| MD | SB33 | Pass | Prohibiting a licensed home inspector from making certain certifications relating to pests as part of a residential rental inspection in Baltimore City unless the home inspector is certified as a pest control consultant, pest control applicator, or p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 746 |
| MD | SB116 | Pass | Expanding the definition of "complete streets design features" under the Complete Streets Program by adding access to retail stores that provide health food and other necessities, especially in food deserts, as a design feature of the complete street...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 573 |
| MD | SB218 | Pass | Renaming the food stamp program to be the food supplement program; requiring the State to provide matching funds to counties for a supplement for each child in a household that receives federally funded benefits under the food supplement program; pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 636 |
| MD | SB253 | Pass | Excluding from the Major Information Technology Development Project Fund certain money received by Baltimore City Community College; and providing for the prospective application of the Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 751 |
| MD | SB328 | Pass | Providing that certain 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 being...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 753 |
| MD | SB396 | Pass | 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] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 675 |
| MD | SB406 | Pass | Requiring the Governor to include $100,000 in the annual budget beginning in fiscal year 2021 for the Maryland Prenatal and Infant Care Coordination Services Grant Program Fund; establishing the Task Force on Maryland Maternal and Child Health; requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 662 |
| MD | SB433 | Pass | 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] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 687 |
| MD | SB417 | Pass | Repealing a termination provision for certain provisions of law relating to policy and reporting requirements for race-based traffic stops; requiring the Maryland Statistical Analysis Center, by September 1 each year, to post on its website in a cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 626 |
| 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 | SB596 | Pass | Including mead within the definition of beer for certain purposes; and assigning a certain tax rate for mead.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 762 |
| MD | SB533 | Pass | Requiring certain short-term rental platforms to collect the sales and use tax on the sale of the right to occupy certain short-term rentals; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 758 |
| MD | SB529 | Pass | Altering the membership of the State Board of Education to add a certain certified teacher who is actively teaching and a parent of a student enrolled in a public school in the State; requiring the Governor to appoint a certain teacher member with th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 577 |
| 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 | SB1030 | Pass | Establishing principles of The Blueprint for Maryland's Future that are intended to transform Maryland's early childhood, primary, and secondary education system to the levels of the highest-performing systems; establishing a Concentration of Poverty...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-25
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 771 |
| MD | SB41 | Veto | Requiring the Office of Legislative Audits to conduct an audit of the Baltimore Police Department to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the financial management practices of the Department beginning July 1, 2020, and at least once every 6 y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-24
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | SB192 | Veto | Repealing certain provisions of law relating to a surviving spouse making an election to take a certain share of the net estate of the decedent; providing that the purpose of the Act is to ensure that the surviving spouse is reasonably provided for d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-24
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| 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 | SB399 | Veto | Requiring private career schools and certain for-profit institutions of higher education to provide students with information on the placement rate for the program, capability for professional licensure on completion of the program, and median earnin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-24
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | SB537 | Veto | 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] | 2019-05-24
Vetoed by the Governor (Policy) |
| 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 | 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 | SB678 | Pass | Altering the qualifications an individual must have to be appointed as a notary public; authorizing certain persons to charge a certain fee for the performance of a certain notarial act; authorizing a notarial officer to perform certain notarial acts...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 407 |
| MD | SB774 | Pass | Expanding the entities required to submit a certain report relating to restrictive housing; requiring the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention to submit certain information from each correctional unit in a report to the General Assembly;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 527 |
| 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 | SB777 | Pass | Exempting from the property tax under certain circumstances dwelling houses owned by certain disabled active duty service members; requiring a disabled active duty service member to apply for the exemption and provide to the supervisor of assessments...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 520 |
| 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 | SB569 | Pass | Establishing the Rape Kit Testing Grant Fund to provide law enforcement agencies with funding to pay for testing of sexual assault evidence collection kits by forensic laboratories; requiring the Executive Director of the Governor's Office of Crime C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 509 |
| MD | SB96 | Pass | Requiring Baltimore City to withhold from tax sale certain places of worship if the taxes on the property consist only of a lien for unpaid charges for water and sewer service; repealing the authority of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 320 |
| MD | SB265 | Pass | Repealing the termination of a certain subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for income from the discharge of indebtedness related to costs incurred with respect to a principal residence; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 303 |
| 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 | SB310 | Pass | Prohibiting a certain person from selling an unpackaged cigarette; authorizing an enforcement officer of the Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Program in the Baltimore City Health Department to enforce the Act in a certain manner; requiring an enf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 314 |
| MD | SB646 | Pass | Altering the circumstances under which certain firefighters, fire fighting instructors, rescue squad members, advanced life support unit members, and sworn members of the Office of the State Fire Marshal are presumed to be suffering from an occupatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 216 |
| MD | SB801 | Pass | Authorizing the holder of a Class 5 brewery license to brew and bottle malt beverages at a location listed on an individual storage permit; authorizing a local licensing board to conditionally grant an applicant an on-site consumption permit or a Cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 318 |
| 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 | SB654 | Pass | Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county or municipality to provide, by law, the minimum number of years, not to exceed 40 years, that an elderly individual must live in the same dwelling in order to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 333 |
| MD | SB39 | Pass | Requiring the Police Commissioner of Baltimore City, following each decennial census of the United States, to prepare a plan for the adjustment of the geographic boundaries and composition of each Baltimore City police district and the reallocation o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 74 |
| MD | SB81 | Pass | Requiring the Baltimore Police Department to submit, beginning in fiscal year 2020 and in each subsequent fiscal year, a report on the expenditure of grants received from the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention for community policing ef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 75 |
| MD | SB43 | Engross | Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to require members of the command staff of the Police Department of Baltimore City, at the rank of captain or above, to reside in Baltimore City; and providing that a certain local law, ordinance, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-08
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (125-11) |
| MD | SB481 | Intro | Altering the definition of "elevated level of lead" to mean a lead concentration in drinking water exceeding 5 parts per billion for certain provisions of law relating to testing for the presence of lead in certain drinking water outlets in certain s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-08
Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| MD | SB974 | Intro | Prohibiting certain departments or local licensing authorities that issue occupational licenses or certificates from denying an application for a license or certificate based on the applicant's criminal history if a period of 5 years has passed since...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-08
Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| MD | SB485 | Intro | Defining the term "mortgage lender" to mean a person who is duly licensed under certain provisions of the Financial Institutions Article; altering the definition of the term "consumer claim"; and declaring the intent of the General Assembly that the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-29
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| MD | SB254 | Intro | Exempting Baltimore City Community College from certain provisions of the State procurement law; requiring the Board of Trustees of the College, subject to review and approval by the Board of Public Works and the Joint Committee on Administrative, Ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-28
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| 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 | SB300 | Pass | Authorizing certain employees to sue to recover the difference between certain prevailing wage rates and certain amounts under certain circumstances; providing that a certain determination by the Commissioner of Labor and Industry does not preclude c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-28
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(b) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 9 |
| 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 | SB233 | Intro | Prohibiting an insurer, with respect to private passenger motor vehicle insurance, from refusing to underwrite, canceling, refusing to renew, rating a risk, or increasing a renewal premium based, in whole or in part, on the occupation of, or on the e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-25
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| 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 | SB222 | Intro | Establishing that the State Superintendent of Schools may disapprove an appointment of a county superintendent of schools only if the appointee does not meet the qualifications specified for the position.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
