| SB878 | Pass | Expanding the hours for sale of specified alcoholic beverages on Sundays by a holder of a Class D beer license, a Class D beer and light wine license, a Class B beer, wine, and liquor license, and a Class D beer, wine, and liquor license in Allegany ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 588 |
| SB864 | Pass | Establishing the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Fund to provide grants to local law enforcement agencies for salaries, training, and equipment to be used for the investigation and prosecution of Internet crimes against children, to suppo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 516 |
| SB233 | Pass | Requiring the Police Training Commission to require a specified statement condemning motorcycle profiling to be included in existing written policies regarding other profiling; requiring the Commission to include in specified curriculum and courses o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 542 |
| SB160 | Pass | Establishing specified subsequent offender penalties for specified offenses that result in the death or life-threatening injury to another as the result of a specified person driving, operating, or controlling a vehicle or vessel; and providing that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 517 |
| SB876 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources, in conjunction with the Department of Agriculture, to establish a program to control the spread of black flies in the State under specified circumstances; requiring that the program be implemented init...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 584 |
| SB288 | Pass | Extending by 1 month the date by which specified corporations must complete and file with the Comptroller an income tax return; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2015.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 547 |
| SB150 | Pass | Repealing the prohibition on a person convicted of perjury from testifying in a proceeding; providing that evidence that a witness has been convicted of perjury shall be admitted for the purpose of attacking the credibility of the witness, regardless...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 530 |
| SB42 | Pass | Requiring the dentist and dental hygienist members of the State Board of Dental Examiners to be appointed with the advice and consent of the Senate from a list of names submitted to the Governor by the Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 528 |
| SB570 | Pass | Providing that, if a minor, an incapacitated, unborn, or unknown individual, or an individual whose location is unknown and not reasonably ascertainable is not otherwise represented under a specified provision of law relating to specified trusts, a g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 562 |
| SB843 | Pass | Altering the State tax credits subject to legislative review and evaluation under the Tax Credit Evaluation Act; repealing a specified requirement that specified tax credits with termination dates be evaluated; providing that specified departments th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 582 |
| SB241 | Pass | Requiring a landlord to provide written notice to a specified tenant at least 180 days before converting a senior apartment facility into an apartment facility for the general population; requiring a landlord to allow any tenant who requests to move ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 543 |
| SB439 | Pass | Authorizing the Correctional Training Commission to revoke the certification of a Department of Juvenile Services employee in conjunction with specified disciplinary actions; authorizing the court to reinstate the certification of a correctional offi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 554 |
| SB156 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from retaliating against a juror or an officer of the court for any reason relating to the performance of official duties in a pending or completed case in a State or federal court; prohibiting a person from soliciting another to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 532 |
| SB591 | Pass | Requiring a specified notice of an action to foreclose the right of redemption to be sent to a homeowners association or a condominium association; requiring a plaintiff in an action to foreclose the right of redemption on property to be liable for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 565 |
| SB826 | Pass | Prohibiting a unit from requiring a prime contractor, and a prime contractor from requiring a subcontractor, to begin change order work under a contract until the procurement officer for the unit issues a specified written change order; providing tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 580 |
| SB587 | Pass | 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 penalty of a maximum fine of $1,000 for vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 564 |
| SB936 | Pass | Extending a specified credit against the State income tax for electricity-producing facilities using specified qualified energy resources and placed in service on or after January 1, 2006, but before January 1, 2019; extending the period in which the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 594 |
| SB337 | Pass | Altering the calculation of specified funding for each participating regional resource center, the State Library Resource Center, and each county public library system for specified fiscal years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 549 |
| SB427 | Pass | Prohibiting specified private career schools and specified for-profit institutions of higher education from enrolling a student in a program that is intended to lead to employment in a field that requires licensure or certification in the State if su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 552 |
| SB631 | Pass | Authorizing the trustees or other officers in charge of specified facility closure reserve funds to invest and reinvest money in a specified manner and sell, redeem, or exchange specified investments or reinvestments; requiring the trustees or other ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 568 |
| SB912 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Clean Energy Center to conduct a study to determine design and implementation strategies for a residential clean energy loan program; requiring the study to include consideration of whether strategies will work advantageously w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 592 |
| SB877 | Pass | Establishing a Class CT (cinema/theater) (on-sale) beer, wine, and liquor license in Washington County; authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Washington County to issue the license for use in a cinema or theater that meets specified requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 586 |
| SB417 | Pass | Prohibiting the Commissioner of Labor and Industry, under specified circumstances, from authorizing work activities centers and specified sheltered workshops to pay employees with disabilities less than a specified minimum wage; authorizing specified...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 521 |
| SB603 | Pass | Prohibiting a District Court commissioner from authorizing the pretrial release of a defendant charged with a crime of violence if the defendant has previously been convicted of a specified crime; and prohibiting a District Court commissioner from au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 567 |
| SB637 | Pass | Altering the definition of "DNA profile" for purposes of provisions of law concerning the admissibility of a DNA profile in a criminal proceeding; providing that a DNA profile is admissible for specified purposes if accompanied by a specified stateme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 570 |
