| SB717 | Pass | Establishing the Task Force on Rural Internet, Broadband, Wireless, and Cellular Service; requiring the Task Force to study and make recommendations on ways Western Maryland counties, Southern Maryland counties, Eastern Shore counties, and Frederick,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 621 |
| SB311 | Pass | Altering provisions of State procurement law; altering the dollar value threshold that triggers the requirement to publish notice in eMaryland Marketplace; specifying a preferred procurement method for human, social, cultural, or educational services...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 588 |
| SB117 | Pass | Authorizing the boards of trustees of community colleges with service areas that border other states to set an out-of-state fee for students who reside in out-of-state counties that border Maryland; requiring that this fee be more than the out-of-cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 691 |
| SB73 | Pass | Increasing the share of the intestate estate of a decedent inherited by a surviving spouse under specified circumstances from the first $15,000 to the first $40,000 plus one-half of the residue.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 627 |
| SB61 | Pass | Establishing that a specified coverage requirement that applies to specified insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations includes coverage for digital tomosynthesis, a radiologic breast cancer screening procedure, u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 677 |
| SB707 | Pass | Authorizing waste or recycling collection vehicles to be equipped with or display yellow or amber lights or signal devices; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 752 |
| SB996 | Pass | Altering the definition of "abuse" for the purpose of specified child abuse and neglect statutes to include the physical or mental injury of a child by a person who, because of the person's position or occupation, exercises authority over the child u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 652 |
| SB221 | Pass | Requiring the owner of an adult entertainment establishment to post the National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline information sign in each restroom of the adult entertainment establishment in a specified manner; requiring an agency that dete...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 646 |
| SB49 | Pass | Altering the circumstances under which the liability of a person on active duty with the United States military, for rent under a lease, is limited; limiting the liability for rent of the spouse of a person on active duty with the United States milit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 705 |
| SB967 | Pass | Requiring the State Court Administrator of the Administrative Office of the Courts to assess specified drug court programs to make specified determinations; stating the intent of the General Assembly that the Administrative Office request an appropri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 572 |
| SB7 | Pass | Altering a specified reporting requirement of the Governor's P-20 Leadership Council relating to college and career readiness and college completion strategies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 775 |
| SB86 | Pass | Repealing the authority of a driver to use a vehicle's fog lights instead of the vehicle's headlamps during the continuous operation of the vehicle's windshield wipers under specified circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 750 |
| SB714 | Pass | Requiring a District Court commissioner to determine whether a specified individual qualifies as indigent; authorizing an individual charged with a crime that carries a penalty of incarceration to apply for representation by the Office of the Public ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 606 |
| SB200 | Pass | Increasing from $4,500,000 in calendar year 2016 to $6,500,000 in calendar year 2017 and each calendar year thereafter, the maximum total amount of research and development tax credits that the Department of Commerce may approve in the specified cale...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 743 |
| SB734 | Pass | Expanding the services to be provided by specified sexual assault crisis programs; specifying criteria for receiving specified grant funding; requiring the Governor to include $3,000,000 each fiscal year in the State budget; authorizing the Governor,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 659 |
| SB261 | Pass | Altering a specified property tax credit authorized against the county or municipal corporation property tax for specified residential real property damaged by flooding to include damage caused by a natural disaster; and applying the Act to tax years...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 745 |
| SB846 | Pass | Extending, through fiscal year 2022, provisions requiring that at least 40% of the proceeds from any hotel room tax imposed by Baltimore City be appropriated by the Mayor and City Council to Visit Baltimore for the marketing and operations of the Bal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 597 |
| SB579 | Pass | Requiring the Secretary of General Services and the Secretary of Transportation to cause the POW/MIA flag to be flown on the grounds of State buildings under their control whenever the flag of the United States is flown; defining "POW/MIA flag" as th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 675 |
| SB823 | Pass | Establishing the Task Force to Study Tax Sales in Maryland to examine the tax sale system to maximize resources, facilitate properties getting to productive use, and protect residents; requiring the Task Force to evaluate the impact of tax sales, how...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 616 |
| SB857 | Pass | Requiring units of State government to designate an employee of the unit as a veterans' services specialist to coordinate services with the director of the veterans Outreach and Advocacy Program in the Department of Veterans Affairs and attend specif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 707 |
| SB1024 | Pass | Establishing the criteria for a county board of education to be eligible to receive supplemental prekindergarten State grants in fiscal years 2018 through 2020; making specified grants to Baltimore City Public Schools subject to Baltimore City provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 607 |
| SB341 | Pass | Altering the definition of "school vehicle" to include specified vehicles that meet or comply with specified standards and requirements, were originally titled and used to transport children, students, and teachers in another state, comply with the r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 696 |
| SB41 | Pass | Changing the name of the Nurse Multistate Licensure Compact to the Nurse Licensure Compact; altering the findings of the party states to the Compact; providing that a multistate license to practice specified types of nursing issued by a home state to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 669 |
| SB125 | Pass | Repealing provisions relating to the Woodrow Wilson Bridge and Tunnel Compact; repealing a requirement that the Governor execute the compact with the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia under specified circumstances; repealing the W...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 682 |
| SB449 | Pass | Providing that the motor vehicle excise tax and certificate of title fee may not be imposed on the issuance of a certificate of title for specified vehicles transferred without consideration if the vehicle is transferred in a specified manner to or f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 663 |
