| SB219 | Pass | Authorizing a person to hunt turkey on private property on Sundays during the spring turkey hunting season in Carroll County; and making the Act an emergency measure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 180 |
| SB499 | Pass | Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City to exempt from the admissions and amusement tax gross receipts from any charge or fee to participate in an amateur recreational sports event or league; and prohibiting the imposition of the adm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 215 |
| SB4 | Pass | Increasing the number of trustees of the Maryland Environmental Trust from 15 to 19 members; increasing to 16 the number of trustees elected to the Trust beginning on June 1, 2017; requiring that four of the trustees be elected each year for a term o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 148 |
| SB571 | Pass | Authorizing, on or after October 1, 2016, specified interested persons to enter into a binding nonjudicial settlement agreement with respect to a matter involving a trust; providing that the nonjudicial settlement agreement is valid only to a specifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 221 |
| SB218 | Pass | Prohibiting the inclusion of Morgan State University within the University System of Maryland.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 179 |
| SB194 | Pass | Providing that the Judicial Ethics Committee as an alternative to the Commission on Judicial Disabilities or another body designated by a specified court, shall administer and implement specified provisions of law that apply to State officials of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 176 |
| SB80 | Pass | Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to cancel the commercial driver's license of an individual who fails to submit to the Administration a current certificate of physical examination; authorizing the Administration to immediately reinstate and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 158 |
| SB995 | Pass | Repealing provisions of law that relate to specified licenses issued in St. Mary's County for hucksters, peddlers, and other specified businesses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 236 |
| SB774 | Pass | Establishing that an autocycle is considered to be a motorcycle for the purposes of the Maryland Vehicle Law; defining the term "autocycle" to include a motor vehicle manufactured in compliance with federal motor vehicle safety standards; prohibiting...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 231 |
| SB129 | 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 163 |
| SB148 | Pass | Clarifying the duties of a director of a corporation and that the director must act in good faith, in a manner the director reasonably believes to be in the best interests of the corporation, and with the care that an ordinarily prudent person in a s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 170 |
| SB532 | Pass | Altering the membership of the Correctional Officers' Retirement System to include specified correctional case management specialists, supervisors, or managers; providing that specified members of the Correctional Officers' Retirement System who meet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 218 |
| SB282 | Pass | Transferring specified provisions of law relating to early childhood development from the Family Law Article to the Education Article; establishing the Division of Early Childhood Development within the State Department of Education; renaming the Ear...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 185 |
| SB135 | 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 from $2,500 to $3,000 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 167 |
| SB272 | Pass | Authorizing the use of an Educational Excellence Award at an institution of higher education that is not in the State if the applicant is a deaf or hearing impaired student attending an institution of higher education that makes specified provisions ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 181 |
| SB120 | Pass | Authorizing the recipients of senatorial scholarships to hold an award for a fifth undergraduate academic year or for a semester subsequent to a fourth undergraduate academic year if the recipient makes a specified request, is a full-time student, co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 160 |
| SB75 | Pass | Repealing specified employment requirements for specified licensed public adjusters; providing for specified initial license fees for public adjusters; authorizing renewal notification by e-mail for specified public adjuster licenses; altering the re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 155 |
| SB128 | Pass | Repealing a condition under which a religious educational institution may operate without a certificate of approval from the Maryland Higher Education Commission and may enroll specified students in a specified online distance education program witho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 161 |
| SB28 | Pass | Providing that, beginning on October 1, 2016, the reasonable steps specified departments, agencies, and programs are required to take under specified provisions of law include the operation and maintenance of equal access versions of specified Web si...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 151 |
| SB393 | Pass | Repealing the requirement that the State Board of Nursing appoint specified peer review committees; authorizing the Board to appoint peer advisory committees to provide the Board with expert advice related to the practice of nursing by advance practi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 199 |
| SB16 | 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 149 |
| SB408 | Pass | Authorizing the State Board of Elections to impose a civil penalty for a violation by a campaign finance entity of the prohibition on fund-raising during the General Assembly session; authorizing the State Board to impose a lesser civil penalty than ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 202 |
| SB134 | Pass | Altering the salary of the Sheriff of Somerset County from not less than $60,000 to not less than $75,000; and providing for the application of the Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 165 |
| SB145 | Pass | Providing for a referendum in November 2016, of the qualified voters of Wicomico County to decide the method for determining the membership of the County Board of Education; requiring the qualified voters of the County to choose to retain the current...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 169 |
| SB436 | 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 207 |
| SB450 | 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 209 |
| SB1173 | Pass | Establishing the Task Force to Study the Adult High School Concept; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving specified compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 243 |
