| SB871 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the conditions under which insurers, nonprofit health service plans, or health maintenance organizations may require a covered specialty drug to be obtained through a pharmacy participating in the provider network of the insurer, nonprofit h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB837 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a specified action to be brought to establish title against adverse claims to property; providing for jurisdiction, venue, and the application of specified statutes and rules in an action under the Act; establishing that an action is comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB811 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting specified organizations from using in their advertisements, marketing material, brochures, and discount cards a specified term in a specified context; prohibiting specified organizations from selling, marketing, or soliciting a specified ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB834 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering specified requirements for certification as a qualified health plan in the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange; prohibiting a qualified health plan from using a benefit design or implementing a benefit design in a manner that discriminates in a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB907 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation, on or before December 31, 2015, to adopt regulations establishing an apprenticeship program for nonexperienced ironworkers, in consultation with the Maryland Apprenticeship and Training Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
Hearing cancelled |
| SB908 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the purpose of a Maryland benefit corporation; clarifying that a director of a benefit corporation is required to perform the director's duties in accordance with a specified standard; authorizing a director to consider the effects of a spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB257 | 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] | 2015-03-25
Recommitted to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs (Senator Pinsky) |
| SB933 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting, in a prosecution for a specified sexual offense, the court from barring the introduction of specified evidence that the defendant committed a prior sexual offense on the ground that the admission is unfairly prejudicial unless the court ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-25
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB880 | Intro
Sine Die | Limiting to property placed in service before January 1, 2015, the applicability of Maryland income tax modifications for specified deductions for the cost of business property that is treated as an expense for federal income tax purposes; limiting t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB856 | 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] | 2015-03-24
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB924 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a county board of education to seek private financing, subject to specified limitations, to finance specified projects or capital leases; requiring specified financing to be authorized by a specified resolution and secured by a specified ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB893 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Commission on Free Trade, Currency Manipulation, and State Sovereignty; requiring the Commission to conduct an annual assessment, provide a mechanism for input by interested persons, work with interested groups, and develop recommend...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB914 | Intro
Sine Die | Defining specified classes of electric companies; and altering the definition of "electric company" to include specified classes of electric companies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB916 | 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] | 2015-03-24
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB884 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the State income tax rate to 3.8% for individuals with Maryland taxable income in excess of $30,000; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB790 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a mandatory $1,000 fine for a violation of specified right-of-way provisions contributing to an accident that results in death or serious bodily injury of another; authorizing the issuance of a citation by a law enforcement officer; proh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB782 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing from 20 years to 25 years the age that a motor vehicle must attain in order to be eligible for registration as a historic motor vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB781 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Secretary of State Police, on making a determination that an applicant has demonstrated evidence of imminent danger to the applicant, to temporarily waive a specified requirement to complete a specified firearms training course; and r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB800 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an audio recording device on specified vehicles used by the Maryland Transit Administration to comply with specified requirements; requiring the Administration to post a specified notice on each vehicle equipped with an audio recording devi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB779 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that a specified investigatory file and record of a proceeding are personnel records for purposes of the Public Information Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-24
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB414 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to make an annual report on segregated confinement to the Governor on or before November 1 of each year; requiring specified information be included in the report; defining specified...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB817 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the governing boards of specified institutions of higher education to update and submit to the Maryland Higher Education Commission a specified written policy on sexual assault by August 1, 2016; requiring the sexual assault policy to inclu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| HB883 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the requirement that a well driller, when applying for a permit to drill a well, notify a municipality under specified circumstances; requiring the Department of the Environment to notify a municipality of an application for a permit to dri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| HB222 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from distributing heroin or fentanyl, the use of which is a contributing cause of the death of another; establishing penalties for a violation of the Act of up to 30 years in prison; providing that it is not a defense that the de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Recommitted to Judiciary (Delegate Dumais) |
| SB810 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to develop and implement a specified transfer agreement for students who earn an associate of science degree in dental hygiene or medical laboratory technology at an institution of higher education t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB392 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from intentionally causing physical injury to another if the person knows or has reason to know that the other is a firefighter, an emergency medical technician, a rescue squad member, or any other first responder engaged in prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB232 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a hearing of charges filed by the State Acupuncture Board from being stayed or challenged by specified procedural defects; prohibiting an order of the Board from being stayed pending judicial review; authorizing the Board to appeal from a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB371 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing from six to seven the number of video lottery operation licenses and from 16,000 to 19,000 the number of video lottery terminals that may be awarded by the Video Lottery Facility Location Commission to provide for the award of a license at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means |
| SB188 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study the Establishment of Health Courts; requiring the Task Force to study the adequacy and cost of State laws and policies relating to the litigation of medical malpractice cases and make recommendations regarding the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB379 | 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] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| SB159 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a specified buyer or beneficiary of a pre-need contract to contact the Maryland State Board of Morticians and Funeral Directors and request the Board to conduct an audit of specified licensees; requiring the Board to conduct a specified a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| HB59 | 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 and allows a player to compete directly against one or more other players; prohibiting a person from conducting a home ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn |
| HB282 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the contents of a renewal application for a continuing care retirement community by requiring that actuarial studies reviewed by qualified actuaries be submitted at least every 3 years and 5 years for specified continuing care agreements; et...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| SB826 | Intro
Sine Die | Transferring the development of energy efficiency and conservation programs and services from specified utilities to the Maryland Energy Administration; requiring the Administration to oversee energy efficiency and conservation programs and services;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| SB394 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that the offense of hazing is committed by subjecting a student to the risk of serious bodily injury regardless of whether injury actually occurs; and increasing the penalty from $500 to $5,000 for a specified offense relating to subjecting...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB762 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Highway Administration to grant or deny a request for a permit to make an entrance from a commercial or industrial property to specified State highways within 45 days after receiving the request; requiring the Administration to pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| SB845 | 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] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB27 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that, in Baltimore County, the revocation of the magnet status of a public school approved by the Baltimore County Board of Education after recommendation by the county superintendent does not become effective until the revocation is approv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| HB550 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring corporations that receive at least $50,000 in specified State subsidies to file a specified disclosure report with the granting body that provides the subsidy; requiring the disclosure report to contain specified information; requiring the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| SB665 | Intro
Sine Die | Designating, beginning in calendar year 2015, the last 7 days of August through the first 7 days of September of each year to be tax-free periods during which an exemption from the sales and use tax is provided for the sale of specified textbooks pur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation |
| HB633 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing the Cigarette Restitution fund to be used to provide financial assistance to farmers for specified purposes; establishing the Watershed Implementation Plan Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to provide financial assistance to farmers for imp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| HB601 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that a written certification may include a specified statement from a certifying physician related to a 30-day supply of medical marijuana; providing that a qualifying patient in possession of an amount of medical marijuana that is greater ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB621 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Highway Administration to consider whether a proposed entrance to a State highway is consistent with the comprehensive plan when determining whether to grant or deny a permit for the entrance; requiring the Administration to deter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| SB617 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a specified professional counselor or therapist from engaging in a sexual act, sexual contact, or vaginal intercourse with a person who is receiving counseling from the professional counselor or therapist or received counseling from the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB656 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Highway Administration to consider whether a proposed entrance to a State highway is consistent with the comprehensive plan when determining whether to grant or deny a permit for the entrance; requiring the Administration to deter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB267 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing an individual who adopts a cat or dog from an animal shelter or a rescue facility a maximum credit of $100 against the State income tax; providing that an individual may not claim the credit for more than 1 taxable year with respect to the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation |
| HB1053 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to convene a workgroup to evaluate and make findings and recommendations regarding the state of mental health care delivery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland; requiring the workgroup to include spe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations |
| SB801 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to establish a program to control the spread of black flies in the State; requiring that the program be implemented initially on specified property in Washington County; requiring the Department, in conju...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB745 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a landlord to withhold all or part of a security deposit under a residential lease for unpaid water and sewer bills if water and sewer bills are required to be paid by the tenant under the lease; making conforming changes to provisions re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| HB458 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that exploration and production waste is a controlled hazardous substance for the purpose of specified laws and regulations if it exhibits specified characteristics; prohibiting the Department of the Environment from exempting exploratio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
