| SB794 | Pass | Requiring a statewide kindergarten assessment to be limited to a representative sample of kindergarten students from within each local school system in the State, subject to a specified exception; authorizing a specified kindergarten assessment to ev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 427 |
| SB1020 | Pass | Requiring the State Board of Physicians to license applicants to practice medicine who became licensed or certified as a physician in another jurisdiction under specified requirements, are in good standing in the other jurisdiction, submit the Board-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 460 |
| SB520 | Pass | Providing an exemption from the motor fuel tax for motor fuel that is bought by a county board of education or a school bus operator under contract with a county board of education for use in a school bus; authorizing a county board of education to c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 397 |
| SB297 | Pass | Extending until at least the end of the month in which the insured or enrollee turns 19 years old the period of time during which health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations are required to provide coverage o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 371 |
| SB509 | Pass | Authorizing a specified action to be brought to establish title against adverse claims to property; providing for venue and the application of the Maryland Rules in an action under the Act; establishing requirements for a complaint, an answer to a co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 395 |
| SB46 | Pass | Establishing for archery hunters in Anne Arundel County a safety zone of 100 yards from a dwelling house, residence, church, or any other building or camp within which archery hunting may not take place except under specified circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 333 |
| SB86 | Pass | Repealing the prohibition on denying unemployment benefits to individuals who are at least 60 years old and who have been furloughed temporarily and are subject to recall for failing to actively seek work; and providing that the Act applies only to i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 339 |
| SB256 | Pass | Requiring that, in Prince George's County, the interest payable on specified county property tax payment deferrals may not exceed 4%; requiring the governing body of Prince George's County to establish and promote a specified public awareness campaig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 368 |
| SB200 | Pass | Continuing the State Board of Environmental Health Specialists in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act by extending to July 1, 2027, the termination provisions related to the authority of the Board; requiring the Boar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 359 |
| SB525 | 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 399 |
| SB795 | Pass | Establishing a Class MT (movie theater) license in Harford County; authorizing the Harford County Board of License Commissioners to issue the license to an owner of a movie theater; requiring the owner of a movie theater to provide documentation to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 428 |
| SB85 | Pass | Renaming the Department of Economic Competitiveness and Commerce to be the Department of Commerce; repealing the Office of the Secretary of Commerce in the Office of the Governor; repealing the requirement that the Secretary of Commerce employ an Exe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 338 |
| SB242 | 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 366 |
| SB551 | 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 405 |
| SB239 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act; authorizing a user to direct a custodian of digital assets to disclose or not to disclose those assets under specified circumstances and in a specified manner; providing that the Act d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 364 |
| SB17 | Pass | Increasing, from 1 year to 5 years, the number of years after the date of an open session a public body is required to keep a copy of minutes of the open session and any recording made under specified provisions of law; requiring specified public bod...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 329 |
| SB245 | 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 318 |
| SB888 | Pass | Establishing in the Motor Vehicle Administration the Program to Incentivize and Enable Uninsured Vehicle Owners to Be Insured; specifying the eligibility requirements; requiring the Administration to waive a portion of specified delinquent uninsured ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 446 |
| SB162 | Pass | Altering from 120 to 150 the number of days during which the Public Service Commission is required to take a final action after a gas company files an amendment to an approved plan to invest in eligible infrastructure replacement projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 355 |
| SB824 | Pass | Providing that a licensee of the State Real Estate Commission need not verify that a specified service provider is currently licensed by the State to perform the services if the licensee offers the name of the service provider to a client in the prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 432 |
| SB22 | 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 331 |
| SB141 | 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 353 |
| SB856 | Pass | Requiring specified health care providers to obtain consent for HIV testing in accordance with specified provisions of law and to test pregnant patients, except under specified circumstances, during the first and third trimesters of pregnancy; repeal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 440 |
| SB285 | Pass | Repealing the requirement that a person must have a subcontractor license or a contractor license issued by the Maryland Home Improvement Commission whenever the person acts as a home improvement subcontractor in the State; repealing specified fees a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 370 |
| SB811 | Pass | Requiring an electric company to issue acceptance and final approval to operate a customer-generator's solar electric generating facility on the electric company's distribution facilities within 20 days after the completion of the installation proces...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 430 |
