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HB296PassDesignating specified areas of the State as State wildlands.
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 465
HB1352PassAuthorizing the Attorney General to take specified actions relating to investigations of alleged violations of laws relating to charitable organizations and charitable representatives; providing that a specified enforcement action or other remedy is ...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 654
HB629PassAltering the membership of the Maryland Green Purchasing Committee; requiring the Committee to develop and publish, and State units thereafter to adopt, specifications that will enable implementation of environmentally preferable purchasing; altering...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 604
HB1258PassRequiring the Board of Environmental Health Specialists to adopt regulations that include the establishment of a specified seasonal environmental health specialist-in-training program and a specified condition that an individual may not participate i...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 649
SB606PassAltering the number of deputy secretaries to be appointed by the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene with the approval of the Governor; requiring the Secretary, with the approval of the Governor, to appoint the Deputy Secretary for Developmental D...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 539
HB303PassProviding that the Maryland Pharmacy Act does not prohibit, under specified circumstances, a licensed dentist from dispensing a full course of treatment of antibiotics to a patient for infection control.
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 593
SB601PassEstablishing a Maryland E-Nnovation Initiative Program; establishing a Maryland E-Nnovation Initiative Fund and a Maryland E-Nnovation Initiative Fund Authority in the Department of Business and Economic Development; requiring the Governor to include...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 532
SB341PassCreating in Calvert County a refillable container permit; authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for the counties to issue the permit to a holder of specified classes of alcoholic beverages licenses issued by the Board; specifying that a hold...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 486
HB1167PassRenaming specified model performance evaluation criteria; prohibiting specified performance evaluation criteria from requiring the use of specified student growth data based on State assessments to be used to make personnel decisions before the 2016-...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 545
SB2PassRepealing the authorization for an applicant, on written approval by all owners of property adjacent to a proposed wind turbine in an industrial wind energy conversion system, to seek a variance with the Garrett County Department of Planning and Land...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 466
HB202PassAuthorizing a private lender to provide capital for a commercial loan provided under a local clean energy loan program; providing that, with the express consent of any holder of a mortgage or deed of trust on the property, a county or municipality ma...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 473
HB833PassRequiring specified organizations that own property in Baltimore City that is not subject to property tax to submit a specified application to the State Department of Assessments and Taxation on or before specified dates; requiring specified organiza...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 617
HB1075PassDefining the terms "apartment unit" and "property" for purposes of law relating to system development charges imposed by the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission; and altering the definition of "new service" to include a direct connection of an im...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 639
HB739PassAltering the size of an estate required to file an estate tax return; altering a certain 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 est...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 612
HB154PassIncreasing to 16 the number of members on the Sport Fisheries Advisory Commission; and requiring that one member of the Sport Fisheries Advisory Commission be a specified member of the Tidal Fisheries Advisory Commission.
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 587
HB321PassAuthorizing the governing body of Frederick County to exempt real property that is owned by an affordable housing land trust but not subject to an affordable housing land trust agreement from the county property tax; etc.
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 595
SB171PassAuthorizing the creation of a State Debt in the amount of $1,180,515,377, the proceeds to be used for specified necessary building, construction, demolition, planning, renovation, conversion, replacement, and capital equipment purchases of the State,...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 463
HB313PassAltering the requirement for the Comptroller to withhold Maryland income tax refunds from specified individuals with outstanding warrants to include residents of Baltimore City or individuals who have outstanding warrants from Baltimore City; and ter...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 594
HB1001PassRequiring the State Department of Education to submit a request for a waiver from the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act to the Legislative Policy Committee of the General Assembly before the Department submits the proposed waiver request...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 630
HB1243PassExempting a specified security issued by an entity formed, organized, or existing under the laws of the State from specified registration and filing requirements under specified circumstances; and requiring a person required to submit a filing in acc...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 558
HB249PassChanging the interest rate paid on a security deposit at the end of a tenancy under a residential lease when an evicted or ejected tenant makes a timely written demand for return of the security deposit; altering the annual interest rate paid by a mo...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 489
HB693PassRequiring 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...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 610
HB1218PassRequiring individuals to register and be approved by the State Board of Pharmacy before practicing pharmacy as a pharmacy intern under the direct supervision of a licensed pharmacist; requiring registered pharmacy interns to submit to a criminal hist...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 565
SB350PassAltering the standards and requirements for the required warning period for violations recorded by speed monitoring systems; applying notice and signage standards for unmanned local stationary speed monitoring systems to all local speed monitoring sy...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 490
HB920PassRequiring the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City to grant, by law, a specified 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...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 623
SB64PassRequiring the juvenile court to inquire as to the educational stability of a child at specified hearings and proceedings; and authorizing the juvenile court to consider specified factors in determining the educational stability of a child.
