| SB751 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that a rental vehicle company or its designee has a specified right of subrogation against specified persons for specified claims paid by the rental vehicle company or the designee that arose out of the use or operation of the rental veh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance |
| SB262 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Human Resources to take specified actions when serving as a representative payee or fiduciary for specified federal benefits for a child in the Department's custody; requiring the Department to provide specified notice to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Recommitted to Judicial Proceedings (Senator Zirkin) |
| SB593 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a court, under specified circumstances, to terminate the parental rights of an individual found to have committed an act of nonconsensual sexual conduct against the other parent that resulted in the conception of a child; specifying that a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Favorable with Amendments 928178/1 |
| SB11 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring specified State agencies that are deemed electronic voter registration agencies to implement electronic voter registration systems on or before July 1, 2017; requiring the State Board of Elections to promptly register individuals whose vote...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB1075 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Public Service Commission to study and make recommendations about the advisability of establishing an opt-in electric affordability program for residential and small business customers of specified electric companies with specified char...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-11
Favorable Report by Finance |
| SB661 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each administrator of a hospital to provide patients with a specified patient's bill of rights; requiring each administrator of a hospital to provide specified patients with a translator or an interpreter to provide specified assistance to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-08
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB576 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a fiscal note for a bill to include a criminal justice policy impact statement if the bill creates a criminal offense, significantly alters the elements of an existing criminal offense, alters the penalties applicable to a criminal offense,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-08
Unfavorable Report by Senate Rules |
| SB350 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration and specified social service agencies to provide electronic records to the State Board of Elections regarding individuals who hold a driver's license or identification card, are at least 16 years of age, are...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-07
Second Reading Failed |
| SB700 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to identify specified biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) laboratories and the location of the laboratories; requiring the Department to collect information from the laboratories relevant to public health a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-07
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| SB482 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that specified licensed physicians and allied health professionals regulated by the State Board of Physicians have 60 days after a license expires in which to renew it retroactively under specified circumstances; providing that, after a spe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB269 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring Veterans' Day to be a public school holiday.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB1168 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a promulgating unit to include, under specified circumstances, clearly written explanatory reasons with the submission of a proposed regulation to the Joint Committee on Administrative, Executive, and Legislative Review and the Department o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB599 | Intro
Sine Die | Renaming the Joint Committee on Administrative, Executive, and Legislative Review to be the Regulatory Oversight Committee; requiring the Division of State Documents to make available to the public direct online searching of specified public comments...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-06
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB1026 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a complaint against a law enforcement officer alleging brutality in the execution of the officer's duties to be signed under the penalty of perjury instead of before an official authorized to administer oaths; authorizing an individual who ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-04-04
Recommitted to Judicial Proceedings (Senator Zirkin) |
| SB598 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the State Open Meetings Law Compliance Board, under specified circumstances, to issue specified orders and impose specified civil penalties not to exceed $500; expanding the scope of the training requirements under the Open Meetings Act t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-31
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB1157 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each public service company to establish a policy and procedures for performing work on property subject to the public service company's easement; requiring that a specified policy and procedures provide that a public service company that h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-31
Rereferred to Finance (Senator Klausmeier) Adopted |
| SB992 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that on a roadway that has two or more lanes for traffic moving in the same direction a vehicle being overtaken in the far left lane shall give way to the right in favor of the overtaking vehicle under specified circumstances; and establish...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-28
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB831 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Plumbing to adopt the National Standard Plumbing Code as the State Plumbing Code; providing that the Board may adopt specified standards of a specified nationally recognized testing organization; requiring a county or mun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB643 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Plumbing to adopt by regulation the International Plumbing Code and the International Fuel Gas Code as the State Plumbing Code on or before July 1, 2017; requiring the Board to adopt a specified version of specified codes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB1150 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, to develop and monitor the implementation of computer health and safety guidelines and procedures in every county; and requiring specified ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-25
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB849 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study the Establishment of Health Courts; requiring the Task Force to study the adequacy and cost of State laws and policies relating to the litigation of medical malpractice cases and make recommendations regarding the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB994 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Equal Pay Commission to study and promote research on wage disparities and recommend ways to remediate wage disparities in the public and private sectors, between men and women and between minorities and nonminorities; requiring an e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB577 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing an individual to notify the local department of social services or the appropriate law enforcement agency if the individual has reason to believe that a verbal threat of imminent severe bodily harm or death to a child has been made by a s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB993 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a unit from awarding a procurement contract to a specified contractor unless the contractor has a specified equal pay certificate or a specified written exemption; requiring a specified contractor to apply for an equal pay certificate by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB800 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Commission to Study the Disproportionate Justice Impact on Minorities; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Commission; prohibiting a member of the Commission from receiving specified compensation, but authorizin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB1169 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring public institutions of higher education in the City of Baltimore to give a resident bidder or offeror from the City of Baltimore a percentage preference over specified bidders or offerors in the State that are not from the City of Baltimore...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