| SB431 | Pass | Providing the date by which Allegany County and Garrett County are required to file annual financial reports with the Department of Legislative Services is on or before December 31 after the close of the county's fiscal year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 206 |
| SB368 | Pass | Repealing a provision requiring that the Police Commissioner of Baltimore City be appointed for a term of 6 years; and providing that the Police Commissioner shall serve at the pleasure of the Mayor of Baltimore City.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 192 |
| SB597 | Pass | Altering a specified exemption from recordation and transfer taxes so as to provide that a transfer of a controlling interest in a real property entity is not subject to recordation and transfer taxes if the transfer of the real property owned by the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 223 |
| SB344 | Pass | Repealing obsolete language authorizing the commingling of Local Fire and Police System assets with other State Retirement and Pension System assets; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 189 |
| SB781 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Seal of Biliteracy Program; providing for the purpose of the Program; providing that participation in the Program by a local school system is voluntary; providing that, beginning with the graduating class of 2017, specified ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 232 |
| SB374 | Pass | Providing a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for contributions made by specified individuals to specified college savings accounts subject to specified limitations; defining specified terms; and applying the Act to all taxable y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 197 |
| SB395 | Pass | Requiring that specified authorized modifications of local conflict of interest and financial disclosure laws and regulations be made in accordance with regulations adopted by the State Ethics Commission and consistent with specified intent; and auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 201 |
| SB608 | Pass | Authorizing individuals who meet specified criteria to redeposit specified withdrawn accumulated contributions with the State Retirement and Pension System; requiring individuals who redeposit accumulated contributions to be enrolled in a specified b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 225 |
| SB373 | Pass | Clarifying the number of retirees of the Teachers' Retirement System or the Teachers' Pension System that are exempt from a specified offset of a retirement allowance if they are reemployed in specified positions in a local school system or the Maryl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 196 |
| SB823 | Pass | Altering the membership and duties of the Task Force to Study the Implementation of a Dyslexia Program; and changing the date from December 30, 2015, to December 30, 2016, by which the Task Force to Study the Implementation of a Dyslexia Education Pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 234 |
| SB182 | Pass | Altering specified requirements relating to carbon monoxide alarms as the requirements apply to rental dwelling units; requiring specified rental dwelling units, on or after April 1, 2018, to have a carbon monoxide alarm installed within the dwelling...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 174 |
| SB352 | Pass | Altering the definition of "interested party", for the purpose of certificate of need review of a replacement acute general hospital project, to include a jurisdiction within the region served by a specified regional health system that does not conta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 191 |
| SB343 | Pass | Repealing the June 30, 2016, date by which individuals who were subject to the Alternate Contributory Pension Selection in the Employees' Pension System or Teachers' Pension System before separating from employment must resume employment in order to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 188 |
| SB170 | Pass | Requiring that voter registration applications used in the State to register to vote or to change specified information for a registered voter include a specified statement concerning registration with a political party and the voter's right to parti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 172 |
| SB372 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Information Technology to analyze the logistics of intercepting horse racing winnings to pay for child support or restitution arears, study the use of specified intercept methods by the State for child support enforcement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 194 |
| SB421 | Pass | Authorizing the parents of a child with a completed individualized education program or a completed individualized family service plan to request that the document be translated into the parents' native language if that language is spoken by more tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 204 |
| SB725 | Pass | Correcting specified cross-references to the Alcoholic Beverages Article in the Annotated Code of Maryland; and correcting specified errors in the Alcoholic Beverages Article.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 228 |
| SB377 | Pass | Altering a distribution of revenue from the State admissions and amusement tax on electronic bingo and electronic tip jars to provide up to an aggregate amount of $1,000,000 to the Special Fund for Preservation of Cultural Arts in Maryland; providing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 145 |
| SB108 | Pass | Altering the types of nursing positions that are eligible to receive grants from the Nurse Support Program Assistance Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 159 |
| SB379 | Pass | Authorizing the creation of a State Debt in the amount of $4,680,000, the proceeds to be used as grants to the Interagency Committee on School Construction and the Maryland State Department of Education for the renovation, repair, and capital improve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 198 |
| SB764 | Pass | Authorizing student journalists at public schools and public institutions of higher education to exercise freedom of speech and freedom of the press in school-sponsored media; specifying that these freedoms are not limited by the fact that the media ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 229 |
| SB376 | Pass | Establishing specified State-funded Pathways in Technology Early College High (P-TECH) schools in the State; authorizing specified planning grants for P-TECH schools; requiring specified P-TECH schools to reserve at least 50% of its available space f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 144 |
| SB1140 | Pass | Establishing in Wicomico County a Class B Youth and Civic Center license; authorizing the Board of License Commissioners to issue the license to a designee of the County Executive for use by a specified youth and civic center; requiring a specified y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 242 |
