| HB1422 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing an income tax checkoff for voluntary contributions to the Maryland Veterans Trust Fund; requiring the Comptroller to include a checkoff on the individual income tax return; requiring the Comptroller to collect and account for contributio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB601 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "eligible individual" by requiring that an elderly individual must live in the same county, rather than the same dwelling, for at least 25 years to be eligible for a specified statewide optional property tax credit against ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB767 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a custodian of records to deny inspection of the part of a recording from a specified body-worn digital recording device worn by a law enforcement officer regarding specified individuals; requiring specified notification of specified indivi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB95 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempting specified feminine hygiene products from the sales and use tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB96 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring specified insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for instruction by a licensed health care provider on fertility awareness-based methods; prohibiting the insurers, nonprofit health...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB1046 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering specified timing requirements for filing an action to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on residential property; authorizing the Office of Administrative Hearings to hold a prehearing conference before a prefile mediation session and bef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB240 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to report on the status of the implementation of specified recommendations of the Abuser Registry Workgroup; and requiring the Department to submit a report on the implementation of the recommenda...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB760 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering specified procedures for suspending or dismissing specified public school personnel; authorizing specified public school personnel to request arbitration under specified circumstances; specifying the procedures for arbitration; assigning res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-23
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB908 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing a Police Officer Certification Work Group to study the feasibility of altering the eligibility requirements for certification of individuals by the Police Training and Standards Commission as police officers to include individuals with p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB522 | Engross
Sine Die | Allowing specified eligible employers a credit against the State income tax for employing specified interns, which may not exceed $1,000 for each eligible intern or 10% of the wages paid to each eligible intern, subject to specified limitations; requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB254 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for the first $250,000 in proceeds from the sale of a perpetual conservation easement on real property in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB641 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing from $250,000 to $500,000 the aggregate amount of State income tax credits the Department of Housing and Community Development is authorized to issue in a taxable year for donations to specified qualified permanent endowment funds at speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB971 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the requirements for a specified nondiscrimination clause that prohibits specified discrimination by a contractor against an employee or applicant for employment; requiring the Maryland Commission on civil rights, in conjunction with the Dep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB181 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission to include guidelines for the use of electronic control devices in a specified set of best practices and standards for use of force.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB32 | Engross
Sine Die | Eliminating a requirement that prohibits a person who keeps a specified free-play pinball machine from allowing a minor to operate the machine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB374 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering a provision of law to authorize, rather than require, a court to hold a hearing on a petition for expungement if the State's Attorney files a timely objection to the petition; authorizing a court to deny a petition for expungement without a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB796 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempting from the sales and use tax a sale by a chartered organization of the Boy Scouts of America or a scout unit chartered by a local council of the Boy Scouts of America in the State, or by a troop of the Girl Scouts of the USA.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB439 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Secretary of Information Technology to appoint a specified access technology officer; requiring the access technology officer to develop a provision for inclusion in all State procurement contracts requiring a specified determination wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB213 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission to develop and maintain a uniform, statewide training and certification curriculum to ensure use of best practices in sexual assault investigations; requiring the Commission to determine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB159 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing an exemption from the sales and use tax for materials, parts, or equipment used to repair, maintain, or upgrade aircraft or the avionics systems of aircraft if the materials, parts, or equipment are installed on the aircraft; and requiring ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-22
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB730 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Loan Assistance Repayment Program for Farmers; requiring the Office of Student Financial Assistance in the Maryland Higher Education Commission to assist in the repayment of a higher education loan obtained for tuition, educ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB360 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing the requirement that the State Board of Education adopt and publish standards for the administration of a subsidized feeding program; requiring the State to be responsible for the student share of the costs of specified meals; prohibiting a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1362 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that an official of State government or a local government is immune from criminal and civil liability for refusing to provide information to the federal government or another state that will be used for specified purposes; stating it is th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB651 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the governing body of specified condominiums to have a reserve study conducted of the common elements of the condominium by a specified date and at specified intervals; requiring the reserve study to meet specified criteria; altering the co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB93 | Engross
