| MD | SB49 | Pass | Increasing from $2,400 to $5,000 the salary of the president and from $2,400 to $4,500 the salary of the other regular members of the Anne Arundel County Board of Elections; and providing that the Act does not apply to the salary or compensation of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-26
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 805 |
| MD | SB184 | Pass | Altering the determination of the number of exemptions that an individual may use to calculate a certain deduction under the Maryland income tax; requiring the Bureau of Revenue Estimates, in consultation with the Consensus Revenue Monitoring and For...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 575 |
| MD | SB286 | Pass | Requiring the Secretary of Information Technology, or the Secretary's designee, on or before January 1, 2020, to adopt new nonvisual access procurement standards that provide individuals with disabilities with certain nonvisual access so the individu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 632 |
| MD | SB299 | Pass | Including certain individuals employed by the Department of Juvenile Services and the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services in the membership of the Correctional Officers' Retirement System; requiring a certain transfer and combinatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 579 |
| MD | SB362 | Pass | Exempting vehicles leased to and personally used by certain disabled veterans from vehicle registration fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 704 |
| MD | SB318 | Pass | Altering the determination of the amount of the standard deduction allowed for an individual under the Maryland income tax; altering the minimum and maximum limitation amounts of certain standard deductions allowed under the Maryland income tax for c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 577 |
| MD | SB751 | Pass | Extending the termination date to September 30, 2022, for certain provisions of law authorizing certain hybrid vehicles to use a certain high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane regardless of the number of passengers under certain circumstances; extending t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 678 |
| MD | SB996 | Pass | Altering a subtraction modification under the State income tax for certain military retirement income for individuals who are at least 55 years old from $10,000 to $15,000; providing a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax under cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 573 |
| MD | SB1202 | Pass | Establishing the Richard W. Collins III Leadership With Honor Scholarship Program; establishing eligibility criteria for the scholarship that requires an individual to be a member of the Reserve Officer Training Corps, a certain minority student, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 597 |
| MD | SB204 | Pass | Establishing the Cybersecurity Public Service Scholarship Program to support students who are pursuing an education in programs that are directly relevant to cybersecurity; requiring the Office of Student Financial Assistance to administer the Progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 415 |
| MD | SB553 | Pass | Altering the aspects of State information technology that are to be included in the statewide information technology master plan developed and maintained by the Secretary of Information Technology; requiring each unit of State government to develop a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 467 |
| MD | SB787 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Human Services to develop a Foster Youth Bill of Rights delineating the rights of children in out-of-home placements; and requiring the Social Services Administration of the Department of Human Services to provide, at leas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 418 |
| MD | SB373 | Pass | Requiring the Head Start Program in the State to be referred to as the Ulysses Currie Head Start Program; and requiring the Governor to include an appropriation of at least $3,000,000 for the Ulysses Currie Head Start Program in each annual budget su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 556 |
| MD | SJ6 | Enroll | Commemorating the bicentennial of the birth of Frederick Douglass; and providing that a copy of this resolution be forwarded by the Department of Legislative Services to certain individuals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Signed by the President and the Speaker - Joint Resolution 2 |
| MD | SB1259 | Pass | Naming a certain plaza of the Mary E.W. Risteau District Courts and Multi-Service Center in Harford County to be the H. Wayne Norman, Jr. Memorial Plaza; providing for certain funding for the implementation of the Act; and requiring a certain adminis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 370 |
| MD | SB615 | Pass | Establishing the Cyber Warrior Diversity Program at Baltimore City Community College, Bowie State University, Coppin State University, Morgan State University, and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore to train students in computer networking and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 567 |
| MD | SB1122 | Pass | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution to limit the uses of certain revenues to educational opportunities and programs for the children of the State in public schools, the advancement of educators, and the construction of school faciliti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor, assigned a chapter number, enactment subject to constitutional referendum - Chapter 357 |
| MD | SB53 | Pass | Authorizing a designee of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to administer the Maryland Veterans Service Animal Program Fund; requiring the Department of Veterans Affairs to publish on its website the names of certain donors to the Maryland Veterans S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 152 |
| MD | SB66 | Pass | Requiring the Secretary of Health to publish an annual report on the suicides of veterans and members currently serving in the armed services of the United States; limiting the information in the report to the age, sex, race or ethnicity, nature of s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 155 |
| MD | SB281 | Pass | Altering the membership of the Maryland Cybersecurity Council to include the State Administrator of Elections or the State Administrator's designee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 151 |
| MD | SB341 | Pass | Adding daylight fluorescent pink as a color authorized for certain outerwear required to be worn by certain persons performing certain hunting activities; and authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to adopt regulations to define "daylight fl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 180 |
| MD | SB522 | Pass | Requiring that certain patients be advised of the benefits and risks associated with the prescription of certain opioids and benzodiazepines under certain circumstances; and providing that a violation of the Act is grounds for disciplinary action by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 216 |
| MD | SB675 | Pass | Requiring certain research facilities using dogs or cats for scientific research purposes to take certain steps to provide for the adoption of a certain dog or cat that is no longer needed for research purposes; authorizing certain research facilitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 236 |
| MD | SB626 | Pass | Repealing the requirement that the surviving spouse of a deceased disabled veteran be at least 65 years old to qualify for a certain exemption to vehicle registration fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 158 |
