| SB448 | Intro
Sine Die | Adding a new article to the Maryland Constitution to govern congressional districts; requiring congressional districts to conform to specified standards and that due regard be given to specified boundaries; requiring the Governor to prepare a congres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB364 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Delegate Howard P. Rawlings Program of Educational Excellence Awards in the State to be awarded to the neediest students to ensure the payment of 100 percnet of educational costs and to low and moderate income students for payment as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB519 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a system of public financing of campaigns for specified General Assembly candidates; requiring the State Board of Elections to administer the system; requiring the Comptroller to credit to the Fair Campaign Financing Fund money collected...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB512 | 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] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB424 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering a specified provision of law concerning equal pay for equal work to prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender identity; prohibiting an employer from discriminating between employees in any occupation by providing less favorable employme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB445 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that the Judicial Ethics Committee rather than the Commission on Judicial Disabilities shall administer and implement specified provisions of law that apply to State officials of the Judicial Branch; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB480 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Commission on Rental Housing Stabilization; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Commission; prohibiting a member of the Commission from receiving specified compensation; requiring the Commission to investigate s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB996 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a requirement that a homeowner submit a specified application to the Department of Assessments and Taxation to receive the homestead property tax credit; repealing specified deadlines and procedures for filing the application for the homest...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB876 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an animal shelter to develop and adhere to a specified written veterinary care protocol; stating specified requirements for the written veterinary protocol; requiring an animal shelter to meet specified veterinary care requirements; requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB213 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a specified holder of an alcoholic beverages license or a specified employee to sell or furnish beer or wine for consumption on the premises of a bar or restaurant to an active duty member of the armed forces of the United States who is a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB440 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring all expenditures of revenues in the major budget categories to be reported by a county board of education to the State Department of Education at both the school level and the local education agency level.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB872 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an individual who is convicted of a specified alcohol offense to participate in the Ignition Interlock System Program for specified periods of time and to successfully complete the Program; requiring the Administration to suspend for an ind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB197 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the governing body of a municipality, by ordinance, to establish a Vacant and Blighted Buildings Registry and to require an owner of a vacant building to register it within 30 days after the building becomes vacant under specified circums...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB324 | Intro
Sine Die | Excluding a contract for architectural or engineering services from the requirement to include a liquidated damages provision that applies in the event the contractor fails to comply in good faith with specified provisions relating to minority busine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB569 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a prohibition on the inclusion, in a policy that insures a health care provider against damages due to medical injury arising from providing or failing to provide health care, of coverage for the defense of a health care provider in a speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
Recommitted to Finance (Senator Middleton) |
| SB57 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing or altering the distribution of specified revenue; altering or repealing specified required appropriations; authorizing the use of specified funds for specified purposes; providing for the transfer of specified funds; repealing a specifie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB625 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding the responsibility of service centers established by the Department of Veterans Affairs; requiring the Department to provide veterans with employment-related services; specifying the types of employment-related services provided to veterans...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB646 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that a specified defendant or party may not be provided a specified representation by specified personnel of the Office of the Public Defender if the representation would violate specified caseload standards; providing that a specified defe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB901 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that a specified organization representing standardbred owners and trainers set an amount not less than 1% or more than 2% to be deducted from purses offered in specified races to be paid to the organization; and repealing specified require...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB1236 | Intro
Sine Die | Decreasing from 3 years to 2 years the number of years of experience in providing specified real estate brokerage services that an individual applying for a real estate broker license is required to have to qualify for the license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1235 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a specified court to refer a specified matter to the Department of Juvenile Services for a specified informal adjustment under specified circumstances; prohibiting a specified court from referring a specified matter if there is an objecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB900 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a physician who performs or induces an abortion to have admitting privileges at a hospital that meets specified criteria; requiring a physician, before performing or inducing an abortion, to provide the woman terminating her pregnancy with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB806 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution requiring a special election to fill a vacancy in the office of Delegate or Senator if the vacancy occurs at a specified time during the term of office; requiring that a special election be held con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1240 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing in Frederick County a Class B-CC (conference center) license, a Class BLX (luxury restaurant) license, and a Class MEC (micro-brewery/entertainment center) license; specifying requirements for the licensed establishments; specifying the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1246 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Law Enforcement Communications Technology