| SB407 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering, for purposes of determining eligibility for the homeowners' property tax credit, a specified limitation on a homeowner's combined gross income amount for credits granted for taxable years beginning after June 30, 2018, based on a specified ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-22
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB594 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a specified training program for officers of police behavioral health units in the Baltimore City Police Department and the Baltimore County Police Department to consist of a minimum of 60 hours of instruction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB560 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from purchasing, selling, offering for sale, or possessing with the intent to sell specified parts or products of specified animal species under specified circumstances, subject to specified exceptions; establishing penalties for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB409 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the State's Attorney for Baltimore City to appoint criminal investigators, subject to the approval of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City; authorizing the State's Attorney for Baltimore City to designate a chief investigator and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB958 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that a person who is convicted of first-degree murder may be sentenced to death under specified circumstances; providing that the murder of a law enforcement officer or a first responder under specified circumstances constitutes aggravating...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB546 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a provider of water or sewerage system service to temporarily shut off service for reasons of health or safety or in a State or national emergency; requiring a provider to mail a specified notice when temporarily shutting off service; pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB722 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development, by October 1, 2018, to adopt by regulation a specified statewide building code relating to specified buildings constructed with or being constructed by specified light frame combustible c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB51 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that, under specified circumstances, the right to compensation for permanent total disability due in part to accidental personal injury or resulting from an occupational disease and payable under specified provisions of law survives to spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB383 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a commercial instant bingo permit in Baltimore City; authorizing the Bureau of Revenue Collections to issue a permit to an entity that meets specified requirements; specifying that for commercial purposes the permit holder may resume ope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB537 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Healthy Schools Program in the State; specifying the purpose of the Program is to promote a healthy environment in each public school through adoption of regulations establishing minimum standards designed to protect the health of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB771 | 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] | 2017-02-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB576 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing for enhanced workers' compensation benefits for a State correctional officer for a compensable permanent partial disability of less than 75 weeks; and providing that the Act applies only prospectively and may not be applied or interpreted t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB508 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study the Feasibility of and Impact on Small and Minority Businesses in Maryland Conducting Business Internationally; requiring the Task Force to study and make recommendations regarding the challenges of and the opport...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB830 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a State or local correctional facility that is notified by the United States Department of Homeland Security that a specified individual is subject to an immigration detainer to provide a specified notice to the United States Department of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB545 | Intro
Sine Die | Excluding Baltimore City from a specified provision allowing for an alternative method for forming a hearing board under the Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights when the alternative method has been agreed to under specified exclusive collective ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB425 | Intro
Sine Die | Limiting the survivability of the right to compensation for permanent partial disability payable under specified provisions of law to total compensation not exceeding $65,000; and applying the Act prospectively.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB80 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from committing specified abusive acts involving 10 or more animals; establishing penalties of up to $2,500 or up to 3 years imprisonment for a violation of the Act; authorizing a court to order a person convicted of or found to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-20
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB903 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Administrative Care Coordination Unit Program and the Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Program in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; providing for the purposes of the Programs; requiring the Department to d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-20
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB301 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that specified provisions of a recorded covenant or restriction, a declaration, or the bylaws or rules of a condominium or homeowners association are void and unenforceable; establishing specified requirements and procedures relating to an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-20
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB789 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing Title 6 of the Maryland Uniform Commercial Code governing bulk transfers; making specified conforming changes; and providing that the rights and obligations that arose under Title 6 of the Maryland Uniform Commercial Code before its repeal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-20
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB1007 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an insurer that issues or delivers in the State a policy of motor vehicle liability insurance that provides coverage for the repair of physical damage to the insured motor vehicle to authorize specified repairs to be made using original equ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-20
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB277 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the Motor Vehicle Administration from suspending, revoking, or denying the registration of a vehicle based solely on the vehicle owner's failure to have the vehicle inspected and tested as required under the Motor Vehicle Emissions Inspec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-20
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB904 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the continued detention, beyond emergency detention, of a child under the age of 13 years unless the child is alleged to have committed a specified crime of violence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-20
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB287 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a victim of a specified offense to bring a civil action for damages against a specified person; providing for the recovery of reasonable attorney's fees and court costs in an action brought under the Act; and providing for the prospective...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-20
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB524 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the requirement that the crime be committed in a residence to convict a person of violating the prohibition against committing a crime of violence when the person knows or reasonably should know that a minor who is at least 2 years old is p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-20
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB787 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the County Commissioners of Garrett County to enact a local law and adopt regulations relating to the location of any marijuana facility in Garrett County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-20
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB79 | Intro
