| HB122 | Pass | Extending the termination date to June 30, 2020, for specified provisions of the used vehicle inspection law applicable to the electronic submission of an inspection certificate. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 670 |
| SB664 | 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 690 |
| HB587 | Pass | Defining "veteran" and altering the definition of "veteran-owned small business enterprise" for the purpose of specified provisions of law relating to the structure of a unit's procurement procedures; and authorizing specified penalties to be applied... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 708 |
| HB22 | Pass | Requiring the Baltimore City Fire Department to report every 2 years to the members of the Baltimore City Delegation to the General Assembly on the condition of motorized fire equipment of the Department and the anticipated needs of the Department fo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 603 |
| HB185 | Pass | Prohibiting specified persons from distributing tobacco products, paraphernalia, or coupons to a minor; providing that a person who violates a specified provision of the Act is subject to civil penalties; providing that a conviction for a violation o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 773 |
| SB25 | Pass | Repealing the exclusion of taxicab service from the definition of "transit service"; and providing for the application of the Act. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 716 |
| SB979 | Pass | Prohibiting an individual from driving or attempting to drive an all-terrain vehicle or a snowmobile on portions of a highway in the State on which an all-terrain vehicle or a snowmobile is authorized unless the individual holds a driver's license or... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 694 |
| HB1021 | Pass | Reorganizing procurement by establishing a Chief Procurement Officer to control and oversee specified State procurement activity; providing for the appointment of the Chief Procurement Officer; renaming the Procurement Advisory Council as the Procure... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 590 |
| HB1071 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission to distribute the victim's representation notification form developed by the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention to each law enforcement agency in the State; requiring a sp... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 702 |
| HB983 | Pass | Requiring the health care services delivered through telehealth under health insurance to include counseling for substance use disorders; and applying the Act to all policies, contracts, and health benefit plans issued, delivered, or renewed in the S... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 765 |
| SB1169 | Pass | Authorizing the Secretary of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation to waive the charge of benefits against the earned rating record of an employing unit if the benefits are paid to a claimant during a specified period of unemployment because the employing... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 733 |
| SB257 | Pass | Increasing from $3,000,000 to $6,000,000 the maximum amount that may be transferred, in the State budget or through a specified budget amendment process, to the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority Financing Fund from funds that are distributed to Progr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 661 |
| SB1191 | Pass | Authorizing the Maryland Center for School Safety to make grants for specified security-related projects to schools and child care centers determined to be at risk of specified hate crimes or attacks; authorizing specified schools or child care cente... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 732 |
| HB584 | Pass | 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] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 771 |
| HB836 | Pass | Authorizing a person to file a petition for expungement based on a conviction of common law battery; and providing that a petition for expungement based on a conviction of common law battery may not be filed earlier than 15 years after the person sat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 703 |
| SB866 | Pass | Establishing an Adult High School Pilot Program to establish an alternative method for adults who did not graduate from high school to earn a diploma; providing that the Program is under the authority and supervision of the State Department of Educat... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 609 |
| SB273 | Pass | Prohibiting a county from receiving specified revenues derived from a State forest or State park reserve and concession operations within a county if the county receives specified State payments in a fiscal year; requiring specified payments to count... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 692 |
| SB465 | Pass | Renaming the Maryland Not-For-Profit Development Center Program and the Maryland Not-For-Profit Development Center Program Fund to be the Maryland Nonprofit Development Center Program and the Maryland Nonprofit Development Center Program Fund; establ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 629 |
| SB1009 | Pass | Requiring that the first $100 for one child and $200 for two or more children collected in child support in a month pass through to a family seeking assistance under the Family Investment Program; and prohibiting the consideration of that child suppo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 738 |
| HB952 | Pass | Authorizing waste or recycling collection vehicles to be equipped with or display yellow or amber lights or signal devices; etc. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 753 |
| HB1273 | Pass | Authorizing a pharmacist to substitute an interchangeable biological product for a prescribed product under specified circumstances; requiring a pharmacist or the pharmacist's designee, except under specified circumstances, to inform specified consum... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 726 |
| HB997 | Pass | Providing that, subject to specified provisions of law, a person has specified rights and is subject to specified restrictions applicable to pedestrians while the person is lawfully operating a bicycle, play vehicle, or unicycle on a sidewalk or side... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 754 |
| HB950 | Pass | Requiring the Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland, on a recommendation from the Chancellor, to establish general standards and guidelines for a collegiate recovery program to be implemented at the constituent institutions; requiring... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 582 |
| SB527 | Pass | Providing that specified fees and charges permitted to be imposed on a consumer borrower under an unsecured open end credit plan, when combined with any interest charged under the plan, may not exceed an effective rate of 33% per annum simple interes... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 723 |