Procurement Task Force; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to study and make recommendations about any changes that may be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB595 | 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] | 2015-03-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB532 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a police officer to direct a person to submit to specified tests if the person is involved in a motor vehicle accident that results in the death of, or a life-threatening injury to, another person and the police officer has reasonable groun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB733 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a pharmacist to substitute an interchangeable biological product for specified prescribed products only under specified circumstances; requiring a pharmacist or a specified designee of a pharmacist to inform retail consumers of the availa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB604 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution authorizing the counties and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to enact legislation authorizing a special election to fill a vacancy in the office of Delegate or Senator; establishing that if ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB531 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing specified criminal and civil prohibitions against the use and possession of marijuana; establishing specified exemptions from prosecution for specified persons for using, obtaining, purchasing, transporting, or possessing marijuana under sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
Hearing 3/04 at 1:00 p.m. (Judicial Proceedings) |
| HB690 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing specified provisions of law requiring or authorizing specified counties to grant property tax setoffs to municipal corporations within the county; requiring a county to grant a property tax setoff to a municipal corporation in accordance wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB982 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Redeemable Beverage Container and Litter Reduction Program; stating the purpose of the Program; establishing the Maryland Beverage Recycling Organization; establishing the structure and purpose of the Organization; specifyin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
Hearing 3/04 at 1:00 p.m. (Environment and Transportation) |
| SB552 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an insurer that issues a policy of group life insurance under specified provisions of law to pay, to the beneficiary designated by an individual insured under a certificate issued under the policy, the certificate death benefit if the insur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB879 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the governing body of Anne Arundel County or of a municipal corporation in Anne Arundel County to grant, by law, a tax credit against the county or municipal corporation property tax imposed on specified property owned or leased by a bene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB506 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each county board of education to establish a specified wellness committee to discuss issues relating to the physical, mental, and social health and well-being of students and make specified recommendations; providing for the membership of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB573 | 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] | 2015-03-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB545 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from intentionally and willfully taking specified actions relating to unauthorized access to computer services with the intent to interrupt or impair the functioning of a service, device, or system related to the production, tran...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB504 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a county board of education to develop and implement a policy that requires that all foods and beverages sold from a vending machine in an area of a public school that is accessible to students at any time during the day comply with specifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB505 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring specified county boards to develop a specified plan on or before August 1, 2016, for reducing specified students' total sugar intake per school meal based on specified recommendations; requiring specified county boards to convene a specifie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB683 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Education to submit a request for proposals on or before August 1, 2016, for up to five operators who will provide students in the State with a Next Generation School to be operated under the supervision of the State Boar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB423 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a person who is convicted of driving while under the influence of alcohol to successfully complete the Ignition Interlock System Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1085 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for specified tolls paid through the use of the E-ZPass Maryland program; requiring a taxpayer to submit specified documentation to qualify for the subtraction modification; defining s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB476 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, by December 1, 2015, the Department of Juvenile Services to prepare and submit to the General Assembly a specified assessment of the feasibility of repealing specified provisions of law relating to offenses excluded from the jurisdiction o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB903 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the sales and use tax exemption for the sale of precious metal bullion or coins if the sale price is greater than $1,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB391 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the Office of the Public Defender or a panel attorney from continuing representation after a specified bail hearing unless financial eligibility is determined; requiring the Office of the Public Defender to investigate the financial statu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB367 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution repealing provisions relating to election of circuit court judges; requiring the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint a qualified person to fill a vacancy in the of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB928 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a specified exemption from the sales and use tax for specified agricultural products and equipment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB964 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifying that the exemption from the sales and use tax for food sold for consumption off the premises by specified food vendors does not apply to specified snack food; repealing the exemption from the sales and use tax for specified snack food sold...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB581 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Design Excellence Commission; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Commission; prohibiting a member of the Commission from receiving specified compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement of specified...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB824 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a landlord from using a lease containing a provision that requires a tenant to carry renter's insurance naming the landlord as beneficiary; prohibiting a landlord renting four or more residential units from evicting a tenant in the absenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-03
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
