| 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 |
| 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 |