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB366 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring, under specified circumstances, a licensed veterinarian who vaccinates a dog, cat, or ferret against rabies to send to a specified local agency specified rabies vaccination information; requiring the licensed veterinarian to send the inform...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB41 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a cooperative housing corporation, a condominium, and a homeowners association to register annually with the State Department of Assessments and Taxation; exempting specified common ownership communities from the applicability of the Act; e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB60 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Commission on the Disposition of the Crownsville Hospital Center Property as an independent unit in the Executive Branch; placing the Commission under the Department of General Services for administrative and budgetary purposes; auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB172 | Engross
Sine Die | Stating that the Act seeks to deconcentrate poverty by providing opportunities for tenants utilizing public subsidies to live in neighborhoods other than the neighborhoods in which they are currently and disproportionately residing; expanding the hou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB327 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the landlord of any leased residential dwelling unit to provide specified notice about routine maintenance to the dwelling unit at least 24 hours in advance of the routine maintenance; requiring that the notice provide the anticipated date ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB1327 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing a Task Force on Local Alcoholic Beverages Regulation to study specified matters relating to local alcoholic beverages regulation; providing for the purposes of the Task Force and the study; providing for the composition, chair, and staff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB153 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a county board of education to adjust the length of the school year for up to 5 school days without applying for a specified waiver if normal school attendance is prevented because of conditions that require the Governor to declare a stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-21
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB656 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing a specified exception to an exemption from specified taxes, user charges, and utility fees relating to stormwater for property owned by a county; exempting a public college or university or a local school system from being charged a stormwa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1393 | Engross
Sine Die | Defining the term "conviction" as it relates to the standard required to file a petition for writ of actual innocence by a person convicted at trial; establishing a standard required to file a petition for writ of actual innocence by a person convict...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB578 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing that a pedestrian hybrid beacon is a traffic control signal; establishing that specified provisions of law do not apply to pedestrian hybrid beacons; authorizing the State Highway Administration or a local jurisdiction to install a pedes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB1411 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifying the group of persons who may file a specified petition for postconviction DNA testing or a database or log search; requiring a court to order a new trial under specified circumstances for specified classes of persons filing for postconvict...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB1525 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering a definition of "disseminate" to exclude providing information to victims of crime or their representatives; altering the purposes of specified provisions of law relating to the Criminal Justice Information System; and requiring the Departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-20
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB230 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring employers that employ 15 or more employees to provide employees with earned sick and safe leave that is paid at the same wage rate as the employee normally earns; requiring employers with 14 or fewer employees to provide unpaid earned sick ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB169 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Elections to make an audio recording of each of its open meetings and, within a specified amount of time after an open meeting, make available to the public on the State Board's Web site the audio recording and specified ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB260 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a county or municipality to conduct a third-party audit of specified sexual assault cases; requiring a county or municipality to arrange a third-party audit of sexual assault cases under specified circumstances, subject to specified guide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB585 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from causing a life-threatening injury to another as a result of the person's driving, operating, or controlling a motor vehicle or vessel in a criminally negligent manner; exempting specified conduct that results in a life-threa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB92 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2017-03-16
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0) |
| HB210 | Engross
Sine Die | Expanding the membership of the Board of License Commissioners for Anne Arundel County to five members; requiring that each member of the Board represent a different legislative district in the county; requiring that the Governor appoint members who ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-16
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB994 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifying the time period within which a civil action on a residential lease that has been signed under seal must be filed; and declaring that it is the intent of the General Assembly to clarify that an action for rent arrears under any kind of resi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB1425 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing a special event permit in Washington County; authorizing a holder of a Class 3 winery license or a Class 4 limited winery license in the county to sell beer, wine that is produced by the holder, and liquor for on-premises consumption at ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-15
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB256 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing from 30 days to 60 days the period of time during which a local department of social services, or in Montgomery County the county department of health and human services, must complete an investigation after receiving a report of suspected...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB723 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing specified provisions that provide that inmates serving a term of life imprisonment may be paroled only with the Governor's approval, subject to specified provisions, requiring specified parole decisions to be transmitted to the Governor und...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB903 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a court to award to a prevailing plaintiff reasonable attorney's fees and expenses in specified actions seeking to remedy a violation of a Maryland constitutional right; authorizing a court to award reasonable attorney's fees and expenses...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-13
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB408 | Engross
Sine Die | Modifying the circumstances under which a police officer is required to charge by citation; modifying the categories of offenses for which a police officer is authorized to charge by citation; and modifying the circumstances under which a police offi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB9 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Police Commissioner of Baltimore City, following each decennial census of the United States, to prepare a plan for the adjustment of the geographic boundaries and composition of each Baltimore City police district and the reallocation o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-10
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
