| SB146 | Pass | Repealing specified requirements that specified claimants provide a specified insurer with specified information relating to health care treatment and economic damages before the insurer is required to disclose to the claimants specified coverage lim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-30
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 476 |
| SB743 | Pass | Requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene, under specified circumstances, to make a new certificate of birth for an individual whose sex has been changed or who has been diagnosed with an intersex condition; requiring that a specified sex ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-30
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 484 |
| SB409 | Pass | Requiring the Department of the Environment to adopt regulations to provide for the hydraulic fracturing of a well for the exploration or production of natural gas in the State on or before October 1, 2016; prohibiting specified regulations adopted b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-30
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 480 |
| SB905 | Pass | Repealing specified termination provisions for the tax credit allowed for specified film production activities; limiting the amount of film production activity tax credit certificates that the Secretary of Business and Economic Development may issue ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-30
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 486 |
| SB183 | Pass | Requiring that the county boards of education receive a specified grant to reflect regional differences in the cost of education that are due to factors outside of the control of the local jurisdiction; repealing a provision that allowed for the redu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-30
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 477 |
| SB264 | Pass | Increasing to $20 from $10 specified appearance of counsel fees collected or charged by the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Calvert County; and altering the purposes for which the appearance fees deposited into the Calvert County Law Library Fund may ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-30
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 478 |
| SB416 | Pass | Prohibiting insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from requiring specified conditions of coverage for specified infertility benefits for a patient who is married to an individual of the same sex; providing tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-30
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 482 |
| SB490 | Pass | Establishing the Capital Grant Program for Local School Systems With Significant Enrollment Growth or Relocatable Classrooms; requiring the Interagency Committee on Public School Construction to implement and administer the Program; specifying requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 355 |
| SB60 | Pass | Clarifying that if more than one stockholder, partner, member, or employee of a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or other entity engaged in practicing law enters an appearance in an action or a case, the clerk of the circuit court...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 146 |
| SB344 | Pass | Altering the name of the Insect Sting Emergency Treatment Program to be the Emergency and Allergy Treatment Program; establishing the program as a means of authorizing specified individuals to administer life-saving treatment to individuals who have ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 342 |
| SB466 | Pass | Applying to Baltimore County a definition of "public school employee" that includes Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) instructors for the purpose of specified provisions of law related to organizations of certificated employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 352 |
| SB51 | Pass | Authorizing the Commission on African American History and Culture to provide operational funding to a museum that specializes in African American history and culture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 145 |
| SB554 | Pass | Establishing a fee of $1,000 that must be paid to the Maryland Insurance Commissioner for filing the annual statement by an unauthorized insurer applying for approval to become a certified reinsurer; correcting an obsolete reference; repealing an err...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 362 |
| SB422 | Pass | Requiring the Governor to proclaim annually October 2 as South Asian American Heritage Day; and requiring the proclamation to urge educational and cultural organizations to properly observe South Asian American Heritage Day with appropriate programs,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 169 |
| SB187 | Pass | Authorizing the Maryland Hospital Association, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene, health occupations boards, the Governor's Workforce Investment Board, and specified other entities and parties, to establish a workgroup t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 329 |
| SB637 | Pass | Altering the due date, from September 1 to November 1, of specified annual reports on the county hotel rental tax revenue distribution; repealing specified reporting requirements relating to the county hotel rental tax revenue; requiring the Washingt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 188 |
| SB443 | Pass | Creating in Harford County a permit to be issued by the Sheriff of Harford County that authorizes specified nonprofit organizations to conduct a gaming contest in Harford County; specifying requirements that organizations must meet to be issued a per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 173 |
| SB599 | Pass | Repealing specified provisions of law establishing an Expedited Partner Therapy Pilot Program in the Baltimore city Health Department; providing for the purpose of expedited partner therapy; authorizing licensed physicians, advanced practice register...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 183 |
| SB456 | Pass | Requiring a court to dismiss a specified possession of marijuana charge if the court finds that the person used or possessed marijuana because of medical necessity; requiring a court to dismiss a specified possession of drug paraphernalia charge rela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 351 |
| SB343 | Pass | Authorizing specified advisory bodies to issue informal advice instead of an advisory opinion; and specifying that information related to informal advice provided by an advisory body shall remain confidential and is not subject to specified publicati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 160 |
| SB444 | Pass | Clarifying that an official custodian is required to designate types of public records of the governmental unit that are to be made available and to maintain a current list of the types of public records that have been designated as available to any ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 350 |
| SB364 | Pass | Allowing an individual to resume participation in the Alternate Contributory Pension Selection in the Employees' Pension System or Teachers' Pension System if the individual has been separated from employment for more than 4 years, by June 30, 2011, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 163 |
| SB415 | Pass | Requiring the clerks of the circuit courts and registers of wills to make available to the public information about registering with the State donor registry; requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to provide a method by which an individual doing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 348 |
| SB639 | Pass | Exempting from a specified offset of a retirement allowance specified retirees of the Teachers' Retirement System or the Teachers' Pension System who are employed in specified positions in a local school system or the Maryland School for the Deaf; au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 189 |
