| SB807 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding the requirements for renewing a driver's license to include the written disclosure of a specified disorder, disease, or physical disability; requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, and the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-28
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SJ2 | Intro
Sine Die | Commemorating and supporting "comfort women" in their fight for proper acknowledgment by the Japanese government of the suffering they endured during their internment in military brothels or "comfort stations"; calling on the Japanese government to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-28
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB703 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim February as Children's Dental Health Month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-28
Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m. |
| SB588 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Governor to proclaim annually October 2 as South Asian American Heritage Day; and requiring the proclamation to urge specified organizations to observe the month with specified activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-28
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB652 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the standards and requirements for the required warning period for violations recorded by speed monitoring systems; establishing that speed monitoring systems placed in specified areas may be placed only on highways with a specified minimum ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-28
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SJ5 | Intro
Sine Die | Commemorating the 60th anniversary of the addition of "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-28
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB414 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Governor to prepare and have introduced into the General Assembly a bill, rather than a joint resolution, for the legislative redistricting plan for the General Assembly after each decennial census; authorizing any member of the General...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-27
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB582 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that a specified statement providing notice of a ballot question relating to congressional redistricting include the address of a Web site where a map of the boundaries of the proposed districts may be viewed; and requiring that a map of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-27
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB890 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to reimburse specified providers at a rate sufficient to ensure that a specified wage factor is not less than 50% above the State minimum wage rate; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB905 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, under specified circumstances, to reimburse specified providers at a rate sufficient to ensure that the hourly wage paid to specified workers is not less than a specified percentage above a speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB444 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a court, except under specified circumstances or unless good cause for the award of custody or visitation is shown, from awarding custody of a child or visitation with a child to a parent who has been found guilty of sexual abuse of a min...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-27
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB809 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a Maryland corporation to include in its bylaws specified procedures regarding contributions to campaign finance entities and independent expenditures that the Maryland corporation proposes to make; prohibiting a Maryland corporation from m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-27
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB798 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a system for adjudication of a claim involving a birth-related neurological injury; excluding specified rights and remedies of a claimant and specified other persons; providing for specified procedures; providing for specified benefits a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-27
Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m. (Judicial Proceedings) |
| SB914 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Human Resources to serve in a fiduciary capacity for children in its custody; requiring the Department, in any action, service, or decision on behalf of a child in its custody, to protect and serve the best interest of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-27
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB1037 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Board of County Commissioners of Allegany County to set an additional fee of $13 for each marriage license; requiring the clerk to pay the proceeds from the additional fee to the general fund of the county each month; and requiring th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-27
Unfavorable Report by Senate Rules; Withdrawn |
| SB789 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the maximum amount of noneconomic damages that may be recovered in health care malpractice and other civil actions for a catastrophic injury under specified circumstances; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-27
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB204 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding the applicability of the prevailing wage rate law to political subdivisions, agencies, and public works on property where the State, a political subdivision, or an agency is the owner or lessee by altering the definition of "public body"; a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB691 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a system of public financing of campaigns for specified General Assembly candidates; requiring the State Board of Elections to administer the system; requiring the Comptroller to credit to the Fair Campaign Financing Fund money collected...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-27
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB702 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "health care provider" for purposes of health care malpractice claims.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-27
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB1088 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention to help establish and expand programs for survivors of homicide victims in the State; requiring the programs to serve survivors of homicide victims in all parts of the State; requiring t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-27
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB913 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering financial disclosure provisions governing elected local officials of a municipal corporation; prohibiting the disclosure of specified information concerning specified relatives that is included in the financial disclosure statement filed by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-27
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SJ9 | Intro
Sine Die | Rejecting, in accordance with the provisions of Article III, Section 15 of the Maryland Constitution, items included in the Resolution of the General Assembly Compensation Commission submitted and transmitted to the General Assembly during the regula...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-27
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB689 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a specified notice requirement for a claim under the Local Government Tort Claims Act; repealing a requirement that a claimant submit a claim within a specified time to the State Treasurer or a designee of the State Treasurer under the Mary...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-27
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB848 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a chief election official of an election authority who is determining the sufficiency of the format of a specified petition to determine the sufficiency of any summary of local legislation that is contained in the petition; and requiring, u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-27
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB812 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the order of priority by which child support income tax refund interception requests are honored; requiring the Child Support Enforcement Administration to provide a specified information sheet to an obligee who receives a specified refund; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-27
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB740 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution to change the process of legislative districting and apportionment in the State by establishing a General Assembly and Congressional Legislative Districting and Apportionment Commission; specifying ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-27
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB631 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring specified retail service stations constructed or expanded after a specified date to meet specified requirements; requiring a person constructing a specified retail service station on or after October 1, 2014, to apply to the Department of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB632 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing a qualified taxpayer a credit against the State income tax for up to 50% of the qualified student loan payments made by the taxpayer during the taxable year; providing that the credit may not exceed the lesser of 20% of the average annual tu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-26
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB353 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from carrying or possessing a deadly weapon on public or private school property; and extending specified exceptions that allow the carrying or possession of a deadly weapon on public school property to private school property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-26
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB1030 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a provision of law that prohibits a court that exercises criminal jurisdiction from refunding a forfeiture of bail or collateral at a specified time unless a private surety pays a forfeiture of bail or collateral within a specified time; an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-26
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB946 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the salary of each judge of the Orphans' Court for Anne Arundel County and the Chief Judge of the Orphans' Court for Anne Arundel County for calendar year 2015 and each subsequent calendar year; providing that the salary and pension for a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-26
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB589 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a specified level of funding for the Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Program; altering the tobacco tax rates on cigarettes and other tobacco products; requiring certain wholesalers of cigarettes and other tobacco products to report the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-26
Hearing 2/26 at 1:30 p.m. (Budget and Taxation) |
| SB728 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing, before October 1, 2016, a licensed firearm dealer to conditionally sell, rent, or transfer a firearm to a firearm applicant under specified circumstances; prohibiting the licensee from selling, renting, or transferring the firearm under ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-26
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB1038 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a circuit administrative judge to establish a Truancy Reduction Pilot Program in the juvenile court in any county in the administrative judge's circuit; and requiring the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals to consult with the administrat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-26
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB633 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing a tax credit against the State income tax for contributions made to specified student assistance organizations; requiring the Department of Business and Economic Development to administer the tax credit; requiring specified entities to subm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-02-26
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| 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 |
