| SB174 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the factors the Maryland Insurance Commissioner is required to consider in a certain manner in determining whether to disapprove or modify a premium rate filing; and applying the Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB50 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering a certain subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax to include certain retirement income attributable to a resident's employment with the District of Columbia as a law enforcement officer or member of a fire, rescue, or emergenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB193 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a requirement that the Comptroller set the annual interest rate on income tax refunds that result from the decision under Maryland State Comptroller of the Treasury v. Brian Wynne at a certain amount; requiring the Comptroller to pay additi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB174 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering a certain provision of law to authorize the governing body of a county to establish, by law, a system of public campaign financing for certain additional elective offices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB173 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Montgomery County Council to adopt, by law, a ranked choice voting method for elections for certain local offices; defining "ranked choice voting" as a method of casting and tabulating votes in which voters rank candidates in order of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB227 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring certain retail trade and food services corporations to compute Maryland taxable income using a certain method; requiring, subject to regulations, certain groups of retail trade and food services corporations to file a combined income tax re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB210 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the governing body of Prince George's County to set a special property tax rate that is 15% greater than the tax rate that is generally applicable to real property for a class of real property that consists of certain abandoned property for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB244 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a campaign finance entity from disseminating campaign material that includes the image of an individual through social media unless the campaign finance entity has obtained the written consent of the individual for the use of the individu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB323 | Intro
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] | 2018-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB252 | 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] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB176 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution to provide that a certain provision of the Constitution requiring uniformity of assessments and subclassification of real property for property tax purposes does not apply to country clubs or golf c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB260 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a political committee to file a contribution report within 48 hours after receiving a single contribution, transfer, or loan of $1,000 or more; requiring a political committee to file an expenditure report within 48 hours after making a sin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB196 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Secretary of State Police to issue a certain handgun qualification license to a person who has been issued a permit to carry, wear, or transport a handgun without an additional application or fee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB197 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering penalties for certain crimes relating to firearms; adding certain crimes relating to firearms to a certain definition of "crime of violence"; and adding certain crimes relating to firearms as predicate crimes under a certain prohibition agai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB199 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the amount of time a certain inmate who is sentenced to life imprisonment must serve before parole eligibility; eliminating parole eligibility for certain violent offenders under certain circumstances; restricting a court from ordering a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB189 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City to grant, by law, a certain property tax credit against the property tax imposed on certain dwellings in Baltimore City that are owned by certain low-income employees of Baltimore City; providi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB198 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that the juvenile court does not have jurisdiction over a certain child alleged to have committed a certain criminal gang offense under certain circumstances; altering penalties for certain criminal gang offenses; providing that certain sen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB125 | Intro
Sine Die | Adding certain crimes relating to firearms to a certain list of crimes for which certain evidence may be gathered by, and a judge may grant an order authorizing, interception of oral, wire, or electronic communications.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB126 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the State, in a criminal case involving the unlawful possession of a rifle, shotgun, or regulated firearm, to appeal from a decision of a trial court that excludes evidence offered by the State or requires the return of property alleged t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB129 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Baltimore County Board of Elections to establish at least one polling place at each public or private institution of higher education in the county that has residential student housing on its campus; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB75 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Cosmetologists to adopt regulations that establish certain curriculum standards for a certain domestic violence and sexual assault awareness course as part of a certain training program; requiring the Board to adopt regul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB16 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a nursing home constructed after October 1, 2018, from allowing more than two residents to occupy a multiple occupancy bedroom.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| HB142 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from causing the serious physical injury or death of a vulnerable road user as a result of the person operating a vehicle in a careless or distracted manner or in violation of certain provisions of the Maryland Vehicle Law; estab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary; Withdrawn |
| HB40 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to establish the Maryland Animal Abuse Registry; requiring the Registry to be updated in a certain manner and to include certain information; requiring a certain person convicted of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| SB188 | Intro
Sine Die | Amending the Maryland Consolidated Capital Bond Loan of 2017 to expand a statement of intent of the General Assembly to require that certain funds from the fiscal 2017 Statewide Contingency are to be used for heating and ventilation projects in Balti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-29
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB6 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring certain revenue, fees, and examination and investigation fees and assessments relating to the licensure of collection agencies, consumer lenders, installment lenders, sales finance companies, mortgage lenders, check cashing services, and cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-26
