| SB756 | 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] | 2015-04-03 Recommitted to Judicial Proceedings (Senator Rosapepe) |
| HB1016 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, in consultation with the governing body of a specified county, to establish a Certified County-Based Business Participation Program for a specified purpose; authorizing the Commi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-03 Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| HB516 | 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] | 2015-04-03 Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| HB727 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from constructing a wireless telecommunications tower on the grounds of a public school in Anne Arundel County from the effective date of the Act to June 30, 2016, unless specified permits have been issued; requiring the Anne Aru... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-03 Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means |
| SB936 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring Internet Web sites and electronic mail to contain specified information about licensed locksmiths under specified circumstances; requiring advertisements, directories of service providers, or search result information to include specified i... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-02 To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB435 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, on or before January 1, 2016, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to award a grant to a nonprofit organization to conduct a specified study related to the past practices regarding the treatment of patients at State psychiatric inst... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-02 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB858 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program, subject to the limitations of the State budget, and as permitted by federal law, to provide dental care for former foster care adolescents who, on their 18th birthday, were in foster care under the r... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-02 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB650 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Blue Ribbon Commission to Study Maryland's Behavioral Health System; providing for the composition, chair, staffing, and duties of the Commission; requiring, to the extent practicable, that the membership of the Commission reflect th... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-02 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| SB539 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "in-office ancillary services" to include specified oncology group practices or offices of oncologists that provide specified radiation therapy services or computer tomography services; providing that specified prohibitions... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-02 Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| HB952 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an applicant for a specified permit for the hydraulic fracturing of a well for the exploration or production of natural gas to submit specified information to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in a specified manner; establishing t... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-01 Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| HB381 | Intro
Sine Die | Incorporating by reference specified nutrient management plan requirements in the Maryland Nutrient Management Manual of the Department of Agriculture and any supplements to the Manual; establishing specified content and criteria for a nutrient manag... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-01 Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| HB539 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Highway Administration to evaluate the classifications of and speed limits for specified urban State highways; requiring the Administration to review development activity along specified State highways for classification purposes ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-01 Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| HB545 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a person who obtains a specified permit from the State Highway Administration for work that will cause a sidewalk to be closed or who does the work associated with the permit to provide, at least 72 hours in advance, written notice of a sid... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-01 Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| HB588 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that when overtaking a bicycle, an electric personal assistive mobility device (EPAMD), or a motor scooter, the driver of a vehicle is required to pass at a safe speed; and repealing a specified exception to a specified requirement that a d... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-01 Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| SB935 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study the Recruitment, Retention, and Promotion of Teachers in Maryland Using the Principles of Human Capital Strategy; providing for the membership, chair, and staff for the Task Force; providing that members of the Ta... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-01 To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB939 | Intro
Sine Die | Limiting the authority of the governing body of Prince George's County to set a county property tax rate higher than the rate authorized under the county's charter for the purpose of funding the approved budget of the Prince George's County Board of ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-01 Hearing 4/01 at 1:00 p.m. |
| HB682 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the legislative body of a municipality to adopt a charter amendment that authorizes the legislative body of the municipality to submit to the qualified voters of the municipality at a regular or special municipal election a proposed chart... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-01 Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| HB837 | Intro
Sine Die | Allocating specified motor fuel tax revenue to a specified account that is shared with local governments; increasing the portion of highway user revenue that is distributed to local governments; altering the allocation of the local share of highway u... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-01 Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| HB899 | Intro
Sine Die | Allocating specified motor fuel tax revenue to a specified account that is shared with local governments; and repealing obsolete language. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-01 Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| HB584 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering specified financial disclosure provisions governing an elected local official of a municipal corporation; prohibiting the disclosure of specified information concerning specified relatives, interests in specified real property or business en... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-01 Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| HB987 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the Department of the Environment from issuing a specified air quality permit until specified requirements have been met; prohibiting the Department from recommending specified licensing conditions until specified requirements have been m... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-01 Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| HB1003 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the distribution of motor fuel tax revenue; requiring that motor fuel tax revenue attributable to specified motor fuel tax rates be distributed to counties, municipalities, and Baltimore City in a specified manner; requiring that motor fuel ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-04-01 Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| HB833 | 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] | 2015-04-01 Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| HB437 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Grant Program in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; requiring the Department to administer the Program to provide grants and contracts on a competitive basis to fund programs that repli... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-31 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB1006 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a hospital to provide a specified patient or the legal guardian of the patient with a specified number of opportunities to designate a caregiver within a specified number of hours after the entrance of the patient to the hospital and before... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-31 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB1030 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring specified units of the State that provide health and human services to procure the services of 2-1-1 Maryland to operate public information telephone lines or hotlines in accordance with specified provisions of law unless the unit makes spe... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-31 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB969 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an employer to provide employees with a specified work schedule within a specified time period, notify employees of specified changes, and provide employees with a new work schedule within 24 hours after making a change to the initial sched... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-30 Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters; Withdrawn |
