| SB880 | Intro
Sine Die | Limiting to property placed in service before January 1, 2015, the applicability of Maryland income tax modifications for specified deductions for the cost of business property that is treated as an expense for federal income tax purposes; limiting t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB856 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a specified court to refer a specified matter to the Department of Juvenile Services for a specified informal adjustment under specified circumstances; prohibiting a specified court from referring a specified matter if there is an objecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB924 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a county board of education to seek private financing, subject to specified limitations, to finance specified projects or capital leases; requiring specified financing to be authorized by a specified resolution and secured by a specified ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB893 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Commission on Free Trade, Currency Manipulation, and State Sovereignty; requiring the Commission to conduct an annual assessment, provide a mechanism for input by interested persons, work with interested groups, and develop recommend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB914 | Intro
Sine Die | Defining specified classes of electric companies; and altering the definition of "electric company" to include specified classes of electric companies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB916 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Law Enforcement Communications Technology Procurement Task Force; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to study and make recommendations about any changes that may be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB884 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the State income tax rate to 3.8% for individuals with Maryland taxable income in excess of $30,000; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB790 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a mandatory $1,000 fine for a violation of specified right-of-way provisions contributing to an accident that results in death or serious bodily injury of another; authorizing the issuance of a citation by a law enforcement officer; proh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB782 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing from 20 years to 25 years the age that a motor vehicle must attain in order to be eligible for registration as a historic motor vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB781 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Secretary of State Police, on making a determination that an applicant has demonstrated evidence of imminent danger to the applicant, to temporarily waive a specified requirement to complete a specified firearms training course; and r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB800 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an audio recording device on specified vehicles used by the Maryland Transit Administration to comply with specified requirements; requiring the Administration to post a specified notice on each vehicle equipped with an audio recording devi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB779 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that a specified investigatory file and record of a proceeding are personnel records for purposes of the Public Information Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB414 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to make an annual report on segregated confinement to the Governor on or before November 1 of each year; requiring specified information be included in the report; defining specified...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB817 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the governing boards of specified institutions of higher education to update and submit to the Maryland Higher Education Commission a specified written policy on sexual assault by August 1, 2016; requiring the sexual assault policy to inclu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB810 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to develop and implement a specified transfer agreement for students who earn an associate of science degree in dental hygiene or medical laboratory technology at an institution of higher education t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB392 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from intentionally causing physical injury to another if the person knows or has reason to know that the other is a firefighter, an emergency medical technician, a rescue squad member, or any other first responder engaged in prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB188 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study the Establishment of Health Courts; requiring the Task Force to study the adequacy and cost of State laws and policies relating to the litigation of medical malpractice cases and make recommendations regarding the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB159 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a specified buyer or beneficiary of a pre-need contract to contact the Maryland State Board of Morticians and Funeral Directors and request the Board to conduct an audit of specified licensees; requiring the Board to conduct a specified a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB826 | Intro
Sine Die | Transferring the development of energy efficiency and conservation programs and services from specified utilities to the Maryland Energy Administration; requiring the Administration to oversee energy efficiency and conservation programs and services;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| SB394 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that the offense of hazing is committed by subjecting a student to the risk of serious bodily injury regardless of whether injury actually occurs; and increasing the penalty from $500 to $5,000 for a specified offense relating to subjecting...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB845 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, a tent is not required to have a sprinkler system if the tent is not used for lodging, serviced by a public water system, and attached to or incorporated as part of a building that is requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB27 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that, in Baltimore County, the revocation of the magnet status of a public school approved by the Baltimore County Board of Education after recommendation by the county superintendent does not become effective until the revocation is approv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB665 | Intro
Sine Die | Designating, beginning in calendar year 2015, the last 7 days of August through the first 7 days of September of each year to be tax-free periods during which an exemption from the sales and use tax is provided for the sale of specified textbooks pur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation |
| SB617 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a specified professional counselor or therapist from engaging in a sexual act, sexual contact, or vaginal intercourse with a person who is receiving counseling from the professional counselor or therapist or received counseling from the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB656 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Highway Administration to consider whether a proposed entrance to a State highway is consistent with the comprehensive plan when determining whether to grant or deny a permit for the entrance; requiring the Administration to deter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB267 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing an individual who adopts a cat or dog from an animal shelter or a rescue facility a maximum credit of $100 against the State income tax; providing that an individual may not claim the credit for more than 1 taxable year with respect to the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation |
| SB801 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to establish a program to control the spread of black flies in the State; requiring that the program be implemented initially on specified property in Washington County; requiring the Department, in conju...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB745 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a landlord to withhold all or part of a security deposit under a residential lease for unpaid water and sewer bills if water and sewer bills are required to be paid by the tenant under the lease; making conforming changes to provisions re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB463 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from engaging in the nontherapeutic use of medically important antimicrobial drugs in specified cattle, swine, and poultry on or after October 1, 2016; requiring a specified farm operation to submit specified information under sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Recommitted to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs (Senator Pinsky) |
| SB807 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to apply to the federal Department of Health and Human Services for a planning grant to have the State selected as a demonstration state for the establishment of certified community behavioral hea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB421 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering specified exemptions from the authority of the State Board of Dental Examiners; providing that the Board's authority does not apply to specified clinics, government agencies, or nonprofit organizations; repealing the exemption from the Board...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB211 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the State Board of Plumbing to adopt standards of the International Code Council as part of the State Plumbing Code; requiring the Board to periodically review specified standards of the International Code Council; requiring the Board to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB117 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to allow a person in Caroline County or Dorchester County to hunt any game bird or game mammal, except migratory game birds and wetland game birds, on a Sunday on specified land during the open season f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB691 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the After-School and Summer Opportunity Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; specifying the purpose of the Fund; requiring the Governor's Office for Children to administer the Fund as directed by a specified committee; and requiring the G...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB514 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each institution of higher education in the State to meet specified requirements for specified net price calculators on or before July 1, 2016; prohibiting specified institutions of higher education from allowing specified personally identi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB825 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, for fiscal year 2016, the payment of $700,000 to the video lottery operation licensee for the video lottery facility in Allegany County from the proceeds of video lottery terminals at the facility; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation; Withdrawn |
| SB278 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring specified local school systems to create specified dining menus; requiring a specified dining menu to include specified information under specified circumstances; requiring specified local school systems to post specified information on the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Second Reading Failed |
| SB279 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a prospective bidder or offeror when submitting a bid or offer for a public work contract to submit to the public body a specified contractor safety and health plan and a specified attestation; requiring a contract safety and health plan to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| SB717 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring hospitals, related institutions, alternative health systems, and employers to report specified employment actions and terminations of employment of athletic trainers and physician assistants to the State Board of Physicians, subject to spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB572 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a hospital to provide a specified patient or the legal guardian of the patient with a specified number of opportunities to designate a caregiver within a specified number of hours after the entrance of the patient to the hospital and before...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| SB447 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a sales and use tax exemption period for the 7-day period from the third Sunday in April through the following Saturday for hunting and sporting goods shopping in Maryland during which the sales and use tax does not apply to the sale of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation |
| SB783 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the time period, from 3 years to 2 years, within which a specified motion for a deficiency judgment must be filed after the final ratification of the auditor's report following a specified foreclosure sale; applying Section 1 of the Act pros...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB873 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing a credit for an employer or insurer for specified payments to a covered employee for temporary total disability benefits under specified circumstances and during a specified period; applying the Act only prospectively; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB874 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that an employer or insurer is not liable for temporary total disability payments to a covered employee while the employee is incarcerated; providing for a specified exception; and applying the Act prospectively.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB823 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting money received by a campaign finance entity from specified persons from being considered a loan; providing that the terms of a loan to a campaign finance entity require that the loan be repaid no later than the end of the second year of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB814 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Legislative Services to obtain specified census data, adjust the census data for specified purposes, and provide the census data to a temporary redistricting commission within 30 days after the Department has finished adju...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB859 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting an affected property from the risk reduction standard if the owner of the affected property has maintained a specified exemption certification for two consecutive certification periods and submits proof to the Department of the Environment;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB898 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the number of weeks used to determine the amount of compensation an employer or its insurer is required to pay a specified covered employee for a permanent partial disability under specified provisions of law; and providing for the prospecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB851 | Intro
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] | 2015-03-19
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB762 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that specified governing documents of a condominium or homeowners association that prohibit or restrict electric vehicle recharging equipment are void and unenforceable; establishing requirements and procedures relating to an application to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
