| HB553 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a system for adjudication of a claim involving a birth-related neurological injury; excluding specified rights and remedies of a claimant and specified other persons; providing for specified procedures; providing for specified benefits a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-11
Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m. (Judiciary) |
| HB997 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Blue Ribbon Commission on Voting, Openness, Transparency, and Equality (VOTE) in Elections; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Commission; prohibiting a member of the Commission from receiving specified compens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB583 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a public body to provide an agenda containing specified information if the agenda has been determined at the time a public body gives notice of the meeting or if an agenda has not been determined at the time of the meeting notice, the publi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-11
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB431 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, beginning July 1, 2016, the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide dental services to postpartum women during a specified period; requiring that specified dental services for postpartum women be included as a benefit under a specif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1089 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Rural Economic Development Program to encourage businesses to locate and expand in the rural counties of the State; providing that for 10 taxable years after a business is designated as a qualified business under the Program, the bus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-11
Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m. (Economic Matters) |
| HB398 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the maximum amount of noneconomic damages that may be recovered in health care malpractice and other civil actions for a catastrophic injury under specified circumstances; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1008 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Elections and the Department of Natural Resources to jointly develop and implement procedures for persons who apply for the issuance or renewal of a recreational hunting or fishing license online to be offered the opportu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB406 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a procedure for the election and appointment of specified members of the Anne Arundel County Board of Education; repealing provisions governing the appointment of all members of the county board; requiring the County Executive of Anne Ar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-11
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1088 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting coordinated expenditures between candidates and outside spending organizations, as specified; specifying parameters, limitations, and exceptions regarding coordinated expenditures between candidates and outside spending organizations; spe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB455 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting public schools and publicly funded prekindergarten programs from opening for pupil attendance prior to the day after Labor Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-11
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB735 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifying that a person who is not a resident of the State and who is not prohibited from possessing a regulated firearm or ammunition for a regulated firearm in the person's state of residence may transport a regulated firearm or ammunition for a r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB841 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the requirement for the Comptroller to withhold Maryland income tax refunds of specified individuals with outstanding warrants to include residents of the Eastern Shore counties or individuals who have outstanding warrants from an Eastern Sh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB577 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that a telephone company is not required to file with the Public Service Commission a specified tariff schedule except under specified circumstances; limiting the type of services in which a telephone company may not establish a new rate un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1098 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Community Development Administration, after an application for low-income housing tax credits for a property that is owned by a public housing authority and that is to be transferred to a receiving entity, to include in a covenant speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB950 | 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] | 2015-03-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB593 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Comptroller to establish a checkoff on the individual income tax return through which specified individuals may make a contribution, not exceeding $500, to the Fair Campaign Financing Fund; providing that specified fines and penalties b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m. (Budget and Taxation) |
| HB38 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the earning of diminution credits to reduce the term of confinement of an inmate committed to the custody of the Commissioner of Correction or sentenced to a term of imprisonment in a local correctional facility who is serving a sentence ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB384 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that a law enforcement officer who has been convicted of or had a conviction set aside for a felony or a misdemeanor punishable by 1 year of imprisonment or more is not entitled to a hearing under the Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Right...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB240 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the State income tax rates for specified income of individuals; requiring the Comptroller to waive, under specified circumstances, interest and penalties imposed on an individual relating to payment of estimated income tax for calendar year ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB591 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the portion of highway user revenues that is distributed to local governments; altering the allocation of the local share of highway user revenues among Baltimore City, counties, and municipalities; and repealing obsolete language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m. |
| HB897 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the owner or operator of a facility with a synthetic infill turf field to post a specified sign in a conspicuous location informing individuals using the field of specified health and safety recommendations of the Department of Health and M...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB25 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a person to replace a lost or broken assault weapon that was lawfully possessed in accordance with specified provisions of law if the replacement is registered with the Secretary of State Police.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB464 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifying that a permit to carry a handgun, including a concealed handgun, issued to an individual by another state is valid in Maryland.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB21 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that specified provisions relating to a handgun qualification license do not apply to a qualified handgun instructor; establishing that a person may purchase, rent, or receive a handgun without a handgun qualification license if the pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB160 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the sale, offer for sale, rental, or transfer in the State of a handgun that is sold, offered for sale, rented, or transferred with an external safety lock as an alternative to an integrated mechanical safety device.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB984 | 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] | 2015-03-10
