| SB271 | Intro
Sine Die | Including as an allowable expenditure of funds from a campaign account under the State election law a disbursement to pay for travel, lodging, meals, and registration expenses associated with attendance of an office holder or a candidate at meetings ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-13
Recommitted to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs (Senator Conway) |
| SB301 | Intro
Sine Die | Limiting the amount of a supersedeas bond required to stay the enforcement of a judgment in a civil action; authorizing a court to reduce further the amount of a supersedeas bond; providing a procedure by which an appellee may seek discovery for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-13
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB684 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Redeemable Beverage Container and Litter Reduction Program; stating the purpose of the Program; establishing the Maryland Beverage Recycling Organization; establishing the structure and purpose of the Organization; specifyin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-11
Referred to interim study by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB586 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring health maintenance organizations, insurers, and nonprofit health service plans that offer specified contracts and health benefit plans to submit to the Maryland Insurance Commissioner a report certifying and outlining how designated contrac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-10
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB373 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the minimum required percentage of energy that must be derived from Tier 1 renewable sources in the State's renewable energy portfolio standard in specified years; altering the minimum required percentage of Tier 1 renewable energy that must...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-10
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| SB642 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing funds from video lottery proceeds that are used for grants for investment capital and loans to small, minority, and women-owned businesses surrounding the video lottery facility in Allegany County to be used for those purposes anywhere in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-09
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation; Withdrawn |
| SB849 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing specified provisions of law that provide a separate jury proceeding to determine whether a person convicted of first degree murder is sentenced to imprisonment for life without the possibility of parole or imprisonment for life; establishin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-08
Recommitted to Judicial Proceedings (Senator Raskin) |
| SB938 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the Public Service Commission from taking final action on an application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the construction of a specified land-based wind generating station that will be wholly or partly located in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-07
Hearing 4/07 at 1:00 p.m. |
| SB351 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of investment for the cybersecurity investment incentive tax credit to include convertible debt; defining a specified term; and providing that the Act shall apply to investments made in qualified Maryland cybersecurity compani...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-06
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation; Withdrawn |
| SB141 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Maryland Medical Assistance Program, subject to the limitations of the State budget, and as permitted by federal law, to provide dental care for former foster care adolescents who, on their 18th birthday, were in foster care under the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-06
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB507 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Manufacturing Development Zone Program to encourage business entities engaged in manufacturing outside the State to invest in manufacturing facilities within the State; authorizing specified political subdivisions to apply to have sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-03
Referred to interim study by Budget and Taxation |
| SB875 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a secured party from obtaining a deficiency judgment or taking any other action to collect a deficiency in an action to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on owner-occupied residential property that was recorded on or after October 1, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-03
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB942 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution establishing that a specified constitutional provision may not be construed to require government-funded legal representation of an indigent defendant at an initial appearance before a District Cour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-03
Hearing 4/03 at 1:00 p.m. |
| SB387 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that specified provisions in a contract or an agreement relating to architectural, engineering, inspecting, or surveying services that purport to require the promisor or indemnitor to defend or pay the costs of defending specified promisees...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-03
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB386 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the contents of the certificate of a qualified expert to include a statement from a qualified expert that the licensed professional failed to meet an applicable standard of professional care and supervision; applying the Act prospectively; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-03
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB756 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the court to send the mortgagor or grantor a specified checklist when a specified foreclosure action is filed in Prince George's County; prohibiting a lender from maintaining an action to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on residential...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-03
Recommitted to Judicial Proceedings (Senator Rosapepe) |
| SB936 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring Internet Web sites and electronic mail to contain specified information about licensed locksmiths under specified circumstances; requiring advertisements, directories of service providers, or search result information to include specified i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-02
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB539 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "in-office ancillary services" to include specified oncology group practices or offices of oncologists that provide specified radiation therapy services or computer tomography services; providing that specified prohibitions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-02
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB935 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study the Recruitment, Retention, and Promotion of Teachers in Maryland Using the Principles of Human Capital Strategy; providing for the membership, chair, and staff for the Task Force; providing that members of the Ta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-01
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB939 | Intro
Sine Die | Limiting the authority of the governing body of Prince George's County to set a county property tax rate higher than the rate authorized under the county's charter for the purpose of funding the approved budget of the Prince George's County Board of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-01
Hearing 4/01 at 1:00 p.m. |
| SB594 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the amount of a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for specified qualifying volunteer fire, rescue, and emergency medical services members; providing a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax under specif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-30
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation |
| SB31 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the subtraction modification under the State income tax from $5,000 to $10,000 of military retirement income received for retirees at least 65 years old on the last day of the taxable year; applying the Act to taxable years beginning after...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-30
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation; Withdrawn |
| SB532 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing requirements for the form and content of specified livestock production contracts; requiring livestock production contracts to be reviewed by the Attorney General; establishing that contract producers have specified rights; prohibiting s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-30
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| SB911 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Office of the Comptroller to issue a special event liquor permit to a holder of a Class 2 manufacturer's license for specified purposes under specified circumstances; establishing limitations on the number and locations of special eve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB919 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from engaging in an activity or a strategy to implement a State Watershed Implementation Plan until the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency completes and publishes the 2017 Chesapeake Bay midpoint assessment and the University o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB920 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing holders of specified licenses, after paying the excise tax, to provide without cost specified alcoholic beverages to a holder of a special Class C beer and wine or special Class C beer, wine and liquor license; defining a specified term; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB931 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing specified provisions of law relating to the designation of a harvest reserve area for oysters; repealing specified provisions of law relating to county oyster committees and a statewide committee of oystermen; requiring the licensed oyster ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB887 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the State Board of Dental Examiners from requiring a person to be licensed by the Board in order to engage in specified activities in the State; and altering the definition of "practice dentistry".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27
Referred to interim study by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB876 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the requirements for the debt instrument required to be filed with an order to docket or complaint to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on residential property; altering the requirements for a lost note affidavit in a residential foreclo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB877 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an action to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on residential property to be commenced by filing a complaint; requiring practice and procedure in an action to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on residential property to be governed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB547 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that when overtaking a bicycle, an EPAMD, or a motor scooter, the driver of a vehicle is required to pass at a safe speed; and repealing a specified exception to a specified requirement that a driver overtake and pass a bicycle, an EPAMD, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB835 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a lender from maintaining an action to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on residential property in the State for a specified period of time; requiring the Office of the Attorney General to study, evaluate, and make recommendations re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB904 | Intro
Sine Die | Making the crime of human trafficking in a case in which the victim of the crime is an adult a felony, rather than a misdemeanor; and making a conforming change.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB899 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Public Service Commission to evaluate the extent to which an applicant's plan for a specified proposed offshore wind project directly or indirectly encroaches on existing private, State, federal, or military infrastructure, resources, f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB329 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a party who requests the issuance of a subpoena in a civil action to compel the attendance of a police officer employed by the Baltimore County Police Department to reimburse the Police Department for the cost of the police officer's salary...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB659 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the authority of an employer to include as part of an employee's wage an amount to represent the tips of the employee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| SB688 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an employer to provide employees with a specified work schedule within a specified time period, notify employees of specified changes, and provide employees with a new work schedule within 24 hours after making a change to the initial sched...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB777 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring contractors and subcontractors under public work contracts subject to the prevailing wage rate law to pay the full cost of specified apprenticeship programs unless the contractor or subcontractor participates in an apprenticeship training p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| SB140 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing an alcoholic beverages inspector for Kent County to issue a citation if the inspector has probable cause to believe that specified offenses involving the distribution of tobacco products or paraphernalia or the possession of tobacco produ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB778 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study Issues Related to the Use of Self-Driving Vehicles; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to make specified determinations, review specified information, co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB787 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to make available to an applicant for a driver's license, an identification card, or a moped operator's permit the opportunity to upgrade the document to be an enhanced identification document; establishing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB303 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from distributing heroin or fentanyl, the use of which is a contributing cause of the death of another; establishing penalties for a violation of the Act of up to 30 years in prison; providing that it is not a defense that the de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB871 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the conditions under which insurers, nonprofit health service plans, or health maintenance organizations may require a covered specialty drug to be obtained through a pharmacy participating in the provider network of the insurer, nonprofit h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB837 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a specified action to be brought to establish title against adverse claims to property; providing for jurisdiction, venue, and the application of specified statutes and rules in an action under the Act; establishing that an action is comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB811 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting specified organizations from using in their advertisements, marketing material, brochures, and discount cards a specified term in a specified context; prohibiting specified organizations from selling, marketing, or soliciting a specified ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB834 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering specified requirements for certification as a qualified health plan in the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange; prohibiting a qualified health plan from using a benefit design or implementing a benefit design in a manner that discriminates in a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB907 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation, on or before December 31, 2015, to adopt regulations establishing an apprenticeship program for nonexperienced ironworkers, in consultation with the Maryland Apprenticeship and Training Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
Hearing cancelled |
| SB908 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the purpose of a Maryland benefit corporation; clarifying that a director of a benefit corporation is required to perform the director's duties in accordance with a specified standard; authorizing a director to consider the effects of a spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB257 | Intro
Sine Die | Incorporating by reference specified nutrient management plan requirements in the Maryland Nutrient Management Manual of the Department of Agriculture and any supplements to the Manual; establishing specified content and criteria for a nutrient manag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
Recommitted to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs (Senator Pinsky) |
| SB933 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting, in a prosecution for a specified sexual offense, the court from barring the introduction of specified evidence that the defendant committed a prior sexual offense on the ground that the admission is unfairly prejudicial unless the court ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
