| HB187 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifying the amount of the State minimum wage rate as of January 1, 2015 as $8.20 per hour for the 12-month period; providing annual increases in the State minimum wage in 2016 and 2017; authorizing specified amusement and recreational establishmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1087 | Engross
Sine Die | Creating an exception to the prohibition against leaving an unattended motor vehicle under specified circumstances for a motor vehicle that operates unattended for a specified period of time under specified circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-26
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB492 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the governing body of a municipal corporation, in selecting classes of property subject to a municipal corporation property tax, to establish such classes of taxable property only in an ordinance that is separate from the municipal corporat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB428 | Engross
Sine Die | Allowing a person to conduct a home game that is a game of chance or skill involving wagering that is conducted in a person's home and allows a player to compete directly against one or more other players; prohibiting a person from conducting a home ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1182 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a judge in a final protective order to order the respondent to remain a specified distance away from the residence, place of employment, school, or temporary residence of a person eligible for relief.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB423 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the day on which interest begins to accrue on specified taxpayer refunds of specified tax payments; requiring a tax collector to pay interest on specified taxpayer refunds beginning on the date of the overpayment if the overpayment is attrib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB349 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Legislative Services to conduct a study on the use of specified alternative financing methods by local school systems for school construction; and requiring the Department to report its findings and recommendations to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB14 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring that specified procurements by a designated procurement unit that fall within a specified dollar value range be designated for the Small Business Reserve program; requiring the Council for the Procurement of Health, Educational, and Social ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1202 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a court, in determining if a person has violated the prohibition against distributing, attempting to distribute, or possessing with intent to distribute a specified noncontrolled substance, to consider whether the chemical structure of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB434 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Assessments and Taxation to allow persons required to file a personal property tax report to file the report and pay the filing fee electronically; providing that a fee may be charged for each electronic filing; and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB1054 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring that before the Calvert County Board of License Commissioners submits a legislative proposal to the Calvert County Delegation for introduction as a bill in a session of the General Assembly, the Board must post notice of the proposal and ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1533 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Commission on Child Custody Decision Making to submit an additional interim report of its findings and recommendations on or before December 31, 2014, and a final report of its findings and recommendations December 1, 2015, respectively...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB1097 | Engross
Sine Die | 3Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to convene a workgroup to evaluate and make findings and recommendations regarding the state of mental health care delivery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland; requiring the workgroup to include sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB143 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the subtraction modification under the State income tax from $5,000 to $10,000 of military retirement income received for retirees at least 65 years old on the last day of the taxable year; applying the Act to taxable years beginning after D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1106 | Engross
Sine Die | Adding volunteer fire companies and fraternal organizations to the list of organizations for which a Class C beer, wine and liquor license may be issued in Calvert County; specifying a specified license fee; altering a specified license fee; and spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1107 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting in Calvert County an establishment commonly known as a bottle club that is not licensed by the Board of License Commissioners from giving, serving, dispensing, keeping, or allowing to be consumed on its premises or on premises under its c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB784 | Engross
Sine Die | Allowing a qualified nursing home to claim a refundable credit against the State income tax in the amount of sales and use tax paid for the purchase of a backup generator; and providing that the Act be applicable to all taxable years beginning after ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-25
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB208 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Collaborative Reproduction Act; establishing rights and obligations of specified intended parents who use gamete or embryo donors to conceive a child through collaborative reproduction; establishing rights of a child conceiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-21
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB447 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "close economic association" in the Public Ethics Law to include the client of a legislator or a client of a partnership, limited liability partnership, or limited liability corporation in which the legislator knowingly has...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-20
To House Environmental Matters Committee |
| HB25 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a municipality from requiring an individual to provide a reason that the individual will be unable to vote in person on election day in order to vote by absentee ballot.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-20
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1089 | Engross
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 to $33,000 for calendar year 2015 and each subsequent calendar year; providing the Chief Judge shall r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-20
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB234 | Engross
Sine Die | Adding an additional venue in which a person may be prosecuted for a false statement concerning a destructive device or toxic material.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-20
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB335 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Health Services Cost Review Commission, consistent with Maryland's all-payer model contract, to establish hospital rate levels and rate increases in a specified manner and promote and approve specified alternative methods of rate dete...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-20
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB125 | Engross
Sine Die | Updating the information required in the documentation supporting an application for qualification as a State-aided institution; and updating the criteria on which the State Superintendent of Schools must review and comment regarding a list of qualif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB504 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange to certify stand-alone dental plans for sale outside the Exchange; requiring a stand-alone dental plan to be reviewed and approved by the Maryland Insurance Administration as meeting specified requiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-20
