| SB222 | Intro
Sine Die | Extending the statute of limitations applicable to specified civil actions relating to human trafficking; and providing that the Act may not be construed to apply retroactively to revive any action that was barred by the application of the period of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB615 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from knowingly entering onto the land or into the airspace above the land of another person without permission or otherwise committing a trespass in order to capture a visual image, sound recording, or other physical impression o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB704 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Public Charter School Authority as a public chartering authority under the Maryland Public Charter School Program; specifying that employees of a public charter school authorized by the Authority are not public school employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB127 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering, from one year to 18 months, the residency period in Baltimore City that the Mayor and the members of the City Council of Baltimore City must satisfy to qualify for election to office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB377 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a specified prohibition on filing a counterclaim or cross-claim in a wrongful detainer action; and authorizing a counterclaim or cross-claim to be filed in a wrongful detainer action.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB990 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting an individual from operating a school bus for a private, nongovernmental entity under a contract with a local school system to transport pupils unless the individual completes an annual medical physical examination and submits a copy of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB215 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing provisions of law that exclude from the jurisdiction of the juvenile court a child of a specified age alleged to have committed specified offenses; repealing provisions of law governing the transfer of specified criminal cases to the juveni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB642 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the circumstances under which a body of a decedent may be transported for preparation or storage to a facility that is not within the jurisdiction of the State, licensed by the State Board of Morticians and Funeral Directors, or permitted by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB725 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a court from issuing a body attachment for an individual for failure to appear in court in response to a specified show cause order unless the court makes specified findings; prohibiting money paid by an individual arrested on a body atta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB720 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing an exemption from the sales and use tax for the sale of an all-terrain or utility-terrain vehicle when purchased by a farmer and used exclusively for an agricultural purpose on the farmer's property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation; Withdrawn |
| SB865 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Highway Administration or a local authority to place traffic control signals at specified locations in specified school zones; and requiring that a traffic control signal placed on a highway under the Act may operate only during s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB659 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force on Practices and Procedures on Solitary Confinement; 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 r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB987 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that school vehicles used by a private, nongovernmental entity to transport specified pupils be equipped with seat belts; prohibiting a person from operating a school vehicle for a private, nongovernmental entity to transport pupils, as spe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB585 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the statute of limitations in specified civil actions relating to child sexual abuse; providing that, in a specified action, damages may be awarded against a person or governmental entity that is not an alleged perpetrator only under specifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-06
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB253 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the annual reporting requirement of the State Open Meetings Law Compliance Board; altering the scope of the training requirements under the Open Meetings Act; requiring a lobbyist who invites specified employees of the Executive Branch to a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB842 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a jury commissioner to provide prospective juror information concerning individuals who are not citizens of the United States to the State Board of Elections within 5 days after receiving the information; requiring the State Administrator o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB252 | Intro
Sine Die | Creating the General Assembly and Congressional Redistricting and Apportionment Commission; requiring the Commission to divide the State to create General Assembly legislative districts and congressional districts, as specified; providing for the mem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB373 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Comptroller to approve and remit to the Anne Arundel County Board of License Commissioners, instead of to Anne Arundel County, specified amounts necessary to pay specified salaries, benefits, and expenses of the Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB1003 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution to alter the year in which State officers are elected; providing for the implementation of the amendment; providing that specified provisions of the amendment do not apply to specified State officer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB1026 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "legislative action" in the Public Ethics Law to include specified testimony or advocacy; prohibiting an official or employee from using the prestige of office to influence the award of a State or local government contract ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB832 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a system of public financing of campaigns for specified General Assembly candidates; requiring the State Board of Elections to administer the system; requiring the Comptroller to credit to the Fair Campaign Financing Fund money collected...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB938 | Intro
Sine Die | Redesignating electronic voter registration agencies as automatic voter registration agencies; requiring automatic voter registration agencies to inform an applicant completing an applicable transaction that the applicant shall be registered to vote ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB683 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering provisions of the ethics law governing the period of time during which former members of the General Assembly are prohibited from representing or assisting specified parties for compensation in specified matters; prohibiting, except under sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB854 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a secretary of a principal department of the Executive Branch of State government from soliciting, accepting, transmitting, or depositing in a campaign account contributions or donations for the benefit of a candidate or political party; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB960 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a local board of canvassers to prepare a statement of election results by precinct that includes all votes cast by voters registered in each precinct who voted by absentee ballot and on an early voting day; and requiring the State Board of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-03
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB661 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that contractual employees in the State Personnel Management System who have been employed in a contractual position for a continuous period of 60 months be allowed to transfer to a budgeted position; and requiring specified independent per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-02
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB626 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing specified employees to file an action if the employee is paid less than the prevailing wage rate; providing that a determination by the Commissioner of Labor and Industry does not preclude employees from filing actions; requiring a court ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-02
