| HB108 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering specified fees for licenses for tobacco manufacturers, retailers, and storage warehouses; altering specified fees for licenses for other tobacco products manufacturers, retailers, tobacconists, and storage warehouses; requiring a specified l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
Hearing 2/24 at 1:00 p.m. (Ways and Means) |
| HB823 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to establish, before June 1, 2016, a specified sickle cell disease outreach program; and requiring that the outreach program provide specified programs, supports, and services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB358 | Intro
Sine Die | Applying a specified provision of law relating to the reversal or modification of an award for permanent partial disability compensation to the Workers' Compensation Commission; clarifying that, for purposes of a specified provision of law relating t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB395 | 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; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB378 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a specified restriction on Sunday deer hunting in Baltimore County; and authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to allow a person in Baltimore County to hunt any game bird or game mammal, except migratory game birds and wetland game...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB612 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that the prohibition against operating or riding on a motorcycle without specified protective headgear does not apply to an individual at least 21 years old who carries at least $10,000 in health insurance coverage for injuries that may be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB646 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the calculation of the maximum subtraction modification allowed under the Maryland income tax for specified retirement income under specified circumstances; including income from specified rollover individual retirement accounts in the subtr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB232 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing subsequent offender penalties of imprisonment not to exceed 15 years or a fine not to exceed $10,000 or both for specified offenses that result in the death or life-threatening injury to another as the result of a specified person drivin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB359 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing a qualified farm a credit, for tax years 2015 through 2017, of up to $5,000 against the State income tax; providing that the credit is equal to 50% of the value of an eligible food donation or 75% of the value of donated certified organic pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB2 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering specified provisions of law concerning a credit against the State income tax for preservation and conservation easements to allow specified persons to claim the credit for an easement conveyed to the Maryland Environmental Trust, the Marylan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB279 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a unit from placing specified requirements on prospective responsible bidders or offerors; and prohibiting a unit from drafting specifications requiring unnecessary experience or excessive bonding on prospective responsible bidders or off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB1026 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that regulations adopted by the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene under a specified provision of law allow psychiatric nurse practitioners to provide and receive reimbursement from State and federal funds for telemental health services...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB118 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study Presumed Consent Organ Donation in Maryland; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving specified compensation, but authorizing the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB619 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing specified business entities a credit against the State income tax for the cost of providing a flexible workweek to the employees of the business entity in the State; requiring that a specified number of a business entity's full-time employee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB318 | 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 Harford County or individuals who have outstanding warrants from Harford County; making no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB558 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a manufacturer to make specified payments to dealers relating to benefits, incentives, and rebates; prohibiting manufacturers, distributors, and factory branches from taking specified coercive, punitive, and retaliatory actions against deal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB168 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing, from 30 years to 40 years, the maximum term of imprisonment that may be imposed for the offense of second-degree murder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| SB8 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering specified definitions related to the regulation of milk products; repealing the limitation on the number of milk processor - farmstead cheese producer permits the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene may issue; repealing the requirement th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| SB452 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to include a notation indicating a specified allergy or medical condition on the driver's license or identification card of an applicant who provides specified evidence of the allergy or medical condition to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| HB416 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from requiring a consumer to disclose the consumer's Social Security number to the person as a condition for the purchase or lease of consumer goods or consumer services; providing that the Act does not prohibit a person from req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters; Withdrawn |
| SB333 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an addition to the Maryland Constitution to authorize the General Assembly to provide that specified property located in Calvert County may be taken by the County Commissioners of Calvert County for public use immediately on payment of a sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| HB1164 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding a specified property tax credit for specified business entities in Washington County to include specified business entities that invest at least $10,000,000 for capital improvements of specified real property and create 100 new and permanen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB841 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting from the Calvert County property tax specified personal property purchased by businesses from July 1, 2015, to June 30, 2018; exempting specified personal property from the Calvert County property tax beginning on July 1, 2018; providing th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB1163 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Office of the Attorney General to include on the Web site of the Office's Division of Consumer Protection an explanation of a consumer's rights under the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act and a link to the Federal Trade Commissi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1166 | 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 types of services for which a telephone company may not establish a new rate ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB836 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution to provide that the Governor shall appoint, subject to a condition, the person whose name is submitted by the designated central committee to fill the vacancy; prohibiting the Governor from requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB459 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a holder of a Class 2 manufacturer's license that also holds a Class 1 wholesaler's license or a nonresident dealer permit to sell or deliver its own distilled spirits to a county liquor dispensary, a restaurant, or any other retail deale...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters; Withdrawn |
