| 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 | SB318 | Pass | Altering the membership of the School Safety Subcabinet Advisory Board to include a representative of a nonpublic special education school by increasing from four to five the members of the public to be appointed by the Governor and including a repre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 426 |
| MD | SB330 | Pass | Requiring, except under certain circumstances, that a diaper-changing facility be installed in certain public restrooms in certain public buildings; requiring the Board of Public Works, through the Department of General Services, to adopt certain sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 523 |
| MD | SB319 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Transit Administration to provide ridership services on transit vehicles to any permanent employee in any unit of the Executive Branch of State government, including a unit with an independent personnel system; prohibiting the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 420 |
| MD | SB432 | Pass | Altering the locations of the Cyber Warrior Diversity Program to include the University of Maryland Baltimore County Training Centers that are located in the State; specifying the amounts and uses of certain grants provided under the Program; alterin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 454 |
| 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 | SB802 | Pass | Establishing the Maryland Easy Enrollment Health Insurance Program to improve data collection on uninsured individuals and to maximize enrollment of eligible uninsured individuals in affordable insurance programs; requiring the Maryland Health Benefi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 424 |
| 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 | 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 | SB734 | Pass | Requiring each county board of education, beginning with the 2020-2021 school year, to ensure that a certain student is screened to identify if the student is at risk for reading difficulties; requiring the screening instrument to be based on foundat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 512 |
| MD | SB729 | Pass | Requiring the Harry R. Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology, in consultation with the Departments of Natural Resources, the Environment, Planning, and Agriculture and the Chesapeake Bay Program to conduct a technical study to review changes in forest cover...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 405 |
| MD | SB640 | Pass | Establishing the Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability in the Department of Legislative Services; requiring the Office to conduct certain performance evaluations of certain units of State government; renaming the Joint Audit Comm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 511 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | SB279 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Aging to make grants to nonprofit organizations and area agencies on aging to expand and establish certain aging-in-place programs for seniors; requiring the Department to publicize the availability of grant opportunitie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 309 |
| 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 | SB478 | Pass | Requiring that, after an annexation resolution is introduced, the chief executive or the administrative officer of the municipality shall notify commercial property owners in the area to be annexed of all personal property taxes and fees imposed by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 250 |
| MD | SB472 | Pass | Requiring the Governor annually to proclaim the month of August as Caribbean Heritage Month in recognition of the contributions that Caribbean Americans have made to the State; and requiring the proclamation to urge educational and cultural organizat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 220 |
| 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 | SB732 | Pass | Requiring a court to issue a certain order on request of a local department of social services that has been granted certain guardianship over a child in need of assistance to have control over the property of the child for the purpose of establishin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 304 |
| 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 | 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 | SB727 | Pass | Establishing the Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening Technologies Program in the Department of Health to provide grants to certain fire departments and volunteer fire companies to procure innovative cancer screening tes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 219 |
| 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 | 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 | SB192 | Enroll | 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] | 2019-04-08
Returned Passed |
| 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 | SB754 | Engross | Establishing the National Capital Strategic Economic Development Program to provide strategic investment in local housing and businesses with a focus on areas where modest investment will have an appreciable neighborhood revitalization impact; establ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| 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 | SB529 | Enroll | 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] | 2019-04-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB218 | Enroll | 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] | 2019-04-05
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 | SB344 | Enroll | Altering the method of calculating a certain reduction in the State agricultural land transfer tax for an instrument of writing that transfers title to agricultural land on which property tax was paid on the basis of an assessment other than farm or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-05
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB399 | Enroll | 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] | 2019-04-05
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 | SB422 | Enroll | Altering the employment categories of certain employees of the State Department of Education; requiring that all positions in the Department be appointed positions in the professional service and skilled service as well as the executive service and m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-05
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB496 | Enroll | Repealing the termination of the Payroll Recovery Act of 2017, which requires the Central Payroll Bureau of the Office of the State Comptroller to administer the payroll of certain employees of the State and employees of certain universities and coll...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-05
Returned Passed |
| 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 | 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 | SB1030 | Enroll | 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] | 2019-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | SB733 | Enroll | Authorizing a licensed physician, under certain circumstances and in accordance with certain regulations, to delegate certain duties to a registered cardiovascular invasive specialist assisting in the physician's performance of a fluoroscopy; establi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-03
Returned Passed |
