| SB750 | Pass | Repealing the termination of a provision of law authorizing the employees of a vendor or authorized representative of a vendor of portable electronics insurance to be compensated in a specified manner; and repealing a requirement that the Maryland In...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 693 |
| SB271 | Pass | Beginning in fiscal year 2017, increasing the amount of money from $20,000,000 to $40,000,000 the Governor is required to provide in the State budget for the Capital Grant Program for Local School Systems With Significant Enrollment Growth or Relocat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 665 |
| SB266 | Pass | Requiring a court to order a person convicted of poaching deer on any land in the State to pay the State specified restitution and to perform 40 to 80 hours of community service under specified circumstances; requiring the restitution collected under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 663 |
| SB584 | Pass | Requiring the Governor to include in the State budget specified funding in a specified amount for each fiscal year in which the State Department of Education receives an Expansion Grant through the federal Preschool Development Grants Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 683 |
| SB485 | Pass | Establishing the Task Force to Study Family and Medical Leave Insurance; providing for the composition, chair and staffing of the Task Force; providing that the purpose of the Task Force is to make recommendations regarding the development of a State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 677 |
| SB198 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from selling, on or after January 1, 2018, a neonicotinoid pesticide unless the person also sells a restricted use pesticide; prohibiting a person from using a neonicotinoid pesticide on or after January 1, 2018, unless the perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 661 |
| SB797 | Pass | Requiring, beginning in fiscal year 2018 and each fiscal year thereafter, the Governor to include at least $3,000,000 in the annual budget bill for the Shelter and Transitional Housing Facilities Grant Program within the Department of Housing and Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 698 |
| SB161 | Pass | Authorizing the forfeiture of specified property under specified circumstances; repealing a specified provision authorizing the forfeiture of specified money or weapons relating to possession of a controlled dangerous substance; requiring that a spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 658 |
| SB905 | Pass | Establishing the Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education; requiring specified appointments to be made to ensure diversity within the Commission; requiring the Commission to review the findings and recommendations of a specified study, re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 701 |
| SB942 | Pass | Altering the circumstances under which a court may reverse or modify the decision of an agency in specified contested cases on judicial review under the Administrative Procedure Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 704 |
| SB758 | Pass | Requiring the State to provide a supplement to increase the total benefit to $30 per month to a household that includes an individual who is at least 62 years old and receives a federally funded benefit in an amount less than $30 per month under the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 696 |
| SB806 | Pass | Establishing a Naturopathic Doctors Formulary Council within the State Board of Physicians; requiring the Council to develop and recommend to the Board a specified formulary to include nonprescription drugs and devices, prescription oxygen and auto-i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 700 |
| SB777 | Pass | Altering the definition of "messenger service business" for purposes of a specified exemption from covered employment for specified unemployment benefits; specifying that commission includes specified payment arrangements for purposes of the exemptio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 697 |
| SB1171 | Pass | Requiring a state grant be made available to fund the increased operating expenses for the branches of the Enoch Pratt Free Library that increase their operating hours above the hours in effect as of January 1, 2016; requiring the Governor to include...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 714 |
| SB390 | Pass | Requiring the salary schedule for deputy sheriffs of Charles County to correspond to the Department of State Police salary schedule; authorizing sworn law enforcement officers and correctional officers in Charles County to collectively bargain with t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 669 |
| SB1128 | Pass | Providing that the County Executive of Frederick County may not be a party to specified collective bargaining agreements but may attend and participate in all collective bargaining sessions of specified deputy sheriffs and correctional officers of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 712 |
| SB322 | Pass | Requiring, on or before May 1 of each year, the State Department of Assessments and Taxation to provide the Comptroller information identifying residential property owners who failed to claim the homeowners' property tax credit; requiring the Comptro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 667 |
| SB426 | Pass | Authorizing the City of Annapolis to participate in the Maryland Emergency Management Assistance Compact, the purpose of which is to provide for mutual assistance between the jurisdictions in managing an emergency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 673 |
| SB175 | Pass | Requiring the Anne Arundel County Board of License Commissioners to remit a specified administrative fee to the Comptroller instead of using the fee to cover specified expenses; requiring the Board to remit to the Comptroller, rather than to Anne Aru...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 659 |
| SB459 | Pass | Altering specified campaign finance law definitions to include campaign finance activity relating to prospective questions to be placed on the ballot; prohibiting a chief election official from certifying a petition if the petition sponsor fails to p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 726 |
| SB734 | Pass | Making legislative findings and declarations that it is necessary to regulate transfers of structured settlement payment rights to ensure that the transfers are effectuated on fair and reasonable terms and are in the best interest of payees, and to p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 722 |
| SB1094 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to approve a credentialing entity to develop and administer a certification process for recovery residences; requiring the certification entity to establish requirements and processes, conduct ins...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 710 |
| SB422 | Pass | Requiring teachers and professional personnel at the Maryland School for the Blind to be paid an annual salary at least equal to the salary received by public school teachers and professional personnel of similar training and experience in Baltimore ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 671 |
| SB595 | Pass | Requiring a county board of education to award credit to a middle school student for any course for which a high school student would be awarded credit if the middle school student meets the same requirements as the high school student.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 686 |
| SB480 | Pass | Authorizing the Maryland Underground Facilities Damage Prevention Authority to collect an assessment or a charge not exceeding 5 cents per ticket under specified circumstances; specifying the circumstances under which the Authority may collect an ass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 675 |
| SB676 | Pass | Prohibiting a public institution of higher education from referring a delinquent student account or debt to the Central Collection Unit under specified circumstances; requiring a public institution of higher education to allow a student with an unpai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 689 |
| SB753 | Pass | Repealing a provision of law that provided that a confectionary food product is adulterated if it contains any alcohol in excess of a specified percent by volume or any alcohol derived from anything but flavoring extracts; prohibiting specified provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 695 |
| SB1158 | Pass | Requiring the Board of Regents of Morgan State University to develop and implement a plan to enhance the Office of Technology Transfer at the University; requiring the Maryland Technology Development Corporation, at the request of the Board of Regent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 713 |
| SB968 | Pass | Increasing specified fees for applicants for a home builder registration and a home builder sales representative registration; increasing the administrative fee for the Home Builder Guaranty Fund for specified home builders; increasing the fee for re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 705 |
| SB493 | Pass | Increasing to $4,000 the maximum amount of a State matching stipend awarded to certificated public school employees who teach in public schools that have comprehensive needs; requiring specified teachers in Anne Arundel County to receive a stipend to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 740 |
| SB614 | Pass | Providing specified exceptions to a specified prohibition on the practice of veterinary medicine and dispensing specified medication that is not in a specified manufacturer's container for a person who sells or dispenses specified medication in a con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 687 |
| SB937 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources, in consultation with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science to conduct a specified study related to the public oyster fishery; requiring the Department to identify oyster management ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 703 |
| SB508 | Pass | Repealing a specified provision of law providing that a responsible person is civilly liable to a merchant for specified civil penalties for shoplifting and employee theft; altering requirements for specified demand letters relating to alleged acts o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 679 |
| SB582 | Pass | Establishing the Robotics Grant Program to provide grants to public schools in the State to support and expand existing robotics programs; establishing eligibility requirements for the Program; requiring the Governor to include in the State budget an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 681 |
| SB687 | Pass | Authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Charles County to issue an entertainment concessionaire license to specified persons in conjunction with an entertainment facility; authorizing the Board to issue an entertainment facility license to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 691 |
| SB58 | Pass | Making permanent a $15,000 limit on the amount of the vessel excise tax that may be imposed on any vessel; and requiring that the maximum amount of the excise tax imposed for any vessel be increased by $100 on July 1, 2016 and July 1 of each subseque...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 656 |
| SB1009 | Pass | Making a contractor under a public work contract that knew or reasonably should have known of the contractor's obligation to pay the prevailing wage rate and that deliberately failed or refused to pay to the prevailing wage rate liable to the public ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 707 |
| SB575 | Pass | Increasing to $400,000 per claim the limit on liability of a county board of education; increasing to $400,000 per occurrence the minimum amount of liability coverage that a county board must maintain and for which the State Board of Education must e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 680 |
| SB586 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to submit a report, justifying the closure, to the Governor and specified legislative committees before a regional institute for children and adolescents may be closed; requiring the report to add...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 685 |
| SB1054 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to adopt regulations governing the use of bowfishing gear; establishing a commercial northern snakehead bowfishing license; authorizing a licensee to catch for sale northern snakeheads in the tidal wate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 708 |
| SB946 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services on or before December 31 of each year to submit specified data to the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention and the General Assembly relating to the use of restrictive ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 596 |
| SB679 | Pass | Providing that work is not covered employment when performed by a holder of a limited license to provide nail technician services who leases or otherwise agrees to the use of a chair, booth, or space from a holder of a barbershop permit, a beauty sal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 574 |
| SB185 | Pass | Altering, from February 28 to January 31 of each year, the date by which specified payors of amounts subject to income tax withholding are required to provide the Comptroller a copy of a withholding statement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 538 |
| SB187 | Pass | Authorizing a specified victim to file an application for leave to appeal to the Court of Special Appeals from an interlocutory order or appeal to the Court of Special Appeals from a final order that denies or fails to consider the victim's right to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 540 |
| SB278 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from engaging in a malicious course of conduct where the person intends to cause or knows or reasonably should have known that the conduct would cause serious emotional distress to another.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 544 |
| SB941 | Pass | Altering the definition of slot machine to exclude specified skills-based devices located at specified family entertainment centers; authorizing the State Lottery and Gaming Control Commission to issue an amusement gaming license to specified family ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 595 |
| SB759 | Pass | Repealing the requirement, for purposes of a specified tax credit, that specified projects must be located in a sustainable community; requiring the Director of the Maryland Historical Trust to adopt regulations that establish specified procedures to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 578 |
| SB716 | Pass | Authorizing a specified commanding officer to designate to the Sheriff of Cecil County up to 20 individuals who are members of fire or ambulance companies to serve as fire police in Cecil County; authorizing the Sheriff of Cecil County to appoint spe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 575 |
| SB663 | Pass | Prohibiting the sale, transfer, offer to sell or transfer, barter, trade, or auction of dogs and cats at specified locations; authorizing animal control officers and officers of specified humane organizations to enforce specified provisions of the Ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 572 |
| SB852 | Pass | Expanding the types of festivals that a holder of a beer and wine festival license may hold in Anne Arundel County; authorizing the Anne Arundel County Board of License Commissioners to issue a specified beer and wine festival license to specified no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-19
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 583 |