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 468
HB35PassRequiring the Public Service Commission and specified electric companies to establish priorities for targeting remediation projects; establishing an Electric Reliability Remediation Fund in the Commission; providing for the purpose, administration, i...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 581
HB1205PassCorrecting references to the government of Frederick County in the Annotated Code of Maryland that will be rendered obsolete after the status of the county is changed from a commission county to a charter county; altering the manner in which specifie...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 645
SB290PassEstablishing procedures for the election and appointment of the members of the Baltimore County Board of Education; repealing provisions governing the appointment of members of the county board; establishing the composition of the county board; requi...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 480
SB603PassEstablishing the Cybersecurity Investment Fund in the Maryland Technology Development Corporation as a special, nonlapsing fund; specifying the purpose of the Fund; requiring the Corporation to administer the Fund; requiring the State Treasurer to ho...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 534
HB168PassProviding that a member of a specified board, commission, or council under the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation shall be considered to have resigned if the member does not attend at least two-thirds of the meetings during any consecutiv...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 588
HB314PassExtending the period of time during which owners of newly constructed dwellings in Baltimore City may qualify for a property tax credit; and repealing specified provisions of law allowing for an amnesty period for owners who were denied the tax credi...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 479
SB570PassIncreasing the maximum total amount of research and development tax credits that the Department of Business and Economic Development may approve in a calendar year from $8,000,000 to $9,000,000; and applying the Act to tax credits certified after Dec...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 525
HB916PassProviding that a Maryland corporation or a real estate investment trust has the power to renounce specified business opportunities in its charter or declaration of trust or by a specified resolution; repealing specified provisions of law relating to ...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 551
SB299PassClarifying that, under specified circumstances, Montgomery County acts as a unit of the State and, for the purposes of tort claims arising out of the administration of a specified State human services program by the county, the State shall be named a...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 482
HB806PassRequiring specified regulations for protected health information obtained or released through a specified health information exchange to govern the access, use, maintenance, disclosure, and redisclosure of protected health information as required by ...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 615
HB904PassRequiring local management boards to provide specified information to the Department of Legislative Services by October 1, 2014; requiring specified State agencies to provide specified information on State spending in each county and municipal corpor...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 621
HB1059PassRequiring each county and each municipality that receives highway user revenues to submit a report on or before January 1 of each year to the State Highway Administration, the Governor, and specified committees of the General Assembly that documents ...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 638
HB1045PassIncluding escrow costs in a specified calculation to determine whether a refinance mortgage shall have, on recordation, the same lien priority as the first mortgage or deed of trust that the refinance mortgage replaces; defining "escrow costs" to mea...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 634
SB477PassAuthorizing the Talbot County Board of Education to lease a public school facility to an organization that operates a community-based educational and recreational program, subject to a specified determination and specified limitations.
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 508
SB483PassRequiring specified nursing homes to assign to an appropriate committee the task of conducting an annual assessment of workplace safety issues and making recommendations; requiring the committee to consult specified employees of the nursing home; req...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 510
HB172PassAltering the purposes of the Baltimore Metropolitan Council; altering the membership of the Council; requiring the Council to make a specified report annually to the General Assembly; repealing provisions of law that establish the Baltimore Metropoli...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 520
HB227PassAltering the definition of "legal interest" to include an interest in a dwelling as a settlor, grantor, or beneficiary of a trust under specified circumstances so as to include specified settlors, grantors, or beneficiaries of trusts as eligible to a...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 527
SB496PassEstablishing an organizational license in Calvert County; authorizing the license to be issued to a fraternal organization, volunteer fire department, or volunteer rescue squad for use on specified premises; authorizing the licensee to sell beer, win...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 513
HB1060PassEstablishing the Northeastern Maryland Additive Manufacturing Innovation Authority; establishing an Executive Board; requiring that, to the extent practicable, the members of the Board reasonably reflect the geographic, racial, ethnic, cultural, and ...
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2014-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 571
HB165PassAltering the membership of the Financial Education and Capability Commission to include the Secretary of Higher Education, or the Secretary's designee, rather than a member of the Higher Education Commission; and altering the duties of the Commission...
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2014-05-05
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 265
HB228PassProviding that a register of wills may comply with specified provisions of law by retaining specified files under specified circumstances; and requiring a register, in consultation with the Comptroller and the State Archives, to develop specified rec...
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2014-05-05
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 297
HB1017PassRequiring the County Executive of Prince George's County to transmit to the clerk of the Prince George's County Council the name of a specified individual appointed to fill a vacancy of an elected member of the Prince George's County Board of Educati...
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2014-05-05
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 437
HB354PassRepealing 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...
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2014-05-05
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 396
SB259PassRequiring an easement approved for purchase by the Board of Public Works after June 30, 2014, to authorize the landowner to request approval, under specified circumstances, to use the land subject to the easement for the generation of electricity by ...
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2014-05-05
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 287
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