| SB245 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifying that self-defense can qualify as a good and substantial reason to wear, carry, or transport a handgun for purposes of the issuance by the Secretary of State Police of a permit to carry, wear, or transport a handgun.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB963 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering a provision of law concerning the amount of a specified grant that the Department of Transportation is required to provide to the Washington Suburban Transit District for a share of the regional transit operating deficits of the regional tra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB826 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the suspension of a sentence for wearing, carrying, or transporting a handgun under specified circumstances for a person previously convicted of specified crimes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB948 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that a person who is not a specified licensee may not complete the transfer of a specified rifle or shotgun as transferor or transferee, except under specified circumstances; requiring, before a specified transfer is conducted, the transfer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB850 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Transportation and the Maryland Transit Administration to study the feasibility of using the navigable waters of Chesapeake Bay as a water transportation network to link waterfront communities along the Chesapeake Bay; req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB918 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring specified insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations that provide specified benefits under specified insurance policies or contracts to provide coverage for specified fertility preservation procedures; et...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB806 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Healthy Out of School Time Heroes Recognition Program; requiring the State Department of Education to administer the Program; requiring the Department to develop a specified recognition process; requiring the Department to use specif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB855 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "engage in the business of an out-of-state vendor", for purposes of establishing nexus under the sales and use tax law, to include vendors who sell or deliver, during the preceding four quarterly periods, tangible personal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB1096 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the formula used to apportion income to the State for corporations that carry on a trade or business in and out of the State; applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2016; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB926 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing specified individuals or business entities a credit against the State income tax for a specified percentage of the eligible cost of specified renewable energy property constructed or purchased and placed in service in the State; establishing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB927 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing an excise tax on specified sales of cannabis; providing for the distribution of cannabis excise tax revenues; establishing specified excise tax rates on the sale of cannabis; excluding specified sales of cannabis from the excise tax; req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
Hearing 3/08 at 1:00 p.m. (Budget and Taxation) |
| SB985 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the governing body of Baltimore County to grant a property tax credit against the county property tax imposed on a dwelling owned by a homeowner who is at least 65 years old under specified circumstances; providing for the calculation of, e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB665 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Attorney General to take specified actions regarding civil and criminal suits and actions that are based on the federal government's action or inaction that threatens the public interest and welfare of the residents of the State; requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB994 | Intro
Sine Die | Renaming the Maryland Stadium Authority to be the Maryland Construction Authority; authorizing governmental units to request specified assistance from the Authority regarding public school facility construction projects; establishing a design-constru...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB940 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the penalty for specified conduct relating to betting, wagering, or gambling; making specified conduct relating to betting, wagering, or gambling a civil offense; authorizing a police officer to issue a citation under specified circumstances...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
Hearing 3/08 at 1:00 p.m. (Budget and Taxation) |
| SB467 | Intro
Sine Die | Applying specified provisions disqualifying a person from possessing a rifle or shotgun to an antique firearm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB833 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that specified sales of tangible personal property be attributed to the State for apportionment purposes under the corporate income tax if the corporation is not taxable in the state of the purchaser; and applying the Act to taxable years a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB864 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the exclusive original jurisdiction of a circuit court for a county sitting as the juvenile court to include a child who is alleged to have overdosed on public school premises; requiring a school official to file with a juvenile court a peti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
Hearing 3/08 at 1:00 p.m. (Finance) |
| SB160 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifying that a permit to carry a handgun issued to an individual in Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, D.C., or West Virginia is valid in Maryland.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB511 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifying that personal protection or self-defense can qualify as a good and substantial reason to wear, carry, or transport a handgun for purposes of the issuance by the Secretary of State Police of a permit to carry, wear, or transport a handgun.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-08
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB723 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a Maryland small or independent film entity to qualify as a film production entity under specified circumstances; altering a specified audit requirement to apply only to an entity with total direct costs that exceed $500,000; altering the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB554 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that a specified person may not set or fish any gill net that has a mesh size exceeding 7 inches or a stretched mesh size exceeding 7.5 inches for gill nets used in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB796 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the County Economic Development Tax Incentives Program to encourage businesses to locate and expand in specified counties of the State; providing that after a business is designated as a qualified business, the business is eligible for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB712 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Blount-Rawlings-Britt HBI Comparability Program to provide supplemental funding assistance to the State's public 4-year historically black institutions (HBIs) to ensure that the HBIs are comparable and competitive with other State 4-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB896 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a requirement that specified local governing bodies use at least a specified amount of the local governing body's annual apportionment for acquisition projects under Program Open Space; authorizing a local governing body to use all of the l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SJ1 | Intro
