| MD | HB212 | Pass | Prohibiting a consumer reporting agency from charging a consumer a fee for placing a security freeze if the consumer has not previously requested the placement of a security freeze from the consumer reporting agency; and altering the contents of a sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-27
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 827 |
| MD | HB504 | Pass | Prohibiting a specified marketer from knowingly selling or providing electric switches, electric relays, and gas valve switches that contain mercury to a consumer on or after October 1, 2018; establishing specified penalties for specified violations;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-27
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 809 |
| MD | HB617 | Pass | Clarifying that units of local government with planning and zoning authority may adopt specified forest conservation thresholds and afforestation and reforestation requirements as part of its local forest conservation program that are more stringent ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-27
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 795 |
| MD | HB602 | Pass | Authorizing, on or after January 1, 2018, the administration of specified antimicrobial drugs to cattle, swine, or poultry if, in the professional judgment of a licensed veterinarian, the administration is necessary for specified purposes; prohibitin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-27
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 787 |
| MD | HB631 | Pass | Prohibiting a manufacturer or wholesale distributor from engaging in price gouging in the sale of an essential off-patent or generic drug; establishing that it is not a violation of a specified provision of the Act for a wholesale distributor to incr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-27
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 818 |
| MD | HB860 | Pass | Repealing specified provisions of law subjecting individuals convicted of specified felonies involving a controlled dangerous substance who apply for temporary cash assistance or food stamps to specified testing and treatment requirements and sanctio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-27
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 793 |
| MD | HB1144 | Pass | Requiring the Central Payroll Bureau of the Office of the State Comptroller to establish regular pay periods and pay each employee at least once every 2 weeks or twice a month; requiring each appointing authority to calculate and report specified pay...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-27
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 783 |
| MD | HB1309 | Pass | Requiring the State, a county, a municipality, or any other local government to provide a specified written statement before issuing a specified permit for a special event.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-27
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 832 |
| MD | HB324 | Veto | Providing 7 days, not to exceed 56 hours, of personal leave to each employee in the State Personnel Management System, except a temporary employee, during each calendar year that is a leap year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-26
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | HB82 | Pass | Repealing provisions relating to the Woodrow Wilson Bridge and Tunnel Compact; repealing a requirement that the Governor execute the compact with the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia under specified circumstances; repealing the W...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 681 |
| MD | HB263 | Pass | Altering the definition of "owner" to repeal the exclusion of motor vehicle rental companies as owners of motor vehicles for the purpose of the enforcement of violations of overtaking and passing school vehicles operating alternately flashing red lig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 683 |
| MD | 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 |
| MD | 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 |
| MD | HB740 | 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 678 |
| MD | HB1335 | Pass | Providing for enforcement only as a secondary offense for a violation of the prohibition under specified circumstances against a person driving a vehicle on a highway with any object, material, or obstruction hanging from the rearview mirror that int...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 756 |
| MD | HJ9 | Enroll | 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 |
| MD | HB1 | Veto | Requiring employers with 15 or more employees to provide employees with earned sick and safe leave that is paid at the same wage rate as the employee normally earns; requiring employers with 14 or fewer employees to provide unpaid earned sick and saf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Vetoed by the Governor (Policy) |
| MD | HB171 | Pass | Requiring the Department of the Environment, in consultation with specified persons, to study, review, explore, identify, and make recommendations regarding specified matters that relate to the diversion of yard waste, food residuals, and other organ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 384 |
| MD | HB211 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to prepare a specified fishery management plan for the cownose ray species; requiring the Department to prepare a specified fishery management plan for the cownose ray species by December 31, 2018, subjec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 398 |
| MD | HB373 | Pass | Altering the definition of "qualified Maryland biotechnology company" to extend a specified period of time from a specified date that an active business may claim the biotechnology tax credit; altering the definition of "biotechnology company" to inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 475 |
| MD | HB626 | Pass | Requiring an animal shelter to follow a specified written protocol for reclaiming animals; requiring the Department of Agriculture, on or before January 1, 2018, to adopt specified minimum standards of care for dogs and cats in animal shelters; requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 409 |
| MD | HB773 | Pass | Requiring the Power Plant Research Program to conduct a study of regulatory reforms and market incentives that may be necessary or beneficial to increase the use of energy storage devices in the State; requiring the Program to consult with specified ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 382 |
| MD | HB880 | Pass | Requiring the State Open Meetings Law Compliance Board, in conjunction with the Office of the Attorney General, to develop and conduct educational programs and distribute educational materials on the requirements of the open meetings law to the staff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 525 |
| MD | HB285 | Pass | Requiring that specified members of the board of directors of the Washington Metrorail Safety Commission be appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate; requiring one regular member of the board of directors of the Commission ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 352 |
