| SB1019 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Commerce, in conjunction with the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation, to conduct a study on employment in the State's defense industry; specifying the minimum requirements...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB437 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission to review specified prescription drug transparency and notification laws and initiatives and information for purposes of assessing proposals for the adoption and implementation of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1342 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring State and local correctional facilities to provide the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention with specified information on correctional officer-involved deaths and deaths in the line of duty; requiring, on or before October 15, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB899 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission to develop standards for the periodic psychological assessment of all law enforcement officers, if determined by the Commission to be appropriate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB812 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Community Development Program in the Department of Housing and Community Development; requiring the Department to administer the Program; establishing the Community Development Board in the Department; establishing the Community Deve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB1013 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Maryland Higher Education Commission to jointly convene a workgroup to examine the need for dental therapy in the State; requiring the workgroup to include specified stakeholders; and requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB814 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing 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 not exceed a 90-day supply of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| HB507 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting community college trustees and employees and public officials and employees of a county or municipality from engaging in any unfair labor practice; and providing the Act does not apply to a specified activity performed or a specified expe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| SB536 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Transportation Authority, on or before December 31 each year, to submit a specified report to the Governor and specified committees of the General Assembly on the procurement and implementation of the Third Generation-Electroni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1306 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that a county or municipality may establish specified penalties for failure to comply with a franchise agreement for a cable television system; requiring that a franchise agreement include a service connection requirement for wired broadban...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1212 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing specified insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to apply a prior authorization requirement for opioid antagonist drug products only under specified circumstances; applying the Act to all policies, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB671 | 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] | 2017-04-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB1069 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Maryland Historic Trust Grant Fund to be used to pay for specified reasonable and necessary administrative costs, not to exceed 5% of the specified appropriation to the MHT Grant Fund; requiring the Governor, beginning in fiscal year ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB1021 | Engross
Sine Die | Allowing a credit against the State income tax for specified small business entities located in an enterprise zone or a Regional Institution Strategic Enterprise (RISE) zone; allowing a small business to claim the credit if the business hired or reta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB350 | Engross
Sine Die | Allowing, in Montgomery County, 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 residential property in a specified manner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB135 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing that specified persons who are required to provide specified notice or make reports of suspected child abuse or neglect may not knowingly fail to give the notice or make the reports if the specified person has actual knowledge of the abu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1024 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing an auxiliary winery permit; authorizing the Comptroller to issue the permit to a holder of a Class 4 limited winery permit for use at a single location off the licensed premises in the State, subject to specified restrictions; prohibitin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB545 | Engross
Sine Die | Adding bingo in Carroll County to the list of home games that an individual may conduct in a common area of a residential property under specified circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB990 | Engross
Sine Die | Allowing an individual in Harford County who is at least 21 years old to conduct a bingo game without a bingo license if the bingo game is conducted in a common area of a residential property that is restricted to residents who are at least 55 years ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB1193 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a person to operate or give permission to operate a vessel for the purpose of towing a water skier in a ski slalom course located in a controlled water ski area located in Maynadier Creek on specified days between the hours of 6:00 a.m. a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB931 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Public Service Commission, rather than the Department of Planning, to provide a copy of application materials for a certificate of public convenience and necessity to each appropriate unit of local government in which the construction o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB260 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the day on which interest begins to accrue on specified taxpayer refunds of specified tax payments; requiring a tax collector to pay interest on specified taxpayer refunds beginning on the date of the overpayment if the overpayment is attrib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1565 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the procedure for the selection of the vice chair of the Prince George's County Board of Education; altering from two-thirds to three-fifths the percentage of the voting members of the county board that is required to take a specified action...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB1135 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Retirement Agency and the Department of Legislative Services to conduct a study regarding membership in the Employees' Pension System for individuals who are employed in a position for which the budgeted hours per fiscal year are ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB1143 | Engross
Sine Die | Designating the 3-day period from July 28, 2017, through July 30, 2017, to be a tax-free period for shopping in the Ellicott City Historic District and the Ellicott's Mills Historic District during which a specified sales and use tax exemption shall ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB645 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifying that, in Frederick County, a gaming permit authorizes a gaming event to be conducted on a Sunday during the hours of sale for alcoholic beverages that are sold at the establishment where the gaming event is conducted.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB983 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a judicial officer to make a specified determination regarding release or detention of a defendant before trial; requiring a judicial officer to consider specified information; prohibiting a judicial officer from imposing specified financia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB364 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering specified eligibility criteria for specified credits under the One Maryland Economic Development Tax Credit to include specified persons who establish or expand in specified areas a business facility that, for business incubators, creates at...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-05