Hearing 3/24 at 1:00 p.m. |
| SB1165 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that a specified test on an elevator unit performed in connection with an inspection required by specified provisions of law, the Safety Code, or a regulation adopted by the Commissioner be performed by a specified licensed elevator mechani...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB745 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Law Enforcement Explorer Program Fund to be used to make specified grants to local law enforcement agencies for law enforcement explorer programs; requiring the Executive Director of the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB1100 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that an individual who has attained the age of 18 years and is enrolled for at least 12 hours of credit in an institution of postsecondary education has the right to receive support and maintenance from both of the individual's parents unti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB874 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Governor to annually appropriate, for specified purposes, to the Frederick Center for Resereach and Education in Science and Technology an amount that covers start-up costs and is in addition to the amount appropriated to a similar regi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation; Withdrawn |
| SB664 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an employer to provide specified employees with specified estimates and work schedules within specified time periods and notify employees of specified changes; prohibiting an employer, except under specified circumstances, from requiring an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB671 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that a person who has made a formal complaint against a governmental unit or an employee is a person in interest under the Public Information Act; establishing that records related to a formal complaint of job-related misconduct against ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB1089 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing an exemption from the inheritance tax for property that passes to a cousin of a decedent if the decedent does not have specified surviving relatives.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB1153 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "clinically integrated organization" for purposes of provisions of law governing contracts between specified health insurance carriers and clinically integrated organizations and the sharing of specified medical information...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB740 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person issued a specified license from possessing, providing, distributing, displaying, selling, or marketing a specified synthetic drug with the intent that it be used as a recreational drug; providing specified factors to be treated a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| SB1110 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Small Business Innovation Research and Technology Transfer Incentive Program; establishing the purpose of the Program is to foster job creation and economic development in the State in a specified manner; requiring the Maryl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB476 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering a definition of "location information" to include historical information concerning the geographic location of an electronic device that is or was generated by or derived from the operation of that device; and providing that specified eviden...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB944 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Secretary of State Police to provide notice of a specified denial of a handgun qualification license application or specified disapproval of a firearm application within a specified amount of time after a denial or disapproval to specif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB1029 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that the prevailing wage rate that became effective on a specified date does not apply to procurement contracts executed on or after the effective date of the Act for specified public school construction projects in Frederick County; author...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-24
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB1148 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing from 15 to 25 the maximum number of medical cannabis grower licenses that the Natalie M. LaPrade Medical Cannabis Commission may issue before June 1, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB1114 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a merchant from selling or offering to sell a mattress or box spring to a consumer in the State unless a label is attached indicating whether the bedding is "all new material" or "used bedding" or "used material"; requiring a merchant who...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB1127 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the information about a specified measurement of specified gasoline that must be stated on a sign on the premises of a retail service station dealer to require it to state the highest price in a clear and visible manner; authorizing a specif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB1166 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax under specified circumstances for specified retirement income attributable to a resident's employment as a law enforcement officer or the individual's service as fire, rescue, or emer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB1131 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing an electric cooperative to propose a fixed charge for specified fixed costs; requiring the fixed charge to be applied in a specified manner; prohibiting an electric cooperative from proposing an increase to a fixed charge that is more tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB1134 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that specified costs related to providing appointed legal representation at an initial appearance before a District Court commissioner be billed to and paid by the county in which the representation is provided if the costs exceed the amoun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB1061 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing provisions of law that authorize Sunday deer hunting on private property in specified counties during specified times of the year under specified circumstances; and authorizing a person to hunt deer on a Sunday, with specified exceptions, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Senate Rules |
| SB456 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifying that specified costs incurred by the holder of a tax sale certificate shall be reimbursed on redemption of the property; providing that the holder of a tax sale certificate shall be reimbursed $500 for attorney's fees if an action to forec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB1124 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that a scrap metal processor may purchase scrap metal only between the hours of 7:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. Monday through Saturday; providing that a scrap metal processor that pays for scrap metal by check may purchase scrap metal 24 hours a d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB981 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that a health care provider may require that a person in interest or any other authorized person pay a fee, 50 cents for each copied page and $15 for retrieval, postage, and handling, for a copy of a medical record if a free copy has alread...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB1154 | Intro
Sine Die | Limiting compensation in a civil action against a pesticide business arising out of the business's treatment of a bedbug infestation to actual damages unless the business was grossly negligent; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2016-03-22
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
