| HB355 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing Workforce Development Sequence grants and scholarships; requiring the Office of Student Financial Assistance in the Maryland Higher Education Commission to disburse grants to community colleges in the State in order for specified communi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1027 | Intro
Sine Die | Consolidating the review of specified permits for land use in Prince George's County in the Prince George's County Department of Permits, Inspections, and Enforcement; providing for mandatory exclusive review of the permits by the permit department a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB289 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a medical school from using a live or dead animal in the medical education or training of students if alternate methods are used by specified other medical schools in the State; and establishing a penalty for violation of the Act not to e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB251 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring specified local school systems to allow a specified student who is participating in a specified home instruction program to participate in specified clubs and activities beginning on January 1, 2017; requiring a specified student to partici...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1137 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing Prince George's County to enact a law that prohibits specified retail establishments from using disposable bags as part of a retail sale of products; and defining "disposable bag" as a paper or plastic bag provided by a store to a custome...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB315 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the maximum penalties for murder in the second degree, manslaughter, and kidnapping; prohibiting a person from distributing heroin mixed with fentanyl; establishing penalties; and requiring that a sentence for the distribution of heroin mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB281 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the eligibility requirements for the Edward T. and Mary A. Conroy Memorial Scholarship Program to include veterans and members of the armed forces who have served or are currently serving on active duty for a minimum period of time; altering...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1133 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission to contract with an independent consultant to conduct a study of the commissioners' compensation; requiring the Commission to fund the cost of the study; prohibiting the cost from exceeding $10,00...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB198 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that at least one school resource officer be assigned to each public school in the State; requiring specified public schools to hire retired law enforcement officers as school resource officers for the school; requiring specified school res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1025 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing for the review of specified zoning matters by the district council in Prince George's County in a specified manner; providing that specified authority of the county planning board over specified zoning matters in the portion of the regional...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB7 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definitions of "public body" and "public work" for the purpose of applying the prevailing wage law to all elementary and secondary school construction, rather than only to elementary and secondary school construction that meets specified...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-11
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| HB123 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a property tax credit against the State property tax imposed on specified real property located in a neighborhood conservation area under specified circumstances; establishing the amount of the property tax credit, subject to a specified...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB170 | Intro
Sine Die | Reducing from 110% to 105% the homestead property tax credit percentage for the State property tax; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after June 30, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB292 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing from 30 to 60 days the time period after a specified notice of assessment is mailed that a specified person or governmental unit may apply for a revision of the assessment or claim a refund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB246 | Intro
Sine Die | Extending to specified taxable years the time period for which an individual or corporation may claim a credit against the State income tax for specified costs related to federal security clearances; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB30 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Physicians to adopt regulations for the licensure of anesthesiologist assistants and the practice of anesthesia care by anesthesiologist assistants; establishing the Anesthesiologist Assistants Advisory Committee within t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB286 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the day on which interest begins to accrue on specified taxpayer refunds of specified tax payments; requiring a tax collector to pay interest on specified taxpayer refunds beginning on the date of the overpayment if the overpayment is attrib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB299 | Intro
Sine Die | Including income from specified retirement plans within a subtraction modification allowed under the Maryland income tax for retired individuals who are at least 65 years old or who are disabled or whose spouse is disabled; applying the Act to taxabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB83 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each early voting center to be open on the second Sunday before a primary or general election through the Sunday before the election during specified hours.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB215 | Intro
Sine Die | Revising the state song based on select verses from the poems "Maryland! My Maryland!", written by James Ryder Randall in 1861 and "Maryland, My Maryland", written by John T. White in 1894.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB165 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the sales and use tax rates for all short-term vehicle rentals to be 11% of the taxable price.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB116 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a requirement that specified motor fuel tax rates be adjusted in future years based on growth in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB265 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a video lottery operation licensee to confiscate the identification proffered by an individual to gain admittance to a video lottery facility that the licensee determines is fictitious or fraudulently altered.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB114 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering specified limitations on a homeowner's combined net worth and gross income amount for purposes of determining eligibility for the homeowners' property tax credit; altering the computation of the credit; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB139 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the tobacco tax rate on premium cigars from 15% to 7.5%; and providing for the termination of the Act after 5 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB232 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that a driver of a vehicle on a highway use the vehicle's tail lamps when the driver continuously operates the vehicle's windshield wipers due to impaired visibility resulting from unfavorable atmospheric conditions; and repealing the autho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB293 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering a subtraction modification under the State income tax for specified military retirement income for individuals who are at least 65 years old from $10,000 to $15,000; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2015...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB273 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing an individual or a corporation that employs specified apprentices to claim a credit against the State income tax in an amount of up to $1,000 for each apprentice that is employed for at least 7 months during the taxable year; requiring an in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB335 | Intro