| SB387 | Pass | Increasing the statute of limitations for the crime of solicitation to commit murder in the first degree, murder in the second degree, arson in the first degree, or arson in the second degree.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 648 |
| SB479 | Pass | Establishing a marketplace license in a specified alcoholic beverages district in Baltimore City; authorizing the Baltimore City Board of License Commissioners to issue the license; authorizing a license holder to obtain a refillable container permit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 602 |
| SB1042 | Pass | Authorizing the Behavioral Health Administration to establish an outpatient civil commitment pilot program to allow for the release of an individual who is involuntarily admitted for inpatient treatment under a specified provision of law on the condi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 577 |
| SB584 | Pass | Altering the circumstances under which a health care provider may disclose a medical record developed primarily in connection with mental health services; authorizing a health care provider to disclose directory information about a patient to a speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 701 |
| SB680 | Pass | Increasing, from 30 days to 60 days, the period of time during which a local department of social services must complete an investigation of a report of abuse, neglect, self-neglect, or financial exploitation when the report does not indicate that an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 605 |
| SB202 | Pass | Authorizing the Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland to make a one-time transfer of no more than $50,000,000 from the State-supported fund balance to a quasi-endowment fund; and limiting the use of specified proceeds for facility ren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 742 |
| SB632 | Pass | Repealing the requirement that a governmental entity notify the State Board of Elections if a person doing public business with the governmental entity fails to file a specified statement; requiring a specified governmental entity to provide the Stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 630 |
| SB664 | Pass | Altering the membership of the Correctional Officers' Retirement System to include specified individuals serving in specified positions in the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services; providing that specified members of the Correctional...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 690 |
| SB25 | Pass | Repealing the exclusion of taxicab service from the definition of "transit service"; and providing for the application of the Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 716 |
| SB979 | Pass | Prohibiting an individual from driving or attempting to drive an all-terrain vehicle or a snowmobile on portions of a highway in the State on which an all-terrain vehicle or a snowmobile is authorized unless the individual holds a driver's license or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 694 |
| SB1169 | Pass | Authorizing the Secretary of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation to waive the charge of benefits against the earned rating record of an employing unit if the benefits are paid to a claimant during a specified period of unemployment because the employing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 733 |
| SB257 | Pass | Increasing from $3,000,000 to $6,000,000 the maximum amount that may be transferred, in the State budget or through a specified budget amendment process, to the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority Financing Fund from funds that are distributed to Progr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 661 |
| SB1191 | Pass | Authorizing the Maryland Center for School Safety to make grants for specified security-related projects to schools and child care centers determined to be at risk of specified hate crimes or attacks; authorizing specified schools or child care cente...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 732 |
| SB866 | Pass | Establishing an Adult High School Pilot Program to establish an alternative method for adults who did not graduate from high school to earn a diploma; providing that the Program is under the authority and supervision of the State Department of Educat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 609 |
| SB273 | Pass | Prohibiting a county from receiving specified revenues derived from a State forest or State park reserve and concession operations within a county if the county receives specified State payments in a fiscal year; requiring specified payments to count...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 692 |
| SB465 | Pass | Renaming the Maryland Not-For-Profit Development Center Program and the Maryland Not-For-Profit Development Center Program Fund to be the Maryland Nonprofit Development Center Program and the Maryland Nonprofit Development Center Program Fund; establ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 629 |
| SB1009 | Pass | Requiring that the first $100 for one child and $200 for two or more children collected in child support in a month pass through to a family seeking assistance under the Family Investment Program; and prohibiting the consideration of that child suppo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 738 |
| SB527 | Pass | Providing that specified fees and charges permitted to be imposed on a consumer borrower under an unsecured open end credit plan, when combined with any interest charged under the plan, may not exceed an effective rate of 33% per annum simple interes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 723 |
| SB534 | Pass | Prohibiting an insurer, with respect to private passenger motor vehicle insurance, from increasing the premium for an insured who becomes a surviving spouse based solely on the insured's change in marital status.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 640 |
| SB898 | Pass | Requiring specified insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to allow and apply a prorated daily copayment or coinsurance amount for a partial supply of a prescription drug dispensed by an in-network pharmacy und...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 767 |
| SB169 | Pass | Authorizing the Maryland Dental Action Coalition to conduct a study to determine the annual cost of emergency room visits to treat dental conditions of specified adults and whether it is advisable to expand benefits for dental services for specified ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 721 |
| SB539 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from knowingly distributing a specified mixture of controlled dangerous substances; establishing specified penalties for a violation of the Act; and requiring a sentence for the distribution of a mixture of specified controlled d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 569 |
| SB505 | Pass | Altering the statute of limitations on civil actions arising out of an alleged incident or incidents of sexual abuse that occurred while the victim was a minor; establishing a statute of repose for specified civil actions relating to child sexual abu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 656 |
| SB975 | Pass | Establishing that, unless a deed expressly provides otherwise, the grant of an agricultural land preservation easement governing two or more separate parcels of land owned by the same grantor under separate deeds or two or more parcels separately ide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 662 |
| SB559 | Pass | Authorizing the Baltimore County Board of License Commissioners to transfer, convert, and issue a specified license for an establishment that is at least 100 feet away from a place of worship under specified circumstances and subject to specified res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 664 |
