| MD | SB144 | Pass | Authorizing, for purposes of filing a petition for U Nonimmigrant Status, a victim of qualifying criminal activity or the victim's parent, guardian, or next friend to request a certifying official to certify victim helpfulness on a Form I-918, Supple...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 421 |
| MD | SB184 | Pass | Requiring the State Board of Elections, in consultation with the Department of Information Technology, to make publicly available on the Internet each meeting agenda, made available at least 24 hours in advance of each meeting, live video streaming, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 486 |
| MD | SB299 | Pass | Repealing the exemption authorizing a parent or legal guardian of certain minors to provide certain written consent for the minor to use a tanning device; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to make available to each tanning facility a notice...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 441 |
| MD | SB340 | Pass | Providing certain requirements technology-based businesses must meet before the Maryland Technology Development Corporation may make a certain grant or provide certain equity investment financing; requiring the Corporation to adopt certain regulation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 488 |
| 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 | SB356 | Pass | Requiring the Maternal Mortality Review Program, in consultation with the Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities, to make recommendations to reduce disparities in the maternal mortality rate, including recommendations related to social dete...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 450 |
| MD | SB460 | Pass | Increasing the maximum fine from $500 to $1,000 that may be imposed for a violation of provisions of the Maryland Vehicle Law regarding crosswalks; establishing the Pedestrian Safety Fund for the purpose of enhancing the safety and quality of pedestr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 519 |
| MD | SB465 | Pass | Requiring each nonpublic school in the State to hold fire drills in accordance with the State Fire Prevention Code, keep records of the fire drills, and send copies of the records to the State Board of Education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 430 |
| MD | SB464 | Pass | Repealing the June 30, 2019, termination date for a provision of law that increased from $250 to $500 the civil penalty for a violation recorded by a school bus monitoring camera for failure to stop for a school vehicle operating alternately flashing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 429 |
| MD | SB743 | Pass | Prohibiting the State Board of Elections from approving a contract with an election service provider unless the contract includes a clause regarding notice of ownership of, investment in, or control of the election service provider by a foreign natio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 403 |
| MD | SB512 | Pass | Prohibiting a public service company from terminating electric or gas service to certain residential customers for nonpayment on a day that a government shutdown is in effect and for 7 days after the government shutdown has ended; authorizing the Pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 522 |
| MD | SB853 | Pass | Altering the eligibility requirements for an individual to be certified by the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission as a police officer to require an individual to be a United States citizen or a permanent legal resident of the United St...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 490 |
| MD | SB522 | Pass | Altering the membership of the Virginia I. Jones Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Council; repealing the requirement that the Secretary of Health and the Secretary of Aging, or their designees, cochair the Council; requiring the members of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 411 |
| MD | SB697 | Pass | Providing that a child conceived by means of assisted reproduction during the marriage of the child's mother with the consent of the mother's spouse is the legitimate child of both spouses for all purposes; providing that a child conceived by means o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 437 |
| 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 | SB868 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission to establish a workgroup to carry out the finding and declaration of the General Assembly that it is in the public interest to ensure that the health care protections established ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 417 |
| MD | SB870 | Pass | Increasing the maximum income limits on eligibility for a certain credit against the State income tax for certain child and dependent care expenses; altering the phase-out of the tax credit; making the credit refundable, subject to certain income lim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 432 |
| MD | SB911 | Pass | Establishing the intent of the General Assembly to promote gender diversity in corporate management and boardrooms; requiring a certain entity submitting an annual report to the State Department of Assessments and Taxation to include information rela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 514 |
| MD | SB950 | Pass | Authorizing any remaining balance in the account of a certain campaign finance entity before its termination to be paid to a certain legislative party caucus committee; requiring the authorized candidate campaign committee of a candidate who dies to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 491 |
| MD | SB370 | Pass | Requiring a county to address, in a recycling plan required to be submitted to the Secretary of the Environment, the collection and recycling of recyclable materials from buildings that are 150,000 square feet or greater of office space; requiring ea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 500 |
| MD | SB5 | Pass | Authorizing a custodian of records to grant inspection of part of a 9-1-1 communications record under certain circumstances after providing certain notice and considering certain information; requiring a custodian to grant or deny a certain applicati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 297 |
| MD | SB85 | Pass | Extending from October 1 to October 20 the day by which the Capital Debt Affordability Committee must submit an estimate of the total amount of new State debt that may be authorized for the next fiscal year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 298 |
| MD | SB284 | Pass | Declaring that the General Assembly finds that 9-1-1 specialists are key members of the team of public safety personnel; repealing references to the term "9-1-1 public safety telecommunicator" and substituting references to the term "9-1-1 specialist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 300 |
| MD | SB339 | Pass | Requiring the Emergency Number Systems Board to establish certain minimum standards for records retention guidelines for 9-1-1 audio, video, text messages, and data; requiring the Board to establish minimum standards for certain 9-1-1 systems that en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 302 |
| MD | SB809 | Pass | Requiring each correctional facility to have a written policy in place regarding the medical care of pregnant inmates that addresses the use of medical isolation or restrictive housing for certain purposes, during pregnancy and during a certain post-...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 324 |
