| SB252 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Joint Committee on Fair Practices and State Personnel Oversight to hold at least two public hearings on workplace bullying in State agencies before the start of the 2015 regular legislative session; authorizing the Joint Committee to ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-05
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB646 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring that, beginning December 31, 2014, the State health plan methodologies, standards, and criteria for licensed hospice certificate of need review shall use specified data from specified years to calculate a specified volume threshold; requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-05
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| SB301 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing in Montgomery County a beauty salon beer and wine license; requiring that a recipient of the license be a holder of a beauty salon permit; authorizing a holder of the license to provide beer and wine by the glass for consumption by a spe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-05
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB449 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the effective dates of specified regulations adopted under the Administrative Procedure Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (138-0) |
| SB207 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing that, notwithstanding any provision in the declaration, bylaws, or rules and regulations of the condominium, a council of unit owners has the right to be involved in a specified manner in specified litigation or administrative proceeding...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-04
Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters |
| SB432 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to develop a plan, with the input of stakeholders, for the creation and implementation in the Department of a database to enable adult dependent care programs to obtain the employment history of c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations |
| SB1001 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that, on a divided highway that has traffic lights located in specified areas, each intersection that has a traffic light may also have a crosswalk through the divided highway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB1098 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Office of Legislative Audits to include in specified audits of specified institutions of higher education an evaluation of the institution's compliance with specified provisions of law relating to the sale of textbooks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB1056 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a person to petition the court to shield court records and police records relating to specified convictions at a specified time; providing that, if a person is convicted of a new crime during a specified time period, the original convicti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB924 | Engross
Sine Die | Expanding the application of a provision of law that requires an investigative or law enforcement officer to obtain a specified search warrant in order to require a provider of wire or electronic communication service to disclose the contents of wire...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB964 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Attorney General to take specified actions relating to investigations of alleged violations of laws relating to charitable organizations and charitable representatives; repealing specified authority for the legal counsel for the Offic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB1053 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a local jurisdiction to adopt amendments to the Maryland Building Performance Standards that are equivalent to the requirements of specified international energy conservation and energy efficiency codes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
To House Environmental Matters Committee |
| SB607 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring each health occupation board authorized to issue a license or certificate to adopt specified regulations regarding training on the identification and reporting of child abuse and neglect; specifying requirements for the training; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations |
| SB1113 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the transfer of specified Class B-D-7 alcoholic beverages licenses from specified blocks in Baltimore City to other blocks in Baltimore City.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-03
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB14 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Office of Public Health Services in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to conduct a study of safe and healthy school hours for Maryland public schools, consult with specified persons, and make recommendations relating to altern...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB910 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to submit a request for a waiver from the federal Elementary and Secretary Education Act to the Legislative Policy Committee of the General Assembly before the Department submits the proposed waiver request...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB832 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing a prohibition on the inclusion, in a policy that insures a health care provider against damages due to medical injury arising from providing or failing to provide health care, of coverage for the defense of a health care provider in a speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-02
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| SB931 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that the Attorney General shall provide legal assistance to the State Board of Elections in the performance of its duties unless the State Administrator of Elections, after consultation with the State Board, determines that because of a con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-02
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB981 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the governing body of Baltimore County to grant a credit against the county property tax for owner-occupied residential real property within a specified proximity to a specified refuse disposal system; and applying the Act to all taxable ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-02
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB363 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a court to grant an absolute divorce on the ground of the execution of a settlement agreement that resolves issues relating to alimony and property rights care, custody and support of minor or dependent children, and all other relief auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB368 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the membership of the Commission on Maryland Cybersecurity Innovation and Excellence; requiring the Commission to submit a specified report to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before January 1 of each year; and repealing the termi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (126-6) |
| SB417 | Engross
Sine Die | Adding light-emitting diode (LED) light bulbs to the list of Energy Star products exempt from the sales and use tax during President's Day weekend each year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB78 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering a provision concerning the age of a victim for purposes of specified prohibitions against felony human trafficking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB892 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifying that a specified recapture of the Maryland estate tax occurs only when qualified agricultural property ceases to be used for farming purposes; establishing that specified individuals are responsible for paying a specified recapture of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB136 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing, from 30 years to 40 years, the maximum term of imprisonment that may be imposed for the offense of second-degree murder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB1114 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution establishing that Article 21 of the Declaration of Rights may not be construed to require the Office of the Public Defender to represent a defendant at an initial appearance before a District Court ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
