a customer inform the employee taking the customer's food order of any known food allergies before ordering; authorizing a county to require a restaurant, beginning March 1, 2015, to ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Senators Feldman, Glassman, and Pugh |
| SB727 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing from 25% to 28% over a 4-year period the percentage of the federal earned income credit used for determining the amount that an individual may claim as a refundable credit under the Maryland earned income credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB339 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempting an applicant for an alcoholic beverages license in Calvert County from a specified provision of law that requires an application to contain a specified certificate signed by a specified number of citizens stating specified information regar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| SB868 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of State Police, when it advertises for or recruits new employees, to include advertising that is targeted toward underrepresented communities and individuals; requiring the Department to report to specified committees of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB523 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study a Program for Interest-Free Loans to STEM College Students in Maryland; providing for the composition, to include one member each from the Senate and House of Delegates of Maryland, cochairs, and staffing of the T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB774 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation to convene a specified workgroup to study and make recommendations regarding public works contractor occupational safety and health prequalification requirements; requiring that the workgrou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB961 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City to grant, by law, a property tax credit against the property tax imposed on a dwelling in Baltimore City that is newly purchased by a homeowner who has received the homestead property tax credit ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB52 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study Services and Resources Provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to study and make recommendations regarding how...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-05
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations |
| SB967 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing the salary of each associate judge of the Orphans' Court of Baltimore City to $74,000 and the annual salary of the Chief Judge of the Orphans' Court of Baltimore City to $84,500; altering the pension of specified associate judges of the Or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-05
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB1075 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring specified hotels, on or after April 1, 2015, to install a specified carbon monoxide alarm inside of each guest room within the hotel; authorizing the owner of a hotel to install a specified carbon monoxide alarm within a specified distance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-05
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters |
| SB847 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Joint Committee on Transparency and Open Government to conduct a study on requiring public bodies to provide agendas under the Open Meetings Act; requiring that the study take into consideration specified factors; requiring the Joint Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-05
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB1049 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Education to grant specified county boards of education specified adjustments and exceptions for school attendance if attendance is prevented on a day that the Governor declares a state of emergency; and making the Act an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-05
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means |
| SB706 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of the Environment to require a specified applicant to conduct and submit to the Department a cumulative impact assessment before the Department prepares a tentative determination on a specified permit application; requiring ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-05
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters |
| SB710 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the penalty for a third or subsequent violation of specified prohibitions against driving while impaired by alcohol or drugs; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-05
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB814 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing that the use of compost and compost-based products in State highway construction projects is a best management practice for specified pollution mitigation strategies; requiring the State Highway Administration to establish a specificatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-05
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB742 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing the maximum penalty of imprisonment for breaking and entering the dwelling of another with the intent to commit a crime of violence; establishing penalties of up to 25 years imprisonment for specified criminal violations of the Act; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-05
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB709 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering provisions of law concerning a credit against the State income tax for specified easements to allow an individual or a pass-through entity to claim the credit for an easement conveyed to the Maryland Environmental Trust, the Maryland Agricul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-05
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB810 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from maliciously using an interactive computer service to disclose or assist another person to disclose specified personal identifying information of an individual, without the consent of the individual, in order to annoy, threat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-05
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB639 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that the annual salary of the State's Attorney for Anne Arundel County shall be specified amounts for specified calendar years; repealing a provision of law that requires a specified salary increase; providing that the State's Attorney is t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-05
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB1055 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a local department of social services to maintain specified reports of suspected abuse or neglect and all assessments and investigative findings for specified periods of time for the purpose of determining whether a pattern exists; and incr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-05
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB1083 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting a holder of a lien created under Title 16, Subtitle 2 of the Commercial Law Article, including an auctioneer and a company known as a lien and recovery company, from specified licensing requirements solely for the purpose of selling vessels...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-05
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
