| HB1542 | 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] | 2014-04-08
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (44-0) |
| HB1036 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing the Governor's Advisory Board on Homelessness and establishing an Interagency Council on Homelessness; establishing the membership, staffing, chair, quorum, and meeting times of the Council; prohibiting a member of the Council from receivin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1309 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempting specified positions in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene from a provision of law that prohibits specified appointing authorities in State government from inquiring into the criminal record or criminal history of an applicant for e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1198 | Engross
Sine Die | Stating the goal of the General Assembly that a specified parent of a child with a disability and specified public agencies mediate specified issues before filing a due process complaint with the Office of Administrative Hearings; requiring specified...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB422 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a dog from being determined to be potentially dangerous based solely on the breed, type, or heritage of the dog; prohibiting a county from enacting a local law and a municipality from adopting an ordinance prohibiting a person from owning...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Special Order until later today (Senator Ramirez) Adopted |
| 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 |
| HB33 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a specified professional counselor or therapist from engaging in a sexual act or vaginal intercourse with a person who is receiving counseling from the professional counselor or therapist or received counseling from the professional couns...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| 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 |
| HB1076 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Energy-Generating Cooperative Advisory Committee; providing for the credit structure for the energy generated from an energy-generating cooperative; specifying the duties of the Committee; requiring the Committee to present a report ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB412 | Engross
Sine Die | Limiting the amount of the fee that a condominium council of unit owners may charge a unit owner to furnish a certificate with the information necessary for the unit owner to comply with specified resale disclosure requirements; requiring a homeowner...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB450 | Engross
Sine Die | Allowing a credit against the State income tax for 25% of the amount of a donation to a qualified permanent endowment fund at an eligible community foundation; requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development to report to the State Depar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Special Order until later today (Senator Robey) Adopted |
| HB1052 | Engross
Sine Die | Enacting the Maryland Uniform Collaborative Law Act; establishing requirements for a collaborative law participation agreement and the collaborative law process; establishing standards for the disclosure of information during the collaborative law pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB1389 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force on the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to study and make recommendations regarding specified matters, including methods ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB1051 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing for enhanced workers' compensation benefits for a deputy sheriff in Baltimore County for a compensable permanent partial disability of less than a specified number of weeks; and applying the Act only prospectively.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance |
| 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 |
| HB1021 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development and the Commissioner of Financial Regulation to conduct specified analyses based on the available data of specified foreclosure trends for residential real property in Prince George's Coun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
To Senate Rules Committee |
| 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) |
| HB1242 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the State Department of Education to include operating funds for the Maryland Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped in its budget; requiring the Maryland Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped to receive a specified a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Special Order until later today (Senator Robey) Adopted |
| 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 |
| HB1186 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that a court or clerk's office that is in session or open on a weekend or holiday for a specified purpose is not in session or open for any other purpose or function; repealing a provision of law authorizing a District Court commissioner to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB873 | 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; altering the maximum speed limit on specified divided highways ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Senate Refuses to Recede |
| HB1166 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a person to petition the court to shield specified information relating to a conviction of the person no earlier than 3 years after the person satisfies the sentence imposed for the conviction, including parole, probation, or mandatory su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
House Requests Senate Recede |
| HJ2 | Engross
Sine Die | Rescinding Maryland's ratification of the Corwin Amendment to the United States Constitution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| 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 |
| HB1135 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing the number of gaming permits to six that the Board of County Commissioners of Kent County may issue in a single year to an organization that meets specified qualifications.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
To Senate Rules Committee |
| 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 |
| HB1516 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the definition of qualifying residing artist for an arts and entertainment district to include individuals who own or rent residential real property in the State and who conduct business and derive income in specified areas; altering the eli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Second Reading Passed |
| HB1284 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Human Resources or a local department of social services to provide to a health care practitioner specified information if requested by the health care practitioner or a specified agency, institution, or program unde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings 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 |
| HB867 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting specified actions constituting false claims against a governmental entity; providing specified penalties for making false claims; requiring the court to consider and give special attention to specified factors in determining the amount of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Motion Postpone Indefinitely (Senator Brinkley) Adopted (26-20) |
| HB1328 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring specified meetings of a cooperative housing corporation to be open to the members of the cooperative housing corporation or their agents; requiring the governing body of a cooperative housing corporation to keep books and records in a speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings 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) |
| HB1323 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Interagency Committee on School Construction to conduct a specified study and make specified recommendations regarding the development of specified alternative financing methods; requiring the Committee to solicit input from specified e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| HB1314 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the court, on a specified finding in an action on behalf of an employee for a violation of the Maryland Wage Payment and Collection Law, to award the Attorney General reasonable counsel fees and other costs; authorizing the court, on a sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Senators Astle, Klausmeier, and Kittleman |
| HB607 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education, on or before December 31, 2014, to consult with specified experts on issues relating to student data privacy, establish parameters for using a specified software service, and develop sample contracts if a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| 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 |
| HB596 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a wholesale distributor to notify a pharmacy at least 30 days before the wholesale distributor imposes a limit on the quantity of a prescription drug or prescription device distributed to the pharmacy; requiring a wholesale distributor, whi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| HB781 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering a specified prohibition against a specified "person in a position of authority" from engaging in specified conduct to prohibit a specified person in a position of authority from engaging in sexual contact, a sexual act, or vaginal intercours...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Senators Zirkin, Brochin, and Shank |
| 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 |
| HB1137 | Engross
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] | 2014-04-07
Special Order until later today (Senator Zirkin) Adopted |
| HB262 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from restricting specified licensed bow hunters from openly carrying a handgun under specified circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
To Senate Rules 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 |
| HB1232 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Secretary of Public Safety and Correctional Services to establish and maintain a specified electronic information sharing system and to adopt regulations to implement the system; establishing the Task Force on Pretrial Risk Assessment t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB1197 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a food establishment, 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; providing that the request may be included on a specified sign or a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
To Senate Rules Committee |