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB676 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a qualified patient to request aid in dying by making specified requests; prohibiting an individual from requesting aid in dying on behalf of a patient; requiring a written request for aid in dying to meet specified requirements; establis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB789 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing a credit against the State income tax for 50% of an investment, not to exceed specified amounts, made in a qualified innovation business; requiring a qualified investor to meet specified requirements in order to be eligible for the credit; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB104 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the governing body of Montgomery County to create, by local law, a Transit Authority to perform county transit functions as an instrumentality of the county and body corporate and politic and to create a special taxing district, impose a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| HB56 | 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] | 2015-03-10
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB708 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the annual salary of the members of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission from $13,500 to $22,500 for the Chair, from $13,000 to $22,000 for the vice chair, and from $13,000 to $22,000 for the commissioners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| SB332 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the number of resident judges of the circuit court in Baltimore, Charles, Montgomery, and Prince George's counties and Baltimore City; and increasing the number of resident judges of the District Court in District 5 (Prince George's County...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m. (Judicial Proceedings) |
| HB772 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a requirement that a person complete a specified firearms safety training course in order to be issued a handgun qualification license or a permit to carry, wear, or transport a handgun; and repealing a prohibition on selling, renting, or t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB589 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a requirement that specified motor fuel tax rates be adjusted in future years based on growth in the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers; repealing a requirement that a specified sales and use tax equivalent rate be determined in a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m. |
| HB188 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that a handgun permit issued to a retired law enforcement officer of the State or a county or municipal corporation of the State expires on the last day of the holder's birth month following 5 years after the date the permit is issued an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB638 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a person to use a power dredge to harvest oysters from any natural oyster bar in the State during a specified time period, subject to specified requirements and exceptions; authorizing the licensed oyster harvesters of each county to elec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| HB753 | Intro
Sine Die | Extending, from June 30, 2016, to June 30, 2019, the termination provisions for the credit allowed against the State income tax for specified film production activities; limiting the annual amount of film production activity tax credit certificates t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB991 | Intro
Sine Die | Changing the calculation of the interest rate on tax deficiencies and refunds to set the interest rate at 11%; repealing a requirement that the Comptroller annually set the interest rate; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1024 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifying that a person who applies for the renewal of a handgun permit is not required to be fingerprinted except under specified circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB822 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering a limitation on claiming the income tax credit for eligible long-term care insurance premiums for more than 1 year with respect to the same insured individual; altering the amount of the credit from a one-time $500 credit to a maximum of $25...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB608 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the application of specified provisions of law requiring an insurer to provide specified proof of insurance under specified circumstances; authorizing specified proof of insurance to be delivered by electronic means in a specified manner und...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB767 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifying that self-defense can qualify as a good and substantial reason to wear, carry, or transport a handgun for purposes of the issuance by the Secretary of State Police of a permit to carry, wear, or transport a handgun.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB718 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that a specified additional cash award provided to specified State employees under the Innovative Idea Awards Program for innovative ideas shall be equal to 10% of the savings or gain to the State from the innovative idea; and repealing the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1025 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing specified authority of a school vehicle to make a right turn, or a left turn from a one-way street onto a one-way street, after stopping at a steady red signal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| HB749 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the governing boards of specified institutions of higher education to update and submit to the Maryland Higher Education Commission a specified written policy on sexual assault by August 1, 2016; requiring the sexual assault policy to inclu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB854 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing a specified credit against the State income tax for a specified amount of donations to community colleges in the State; requiring specified taxpayers to add a specified deduction back to federal adjusted gross income to determine Maryland ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB953 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for contributions to a specified first-time homebuyer savings account during a taxable year and specified earnings on the account; providing that an account holder may claim the subtra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB305 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a unit authorized by law to adopt regulations from adopting proposed regulations during the period beginning the day after a statewide general election for Governor and ending the day when the succeeding Governor takes office if the Gover...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations |
| HB960 | Intro
Sine Die | Including income from specified retirement plans and unearned income sources within a subtraction modification allowed under the Maryland income tax for specified individuals who are at least 65 years old or who are disabled or whose spouse is disabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB870 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for any income received by an individual who is at least 65 years old or is totally disabled; applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2014; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
