| SB946 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering a specified exception relating to law enforcement officers to the prohibition on carrying or possessing specified weapons on school property; prohibiting the carrying or possession of specified firearms on the property of public institutions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Senators Smith, Brochin, and Norman |
| SB258 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing the amount of a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for specified qualifying police auxiliaries and reserve volunteers for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2016.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (137-0) |
| SB699 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a contractor or subcontractor awarded a specified contract for a specified construction project that receives specified funding from the State capital budget to be affiliated with, and to use apprentices from, an apprenticeship program that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Second Reading Passed |
| HB1052 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the definitions of "qualified position" and "State priority funding area" for purposes of the job creation tax credit program; requiring the Department of Commerce to certify the amount of the tax credit for which a qualified business entity...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB406 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Elections to include, on request by a local board of elections and with the approval of the applicable county governing body, at least two additional digital scanners for specified polling places as part of the voting sys...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Senators Zucker, Robinson, and Simonaire |
| HB780 | Engross
Sine Die | Adding the Harford County Farm Fair to the list of off-site events for which a holder of a brewing company off-site permit may use the permit; and altering the time period within which the permit holder is required to notify the Comptroller of an int...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| HB371 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing specified penalties for drunk and drugged driving offenses for individuals who have been convicted previously for specified crimes; requiring a specified notice; and providing for the application of specified provisions of the Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Senators Zirkin, Smith, and Norman |
| HB106 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering homebuyer education requirements for a loan recipient in the Down Payment and Settlement Expense Loan Program in the Department of Housing and Community Development; establishing specified requirements for the Department's homebuyer educatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB1006 | Engross
Sine Die | Allowing an individual who is at least 21 years of age to conduct a bingo game involving cash prizes if the game is conducted at a specified senior citizen activities center in a specified manner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (134-1) |
| SB423 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the General Assembly to provide by suitable enactment a process to allow a qualified individual to register and vote at a polling place on election day or on a day designated for voting before election day; and submitting the amendment to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Senate Requests House Recede |
| HB768 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the State Highway Administration to issue a seasonal exceptional poultry hauling permit that authorizes specified axle configurations and specified increased weight limits while carrying live poultry from a farm to a processing facility f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) |
| SB976 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a judicial officer to provide a specified individual with the opportunity to request specified reasonable protections for the safety of an alleged victim or the victim's family at a specified time; requiring that a specified victim impact s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB1153 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifying 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. as the hours of sale for a holder of a Class B-D-7 beer, wine, and liquor license in a specified area of Baltimore City; prohibiting the hours of sale for a license holder in a specified area from beginning before or endin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB490 | Engross
Sine Die | Allowing a credit against the State income tax for the total installed costs paid or incurred by a taxpayer that installs an energy storage system and who obtains a tax credit certificate from the Maryland Energy Administration; requiring the Adminis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB476 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that a District Court Commissioner may be a resident of a county contiguous to the county in which the commissioner serves.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0) |
| HB1570 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the legislative body of a municipal corporation in Prince George's County to authorize the erection of a fence that exceeds specified height restrictions or limitations, under specified circumstances; correcting a specified reference to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB572 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a manufacturer of an investigational drug, biological product, or device to make available the investigational drug, biological product, or device to eligible patients; requiring a manufacturer of an investigational drug, biological produ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
House Refuses to Recede |
| HB838 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a ground lease holder from taking specified actions against the current leasehold tenant of specified abandoned property in Baltimore City to recover ground rent due and owing from a former leasehold tenant before the date that the curren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB606 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering specified conditions of eligibility for funding from the Racetrack Facility Renewal Account by specifying minimum amounts to be spent on capital maintenance and expenditures by specified race tracks; authorizing the Maryland Racing Commissio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Third Reading Passed (134-0) |
| HB1560 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a county board of education to provide age appropriate instruction on consent as part of the Family Life and Human Sexuality curriculum in grades 5 and higher in public schools in the county; and authorizing a county board to provide age ap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| HB894 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a person in Wicomico County to hunt deer on private property on specified Sundays.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (45-0) |
| SB1109 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to make an advance payment to a nursing home at the request of the nursing home under specified circumstances; providing that the advance payment may not exceed 50% of the estimated amount due for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB1200 | Engross
Sine Die | Making it an unfair or deceptive trade practice under the Maryland Consumer Protection Act for an Internet service provider to sell or transfer for marketing purposes a consumer's personally identifying information without the consumer's express and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Referred Economic Matters |
| SB844 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a person to hunt deer under a Deer Management Permit on any Sunday throughout the year, including all deer hunting seasons; altering the application of specified provisions of law governing Deer Management Permits in Charles County and St...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB1086 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempting specified individuals who apply for alcoholic beverages licenses for the use of a partnership, corporation, club, or limited liability company in Baltimore City from specified residency and registered voter requirements; and establishing sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (128-3) |
