| MD | SB113 | Intro | Altering the manner in which an applicant for a handgun permit is required to pay a certain fee to allow any method of payment approved by the Secretary of State Police.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-20
Special Order until 2/21 (Senator McCray) Adopted |
| MD | SB163 | Intro | 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] | 2019-02-20
Second Reading Passed |
| MD | SB228 | Engross | Prohibiting a District Court commissioner from authorizing the pretrial release of a defendant who is registered or required to register as a certain sex offender.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-20
Third Reading Passed (46-0) |
| MD | SB996 | Intro | Providing that July 27 each year is Welcome Home Korean War Veterans Day in recognition of the service and sacrifice of Korean War veterans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-20
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB292 | Intro | Altering the definition of "public safety officer" to include certain volunteer emergency medical technicians for purposes of a certain property tax credit; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after June 30, 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-19
Second Reading Passed |
| MD | SB973 | Intro | Expanding the voting membership of the Tri-County Council for Southern Maryland; increasing, beginning in fiscal year 2020, the amount of money that the county commissioners of Calvert County, Charles County, and St. Mary's County are required to app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-18
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB162 | Engross | Classifying a certain offense of human trafficking as a crime of violence under certain provisions of law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB512 | Intro | Prohibiting a public service company from terminating electric or gas service to certain residential customers for nonpayment on a day that a government furlough is in effect or for 7 days after the furlough has ended; authorizing the Public Service ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
[Hearing: Mar 1 @ 1:00 pm]
Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m. (Finance) |
| MD | SB951 | Intro | Reducing the State income tax rate for certain income of individuals; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Rules Committee |
| 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] | 2019-02-14
[Hearing: Mar 12 @ 12:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB876 | Intro | Establishing that a riparian property owner or lessee shall have the right of first refusal to apply for and, if approved, obtain a water column lease, or an aquaculture lease for use in the water column in an Aquaculture Enterprise Zone, in an area ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| 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] | 2019-02-14
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB922 | Intro | Prohibiting a person from selling, offering for sale, or advertising a product labeled as milk or a milk-based product if the product is not derived from a cow or another animal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB866 | Intro | Specifying that certain budget information must be submitted to each county that supports the College of Southern Maryland; eliminating the requirement to submit an annual report and to report on certain expenditures; altering the budget approval req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB884 | Intro | Requiring a Baltimore City school police officer and a school resource officer to carry a firearm while present on the premises of the school to which the officer is assigned.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB570 | Intro | Prohibiting a person from distributing fentanyl, any structural variation of fentanyl, or any analogue of fentanyl, the use of which is a contributing cause of the death of another; establishing penalties for a violation of the Act; and providing tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
[Hearing: Feb 22 @ 9:00 am]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings 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
[Hearing: Mar 15 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB487 | Intro | Authorizing military administrative leave to be provided to an employee who is serving orders for military duty on or after October 1, 2019; and authorizing an employee serving orders for military duty on or after October 1, 2019 to elect to use eith...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
[Hearing: Mar 8 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB571 | Intro | Authorizing certain members of a volunteer fire company or rescue squad and certain individuals who are denied payment of a certain disability or death benefit by the Board of Trustees of the Maryland State Firemen's Association to appeal the decisio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
[Hearing: Mar 7 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| 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] | 2019-02-11
[Hearing: Mar 7 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB548 | Intro | Altering the eligibility of certain sources of energy for the creation of credits under the renewable energy portfolio standard; removing certain sources from the definition of a "Tier 1 renewable source"; providing that existing obligations or contr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB133 | Engross | 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] | 2019-02-08
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB508 | Intro | Establishing the Maryland Brewery Promotion Program in the Department of Commerce to provide grants and to conduct certain activities to promote the creation and development of Maryland breweries, visits to Maryland breweries, and the production and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-08
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m. (Finance) |
| MD | SB105 | Engross | 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] | 2019-02-08
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB879 | Intro | Requiring public schools to devote a part of the 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] | 2019-02-08
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m. |
