| SB452 | Pass | Requiring the State Board of Education to develop, in collaboration with specified entities and individuals, a specified middle school level social studies assessment for implementation in the 2019-2020 school year; requiring the State Board, in coll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 731 |
| SB541 | Pass | Limiting the authority of the Baltimore City Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals to hear and decide appeals to instances when the Board is authorized to hear and decide the appeals by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City by local law or the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 596 |
| SB272 | Pass | Authorizing the juvenile court to direct the provision of specified services to a specified child during a specified disposition hearing; requiring the juvenile court to direct the provision of specified services to a specified child during a permane...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 655 |
| SB919 | Pass | Prohibiting a specified insurer, nonprofit health service plan, or health maintenance organization from imposing a step therapy or fail-first protocol on an insured or an enrollee for a specified prescription drug used in the treatment of a specified...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 679 |
| SB625 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Human Resources to make available to specified service providers, local administering agencies for specified service providers and county boards of education specified supplies of feminine hygiene products for female resid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 642 |
| SB424 | Pass | Requiring the Governor to include $100,000 in the State budget for fiscal year 2019 for the purpose of providing a grant to the William E. Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation at the University System of Maryland for the Maryland Open Source Textboo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 763 |
| SB592 | Pass | Authorizing the governing body of Allegany County and of a municipal corporation in Allegany County to grant a property tax credit against the county and municipal corporation property tax imposed on specified property owned by specified organization...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 693 |
| SB1106 | Pass | Authorizing specified health care practitioners to use teletherapy for a specified patient under specified circumstances; and requiring specified health occupations boards to adopt specified regulations on or before April 1, 2018, that, to the extent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 610 |
| SB531 | Pass | Establishing the Housing Navigator and Aftercare Program to assist families and individuals who are experiencing, or who are in imminent danger of, a housing crisis in obtaining and maintaining permanent housing; requiring the Governor, subject to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 638 |
| SB1060 | Pass | Requiring a county board of education to consult with the county superintendent of schools before any change in the hiring or termination of personnel in connection with a school health services program; requiring the drug addiction and prevention pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 574 |
| SB154 | Pass | Altering the civil penalty to require up to $500 for a violation recorded by a school bus monitoring camera for failure to stop for a school vehicle operating alternately flashing red lights; and requiring the Montgomery County Department of Police t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 744 |
| SB591 | Pass | Altering the Public Local Laws of Garrett County to require the Board of County Commissioners of Garrett County to appropriate specified funds for the benefit of specified rescue squads; and authorizing the County Commissioners to pay the value of a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 695 |
| SB650 | 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 689 |
| SB668 | Pass | Increasing, from 15 inches to 20 inches, the maximum height that the handlebars of a motorcycle may be above a specified part of the motorcycle seat in order for a person to lawfully operate the motorcycle.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 751 |
| SB393 | Pass | Extending and altering for fiscal years 2018 through 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, for ea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 363 |
| SB519 | Pass | Repealing a prohibition in Frederick County against hunting or attempting to hunt nongame birds and mammals without first obtaining a hunting license.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 494 |
| SB781 | Pass | Including hepatitis C as a disease for which a person charged with causing prohibited exposure may be tested under specified circumstances; authorizing a judge to issue an emergency order to obtain an oral swab from a person to be tested for the pres...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 485 |
| SB1158 | Pass | Requiring the power plant research program of the Department of Natural Resources to include in its research an evaluation of the pollinator benefits that would occur under a pollinator-friendly vegetation management standard or pollinator habitat pl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 372 |
| SB396 | Pass | Establishing the State Lakes Protection and Restoration Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; specifying the purpose of the Fund is to protect and restore State-owned lakes; requiring the Department of Natural Resources to develop a specified budget; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 405 |
| SB1039 | Pass | Altering the privileges of Class B beer, wine, and liquor hotel and restaurant licenses issued in Washington County so that the privileges may be exercised for on- and off-premises consumption for licenses that had on- and off-sale privileges on or b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 430 |
| SB498 | Pass | Transferring the authority for the administration of the Small, Minority, and Women-Owned Businesses Account from the Board of Public Works to the Department of Commerce; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 453 |
| SB817 | Pass | Adding Cecil County and Garrett County to the list of counties that exempt agricultural buildings engaged in agritourism from a specified permit requirement; providing that no more than 200 people at one time be allowed to occupy a building engaged i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 531 |
| SB50 | Pass | Establishing that the owner of a burial lot is responsible for the care of specified monuments or memorials; providing that this Act does not prohibit a responsible party for a cemetery from maintaining or repairing a memorial or monument under speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 477 |
| SB1190 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of the Environment to use funds from the Bay Restoration Fund to provide grants to a county or municipality that upgraded a wastewater facility to enhanced nutrient removal before July 1, 2013, under specified circumstances...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 397 |
| SB910 | Pass | Repealing a provision of law subjecting the Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund to the imposition of a specified premium tax; altering the scope of provisions of law governing prior approval rate making to exclude the Fund; providing that provisions o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 509 |
