| HB1603 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources, in consultation with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, to conduct a specified study related to the public oyster fishery; requiring the Department to identify specified oyster ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB683 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the juvenile court to direct the provision of specified services to a specified child during a specified disposition hearing; requiring the juvenile court to direct the provision of specified services to a specified child during a permane...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB1094 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering a specified provision of law to allow the local impact grants distributed to Prince George's County from specified proceeds of video lottery terminals to be used for after-school and recreational activity projects in addition to public safet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation |
| HB778 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to convene a workgroup in consultation with specified stakeholders to review specified statutes and regulations, make specified determinations, and discuss specified issues; requiring the workgroup to revie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB5 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that furnishings used in the Government House may be deemed excess personal property or surplus personal property only by the Government House Trust; prohibiting the Secretary of General Services or the Secretary's designee from selling, gi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| HB162 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "public record" to exclude specified documents about State employees' salaries; authorizing specified employees of the Comptroller's Office to act as police officers when enforcing specified tax laws; requiring a tax collec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) |
| HB220 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a person to file a petition for a partial expungement of specified criminal records under specified circumstances; requiring a court to order that specified records be removed from a specified Web site; providing that only a specified rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Senators Zirkin, Hough, and McFadden |
| HB708 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Seal of Biliteracy Program that recognizes public high school graduates in the State who have attained proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing in one or more languages in addition to English; providing that participati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB1342 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to require a person who is convicted of specified offenses relating to driving under the influence, a person who refuses a breath alcohol concentration test, or a person who is found to have a blood alcohol ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) |
| HB1001 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing an exception for a specified person from the prohibition against carrying or transporting a specified firearm under specified circumstances; requiring a court to inform a person convicted of a specified offense that the person is prohibited...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) |
| HB1261 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the process by which the State Archivist reviews, evaluates, and makes recommendations to the General Assembly regarding specified State designations; providing that a specified provision of law does not affect the ability of the General Ass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| HB1409 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State to make specified payments to counties as a payment in lieu of taxes for State forest and State park land located in the county for specified fiscal years; requiring the Governor to include specified amounts to be paid to each cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB1249 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to issue a complimentary angler's license, Chesapeake Bay and coastal sport fishing license, or hunting license and any associated State-issued stamps or permits to a person who is a recipient of the Pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Delegates Stein, Folden, and Gilchrist |
| HB1399 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Education Development Collaborative to advise and make recommendations to the State Board of Education, the General Assembly, and local school systems regarding policies necessary to promote 21st century learning that enhanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation |
| HB1183 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the court, on motion of a party filed within 18 months after a final decree of absolute divorce is entered, to change the name of the requesting party to either the name given the party at birth or any other former name the party wishes t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB1495 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the circumstances under which a court may reverse or modify the decision of an agency in specified contested cases on judicial review under the Administrative Procedure Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB452 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the calculation of the Maryland earned income tax credit to increase the amount of credit that specified individuals without qualifying children may claim; expanding eligibility of the credit to allow specified individuals without specified ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (38-8) |
| HB1350 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempting from the certificate of need requirements for change of scope or capital expenditures the conversion of a licensed general hospital to a freestanding medical facility, in accordance with specified requirements; increasing from 45 to 90 the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Recommitted to Finance (Senator Middleton) |
| HB927 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Public Service Commission to study and make recommendations about the advisability of establishing an opt-in electric affordability program for residential and small business customers of specified electric companies with specified char...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Favorable |
| HB468 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing the Prince George's County AIDS Prevention Sterile Needle and Syringe Exchange Program; authorizing the establishment of Opioid-Associated Disease Prevention and Outreach Programs; requiring a local health department or a specified communit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB1615 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Linking Youth to New Experiences (LYNX) High School at Frederick High School in Frederick County; providing that the LYNX High School is a public school under the authority of the County Board of Education and the County Superintende...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB1572 | Engross
Sine Die | Amending the Maryland Consolidated Capital Bond Loan of 2015 to add the Board of Directors of the Delmarva Discovery Center & Museum, Inc. as a grantee to a specified grant; amending the Maryland Consolidated Capital Bond Loan of 2016 to repeal the m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Second Reading Passed |
| HB571 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Public Service Commission, when determining specified expenses while setting a just and reasonable rate for a gas company, to include all costs reasonably incurred by the gas company for performing environmental remediation of real pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Recommitted to Finance (Senator Middleton) |
| HB390 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing specified counties to participate, for a specified period of time, in a specified income tax refund withholding program related to individuals with outstanding warrants if the sheriff of the county notifies the Comptroller of the county's...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB580 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring employers that employ 15 or more employees to provide employees with earned sick and safe leave that is paid at the same rate as the employee normally earns; requiring employers with 14 or fewer employees to provide an employee with unpaid ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1556 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that the County Executive of Frederick County may not be a party to specified collective bargaining agreements but may attend and participate in all collective bargaining sessions of specified deputy sheriffs and correctional officers of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB1618 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Cigarette Restitution Fund to include a separate account to be used for substance use treatment, with priority given to residential treatment services, recovery support housing, and specified crisis response services, and for rate adjus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (44-0) |
| HB1561 | Engross
Sine Die | Defining "psychiatric nurse practitioner" for purposes of specified provisions of law relating to the voluntary and involuntary admissions of individuals to specified facilities for the treatment of mental disorders; prohibiting a certificate signed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Third Reading Passed (140-1) |
| HB976 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing that, in any custody or visitation proceeding, the disability of a party is relevant only to the extent that the court finds, based on evidence in the record, that the disability affects the best interest of the child; requiring, in a sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB1172 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a specified insured to elect to obtain specified enhanced underinsured motorist coverage under a private passenger motor vehicle liability insurance policy; requiring specified insurers to offer an enhanced underinsured motorist coverage ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Third Reading Passed (98-41) |
| HB595 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a substance use disorder services program to submit annually to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene financial statements and salary information in accordance with the Department's regulations; requiring the Department to adjust the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB616 | Engross
Sine Die | Allowing the holder of a Class 1 distillery license to establish and operate a plant for distilling, rectifying, blending, and bottling specified alcoholic beverages at the location described in the license; allowing the license holder to acquire alc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Senators Conway, Zucker, and Young |
| HB1506 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifying the authorized uses of the State Wildlife Management and Protection Fund; repealing specified requirements that the Department of Natural Resources use specified funds from specified hunting license sales for specified purposes; requiring ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB1126 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Prince George's County Pretrial Release, Work Release, and Diversion Programs Task Force; providing that the purpose of the Task Force is to study how specified programs operate, whether Prince George's County criminal justice system...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB1107 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a specified Baltimore City police officer without a warrant to arrest a person suspected of committing battery against a specified Baltimore City special enforcement officer, special parking enforcement officer, or special traffic enforce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (32-13) |
| HB195 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that specified prohibitions on participation in procurement apply only for a specified period of time following the issuance of an invitation for bids or a request for proposals; providing that specified prohibitions on participation in pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) |
| HB203 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to allow a person in Caroline County to hunt any game bird or game mammal, except migratory game birds and wetland game birds, on a Sunday on specified property during the open season for that game bird...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| HB1410 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing to $4,000 the maximum amount of a State matching stipend awarded to certificated public school employees who teach in specified public schools; requiring specified teachers in Anne Arundel County to receive a stipend of $1,500 under specif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB646 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a court, under specified circumstances, to terminate the parental rights of an individual convicted of or found to have committed an act of nonconsensual sexual conduct against the other parent that resulted in the conception of a child; pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Favorable with Amendments 368578/1 |
| HB915 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to adopt specified regulations restricting a tidal fish licensee who catches crabs using trotline gear to a workday of at least 10 hours per day, excluding time spent setting or taking up gear, on speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-09
Senators Waugh, Zucker, and Bates |
| HB61 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that a person may operate an anaerobic digestion facility only in accordance with specified requirements, regulations, orders, and permits; requiring a permit for a sewage treatment works where anaerobic digestion takes place to include con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-09
Recommitted to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs (Senator Pinsky) |
| HB1552 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission to establish a Polybutylene Connection Pipe Replacement Loan Program to provide loans to residential customers to finance the replacement of malfunctioning polybutylene pipes on customer property ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-09
Recommitted to Finance (Senator Middleton) |
| HB1642 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Board of Regents of Morgan State University to develop and implement a plan to enhance the Office of Technology Transfer at the University; requiring the Maryland Technology Development Corporation, at the request of the Board of Regent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-08
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB234 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Highway Administration to develop and make available to the public on its Web site in an accessible and searchable electronic format a map that includes all State roads; requiring that the map be subdivided by State legislative di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-08
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| HB263 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the conditions under which a lawsuit is deemed to be a strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP suit); altering the conditions under which a defendant in a SLAPP suit is not civilly liable for specified communications; providing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-08
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB184 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing a requirement that a firearm application contain a copy of the applicant's handgun qualification license; and requiring that a firearm application contain the applicant's handgun qualification license number, with a specified exception.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-07
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| HB1145 | Engross
Sine Die | Extending a specified credit against the State income tax for electricity produced by specified facilities from specified qualified energy resources to be certified on or before December 31, 2018; and extending the period in which the Maryland Energy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-07
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (45-0) |
| HB749 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from selling or offering to sell alcoholic beverages that are sold in a powder or crystalline form for direct use or use in combination with water or any other substance; and providing a maximum fine of $1,000 for violation of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-07
Recommitted to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs (Senator Conway) |
| HB359 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering a definition to make specified provisions of law requiring State's Attorney review of an application for a statement of charges against a law enforcement officer applicable to an application for a statement of charges against a correctional ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-07
Second Reading Passed |
| HB102 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering a prohibition, in Anne Arundel County, on a person standing in a specified highway to solicit money or donations; authorizing the governing body of Anne Arundel County or of a municipal corporation in the county to enact a specified permit p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-07
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