| SB1119 | Pass | Authorizing the Treasurer to invest or reinvest specified funds in a specified obligation issued and unconditionally guaranteed by a supranational issuer; defining a specified term; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 469 |
| SB66 | Pass | Exempting professional corporations in which a majority of the stockholders are individuals who are licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized to practice a health occupation under the Health Occupations Article from the requirement that the name o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 335 |
| SB982 | Pass | Authorizing the Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System to enter into an agreement with the Maryland Technology Development Corporation or another entity to make and manage investments in private equity and venture capital in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 459 |
| SB94 | Pass | Repealing a specified provision of law requiring that specified displaced homemakers be exempt from payment of specified tuition and be counted in a specified computation of full-time equivalent enrollment; replacing obsolete references with referenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 344 |
| SB96 | Pass | Establishing that the State Collection Agency Licensing Board exercises its powers, duties, and functions subject to the authority of the Secretary of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 347 |
| SB979 | Pass | Altering the eligibility provisions of the Optional Retirement Program to include individuals in specified position categories designated by specified governing boards of institutions of higher education or the Secretary of Higher Education; requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 458 |
| SB606 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland College Collaboration for Student Veterans Commission; providing that the purpose of the Commission is to work to ensure the educational success of returning veterans, facilitate the sharing of best practices among instituti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 413 |
| SB119 | Pass | Requiring businesses, registered with the State Department of Assessments and Taxation, that offer discounts or preferences on products or services to veterans to accept a valid driver's license or identification card with a notation of veteran statu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 350 |
| SB449 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to include as part of the personal needs allowance guardianship fees for guardianship services when determining the portion of income specified recipients of Maryland Medical Assistance Program be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 390 |
| SB95 | Pass | Repealing the Workforce Creation and Adult Education Transition Council; altering the responsibility of the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation as it relates to the development of a specified State plan; repealing a specified provision of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 346 |
| SB137 | Pass | Altering specified provisions of law concerning a credit against the State income tax for specified 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 th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 351 |
| SB8 | 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 327 |
| SB97 | Pass | 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] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 348 |
| SB411 | Pass | Authorizing a credit against the State income tax for an individual who serves as a preceptor in specified preceptorship programs under specified circumstances and works in specified areas of the State with health care workforce shortages; establishi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 385 |
| SB605 | Pass | Altering a specified provision of law to require the Athletic Trainer Advisory Committee to recommend to the State Board of Physicians approval, modification, or disapproval of individual evaluation and treatment protocols; authorizing, under specifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 411 |
| SB707 | Pass | 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] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 420 |
| SB765 | Pass | 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 spe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 423 |
| SB620 | Pass | Requiring the Governor to proclaim annually the second week in June as Chesapeake Bay Awareness Week; and requiring the proclamation to urge educational and environmental organizations, including the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the Alliance for the Ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 415 |
| SB931 | 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 452 |
| SB600 | Pass | Requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene, after consultation with representatives of payors, health care practitioners, and freestanding ambulatory care facilities, to establish by regulation specified standards for the use of ultrasound ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 409 |
| SB442 | Pass | Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim April 16 as National Healthcare Decisions Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 388 |
| SB958 | Pass | Authorizing a Class 7 micro-brewery license to be issued in Cecil County; authorizing a Class 7 micro-brewery license to be issued to a holder of a Class B beer, wine, and liquor license or a Class D beer, wine, and liquor license under specified cir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 454 |
| SB401 | Pass | Authorizing an individual who holds a Deer Management Permit in Charles County and St. Mary's County to use a shotgun or breech loading center fired rifle approved by the Department of Natural Resources to hunt deer throughout the year, including all...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 383 |
| SB853 | Pass | Authorizing a guardian of the property of a specified minor or disabled person to pay or apply income or principal from a specified estate to establish or fund a specified special needs trust, a pooled asset special needs trust account, or an Achievi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 438 |
| SB360 | Pass | Providing that another planned permanent living arrangement may be a child's permanency plan only if the child is at least 16 years old.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 381 |