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB999 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing provisions of law establishing the Natalie M. LaPrade Medical Cannabis Commission; establishing the Medical Cannabis Division in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; providing for the purpose of the Division; requiring the Division ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-02
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB627 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the employment categories of specified employees of the State Department of Education; requiring that all positions in the Department be appointed positions in the professional service and skilled service as well as the executive service and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-02
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB965 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing requirements for an authorized entity to obtain and store a supply of auto-injectable epinephrine; prohibiting an authorized entity from obtaining and storing auto-injectable epinephrine unless the authorized entity has at least two empl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-02
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB568 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Secretary of Budget and Management to ensure that the State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program complies with a provision of the Insurance Article that prohibits a copayment or coinsurance requirement for a covered ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-02
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| SB602 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering specified local employer contributions for members of the Teachers' Pension System; establishing a State Employees' and Teachers' Integrated Pension System and a State Employees' and Teachers' Integrated Pension System Savings Plan for indiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-02
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB716 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that the admissions and amusement tax may not be imposed by a county on gross receipts derived from any admissions and amusement charge for activities related to agricultural tourism or the promotion of valued-added agricultural products on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-02
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB928 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing specified civil and criminal prohibitions against the use and possession of marijuana; establishing exemptions from prosecution for specified persons for using, obtaining, purchasing, transporting, or possessing cannabis under specified cir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-02
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB445 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from smoking marijuana in a public place, in or on a public conveyance, or in any specified area otherwise accessible to the public; establishing a penalty of a fine not to exceed $500 for a violation of the Act; providing for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-02
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB889 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing specified provisions of law establishing the appointment procedures for a member of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission from Prince George's County; requiring the Prince George's County Council to appoint each commiss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-02
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB267 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the membership of the Natalie M. LaPrade Medical Cannabis Commission; providing that an appointment made to the Commission is subject to confirmation by the Senate of Maryland; requiring the membership of the Commission to reflect the racial...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-02
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB655 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Central Collection Unit and Child Support Enforcement Administration to certify to the State Racing Commission or a licensee of the Commission that a specified obligor is in arrears on specified payments; requiring the licensee to wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-02
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB974 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from driving or attempting to drive any vehicle while the person has a detectable level of a controlled dangerous substance or its metabolites in the person's blood, if the person is not entitled to use the controlled dangerous s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-02
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB1141 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "hunt" as it applies to the laws governing hunting and wildlife in the State to include the act of chasing or in any manner pursuing fox, whether armed or unarmed; repealing a provision of law excluding the sport of fox cha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-02
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB1038 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the number of medical cannabis grower licenses that may be authorized by the Natalie M. LaPrade Medical Cannabis Commission from 15 to 17; requiring the Commission to grant specified approval to specified applicants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-02
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB972 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a pilot program to examine the testing of oral fluid samples by specified police officers to assist in determining if an individual is operating a motor vehicle while impaired by a controlled dangerous substance; authorizing a police off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-02
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB619 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from knowingly distributing a specified mixture of controlled dangerous substances; establishing specified penalties for the violation of a specified law with a mixture of specified controlled dangerous substances; and requiring ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-02
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB800 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the number of medical cannabis growers that may be licensed by the Natalie M. LaPrade Medical Cannabis Commission; requiring the Commission to review specified applications and award Stage One pre-approval to at least one applicant located...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-02
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB845 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that specified membership in the Employees' Pension System shall terminate for specified individuals as of July 1, 2017; providing that specified individuals may receive a return of employee contributions under specified circumstances; clar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-02
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB692 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the requirement that a police officer must be in training for, have completed training for, or be participating in a specified program of training to request, require, or direct specified individuals to undergo specified drug or controlled ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-02
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB751 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting ordinary disability retirement benefits from the requirement to be offset by related workers' compensation benefits; repealing the requirement for the Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System to reduce accidental or spe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-02
Hearing 3/02 at 8:30 a.m. (Budget and Taxation) |
| SB891 | Intro
Sine Die | Amending the Maryland Constitution to establish that, subject to specified exceptions, an individual in the State who is at least 21 years old has the right under State law to use cannabis, possess up to 2 ounces of cannabis, and cultivate up to 6 ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-02
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB892 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a ticket issuer from using a nontransferable ticketing system under specified circumstances; prohibiting a purchaser or a seller of a ticket from being penalized, discriminated against, or denied access to an event under specified circums...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB880 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering a requirement for the construction of a specified provision of law relating to pretrial release of a specified defendant on personal recognizance and unsecured bond; requiring a judicial officer to impose a specified condition or combination...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-01
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
