| HB1159 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a student who is a member of a student organization to sell beverages with caffeine and specified accompaniments on a public school campus under the supervision of a teacher under specified circumstances notwithstanding any federal law or... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1157 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the maximum difference between the coinsurance percentage applicable to specified nonpreferred providers and the coinsurance percentage applicable to specified preferred providers; altering the reimbursement amount payable by specified insur... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1145 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the State Board of Tree Experts in the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation; providing for the composition of the Board and the qualifications, appointments, removal, terms, and expenses of the Board members; requiring the Boar... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1143 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing any rebates received by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene from the Maryland AIDS Drug Assistance Program to be used to provide specified services to eligible individuals under Part B of the federal Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1153 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Highway Administration to place a sign along a specified State highway indicating the presence of a public library if there is a public library within one-half mile of an exit ramp on the highway. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1150 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, for fiscal year 2016, the payment of $700,000 to the video lottery operation licensee for the video lottery facility in Allegany County from the proceeds of video lottery terminals at the facility; etc. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1155 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering a specified exception to the prohibition against the Somerset County Board of License Commissioners approving a license to sell alcoholic beverages for specified establishments located within 300 feet of a school, church or other place of wo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB815 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person in Anne Arundel County from distributing a tobacco product to a minor except under specified circumstances, distributing cigarette rolling papers to a minor, or distributing to a minor a coupon redeemable for a tobacco product ex... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20 To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB97 | 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] | 2015-02-20 Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| HB1144 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifying that specified costs incurred by the holder of a tax sale certificate shall be reimbursed on redemption of the property; providing that the holder of a tax sale certificate shall be reimbursed $500 for attorney's fees if an action to forec... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB303 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing specified provisions that provide that inmates serving a term of life imprisonment may be paroled only with the Governor's approval, subject to specified provisions; requiring specified parole decisions to be transmitted to the Governor und... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20 To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB543 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force on Procurement and Cybersecurity; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to conduct a study and make recommendations regarding specified law, policies, procedures, an... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20 Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB95 | 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] | 2015-02-20 Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| HB677 | Intro
Sine Die | Limiting the conditions under which a person may file a written claim with the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission for a refund of the amount that exceeds the amount that is properly and legally payable; establishing an Independent Review Board t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20 Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| HB103 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing specified restrictions on investments of money of the Chesapeake Bay Trust. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20 Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| HB1128 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Why Try Program in Baltimore County; specifying the purpose of the Program is to assist a student with an unweighted grade point average of less than 2.0 per quarter and an attendance rate of less than 94% of the required days of sch... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1141 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting a child with a disability from taking a Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) assessment or its equivalent in a public school; making a specified exception; and defining a specified term. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB155 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing funds from video lottery proceeds that are used for grants for investment capital and loans to small, minority, and women-owned businesses surrounding the video lottery facility in Allegany County to be used for those purposes anywhere in... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB167 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing Anne Arundel County to enact a local law that authorizes secondary employment of county police officers. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19 Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m. |
| HB1142 | 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 Allegany County or individuals who have outstanding warrants from Allegany County; making ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB157 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing a person to conduct a home game that is a game of chance or skill involving wagering that is conducted in a person's home or a residential property restricted to housing for persons at least 55 years old and allows a player to compete direct... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB161 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution prohibiting a member of the General Assembly from being expelled from or denied voting rights on the standing committee on which the member serves except under specified circumstances; submitting an... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19 To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB58 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Community Development Administration in the Department of Housing and Community Development to provide written notice and a reasonable opportunity to comment to the Senate and House delegations for the county in which a proposed communi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19 Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB165 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the payment of retirement benefits payable from the State Retirement and Pension System to specified constitutional officers who are convicted of or enter a plea of nolo contendere for specified crimes; requiring a specified court to orde... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB166 | 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] | 2015-02-19 To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB256 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to adopt rules and regulations for licensees of the Developmental Disabilities Administration to obtain and provide information on employees; requiring the rules and regulations to require a licens... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19 To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB196 | Intro
