| HB874 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the requirement that, on or before July 1, 2013, a county or municipality subject to a specified municipal stormwater permit adopt and implement laws or ordinances to establish a watershed protection and restoration program; repealing the r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| HJ4 | Intro
Sine Die | Committing to the residents of the State that there will be a 4-year moratorium on increasing any existing taxes, establishing any new taxes, and mandating any additional regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1266 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from selling, offering for sale, or distributing powdered caffeine; establishing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to specified penalties; and defining the term "powdered c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1276 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing from 2 years to 10 years the number of years within which a disabled law enforcement officer or rescue worker must have acquired specified residential property in order to qualify for a specified property tax credit against the county or m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB323 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that if the owner of specified land or the owner's agent contracts for the provision of specified services, the land and any improvements are subject to the establishment of a mechanics' lien for the payment of all debts, without regard ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| HB1274 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing specified standards for dredge boats that harvest oysters or clams while propelled by an auxiliary yawl boat.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB271 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a local jurisdiction to obtain a quarterly audit of its speed monitoring systems conducted by a qualified independent person; and requiring the results of the audit to be kept on file and admitted as evidence in a specified proceeding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| HJ5 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging the members of the Maryland Congressional Delegation to work with Congress and the United States Department of the Interior to extend goose hunting and duck hunting season on the Eastern Shore to run through February of each year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1271 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the consumption of alcoholic beverages outdoors in specified portions of specified streets in the City of Hagerstown if the consumption occurs during a street festival and the alcoholic beverages are purchased from an establishment locate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1059 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Attorney General to take specified steps to identify, collect, and publish in a specified manner laws that impose a specified collateral sanction on a person who is convicted of a specified offense; requiring a State's Attorney to provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| HB1275 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the computation of a specified homeowner's property tax credit; increasing, from $60,000 to $75,000, the limitation on a homeowner's combined gross income amount for eligibility for the credit; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1273 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Somerset County Sanitary Commission to request the county tax collector to conduct a sale of real property to enforce a lien representing specified unpaid benefit assessments or other specified charges in accordance with the same proc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1100 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that a specified fiduciary institution is not prohibited from disclosing to a federal investigation agency, without a subpoena being served on the institution, an individual's financial records for use by the federal investigation agency on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB989 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring specified Executive Branch agencies and the Department of Legislative Services to prepare economic impact analyses for specified bills that impact local government land use decisions; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB248 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $100,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Pigtown Main Street, Inc. for the acquisition, planning, design, construction, repair, renovation, reconstruction, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation; Withdrawn |
| HB481 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the requirement that, on or before July 1, 2013, a county or municipality subject to a specified municipal stormwater permit adopt and implement laws or ordinances to establish a watershed protection and restoration program; repealing the r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| HB607 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the governing body of Prince George's County to grant a property tax credit against the county property tax imposed on specified residential real property; providing that the property tax credit for each qualified property may not exceed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn |
| SB776 | Intro
Sine Die | Renaming the Department of Business and Economic Development to be the Department of Economic Competitiveness and Commerce; renaming the Secretary of Economic Development to be the Secretary of Commerce; establishing an Office of the Secretary of Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Hearing 3/09 at 2:00 p.m. |
| SB775 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Advisory Council on the Impact of Regulations on Small Businesses in the Department of Business and Economic Development; providing for the purpose, composition, chair, staffing, and meetings of the Advisory Council; prohibiting a me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Hearing 3/09 at 2:00 p.m. |
| SB773 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study Exemptions from Higher Education Ethics Requirements and Procurement Rules to Facilitate Technology Transfer; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to revie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Hearing 3/09 at 2:00 p.m. (Finance) |
| SB774 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the State Customer Service and Business Development Efforts Training Program to increase the responsiveness of and improve customer service provided by State agencies to businesses and customers in the State; requiring the Office of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Hearing 3/09 at 2:00 p.m. |
| SB772 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing an apprenticeship pilot program called Apprenticeship Maryland and identifying the purpose of the Program; providing for the Program to begin in the summer of 2016 and continue for 2 years; requiring the State Department of Education, in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Hearing 3/09 at 2:00 p.m. (Finance) |
| HB659 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Attorney General to take certain steps to identify, collect, and publish in a specified manner laws that impose a specified collateral sanction on a person who is convicted of a specified offense; requiring a State's Attorney to provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| HB651 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting a person who does not own or did not own during the preceding calendar year property that is subject to property tax from filing a specified annual report on personal property to the State Department of Assessments and Taxation; requiring t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn |
| HB927 | Intro
Sine Die | Setting the homestead property tax credit percentage for Prince George's County at 110%.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn |
