| SB224 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing specified county governing bodies to exclude specified lease payments made by a county board of education from the maintenance of effort calculation under specified circumstances; and providing for the application of the Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB162 | 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] | 2015-02-18
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB495 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering from 80 to 70% the portion that a video lottery operation licensee shall retain of the table game proceeds at a video lottery facility; altering the percent of the proceeds at a video lottery facility that the Comptroller shall pay to the Ed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB266 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the State Department of Education, the State Board of Education, a county board of education, a local school system, a primary school, or a secondary school to collect or disclose the education records, or personally identifiable informat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB259 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a maximum county property tax rate for personal property owned by specified businesses organizing in or moving into the State between July 1, 2015, and June 30, 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB277 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a judge in a final protective order to order the respondent to remain a specified distance away from the residence, place of employment, school, or temporary residence of a person eligible for relief.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB1004 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a holder of a Class B beer, wine, and liquor license in Prince George's County that obtains a special entertainment permit to allow an individual at least 18 years old to be present on the licensed premises under specified circumstances; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB302 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution to establish a Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays 2010 Trust Fund to be used only for the implementation of nonpoint source pollution control projects except under specified circumstances; prohibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB237 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland to study the creation of a potential Pay It Forward Pilot Program; requiring the study to consider specified items; requiring the Board of Regents to study whether public institution...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18
Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m. (Budget and Taxation) |
| HB264 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "public body" for the purposes of the Open Meetings Act to include a multimember subcommittee of a standing committee of either house of the General Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB273 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Collaborative Reproduction Act; establishing the purposes of the Act; establishing rights and obligations of specified intended parents who use gamete or embryo donors to conceive a child through collaborative reproduction; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB260 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that a breast-feeding mother of an infant under the age of 2 years may be excused from jury service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB294 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a provision of law allowing a campaign finance entity of a candidate to report a cumulative amount of $25,000 of contributions of less than a specified amount from a single contributor on its campaign finance reports without identifying the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1116 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring specified public school employees who believe a specified student may be at risk of suicide to report the student to a specified qualified school professional; requiring a specified qualified school professional to assess a specified studen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1123 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the State income tax rate to 3.5% for individuals with Maryland taxable income in excess of $30,000; altering the county income tax rate to 2.3% on all Maryland taxable income of individuals; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1121 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing an individual to resume participation in the Alternate Contributory Pension Selection in the Employees' Pension System or Teachers' Pension System if the individual has been separated from employment for more than 4 years, has, by a specifie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB185 | 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] | 2015-02-18
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB335 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a property tax credit against the State property tax imposed on specified real property located in a neighborhood conservation area under specified circumstances; establishing the amount of the property tax credit, subject to a specified...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB79 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the creation of a State Debt in the amount of $4,625,000, the proceeds to be used as grants to the Interagency Committee on School Construction and the Maryland State Department of Education for the renovation, repair, and capital improve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB1108 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the membership of the Maryland Innovation Initiative in the Maryland Technology Development Corporation; authorizing the use of money in the Maryland Innovation Initiative Fund to provide equity investment financing to promote the commercial...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB184 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting from the St. Mary's County property tax specified personal property purchased by businesses during the period from July 1, 2015, to June 30, 2017; exempting specified personal property from the St. Mary's County property tax beginning on Ju...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1122 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting specified entities from taking specified actions regarding organ transplantation and anatomical gifts solely on the basis of an individual's disability; authorizing, under specified circumstances, specified entities to take an individual'...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1124 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring individuals to be licensed by the State Board of Cosmetologists to provide natural hair care styling services in the State; requiring the Board to adopt specified curriculum standards for use by the State Board of Education or the Maryland ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-18
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB154 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the renewable energy portfolio standard for specified years; providing for specified thermal energy sources to be thermal tier energy sources; requiring an electricity supplier to meet the renewable energy portfolio standard by accumulating ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB163 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from selling in the State specified seeds, material, and plants that have been treated with a neonicotinoid pesticide unless the seeds, material, and plants bear a label with a specified statement; prohibiting a person from selli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-17
