| HB576 | Pass | Clarifying that when an owner of a mineral interest takes a specified action for a mineral that is part of a mineral interest, the action constitutes use of the entire mineral interest owned by that owner; establishing that payment of specified taxes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 398 |
| HB720 | Pass | Requiring an insurer to provide a specified insurance identification card to specified insureds at specified times; providing that an insurance identification card may be produced in a specified electronic format; requiring a specified operator to be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 402 |
| HB886 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, under specified circumstances, to include primary care providers in the types of health care providers eligible to receive reimbursement for health care services that are delivered through teleme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 367 |
| HB280 | Pass | Prohibiting the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene from collecting a fee for issuing a certified or abridged copy of a birth certificate to a homeless individual; requiring the Department to accept as proof of homelessness a signed written state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 453 |
| HB306 | Pass | Authorizing employers to grant a preference in hiring and promotion to eligible veterans, spouses of eligible veterans who have service-connected disabilities, and surviving spouses of deceased eligible veterans; providing that granting a preference ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 319 |
| HB260 | Pass | Requiring the Governor to appoint an individual to fill a vacancy in the office of United States Senator, Attorney General, or Comptroller from a list of names submitted by the State Central Committee of the political party of the vacating officehold...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Assigned a chapter number, enactment subject to constitutional referendum - Chapter 511 |
| HB1385 | Pass | Providing that any authentic expression made by an individual while competent of the individual's wishes regarding health care for the individual be considered in the absence of a validly executed or witnessed advance directive; providing that a witn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 510 |
| HB264 | Pass | Establishing the Task Force to Investigate the Challenges of and Opportunities for Minorities in Business; requiring the Task Force to study and make recommendations regarding issues related to small, minority-and women-owned businesses, and to revie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 480 |
| HB385 | Pass | Repealing a limitation on selling the whole fee simple interest in abandoned property in Baltimore City consisting of either a vacant lot or improved property cited as vacant and unfit for habitation when the property is subject to a ground rent or s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 484 |
| HB245 | Pass | Requiring an agency that is participating in a child abuse or neglect investigation and that has substantial grounds to believe that a person has knowingly failed to report child abuse as required under a specified provision of law to file a specifie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 375 |
| HB567 | Pass | Altering the definition of "barbershop" to include a mobile barbershop; requiring an applicant for a mobile barbershop permit to hold a permit to operate a nonmobile barbershop and to lease or own a vehicle or trailer in which the mobile barbershop i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 492 |
| HB1217 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to adopt regulations to ensure that the Maryland Medical Assistance Program is in compliance with specified federal laws; providing that the Department is not required to adopt specified regulatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 505 |
| HB602 | Pass | Authorizing Anne Arundel County to establish, modify, or abolish special taxing districts for the purpose of providing or expanding water or wastewater services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 354 |
| HB37 | Pass | Altering the due date for specified payment of deferred county property taxes in Anne Arundel County if the owner no longer satisfies specified income eligibility requirements; and making clarifying changes to provisions of law that require payment o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 328 |
| HB290 | Pass | Replacing the Construction Apprenticeship Assistance program in the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation with the Apprenticeship Career Training in Our Neighborhoods (ACTION) program; providing the purpose of the program is to develop a wel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 404 |
| HB1168 | Pass | Providing that the amount of a credit against the State income tax is 50%, not to exceed $500,000, of the investment in a qualified Maryland cybersecurity company located in Allegany County, Dorchester County, Garrett County, or Somerset County; appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 504 |
| HB534 | Pass | Repealing the termination date of provisions of law related to notice of the service on a respondent of specified protective orders; and repealing obsolete provisions relating to a specified contingency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 489 |
| HB274 | Pass | Repealing a provision prohibiting a court from entering a decree of divorce on the uncorroborated testimony of the party seeking the divorce; and repealing a provision specifying that in a suit for absolute divorce on the grounds of voluntary separat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 380 |
| HB69 | Pass | Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county or municipal corporation to provide a property tax credit for up to 50% of the county or municipal corporation property tax imposed on specified personal prope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 473 |
| HB605 | Pass | Authorizing, in Frederick County, a person aggrieved by a development rights and responsibilities agreement to file an administrative appeal; providing that if an agreement was entered into before July 1, 2016, a person aggrieved by an amendment to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 443 |
| HB682 | Pass | Requiring the Behavioral Health Advisory Council, in consultation with specified agencies, specified health providers, and specified stakeholders, to develop a strategic plan for ensuring that clinical crisis walk-in services and mobile crisis teams ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 406 |
| HB276 | Pass | Altering specified provisions of law concerning a credit against the State income tax for preservation and conservation easements to allow an individual or a member of a pass-through entity to claim the credit for an easement conveyed to the Departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 352 |
| HB593 | Pass | Altering the composition of the Interagency Council on Homelessness; increasing, from six to nine, the number of representatives from diverse geographical regions of the State engaged in homeless advocacy; requiring the Governor to designate as chair...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 332 |
| HB815 | Pass | Authorizing a licensee at the Fair Hill Natural Resources Management Area to conduct live racing of Arabian breed horses under specified circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 497 |
| HB828 | Pass | Authorizing a local board of elections to commence the canvass of vote-by-mail ballots cast in a special election conducted by mail at 2 p.m. on the day of a special election; authorizing the State Board of Elections to adopt regulations authorizing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 358 |