Sine Die | Making specified provisions of law relating to the Motor Vehicle Administration's collection and electronic forwarding of Selective Service registration information gender neutral and expanding their applicability to specified minors; repealing provi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB276 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifying that an applicant for a Class H-CC (corporate club/conference center) beer, wine and liquor license is not required to own at least 25 percent of a business in order to qualify as a responsible operator for the purpose of obtaining an alco... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19 Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| HB503 | Intro
Sine Die | Excluding as a father of a child, for purposes of specified provisions relating to the paternity of a child in a guardianship or adoption proceeding, a man who has committed a specified sexual crime against the child's mother; requiring a court to co... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19 To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB248 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Education to develop curriculum content for a semester-long course in financial literacy; requiring each county board of education to implement the financial literacy curriculum content developed by the State Board in eve... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB357 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the driver of a motor vehicle in which a person who is under the age of 8 years is a passenger from smoking a tobacco product or allowing a passenger to smoke in the motor vehicle; establishing a fine of up to $50 for a violation of the A... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19 To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB247 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that a public school student in elementary school be provided a daily program of physical activity totaling at least 150 minutes of physical activity each week, including at least 90 minutes of physical education; requiring that the program... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB111 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing specified provisions that provide that inmates serving a term of life imprisonment may be paroled only with the Governor's approval, subject to specified provisions; requiring specified parole decisions to be transmitted to the Governor und... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB259 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing, from 2 to 7, the number of days by which an individual who has filed a certificate of candidacy for an election may withdraw the candidacy. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19 To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB557 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from selling or offering for sale within the State specified food fish or shellfish unless the person identifies the species of food fish or shellfish in a specified manner; prohibiting a person from knowingly misidentifying the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19 Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| HB1125 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from rehoming a child, committing specified acts related to rehoming a child, conspiring in the commission of specified acts related to rehoming a child, or acting as an accessory to the commission of specified acts related to re... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1135 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing specified provisions of law that provide a separate jury proceeding to determine whether a person convicted of first degree murder is sentenced to imprisonment for life without the possibility of parole or imprisonment for life; establishin... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1127 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Transit Administration to extend to employees of the Judicial Branch and the Legislative Branch of State government the application of any program, policy, or practice through which free ridership on transit vehicles is offered... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1134 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that specified regulations adopted by the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene include a requirement that the process for approval of a license for an opioid maintenance program include an assessment of the number of existing slots in spe... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1138 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a train or light engine used in connection with the movement of freight from operating in the State unless it has at least two crew members; providing for the application of the Act; establishing penalties of $500 for the first offense an... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB153 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a corporation from using any money or other property of the corporation in connection with a political expenditure unless the stockholders, by a majority vote, have authorized in advance the amount of money or property to be used and dire... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-19 To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB194 | Intro
Sine Die | Including income from specified retirement plans within a subtraction modification allowed under the Maryland income tax for retired individuals who are at least 65 years old or who are disabled or whose spouse is disabled; applying the Act to taxabl... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB196 | 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] | 2015-02-18 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB209 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the maximum amount allowed as a subtraction modification under the State income tax for specified retirement income of an individual who is at least 70 years old or who is totally disabled; providing that the amount of the subtraction modi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB123 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a public high school in Baltimore County to adopt a school schedule for that school; requiring the principal of a public high school to convene a school schedule committee to study and recommend a school schedule; providing for the 20-mem... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18 To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB219 | Intro
Sine Die | Decreasing the aggregate amount to $1,000 of independent expenditures or disbursements for electioneering communications that a person may make before being required to file a specified registration form and a specified report; requiring a specified ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB226 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Elections and local boards of elections to emphasize in public communications specified information about casting a ballot by mail; and specifying public communications that are subject to the Act. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB161 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing an exemption from personal property tax for property that is owned by a business that has organized under the laws of Maryland during the current tax year or that relocates its headquarters to Maryland during the current tax year; exempting... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18 To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB228 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Supplemental Public School Construction Matching Fund Program; providing for the purpose of the Program and requiring the Department of Budget and Management to implement and administer the Program; establishing specified requirement... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18 To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB208 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from rehoming a child, committing specified acts related to rehoming a child, conspiring in the commission of specified acts related to rehoming a child, or acting as an accessory to the commission of specified acts related to re... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18 To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |