| MD | SB234 | Pass | Requiring a person that is subject to the Forest Conservation Act to demonstrate that appropriate credits generated by a forest mitigation bank in the same county or watershed are not available before the person may pay money to a State or local fore...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 602 |
| MD | SB946 | Pass | Authorizing retirees who participate in a certain prescription drug benefit plan to elect to have a spouse or dependent child covered under a certain State plan; requiring the Department of Budget and Management, on or before January 1, 2020, to esta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 767 |
| MD | SB448 | Pass | Establishing a network of oyster sanctuaries in the five tributaries identified by the Department of Natural Resources for large-scale restoration pursuant to the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement; codifying the boundaries of certain oyster san...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 754 |
| MD | SB400 | Veto | Requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to determine whether a reportable incident constitutes private inurement if a private nonprofit institution of higher education engages in a reportable incident; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-24
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | SB541 | Veto | Requiring county boards of education, nonpublic schools, and certain contracting agencies to require an applicant for a position involving direct contact with minors to submit certain information; requiring the county board, nonpublic school, or cont...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-24
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | SB447 | Veto | Repealing certain provisions of law requiring a therapeutically certified optometrist to refer a certain patient to an ophthalmologist under certain circumstances; altering the types of therapeutic pharmaceutical agents a therapeutically certified op...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-24
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | SB105 | Pass | Altering the definition of "nonprofit training entity" for the purposes of the Maryland Veterans Service Animal Program to include an entity that uses trained therapy horses for interaction with veterans; altering the definition of "eligible veteran"...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 465 |
| MD | SB124 | Pass | Altering the name of the Courthouse Dog and Child Witness Pilot Program in the circuit courts for Anne Arundel County and Harford County to be the Court Dog and Child Witness Pilot Program; extending to September 30, 2021, the date by which the Admin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 466 |
| MD | SB127 | Pass | Repealing a provision of law requiring a county superintendent of schools to allow a child awaiting foster care placement not subject to certain educational stability provisions of the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to attend school i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 467 |
| MD | SB164 | Pass | Increasing the caps on the percentages of certain costs for the construction, acquisition, renovation, and equipping of community mental health facilities, addiction facilities, and developmental disabilities facilities for which State grants can be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 386 |
| MD | SB364 | Pass | Establishing the Election Day Page Program to stimulate student interest in elections, provide assistance to election judges, and assist elderly and disabled voters at polling places; requiring the State Board of Elections to develop a page training ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 468 |
| MD | SB95 | Pass | Changing the name of the Recreational License Donation Fund to the Healing Hunting and Fishing Fund; extending the termination date for certain provisions of law establishing the recreational license donation program; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 261 |
| MD | SB425 | Pass | Establishing the Critical Medical Needs Program in the Office of Home Energy Programs of the Family Investment Administration within the Department of Human Services in recognition of the challenges with energy bills faced by individuals with critica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 283 |
| MD | SB879 | Pass | Requiring public schools to devote a part of at least one day to appropriate exercises that relate to Black History Month, with an emphasis on Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass and the contributions they made in the fight against slavery; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 313 |
| MD | SB852 | Pass | Altering the definition of "military spouse" to include the surviving spouse of a service member who dies at any time before an application for a license; altering the definition of "veteran" to include former service members who have been discharged...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 312 |
| MD | SB133 | Pass | Repealing the termination date for certain provisions of law applicable to the registration and authorized use of farm area motor vehicles, including a provision increasing from 10 miles to 25 miles the radius from a farm within which a person may op...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 173 |
| MD | SB521 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to develop a certain action plan to increase access to and the availability of professional veteran health services to prevent veteran suicides; requiring the plan to address certain matters; requiring the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 35 |
| MD | SB139 | Pass | Altering a certain prohibition relating to threatening to commit a certain crime of violence in order to prohibit a person from knowingly threatening to commit or threatening to cause to be committed a certain crime of violence that would place five ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 31 |
| MD | SB165 | Engross | Establishing the Safe Schools Maryland Program in the Maryland Center for School Safety to establish procedures for anonymous reporting of behaviors, involving one or more students, that are of concern, dangerous, violent, or unlawful, or the threat ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-08
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (106-29) |
| MD | SB176 | Engross | Requiring the State Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy to report certain information for the preceding calendar year for cases involving a crime of violence disaggregated by judicial circuit to the Governor, the House Judiciary Committee and th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB248 | Engross | Prohibiting a person from engaging in certain conduct that results in a life-threatening injury to another; exempting certain conduct that results in a life-threatening injury to another; establishing penalties for a violation of the Act of imprisonm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-28
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB160 | Engross | Adding bladder cancer and kidney or renal cell cancer to the types of cancer that are considered occupational diseases suffered in the line of duty and are compensable in a certain manner.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-25