| MD | SB461 | Pass | Repealing provisions of law in Allegany, Carroll, Charles, Harford, Kent, Montgomery, Queen Anne's, and Washington counties that prohibit a license holder or an employee from knowingly selling or providing an alcoholic beverage to an individual with ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 305 |
| MD | SB253 | Pass | Repealing a provision that provides for the termination of a prohibition on selling alcoholic beverages that are sold in a powder or crystalline form for direct use or use in combination with water or any other substance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 224 |
| MD | SB477 | Pass | Requiring a custodian to deny inspection of a distribution list and a request to be added to a distribution list that identifies a physical address, an e-mail address, or a telephone number of an individual that is used by a governmental entity or an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 40 |
| MD | SB846 | Pass | Authorizing any adult family member of a disabled real estate broker to carry on the business of the disabled broker for 6 months for certain purposes subject to certain qualifications; requiring certain family members to surrender a certain certific...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 77 |
| MD | SB28 | Engross | Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to ensure that the driver's license or identification card of an applicant who presents certain proof includes a notation indicating that the applicant is the surviving spouse of a veteran; requiring an appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | SB296 | 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 certain pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
Senate Requests House Recede |
| MD | SB333 | Engross | Altering certain requirements for canvassing provisional ballots when an individual casts more than one ballot for the same election; requiring a local board of elections to review all documents relating to an individual to verify certain ballots if ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (137-0) |
| MD | SB558 | Engross | Increasing from 60 to 90 the number of days within which the Department of Natural Resources is required to hold a hearing for a person who holds an authorization to catch oysters and receives a citation for a certain offense; establishing that the D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | SB309 | Engross | Authorizing emergency medical services providers and law enforcement officers to report overdoses using a certain information technology platform with secure access; requiring the emergency medical services provider or law enforcement officer making ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
Senators Middleton, Feldman, and Hershey |
| MD | SB742 | Pass | Extending from February 2019 to February 2021 the month after which the Comptroller is required to begin withholding from certain quarterly income tax distributions certain amounts owed by certain local governments to the Local Reserve Account; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-06
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(b) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 28 |
| MD | SB665 | Engross | Altering the eligibility requirements for existing nonprofit robotics clubs to receive a grant under the Robotics Grant Program regardless of whether the nonprofit robotics club is associated with a public school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-05
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means |
| MD | SB183 | Engross | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to create an opportunity for a person directly purchasing an angler's license, a Chesapeake Bay and coastal sport fishing license, or a hunting license and corresponding stamps through the electronic syst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
Second Reading Passed |
| MD | SJ11 | Engross | Expressing the strong and unequivocal opposition of the General Assembly of Maryland to the draft proposed National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2019-2024, and the implementation of any offshore oil or gas leasing, explorat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB810 | Engross | Allowing a credit against the State income tax for certain small business entities located in an enterprise zone or a Regional Institution Strategic Enterprise (RISE) zone; allowing a small business to qualify for the credit if the business hired and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB911 | Engross | Requiring the Department of Veterans Affairs 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] | 2018-03-27
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB311 | Intro | Altering the time to pay certain manufacturer's license fees from annually to one time; altering the amount of certain manufacturer's license fees; providing that prorating of certain fees for certain licenses does not apply to a license for which th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| MD | SB509 | Engross | Requiring each community college to employ a veterans advisor to provide comprehensive enrollment and advising services to current and prospective students who are veterans; and requiring each community college to establish a veterans resource center...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB217 | Engross | Requiring each county board of education to adopt a certain written policy to authorize a student to possess and use sunscreen on school property or at a school-sponsored activity without written permission from a health care provider; and requiring ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB428 | Engross | Altering the day on which interest begins to accrue on certain taxpayer refunds of certain tax payments; requiring a tax collector to pay interest on certain taxpayer refunds beginning on the date of the overpayment if the overpayment is attributable...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB499 | Engross | Requiring the Department of State Police to recruit public and commercial television and radio broadcasters, local volunteer groups, social media experts, and other members of the public on an ongoing basis to assist in updating and improving the Yel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB1185 | Intro | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health and the State Department of Education jointly to develop a process to review each year the waiting list for children to receive services through the Home- and Community-Based Services Waiver for Children wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB297 | Engross | Classifying the offense of human trafficking as a crime of violence under a certain provision of law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB427 | Engross | Altering the definition of "eligible individual" by requiring that an elderly individual must live in the same county, rather than the same dwelling, for at least 25 years to be eligible for a certain statewide optional property tax credit against th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB357 | Intro | 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 t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-15
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| MD | SB1150 | Intro | Requiring a police officer who detains a driver who was involved in a vehicle accident that resulted in the death of another person to require the driver to submit to certain drug and alcohol testing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB449 | Intro | Altering the defined term "viable" to mean the stage, beginning at 24 weeks' gestation, when, based on the best medical judgment of a certain physician, there is a reasonable likelihood of the fetus's sustained survival outside the womb.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
