| SB292 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from causing a specified instrument to be recorded in the land records of a county under specified circumstances; requiring a clerk of the circuit court to send a specified notice to the parties named in a deed or other instrumen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB448 | Intro
Sine Die | Adding a new article to the Maryland Constitution to govern congressional districts; requiring congressional districts to conform to specified standards and that due regard be given to specified boundaries; requiring the Governor to prepare a congres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB519 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a system of public financing of campaigns for specified General Assembly candidates; requiring the State Board of Elections to administer the system; requiring the Comptroller to credit to the Fair Campaign Financing Fund money collected...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB512 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring hospitals and specified health care practitioners who provide specified care in specified health care facilities to offer, to the extent practicable, specified individuals a hepatitis C screening test or a hepatitis C diagnostic test; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB424 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering a specified provision of law concerning equal pay for equal work to prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender identity; prohibiting an employer from discriminating between employees in any occupation by providing less favorable employme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB445 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that the Judicial Ethics Committee rather than the Commission on Judicial Disabilities shall administer and implement specified provisions of law that apply to State officials of the Judicial Branch; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB480 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Commission on Rental Housing Stabilization; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Commission; prohibiting a member of the Commission from receiving specified compensation; requiring the Commission to investigate s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB213 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a specified holder of an alcoholic beverages license or a specified employee to sell or furnish beer or wine for consumption on the premises of a bar or restaurant to an active duty member of the armed forces of the United States who is a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB440 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring all expenditures of revenues in the major budget categories to be reported by a county board of education to the State Department of Education at both the school level and the local education agency level.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB197 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the governing body of a municipality, by ordinance, to establish a Vacant and Blighted Buildings Registry and to require an owner of a vacant building to register it within 30 days after the building becomes vacant under specified circums...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB324 | Intro
Sine Die | Excluding a contract for architectural or engineering services from the requirement to include a liquidated damages provision that applies in the event the contractor fails to comply in good faith with specified provisions relating to minority busine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB569 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a prohibition on the inclusion, in a policy that insures a health care provider against damages due to medical injury arising from providing or failing to provide health care, of coverage for the defense of a health care provider in a speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
Recommitted to Finance (Senator Middleton) |
| SB57 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing or altering the distribution of specified revenue; altering or repealing specified required appropriations; authorizing the use of specified funds for specified purposes; providing for the transfer of specified funds; repealing a specifie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB625 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding the responsibility of service centers established by the Department of Veterans Affairs; requiring the Department to provide veterans with employment-related services; specifying the types of employment-related services provided to veterans...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB646 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that a specified defendant or party may not be provided a specified representation by specified personnel of the Office of the Public Defender if the representation would violate specified caseload standards; providing that a specified defe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB901 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that a specified organization representing standardbred owners and trainers set an amount not less than 1% or more than 2% to be deducted from purses offered in specified races to be paid to the organization; and repealing specified require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB900 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a physician who performs or induces an abortion to have admitting privileges at a hospital that meets specified criteria; requiring a physician, before performing or inducing an abortion, to provide the woman terminating her pregnancy with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB531 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing specified criminal and civil prohibitions against the use and possession of marijuana; establishing specified exemptions from prosecution for specified persons for using, obtaining, purchasing, transporting, or possessing marijuana under sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
Hearing 3/04 at 1:00 p.m. (Judicial Proceedings) |
| SB552 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an insurer that issues a policy of group life insurance under specified provisions of law to pay, to the beneficiary designated by an individual insured under a certificate issued under the policy, the certificate death benefit if the insur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB506 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each county board of education to establish a specified wellness committee to discuss issues relating to the physical, mental, and social health and well-being of students and make specified recommendations; providing for the membership of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB545 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from intentionally and willfully taking specified actions relating to unauthorized access to computer services with the intent to interrupt or impair the functioning of a service, device, or system related to the production, tran...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB504 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a county board of education to develop and implement a policy that requires that all foods and beverages sold from a vending machine in an area of a public school that is accessible to students at any time during the day comply with specifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB505 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring specified county boards to develop a specified plan on or before August 1, 2016, for reducing specified students' total sugar intake per school meal based on specified recommendations; requiring specified county boards to convene a specifie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB683 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Education to submit a request for proposals on or before August 1, 2016, for up to five operators who will provide students in the State with a Next Generation School to be operated under the supervision of the State Boar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB476 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, by December 1, 2015, the Department of Juvenile Services to prepare and submit to the General Assembly a specified assessment of the feasibility of repealing specified provisions of law relating to offenses excluded from the jurisdiction o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB367 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution repealing provisions relating to election of circuit court judges; requiring the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint a qualified person to fill a vacancy in the of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB581 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Design Excellence Commission; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Commission; prohibiting a member of the Commission from receiving specified compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement of specified...