| 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Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| 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. |
| 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Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation; Withdrawn |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Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| SB554 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that when an individual becomes eligible for release from State or local custody, a law enforcement or any other government official may not continue to detain the individual on the basis of an immigration detainer; providing that a detaine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-26
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB1090 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the attorney appearance fees payable to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Prince George's County; and altering the purposes for which the appearance fees collected by the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Prince George's County may be used t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-26
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB1048 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifying that the crime of robbery includes robbing or attempting to rob another of specified controlled dangerous substances; clarifying that the crime of theft includes the theft of controlled dangerous substances; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB944 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the discharge of a substance-exposed newborn from a hospital or birthing center until specified requirements are completed; requiring a local department of social services to conduct a specified investigation when it determines a newborn ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB326 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a local government to require elected officials of a local government, under specified circumstances, to reimburse the local government for specified costs related to a legal defense provided by the local government; providing that, under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB1085 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State's Attorney for Baltimore City, the State's Attorney's representative, or a representative of the Baltimore City Police Department, within 7 days after receiving a specified record of an examination or autopsy, to consult with one ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB591 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to initially allocate an equal percentage of the State's total commercial quota for the Chesapeake Bay striped bass gill net and hook and line fishery to each participant in the fishery.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-24
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB56 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each county and the Department of the Environment to adopt a specified solid waste management hierarchy; declaring the intent of the General Assembly that the State undertake specified actions relating to recycling and landfill disposal rat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-21
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB308 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, in Montgomery County, a law enforcement agency's vehicle used for patrol by a law enforcement officer who is a first responder and trained in the operation and use of an automated external defibrillator (AED) to be equipped with an AED; an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-21
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB638 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Governor, in a specified manner, to appoint the members of the Board of License Commissioners for Anne Arundel County from specified lists; requiring the Governor, in a specified manner, to fill specified vacant seats on the Board from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-21
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB1020 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting a solar farm from the requirement to submit a grading and sediment control plan in order to obtain a permit for grading or construction; exempting a solar farm from the requirement to submit a forest stand delineation and forest conservatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB635 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that members of the Anne Arundel County Board of Education be elected and appointed, as specified; repealing provisions relating to a retention election for specified appointed members of the county board; establishing procedures for the el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB450 | Intro
Sine Die | Changing the interest rate paid on a security deposit under a residential lease from 3% per annum to the daily U.S. Treasury yield curve rate for 1 year as of the first business day of each year or 1.5%, whichever is greater; requiring the Department...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB926 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the use of a drone by an agent of the State or a political subdivision of the State to fully comply with specified requirements and guidelines; prohibiting an agent of the State or a political subdivision of the State from operating a drone...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB870 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from committing a specified crime relating to the delivery or sale of drug paraphernalia in a specified school vehicle or in, on, or within 1,000 feet of specified real property used for elementary or secondary education; establi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB1105 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Secretary of Human Resources, during a specified period of time, to suspend payment of temporary cash assistance to a recipient who is found to be in noncompliance with specified income eligibility standards due to an increase in a ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB1007 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Education to require each public school to administer a specified test to each student before high school graduation during specified school years; requiring the State Board to develop curriculum content for a specified c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB808 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifying that every person operating a bicycle or a motor scooter in a public bicycle area is subject only to the duties required of the driver of a vehicle under specified rules of the road; requiring that every person operating a bicycle or a mot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB636 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that a question be placed on the ballot in Anne Arundel County at the November general election of 2014 to determine the sense of the voters of the County on the issue of changing the method of selecting members of the Anne Arundel County B...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB1013 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a gas company or an electric company from billing its customers for noncommodity products and services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB241 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to adopt regulations requiring that classroom instruction for the driver education program include instruction on a specified requirement to remain at the scene of a vehicle accident and the associated penal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB722 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Reduce Incarceration in Maryland; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving specified compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB580 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring specified individuals who have personal knowledge of the death of another individual or who have personally discovered a body to provide specified notice of the death within 4 hours to a specified law enforcement officer, physician, or 9-1-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB213 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a court to require a person who is convicted of, or granted probation before judgment for, specified drunk driving offenses to attend a specified educational program offered by the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Mar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB544 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a court to award a prevailing plaintiff reasonable attorney's fees and expenses in specified civil actions; authorizing a court to award attorney's fees to a prevailing defendant only under specified circumstances; establishing the method...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB757 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a court exercising criminal jurisdiction in a case involving a child, or the District Court at a bail review or preliminary hearing, to order a child to be held in a secure juvenile facility pending a transfer determination except under spe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB286 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that an owner, a keeper, or a harborer of a dog is liable for damages for personal injury or death caused by the dog under specified circumstances; prohibiting an insurer, with respect to homeowner's or renter's insurance, from refusing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB539 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study the Implementation and Use of Body Cameras by Law Enforcement Officers; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving compensation, but...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB976 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Loan Repayment Program for Home Buyers in Distressed Areas; requiring the Office of Student Financial Assistance to assist in the repayment of higher education loans owed by specified individuals who buy homes in distressed areas of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB1062 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Baltimore County School Board Nominating Commission; providing for the membership, duties, terms, and staffing of the Commission; requiring the Governor to designate the Commission chair; requiring the Governor to make appointments t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB1002 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing an insured, a member, or a subscriber to submit a specified claims form by electronic transfer; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB1069 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Youth Wellness Leadership Pilot Program in the State Department of Education; requiring the Department, after consultation with the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, to implement the Program for a specified number of students ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-19
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB1029 | Intro
Sine Die | Making specified provisions of law concerning the advertising for bids for specified procurements costing more than $25,000 apply to construction-related projects for schools in Baltimore County; providing for the prospective application of the Act; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-19
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB828 | Intro
Sine Die | Adding Baltimore County to the list of counties in which specified nonprofit fraternal, religious, and war veterans' organizations may own and operate not more than five slot machines under specified circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation |
| SB928 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the Maryland Transportation Authority from making any capital investment in the John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway toll plaza; requiring the Authority to remove the John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway toll plaza when it becomes functionally ob...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| SB950 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a merchant from using a wireless Internet signal or a cellular phone to monitor the behavior or shopping habits of a specified consumer unless the merchant displays at each entrance to the merchant's business premises a specified notice i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB1096 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Port Administration to develop and implement a plan for the remediation of drinking water supplies that have been adversely impacted by the placement of dredged material from the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal and the approach c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB1014 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to reimburse specified providers of services to individuals with developmental disabilities in specified residential programs for a visitation absence day; prohibiting the Department from imposing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB822 | Intro
Sine Die | Including students who graduated from high school before grade 12 in the definition of "full-time equivalent enrollment" for the purpose of specified State education aid calculations; restricting the use of specified funds for the purpose of expandin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation |
| SB941 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing, subject to specified requirements, a person to place or maintain an advertising sign for specified agricultural businesses on a State highway; providing that specified provisions of law regulating the placement and maintenance of outdoor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB697 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the period of time during which a person who receives a notice of toll due must pay a video toll; requiring a notice of toll due to be mailed separately for each individual video toll incurred in an envelope marked in a specified manner; i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| SB900 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Highway Administration to include in the highway needs inventory a highway with two or more lanes in each direction for any county that did not have, as of January 1, 2014, a four-lane highway that fully bisects the county; and re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| SB1063 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing counties and municipalities to regulate specified activities involving coins; requiring pawnbrokers to make a certain written record on a business transaction that involves currency, including coins; and making specified provisions of law...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-19
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
