| HB1174 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for the first $50,000 in proceeds from the sale of a perpetual conservation easement on real property in the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB604 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a vision screening provided to specified students in public schools to include the administration of a computerized screening for visual impairments that includes, at a minimum, specified tests; requiring each county board on or before July...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (139-0) |
| SB995 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Prince George's County Board of License Commissioners to issue a Class BLX (on-premises) beer, wine, and liquor license for use in a movie theater with average daily receipts from the sale of food, excluding candy and popcorn, that ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| HB1652 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing an applicant, in order to qualify as a certified supervised counselor-alcohol and drug, to complete supervised work experience as specified in regulation in lieu of satisfying a specified internship requirement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Second Reading Passed |
| HB367 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Legislative Services, in the year immediately after the decennial United States Census, to obtain adjusted State census data and provide it, within 30 days of receipt, to the temporary redistricting commission established ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Second Reading Passed |
| SB861 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing the age that an individual under the age of majority must attain before the individual may marry under specified circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Delegates Sydnor, Gibson, and Kittleman |
| HB258 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the owner of an adult entertainment establishment to post the National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline information sign in each restroom of the adult entertainment establishment in a specified manner; requiring a specified agency ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Third Reading Passed (130-0) |
| HB240 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing, from $4,500,000 in calendar year 2016 to $5,500,000 in calendar year 2017 and each calendar year thereafter, the maximum total amount of research and development tax credits that the Department of Commerce may approve in the specified cal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SB434 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing additional funds to St. Mary's College of Maryland if specified funding is provided for specified wage increases for specified State employees in specified fiscal years; providing additional funds to the College to pay for the increase in S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| SB540 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Legislative Services to examine potential retirement plan options that may be offered to employees as an alternative to specified defined benefit pension plans; requiring the study to include specified elements; requiring ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations |
| HB359 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "mental injury" for the purpose of specified child abuse and neglect statutes to include the observable, identifiable, and substantial impairment of a child's mental or psychological ability to function that results from th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB799 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing provisions authorizing individuals under the age of majority to marry under specified circumstances; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Delegates Sydnor, Gibson, and Kittleman |
| SB727 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a State's Attorney to notify the court, before a defendant is sentenced, that a conviction prohibits a person from possessing a specified firearm under specified provisions of law; requiring a court to inform a person convicted of a specifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1291 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing from $1,500,000 to $2,000,000 the amount that the State Comptroller is required to distribute of specified abandoned property funds each year to the Maryland Legal Services Corporation Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB414 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Public Service Commission, when determining specified expenses while setting a just and reasonable rate for a gas company, to include all costs reasonably incurred by the gas company for performing environmental remediation of real pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1308 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a person to which a specified certificate of public convenience and necessity is issued for the construction of a specified overhead transmission line to acquire specified property or rights by condemnation; and applying the Act to the co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1113 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the State Board of Community Health Workers; specifying the purpose and composition of the Board; specifying the terms of a Board member; requiring the Governor to appoint a new member, within a specified time period, if a vacancy on the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Recommitted to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs (Senator Conway) |
| HB648 | Engross
Sine Die | Making specified modifications to the State income tax credit for the expense of registering specified qualified vehicles in the State; requiring a taxpayer to obtain a tax credit certificate from the Motor Vehicle Administration to receive the credi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB394 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the More Jobs for Marylanders Program within the Department of Commerce to provide specified manufacturing business entities tax credits and benefits for up to 10 consecutive benefit years; establishing the Workforce Development Sequence...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB356 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Workgroup to Study the Optional Retirement Program; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Workgroup; prohibiting a member of the Workgroup from receiving specified compensation; requiring the Workgroup to study an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations |
| HB428 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a court, under specified circumstances, to terminate the parental rights of an individual convicted of or found to have committed an act of nonconsensual sexual conduct against the other parent that resulted in the conception of a child; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Senators Smith, Zirkin, and Hough |
| HB1443 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Natalie M. LaPrade Medical Cannabis Commission to conduct wide-ranging specified outreach to small, minority, and women business owners and entrepreneurs that may have an interest in applying for specified medical cannabis-related licen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Motion vote previous question (Delegate B. Barnes) Adopted (84-51) |
| SB379 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a hospital that downsizes to pay a fee directly to the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation if workers are displaced; requiring the Health Services Cost Review Commission to prorate the total amount of specified fees among all hos...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Third Reading Passed (40-7) |
