| SB381 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Secretary of General Services and the Secretary of Transportation to cause the POW/MIA flag to be flown on the grounds of State buildings under their control whenever the flag of the United States is flown; defining "POW/MIA flag" as th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-06
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1258 | Intro
Sine Die | Reducing the penalty for possessing or administering a specified controlled dangerous substance from up to 4 years imprisonment to a maximum 1 year or a fine from up to $25,000 to a maximum of $1,000; and making specified conforming changes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB484 | 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] | 2015-03-06
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB445 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing a subtraction modification under the State income tax for 50% of the business income received by the owner of a small business; providing that the subtraction may not exceed $50,000 for all of the owners of a small business; authorizing the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-06
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB260 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim March 13 as K9 Veterans Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-06
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB590 | Intro
Sine Die | Decreasing from 8.25% to 4% the State income tax rate on the Maryland taxable income of corporations with headquarters and base of operations in Allegany County or Washington County; providing for the application of the Act to all taxable years begin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-06
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB180 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim April 16 as National Healthcare Decisions Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-06
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB663 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the State Department of Assessments and Taxation from imposing a fee for the filing of specified documents by corporations or business entities with 10 or fewer employees; requiring specified corporations to compute Maryland taxable incom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-06
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB774 | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-06
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB696 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting recent high school graduates from payment of tuition to attend a community college in the State under specified circumstances; providing a 50% discount on tuition to unemployed individuals attending a community college in the State under sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-06
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB597 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Prince George's County Board of Education to install an outdoor synthetic turf field at each public high school in the county beginning in fiscal year 2016 through the end of fiscal year 2020; requiring specified fields to be constructe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-06
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB483 | 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] | 2015-03-06
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB536 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering a specified definition as it relates to a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax to allow the subtraction if a specified nutrient management plan is prepared by an individual with a specified certification instead of a specif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-06
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1021 | 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] | 2015-03-06
Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m. (Health and Government Operations) |
| SB114 | Intro
Sine Die | Designating a State tartan made up of a specified design and a specified thread count.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-06
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1257 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution to change the name of each Orphans' Court in this State to the Probate Court; submitting this amendment to the qualified voters of the State for their adoption or rejection; changing references to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1253 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2015-03-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1256 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission, in considering a certificate of need application for new comprehensive care facility beds, to apply the bed need projection that was published and in effect at the time the certificate of need was determ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1255 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring Internet Web sites and emails to contain specified information about licensed locksmiths under specified circumstances; requiring advertisements, directories of service providers, or search result information to include specified informatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1254 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to disclose specified information relating to the owner of a registered vessel to a specified dealer if requested for a specified purpose; limiting the information that the Department may disclose to a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB413 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing specified individuals a credit against the State income tax for the cost of specified veterinary services for adopted police dogs; providing that the credit may not exceed a specified amount; providing that the credit may not be carried forw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-06
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB174 | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-06
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1083 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing references to the terms "child custody" and "visitation" in specified instances and substituting the terms "legal decision making" and "parenting time" in specified instances; requiring the court, in determining the appropriate allocation o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB680 | 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] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB518 | Intro
Sine Die | Reforming the system of public financing of campaigns for the offices of Governor and Lieutenant Governor; establishing a Fair Elections Fund; providing for the contents and administration of the Fund; allocating specified fees and penalties that are...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m. (Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs) |
| HB788 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Loan Assistance Repayment Program for Orphans and Foster Care Recipients; establishing eligibility requirements for participation in the Program; providing for the amount, duration, renewal, and uses of specified awards; req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB425 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting an employer from taking any adverse employment action against an employee concerning an inquiry about or disclosure or discussion of an employee's wages; authorizing an employer, in a specified policy, to establish specified limitations o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB585 | 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] | 2015-03-05
Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m. |
| HB1079 | Intro
Sine Die | Removing the requirement that the maintenance of effort amount increase by a specified amount under specified circumstances; requiring county governing bodies to exclude the cost of a fixed term lease for a specified school facility from the maintena...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1060 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each local school system to offer the services of an independent facilitator to specified parents and school personnel; authorizing specified parents and school personnel to request the participation of an independent facilitator in a speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1248 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a medical school from using a live or dead animal in the medical education or training of students if alternate methods are used by specified other medical schools in the State; and establishing a penalty for violation of the Act not to e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1249 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Improve Suicide Prevention Programs for Veterans; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to study specified suicide prevention programs and develop a specified pla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1251 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding the scope of the training requirements under the Open Meetings Act to include all employees, officials, and members of a public body; requiring that specified individuals complete specified training within a specified time period; requiring...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB668 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an administrative law judge or a court to award reasonable attorney's fees to a prevailing parent in due process hearings that are held to resolve a dispute relating to the provision of a free appropriate public education to children with d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB529 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the process for filling a vacancy in the office of United States Senator; repealing the authority of the Governor to make an appointment to fill a vacancy in the office of United States Senator under specified circumstances; requiring the Go...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB937 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Prince George's County Board of Education to develop curriculum content for a course in financial literacy as a part of the county board's high school curriculum; requiring the county board to implement specified curriculum content in h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB667 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a political committee to file a contribution report within 48 hours after receiving a single contribution, transfer, or loan of $1,000 or more during the year of an election in which the political committee is participating; requiring contr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB648 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting specified individuals who enroll as full-time certificate or associate's degree students at a community college in the State from payment of tuition under specified circumstances; providing the conditions under which an individual is no lon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB538 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study a Program for Interest-Free Loans to STEM College Students in Maryland; providing for the composition, including one member each from the Senate and House of Delegates of Maryland, cochairs, and staffing of the Ta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB478 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a fiscal note for a bill to include a criminal justice policy impact statement if the bill creates a criminal offense, significantly alters the elements of an existing criminal offense, alters the penalties applicable to a criminal offense,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB888 | Intro
Sine Die | Creating a rebuttable presumption in specified court proceedings that specified custodial arrangements are in the best interests of a child; and authorizing the court to grant sole custody under specified circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB763 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study the Effectiveness of Teacher Education Programs in the Instruction of Reading; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving specified ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB565 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a redeemable ground rent to be redeemed on the occurrence of specified events; requiring that, if a collection or enforcement procedure has been instituted to collect a past due ground rent, the default must be cured before the ground rent ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB587 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a motor vehicle manufacturer, distributor, or factory branch from committing specified acts relating to motor vehicle pricing; requiring a manufacturer, distributor, or factory branch to ensure that any advertisement it directs to consume...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m. (Finance) |
| HB344 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring specified public agencies to bear a specified burden of proof in due process hearings that are held to resolve a dispute relating to the provision of a free appropriate public education; providing a specified exception for a parent or guard...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB713 | 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] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB611 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an official publisher that publishes legal material in an electronic record to designate the electronic record as official, under specified circumstances, and authenticate the electronic record in a specified manner; providing that specifie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB673 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting specified individuals who enroll as full-time certificate or associate's degree students at a community college in the State from payment of tuition under specified circumstances; providing the conditions under which an individual is no lon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB292 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from causing a specified instrument to be recorded in the land records of a county under specified circumstances; requiring a clerk of the circuit court to send a specified notice to the parties named in a deed or other instrumen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB350 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a court, in any child custody or visitation proceeding, from making any negative inference regarding a parent's past, present, or future deployment; altering specified provisions relating to expedited hearings; authorizing a party or witn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
