| 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 |
| HB1198 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2015-04-09
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB615 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that a person may not be sanctioned for a violation of a condition of probation or parole for the sole reason that the person received a citation for the commission of a nonjailable civil offense, subject to a specified exception.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-09
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| 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 |
| HB1081 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Orange Ribbon for Healthy School Hours certification within the State Department of Education beginning in the 2016-2017 school year; providing that the purpose of the Orange Ribbon for Healthy School Hours certification is to recogn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-09
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| 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 |
| HB383 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Education and specified nonpublic schools to develop and implement a specified program relating to sexual abuse and assault awareness and prevention; and requiring a specified program to be incorporated into the health cu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-09
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| HB680 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that evidence of a conviction for a traffic offense may be admitted as evidence in a civil proceeding to prove specified facts under specified circumstances; requiring the trier of fact to determine the weight to be accorded evidence of a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-09
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB1137 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Education, in consultation with specified stakeholders, to report to specified committees of the General Assembly on or before December 31, 2015, on specified matters related to the local school system assessments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-09
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| HB476 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting an individual from operating a motor vehicle on a highway while wearing or using a wearable computer with a head-mounted display; and defining the term "wearable computer with a head-mounted display" as a computer device that is worn on a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-09
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| 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 |
| HB1073 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of the Environment to study the potential risks and impacts to the State in the event of a crude oil spill during rail transport in the State; requiring the Department to establish specified plans as part of the study; requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-08
To Senate Finance 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 |
| HB1158 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring an owner of specified residential rental property to submit certifications and affidavits to the Department of the Environment in order to maintain an exemption from lead-based paint risk reduction standards; providing that an exemption for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings 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 |
| HB491 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a minimum of $15,000 each sole proprietor registered cemeterian or permit holder operating a conservation cemetery is required to deposit initially into the perpetual care trust fund; requiring the Office of Cemetery Oversight to consider w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1133 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study the Warrant Intercept Program for Maryland Income Tax Refunds; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving specified compensation, bu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-07
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB1130 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the maximum penalty for driving a motor vehicle while a person's license or privilege to drive is suspended under specified provisions of State law; altering the maximum penalty for driving a motor vehicle while a person's license or privile...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings 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 |
| HB285 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to allow a person in Caroline County or Dorchester County to hunt any game bird or game mammal, except migratory game birds and wetland game birds, on a Sunday on specified land during the open season f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-03
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| HB1002 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to form a workgroup with representatives of county oyster committees to examine issues related to the composition and duties of county oyster committees; and requiring the workgroup to report its findings...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-03
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| HB494 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing a provision of law authorizing a District Court commissioner to set bond or commit persons to jail in default of bond or release them on personal recognizance if circumstances warrant; authorizing a police officer to charge by citation for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-03
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB252 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing the occurrence of a promotional event established under the Jane Lawton Farm-to-School Program in the Department of Agriculture to advocate State agriculture and farm products to children through school meal and classroom programs; and req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-03
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| 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 |
| HB40 | Engross
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 |
| HB127 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the date of the termination provisions from 2016 to 2015 relating to the statutory and regulatory authority of the State Board of Morticians and Funeral Directors; and altering from July 1, 2018, to July 1, 2017, the date of the requirement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-03
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| 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 |
| HB455 | Engross
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 |
| HB234 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting specified former State officials and specified former public officials of the Executive Branch from assisting or representing specified parties for compensation, for 1 year after leaving State employment, in a matter that is subject to le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-02
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| 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 |
| HB818 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the circumstances under which a driver may move out of or into a lane by authorizing the move when the driver has reasonably determined it is safe to do so and activated the appropriate turn signal; and prohibiting a person from moving a veh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-02
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| 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 |
| HB53 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that the clerk of a circuit court may charge a reasonable fee set by the State Court Administrator and not to exceed $60 for recording an affidavit of affixation or an affidavit of severance for a manufactured home.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-02
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB288 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifying that specified State and local entities may regulate the parking of vehicles on highways over which the entity has jurisdiction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-02
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB653 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission to adopt regulations governing the use of off-highway recreational vehicles on Commission property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-02
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB670 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a ticket seller or an operator of a ticket seller's Web site from prohibiting the transfer of a specified ticket, requiring an additional fee for the transfer of a specified ticket, or requiring a purchaser of a ticket to present specifie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-02
To Senate Finance Committee |
