| HB596 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Appointed Attorneys Program Corporation; providing that the purpose of the Corporation is to provide legal representation to indigent criminal defendants at initial appearances before District Court commissioners as required...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary; Withdrawn |
| HB856 | Intro
Sine Die | Making it a civil offense, subject to specified penalties, for a specified person acting in a professional capacity to fail to report child abuse under specified circumstances; making it a misdemeanor, subject to specified penalties, for a specified ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary; Withdrawn |
| SB275 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Transportation Authority to establish discounted variable toll rate for specified commuters who cross the Thomas J. Hatem Memorial Bridge between the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. daily; requiring specified persons to regist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB581 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Attorney General to bring a civil action for damages against a person who violates specified provisions of criminal law on behalf of a victim of the offense or a beneficiary of the victim; providing that a specified criminal convictio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| SB885 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the alteration of specified education related formulas, distributions, and funds unless approved by the General Assembly through legislation passed by a three-fifths majority vote of the full standing committee assigned the legislation in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB719 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding the exclusive original civil jurisdiction of the District Court to include a civil action for first-party motor vehicle insurance benefits for uninsured motorist coverage under specified circumstances; and providing for the prospective appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary; Withdrawn |
| HB537 | 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] | 2015-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| HB301 | 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; requiring specified information be included in the report; defining specified terms; and m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| SB806 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Education to include in the graduation requirements for public high schools a requirement that each student take a standardized government high school assessment; requiring, beginning with the 2016-2017 school year, the g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB813 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Prosecutor to investigate a criminal offense related to the death of an individual resulting directly or indirectly from an act or omission of a law enforcement officer while the law enforcement officer is on duty or while the law...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| HB956 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the circumstances under which a dog is prohibited from being left outside and unattended; and defining specified terms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| SB803 | 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] | 2015-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB548 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a specified business, when destroying a customer's records that contain specified personal or private information, to take specified steps to protect against unauthorized access to or use of the information; requiring a specified business t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB559 | Intro
Sine Die | Defining "dealer's facility" and "dealership facility" to include any Internet location where a dealer conducts the business authorized by its license, for purposes of specified prohibitions on the coercion of motor vehicle dealers by motor vehicle m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB738 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring specified engineering documents prepared in connection with specified projects conducted by, jointly with, or under contract with the State or a political subdivision of the State, where specified skills are required, to be signed, sealed, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB575 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Department of Human Resources to serve in a fiduciary capacity for children in its custody; requiring the Department, in any action, service, or decision on behalf of a child in its custody, to protect and serve the best interest of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| HB365 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a State's Attorney, on the filing of a statement of charges or an information against a specified law enforcement officer for a specified felony offense, to immediately forward the case, including any related charges, to the Office of the A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| HB898 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing immunity from civil liability for a specified person administering medications or treatment in response to an apparent drug overdose if the person is trained and certified under specified protocols established by the Secretary of Health and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| HB817 | Intro
Sine Die | Decreasing a specified limitation on noneconomic damages in health care malpractice claims arising on or after October 1, 2015, to $500,000; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| HB363 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a law enforcement officer, while acting in the course of the officer's official duties, from committing a misdemeanor or felony that carries a maximum penalty of imprisonment of more than 1 year; providing a penalty for a violation of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| SB379 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Francis Scott Key Bridge Authority to finance, construct, operate, and maintain the Francis Scott Key Bridge; providing for the members, appointment, terms, chair, and staff of the Authority; prohibiting the Department of Transportat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB511 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that, except in the case of a medical emergency, an abortion may not be performed or induced or be attempted to be performed or induced unless a specified physician makes a specified determination; providing that, except in the case of a me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB459 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifying the duties of a director of a corporation and that the director must act in good faith, in a manner the director reasonably believes to be in the best interests of the corporation, and with the care that an ordinarily prudent person in a s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB795 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a comprehensive care facility or an extended care facility to petition the appropriate circuit court for an order permitting the facility to request a determination of the funds available to pay for the cost of a resident's care from the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| HB478 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting, except under specified circumstances, an employer from discriminating in any manner or taking adverse action against an employee or an applicant using tobacco products off the employer's premises during nonworking hours; authorizing empl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| SB737 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the County Executive of Anne Arundel County to appoint the members of the county board of education from a specified list submitted by the School Board Nominating Commission of Anne Arundel County; requiring the County Executive to appoint ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB457 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting an insurer from disclaiming coverage under a policy of liability insurance on the ground that the insured or a specified person has breached the policy by failing to cooperate with the insurer or by not giving the insurer required notice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB429 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act; authorizing specified fiduciaries to access specified digital assets under specified circumstances; authorizing a fiduciary to take specified actions concerning an asset under specifie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB1027 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an employer to pay an employee a specified overtime wage for specified hours worked; prohibiting an employer from requiring an employee to work specified hours except under specified circumstances; authorizing an employee to decline an empl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters; Withdrawn |
| HB370 | 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] | 2015-03-18
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| SB749 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting an insurer, with respect to private passenger motor vehicle insurance, from refusing to underwrite, canceling, refusing to renew, rating a risk, or increasing a renewal premium based, in whole or in part, on the marital status or employme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Hearing 3/17 at 1:00 p.m. |
| HB422 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring hospitals, related institutions, alternative health systems, and employers to report specified employment actions and terminations of employment of athletic trainers and physician assistants to the State Board of Physicians, subject to spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB403 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a specified person who sells a dog or cat to provide the purchaser with a health certificate issued by a veterinarian not more than 30 days before the date of sale; requiring a person who sells a dog or cat to disclose specified health info...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| HB24 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing from $10,000 to $20,000 the maximum amount that a court may allow for funeral expenses for estates valued at greater than $50,000; and applying the Act prospectively.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB190 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that specified fees, provided for by a specified process established by the Director of the Office of Cemetery Oversight for regulating crematories, apply to specified persons; prohibiting the Director from charging a registered cemeterian ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB1101 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Inspector General in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, or a designee of the Inspector General, to subpoena any person or evidence, administer oaths, and take depositions and other testimony for the purpose of investigating ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB611 | 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] | 2015-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| SB903 | 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] | 2015-03-17
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB979 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting specified licensed chiropractors and licensed physical therapists from performing dry needling unless the State Board of Chiropractic and Massage Therapy Examiners or State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners has registered the licensed c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| SB718 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the statewide information technology master plan developed by the Secretary of Information Technology to include a specified policy requiring specified vendors to establish that an information technology product or piece of equipment is saf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1099 | Intro
Sine Die | Reducing, from three to two, the number of specified offenses that a person must commit at the same time or during a single and continuous period of driving that constitutes aggressive driving; and increasing the maximum criminal fine for aggressive ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB867 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the State Public Information Act Compliance Board; providing for the powers and duties of the Board; authorizing any person to file a specified complaint with the Board; requiring that the complaint contain specified information and be s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB534 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring specified health insurance entities to establish and implement a specified procedure that provides for coverage of prescription drugs prescribed for the treatment of a mental disease or condition under specified conditions; prohibiting spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB661 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the administrative head of a specified institution or a designee of the administrative head or the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to provide to the mother, father, or legal guardian of a child a specified notice relating to security...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB687 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the prohibition against the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene requiring the immunization of an individual under specified circumstances; and repealing the requirement that the Department adopt rules and regulations for religious exemp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| SB748 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that specified provisions of law related to the sale of livestock apply to specified deer; providing that the Maryland Wholesome Meat Act applies to specified deer; requiring the Secretary of Agriculture and the Department of Natural Resour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1230 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing requirements concerning the rehiring of specified workers and the recognition of specified collective bargaining agreements that a holder of a racing license at Rosecroft Raceway must meet to obtain operating assistance from the Purse Dedic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1084 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Design Excellence Commission; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Commission; prohibiting a member of the Commission from receiving specified compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement of specified...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| HB531 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act; authorizing specified fiduciaries to access specified digital assets under specified circumstances; authorizing a fiduciary to take specified actions concerning an asset under specifie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations |
| HB557 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a junk dealer or scrap metal processor from purchasing from an individual a shopping cart, flatbed cart, similar wheeled device, or specified metal piping under specified circumstances; providing for specified penalties; and authorizing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