| HB117 | Pass | Providing that, for applicants for a license to practice pharmacy, graduation from a recognized English-speaking professional school accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education is acceptable proof of proficiency in the oral communi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 475 |
| HB1051 | Pass | Establishing a Class CC (community college) beer and wine license in Harford County; authorizing the Board of License Commissioners to issue the license to officers of a community college for use on specified parts of the community college campus; pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 449 |
| HB1236 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from knowingly importing, manufacturing, distributing, selling, or offering for sale a counterfeit airbag or a nonfunctional airbag; prohibiting a person from knowingly installing a counterfeit airbag or a nonfunctional airbag in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 457 |
| HB1247 | Pass | Exempting from specified State insurance laws a self-funded student health plan operated by an independent institution of higher education that provides health care services to its students and their dependents if the institution files on July 1 each...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 305 |
| HB136 | Pass | Altering the composition of the Financial Education and Capability Commission to include one representative of a nonprofit organization in the State that provides financial assistance and free financial education to State residents for postsecondary ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 187 |
| HB1074 | Pass | Authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Montgomery County to issue, renew, and transfer and otherwise provide a maximum of two alcoholic beverages licenses for use in the town of Laytonsville under specified conditions; and specifying that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 294 |
| HB1069 | Pass | Authorizing the Board of License Commissioners of Prince George's County to issue an entertainment concessionaire license to specified persons for specified purposes; providing for the scope of the entertainment concessionaire license; authorizing th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 293 |
| HB554 | Pass | Altering the scope of provisions of law governing surplus lines insurance to authorize the use of surplus lines insurance for short-term medical insurance coverage; authorizing the procurement of short-term medical insurance from a nonadmitted insure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 208 |
| HB1644 | Pass | Authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Baltimore County to transfer a Class B or Class D beer, wine, and liquor (on-sale) retail alcoholic beverages license in existence in Election District 15 to a specified location; requiring that the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 315 |
| HB147 | Pass | Legalizing the 2016 Edition of the Somerset County Code of Public Local Laws and any supplement to the extent to which that code or supplement contains laws enacted by the General Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 253 |
| HB831 | Pass | Authorizing Washington County to include, for the purpose of collection, unpaid allocation fees, water and sewerage charges, penalties, and assessments on annual tax bills; and requiring that the fees, charges, penalties, and assessments be collected...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 279 |
| HB163 | Pass | Repealing a duplicative requirement for the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners to submit a comprehensive master plan to the State Board of Education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 164 |
| HB20 | Pass | Establishing for archery hunters in Calvert County and St. Mary's County a specified safety zone extending for 50 yards from a dwelling house, residence, church, or any other building or camp occupied by human beings within which archery hunting may ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 246 |
| HB226 | Pass | Increasing the number of student members of the Talbot County Board of Education from one member to two members; requiring that one student member be a student from St. Michaels High School and one student member be a student from Easton High School ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 150 |
| HB9 | Pass | Repealing provisions of law that establish 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 set by the County Executive ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 245 |
| HB670 | Pass | Requiring the Baltimore City Department of Public Works to report annually to the members of the Baltimore City delegation to the General Assembly on actions taken to remediate illegal dumping in each legislative district during the previous year; an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 274 |
| HB149 | Pass | Altering the salary of the County Commissioners of Somerset County from $7,500 to $8,500 for each Commissioner and from $8,500 to $9,500 for the President; altering the limit on reimbursements that each Commissioner may receive for specified expenses...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 168 |
| HB205 | Pass | Authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of Carroll County, from time to time, to borrow not more than $31,000,000 in order to finance the construction, improvement, or development of specified public facilities in Carroll County, includin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 254 |
| HB112 | Pass | Authorizing a campaign finance entity to make a disbursement to compensate a responsible officer of the campaign finance entity only by check; requiring the treasurer of an authorized candidate campaign committee to provide specified individuals with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 252 |
| HB217 | Pass | Requiring a public body to make available an agenda containing specified information if the agenda has been determined at the time a public body gives notice of the meeting or, if an agenda has not been determined at the time of the meeting notice, t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 255 |
| HB1157 | Pass | Increasing the annual salary of the assistant sheriff in Calvert County if the assistant sheriff was an active deputy sheriff in the Calvert County Sheriff's Office immediately before appointment; clarifying that the assistant sheriff shall retain fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 302 |
| HB1127 | Pass | Applying to Prince George's County specified provisions of law regarding the dissemination of voter information material in multifamily residential structures; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 298 |
| HB1487 | Pass | Authorizing the inclusion, in a policy that insures a health care provider against damages due to medical injury arising from providing or failing to provide health care, of coverage for the defense of a health care provider in a specified disciplina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 210 |
| HB1015 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission, and the Maryland Health and Higher Educational Facilities Authority, in consultation with the Department of Legislative Services and any other appropriate agencies, to study the expansion or creatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 290 |
| HB413 | Pass | Requiring the Office of Information Systems in the Department of Legislative Services to establish the Pilot Program on Closed Captioning for Video Streaming; establishing that the purpose of the Pilot Program is to determine an efficient and cost-ef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 265 |
