| SB192 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Attorney General to institute an action in a circuit court for injunctive relief to prohibit a person from engaging in or continuing to engage in specified violations of election law, except in specified circumstances; authorizing the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-13
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB526 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a person to petition the court to shield court records and police records relating to specified convictions at a specified time; providing that, if a person is convicted of a new crime during a specified time period, the original convicti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-13
Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary |
| SB200 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from manufacturing for sale or accepting for sale a personal care product or an over-the-counter drug that contains synthetic plastic microbeads on or after specified dates; defining "synthetic plastic microbead" as an intentiona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-13
Senators Pinsky, Montgomery, and Bates |
| SB488 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing the maximum total amount of research and development tax credits that the Department of Business and Economic Development may approve; and applying the Act to all Maryland research and development tax credits certified after December 15, 2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB609 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Office of the Child Welfare Ombudsman Pilot Program in the Office of the Attorney General; providing that the purpose of the Pilot Program is to investigate in specified counties whether the needs of children and families are being m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB605 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a finder of fact to determine that a person with an alcohol concentration of 0.15 or more in the blood or breath of the person who causes personal injury or wrongful death while driving or attempting to drive a motor vehicle was acting wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-13
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| SB866 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering in Prince George's County the requirements relating to residency for an alcoholic beverages license applicant acting on behalf of a sole proprietorship, a partnership, a corporation, an unincorporated association, or a limited liability comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-13
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (136-1) |
| SB735 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Office of the Public Defender to investigate the financial status of each applicant for services; requiring the Office to require a specified applicant to execute and deliver specified requests or authorizations that are needed in order...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-13
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| SB261 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Secretary of State Police to accept a background investigation performed on behalf of specified armored car companies in place of a specified criminal history records check performed by the Department of Public Safety and Correctional...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-13
Senators Muse, Lee, and Hough |
| SB923 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the governing body of Washington County to grant, by law, a property tax credit against the county property tax imposed on specified residential property owned by specified disabled veterans of active military, naval, or air service; prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB711 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring that specified required envelopes used by specified voters voting by absentee ballot to return their ballots include prepaid postage; requiring the State Board of Elections to reimburse counties for the costs of prepaid postage for the abse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-13
Senate Requests House Recede |
| SB393 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a court to order a defendant convicted of a specified charge of animal cruelty, as a condition of sentencing, to pay, in addition to any other fines and costs, all reasonable costs incurred in removing, housing, treating, or euthanizing a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-13
Delegates Vallario, Rosenberg, and Anderson |
| SB708 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a unit from requiring a prime contractor and a prime contractor from requiring a subcontractor to begin change order work under a contract until the procurement officer for the unit issues a specified written change order; requiring, unde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-13
Third Reading Passed (47-0) |
| SB615 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering specified provisions of law concerning a credit against the State income tax for preservation and conservation easements to allow specified persons to claim the credit for an easement conveyed to the Maryland Environmental Trust, the Marylan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-13
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB681 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifying the rights of a subscriber for shares of stock of a corporation; providing that an individual, whether or not then a director, may assent to an action by a consent that will be effective at a future time under specified circumstances; prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-13
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB860 | Engross
Sine Die | Allowing a subtraction modification under the Maryland individual and corporate income tax for a taxable year beginning after December 31, 2016, but before January 1, 2026, for the additional expenses to purchase and apply specified qualified commerc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-11
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB831 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing provisions of law establishing the annual compensation of the judges of the Orphans' Court for Baltimore County; requiring the annual compensation of the judges of the Orphans' Court for Baltimore County to be as set by the County Executive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-11
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB833 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the circumstances under which a contractor under a public work contract is liable to the public body for specified damages; increasing the amount of liquidated damages from $20 to $250 for each specified laborer or other specified employee f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-11
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB934 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring specified records that a secondhand precious metal object dealer or pawnbroker is required to keep for specified purposes to include a photograph of each precious metal object acquired or pawned.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-11
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB703 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering, with specified exceptions, the attachment points above which a medical stop-loss insurer assumes liability for losses incurred by an insured; applying the altered attachment points to renewal of a policy or contract of medical stop-loss ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-11
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB696 | Engross
Sine Die | repealing the offense for taking oysters with gear that is prohibited in a specified area; establishing an offense for taking oysters with a power dredge in a specified area; altering the administrative penalties that apply to a person for knowingly ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-10
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (137-0) |
| SB132 | Engross
Sine Die | Making a local jurisdiction's designation of an official or employee to investigate and respond to questions or concerns about the local jurisdiction's speed monitoring system program subject to the approval of the governing body of the local jurisdi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-10
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| SB420 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing the maximum amount from $10,000 to $15,000 that a court may allow for specified funeral expenses; establishing that, if an estate is solvent, a personal representative is not required to obtain an allowance by the court for funeral expense...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-10
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB638 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring Washington County to implement and enforce modifications of the Maryland Building Performance Standards adopted by the State no later than 6 months after adoption for specified portions of the Standards, starting with modifications that are...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-10
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| SB941 | Engross
Sine Die | Revising the Maryland Uniform Interstate Family Support Act; identifying the Child Support Enforcement Administration as the support enforcement agency of the State; extending the application of specified provisions of the Maryland Uniform Interstate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-10