| SB178 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from committing a specified act of extortion by wrongful use of actual or threatened notification of law enforcement officials about another person's undocumented or illegal immigration status.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 536 |
| SB998 | Pass | Authorizing St. Mary's County or a municipal corporation in St. Mary's County to grant a property tax credit against the county or municipal corporation property tax imposed on property that is owned or leased by specified new or expanding businesses...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 598 |
| SB173 | Pass | Removing the limitation that renewable energy projects by commercial property owners financed through a clean energy loan program have an electric generating capacity of not more than 100 kilowatts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 534 |
| SB1104 | Pass | Requiring the State Highway Administration to dedicate the portion of Maryland Route 924 (Emmorton Road) between its intersections with Maryland Route 24 and Singer Road as Heroes Highway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 525 |
| SB1143 | Pass | Establishing the Neshante and Chloe Davis Domestic Violence Prevention Task Force; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving specified compensation, but authorizing rei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 606 |
| SB557 | Pass | Authorizing members of the National Guard whose employment and reemployment rights have been violated to bring a civil action for economic damages, including lost wages and benefits; and authorizing a court to award specified damages, fees, costs, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 560 |
| SB879 | Pass | Specifying annual fees for specified alcoholic beverages licenses; altering the number of days after the expiration date of a wine festival license that a holder of a State wholesale, Class 3 winery, or Class 4 limited winery license may accept retur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 590 |
| SB346 | Pass | Adding misuse of telephone facilities and equipment, misuse of electronic communication or interactive computer service, revenge porn, and visual surveillance to the list of offenses alleged to have been committed by a respondent against a victim for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 550 |
| SB481 | Pass | Altering a specified provision of law concerning equal pay for equal work to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex or gender identity; prohibiting an employer from discriminating between employees by providing less favorable employment opportun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 556 |
| SB83 | Pass | Renaming the School Bus Safety Enforcement Fund to be the School Safety Enforcement Fund; expanding the purposes of the Fund to include enhancing school safety; requiring the Executive Director of the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 529 |
| SB1015 | Pass | Altering the serving size of a sample serving of beer permitted to be served to an individual by a holder of a Class BWTS beer and wine tasting or sampling license in St. Mary's County; establishing a BWT beer and wine tasting permit in St. Mary's Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 600 |
| SB945 | Pass | Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to require a person who is convicted of specified offenses relating to driving under the influence of alcohol to participate in the Ignition Interlock System Program for specified periods of time; increasing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 512 |
| SB1005 | Pass | Requiring the Division of Parole and Probation to conduct a risk and needs assessment on inmates as soon as feasible after sentencing and develop a case plan to guide an inmate's rehabilitation while in custody; altering the manner in which specified...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 515 |
| SB771 | Pass | Prohibiting a creditor or a debt collector from initiating or filing a specified consumer debt collection action under specified circumstances; specifying that any subsequent payment toward, written or oral affirmation of, or any other activity on th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 579 |
| SB10 | Pass | Increasing from $500,000 to $750,000 the minimum gross income amount by which the registration statement of a charitable organization must include an audit by an independent certified public accountant; providing a range of $300,000 but less than $75...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 527 |
| SB1079 | Pass | Altering specified conditions under which the Board of License Commissioners of Washington County may issue a specified alcoholic beverages license to the owner of a hotel or motel; requiring the hotel or motel to have specified lobby facilities, to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 605 |
| SB1047 | Pass | Establishing the Task Force to Study Recording Deeds for Victims of Domestic Violence; requiring the Task Force to study and make recommendations regarding how to protect the identity and address of a participant in the Address Confidentiality Progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 602 |
| SB552 | Pass | Authorizing a specified property tax credit for specified residential real property in Harford County owned by specified surviving spouses or specified cohabitants; authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City to grant, by law, a specifie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 558 |
| SB283 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from possessing, with the intent to unlawfully use, an implement of dogfighting; establishing penalties on conviction of a violation of the Act of a maximum imprisonment of 90 days or a maximum fine of $5,000 or both; providing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 546 |
| SB818 | Pass | Requiring an appointing authority to apply a credit of five points on a selection test for specified positions in the State Personnel Management System for an individual with a specified disability; requiring a specified appointing authority for a sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 523 |
| SB1062 | Pass | Providing an exemption from the sales and use tax for specified construction material or warehousing equipment purchased for use in a specified target redevelopment area in Baltimore County under specified circumstances; requiring a buyer claiming th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 603 |
| SB726 | Pass | Establishing the Task Force on the Maryland Clean Energy Center; requiring the Task Force to assess specified programs, review specified State financing instrumentalities, identify specified resources, review specified cost-effective opportunities, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 577 |
| SB306 | Pass | Altering the definition of "agricultural land transfer tax" and defining "total rate of tax" to provide that, for purposes of specified provisions of law concerning the calculation of the agricultural land transfer tax, the tax does not include a spe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 372 |
| SB226 | Pass | Requiring specified engineering documents prepared at the request of the State or a political subdivision of the State, where specified skills are required, to be signed, sealed, and dated by a certain professional engineer who prepared or approved t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 361 |
| SB505 | Pass | Authorizing a workers' compensation insurer to file a rating plan that provides for a premium discount of up to 4% for specified risks to an insured that has an alcohol- and drug-free workplace policy that may include one or more specified programs; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 394 |