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB382 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring specified regulations or orders to specify a specified timing for an electric company to process a specified transaction for enrollment from an electricity supplier; requiring an electric company, if a customer has a smart meter, to process...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB256 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Agriculture on or before July 1, 2016 to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the impacts of climate change on agriculture in the State; requiring the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science to establish s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-17
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB112 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a taxicab business from charging more than a specified administrative rate when the taxicab business enters into a contract with the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners to transport a passenger who is a student.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB293 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that a breast-feeding mother of an infant under the age of 2 years may be excused from jury service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-17
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB9 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a utility company to give specified written notice to specified customers prior to deploying smart meters throughout all or a portion of the utility company's service territory; prohibiting a utility company from imposing any additional fee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB6 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person who is charged with the care of a child under the age of 3 years from allowing the child to be locked or confined in a dwelling, a building, an enclosure, or a motor vehicle out of the sight of the person charged unless the perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary; Withdrawn |
| SB65 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a requirement that the clerks of the circuit courts provide a hospital lien docket.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| HB23 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a vulnerable adult abuse registry; requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to establish and maintain a registry containing the names of specified individuals; requiring that names and information contained in the registry b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary; Withdrawn |
| HB1103 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "practice athletic training" to include instruction to tactical athletes regarding the care and prevention of athletic injuries while engaging in tactical athletic activity; granting, except under specified circumstances, i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB26 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from leaving a dog outside and unattended by use of a specified restraint during a snow emergency declared by the State Police or during a specified period in which the temperature is 32 degrees Fahrenheit or below for at least 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB1102 | Intro
Sine Die | Reducing, by 0.2%, the percentage of the proceeds of table games at a video lottery facility that a video lottery operation licensee retains for each additional table game the licensee adds on or after July 1, 2016, under specified circumstances; inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB23 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a court or a register of wills, after an estate has been closed, to provide to the personal representative of the estate a document stating the amount of compensation received by the personal representative and informing the personal repres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| HB52 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a requirement that the clerks of the circuit courts provide a hospital lien docket.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary; Withdrawn |
| SB760 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting an electricity supplier from receiving renewable energy credits from a combustion source in an amount greater than a specified renewable energy credit amount on and after January 1, 2016; and stating that energy from a combustion source i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB99 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Legislative Services to obtain specified census data, adjust the census data for specified purposes, and provide the census data to a temporary redistricting commission within a specified time period; creating a temporary ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB765 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering from 80% to 77% the percentage of proceeds of table games at a video lottery facility that a video lottery operation licensee retains; increasing from 20% to 23% the percentage of the proceeds of table games at a video lottery facility paid ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB31 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a District Court commissioner from authorizing the pretrial release of a defendant charged with causing abuse or neglect of a vulnerable adult in the first or second degree; providing that a judge may authorize the pretrial release of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| HB20 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing from 10 to 20 years the maximum imprisonment and from $10,000 to $20,000 the maximum fine or both for the crime of causing abuse or neglect of a vulnerable adult in the first or second degree.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| SB485 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing an individual to resume participation in the Alternate Contributory Pension Selection in the Employees' Pension System or Teachers' Pension System if the individual has been separated from employment for more than 4 years, has accrued, by Ju...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation; Withdrawn |
| HB13 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a specified licensed firearms dealer or secondary seller to conditionally sell, rent, or transfer a firearm to a firearm applicant under specified circumstances; prohibiting a licensee or secondary seller from selling, renting, or transfe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-16
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary; Withdrawn |
| HB385 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring specified employers to provide employees with specified earned sick and safe leave; providing for the manner in which earned sick and safe leave is accrued by the employee and treated by the employer; requiring an employer to allow an emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-13
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB929 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the court to send the mortgagor or grantor a specified checklist when a specified foreclosure action is filed in Prince George's County; prohibiting a lender from maintaining an action to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on residential...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB800 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring Washington County to implement and enforce modifications of the Maryland Building Performance Standards adopted by the State no later than 6 months after adoption for specified portions of the Standards, starting with modifications that are...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB493 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study the Placement of Library Services Within the Annotated Code of Maryland; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to study and make recommendations regarding s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-13
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| HB152 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the requirement that any student financial aid, other than a student loan, received by a specified disabled student must be applied first to pay the student's tuition prior to receiving an exemption from the payment of tuition at community ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
