| SB888 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study the Issuance of Beer and Wine Licenses to Chain Stores; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; providing that the purpose of the Task Force is to study the costs, benefits, and feasi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB784 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting, under specified circumstances, an employer from failing or refusing to hire, discharging, or otherwise discriminating against an applicant or employee on the basis of the applicant's or employee's engagement in a lawful activity off the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB657 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Secretary of Budget and Management, the Secretary of Transportation, and the governing boards of State institutions of higher education to establish a program to improve the ratio of State employees to supervisors or managers beginning ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB821 | Intro
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] | 2015-03-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB377 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the membership of the Maryland Transportation Authority to include specified members of the General Assembly as nonvoting members of the Authority serving in an advisory capacity only; specifying criteria concerning the appointment, tenure, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB730 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that members of the Wicomico County Board of Education be elected and appointed, as specified; providing for a student member of the county board; establishing the composition of the county board; providing for the qualifications, terms of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB158 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring physicians, under specified circumstances, to provide a pregnant woman the opportunity to view the active ultrasound image of the embryo or fetus before the performance or inducement of an abortion; and requiring a physician to allow the pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB384 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that specified funds in the Mental Hygiene Community-Based Services Fund that are used to increase the availability of specified housing and employment opportunities for specified individuals include services provided in residential rehabil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| SB747 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Public Service Commission, in adopting specified vegetation management regulations, to require that an electric company's vegetation management program comply with the International Society of Arboriculture's Best Management Practices f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB275 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Transportation Authority to establish discounted variable toll rate for specified commuters who cross the Thomas J. Hatem Memorial Bridge between the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. daily; requiring specified persons to regist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB885 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the alteration of specified education related formulas, distributions, and funds unless approved by the General Assembly through legislation passed by a three-fifths majority vote of the full standing committee assigned the legislation in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB806 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Education to include in the graduation requirements for public high schools a requirement that each student take a standardized government high school assessment; requiring, beginning with the 2016-2017 school year, the g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB803 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the maximum difference between the coinsurance percentage applicable to specified nonpreferred providers and the coinsurance percentage applicable to specified preferred providers; altering the reimbursement amount payable by specified insur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB548 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a specified business, when destroying a customer's records that contain specified personal or private information, to take specified steps to protect against unauthorized access to or use of the information; requiring a specified business t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB559 | Intro
Sine Die | Defining "dealer's facility" and "dealership facility" to include any Internet location where a dealer conducts the business authorized by its license, for purposes of specified prohibitions on the coercion of motor vehicle dealers by motor vehicle m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB738 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring specified engineering documents prepared in connection with specified projects conducted by, jointly with, or under contract with the State or a political subdivision of the State, where specified skills are required, to be signed, sealed, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB379 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Francis Scott Key Bridge Authority to finance, construct, operate, and maintain the Francis Scott Key Bridge; providing for the members, appointment, terms, chair, and staff of the Authority; prohibiting the Department of Transportat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB511 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that, except in the case of a medical emergency, an abortion may not be performed or induced or be attempted to be performed or induced unless a specified physician makes a specified determination; providing that, except in the case of a me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB459 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifying the duties of a director of a corporation and that the director must act in good faith, in a manner the director reasonably believes to be in the best interests of the corporation, and with the care that an ordinarily prudent person in a s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB795 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a comprehensive care facility or an extended care facility to petition the appropriate circuit court for an order permitting the facility to request a determination of the funds available to pay for the cost of a resident's care from the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB737 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the County Executive of Anne Arundel County to appoint the members of the county board of education from a specified list submitted by the School Board Nominating Commission of Anne Arundel County; requiring the County Executive to appoint ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB457 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting an insurer from disclaiming coverage under a policy of liability insurance on the ground that the insured or a specified person has breached the policy by failing to cooperate with the insurer or by not giving the insurer required notice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB429 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act; authorizing specified fiduciaries to access specified digital assets under specified circumstances; authorizing a fiduciary to take specified actions concerning an asset under specifie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB749 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting an insurer, with respect to private passenger motor vehicle insurance, from refusing to underwrite, canceling, refusing to renew, rating a risk, or increasing a renewal premium based, in whole or in part, on the marital status or employme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Hearing 3/17 at 1:00 p.m. |