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB428 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing for the revocation of specified terms of a revocable trust on the absolute divorce of the settlor and the settlor's spouse or the annulment of their marriage occurring after the creation of the settlor's revocable trust, except under specif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-09
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations |
| SB70 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a stay if a licensed funeral establishment notes an appeal from an order of summary suspension by the State Board of Morticians and Funeral Directors; authorizing a stay if a specified licensee notes an appeal from an order of summary suspe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-09
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations |
| SB915 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring specified appointing authorities to apply a specified credit on any selection test for specified positions in the State Personnel Management System for specified eligible volunteer fire, rescue, or emergency medical services providers; requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-09
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB894 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing the Pricing Committee for Blind Industries and Services of Maryland and merging the function of the Committee with the Pricing Selection Committee for the Employment Works Program; altering the membership and duties of a specified pricing a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-09
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB847 | Engross
Sine Die | Proposing amendments to the Maryland Constitution increasing to 73 from 70 years the mandatory retirement age for judges under specified circumstances; proposing an addition to the Maryland Constitution to provide for the application of specified ame...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-09
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB590 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempting from the personal property tax persons with personal property that has a total assessed value of $10,000 or less for the taxable year beginning after December 31, 2016, and each taxable year thereafter; requiring a person to annually apply ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-08
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB917 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from advertising for specified junk and scrap metal services unless the person holds a specified license; requiring specified junk dealers and scrap metal processors to provide the license number of the licensee in an advertiseme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-08
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB191 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifying that a member of the State Retirement and Pension System may not receive creditable service for unused sick leave at retirement unless the leave was available to the member to be used as sick leave during employment; and clarifying the def...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-07
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB839 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the County Commissioners of St. Mary's County to provide that a violation of specified ordinances is punishable as a misdemeanor and enforced in a specified manner and to a specified extent and is a civil infraction and shall be prosecute...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-07
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB840 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing an ordinance enacted by St. Mary's County regarding property maintenance to provide for a voluntary agreement between the county and an owner of real property for remediation by the county of specified conditions constituting a nuisance; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-07
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB727 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Police Training Commission to require a specified statement condemning motorcycle profiling to be included in existing written policies regarding other profiling; requiring the Commission to include in specified curriculum and courses o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-07
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB380 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration, when it registers a Class L (historic) vehicle or Class N (street rod) vehicle, to issue a single registration plate for the vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-07
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB627 | Engross
Sine Die | Excluding from a specified calculation the cost to provide building features required under accessibility laws; requiring the State Board of Education in collaboration with county governing bodies and county boards of education, to study specified is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-07
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB322 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to award a reward to a person providing information leading to a conviction for a violation of specified nuisance organism laws or regulations; requiring a specified reward to be paid from specified fin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-06
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| SB912 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Director of Human Resources of Kent County to request from the Criminal Justice Information System Central Repository of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services a State and national criminal history records check for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB12 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a local department of social services to maintain specified reports of suspected abuse or neglect and all assessments and investigative findings for specified periods of time; and increasing the time period after which a local department is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-06
Senators Ramirez, Norman, and Raskin |
| SB889 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim July 2 as Thurgood Marshall Day; and requiring the proclamation to urge educational and cultural organizations to observe Thurgood Marshall Day properly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB544 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring that the statewide information technology master plan developed by the Secretary of Information Technology include a cybersecurity framework; and requiring that the Secretary consider materials developed by the National Institute of Standar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-03
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| SB524 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Human Resources to serve in a fiduciary capacity for children in its custody; requiring the Department, in any action, service, or decision on behalf of a child in its custody, to protect and serve the best interest of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-03
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| SB832 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Commission on the Long-Term Care Medical Assistance Program Eligibility Determination Process; providing for the composition, chair, duties, and staffing of the Commission; requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-02
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB830 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists to issue a provisional license for one year to an individual to practice clinical alcohol and drug counseling, clinical marriage and family therapy, clinical professional art thera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-02
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| SB624 | Engross
Sine Die | Creating a Task Force to Study the Expansion of Career and Technical Education in Maryland; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving compensation, but authorizing the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-02
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB471 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study the Provision of Health Care Coverage to Uninsured Marylanders; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; establishing the purpose of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to submit ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-02
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB313 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a holder of a Class B beer, wine, and liquor license in the 47th legislative district in Prince George's County that obtains a special entertainment permit to allow an individual at least a specified age to be present on the licensed prem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-02
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB487 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a family child care home that participates in the Maryland Child Care Subsidy Program to register with the State Department of Education and comply with specified regulations concerning registration, subject to specified exceptions; requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-02
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