Sine Die | Encouraging the Congress of the United States of America to designate the fourth Saturday in July of each year as the National Day of the Cowboy; encouraging the people of the United States of America to annually observe the fourth Saturday in July a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB1002 | Intro
Sine Die | Designating chromite as the State mineral.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB852 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifying that the Maryland Accessibility Code does not apply to a change of use that is not a specified change of occupancy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB62 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting specified documents from prohibiting a specified homeowner or tenant from installing or cultivating a backyard garden; establishing that a specified homeowner or tenant may not be prohibited from installing or cultivating a backyard garde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| SB92 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Governor to annually proclaim May 1 as Brain Cancer Awareness Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB769 | Intro
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] | 2017-03-07
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB586 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Office of Legislative Audits to perform an audit of local governments that receive a distribution of highway user revenues; increasing, over 7 fiscal years, the portion of highway user revenues that is distributed to local governments...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB603 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim March as Maryland Sportsmanship Month; requiring the proclamation to urge local recreation and parks departments in the State to observe Maryland Sportsmanship Month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB1056 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing provisions of law governing the rental of personal motor vehicles to other persons in a specified manner; establishing that specified persons may rent only specified classes of personal motor vehicles to other persons; prohibiting a rent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m. |
| SB1052 | Intro
Sine Die | Designating the canvasback duck as the State waterfowl.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB784 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Governor to appropriate any funding in the State budget for an eligible youth services bureau in the Department of Juvenile Services budget.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB748 | Intro
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] | 2017-03-07
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB747 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a notary public to perform notarial acts electronically; requiring a specified notary public to register with the Secretary of State before performing specified electronic notarizations; requiring the Secretary to develop a specified regi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB405 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the creation of or unauthorized introduction into a computer, computer system, or computer network of unauthorized software designed to restrict access or use by an authorized user for the purpose of extorting money, property, or anything...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB529 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a council of unit owners to enact specified bylaws prohibiting or restricting the use of common elements by a unit owner who is delinquent in payment of assessments under specified circumstances; providing specified requirements for bylaw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB788 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Natalie M. LaPrade Medical Cannabis Commission, on or before December 31, 2017, to license 25 medical cannabis growers; requiring the Commission to actively seek to achieve geographic diversity when licensing medical cannabis growers, w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB523 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "ignition interlock system" to require that an ignition interlock device be equipped with a camera capable of recording the image of the driver of the motor vehicle in which the device is installed; making conforming change...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB607 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the conditions under which an individual who works in a specified administrative, executive, or professional capacity qualifies for an exemption from overtime pay; requiring that individuals be compensated on a salary basis at a specified ra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB721 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a conservation organization to hold a specified event on the campus of a public institution of higher education notwithstanding a provision of law, regulation, or policy that prohibits the carrying or possession of a firearm on the campus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB561 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that a person is not eligible for an award from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board if, within 10 years before requesting an award, the person has been convicted of a specified crime of violence, burglary, or an attempt to commit burgl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB643 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the executive director of the State Board of Morticians and Funeral Directors to manage the staff of the Board and perform administrative functions to carry out the powers and duties of the Board; and prohibiting the executive director from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB731 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force on Organized Retail Crime Rings; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving specified compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement of spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB825 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring specified nonpublic schools, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to develop and implement a program for students with special needs on or before July 1, 2018; and requiring the State Board of Education to adopt specified...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB588 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing, from $300 to $500, the filing fee that must accompany an order to docket or a complaint to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on residential property and that is distributed to the Housing Counseling and Foreclosure Mediation Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB1180 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the process by which a person who is denied a specified handgun permit or renewal of a permit or whose permit is revoked or limited by the Secretary of State Police or the Secretary's designee may appeal the decision; repealing provisions of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
To Senate Rules Committee |