| HB792 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county or municipal corporation to grant, by law, a property tax credit against the county or municipal corporation property tax imposed on specified residential prop...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn |
| SB682 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, under specified circumstances, that electric vehicles registered in Virginia that qualify for the use of high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes in Virginia be allowed to use HOV lanes in Maryland; requiring the State Highway Administration to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB499 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a license endorsement to provide microdermabrasion services and a limited license to provide hair braiding services and specified limited cosmetology services; repealing specified provisions relating to a limited license to provide hair ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| SB686 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Attorney General to take specified steps to identify, collect, and publish in a specified manner laws that impose a specified collateral sanction on a person who is convicted of a specified offense; requiring a State's Attorney to provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB647 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring private insurers that deny, cancel, or nonrenew specified coverage for commercial property insurance or homeowner's insurance to provide notice to specified applicants or insureds of the potential availability of insurance coverage through ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| HB710 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Chief Executive Officer of the Prince George's County public school system, together with the Prince George's County Board of Education, the County Executive of Prince George's County, and the Prince George's County Parent Teacher Assoc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB253 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Elections to execute a memorandum of agreement to participate in the Interstate Crosscheck Program for purposes of identifying possible duplicate voter registration records and instances of individuals who voted more than...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means |
| HB249 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting an employer from requiring, as a condition of employment or continued employment, an employee or a prospective employee to join or remain a member of a labor organization, pay charges to a labor organization, or pay a specified amount to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| SB305 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from knowingly and willfully taking the scrap metal of another without authorization; establishing specified penalties for a violation of the Act; requiring a specified person to pay the value of specified repairs or replacements...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB706 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Alternatives to Suspension Pilot Program in Prince George's County and identifying the purpose of the Program; providing for the duration of the Program; requiring the Prince George's County Board of Education to select three high sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn |
| HB695 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that vertical reciprocating conveyors are not considered elevators for specified purposes and are regulated by specified safety standards; and requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to adopt specified regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters; Withdrawn |
| HB446 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing an exemption from personal property tax between July 1, 2015, and June 30, 2020, for property purchased on or after July 1, 2015, and owned by specified businesses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn |
| SB570 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that, notwithstanding any provision in the declaration, bylaws, or rules and regulations of the condominium, a council of unit owners has the right to be involved in a specified manner in specified litigation or administrative proceeding...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| HB676 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Higher Education Investment Tax Credit Program to authorize tax credits against the State income tax, public service company franchise tax, and insurance premium tax equal to 50% of the donation made to specified eligible higher educ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn |
| HB768 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the calculation of the annual interest rate that the Comptroller sets for tax deficiencies and refunds as the lesser of 13% or 3 percentage points above the average prime rate of interest quoted by commercial banks to large businesses during...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB343 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing specified limitations, and specified exceptions to specified limitations, on the retention proceeds under the terms of specified construction contracts or of any payment due to a contractor or a subcontractor under the terms of specified co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters; Withdrawn |
| HB798 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the State Board of Plumbing from denying a license to any applicant, reprimand any licensee, or suspend or revoke a license on the ground that the applicant or licensee has been convicted of a nonviolent crime involving a controlled dange...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters; Withdrawn |
| HB410 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that specified provisions of law authorizing the issuance of a civil citation for specified red signal-related traffic offenses do not apply to a violation in which a motor vehicle makes a right turn under specified circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| SB306 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the requirement that a defendant must be charged specifically with reckless endangerment to be found guilty of reckless endangerment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB372 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring specified mortgage lenders to inspect specified residential properties for evidence of abandonment under specified circumstances; requiring specified mortgage lenders to maintain vacant and abandoned property in a specified manner; requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| HB85 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that the name of each candidate seeking election to the Montgomery County Board of Education appear on the primary election ballot if the number of candidates seeking election to the county board is equal to or less than the number of nomin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn |
| HJ6 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging State agencies to procure goods and services from businesses located in the State of Maryland.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1058 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a person to file a petition for expungement of a specified record if the person was convicted of a specified nonviolent crime; specifying that a petition for expungement under the Act may not be filed before satisfactory completion of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| HB400 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a State elected official, within 30 days after a public resource is used in connection with a specified campaign event, to submit to the State Board of Elections specified documentation and reimburse the State for the cost of the public res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn |
| HB373 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from preventing a candidate or any campaign volunteer accompanying a candidate from accessing specified private residential areas to campaign for elected office, register voters, or distribute campaign materials, except under spe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-09
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