| 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] | 2019-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 12:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings 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] | 2019-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 7 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB408 | Intro | Prohibiting a District Court commissioner from authorizing the pretrial release of a defendant who is charged with assault in the first degree or assault in the second degree against a victim who is a law enforcement officer; providing that a judge m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 12:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB683 | Intro | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources, as part of its fishery management plan for oysters, to study the effectiveness of harvesting oysters to facilitate oyster propagation and restoration and review any oyster management actions, including o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB521 | Intro | 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] | 2019-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB706 | Intro | Authorizing a person to replace a lost or broken assault weapon that was lawfully possessed in accordance with certain provisions of law if the replacement is registered with the Secretary of State Police.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 12:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB685 | Intro | Requiring a certain court, at sentencing for a crime that requires the defendant to register as a certain sex offender, to order probation for a term of years equal in length to a certain period of registration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 12:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings 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] | 2019-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB160 | Intro | Adding bladder, 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] | 2019-02-05
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB364 | Intro | Establishing the Election Day Page Program; providing for the purpose of the Program; requiring the State Board of Elections to develop a certain page training program for local boards of elections that participate in the Program; requiring participa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB544 | Intro | Prohibiting a county board of education from establishing a no-zero grading policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB686 | Intro | Providing that the Maryland Healthy Working Families Act does not apply to employees of a county board of education who are called to work on an as-needed basis, can reject or accept the shift offered by the county board of education, and are not gua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB565 | Intro | Increasing the number of hours of continuing education that therapeutically certified optometrists are required to attend from 30 to 40; providing that continuing education on use and management of certain therapeutic pharmaceutical agents include a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB118 | Intro | Establishing that the Secretary of State Police is not required to submit certain fingerprints with a certain application for a criminal history records check if the applicant's fingerprints are already on file with the Department of State Police.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-04
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| MD | SB369 | Intro | Establishing that a certain report signed by the DNA analyst is prima facie evidence of certain matters for a certain purpose under certain circumstances; providing that a certain DNA profile may be established without the necessity for the DNA analy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-04
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB326 | Intro | Authorizing the Director of the State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency to issue certain fraternal organizations a license for not more than five instant ticket lottery machines; providing that proceeds from instant ticket lottery machine sales by a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-01
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB339 | Intro | Requiring a certain custodian of records to deny inspection of the part of a 9-1-1 communications record that depicts certain information, subject to a certain exception; requiring the Emergency Number Systems Board to establish certain minimum stand...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-01
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB357 | Intro | Expanding eligibility for a property tax exemption for the dwelling house of a disabled veteran to include veterans with a service connected disability of at least 80%; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after June 30, 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-01
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB372 | Intro | Requiring a disciplinary panel to obtain a third peer review report from a certain source or dismiss certain complaints against licensed physicians if only one of the two peer review reports makes a certain finding that a certain violation did not oc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-01
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB293 | Intro | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to allow a person to hunt any migratory game birds on Sundays during the open season on private property or public land designated for hunting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| 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] | 2019-01-31
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB361 | Intro | Authorizing a person to accept consideration for services as a certain fishing guide if the person is guiding certain boats or vessels that are propelled by oars or paddles and possesses an angler's license or a Chesapeake Bay and coastal sport fishi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB366 | Intro | Authorizing a landlord who uses a written lease to collect certain fees and charges as rent under certain conditions; providing that the Act applies only if the written lease used by a landlord includes a certain provision and provides a certain noti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB362 | Intro | Establishing that the Department of Natural Resources may plant or allow to be planted only certain native oyster shell, including fossilized native oyster shell, of the species Crassostrea virginica for use as substrate for an oyster restoration, pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB390 | Intro | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to allow a person to hunt deer on a Sunday throughout the deer hunting season on public land designated by the Department or private property, subject to certain requirements and limitations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-01-31
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