| SB594 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the amount of a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for specified qualifying volunteer fire, rescue, and emergency medical services members; providing a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax under specif... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-30 Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation |
| HJ7 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to conduct an environmental impact study related to landing commercial booster rockets and spacecraft at its Wallops Flight Facility; recognizing the enormous economic potential value in the St... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-30 To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB31 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the subtraction modification under the State income tax from $5,000 to $10,000 of military retirement income received for retirees at least 65 years old on the last day of the taxable year; applying the Act to taxable years beginning after... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-30 Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation; Withdrawn |
| HJ8 | Intro
Sine Die | Extending the profound hope of the General Assembly of Maryland that the historical record of the crimes against the "ianfu" or "comfort women" of World War II will serve as a lasting reminder to the world that crimes against humanity will not be con... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-30 Hearing 3/30 at 3:00 p.m. |
| SB532 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing requirements for the form and content of specified livestock production contracts; requiring livestock production contracts to be reviewed by the Attorney General; establishing that contract producers have specified rights; prohibiting s... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-30 Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| HB1051 | 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] | 2015-03-30 Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters; Withdrawn |
| SB911 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Office of the Comptroller to issue a special event liquor permit to a holder of a Class 2 manufacturer's license for specified purposes under specified circumstances; establishing limitations on the number and locations of special eve... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27 To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB919 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from engaging in an activity or a strategy to implement a State Watershed Implementation Plan until the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency completes and publishes the 2017 Chesapeake Bay midpoint assessment and the University o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27 Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB920 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing holders of specified licenses, after paying the excise tax, to provide without cost specified alcoholic beverages to a holder of a special Class C beer and wine or special Class C beer, wine and liquor license; defining a specified term; ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27 To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB931 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing specified provisions of law relating to the designation of a harvest reserve area for oysters; repealing specified provisions of law relating to county oyster committees and a statewide committee of oystermen; requiring the licensed oyster ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27 Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB887 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the State Board of Dental Examiners from requiring a person to be licensed by the Board in order to engage in specified activities in the State; and altering the definition of "practice dentistry". [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-27 Referred to interim study by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB876 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the requirements for the debt instrument required to be filed with an order to docket or complaint to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on residential property; altering the requirements for a lost note affidavit in a residential foreclo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26 Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB877 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an action to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on residential property to be commenced by filing a complaint; requiring practice and procedure in an action to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on residential property to be governed ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26 Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB547 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that when overtaking a bicycle, an EPAMD, or a motor scooter, the driver of a vehicle is required to pass at a safe speed; and repealing a specified exception to a specified requirement that a driver overtake and pass a bicycle, an EPAMD, o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26 Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB835 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a lender from maintaining an action to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on residential property in the State for a specified period of time; requiring the Office of the Attorney General to study, evaluate, and make recommendations re... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26 Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB904 | 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] | 2015-03-26 Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB899 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Public Service Commission to evaluate the extent to which an applicant's plan for a specified proposed offshore wind project directly or indirectly encroaches on existing private, State, federal, or military infrastructure, resources, f... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26 To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB329 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a party who requests the issuance of a subpoena in a civil action to compel the attendance of a police officer employed by the Baltimore County Police Department to reimburse the Police Department for the cost of the police officer's salary... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26 Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB659 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the authority of an employer to include as part of an employee's wage an amount to represent the tips of the employee. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26 Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| SB688 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an employer to provide employees with a specified work schedule within a specified time period, notify employees of specified changes, and provide employees with a new work schedule within 24 hours after making a change to the initial sched... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26 Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB777 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring contractors and subcontractors under public work contracts subject to the prevailing wage rate law to pay the full cost of specified apprenticeship programs unless the contractor or subcontractor participates in an apprenticeship training p... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26 Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| SB140 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing an alcoholic beverages inspector for Kent County to issue a citation if the inspector has probable cause to believe that specified offenses involving the distribution of tobacco products or paraphernalia or the possession of tobacco produ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26 Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB778 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study Issues Related to the Use of Self-Driving Vehicles; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to make specified determinations, review specified information, co... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-26 Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |