| HB1022 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Office of the Child Welfare Ombudsman in the Office of the Attorney General; providing for the purpose and staffing of the Office; providing for the appointment, qualifications, term, and salary of the Child Welfare Ombudsman; requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB609 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the penalty from $500 to $1,000 for a person who is convicted of committing a speed violation while operating a motorcycle that is exceeding the speed limit by 40 miles per hour or greater in Prince George's County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| SB762 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that specified governing documents of a condominium or homeowners association that prohibit or restrict electric vehicle recharging equipment are void and unenforceable; establishing requirements and procedures relating to an application to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB1013 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution to require a judge of the Orphans' Court to hold the office for a term of 8 years; providing for a judge of the Orphans' Court to be elected by specified voters at the general election; establishing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary; Withdrawn |
| HB1005 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a presiding officer after a specified administrative finding on specified commercial fisheries offenses related to oysters, crabs, or striped bass to stay a license revocation pending conviction for the offense, unless the presiding officer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| HB881 | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| HB855 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Law Enforcement Explorer Program Fund to be used to make specified grants to local law enforcement agencies for law enforcement explorer programs; requiring the Executive Director of the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| HB886 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a specified chicken manure pollution fee payable to the Comptroller by a specified poultry integrator in a specified manner; requiring the Comptroller to transfer revenue from the fee to the Maryland Agriculture Water Quality Cost Share ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| HB892 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a party who requests the issuance of a subpoena in specified civil actions 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| HB308 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a law enforcement officer to wear a video camera affixed to the law enforcement officer's uniform while on duty; requiring that a recording be preserved by a law enforcement agency for at least 30 calendar days; providing that it is lawfu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| HB255 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a State or local law enforcement agency, on process issued by a court of competent jurisdiction, to seize specified property used or intended for use in connection with a violation of a specified criminal statute relating to exploitation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary; Withdrawn |
| HB112 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing, under specified circumstances, the State Prosecutor to investigate a death of an individual that results directly from an action or an omission of a law enforcement officer of the State or of a political subdivision of the State while th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| HB546 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Transit Administration Oversight and Planning Board for purposes of strategic transit planning; providing for the membership, term of office, powers, duties, and staffing of the Board; providing that a member of the Board ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| HB631 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing, from $1,500,000 to $6,000,000, a specified statutory minimum grant to Baltimore City, payable from the State's share of the proceeds of Program Open Space, for specified purposes related to Program Open Space; requiring the Department of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| SB888 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study the Issuance of Beer and Wine Licenses to Chain Stores; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; providing that the purpose of the Task Force is to study the costs, benefits, and feasi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB725 | Intro
Sine Die | Extending from 7 to 20 years the statute of limitations in specified civil actions relating to child sexual abuse.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB702 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Secretary of Budget and Management, the Secretary of Transportation, and the governing boards of State institutions of higher education to establish a program to improve the ratio of State employees to supervisors or managers beginning ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations; Withdrawn |
| HB866 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that it is lawful under a specified provision of law for a specified law enforcement officer to intercept a specified oral communication under specified circumstances and for the Maryland Transportation Administration or other operator o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| HB963 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, under the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Critical Area Program, the lot coverage for specified swimming pools be calculated in a specified manner; and providing for the application of the Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| HB548 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution relating to the selection and tenure of circuit court judges; altering the method of filling vacancies in the office of a judge of a circuit court; providing for retention elections following an app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary; Withdrawn |
| HB908 | 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] | 2015-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| HB448 | 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, for the purpose of an initiation into a student organization of a school, college, or univer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| HB578 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each institution of higher education in the State to meet specified requirements for specified net price calculators on or before July 1, 2016; prohibiting specified institutions of higher education from allowing specified personally identi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations; Withdrawn |
| SB784 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting, under specified circumstances, an employer from failing or refusing to hire, discharging, or otherwise discriminating against an applicant or employee on the basis of the applicant's or employee's engagement in a lawful activity off the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB857 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a court to inform a person convicted of a specified offense that the person is prohibited from possessing a firearm under specified provisions of law; providing that if a person commits a specified offense and the offense is a domestically ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary; Withdrawn |
| HB654 | Intro
Sine Die | Creating in Prince George's County an exception for the use of a remote keyless ignition system to the prohibition against leaving a motor vehicle unattended under specified circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| HB1071 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution relating to the selection and tenure of circuit court judges; altering the method of filling vacancies in the office of a judge of a circuit court; providing for a retention election following an ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary; Withdrawn |
| HB816 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the admissibility of specified evidence in a civil or criminal proceeding to prove membership in or association with a criminal gang.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| SB657 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Secretary of Budget and Management, the Secretary of Transportation, and the governing boards of State institutions of higher education to establish a program to improve the ratio of State employees to supervisors or managers beginning ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| HB402 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study the Establishment of Health Courts; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to study the adequacy and cost of State laws and policies relating to the litigati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| HB438 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the State Prosecutor to investigate the death or serious bodily injury of a person caused by the use of force by a State or local law enforcement officer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary; Withdrawn |
| HB747 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Transportation Authority to establish specified tolls for specified multi-axle vehicles using the Thomas J. Hatem Memorial Bridge; and authorizing the Authority to adopt regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| HB429 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that the prevailing party in a specified civil action by a merchant is entitled to an award of court costs and attorney's fees unless otherwise ordered by the court; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| HB420 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Commission on Rental Housing Stabilization; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Commission; prohibiting a member of the Commission from receiving specified compensation; requiring the Commission to investigate s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-19
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| SB821 | Intro
Sine Die | Approving specified projects for the acquisition, development, and improvement of specified academic facilities for the University System of Maryland; authorizing the University System of Maryland to issue bonds in a total principal amount of $17,000...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB377 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the membership of the Maryland Transportation Authority to include specified members of the General Assembly as nonvoting members of the Authority serving in an advisory capacity only; specifying criteria concerning the appointment, tenure, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB153 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from leaving a dog outside and unattended by use of a specified restraint for a period longer than 15 minutes when a hazardous weather warning issued by the National Weather Service is in effect for the local area; prohibiting a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| HB1195 | 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] | 2015-03-18
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB730 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that members of the Wicomico County Board of Education be elected and appointed, as specified; providing for a student member of the county board; establishing the composition of the county board; providing for the qualifications, terms of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB158 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring physicians, under specified circumstances, to provide a pregnant woman the opportunity to view the active ultrasound image of the embryo or fetus before the performance or inducement of an abortion; and requiring a physician to allow the pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1175 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Concussion Impact Sensor Pilot Program; requiring the State Department of Education to develop and implement the Program in collaboration with specified entities; requiring specified circumstances to be met before the Program can be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB397 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Statistical Analysis Center, in consultation with the Administrative Office of the Courts, to develop a procedure and methodology for the compilation and analysis of specified data and the preparation of a specified report and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| HB1180 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing provisions of law establishing the annual compensation of the judges of the Orphans' Court for Baltimore County; requiring the annual compensation of the judges of the Orphans' Court for Baltimore County to be as set by the County Executive...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB384 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that specified funds in the Mental Hygiene Community-Based Services Fund that are used to increase the availability of specified housing and employment opportunities for specified individuals include services provided in residential rehabil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| HB839 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, by September 1, 2016, that a policy on sexual assault adopted by the governing board of each institution of higher education include a specified affirmative consent standard; requiring a specified written policy on sexual assault to includ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary; Withdrawn |
| HB728 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the liability of a local government for specified claims of excessive force or misuse of force by a law enforcement officer; increasing the liability of the State and its units for specified claims of excessive force or misuse of force by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary; Withdrawn |
| HB498 | 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] | 2015-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| HB890 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the Police Training Commission from certifying an individual as a police officer unless the individual provides proof of professional liability insurance in a specified amount; requiring police officers to maintain professional liability ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary; Withdrawn |
| HB577 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a court, on request of specified parties in specified judicial proceedings, to determine whether an individual is a de facto parent of a child; authorizing an individual asserting de facto parent status to intervene in or initiate a speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary; Withdrawn |
| SB747 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Public Service Commission, in adopting specified vegetation management regulations, to require that an electric company's vegetation management program comply with the International Society of Arboriculture's Best Management Practices f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
