| SB559 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Strategic Demolition and Smart Growth Impact Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; specifying the purpose of the Fund is to provide grants and loans to assist in predevelopment activities, including demolition, land assembly, architect...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations |
| SB837 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to adopt regulations that provide the option to a tidal fish licensee authorized to catch crabs using trotlines and crab pots to work specified hours from July 15 through September 15 of any year; requiri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Delegates O'Donnell, Stein, and Gilchrist |
| SB225 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempting from the requirement to obtain specified licenses any person serving in the Armed Forces of the United States who has a service-connected disability, if, while angling, possesses valid military identification or any resident serving in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Delegates Stein, Folden, and Gilchrist |
| SB73 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Loan Assistance Repayment Program for Orphans and Foster Care Recipients; requiring an applicant to be employed full-time by the State, a county or municipality of the State, and to have received a specified degree from an i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means |
| SB515 | Engross
Sine Die | Making specified provisions of law concerning the advertising for bids for procurements costing more than $25,000 applicable to construction or repair for public school projects in the State; including construction and repair projects under provision...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations |
| SB529 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a public body to make available an agenda, before meeting in open session, containing known items of business or topics to be discussed at the open portion of a meeting and whether a portion of the meeting may be closed; providing that spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| SB875 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Budget and Management, in consultation with the State Retirement Agency, to issue a specified request for information on the viability of replacing specified disability benefits provided by the Board of Trustees for the St...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations |
| SB976 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Lottery and Gaming Control Commission, with the assistance of the State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency, to regulate the operation of Internet fantasy sports games; requiring a person to have a license in order to offer Internet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means |
| SB934 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a court to entertain a specified action against a local government or its employee even though a specified notice was not given, under specified circumstances; and applying the Act prospectively.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary |
| SB558 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Baltimore Regional Neighborhood Initiative Program to provide investment in local housing and businesses focusing on areas where modest investment will have an appreciable impact; establishing the types of community enhancement proje...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations |
| SB211 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing the maximum total amount of research and development tax credits that the Department of Economic Competitiveness and Commerce may approve; and applying the Act to all Maryland research and development tax credits certified after December 1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Favorable with Amendments |
| SB935 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a court to entertain an action under the Maryland Tort Claims Act even if a claimant fails to submit a specified written claim, under specified circumstances; and applying the Act prospectively.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary |
| SB249 | Engross
Sine Die | Allowing a qualified farm a credit, for tax years 2016 through 2018, of up to $5,000 against the State income tax; providing that the credit is equal to 50% of the value of an eligible food donation or 75% of the value of donated certified organic pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Second Reading Passed |
| SB730 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the conditions under which a motor vehicle dealer's failure to comply with a manufacturer's or distributor's specific requirements for processing a claim constitutes grounds for denial of a claim or reduction of the amount of compensation; p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB263 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a county from receiving specified revenues derived from a State forest or State park reserve and concession operations within a county if the county receives specified payments in a fiscal year; requiring specified payments to counties fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Senators Edwards, Manno, and King |
| SB453 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Workgroup to Study the Optional Retirement Program; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Workgroup; prohibiting a member of the Workgroup from receiving specified compensation; requiring the Workgroup to study an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations |
| SB448 | 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
Senators Zirkin, Muse, and Hough |
| SB922 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Education to develop, on or before December 1, 2016, goals for percentages of high school graduates; requiring, on or before December 1, 2016, the State Board to develop a method to consider a student's attainment of a sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means |
| SB1162 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting an Executive Branch agency from banning or regulating the sale of coffee in conjunction with a career exploration and development activity in a public high school in Baltimore County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Favorable Report by Ways and Means |
| SB1164 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City to establish specified community benefits district management authorities to include the South Baltimore Gateway Community Benefits District; requiring the ordinance establishing the South Balt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (135-2) |
| SB924 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing the termination date of provisions of law related to notice of the service on a respondent of specified protective orders; and repealing obsolete provisions relating to a specified contingency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Senators Zirkin, Brochin, and Hough |
| SB1000 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing specified provisions of law concerning the appointment and compensation of a law clerk for the St. Mary's County Circuit Court resident judge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB462 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the fees health care providers and hospitals may charge for copying and mailing specified medical records and for retrieving and preparing specified medical records; authorizing specified hospitals and other health care providers to charge s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (140-0) |
| SB728 | Engross
Sine Die | Allowing a record owner of a specified new dwelling in a specified county to claim a credit against the State income tax in an amount equal to $1.25 for each square foot of the new dwelling if a specified automatic fire sprinkler system is installed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means |
| SB625 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing a requirement that an applicant for a special event festival beer, wine, and liquor permit in Calvert County demonstrate a reasonable expectation of attendance of at least 750 customers at the special event.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (141-0) |
