| MD | SB221 | Intro | Establishing a Workgroup on Establishing an Independent School Board for the Juvenile Services Education System to determine whether to create an independent school board for the Juvenile Services Education System and identify ways to reform and impr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-21
Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs |
| 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 | SB247 | Intro | Prohibiting, under certain circumstances, a rental vehicle company from, solely on the basis of age, refusing to rent a vehicle to an individual or charging an individual a higher rental fee than normally charged; and prohibiting, under certain circu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-20
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| 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 | SB279 | Intro | Authorizing the Department of Aging to make grants to certain nonprofit organizations to expand and establish certain aging-in-place programs for seniors; establishing a requirement for an equal match for the funds requested by a nonprofit organizati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-20
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | SB152 | Engross | Authorizing a court to order a defendant convicted of a charge of animal cruelty under the Act, as a condition of sentencing, to participate in and pay for psychological counseling and to pay, in addition to any other fines and costs, all reasonable ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To House Judiciary 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 | SB958 | Intro | Repealing the requirement that the credit hours or educational requirements completed by certain applicants to be licensed by the State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists be accredited by the American Art Therapy Association; requiring a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB959 | Intro | Establishing that certain contractors are jointly and severally liable for certain violations of the wage payment and collection law by certain subcontractors if the employee notified the general contractor, in writing, within 90 days after the viola...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB961 | Intro | Requiring, beginning in the 2020-2021 school year, each county board of education to require each public elementary school in the county to provide handwriting instruction that enables students to develop legible print handwriting by the end of the t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB960 | Intro | Altering the number of months from 6 months to 9 months that the Board of License Commissioners for Harford County may authorize for a seasonally operated licensed premises to be closed under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
To Senate Rules Committee |
| 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 | SB482 | Intro | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, subject to certain limitations, to provide reimbursement for certain medically necessary and appropriate behavioral health services to managed care organizations; requiring managed care organizations, rath...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB878 | Intro | Altering the allocation of funds from the Racetrack Facility Renewal Account by adding the Bowie Race Course Training Center to the list of thoroughbred racing facilities eligible to receive the funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation 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 | 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 | SB883 | Intro | Allocating Racetrack Facility Renewal Account funds to the Maryland Economic Development Corporation for certain purposes and to the Bowie Race Course Training Center; authorizing a certain racing licensee and the owner of the Bowie Race Course Train...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 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 | 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 | SB694 | Intro | Requiring a credit card processor to send a services agreement summary to businesses with whom it has, or intends to have, a services agreement; requiring a business to acknowledge a services agreement by signing, dating, and returning a copy of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
[Hearing: Mar 12 @ 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 | SB727 | Intro | Establishing the Professional and Volunteer Firefighter Innovative Cancer Screening Technologies Program; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to administer the Program; authorizing the Department to adopt certain regulations; providing for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
[Hearing: Mar 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB693 | Intro | Altering the applicability of certain security breach investigation requirements to certain businesses; altering the applicability of certain security breach notification requirements to a certain owner or licensee of computerized data; prohibiting a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
[Hearing: Mar 12 @ 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 | SB852 | Intro | Requiring the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation to establish the period of time during which each unit must approve or disapprove an application for an expedited temporary license for certain applicants; requiring certain units to approv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-08
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs 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 | SB522 | Intro | Altering the membership of the Virginia I. Jones Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Council; repealing certain duties of the Council and requiring the Council to update a certain plan, examine the needs of certain individuals and identify meth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| 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 | SB375 | Intro | Requiring that certain service contracts entered into by the State contain a certain work verification clause; requiring the work verification clause to require the contractor to use certain work verification software for a certain purpose, specify t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB389 | Intro | Creating an exception to motor vehicle registration requirements under certain circumstances for low speed electric vehicles in the City of Havre de Grace; defining a "low speed electric vehicle" as a vehicle capable of a sustained speed of 20 miles ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 12:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB446 | Intro | Adding Baltimore County to the list of counties that exempt agricultural buildings engaged in agritourism from a permit requirement; providing for the number of people allowed to occupy a building engaged in agritourism in Baltimore County under cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-06
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 | SB678 | Intro | 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] | 2019-02-06
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB679 | Intro | Providing that the Secretary of Information Technology has general charge of information technology services used in relation to the business of the State; and providing that the Secretary is the chief information officer of and shall perform all of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs 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 | 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 | SB744 | Intro | Establishing the Commission on the Development of a Blueprint for Solar Energy in Maryland; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Commission; requiring the Commission to develop a certain blueprint to guide units of State and loca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs 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 | SB801 | Intro | Authorizing the holder of a Class 5 brewery to brew and bottle malt beverages at a location listed on an individual storage permit; requiring a local licensing board to grant an on-site consumption permit under certain circumstances; authorizing a ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 22 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB681 | Intro | Increasing, from 106 to 120 days, the period during which an employer is not required to allow an employee to use earned sick and safe leave; altering the circumstances under which an employer is required to reinstate certain unused sick and safe lea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB865 | Intro | Designating certain individuals as Maryland Military Veterans; establishing that a Maryland Military Veteran is not entitled to certain benefits, rights, or privileges applicable to certain veterans; establishing that a Maryland Military Veteran desi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 21 @ 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 | SB294 | Intro | Removing the limitation on the amount of military retirement income that may be subtracted from federal adjusted gross income for State income tax purposes; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2018.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-01
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