| SB1004 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing that specified provisions of State law governing performance standards for vehicle dealers apply to vehicle manufacturers notwithstanding specified other agreements; requiring that the assignment of a dealer's market area meet specified ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB915 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a hearing on an appeal to a supervisor of assessments concerning the value or classification of a dwelling to occur no later than 120 days after the Department of Assessments and Taxation receives the appeal, unless the property owner reque...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-08
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB466 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the 9-1-1 Director's Council to work with a specified Board and specified organizations to identify, plan for, coordinate, and make recommendations regarding the call-taking and dispatch operations of public safety answering points in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-08
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB525 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a specified business, when destroying an employee's or a former employee's records containing specified personal information of the employee or former employee, to take specified steps to protect against unauthorized access to or use of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-08
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1143 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the information that employers are required to give employees within 30 days after the first date of employment; and requiring employers to provide employees with an explanation of how wages were calculated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-07
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| HB71 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the restriction on a holder of a Class 8 farm brewery license selling or serving only specified types of food; allowing the holder to sell and serve any food if the holder is licensed to operate a food establishment, subject to specified req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-07
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB102 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Human Trafficking Awareness Pilot Program in Anne Arundel County; requiring the Anne Arundel County Board of Education, beginning in the 2018-2019 school year, in collaboration with the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-07
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (45-0) |
| SB1194 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "eligible functions" to allow funds from the Substance Abuse Treatment Outcome Partnership Fund to be used for recovery support systems; altering the definition of "eligible population" to allow funds from the Fund to be us...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-07
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB1428 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing a Victim Services Unit in the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention; transferring the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board from the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to the Victim Services Unit; transferri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB242 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing for a maximum fine of $500 for a violation of specified prohibitions against using a handheld telephone while driving a motor vehicle; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB1133 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting in Washington County tree planting in a specified State highway right-of-way to implement a State Watershed Implementation Plan under specified circumstances; requiring the State Highway Administration to negotiate in good faith with comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1118 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to allow under a permit for roadside tree care the maintenance or removal of a tree to eliminate a hazard, to enable necessary roadway improvements, and for locally zoned development and land use requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
Hearing 4/06 at 1:00 p.m. (Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs) |
| HB1159 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing, with a specified exception, a pharmacist to dispense, in a single dispensing and exercising the pharmacist's professional judgment, a quantity of a prescription drug that is up to a specified number of authorized dosage units and does no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| HB1321 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing an individual to notify the local department of social services or the appropriate law enforcement agency if the individual has reason to believe that a verbal threat of imminent severe bodily harm or death to a child has been made by a s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB715 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Power Plant Research Program to conduct a study of regulatory reforms and market incentives that may be necessary or beneficial to increase the use of energy storage devices in the State; requiring the Program to consult with specified ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB701 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the information that must be included in the statement of factors required to be included in a request for proposals for a lease of real property to be used by a local department of social services to include the geographic boundaries of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB1297 | Engross
Sine Die | Expanding the list of "petitioners" under the domestic violence statutes who may seek relief from abuse on behalf of a minor child to include an attorney appointed by the court in specified family law actions to represent the minor child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB544 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Baltimore City Sheriff to establish a pay scale under specified circumstances; authorizing the Sheriff of Baltimore City to appoint an information technology specialist to the rank of captain to assess and manage the technology needs ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB553 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring, beginning November 1, 2017, a behavioral health program or specified health professional, when referring an individual to receive services at a recovery residence, to provide the individual with a list of certified recovery residences in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB333 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the motor vehicle offense of aggressive driving to include the commission of a specified number of an alternate set of specified motor vehicle offenses under specified circumstances; and establishing that specified persons charged with a vio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB749 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a court that grants an annulment or a limited or absolute divorce to resolve any dispute between the parties with respect to the ownership of a pet and grant a decree that states what the ownership interest of each party is; authorizing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB706 | Engross
Sine Die | Reducing the notice period from 14 days to 7 days before a landlord may file an action to evict a tenant for a breach of the lease that involves specified dangerous behavior; reducing from 10 days to 4 days the amount of time after entry of a specifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB1100 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing a provision of law allowing a surviving parent to inherit specified intestate property if there is a surviving spouse but no surviving issue.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB105 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering a requirement that a specified committee adopt an apportionment formula for Program Open Space funds to require the Department of Natural Resources in consultation with a specified committee to adopt the apportionment formula; altering the m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| HB757 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing for the admissibility of a specified report of an approved service provider in a criminal proceeding to prove a violation of a specified requirement imposed by a court that the defendant use an ignition interlock system; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
