| SJ7 | Engross
Sine Die | Expressing the sharp disagreement of the General Assembly of Maryland with the repeal of the Affordable Care Act; urging the U.S. Congress to promptly protect provisions of the federal Affordable Care Act that ensure all Marylanders have access to af...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30
To House Rules and Executive Nominations 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 |
| HB1478 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the method by which the County Commissioners of Calvert County or the official authorized to contract for the county shall invite proposals for specified contracts; and authorizing the Commissioners or the official authorized to contract for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB13 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifying that service in the Maryland Defense Force is voluntary and a member may be dismissed with cause at any time; altering the classes of State militia; repealing the requirement that a specified individual take a specified oath; repealing spe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB205 | Engross
Sine Die | Reducing the period of time that specified individuals who are at least 21 years of age but under the age of 25 and who hold a learner's instructional permit are required to wait before taking a driver skills examination or driver road examination fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB364 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the City of Baltimore and the Baltimore City Public School System to report to the Baltimore City delegation to the General Assembly on or before December 1, 2017, on the status of the implementation of specified recommendations concerning ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB453 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a tax sale of real property solely to enforce liens for unpaid water, sewer, and sanitary system services during a specified period; and providing that the Act applies prospectively to liens attaching to real property on or after July 1, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB650 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a court to order a specified defendant's doctor to develop a treatment plan within 5 days of the defendant's admission to a designated facility after a finding of incompetency or not criminally responsible under specified circumstances; p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB871 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring an educational accountability program to include at least three school quality indicators that measure the comparative opportunities provided to students or the level of student success in public schools; prohibiting the school quality indi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1286 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that the admissions and amusement tax may not be imposed by a municipal corporation in Harford County on gross receipts derived from specified admissions and amusement charges.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB750 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering eligibility for a specified credit against the county or municipal corporation property tax imposed on specified residential property in Baltimore County to include property owned or acquired by a cohabitant of a fallen law enforcement offic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB1418 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a specified designee who may conduct a specified assessment to be certified or licensed, rather than certified and licensed; authorizing a person serving a specified term of confinement for an offense relating to volume dealing in cocaine b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB1079 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing local jurisdictions to regulate the crossing by pedestrians of roadways between adjacent intersections at which traffic control signals are not in operation; and establishing a specified civil penalty for a violation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB1053 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the integrated community oncology reporting program; establishing the purpose of the program; requiring the program to be administered by the Maryland Health Care Commission; requiring the Commission to adopt regulations to implement the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30
Hearing 3/30 at 1:00 p.m. (Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs) |
| HB1451 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that, on a roadway that has three or more lanes for traffic moving in the same direction with a posted maximum speed limit of 55 miles per hour or more, the far left lane may be used only for the overtaking and passing of another vehicle in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB842 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a county or a municipal corporation to exempt from the admissions and amusement tax gross receipts from any charge for admission to participate in a State public school field trip or similar state public school activity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB1043 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a driver of a motor vehicle from smoking or consuming marijuana in the passenger area of a motor vehicle on a highway; and prohibiting an occupant of a motor vehicle from smoking marijuana in the passenger area of the motor vehicle on a h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB772 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Director of the Behavioral Health Administration to compensate employees of the Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center who are required to attend a correctional training school at a pay rate equivalent to similar employees in the Division o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB156 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that specified provisions of law govern the nomination and election of judges of the orphans' court in Baltimore County; authorizing a candidate for judge of the orphans' court in Baltimore County to file and appear on primary election ball...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB332 | Engross
Sine Die | Decreasing the lowest maximum speed limit that Montgomery County may establish for a highway outside an urban district under specified circumstances from 25 miles an hour to 20 miles an hour.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-30
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB676 | Engross
Sine Die | Making unenforceable a provision of declaration, a bylaw, a contract for the initial sale of a unit, or any other instrument made by a developer or vendor in accordance with specified provisions of law under specified circumstances; and applying the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-29
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB1156 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a homeowners association or condominium council of unit owners to file with the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation a request for notice of an initial registration in the Foreclosed Property Registry; requiring the Department t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-29
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB591 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study the Local Economic Impact of Bank Deserts in Maryland; requiring the Task Force to study and make recommendations regarding specified matters relating to the local economic impact of opening new credit unions or b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-29
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB295 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering a subtraction modification under the State income tax for specified military retirement income for individuals who are at least 65 years old from $10,000 to $15,000; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2016...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1209 | Engross
Sine Die | Expanding the services to be provided by specified sexual assault crisis programs; specifying criteria for receiving specified grant funding; requiring the Governor to include a minimum of $3,000,000 each fiscal year in the State budget; authorizing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-29
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB909 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission to monitor and assess the impact of potential and actual federal changes to specified health care programs and to provide recommendations for State and local action to protect ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-29