Hearing 4/01 at 1:00 p.m. |
| SB602 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the size of an estate required to file an estate tax return; altering a specified limit on the unified credit used for determining the Maryland estate tax; repealing a specified limit on the unified credit used for determining the Maryland e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB128 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering for fiscal years 2016 and 2017 a definition to determine the number of students used to calculate a grant for schools that participate in a specified federal program; requiring a specified study to include a specified review of the identific...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB670 | Engross
Sine Die | Allowing a qualified farm a credit, for tax years 2014 through 2016, of up to $5,000 against the State income tax; providing that the credit is equal to 50% of the value of an eligible food donation or 75% of the value of donated certified organic pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-01
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB439 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $370,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Mayor and City Council of the City of Crisfield for the acquisition, planning, design, construction, repair, renovation, reconstruction, and ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation; Withdrawn |
| SB776 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a person who offers to license or sell an electronic book to consumers in the State to offer to license or sell the electronic book to libraries in the State; prohibiting a person who licenses or sells or offers to license or sell an electr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB249 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Commission on Maryland Cybersecurity Innovation and Excellence to work, in a specified manner, to develop specified strategies to enable organizations that adopt telemedicine to practice safe security techniques to minimize successful c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| SB973 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering findings and policies regarding the creation of the Division of Pretrial Detention and Services; requiring the Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Services, on or before May 1, 2015, with the advice of the Pretrial Services Commissio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-31
Third Reading Passed (37-9) |
| SB637 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a member of the Anne Arundel County Board of Education who vacates the office before the expiration of the term for which the member was appointed from being a candidate for election to a municipal, county, or State office before the conc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-28
Third Reading Failed (15-28) |
| SB1017 | Engross
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution to provide that a county charter may provide for the filling of a vacancy in the office of chief executive officer or county executive of a county by special election; submitting an amendment to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB1115 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that if a presiding officer of a House of the General Assembly establishes standing committees for that House, the presiding officer shall appoint each member to at least one standing committee; providing that a member of a standing committ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Referred Senate Rules |
| SB997 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing from three to four the number of deputy sheriff majors that the Sheriff of Baltimore City is required to appoint.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB1116 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution to establish a Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays 2010 Trust Fund to be used only for specified purposes except under specified circumstances; prohibiting the transfer of funds in the Chesapeake a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Referred Senate Rules |
| SB46 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the State Board of Individual Tax Preparers to impose a civil penalty not exceeding $5,000 against a person who violates specified provisions of law; requiring the Board to consider specified factors to determine the amount of the penalty...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| SB146 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Business and Economic Development to include on the Web site of the Department specified information relating to foreign trade zones; and defining "foreign trade zone".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| SB45 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering specified requirements for the responsible member of an entity providing architectural services; authorizing the State Board of Architects to deny a firm permit to an applicant, reprimand a permit holder, suspend or revoke a permit, or impos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| SB651 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim March 13 as K9 Veterans Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB533 | Engross
Sine Die | Expanding a specified liability exemption for a landowner who agrees to the use of a defined part of the landowner's property for cross-country skiing or snowmobiling in Garrett County to apply to the use of an off-highway vehicle in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB283 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Secretary of State Police to accept a background investigation performed on behalf of an armored car company in place of a criminal history records check performed by the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services under spe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB197 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring that the statewide information technology master plan developed by the Secretary of Information Technology include a cybersecurity framework; and requiring that the Secretary consider materials developed by the National Institute of Standar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| SB1034 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering provisions of law concerning the filling of a vacancy on the Queen Anne's County Board of Education; providing for the holding of an election to fill a vacancy on the county board under specified circumstances; and providing that a member ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-27
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB840 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring each Maryland corporation that has been awarded a contract by the State for more than $250,000 during the previous 12 months to submit a specified report each year to the Board of Public Works; and specifying the contents of the report.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-26
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB1046 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that the Sheriff of Washington County shall receive a salary that is the greater of $100,000 or the salary set by the County Commissioners of Washington County under specified provisions of law; requiring the County Commissioners of Washing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-26
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB806 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing the penalty from $500 to $5,000 and terms of imprisonment not to exceed 6 months for a specified offense relating to subjecting a student to the risk of serious bodily injury for the purpose of an initiation into a student organization of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-26
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB411 | Engross
Sine Die | Excluding as a father of a child, for purposes of specified provisions relating to the paternity of a child in a guardian or adoption proceeding, a man who has committed a specified sexual crime against the child's mother; requiring a court to consid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
