| SB784 | Pass | Providing that, under specified circumstances, a first named insured under a specified policy of motor vehicle liability insurance is not required to obtain coverage for specified medical, hospital, and disability benefits that must be provided by sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 425 |
| SB630 | Pass | Authorizing the Comptroller to grant a distillery off-site permit to a holder of a Class 1 distillery license or a Class 9 limited distillery license for specified purposes under specified circumstances; establishing limitations on the times and loca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 418 |
| SB882 | Pass | Renaming the Northeastern Maryland Additive Manufacturing Innovation Authority to be the Regional Additive Manufacturing Partnership of Maryland; altering specified definitions in order to codify a specified alternate name for the Partnership; alteri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 444 |
| SB1126 | Pass | 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] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 470 |
| SB775 | Pass | Authorizing a person to purchase and donate recreational hunting or fishing licenses and any corresponding stamps for specified purposes; authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to issue a donated license or stamp only for use by a Gold Star ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 424 |
| SB757 | Pass | Requiring the Comptroller to implement electronic filing of alcoholic beverage tax returns on or before January 1, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 421 |
| SB969 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from importing, manufacturing, distributing, selling, or offering for sale a counterfeit airbag or a nonfunctional airbag; prohibiting a person from installing a counterfeit airbag or a nonfunctional airbag in a motor vehicle; pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 456 |
| SB169 | 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 the special election; authorizing the State Board of Elections to adopt regulations authorizin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 357 |
| SB425 | Pass | 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] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 387 |
| SB859 | 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 442 |
| SB354 | Pass | Authorizing a specified individual to file a motion requesting that court records relating to a specified petition for emergency evaluation be sealed; requiring the court to have a copy of the motion served on a specified petitioner at a specified ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 378 |
| SB471 | Pass | Altering specified provisions of law relating to the collection, deposit, and purpose of specified fees and revenues related to debt settlement services; repealing the termination date of the Maryland Debt Settlement Services Act; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 392 |
| SB1097 | Pass | Repealing specified provisions of law granting the Tri-County Council for Southern Maryland and the Tri-County Council for Western Maryland immunity from suit; altering the definition of a "local government" under the Local Government Tort Claims Act...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 466 |
| SB336 | Pass | Requiring a hospital to provide a patient or the legal guardian of a patient with an opportunity to designate a lay caregiver before the patient is discharged from the hospital; requiring a hospital to document the decision to not designate a lay car...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 376 |
| SB544 | 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 401 |
| SB1136 | Pass | Exempting specified temporary dental clinics that hold permits under specified provisions of law, provide all services on a pro bono basis, and operate fewer than 100 hours a year the fee for monitoring and regulating sources of radiation after June ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 472 |
| SB526 | Pass | Altering the defined term "commercial feed" as used in the Maryland Commercial Feed Law to exempt specified materials.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 400 |
| SB624 | Pass | Altering the wine festival license in Calvert County to be the beer or wine festival license; establishing that beer festivals and beer and wine festivals are subject to specified authorizations and requirements applicable to wine festivals; authoriz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 417 |
| SB106 | Pass | Establishing that the State Board of Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning, and Refrigeration Contractors 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 349 |
| SB830 | Pass | Establishing a limited license to provide hair services - blow drying; requiring the State Board of Cosmetologists to establish by regulation specified curriculum standards for providing hair services - blow drying for use by specified entities for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 434 |
| SB545 | Pass | Altering and renaming the Construction Apprenticeship Assistance Program to establish the Apprenticeship Career Training in Our Neighborhoods (ACTION) Program; altering the purpose and method for administering the Program; requiring the Department of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 403 |
| SB93 | Pass | Repealing the Maryland Workforce Corporation and the Health Care Personnel Training Fund; repealing specified provisions of law related to the board of directors, officers, and employees of the Corporation; repealing specified provisions of law relat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 345 |
| SB916 | 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 448 |
| SB1135 | Pass | Repealing the prohibition on the clerk of the Circuit Court for Washington County from issuing a specified business license under specified circumstances unless the applicant submits to the clerk a certification that the location of the business for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 471 |
| SB359 | Pass | Repealing a provision prohibiting a court from entering a decree of divorce on the uncorroborated testimony of the party seeking the divorce; repealing a provision specifying that, in a suit for absolute divorce on the grounds of voluntary separation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 379 |
| SB1106 | Pass | Establishing the Courthouse Dog and Child Witness Pilot Program in the circuit courts for Anne Arundel County and Harford County to determine whether to establish a structured, defined, and systematic approach for providing a courthouse dog to a chil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 467 |
| SB1007 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Small Business Retirement Savings Program and Trust for private sector employees; establishing the Maryland Small Business Retirement Savings Board to implement, maintain, and administer the Program and the Trust; requiring ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 323 |