| SB201 | Pass | Altering the requirements for the designation and appointment of a program administrator of a residential child care program; requiring the chief administrator or other appropriate program authority to forward to the State Board for the Certification...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 331 |
| SB441 | Pass | Requiring that a specified annual report made by the Maryland Energy Administration to the Governor and General Assembly include a detailed accounting of all amounts received by and disbursed from the Maryland Strategic Energy Investment Fund, includ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 172 |
| SB391 | Pass | Clarifying that a specified process for regulating crematories must provide for the registration of crematory operators or the issuance of permits for operating crematories; requiring specified applicants to the State Board of Morticians and Funeral ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 167 |
| SB882 | Pass | Altering the definition of "law enforcement unit" as it relates to the Baltimore City Civilian Review Board so as to increase the number of law enforcement units that are subject to review by the Board; altering the composition of the Board; requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 130 |
| SB133 | Pass | Authorizing funds in the Bay Restoration Fund, in fiscal 2016 and thereafter, to be used to pay up to 87.5% of the total cost of projects relating to combined sewer overflows abatement, rehabilitation of existing sewers, and upgrading specified conve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 153 |
| SB230 | Pass | Altering the age from 55 to 50 years old at which specified individuals may begin to receive benefits under the Length of Service Award Program for Calvert County; altering from $4 to $10 per month an additional amount that is payable under the Progr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 154 |
| SB816 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Higher Education Outreach and College Access Pilot Program targeting low-income Maryland high school students to determine if the program can lead to an increase in low-income students attending and succeeding in college; es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 200 |
| SB868 | Pass | Authorizing the establishment of transportation network services in the State; requiring specified motor vehicle insurance to be issued by specified insurers under specified circumstances; prohibiting a person from operating a specified motor vehicle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 204 |
| SB844 | Pass | Authorizing an individual who holds a Deer Management Permit to use a specified rifle to harvest deer throughout the year in Frederick County, subject to specified conditions; authorizing an agent of a permittee in a specified zone in Frederick Count...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 202 |
| SB910 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation to conduct a study of the availability, accessibility, and affordability of commercial motor vehicle insurance for motor carriers who want to employ entry-level commercial driver's license ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 208 |
| SB353 | Pass | Requiring a person who is negotiating a specified solar installation and interconnection contract with specified customer-generator to submit to the customer-generator's electric company a specified application; allowing a specified person to accept ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 161 |
| SB662 | Pass | Establishing the One Maryland Blue Ribbon Commission; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Commission; requiring the Commission to review the current State procurement process and develop policy recommendations to ensure transpar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 191 |
| SB829 | Pass | Exempting individuals licensed to practice audiology or speech-language pathology in another state or a foreign country from a specified licensure requirement while the individuals are providing a clinical demonstration or receiving clinical training...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 385 |
| SB410 | Pass | Adding Baltimore City to the list of local authorities that under specified circumstances may impose specified restrictions on vehicles passing over a bridge or culvert under the jurisdictions of the local authorities without the approval of the Stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 168 |
| SB68 | Pass | Repealing the requirement that the Department of Natural Resources establish a program in Charles County and St. Mary's County to train rifle shooters to hunt deer for the purpose of controlling the deer population; authorizing an individual who hold...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 147 |
| SB913 | Pass | Authorizing Washington County to use the proceeds from the issuance of specified bonds for specified purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 209 |
| SB88 | Pass | Altering the prohibition against a person hunting specified game birds by the aid of baiting or on or over a baited area to require that the person know or reasonably should know that the area is a baited area before a violation occurs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 148 |
| SB121 | Pass | Prohibiting a circuit court and the District Court, in ruling on a certain request by a judgment creditor for an examination in aid of enforcement of a specified judgment, from requiring the judgment creditor to show that good cause exists for the ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 152 |
| SB433 | Pass | Requiring licensed funeral establishments or holders of permits for the business of operating a crematory in the possession of unclaimed cremated human remains for 90 days or more to provide identifying information to specified veterans service organ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 349 |
| SB595 | Pass | Requiring specified public charter schools to take specified steps to maintain a specified ratio as part of the initial cohort of students in a grade; authorizing specified public charter schools to give specified students a greater weight to the stu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 311 |
| SB601 | Pass | Reestablishing the African American Heritage Preservation Program in the Maryland Historical Trust to identify and preserve buildings, communities, and sites of historical and cultural importance to the African American experience in the State; requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 371 |
| SB838 | Pass | Repealing provisions authorizing the County Commissioners of St. Mary's County to pass rules, regulations, or resolutions relating to dog licenses, the prohibition of dogs running at large off the property of the owner, the seizure and disposal of do...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 386 |
| SB185 | Pass | Naming the Workforce Shortage Student Assistance grant for child care providers to be the grant known as the Hattie N. Harrison Memorial Scholarship; and generally relating to the Workforce Shortage Student Assistance grants for child care providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 316 |
| SB508 | Pass | Prohibiting specified county boards of education and specified nonpublic schools from hiring or retaining specified individuals who have been convicted of specified crimes; requiring specified contracts to provide that specified contractors or subcon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 180 |
| SB592 | Pass | Increasing from $5,000 to $10,000 a subtraction modification under the State income tax for specified military retirement income for individuals who are at least 65 years old on the last day of the taxable year; and applying the Act to all taxable ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 125 |
| SB67 | Pass | Classifying the offense of home invasion as a crime of violence under specified provisions of law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 321 |