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB365 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Task force on the Forest Conservation Act Offset Policy; requiring the Task Force to review, study, and develop findings and recommendations regarding forest conservation in Maryland; authorizing the Task Force to consult with the Ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-29
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB318 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the eligibility criteria under the cybersecurity investment incentive tax credit to provide the credit to a specified qualified investor in a specified qualified Maryland cybersecurity company rather than providing the credit to the company;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-29
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB7 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of the Environment, on or before October 1, 2018, to adopt regulations to establish procedures for conducting environmental investigations to determine lead hazards for children under the age of 6 and pregnant women with elev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-29
Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m. |
| SB266 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of the Environment to use specified money from the Bay Restoration Fund to assist a person in paying the cost difference between a conventional on-site sewage disposal system and a system utilizing nitrogen removal technology...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-29
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB1022 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the State Board of Dental Examiners to issue a cease and desist order for specified violations; establishing penalties for a person who aids or abets a person who practices or attempts to practice dentistry without a license; altering spe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-29
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB220 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring Baltimore County to issue on request of a secured party a certificate of vacancy or a certificate of property unfit for human habitation for purposes of filing an order to docket or complaint to foreclose on residential property; and requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-29
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB762 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Human Resources, in consultation with the Comptroller, to implement and administer an earned income tax credit eligibility awareness pilot program in Baltimore City and Somerset County to encourage eligible individuals to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-29
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB131 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing a procedure for the election and appointment of members of the Anne Arundel County Board of Education; requiring specified members of the county board to be elected from councilmanic districts; providing a maximum of two consecutive 4-ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1065 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study Law Enforcement Surveillance Technologies for the purpose of reviewing the current and planned use of surveillance technology by law enforcement agencies in the State, including specified matters; requiring State ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-28
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB813 | Engross
Sine Die | Specifying that payments to low-income households by the Secretary of Housing and Community Development through the Rental Allowance Program be made for a minimum of 2 consecutive years, subject to redetermination that the household continues to meet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-28
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB476 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring that the Governor's proposed budget for specified fiscal years include specified rate increases for specified community providers over the funding provided in specified legislative appropriations; requiring the Behavioral Health Administrat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-28
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB1408 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the prohibition against keeping a dwelling, a building, a vehicle, a vessel, an aircraft, or any other place resorted to by individuals for the purpose of administering illegally controlled dangerous substances to remove the prohibition from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-28
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB181 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study Data Sharing Among the Maryland Judiciary, the Maryland Parole Commission, and the Department of Natural Resources; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-28
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB338 | Engross
Sine Die | Excluding the cash value of qualified retirement savings plans or individual retirement accounts from the definition of "assets" for purposes of specified renters' property tax relief; and applying the Act to all calendar years beginning after Decemb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-28
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB654 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study Crime Classification and Penalties; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to study and make recommendations on specified issues related to the classificatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1465 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Baltimore City Police Community Policing Steering Committee; providing for the composition, terms of office, quorum, chair, governance procedures, subcommittee structure, meetings, and duties of the Committee; requiring the Committee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-28
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB483 | Engross
Sine Die | Expanding a specified evidentiary rule to render admissible a specified statement made by a specified child victim to a specified adult describing a specified offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-28
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB1503 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a law enforcement agency to report at a specified interval to the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention on specified policies and procedures related to use of force de-escalation training for its law enforcement officers; requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-28
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB937 | Engross
Sine Die | Making it a civil rather than a criminal offense to consume an alcoholic beverage in public under specified circumstances or to possess an alcoholic beverage in an open container under specified circumstances; requiring offenders to be issued a citat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-27
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| SB280 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting the manufacturer of a nonwoven disposable product from, beginning January 1, 2018, advertising or labeling the nonwoven disposable product in a specified manner unless the nonwoven disposable product is flushable; and requiring the manufa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-27
Referred to interim study by Economic Matters |
| SB526 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City to grant, by law, a property tax credit against the property tax imposed on specified rental dwellings in Baltimore City; establishing that qualified landlords that provide specified rental dis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-27
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB506 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that specified noncompete and conflict of interest provisions that restrict the ability of an employee to enter into employment with a new employer or to become self-employed in the same or similar business or trade are null and void as bei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB1001 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that, for fiscal year 2017, county boards of education shall be relieved of a specified portion of a contribution for specified local employees of the Teachers' Retirement and Pension Systems; providing for a specified allocation of payment...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (136-2) |
| HB1172 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to develop and make available a standardized form for a BSL-3 laboratory for specified purposes; requiring the laboratories to report specified information to the Department on or before September...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