| SB356 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that when a specified cause of action accrues in favor of a minor or mental incompetent under the Local Government Tort Claims Act or the Maryland Tort Claims Act, an action must be filed within 3 years after the disability is removed; and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
House Refuses to Recede |
| SB497 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring, except under specified circumstances, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to adjust the rate of reimbursement for community providers each fiscal year by the rate adjustment included in the State budget; requiring, on or before Dec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (137-1) |
| SB1156 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a commissioner to determine the indigence of a specified individual at a specified proceeding under specified circumstances; and providing a presumption that an individual qualified as indigent by a commissioner at an initial appearance qua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB371 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for the first $500,000 in proceeds from the sale of a perpetual conservation easement on real property in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB71 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to establish guidelines for the training of employees to become trained diabetes care providers; providing the purpose of the Student Diabetes Management Prog...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Delegates D. Barnes, Shoemaker, and Patterson |
| SB1108 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifying that a jackpot won at a video lottery terminal that is not claimed by the winner within 182 days after the jackpot is won shall become the property of the State and be distributed in a specified manner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Favorable Report by Ways and Means |
| SB1107 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "qualified Maryland biotechnology company" to extend a specified period of time from a specified date that an active business may claim the biotechnology tax credit; and applying the Act to initial tax credit certificates i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Favorable Report by Ways and Means |
| SB475 | Engross
Sine Die | Expanding the authority of school crossing guards to direct traffic by authorizing a school crossing guard who meets specified qualifications to direct vehicles and pedestrians on a highway or on school grounds in order to assist nonschool vehicles i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| SB1041 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education, on or before December 1, 2016, and in cooperation and coordination with local school systems in the State, to conduct an assessment of the physical and digital infrastructure needed, on or before December ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Favorable Report by Ways and Means |
| SB1083 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the secretary of each principal department to be responsible for the supervision of units of State government within the jurisdiction of the secretary that are composed of individuals participating in the occupation or profession regulated ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB950 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to convene a workgroup in consultation with specified stakeholders to review specified special education statutes and regulations, make specified determinations regarding "parental consent", discuss specifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| SB943 | 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
Delegates Rosenberg, Dumais, and Smith |
| SB756 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing an optional Breakfast After the Bell Program in the State for specified public schools; providing that the purpose of the Program is to ensure that students enrolled in public schools with a high concentration of low-income students have...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means |
| SB1059 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Baltimore City Sheriff to appoint specified additional personnel under specified circumstances; increasing a specified annual expense allowance for specified deputy sheriffs; requiring the Baltimore City Sheriff, in consultation with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB973 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a secretary of a principal department of the Executive Branch of State government from soliciting, transmitting, or depositing in a campaign account contributions or donations for the benefit of a candidate from a person subject to the re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (86-52) |
| SB224 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Orange Ribbon for Healthy School Hours certification within the State Department of Education beginning in the 2017-2018 school year; providing that the purpose of the certification is to recognize local school systems that implement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB840 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering specified State income tax rates for specified taxable years; altering the amount of specified exemptions allowed under the State income tax for specified taxable years; altering the calculation of the Maryland earned income tax credit to in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-09
Delegates Walker, Kaiser, and D. Barnes |
| SB1145 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing the maximum weekly unemployment insurance benefit amount; applying the Act to all claims filed establishing a new benefit year on or after January 2, 2017; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-09
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB206 | Engross
Sine Die | Reducing the application fee from $150 to $100 for a license to engage in the business of providing security systems services; requiring a specified applicant to pay specified fees relating to a criminal history records check; decreasing the amount o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-09
Delegates Jameson, Davis, and W. Miller |
| SB816 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the contents of the certificate that a unit owner is required to furnish to a purchaser on resale of a unit; specifying a maximum fee of $250 that a council of unit owners may charge for furnishing a certificate to a unit owner; requiring th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-09
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB869 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Governor's Office of Minority Affairs to convene a workgroup to explore issues of reconciliation processes and racial equity that includes specified stakeholders; requiring the workgroup to hold hearings and evaluate specified issues re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-09
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB416 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Transportation Authority to study the feasibility of offering motorists, for each transportation facilities project, an option to pay a flat fee for an annual pass to use the toll transportation facilities project; requiring th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-09
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| SB788 | Engross
Sine Die | Creating a pub crawl promoter's permit in Baltimore City; authorizing the Baltimore City Board of License Commissioners to issue a pub crawl promoter's permit to an applicant who has submitted an application to the Board no less than 42 days before t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-09
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB389 | Engross
Sine Die | Decreasing from $24 to $12 fees for certified copies of specified certificates; and decreasing from $20 to $10 the portion of each fee collected by local health departments required to be transferred to the General Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-09
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB215 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the circumstances under which a petition for expungement based on a nolle prosequi may be filed; and requiring a specified expungement to occur in a specified manner unless a petitioner files a specified waiver and release.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-08
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