| MD | SB719 | Pass | Altering the membership of the Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland to include the Secretary of Commerce ex officio, one member each appointed by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House, and one additional student me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 345 |
| 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 | SB269 | Enroll | Altering the policy and purpose of provisions of law governing flood control and watershed management to include establishing a grant program to assist local jurisdictions with infrastructure repairs, watershed restoration, and emergency protection w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB516 | Enroll | Requiring the Small, Minority, and Women-Owned Businesses Account to receive certain money from the Strategic Energy Investment Fund; establishing certain criteria for qualified offshore wind projects applied for on or after July 1, 2017, termed Roun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB541 | Enroll | 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] | 2019-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB285 | Enroll | Prohibiting a person from selling in the State an expanded polystyrene food service product on or after July 1, 2020; prohibiting food service businesses and schools from selling or providing food or beverages in expanded polystyrene food service pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB303 | Enroll | Requiring an applicant to have graduated from at least a master's level program in acupuncture, or its equivalent, approved by certain entities to qualify for a license to practice acupuncture; altering the authority of the State Acupuncture Board to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-05
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB433 | Enroll | Requiring the Board of Public Works to adopt regulations to require certain bidders, contractors, and subcontractors to pay certain employee health care expenses; requiring the Department of General Services, by regulation, to establish certain proce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB466 | Enroll | Repealing a limitation on the authority of certain municipalities to impose a hotel rental tax on hotels with 10 or fewer sleeping rooms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-05
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB546 | Enroll | Requiring that a summary of each nutrient management plan be filed and updated with the Department of Agriculture at certain times; authorizing the Department to require an updated summary to take the form of an annual implementation report; requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB1000 | Enroll | Repealing the Handgun Permit Review Board in the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services; providing the process by which a person who is denied a certain handgun permit or renewal of a permit or whose permit is revoked or limited by the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-05
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB490 | Engross | Prohibiting a person from using a scanning device to scan or swipe an individual's identification card or a driver's license to obtain personal information; prohibiting a person from retaining, selling, or transferring any information collected from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | SB946 | Enroll | 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] | 2019-04-03
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB17 | Enroll | Applying a certain provision of law related to the reimbursement of indirect costs incurred by certain nonprofit organizations to certain grants and contracts; and providing that a certain provision of law does not require the reimbursement of indire...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-02
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB143 | Enroll | Extending the date, to on or before December 31, 2020, by which the Department of Natural Resources is required to prepare a certain fishery management plan for the cownose ray species, subject to available funding; continuing the prohibition on a pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-02
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB396 | Enroll | Establishing the Legal Representation Fund for Title IX Proceedings as a special, nonlapsing fund; specifying that the purpose of the Fund is to provide funds for reasonable costs and attorney's fees for students provided counsel under certain provis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-02
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB448 | Enroll | 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] | 2019-04-02
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB449 | Enroll | Providing an exception to the voter registration deadline to allow an individual to appear at a precinct polling place in the individual's county of residence and apply to register to vote; requiring an applicant for a voter registration on election ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-02
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB280 | Pass | Specifying the State minimum wage rate that is in effect for certain time periods and for certain employers except under certain circumstances; authorizing the Board of Public Works to temporarily suspend an increase to the minimum wage rate if the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-28
Gubernatorial Veto Override - Chapter 11 |
| MD | SB311 | Intro | Authorizing an individual to request aid in dying by making specified requests; prohibiting another individual from requesting aid in dying on behalf of an individual; requiring a certain request to be made in a certain manner; requiring a written re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-27
Second Reading Failed |
| MD | SB391 | Pass | Specifying that a certain individual who is a civilian employee of the federal government is eligible to receive unemployment benefits under certain circumstances; altering the purpose of the Catastrophic Event Account to enable the State to respond ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 2 |
| MD | SB537 | Enroll | Altering the circumstances under which certain individuals are exempt from paying the out-of-state tuition rate at public institutions of higher education; altering the circumstances under which certain individuals are eligible to pay the resident tu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-26
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB203 | Engross | Altering the standard for achieving a no net loss of forest policy by altering the definition of "no net loss of forest" to mean that 40% of all land in Maryland is covered by forest as determined by data used in the most current Chesapeake Bay Water...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB221 | Engross | Providing for a Workgroup on Establishing an Independent School Board for the Juvenile Services Education System to determine whether the General Assembly should create an independent school board for the Juvenile Services Education System and identi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
Hearing 3/21 at 2:00 p.m. (Judiciary) |
| MD | SB453 | Intro | Altering the information about a certain measurement of certain gasoline that must be stated on a sign on the premises of a retail service station dealer to require that the highest price, or the cash price and the credit price, be stated in a clear ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-15
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