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB189 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing the amount of a property tax exemption for dwelling houses owned by specified blind individuals or surviving spouses of blind individuals from $15,000 of the assessed value of the dwelling to $30,000; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-20
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB178 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring that a head of a principal department or of an independent agency in the State must be a resident of the State; and applying the Act prospectively.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-19
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB1086 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring corporations that receive at least $50,000 in specified State subsidies to file a specified disclosure report with the granting body that provides the subsidy; requiring the disclosure report to contain specified information; requiring the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-19
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB288 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a county board of education to prohibit smoking a tobacco product at any time on the grounds of public school property; establishing penalties for violation of the Act; and defining "smoking".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-19
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB138 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Physicians to reconsider, under specified circumstances, the suspension or revocation of an individual's license to practice medicine, that is based solely on a specified ground for discipline relating to disciplinary act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-19
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB645 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing a defense to any nuisance action brought under State or local law against a landlord if the tenant's actions are the sole basis for the action and the landlord provides evidence that an action has been filed and is pending in the Distric...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-19
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB525 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Commission on African American History and Culture to provide operational funding to a museum that specializes in African American history and culture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-19
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB195 | Engross
Sine Die | Creating in Harford County a permit to be issued by the Sheriff of Harford County that authorizes specified nonprofit organizations to conduct a gaming contest; specifying requirements that organizations must meet to be issued a permit; limiting to f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-18
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB9 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that the sales and use tax does not apply to a sale by specified tax-exempt veterans organizations that sell specified certified and approved United States Marine Corps uniforms; applying the Act retroactively to sales that occur on or afte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-18
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB921 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to issue a certificate of completion to a specified offender who meets specified requirements; and requiring the Department to report to the Governor and the General Assembly on or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB782 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing that engaging in sexual contact with another without the consent of the other in connection with a first, second, or third degree burglary constitutes sexual offense in the third degree; establishing that, to be convicted under a specifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB381 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring applicants to the State Board of Chiropractic and Massage Therapy Examiners and the State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners to submit to a criminal history records check as a condition of licensure or registration; requiring the Boards to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-18
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB386 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempting from the sales and use tax the sale of home wheelchair lifts and stairlifts; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-18
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB653 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing specified counties to participate in a specified income tax refund withholding program for individuals with outstanding warrants; requiring counties that elect to participate in the program to notify the Comptroller on or before a specifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-18
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB825 | 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 may ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB263 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing a requirement that the AIDS Prevention Sterile Needle and Syringe Exchange Pilot Program in Baltimore City provide for the exchange of used hypodermic needles and syringes for sterile hypodermic needles and syringes on a "one-for-one" basis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-18
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB285 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2014-03-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB166 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the effective dates of specified regulations adopted under the Administrative Procedure Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-18
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1236 | Engross
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; prohibiting an ind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB960 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that in Montgomery County provisions of law requiring that an applicant for an alcoholic beverages license or a partner in a partnership for which an application for an alcoholic beverages license is made have residency in the County for 2 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-18
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB467 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund annual report to include information on each award recipient's employer, a specified summary of award recipients' research results and accomplishments, and specified award tracking information; requiring...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-18
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB642 | Engross
Sine Die | Expanding the Swift and Certain Sanctions Pilot Program to include Baltimore City and individuals under mandatory supervision; and extending the termination date of the program until September 30, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB821 | Engross
Sine Die | Approving specified projects for the acquisition, development, and improvement of specified academic facilities for the University System of Maryland; authorizing the University System of Maryland to issue bonds in a total principal amount of $17,000...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-14
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB961 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the membership of a hearing board under the State Correctional Officers' Bill of Rights to require that at least one member be of the same rank as the correctional officer against whom the complaint is filed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB120 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing the number of resident judges of the circuit court in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Charles, Montgomery, and Prince George's counties and Baltimore City; and increasing the number of resident judges of the District Court in District 5 (Prince G...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-03-13
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
