| SB306 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Bureau of Revenue Estimates to calculate a specified share of and a specified limit on specified nonwithholding income tax revenues and requiring the Bureau to report the information to the Board of Revenue Estimates; requiring the Stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-15
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB227 | 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 if the licensee determines that the identification is fictitious or fraudulently altered; provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-15
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation |
| SB462 | 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] | 2017-02-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB264 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Transportation Authority, beginning on or before January 1, 2020, to exempt school buses owned and operated by county boards of education from tolls, fees, or any other charges for the use of transportation facilities projects;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-15
Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m. (Budget and Taxation) |
| SB136 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a political subdivision from adopting or enforcing a regulation or an ordinance that imposes specified additional penalties for a parking violation within 30 days after the issuance of the citation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-15
Recommitted to Judicial Proceedings (Senator Lee) |
| SB418 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Highway Administration to place and maintain traffic control devices at specified entrances and exits of large continuing care retirement communities that serve at least 100 residents and are located along highways under the Admin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB694 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing specified provisions that provide that inmates serving a term of life imprisonment may be paroled only with the Governor's approval, subject to specified provisions; repealing specified provisions requiring specified parole decisions to be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB447 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the earning of diminution credits to reduce the term of confinement of an inmate who is serving a sentence for murder in the first degree or murder in the second degree in a State or local correctional facility; and providing for the appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB432 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering a limitation on claiming the income tax credit for eligible long-term care insurance premiums for more than 1 year with respect to the same insured individual; altering the amount of the credit from a one-time $500 credit to a maximum of $25...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-15
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB402 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that a federal home loan bank may not be stayed or prohibited from exercising specified rights with respect to specified collateral of a specified insurer-member after the seventh day following the filing of a delinquency proceeding; requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB420 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring specified research facilities using dogs or cats for scientific research purposes to take specified steps to provide for the adoption of a dog or cat that is no longer needed for research purposes; authorizing specified research facilities ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-14
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB315 | Intro
Sine Die | Extending to fiscal year 2020 the Electric Vehicle Recharging Equipment Rebate Program and authorization to issue motor vehicle excise tax credits for specified qualified plug-in electric drive vehicles; increasing the total amount of rebates from up...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-14
Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m. (Finance) |
| SB368 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing references to the terms "child custody" and "visitation" and substituting the terms "legal decision making" and "parenting time" in specified instances; requiring the court, in determining the appropriate allocation of legal decision making...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB472 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing a specified exception to an exemption from specified taxes, user charges, and utility fees relating to stormwater for property owned by a county; providing that property owned by the State or a unit of State government, a county, a college ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-14
Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m. (Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs) |
| SB345 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing, on or before December 31, 2017, specified individuals eligible for an income tax refund as a result of a specified United States Supreme Court decision to file an amended income tax return for specified taxable years to claim an income t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-14
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB512 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a presumption that a garnishment against specified property held jointly by spouses in specified financial institutions is valid unless, within 30 days after service of the writ of garnishment on the garnishee, either spouse files a moti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB146 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Legislative Services to obtain specified census data, adjust the census data for specified purposes, and provide the census data to a temporary redistricting commission within 30 days after the Department has finished adju...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-13
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB9 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Motor Vehicle Administration, in consultation with the Department of State Police, to adopt regulations governing the inspection, registration, and safe testing and operation of autonomous and connected vehicles and the safe testing a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-13
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB20 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting an out-of-state dealer of Class M motor homes or Class G trailers from specified license requirements solely for the purpose of displaying and selling vehicles at a specified vehicle show in Wicomico County; authorizing specified out-of-sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-13
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB923 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a holder of a Class 3 winery license or a Class 4 limited winery license in Washington County to sell beer, light wine produced at the winery or at another winery, and liquor for on-premises consumption at a special event such as a weddin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-13
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB390 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the offense of taking oysters with specified gear in specified areas that is subject to specified enhanced administrative penalties; and establishing the offense of taking oysters with a power dredge in specified areas that is subject to sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-13
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB461 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing an exception to the authority of a county or local government to employ only plumbing inspectors who hold a master plumbing license issued by specified entities; authorizing a county or local government to hire plumbing inspectors who obtai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-13
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB342 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the requirement that an individual receive a specified endorsement on the individual's commercial driver's license in order to drive a school vehicle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-10
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB283 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a reverse mortgage lender to establish an escrow account for the payment of property taxes and insurance; requiring the escrow account to be established in accordance with specified provisions of law; requiring the escrow account to allow f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-09