| HB1468 | Pass | Altering the circumstances under which a health care provider may disclose a medical record developed primarily in connection with mental health services; authorizing a health care provider to disclose directory information about a patient to a speci... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 700 |
| HB1492 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Housing and Community Development to meet the funding obligations for sustainable communities and food deserts by using any specified financial assistance available to the Department; authorizing the Department to provid... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 636 |
| SB534 | Pass | Prohibiting an insurer, with respect to private passenger motor vehicle insurance, from increasing the premium for an insured who becomes a surviving spouse based solely on the insured's change in marital status. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 640 |
| HB521 | Pass | Requiring a specified sex offender registrant to notify each local law enforcement unit where the registrant resides or habitually lives at least 21 days, instead of 3 days, before the registrant leaves the United States to commence residence or empl... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 649 |
| HB562 | Pass | Establishing the Baltimore City Public School Board Community Panel to select nominees to be recommended to the Mayor as qualified candidates for appointment to the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners; repealing the role of the Governor in j... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 593 |
| HB659 | Pass | Establishing the Task Force to Study Tax Sales in Maryland to examine the tax sale system to maximize resources, facilitate properties getting to productive use, and protect residents; requiring the Task Force to evaluate the impact of tax sales, how... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 615 |
| SB898 | Pass | Requiring specified insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to allow and apply a prorated daily copayment or coinsurance amount for a partial supply of a prescription drug dispensed by an in-network pharmacy und... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 767 |
| HB52 | Pass | Requiring the Baltimore City School Police Force to report every 2 years to the members of the Baltimore City Delegation to the General Assembly on the condition of vehicles and firearms of the Baltimore City School Police Force and the anticipated n... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 604 |
| SB169 | Pass | Authorizing the Maryland Dental Action Coalition to conduct a study to determine the annual cost of emergency room visits to treat dental conditions of specified adults and whether it is advisable to expand benefits for dental services for specified ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 721 |
| SB539 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from knowingly distributing a specified mixture of controlled dangerous substances; establishing specified penalties for a violation of the Act; and requiring a sentence for the distribution of a mixture of specified controlled d... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 569 |
| HB1432 | Pass | Requiring health care providers to prescribe the lowest effective dose of an opioid and in a quantity no greater than the quantity needed for the expected duration of specified pain unless the opioid is prescribed to treat a specified disorder or spe... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 570 |
| HB498 | Pass | Prohibiting specified individuals from serving as a health care agent under specified circumstances; establishing a specified exception; prohibiting specified individuals from making decisions about health care for specified individuals under specifi... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 657 |
| HB1320 | Pass | Authorizing the county commissioners of a code county in the Southern Maryland class to adopt rules and regulations for the licensing, maintenance, and operation of towing companies in the county for specified purposes; authorizing the rules and regu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 735 |
| HJ9 | Enroll
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] | 2017-05-25 Signed by the President and the Speaker - Joint Resolution 5 |
| SB505 | Pass | Altering the statute of limitations on civil actions arising out of an alleged incident or incidents of sexual abuse that occurred while the victim was a minor; establishing a statute of repose for specified civil actions relating to child sexual abu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 656 |
| HB1526 | Pass | Expanding the types of crimes for which a victim may receive specified notification regarding a specified offender's mandatory supervision, parole, commutation of sentence, pardon, or remission of sentence; expanding the types of crimes for which a v... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 622 |
| HB492 | Pass | Requiring that an application for a certificate of title of a motor vehicle contain specified information on a beneficiary under specified circumstances; requiring that a certificate of title issued for a motor vehicle by the Motor Vehicle Administra... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 684 |
| HB869 | Pass | 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 oper... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 580 |
| SB975 | Pass | Establishing that, unless a deed expressly provides otherwise, the grant of an agricultural land preservation easement governing two or more separate parcels of land owned by the same grantor under separate deeds or two or more parcels separately ide... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 662 |
| HB518 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, in consultation with stakeholders, to adopt regulations establishing requirements for prenatal HIV testing; requiring providers of prenatal medical care to follow the Department's requirements fo... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 668 |
| SB559 | Pass | Authorizing the Baltimore County Board of License Commissioners to transfer, convert, and issue a specified license for an establishment that is at least 100 feet away from a place of worship under specified circumstances and subject to specified res... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 664 |
| 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 |
| HB1456 | Pass | Authorizing the driver of a vehicle to pass to the right of another vehicle making or about to make a left turn by driving outside the marked lane onto the shoulder, if the driver can do so without leaving the paved surface. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 759 |