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB141 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a person to operate or give permission to operate a vessel for the purpose of towing a water skier in a ski slalom course located in a controlled water ski area during certain times on certain days and State holidays; prohibiting a person...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-25
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB14 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that a parking placard issued to a person with a disability include on its face a certain color photograph of the person to whom the parking placard is issued.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-25
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB31 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering certain 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 individ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-25
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB66 | Intro
Sine Die | Reducing from 9% to 6% the rate of the sales and use tax applied to certain sales of alcoholic beverages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-25
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB60 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that a child conceived by artificial insemination of a married woman with the consent of her spouse is the legitimate child of both spouses for all purposes; providing that the consent of the woman's spouse is presumed; establishing certain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-25
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| HB63 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the requirement that the names of certain candidates for election be listed in alphabetical order by surname; requiring a local board of elections to conduct a random drawing of the names of the candidates for election to determine the orde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-25
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB38 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering, for purposes of certain provisions of law concerning the homeowners' property tax credit, the definition of "total real property tax" by increasing, under certain circumstances, the maximum assessment against which the homeowners' property ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-25
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB20 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the calculation of the maximum assessment of a dwelling against which the homeowners' property tax credit may be granted.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-25
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB102 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a law enforcement officer from removing or participating in the removal of a passenger from an aircraft under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-25
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB123 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from possessing a regulated firearm, a rifle, or a shotgun if the person has been convicted of harassment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-25
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB130 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a method of electing judges to the circuit court on a nonpartisan basis, without regard to political party affiliation; establishing a primary election for candidates for nomination for a circuit court judgeship to be administered in a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-25
Hearing 1/25 at 1:00 p.m. |
| SB63 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the membership of the Correctional Officers' Retirement System to include certain individuals serving in certain positions in the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services; providing that certain members of the Correctional Offic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-25
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB119 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a local governing body to use certain local Program Open Space funds to acquire and develop land for education purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-25
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB74 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from transporting a certain bump stock into the State or manufacturing, possessing, using, selling, offering to sell, transferring, purchasing, or receiving a certain bump stock; applying certain penalties; and establishing a cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-25
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| SB124 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a certain insurance policy issued, sold, or delivered in the State to be construed to make the insurer directly liable, within the terms and limits of the policy, to certain third-party claimants; providing that a third-party claimant has a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-25
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB73 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, rather than authorizing, the Motor Vehicle Administration to adopt a system of multiyear vehicle registration; requiring that the system of multiyear vehicle registration adopted by the Administration include certain options for the durati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-25
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB50 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "total real property tax" for purposes of the computation of a certain homeowners' property tax credit; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-25
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB437 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring Baltimore City to use certain fines collected from violations enforced by certain traffic control signal monitoring systems or speed monitoring systems to make grants to certain low-performing schools and schools that have not met certain a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-25
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB409 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission to establish certain customer classes for certain service rates and charges; requiring that service rates for each customer class shall be chargeable against certain properties and shall be unif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB20 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a Maryland small or independent film entity to qualify as a film production entity under certain circumstances; altering a certain audit requirement to apply only to an entity with total direct costs that exceed $500,000; altering the amo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB75 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering a limitation on claiming the income tax credit for eligible long-term care insurance premiums for more than 1 year with respect to the same insured individual; altering the amount of the credit from a one-time $500 credit to a maximum of $25...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB34 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that a requirement that a majority of the governments of certain Eastern Shore counties affected by the construction of a toll road, toll highway, or toll bridge consent to the construction does not apply to the construction of a toll road,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SJ1 | Intro
Sine Die | Declaring that the exposure of minors to pornography and pornographic material is a public health hazard in the State that is leading to the degradation of the health and well-being of State residents; finding that the proliferation of pornography ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB195 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the State Department of Assessments and Taxation from imposing a fee for the filing of certain documents by corporations or business entities with 10 or fewer employees; requiring certain corporations to compute Maryland taxable income us...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