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB550 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing references to the terms "child custody" and "visitation" in specified instances and substituting the terms "legal decision making" and "parenting time" in specified instances; requiring the court, in determining the appropriate allocation o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB533 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a specified chicken manure pollution fee payable to the Comptroller by a specified poultry integrator in a specified manner; requiring the Comptroller to transfer revenue from the fee to the Maryland Agriculture Water Quality Cost Share ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB527 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that an employer is liable under specified circumstances in an action concerning a violation of specified provisions of employment discrimination and retaliation law based on quid pro quo harassment or the creation or continuation of harass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB29 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from storing, treating, discharging, or disposing of, in the State, specified wastewater resulting from hydraulic fracturing which includes fracking, hydrofracking, and hydrofracturing; and prohibiting a person from engaging in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB481 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a Program on community solar energy generating systems under the authority of the Public Service Commission; providing for the structure and operation of the Program, including the generation of electricity and allocation of costs to sys...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB650 | Intro
Sine Die | Creating a rebuttable presumption in specified court proceedings that specified custodial arrangements are in the best interests of a child; and authorizing the court to grant sole custody under specified circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB435 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring insurers that issue, sell, or deliver policies of homeowner's insurance to make available, rather than to offer in writing to provide at specified times, coverage for loss that is caused by specified water damage under specified circumstanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB879 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a public body to provide an agenda containing specified information if the agenda has been determined at the time the public body gives notice of a specified meeting or, if an agenda has not been determined at the time of the meeting notice...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB436 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting from the prior approval rate making process specified kinds of insurance and specified types of insurance coverage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB388 | Intro
Sine Die | Adding community conferencing, community mediation, and similar agreements to the list of requirements for the entering of a nolle prosequi or stet for which a petition for expungement of court, police, and other governmental records may be filed; pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB169 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding the authority of a police officer without a warrant to arrest a person suspected of committing a specified assault against a specified Baltimore City special parking enforcement officer or special traffic enforcement officer engaged in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB119 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a specified tax on premiums of for-profit health maintenance organizations; repealing provisions of law that require specified nonprofit health maintenance organizations to transfer funds in an amount equal to the value of a specified premi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation; Withdrawn |
| SB184 | Intro
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] | 2015-03-02
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB73 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Commission on Tax Policy, Reform, and Fairness; specifying the membership of the Commission; providing for the appointment of a Senate cochair and House cochair of the Commission; providing for the staffing of the Commission; prohibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation |
| SB892 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting specified nitrogen oxide emissions rates for specified affected electric generating units from exceeding specified amounts; requiring the owner or operator of an affected electric generating unit to submit a specified plan for approval to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB304 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the owner of a Class L (historic) vehicle to apply to the Motor Vehicle Administration for a special, historic motor vehicle registration plate of the size and design determined by the Administration; requiring the Administration to issue...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB318 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that regulations adopted by the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene under a specified provision of law allow psychiatric nurse practitioners to provide and receive reimbursement from State and federal funds for telemental health services...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB698 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a requirement that the State Department of Assessments and Taxation maintain a public database on the Department's Web site that relates to the valuation of specified real property in the State and includes specified information about each ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation; Withdrawn |
| SB434 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a specified notice required under specified circumstances when an insurer seeks to increase the renewal policy premium for policies of commercial or workers' compensation insurance to be delivered by electronic means; providing that, notw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB152 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting owners, employees, and operators of tanning facilities from allowing minors to use tanning devices; and providing penalties of up to $1,000 for specified violations of the Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| SB363 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing an individual or a corporation a credit against the State income tax for contributions to specified scholarship-granting organizations; providing for the carryover of unused credits for 3 years; requiring scholarship-granting organizations t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-02
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation; Withdrawn |
| SB678 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the amount of wages of a judgment debtor that are exempt from attachment; altering the exemption from execution on a judgment for specified items necessary for the practice of any trade or profession; altering the exemption from execution on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB399 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a claim for damages due to medical injury to be referred to the Director of the Health Care Alternative Dispute Resolution Office to select an independent medical review panel if a defendant asserts as a defense that specified clinical prac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