| SB304 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from employing an individual not registered with the State Board of Individual Tax Preparers to provide specified tax preparation services; providing specified employees of the Field Enforcement Bureau of the Comptroller's Office...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 379 |
| SB509 | Pass | Increasing the salary of each associate judge of the Orphans' Court for Prince George's County from $42,000 to $50,000, and the salary of the Chief Judge from $42,500 to $55,000 per year; and applying the Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 454 |
| SB500 | Pass | Exempting specified representatives of specified entities from the requirement of admission to the Bar of Maryland and other requirements of the Court of Appeals for representing the entity in the appeals of specified civil actions originating in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 544 |
| SB116 | Pass | Providing that a local government may spend 100 percent of its future annual apportionment on development projects and capital renewal after it has exceeded its acquisition goals under Program Open Space; requiring the Joint Subcommittee on Program O...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 406 |
| SB503 | Pass | Requiring each health occupations board established under the Health Occupations Article to report an update on specified efforts to educate specified individuals regarding racial and ethnic health disparities to specified committees of the General A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 499 |
| SB66 | Pass | Requiring a specified person to make, in order to procure a specified hunting license under specified circumstances, an affidavit that the person hunted before July 1, 1977, rather than that the person had a specified hunting license; limiting the ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 402 |
| SB989 | Pass | Prohibiting the State Board of Physicians from requiring, as a qualification to obtain a license or as a condition to renew a license, certification by a specified accrediting organization that specializes in a specific area of medicine or maintenanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 547 |
| SB88 | Pass | Repealing a specified statutory translation of the Calvert family motto depicted on the Great Seal of the State; and establishing a specified meaning for the Calvert family motto, "Fatti maschii parole femine", which generally means "Strong deeds, ge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 496 |
| SB328 | Pass | Requiring the State Highway Administration to dedicate a specified portion of Maryland Route 695A in Baltimore County as Henrietta Lacks Way.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 555 |
| SB226 | Pass | Altering the definition of "qualified Maryland biotechnology company" to extend a specified time period from a specified date that an active business may claim the biotechnology tax credit; altering the definition of "biotechnology company" to includ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 476 |
| SB924 | Pass | Altering and establishing specified surety bond requirements for specified persons licensed or registered by the Commissioner of Financial Regulation and specified persons licensed by the State Collection Agency Licensing Board; requiring a specified...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 479 |
| SB278 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Farms and Families Program in the Department of Agriculture; establishing that the purpose of the Program is to double the purchasing power of food-insecure Maryland residents with limited access to fresh fruits and vegetabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 396 |
| SB636 | Pass | Altering the membership of the Commission on the Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Passage of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution to include a representative of the Maryland Heritage Women's History Center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 478 |
| SB143 | Pass | Providing that a person who tortiously causes an injury to or death of a pet while acting through an animal under the person's ownership is liable to the owner of the pet for specified compensatory damages; increasing from $7500 to a maximum of $10,0...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 413 |
| SB57 | Pass | Making specified modifications to the State income tax credit for the expense of registering specified qualified vehicles in the State; requiring a taxpayer to obtain a tax credit certificate from the Motor Vehicle Administration to receive the credi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 502 |
| SB639 | Pass | Altering the salary of a Sheriff's deputy in Allegany County; and clarifying that at least one of the Sheriff's deputies is required to be assigned by the Sheriff to execute process, orders, and directions for the juvenile court and specified other d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 471 |
| SB1177 | Pass | Repealing in Harford County a provision of law stating that a condition of a common direct or indirect sharing between specified persons of profit from the sale of alcoholic beverages gives rise to a presumption of indirect ownership interest in an a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 497 |
| SB497 | Pass | Altering the period of time, from 1 year to 2 years, by which a video lottery operation licensee must notify the State Lottery and Gaming Control Commission of its intent to reapply for a video lottery operation license; altering the membership of sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 446 |
| SB289 | Pass | Repealing provisions of law that require the Maryland Insurance Commissioner to report to the Governor and the General Assembly on the effect of competitive rating on the insurance markets in the State; requiring the Maryland Insurance Administration...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 514 |
| SB794 | Pass | Altering an exception to the requirement that an individual be admitted to the Maryland Bar before the individual may practice law in the State by authorizing an individual who is admitted to the bar of any other state to provide legal advice to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 508 |
| SB218 | Pass | Authorizing the technical staff of the Public Service Commission to assist a water company or a sewage disposal company in establishing a proposed just and reasonable rate; authorizing the technical staff to seek information from specified companies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 536 |
| SB313 | Pass | Establishing a Maryland Energy Innovation Institute as part of the A. James Clark School of Engineering to collaborate with academic institutions on clean energy programs in the State and to attract private investment to clean energy innovation and c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 365 |
| SB343 | Pass | Altering the definition of "eligible costs" as it relates to projects that receive funding from the Bay Restoration Fund to include any wastewater facility upgrade to enhanced nutrient removal, as determined by the Department of the Environment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 368 |
| SB818 | Pass | Establishing a Voluntary Protection Program in the Division of Labor and Industry to encourage participating employers to have exemplary worker safety and health programs; requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to recognize specified employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 517 |
| SB298 | Pass | Altering the salary of the Sheriff of St. Mary's County, the County Treasurer of St. Mary's County, and the State's Attorney for St. Mary's County; and providing for the application of the Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 428 |