| HB1369 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the governing body of a condominium or, under specified circumstances, the developer to provide written notice no less than 30 days before the sale of any common element under specified circumstances; requiring the governing body of a homeo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB1487 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring an action for repossession for failure to pay rent to contain a statement on whether the property is an affected property under specified lead-based paint abatement laws; requiring a court to dismiss an action for repossession for failure t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB183 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing an Executive Branch agency to ban or regulate the sale of coffee in conjunction with a career exploration and development activity in a public high school in Baltimore County; providing a specified exception; and repealing a specified ter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (45-1) |
| SB1031 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Central Payroll Bureau of the Office of the State Comptroller to establish specified pay periods and pay each employee all wages due at least once every 2 weeks or twice a month; requiring each appointing authority to calculate and repo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Third Reading Passed (33-14) |
| SB628 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a person to hunt turkey on private property in Kent County on Sundays during the spring turkey hunting season.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB379 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a person to file a petition for expungement at a specified time if the person was convicted of possession of marijuana.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (45-2) |
| SB629 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing that the authority of the Department of Natural Resources to allow deer hunting on specified Sundays does not apply in Kent County; and authorizing the Department to allow a person to hunt deer on private property on Sundays in Kent Coun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1431 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the representatives of full-time deputy sheriffs at the rank of captain and below and full-time correctional officers at the rank of captain and below in the Office of the Sheriff of Harford County to bargain collectively with the Harford...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (36-0) |
| HB1155 | Engross
Sine Die | Allowing a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for income from the discharge of indebtedness related to specified costs incurred with respect to a principal residence; providing that the subtraction may not exceed $100,000 for an i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB1196 | Engross
Sine Die | Exempting from the State procurement law the purchase or lease of property for a specified purpose by specified persons if the Tri-County Council for Southern Maryland makes a specified determination; and providing that existing obligations or contra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB981 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2017-04-10
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB1015 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the penalty for specified violations of the prohibition against an adult knowingly and willfully allowing an individual under the age of 21 years to possess or consume an alcoholic beverage at a specified residence or within the curtilage of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Delegates Queen, Conaway, and McComas |
| SB934 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2017-04-10
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB286 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring county boards of education, beginning in the 2019-2020 school year, to report information on the provision of specialized intervention services to the State Department of Education and the General Assembly by July 30 each year; requiring th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB381 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a train or light engine used in connection with the movement of freight from being operated in the State unless it has at least two crew members; establishing penalties for specified violations; prohibiting a county or municipal corporati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Second Reading Passed |
| SB312 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that a person who causes personal injury or wrongful death while operating or attempting to operate a motor vehicle and who has a specified alcohol concentration in the person's blood or breath or who refuses to submit to a specified test f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Delegates Sydnor, Dumais, and Malone |
| HB1208 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing, for purposes of filing a petition for U Nonimmigrant Status, a victim or victim's family member to request a certifying official to certify victim helpfulness on a Form I-918, Supplement B certification; providing that, for the purpose o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Recommitted to Judicial Proceedings (Senator Ramirez) |
| SB574 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a court, under specified circumstances, to terminate the parental rights of an individual convicted of or found to have committed an act of nonconsensual sexual conduct against the other parent that resulted in the conception of a child; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Delegates Moon, Vallario, and B. Wilson |
| HB1036 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a person to apply for preliminary approval of a handgun permit without completing a certified firearms training course; requiring the Secretary to investigate an application for a handgun permit; requiring the Secretary to issue prelimina...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) |
| SB274 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing a specified exception to a provision providing that an order or a decision in a domestic violence proceeding is inadmissible as evidence in a divorce proceeding; and establishing a specified exception to a provision prohibiting a court f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (140-0) |
| HB954 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation to establish procedures that require a foreclosure purchaser to send to the Department any updates to the information about or relating to the foreclosure purchaser that was submitted in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0) |
| HB1494 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring an agreement to accept payment for the premium charged for a bail bond in installments to be in a form approved by the Maryland Insurance Commissioner; prohibiting the agreement from including a confessed judgment clause that waives a consu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HB159 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering a specified exception relating to law enforcement officers to the prohibition on carrying specified weapons on public school property; prohibiting the carrying or possession of specified firearms on the property of public institutions of hig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Senators Smith, Brochin, and Norman |
| HB970 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring, for a development with 11 or more homes to be built by the same builder, a home builder to provide a purchaser with written information on energy-efficient options available for installation in a new home; and requiring a contract for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HJ10 | Engross
Sine Die | Expressing the opposition of the General Assembly to the drastic cuts to the funding of the Chesapeake Bay Program and specified other programs proposed by the President of the United States in the federal budget blueprint for fiscal year 2018; urgin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| HB1256 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Juvenile Services to provide a progress report on the status of the implementation of specified recommendations of the Task Force to Study the Restraint, Searches, and Needs of Children in the Juvenile Justice System; requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Third Reading Passed (98-21) |
| SB144 | Engross
Sine Die | Making specified provisions of law authorizing the prelitigation discovery of specified insurance coverage information relating to claims involving vehicle accidents applicable to claims involving any tort involving death or bodily injury; providing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