Sine Die | Adding the extraordinary medical expenses of a destitute adult child with a developmental disability to the support required from the destitute adult child's parent if the parent has or is able to earn sufficient means to provide the support; providi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-20
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB302 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from stopping, standing, or parking a vehicle that is not a plug-in electric drive vehicle in a parking space that is designated for the use of plug-in electric drive vehicles; requiring that a parking space for the use of plug-i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-20
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB271 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the penalty to which a person is subject on conviction of procuring or soliciting or offering to procure or solicit for prostitution or assignation; altering the penalty to which a person is subject on conviction of engaging in prostitution ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-20
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB1116 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a specified employer to provide specified employees with specified estimates and work schedules within specified time periods and notify employees of specified changes to specified schedules; authorizing an employer to make specified change...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-20
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB27 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing specified provisions exempting a health care practitioner from making a specified report regarding a substance-exposed newborn under specified circumstances; and making the Act an emergency measure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-20
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB444 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that a person who, except in self-defense, intentionally inflicts bodily harm, permanent disability, or death on a service animal is guilty of the felony of aggravated cruelty to animals; prohibiting a person from making a false statement t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-20
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB578 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the State Racing Commission to employ an equine medical director; and requiring the Commission to direct that thoroughbred and standardbred track licensees, thoroughbred and standardbred owners and trainers, and thoroughbred and standardb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-20
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB443 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that a person is not criminally or civilly liable for damage resulting from the forcible entry into a motor vehicle for the purpose of removing an animal from the vehicle under specified circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-20
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB556 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a court to order visitation for interested parties eligible to be appointed as a guardian of a person; authorizing a court to identify a specified interested party entitled to visitation in the order of appointment; providing that the ide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-20
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB528 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a court from entering an order or a judgment that conceals information related to a public hazard; providing that confidentiality provisions that conceal information related to a public hazard are unenforceable; providing that a substanti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-20
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB486 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a cash balance plan under the State Retirement and Pension System; requiring that individuals who on June 30, 2018, are members of specified pension systems become members of the cash balance plan on July 1, 2018; requiring that individu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-16
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB446 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding the application of provisions of law governing grievance procedures for specified employees in the State Personnel Management System to include specified exclusive representatives; authorizing specified exclusive representatives to present ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-16
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB598 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the criteria used to determine the eligibility of specified members of the State Retirement and Pension System to receive service credit for military service so as to authorize specified legislative employment to be counted in specified serv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-16
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB478 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering specified local employer contributions for members of the Teachers' Pension System; establishing a guaranteed retirement income plan and a retirement savings plan under the State Retirement and Pension System; requiring that members of the E...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-16
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB530 | Intro
Sine Die | Creating the State Board of Common Ownership Community Managers in the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation; providing for the composition of the Board and the appointment, terms, and expenses of the Board members; providing that the Act do...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-16
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB471 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring Morgan State University to convene a task force to foster reconciliation and achieve racial equity by taking specified actions; requiring the task force to include specified members and consult with specified units of State government; requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-16
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB105 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the distribution of revenue from the St. Mary's County fire tax; and altering the distribution of revenue from the St. Mary's County rescue tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-15
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation; Withdrawn |
| SB284 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the State or a local jurisdiction from imposing or levying a vehicle-miles-traveled tax or other similar fees, tolls, or taxes; prohibiting the State or a local jurisdiction from requiring the installation of a device in or on a privately...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-15
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB415 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a manufacturer or wholesale distributor from engaging in price gouging in the sale of an essential generic drug; requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to notify the manufacturer of an essential generic drug and the Attorney Ge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB239 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing an exemption from personal property tax for property that is owned by a business that has organized under the laws of Maryland during the current tax year or that relocates its headquarters to Maryland during the current tax year; and apply...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-15
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation; Withdrawn |
| SB334 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the School Emergency Air-Conditioning Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; specifying the purpose of the Fund is to provide grants to public primary and secondary schools in the State to install air conditioning; requiring the Interagency...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-15
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB1079 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "practice athletic training" to allow athletic trainers to apply, under the supervision of a licensed physician, specified principles and methods for managing injuries suffered by individuals in good overall health who are ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-15
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB352 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring funds in the Calvert County Youth Recreational Opportunities Fund first to be used for the sole purpose of completing the development of Ward Farm Recreation and Nature Park until the development of the park is complete; requiring the Calve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-15
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB477 | Intro
Sine Die | Modifying the categories of offenses for which a police officer is required to charge by citation; repealing a provision of law authorizing a police officer to charge by citation for specified offenses; and modifying the circumstances under which a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