| SB1069 | Pass | Requiring the Public Service Commission to provide a weekly notice of a public hearing and an opportunity for public comment on two types of social media and on the Commission's Web site with a specified frequency before the public hearing date; requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 464 |
| SB1109 | Pass | Requiring the Division of Workforce Development and Adult Learning to administer any community service employment programs delegated to the State under Title V of the federal Older Americans Act of 1965; requiring the responsibility for carrying out ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 468 |
| SB579 | Pass | Establishing that a park model recreational vehicle is considered to be a travel trailer for the purposes of the Maryland Vehicle Law; defining the term "park model recreational vehicle"; and making specified conforming changes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 407 |
| SB88 | Pass | Consolidating the Mortgage Lender-Originator Fund, the Money Transmission Fund, and the Debt Management Services Fund into a single fund known as the Nondepository Special Fund; providing the purpose of the Nondepository Special Fund is to cover the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 341 |
| SB1112 | Pass | Allowing a qualified business entity operating a specified aerospace, electronics, or defense contract tax credit project to claim a credit against the State income tax; requiring the Department of Economic Competitiveness and Commerce to certify a b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 320 |
| SB848 | Pass | Prohibiting health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from applying a copayment, coinsurance, or prior authorization requirement for specified contraceptive drugs and devices; providing that the prohibition...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 436 |
| SB1076 | Pass | Prohibiting the Washington County Board of License Commissioners from issuing a Class A off-sale license, a Class B on- and off-sale license, or a Class D on- and off-sale license in an election district if the number of licenses exceeds the populati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 465 |
| SB1 | Pass | Altering the circumstances under which insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations must provide benefits for expenses arising from in vitro fertilization procedures; providing an exception to the required use of a s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 325 |
| SB926 | Pass | Requiring specified health care providers and specified medical laboratories to provide a specified written notice to a patient for whom the health care provider or medical laboratory performs a laboratory test for the presence of Lyme disease; requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 450 |
| SB87 | Pass | Repealing a requirement that, in connection with an initial application for a mortgage loan originator license, and at any other time the Commissioner of Financial Regulation requests, an applicant or a licensee provide fingerprints for use by the Cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 340 |
| SB92 | Pass | Transferring the Apprenticeship and Training Council and the Youth Apprenticeship Advisory Committee to the Division of Workforce Development and Adult Learning; requiring the membership of the Council and its consultants to reflect the geographic, r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 343 |
| SB1057 | Pass | Authorizing the Maryland Innovation Initiative in the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to provide equity investment financing to specified universities or specified entities to promote the commercialization of specified intellectual proper...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 462 |
| SB649 | Pass | Authorizing the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board for the City of Annapolis to issue a refillable container permit for draft beer to a holder of a Class E license; providing an annual permit fee of $50 for an applicant whose license has an off-sale pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 419 |
| SB227 | Pass | Authorizing the governing body of Washington County to grant, by law, a property tax credit against the county property tax imposed on specified residential property owned by specified disabled veterans of active military, naval, or air service; prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 362 |
| SB74 | Pass | Altering the circumstances used to determine the effect of a retirement payment on the eligibility of an individual for unemployment insurance benefits; and altering the definition of "retirement payment".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 336 |
| SB887 | Pass | Requiring a specified health benefit plan to include provisions that permit enrollees a minimum period of time of 1 year to submit a claim for a service, provide for the suspension of the minimum period of time, and provide that failure to submit a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 445 |
| SB310 | 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 374 |
| SB1063 | Pass | Requiring that, under specified circumstances, specified contractual employees of the Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research be placed in specified positions in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; requiring that the employees be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 463 |
| SB90 | Pass | Altering the means by which the Secretary of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation is authorized to recover overpayments of benefits, monetary penalties, and interest; authorizing the Secretary to adjust, compromise, or settle specified interest due; prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 342 |
| SB469 | 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 as proof of proficiency in the oral comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 476 |
| SB84 | Pass | Providing that, for any calendar year beginning on or after January 1, 2017, the Table of Rates in effect for the immediately preceding calendar year continues to apply under specified circumstances; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 337 |
| SB217 | Pass | Altering the circumstances under which the Comptroller is required to distribute fees received from the State Board of Physicians to the Office of Student Financial Assistance to be used to make grants under the Maryland Loan Assistance Repayment Pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 178 |
| SB72 | Pass | Altering the designation of a specified certified noise zone that is used in determining the membership of the Citizens Committee for the Enhancement of Communities Surrounding Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 153 |