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB378 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a clerk of a court from ruling on any motion or application.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-09
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB259 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the conditions under which the principal balance on a loan to a campaign finance entity is considered a contribution; providing that the terms of a loan to a campaign finance entity require that the loan be repaid no later than the end of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-09
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB193 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring physicians licensed to practice medicine in the State to notify patients in writing and on each visit of specified information relating to professional liability insurance coverage; requiring the notification to be signed by the patient and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-09
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB358 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring specified candidates for President or Vice President of the United States to file copies of specified federal income tax returns and written consent for the disclosure of those federal income tax returns with the State Board of Elections no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-09
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB177 | 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] | 2017-02-09
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB305 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring specified employers to provide employees with specified paid time off; providing that specified employers are eligible for a specified tax subtraction modification under specified circumstances; providing for the method of determining wheth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-09
Hearing 2/09 at 1:00 p.m. (Finance) |
| SB296 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing an income tax checkoff for voluntary contributions to the Maryland Veterans Trust Fund; requiring the Comptroller to include a checkoff on the individual income tax return; requiring the Comptroller to collect and account for contributio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB237 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the minimum and maximum limitation amounts of the standard deduction allowed under the State income tax for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017, by a specified cost-of-living adjustment; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB236 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the amount of specified exemptions allowed under the State income tax for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017, by a specified cost-of-living adjustment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB430 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the State Highway Administration to sell or lease to a private entity the naming rights for rest areas and welcome centers, as specified; prohibiting the sale or lease of rest area and welcome center naming rights unless the Administratio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB362 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that a record of an investigation or adjudication of alleged job-related misconduct by a law enforcement officer is not a personnel record for purposes of the Public Information Act; authorizing a custodian to deny inspection of specified r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m. (Judicial Proceedings) |
| SB370 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the School Broadband Upgrade Grant Program; providing the purpose of the Program is to provide State and local funding for special construction to leverage federal funds for Category 1 and Category 2 services that are available through a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m. (Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs) |
| SB292 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Transportation Authority to study the feasibility of offering motorists, for specified toll transportation facilities projects, an option to pay a flat fee for an annual pass to use the toll transportation facilities projects; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB316 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that, in a prosecution for specified sexual offenses, evidence of other sexually assaultive behavior by the defendant occurring before or after the offense for which the defendant is on trial may be admissible; requiring the State to file a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB205 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing a subtraction modification under the Maryland corporate income tax for specified dividends included in federal taxable income as a result of a specified repatriation holiday enacted by federal legislation; requiring the Comptroller to provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB213 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the amount the State is required to contribute to account holders who make specified annual contributions to specified investment accounts in the Maryland College Investment Plan; and increasing from $7,000,000 to $14,000,000 in fiscal year ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB174 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "qualified energy resources" to mean wind, solar energy, or marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy that may be used to produce energy that qualifies for the clean energy production income tax credit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB173 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Commission on Access to Tax-Preferred Health and Childcare Savings Accounts for All Marylanders; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Commission; authorizing the reimbursement of specified expenses; requiring the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB431 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the State Highway Administration to sell or lease to a private entity the naming rights for all or part of a State highway; prohibiting the sale or lease of highway naming rights unless the Administration makes specified determinations; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB238 | 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] | 2017-02-08
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB248 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the purpose of and programs to be funded by the Universal Service Trust Fund; requiring the Secretary of Information Technology to certify specified information; requiring the Public Service Commission to determine the amount of a specified ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB286 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that the statewide information technology master plan developed by the Secretary of Information Technology include a cybersecurity framework; and requiring that the Secretary consider materials developed by the National Institute of Standar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB68 | Intro
Sine Die | Adding posttraumatic stress disorder to the definition of "debilitating medical condition" for the purposes of specified affirmative defenses to a charge of use or possession of marijuana; establishing a specified affirmative defense for a charge of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB223 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the criminal penalty for possession of child pornography; requiring specified sex offender registrants to receive and pay for specified psychological counseling services; establishing a term during which a specified sex offender registrant i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB76 | Intro
Sine Die | Changing the name of the Circuit Court Real Property Records Improvement Fund to the State Judiciary Technology Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB134 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the State income tax rate on the Maryland taxable income of specified individuals and specified spouses filing a joint return, surviving spouses, or heads of household; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-06
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation; Withdrawn |
