| HB488 | Pass | Requiring a supervisor of assessments or the supervisor's designee to hold a hearing on an appeal of a change in the value or classification of property that is transferred to a new owner by the later of 90 days after receiving the written appeal or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 487 |
| HB91 | Pass | Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim April 16 as National Healthcare Decisions Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 389 |
| HB340 | Pass | Altering the calculation of the amount of property tax relief provided to specified renters by altering the calculation of combined income of a renter; increasing, from $750 to $1,000, the maximum amount of property tax relief that may be provided; a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 483 |
| HB1167 | Pass | Providing that the amount of a credit allowed against the State income tax is 75%, not to exceed $500,000, of the investment in qualified Maryland biotechnology companies located in Allegany, Dorchester, Garrett, or Somerset counties; applying the Ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 503 |
| HB489 | Pass | Repealing provisions of law establishing the Maryland Health Insurance Plan; repealing provisions of law establishing the Board of Directors for the Plan; repealing provisions of law establishing the Maryland Health Insurance Plan Fund; transferring ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 321 |
| HB399 | Pass | Requiring specified health care providers and specified medical laboratories to provide specified notice to a patient for whom the health care provider or medical laboratory performs a laboratory test for the presence of Lyme disease; requiring the D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 451 |
| 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 |
| HB675 | Pass | Altering the definition of "mechanical repair contract"; authorizing an agent and a registered obligor under a mechanical repair contract to offer, sell, or negotiate a mechanical repair contract; establishing that an obligor or a vehicle dealer is l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 494 |
| HB232 | Pass | Altering a specified provision of law to require the Athletic Trainer Advisory Committee to recommend to the State Board of Physicians approval, modification, or disapproval of individual evaluation and treatment protocols; authorizing, under specifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 412 |
| 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 |
| HB984 | Pass | Increasing, from 1 year to 5 years, the number of years after the date of an open session a public body is required to keep a copy of specified minutes of the open session and any recording made under specified provisions of law; requiring specified ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 330 |
| HB998 | Pass | Requiring the State Board of Physicians to license specified applicants to practice medicine who became licensed or certified as a physician in another jurisdiction under specified requirements, are in good standing in the other jurisdiction, submit ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 461 |
| 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 |
| HB576 | Pass | Clarifying that when an owner of a mineral interest takes a specified action for a mineral that is part of a mineral interest, the action constitutes use of the entire mineral interest owned by that owner; establishing that payment of specified taxes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 398 |
| HB720 | 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 402 |
| HB886 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, under specified circumstances, to include primary care providers in the types of health care providers eligible to receive reimbursement for health care services that are delivered through teleme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 367 |
| 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 |
| HB280 | Pass | Prohibiting the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene from collecting a fee for issuing a certified or abridged copy of a birth certificate to a homeless individual; requiring the Department to accept as proof of homelessness a signed written state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 453 |
| 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 |
| HB306 | Pass | Authorizing employers to grant a preference in hiring and promotion to eligible veterans, spouses of eligible veterans who have service-connected disabilities, and surviving spouses of deceased eligible veterans; providing that granting a preference ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 319 |
| HB260 | Pass | Requiring the Governor to appoint an individual to fill a vacancy in the office of United States Senator, Attorney General, or Comptroller from a list of names submitted by the State Central Committee of the political party of the vacating officehold...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Assigned a chapter number, enactment subject to constitutional referendum - Chapter 511 |
| 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 |
| HB1385 | Pass | Providing that any authentic expression made by an individual while competent of the individual's wishes regarding health care for the individual be considered in the absence of a validly executed or witnessed advance directive; providing that a witn...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 510 |
| HB264 | Pass | Establishing the Task Force to Investigate the Challenges of and Opportunities for Minorities in Business; requiring the Task Force to study and make recommendations regarding issues related to small, minority-and women-owned businesses, and to revie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 480 |
| HB385 | Pass | Repealing a limitation on selling the whole fee simple interest in abandoned property in Baltimore City consisting of either a vacant lot or improved property cited as vacant and unfit for habitation when the property is subject to a ground rent or s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 484 |
| HB245 | 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 375 |
| 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 |
| HB567 | Pass | Altering the definition of "barbershop" to include a mobile barbershop; requiring an applicant for a mobile barbershop permit to hold a permit to operate a nonmobile barbershop and to lease or own a vehicle or trailer in which the mobile barbershop i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 492 |
| HB1217 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to adopt regulations to ensure that the Maryland Medical Assistance Program is in compliance with specified federal laws; providing that the Department is not required to adopt specified regulatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 505 |
| 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 |
| HB602 | Pass | Authorizing Anne Arundel County to establish, modify, or abolish special taxing districts for the purpose of providing or expanding water or wastewater services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 354 |
| HB37 | Pass | Altering the due date for specified payment of deferred county property taxes in Anne Arundel County if the owner no longer satisfies specified income eligibility requirements; and making clarifying changes to provisions of law that require payment o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 328 |
| HB290 | Pass | Replacing the Construction Apprenticeship Assistance program in the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation with the Apprenticeship Career Training in Our Neighborhoods (ACTION) program; providing the purpose of the program is to develop a wel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 404 |
| 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 |
| HB1168 | Pass | Providing that the amount of a credit against the State income tax is 50%, not to exceed $500,000, of the investment in a qualified Maryland cybersecurity company located in Allegany County, Dorchester County, Garrett County, or Somerset County; appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 504 |
| HB534 | Pass | 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] | 2016-05-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 489 |
| 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 |