Sine Die | Making specified provisions of law relating to the assignment of benefits and the reimbursement of nonpreferred providers who are physicians applicable to other specified health care practitioners; altering the circumstances under which a provision f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB332 | Intro
Sine Die | Subjecting the appointment of the Chancellor of the University System of Maryland to the advice and consent of the General Assembly; and making the Act an emergency measure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB334 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a carrier from issuing or delivering a health benefit plan in the State before a provider directory for the health benefit plan is submitted to and approved by the Maryland Insurance Commissioner; requiring a carrier to submit a specified...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB419 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a critical incident stress management team member from disclosing specified communications or information acquired from a law enforcement officer, a correctional officer, or an emergency responder in the course of providing critical incid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB181 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Manufacturing Development Zone Program to encourage business entities engaged in manufacturing outside the State to invest in manufacturing facilities within the State; authorizing specified political subdivisions to apply to have sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB318 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the appointments of the Executive Director of the Maryland Aviation Administration, the Executive Director of the Maryland Port Administration, the Maryland Transit Administrator, the State Highway Administrator, and the Motor Vehicle Admin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB325 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing funds in the Bay Restoration Fund to be used for the costs associated with the purchase of cost-effective nitrogen and phosphorous nutrient credits in support of the efforts by the State to restore the health of the Chesapeake Bay; and re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB5 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the maximum amount allowed as a subtraction modification under the State income tax for specified retirement income of a resident who is at least 70 years old or who is totally disabled or the resident's spouse is totally disabled; providi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB289 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering a specified provision of law to provide that treatment to which a minor may consent includes medical care related to prevention of or advice about sexually transmitted infection and disease.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB588 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the contents of a renewal application for a continuing care retirement community by requiring that actuarial studies reviewed by qualified actuaries be submitted at least every 3 years for specified providers, and every 5 years for specified...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB231 | Intro
Sine Die | Reducing the amount of a supersedeas bond required from specified appellants to stay the enforcement of a judgment in a civil action; and applying the Act prospectively.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB258 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a provider to submit to an employer or an employer's insurer, within 45 days of treatment or medical service to a covered employee, a bill for and documentation summarizing the medical services or treatment provided to a covered employee un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB186 | Intro
Sine Die | Applying a specified provision of law relating to the reversal or modification of an award for permanent partial disability compensation to the Workers' Compensation Commission; clarifying that, for purposes of a specified provision of law relating t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB257 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing a credit for an employer or insurer for compensation paid to a covered employee who is temporarily totally disabled due to an accidental personal injury or an occupational disease under specified circumstances and during a specified period;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB155 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting an employee of a public body from creating or maintaining government e-mail by using a personal e-mail account; requiring an employee of a public body, under specified circumstances, to forward government e-mail to the official e-mail acc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| HB423 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Commission on Health in All Policies; providing for the purpose, composition, chair, and staffing of the Commission; specifying the duties of the Commission; requiring specified health impact assessments to be performed in a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB445 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a person to conduct a specified penny-ante game in which the winnings of any player in a single round, hand, or game do not exceed $20 under specified circumstances; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB311 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the maximum amount allowed as a subtraction modification under the State income tax for specified retirement income of an individual who is at least 70 years old or who is totally disabled; providing that the amount of the subtraction modi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB315 | Intro
Sine Die | Reducing the State income tax rates imposed on married couples filing a joint income tax return and for specified individuals with income between $150,000 and $500,000; increasing the amount allowed as a deduction for specified exemptions for married...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB363 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Public Service Commission and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene jointly to report to specified committees of the General Assembly on or before January 1, 2018, on the public health impact of smart meter deployment in the State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters; Withdrawn |
| HB293 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing specified criminal penalties for violations of the barbering law and for violations of the cosmetology law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| HB278 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing specified municipal corporations to establish, by local law, a specified contracting authority for the purpose of designating a community revitalization and improvement zone for construction of specified facilities; establishing an applic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee |