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB510 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing the prohibition on the filing of a petition for expungement based on an acquittal, a dismissal, or a nolle prosequi within a specified period; and requiring specified records that are ordered for expungement to be expunged by removing the r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB988 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the State Board of Community Health Workers; specifying the purpose and composition of the Board; providing that the role of community health workers does not include providing clinical services; specifying the term of a Board member; re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-04
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB1165 | Engross
Sine Die | Expanding the duties of a guardian of a disabled person to include the duty to foster and preserve family relationships including assisting to arrange specified visitation and communication.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-04
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB320 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission to establish a Connection Pipe Emergency Replacement Loan Program to provide loans to residential customers to finance the replacement of malfunctioning pipes; requiring the Program to include a r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB963 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifying that the Maryland Transportation Authority may refer specified unpaid video tolls and associated civil penalties to the Central Collection Unit for collection; authorizing the Authority to recall specified unpaid video tolls and associated...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1284 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to authorize an Aquaculture Enterprise Zone and a submerged land lease located within 300 feet of the mean high watermark of the shoreline of property designated by the United states Secretary of the In...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-04
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB335 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Education to develop, on or before December 1, 2017, with the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation and the Governor's Workforce Development Board statewide goals that reach 45% for the percentages of high school...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-04
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB499 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing the requirement that both parties appear before the court at an absolute divorce hearing in order for the court to decree an absolute divorce on the grounds of mutual consent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB839 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing a Workgroup on Categories for Funding Priorities in the Annual State Budget; specifying the purpose of the Workgroup, to be convened by the Department of Budget and Management, is to study, evaluate, and make recommendations concerning b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-04
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB656 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing the nonrefundable $100 fee charged by the State Department of Assessments and Taxation for processing articles of dissolution and certificates of cancellation filed by specified business entities with the Department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-04
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| HB965 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the applicability of specified security breach investigation and notification requirements to specified businesses; authorizing a specified business to elect to provide a specified notification; prohibiting a specified business from charging...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB501 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a party to a specified wrongful detainer action brought in the District Court to demand a trial by jury in accordance with specified provisions of law, subject to a specified provision of law; making specified provisions of law regarding ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB621 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the amount of compensation of the president of the Cecil County Board of Education to be not less than $4,000 annually and the other voting members to receive not less than $3,500 each annually, as determined by the County Council of Cecil C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-03
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB81 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Governor to enter into the Interstate Boating Violator Compact; providing that the purposes of the Compact are to provide a means for party states to participate in a specified reciprocal program and to provide for the fair and impart...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-03
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| HB1058 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing from one-third to one half the maximum portion of a home improvement contract price that a person may receive as a deposit before or at the time of execution of a home improvement contract.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-03
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB827 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the annual salary of the State's Attorney for Frederick County; requiring the salary of the State's Attorney for Frederick County to increase in a percentage equal to the average annual increment and salary adjustment given to Frederick Coun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-03
Second Reading Passed |
| HB1339 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing that a specified person may not set or fish any gill net used in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries that has a stretched mesh size exceeding 7 inches.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-03
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB231 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "eligible veteran" to include the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service and the Commissioned Corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for the purpose of granting a preference in hiring and prom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-03
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| SB54 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the definition of aviation gasoline for purposes of the motor fuel tax; providing that "aviation gasoline" is gasoline that is used to propel gasoline-powered aircraft and does not include gasoline used to propel a motor vehicle; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-31
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (138-0) |
| SB1080 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources, in addition to specified other applicable penalties, to suspend for up to a period of 1 year the privilege to operate a vessel on the waters of the State of a person who is convicted of operating a ves...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-31
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary; Withdrawn |
| HB1138 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the distribution of specified table game proceeds paid to Baltimore City for specified purposes; providing that the proceeds of table games paid to Baltimore City to be used for recreational facilities may be used only to supplement and not ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB535 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Highway Administration to dedicate a specified portion of highway in Baltimore County as the Senator Norman R. Stone, Jr. Highway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