| SB903 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the State Board of Tree Experts in the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation; providing for the composition of the Board and the qualifications, appointments, removal, terms, and expenses of the Board members; requiring the Boar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB718 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the statewide information technology master plan developed by the Secretary of Information Technology to include a specified policy requiring specified vendors to establish that an information technology product or piece of equipment is saf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB748 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that specified provisions of law related to the sale of livestock apply to specified deer; providing that the Maryland Wholesome Meat Act applies to specified deer; requiring the Secretary of Agriculture and the Department of Natural Resour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB709 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to consider potential user conflicts, including navigation, recreation, and commercial fishing, in determining the location of submerged land aquaculture leases in the Chesapeake Bay and water column aqua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB614 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a specified insured to elect to obtain specified enhanced underinsured motorist coverage, instead of specified uninsured motorist coverage, under a private passenger motor vehicle liability insurance policy under specified circumstances; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB489 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Education and specified nonpublic schools to develop and implement an age-appropriate education program addressing sexual abuse and assault awareness and prevention; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB578 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the sexual assault policy of institutions of higher education in the State to include compliance with specified provisions of law relating to mandatory reporting of sexual assaults; requiring a faculty member, an administrator, or a full-ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB491 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $350,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Cornerstone Montgomery, Inc. and the Board of Directors of the Interfaith Works, Inc. for the acquisition, planning, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB883 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $350,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives, Inc. for the acquisition, planning, design, construction, repair, r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB658 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $95,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Jewish Council for the Aging of Greater Washington, Inc. for the acquisition, planning, design, construction, repair, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB214 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing immunity from civil liability for a specified person administering medications or treatment in response to an apparent drug overdose if the person is trained and certified under specified protocols established by the Secretary of Health and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB687 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that specified State employees may be entitled to parental leave with pay; establishing a maximum of 30 days of parental leave that employees may use for the care and nurturing of a child following the birth or adoption of the child; provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB17 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a Baltimore City school police officer to carry a firearm on the premises of a Baltimore City public school and any other property used for an educational purpose owned, leased, or operated by, or under the control of the Baltimore City B...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB522 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring rather than authorizing State and local law enforcement agencies in the State to meet specified criteria relating to notifying the Motor Vehicle Administration of specified individuals named in outstanding warrants for purposes relating to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB402 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a court, on request of specified parties in specified judicial proceedings, to determine whether an individual is a de facto parent of a child; authorizing an individual asserting de facto parent status to intervene in or initiate a speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB176 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $250,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Mayor and City Council of the City of Rockville for the acquisition, planning, design, construction, repair, renovation, reconstruction, and ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB861 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the administrative head of a specified institution or a designee of the administrative head or the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to provide to the mother, father, or legal guardian of a child a specified notice relating to security...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB162 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study Regulation of Teletherapy; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement of expenses; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB926 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the creation of a State Debt in the amount of $25,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy for the acquisition, planning, design, construction, repair, renovation, reconstruc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB580 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting specified licensed chiropractors and licensed physical therapists from performing dry needling unless the State Board of Chiropractic and Massage Therapy Examiners or State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners has registered the licensed c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB244 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Occupational Therapy Practice to stagger the terms of specified licenses; providing that, before a specified date, a license to practice occupational therapy or limited occupational therapy may be renewed for a specified ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB486 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the proper name of specified official school holidays from being removed, renamed, or prohibited from being referenced in any official publication of the Anne Arundel County Board of Education or public school under the jurisdiction of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB895 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $50,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Pasadena Baseball Club, Inc. for the acquisition, planning, design, construction, repair, renovation, reconstruction, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB34 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $500,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of The Arc of Carroll County, Inc. for the acquisition, planning, design, construction, repair, renovation, reconstruction, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB252 | Intro
Sine Die | Enacting, with specified other member states, the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact; establishing the purpose of the Compact; establishing specified eligibility requirements for a physician to receive specified licensure; requiring physicians to d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB710 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the number of members of the Baltimore City School Commissioners; requiring the three board members be elected at large by the voters of Baltimore City; altering the length of a term of the members of the board; requiring specified board m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