| MD | HB351 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Assessments and Taxation to amend a constant yield tax rate when a county or municipal corporation alters the homestead tax credit percentage; extending the deadline by which the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 239 |
| MD | HB1261 | Pass | Repealing specified criminal penalties for violations of the barbering law; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 198 |
| MD | HB286 | Engross | 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 |
| MD | HB359 | Engross | 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 |
| MD | HB381 | Engross | 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 |
| MD | HB428 | Engross | 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 |
| MD | HB490 | Engross | Allowing a credit against the State income tax for the total installed costs paid or incurred by a taxpayer that installs an energy storage system and who obtains a tax credit certificate from the Maryland Energy Administration; requiring the Adminis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB543 | Intro | Requiring the State Highway Administration to promptly undertake all steps necessary to complete the Watkins Mill Road Interchange Project; specifying the requirements for the Project; requiring the Governor to appropriate a specified amount of fundi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | HB542 | Intro | Authorizing the creation of a State Debt in the amount of $300,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States, Inc. for the acquisition, planning, design, constructio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations |
| MD | HB1029 | Intro | Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $200,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Noyes Children's Library Foundation, Inc. the acquisition, planning design, construction, repair, renovation, reconst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations |
| MD | HB1050 | Intro | Requiring specified Maryland Department of Transportation business entities to review and update the I-270/US 15 Multi-Modal Corridor Study and the West Side Mobility Study in order to ensure compliance with federal and State project development proc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | HB1003 | Intro | Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $100,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the MdBio Foundation, Inc. for the acquisition, planning, design, construction, repair, renovation, reconstruction, site ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations |
| MD | HB1443 | Engross | 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) |
| MD | HB1598 | Intro | Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $250,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of A Wider Circle, Inc. for the acquisition, planning, design, construction, repair, renovation, reconstruction, site improv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations |
| MD | HB1616 | Intro | Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $175,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the MHP Hipline, LP for the acquisition, planning, design, construction, repair, renovation, reconstruction, site improvement, and capital equippin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations |
| MD | HB1510 | Intro | Requiring a prospective bidder or offeror when submitting a bid or offer for a public work contract to submit to the public body a specified contractor safety and health plan and a specified attestation; requiring a contractor safety and health plan ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-08
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1511 | Intro | Authorizing specified employees to file an action if the employees are 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 cour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-07
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB924 | Pass | Prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from reducing or altering the boundaries of specified oyster sanctuaries until the Department develops a fisheries management plan for the scientific management of the oyster stock following completion ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(b) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 27 |
| MD | HB1083 | Pass | Establishing the Family Planning Program in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to ensure the continuity of family planning services in the State; requiring the Program to provide family planning services to specified individuals through spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(b) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 28 |
| MD | HB1251 | Intro | Requiring the State Highway Administration, in consultation with all interested parties, to adopt timely and comprehensive regulations establishing an accessible process for citizens to report to the Administration roadkill on State highways.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-06
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | HB1325 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from engaging in the hydraulic fracturing of a well for the exploration or production of oil or natural gas in the State; repealing a provision of law that requires the Department of the Environment to adopt specified regulations...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 13 |
| MD | HB909 | Engross | Establishing the Maryland Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission to monitor and assess the impact of potential and actual federal changes to specified health care programs and to provide recommendations for State and local action to protect ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-29
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1503 | Engross | Requiring a law enforcement agency to report at a specified interval to the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention on specified policies and procedures related to use of force de-escalation training for its law enforcement officers; requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-28
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB398 | Engross | Prohibiting employers that employ 15 or more employees from seeking salary history information for an employee by specified methods and screening an applicant for employment based on the applicant's salary history by taking specified actions; specify...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB506 | Engross | Providing that specified noncompete and conflict of interest provisions that restrict the ability of an employee to enter into employment with a new employer or to become self-employed in the same or similar business or trade are null and void as bei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB796 | Engross | 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] | 2017-03-22
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