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB173 | Engross | Requiring the Department of Budget and Management to provide training to certain Executive Branch agencies on the preparation of certain economic impact analyses; requiring a promulgating unit to establish an electronic registry that allows any small...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB89 | Engross | Altering the definition of "qualified employee" to include certain individuals who are provided certain paid parental leave for purposes of a credit against the State income tax for certain small businesses that provide certain employer benefits to c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB865 | Intro | Designating certain individuals as Maryland Military Veterans; establishing that a Maryland Military Veteran is not entitled to certain benefits, rights, or privileges applicable to certain veterans; establishing that a Maryland Military Veteran desi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| MD | SB981 | Intro | Providing that the prohibition against operating or riding on a motorcycle without certain protective headgear does not apply to an individual at least 21 years old who has been licensed to operate a motorcycle for at least 2 years, has completed a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB169 | Intro | Altering the recruitment and appointment process for certain positions in the skilled service or professional service in the State Personnel Management System under certain circumstances; requiring an appointing authority initiating a certain recruit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-15
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| MD | SB115 | Intro | Clarifying that personal protection or self-defense can qualify as a good and substantial reason to carry, wear, 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] | 2019-03-13
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| MD | SB114 | Engross | Authorizing a person to apply for preliminary approval of a handgun permit to wear, carry, or transport a handgun without completing a certified firearms training course; requiring the Secretary of State Police to investigate an application for a han...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB287 | Engross | Exempting a certain applicant for a handgun qualification license from a certain training requirement if the applicant is a certain retired law enforcement officer or a certain active or retired correctional officer, sheriff, or deputy sheriff under ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB162 | Engross | Classifying a certain offense of human trafficking as a crime of violence under certain provisions of law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB163 | Engross | Prohibiting an individual from committing a certain drunk or drugged driving offense if the individual has been convicted previously for certain other crimes under certain circumstances; making a violation of the Act a felony; establishing a penalty ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB397 | Intro | Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim June 28 as Freedom of the Press Day to commemorate the protected right of free press as identified in the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-11
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| MD | SB429 | Intro | Prohibiting a procurement contract for architectural or engineering services from containing a certain indemnity clause unless a negligent performance standard is used for apportioning liability; and defining "negligent performance".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-11
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| MD | SB556 | Intro | Requiring each manager and supervisor in the Legislative and Executive branches of State government to immediately report to the appointing authority or head of the principal unit certain incidents of workplace bullying; providing that it is the inte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-11
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| MD | SB874 | Intro | Establishing that certain inmates sentenced to life imprisonment for a crime committed on or after October 1, 2019, are not eligible for parole consideration until having served 25 years without application of diminution of confinement credits; requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB170 | Intro | Including income from certain retirement plans within a certain subtraction modification allowed under the Maryland income tax for certain individuals who are at least certain ages, are disabled or whose spouse is disabled, or are retired correctiona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation |
| MD | SB875 | Intro | Phasing out, over 2 taxable years, a certain limitation on the amount of certain military retirement income that may be included in a certain subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-06
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation |
| MD | SB167 | Intro | Repealing the limit on the number of Pathways in Technology Early College High (P-TECH) Planning Grants that may be awarded to a local school system in each year; removing the prohibition against new P-TECH Planning Grants being awarded to establish ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| MD | SB324 | Intro | Authorizing a county or municipality to satisfy a requirement to publish legal notices in a newspaper of general circulation by posting the notices on the county's or municipality's website; requiring notices posted on a county or municipality websit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| MD | SB407 | Intro | Encouraging each county board of education to implement an agricultural education program that prepares students for successful careers and informed choices relating to certain systems and for opportunities in agriculture-related employment and highe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| MD | SB544 | Intro | Prohibiting a county board of education from establishing a no-zero grading policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| MD | SJ4 | Intro | Stating the view of the General Assembly that Exelon Generation Company, LLC, owner of the Conowingo Dam, must pay a portion of the cleanup costs associated with the dam's federal certification and at least 25% of the costs associated with the Susque...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB1036 | Intro | Requiring the Department of the Environment, as part of its review and approval process for an application for a water quality certification for the Conowingo Dam relicensing process, to require the applicant to fulfill certain requirements and condi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB193 | Intro | Requiring the State to continue providing a certain prescription drug benefit plan to certain retirees by repealing the January 1, 2019, termination of a certain State prescription drug benefit plan for certain retirees, spouses, and dependent childr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-01
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB507 | Intro | Allowing a credit against the State income tax for a certain percentage of an investment made in a qualified innovation business, not to exceed $50,000, or $100,000 for a qualified investor that is a pass-through entity or a married couple filing joi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-28
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB154 | Intro | Altering the time a polling place is required to open on election day from 7 a.m. to 6 a.m.; and altering the time by which an election judge is required to arrive at and set up a polling place on election day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| MD | SB907 | Intro | Prohibiting, except under certain circumstances, the performance or inducement or attempted performance or inducement of an abortion unless a certain determination as to the probable age of the unborn child is made by a certain physician; providing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB420 | Intro | Requiring certain physicians, hospitals, facilities, and institutions to report certain abortions to the Maryland Department of Health; requiring that the report be made on a certain form, be transmitted annually to the Vital Statistics Administratio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB528 | Intro | Establishing the Behavioral Health Services Matching Grant Program for Service Members and Veterans; providing for the purpose of the Program; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to administer the Program; requiring the Program to award certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
