| SB1015 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a correctional facility from placing an inmate in restrictive housing for more than 15 consecutive days or a total of 20 days in a 60-day period, with specified exceptions; establishing specified protections for inmates who are placed in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB978 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a requirement that the Secretary of State Police appoint the State Fire Marshal; requiring that the Governor appoint the State Fire Marshal with the advice and consent of the Senate; reducing the term that the State Fire Marshal serves from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB10 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a court in any child custody or visitation proceeding from considering, in and of itself, a parent's past deployment or possible future deployment in determining the best interest of a child except under specified circumstances; authorizi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB669 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the age requirements for specified provisions of law relating to tobacco products; prohibiting a person from selling or dispensing tobacco products through a vending machine unless the machine is located in an establishment that an individua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| SB956 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Dorchester County Superintendent of Schools to appoint specified clerical and nonprofessional personnel with the advice and consent of the Dorchester County Board of Education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB1018 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Workgroup to Study Single-Point Entry for Services and Criminal Immunity for Victims of Human Trafficking; providing the purpose of the Workgroup is to study issues relating to a single point of entry for minors who are victims of hu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB954 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing an individual who hunts deer under of a Deer Management Permit in Talbot County to use a rifle approved by the Department of Natural Resources to harvest deer under the permit if the individual holds a valid Maryland State Shooter Qualifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB1115 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a specified homeowners association to develop a written policy regarding a payment plan for specified fees or charges; requiring the written policy to include any qualifications needed to participate in the payment plan and disclose the ter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB1119 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Commissioner of Correction to include in a specified report specified statistics related to inmate employment and wages at specified facilities; requiring the Division of Correction to include in a report regarding Maryland Correctional...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB583 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the juvenile court to consider, when determining a term of probation for a juvenile, the purposes set forth in a specified provision of law; specifying that a term of probation may not exceed 1 year; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB1050 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing dump trucks registered in the State to exceed the motor vehicle's maximum gross vehicle weight by 3,000 pounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB623 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a hospital to include an itemization of the value of all tax exemptions the hospital receives in the hospital's community benefit report.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| SB1054 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting specified carriers from prohibiting an enrollee from selecting, or limiting the ability of an enrollee to select, a specified pharmacy for the receipt of specified services; prohibiting specified carriers, under specified circumstances, f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB1047 | Intro
Sine Die | Making specified marriage ceremony fees nonrefundable and payable before a marriage license is issued; reducing a marriage ceremony fee in Cecil County; altering a requirement that specified clerks retain and distribute marriage ceremony fees in a sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB326 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a cigar shop beer, wine, and liquor license in Frederick County; authorizing the Board of License Commissioners to issue the license to a specified establishment; specifying that the license authorizes the license holder to sell beer, wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB458 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing county boards of education to authorize a student to satisfy a State or county middle or high school foreign language requirement by completing a course in computer programming language; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB1055 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a pharmacist or a pharmacy to decline to dispense a prescription drug or provide a pharmacy service to a member if the amount reimbursed by an insurer, nonprofit health service plan, or health maintenance organization is less than the acq...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB1184 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, with regard to a residential property in a common ownership community that is in foreclosure and vacant, the secured party that files the action to foreclose on the residential property to pay specified regular assessments for common expen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB970 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a custodian of records to deny inspection of the part of a recording from a specified body-worn digital recording device worn by a law enforcement officer regarding specified individuals; requiring specified notification of specified indivi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB876 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring public entities to provide community-based long-term services and supports to specified individuals; requiring the Department of Disabilities to adopt a comprehensive plan that includes a specific and reasonable time frame and that is funde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB847 | 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 the highest price, or the cash price and the credit price, be stated in a clear a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| SB1089 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to develop health and safety guidelines and procedures for the use of digital devices in public school classrooms; and requiring each count...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB902 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing specified manufacturers of autonomous and connected (AV/CV) vehicles to establish a safe autonomous vehicle (SAVE) project authorizing the manufacturer to supervise the driving of AV/CV vehicles on highways in the State; requiring an AV/C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB1032 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the circumstances under which an equity court may grant visitation rights to a grandparent of a child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB1058 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that a person who causes personal injury or wrongful death while operating or attempting to operate a motor vehicle, and who has a 0.15 or more alcohol concentration in the person's blood or breath or who refuses to submit to a chemical tes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB868 | Intro