| HB1179 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, a tent is not required to have a sprinkler system if the tent is not used for lodging, serviced by a public water system, and attached to or incorporated as part of a building that is requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB842 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting from the St. Mary's County property tax specified personal property purchased by businesses during the period from July 1, 2016, to June 30, 2018; exempting specified personal property from the St. Mary's County property tax beginning on Ju...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB237 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Workers' Compensation Children's Scholarship Fund; requiring the Workers' Compensation Commission to impose, in addition to payment of specified compensation, a $5000 assessment against an employer or its insurer per award of compens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters; Withdrawn |
| SB127 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing when objections to a certificate of a qualified expert or expert report must be filed in health care malpractice cases; and requiring a party to file a legally sufficient certificate of a qualified expert and report within 30 days after ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB125 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding the medical necessity exemption from the prohibition against operating specified vehicles with window tinting to apply the exemption to a member of the vehicle owner's immediate family; clarifying language; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| HB1171 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the governing body of Washington County to grant, by law, a property tax credit against the county property tax imposed on specified residential property owned by specified disabled veterans of active military, naval, or air service; prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1168 | Intro
Sine Die | Making it mandatory, rather than discretionary, for a secured party to offer prefile mediation to a mortgagor or grantor before filing an action to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on specified residential property; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1174 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing in Kent County a person to catch gizzard shad, also known as mud shad, under specified circumstances with a haul seine during the period from Friday midnight until sunrise on Monday; and requiring the Department of Natural Resources to ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB378 | Intro
Sine Die | Limiting the eligibility of qualifying biomass as a Tier 1 renewable source for the purposes of the renewable energy portfolio standard to qualifying biomass used at a generation unit that started commercial operation on or after January 1, 2005, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters; Withdrawn |
| HB1181 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing an individual who holds a Deer Management Permit to use a specified rifle to harvest deer throughout the year in Frederick County, subject to specified conditions; authorizing an agent of a permittee to use a specified rifle to harvest de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1170 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the due date, from September 1 to November 1, of specified annual reports on the county hotel rental tax revenue distribution; repealing specified reporting requirements relating to the County hotel rental tax revenue; requiring the Washingt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB98 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring drivers approaching a service vehicle that is stopped, standing, or parked on a highway and using specified visual signals, unless otherwise directed by a police officer or traffic control device, to change lanes into an available lane not ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB1162 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing Washington County to use the proceeds from the issuance of specified bonds for specified purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB462 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "mechanical repair contract" for purposes of specified provisions of law establishing requirements for mechanical repair contracts and persons who sell or offer them; establishing that an agreement or contract sold by the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| HB525 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Allegany County to issue a special beer festival license for specified purposes; authorizing the holder of the license to display and sell beer for consumption on or off the licensed premises on spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB82 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing, from 30 years to 40 years, the maximum term of imprisonment that may be imposed for the offense of second-degree murder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB101 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Uniform Real Property Transfer-on-Death (TOD) Act; authorizing an individual to transfer specified property to one or more beneficiaries effective at the transferor's death by a transfer-on-death deed; establishing that a tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB311 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting the issuance of a specified Class B or Class BLX on-sale beer, wine and liquor license for a specified corporation from specified residency requirements; exempting the issuance of a Class B or Class BLX on-sale beer, wine and liquor license...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB712 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the issuance of a Class 7 micro-brewery license to the holder of a Class D beer, wine and liquor (on-sale) license in Montgomery County; and providing that the holder of or an applicant for a Class D beer, wine and liquor (on-sale) licens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters; Withdrawn |
| SB317 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Court of Appeals to allow an applicant for admission to the Bar or a lawyer to use a credit or debit card to pay an examination fee or other fees required for admission to the Bar and any annual fee assessed against a lawyer; and author...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB692 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of State Police to establish and maintain a statewide database capturing specified information on police conduct and liability; and requiring the Secretary of State Police to adopt specified regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB143 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a claimant to send a notice of intent to file a claim to a health care provider at least 180 days before filing a claim with the Director of the Health Care Alternative Dispute Resolution Office against the health care provider for a medica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB241 | Intro
Sine Die | Making the crime of human trafficking in a case in which the victim of the crime is an adult a felony, rather than a misdemeanor; and making a conforming change.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