Sine Die | Notwithstanding specified provisions of law, authorizing a specified physician or a specified advanced practice nurse to prescribe and dispense naloxone to individuals who have not completed specified training; authorizing, notwithstanding specified ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB942 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Clean Energy Workforce Account in the Maryland Employment Advancement Right Now Program; providing for the funding of the Account; specifying that the purpose of the Account is to provide grants on a competitive basis to provide pre-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB58 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that a copy of a list of registered voters be provided to an election observer on receipt of specified documentation; requiring an election judge to protect an election observer in the exercise of specified rights; requiring an election jud...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB743 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing in Baltimore County the holder of a manufacturer's license or a wholesaler's license to sell or deliver alcoholic beverages to a holder of a retail alcoholic beverages license on Sunday; and authorizing holders of specified classes of ret...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB1161 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Summer Meals Expansion Grant Program; providing the purpose of the program is to provide funds to sponsors to increase the number of children and the number of meals served through the Summer Food Service Program; requiring the State...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB285 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a landowner whose land is subject to an agricultural land preservation easement from granting, or allowing a person to establish, an overlay easement, a right-of-way, or any other servitude on the land without prior written permission of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB1172 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the requirement that a local licensing board grant an on-site consumption permit under specified conditions; altering the amount of beer that a holder of a Class 5 brewery license may sell for on-premises consumption; and specifying hours o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB391 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a standing committee of the General Assembly to deliver specified written testimony to the Department of Legislative Services before reporting a specified bill or resolution to the floor; and requiring the Department to publish, within 10 d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB1173 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Governor to include $250,000 in the State budget for fiscal years 2019 through 2023 for the Maryland Higher Education Commission to establish a near completer communication campaign; requiring the Commission to develop and implement a s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Hearing 3/16 at 1:00 p.m. (Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs) |
| SB1077 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifying the time period within which a civil action on a residential lease that has been signed under seal must be filed; and declaring that it is the intent of the General Assembly to clarify that an action for rent arrears under any kind of resi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB757 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the salaries of specified persons in the Forensic Sciences Division in the Department of State Police to be not less than another salary in a specified salary plan; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB64 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing voters who have declined to affiliate with a political party to affiliate with a party at any time individuals may register to vote; altering provisions concerning the timing of requests to affiliate with a party to conform with the procedur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB1166 | Intro
Sine Die | Designating the Preakness Stakes as the State cultural event.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB1016 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that an agreement by a foreign worker to waive specified rights is void as contrary to public policy; requiring an individual to be licensed by the Commissioner before the individual may perform a foreign labor contracting service in the St...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB726 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a court, on a specified finding in an action on behalf of an employee for a violation of the Maryland Wage Payment and Collection Law, to award the Attorney General reasonable counsel fees and other costs; authorizing a court, on a specif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB657 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring county boards of education to add to a specified wellness plan on or August 1, 2018, a specified plan for reducing students' added sugar intake per school meal based on recommendations from the United States Department of Agriculture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB870 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the prevailing wage law to apply to specified structures or works constructed in tax increment financing developments established under State or local law; applying the Act only to a contract executed on or after July 1, 2017; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB1137 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to establish a training program for specified public school employees regarding available retirement benefits; requiring the Department to offer the training to public school employees at least once per yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB1132 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that the sales and use tax does not apply to a specified sale by a nonprofit organization whose principal focus is to raise funds to assist specified veterans, if no less than 88% of the proceeds of the sale are used to assist those veteran...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation; Withdrawn |
| SB1108 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring Dorchester County to issue a certificate of vacancy or a certificate of property unfit for human habitation under specified circumstances; and requiring a certificate of vacancy or a certificate of property unfit for human habitation to be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB647 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from requiring a consumer to disclose the consumer's Social Security number to the person as a condition for the purchase or lease of consumer goods or the purchase of consumer services; prohibiting a person from including a spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB1011 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that an occupant of a dwelling is justified in using any degree of physical force against another person when the other person has made an unlawful entry into the dwelling, and when the occupant has a reasonable belief that the other per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB962 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifying the State minimum wage rate in effect for specified time periods based on employer size; increasing, except under specified circumstances, the State minimum wage rate based on the annual growth in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB1025 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering a definition of "disseminate" to exclude providing information to victims of crime or their representatives; altering the purposes of specified provisions of law relating to the Criminal Justice Information System; and requiring the Departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB1124 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from being considered to be practicing dentistry or violating specified provisions of law based solely on whether the person provides specified services or engages in specified acts; providing that specified provisions of law do ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
