| MD | HB1236 | Intro | Requiring certain employers to have a certificate of pay equity compliance issued by the Commissioner of Labor and Industry; requiring a custodian of public records to deny the inspection of the part of a public record that contains certain data rela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-26
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB60 | Engross | Renaming the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation to be the Maryland Department of Labor; renaming the Secretary of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation to be the Secretary of Labor; providing that the Maryland Department of Labor is the succes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-25
Favorable Report by Finance |
| MD | HB524 | Engross | 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] | 2019-03-25
Favorable Report by Finance |
| MD | SB588 | Intro | Requiring the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation to develop a mobile application to target employers in industries in which industry skills align with the skills developed through membership in a certain student organization; requiring co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-22
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | SB839 | Engross | Prohibiting certain employers from requiring an applicant for employment to disclose certain information regarding the criminal record of the applicant except under certain circumstances, conducting a certain criminal history records check, or taking...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-22
Third Reading Passed (29-15) |
| MD | SB959 | Engross | 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] | 2019-03-22
Third Reading Passed (46-0) |
| MD | SB280 | Enroll | 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] | 2019-03-21
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB166 | Enroll | 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] | 2019-03-20
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1167 | Engross | Establishing the Apprenticeship Career Training Pilot Program for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals; establishing the purpose and method for administering the Program; requiring the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation to administer the Pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-20
[Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB66 | Engross | Prohibiting a train or light engine used in the movement of freight in the same rail corridor as a high-speed passenger or commuter train from being operated in the State unless it has at least two crew members; establishing certain penalties; provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB994 | Engross | Prohibiting certain employers from requiring an applicant for employment to disclose certain information regarding the criminal record of the applicant except under certain circumstances, conducting a certain criminal history records check, or taking...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1284 | Engross | Prohibiting certain insurers, based on the status of an applicant or individual status as an organ donor, from taking certain action relating to certain insurance policies; prohibiting certain insurers from prohibiting an applicant or individual from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB705 | Engross | Prohibiting certain insurers, based solely on the status of an applicant or individual status as an organ donor, from taking certain actions relating to certain insurance policies; prohibiting certain insurers from prohibiting an applicant or individ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-16
Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m. (Health and Government Operations) |
| MD | HB794 | Intro | Prohibiting, except under certain circumstances, a certain employer from taking certain discriminatory actions against or otherwise penalizing a qualifying patient or caregiver based on the individual's status as a qualifying patient or caregiver or,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-15
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters; Withdrawn |
| MD | SB1044 | Intro | Establishing the Motor Vehicle Repair and Career Certification Program for Ex-Offenders in the Division of Workforce Development and Adult Learning to provide apprenticeships to ex-offenders in motor vehicle repair and service; requiring the Departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB24 | Intro | Requiring a prospective bidder or offeror when submitting a bid or offer for a public work contract to submit to the public body a certain contractor safety and health plan and a certain attestation; requiring a contractor safety and health plan to i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1128 | Intro | Requiring that the information that the Secretary of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation requires to be included in unemployment insurance contribution and employment reports shall include, for each employee, occupation and job title, number of hours wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB1226 | Intro | Requiring each local workforce development board to recruit employers to provide youth apprenticeships, registered apprenticeships, and job opportunities for certain students and graduates; requiring each local workforce development board to match hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB972 | Intro | Authorizing a court, on a certain finding in an action on behalf of an employee for a violation of the Maryland Wage Payment and Collection Law, to award the Attorney General reasonable counsel fees and other costs; authorizing a court, on a certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB1040 | Intro | Altering the conditions under which an individual who works in a certain administrative, executive, or professional capacity qualifies for an exemption from overtime pay; requiring that an individual be compensated on a salary basis at $900 or more p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | SB219 | Intro | Establishing that certain employers are not liable, under certain circumstances, for negligently hiring or failing to adequately supervise an employee based on evidence that the employee has received probation before judgment for an offense or has be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-13
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| MD | SB493 | Intro | Requiring that the information that the Secretary of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation requires to be included in unemployment insurance contribution and employment reports shall include, for each employee, occupation and job title, number of hours wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-13
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| MD | HB976 | Intro | Authorizing a county to establish a minimum wage rate for employees working in the county; altering the minimum wage that an employer is required to pay employees; and altering the minimum wage an employer is authorized to pay employees under 20 year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-11
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB1109 | Intro | Requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry, in consultation with the Maryland Department of Health, to develop a notice of the Health Crisis Hotline; requiring an employer to keep the notice posted conspicuously at each place of employment; aut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-11
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | SB300 | Enroll | 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] | 2019-03-08
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB328 | Engross | 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] | 2019-03-05
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB503 | Intro | Establishing that certain employers are not liable, under certain circumstances, for negligently hiring or failing to adequately supervise an employee based on evidence that the employee has received probation before judgment for an offense or has be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | SB912 | Intro | Prohibiting a certain provision of the Maryland Healthy Working Families Act from being construed to prohibit an employer from applying a certain absence control policy if the employer provides at least 40 hours of paid leave a year, excluding earned...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB949 | Intro | Establishing the Grant Program for Workforce Skills Assessment in the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation; providing that the purpose of the Program is to provide financial assistance to an employer for the administration of assessments th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB984 | Intro | Expanding the definition of "strategic industry partnership" for purposes of certain provisions of law governing the Maryland EARN Program to include employers from a target industry and representatives of labor organizations associated with the targ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB492 | Intro | Establishing the Career and Technology Education Grant Program; authorizing, rather than requiring, the Governor to appropriate at least $3,000,000 in the annual budget for Workforce Development Sequence Scholarships; requiring the Department of Labo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-28
Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 p.m. (Budget and Taxation) |
| MD | HB509 | Intro | Exempting, under certain circumstances, employers with respect to service advisors who primarily sell or service automobiles, farm equipment, trailers, or trucks from the requirement that certain employers pay overtime wages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters; Withdrawn |
| MD | SB157 | Intro | Exempting, under certain circumstances, employers with respect to service advisors who primarily sell or service automobiles, farm equipment, trailers, or trucks from the requirement that certain employers pay overtime wages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-21
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB38 | Engross | 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] | 2019-02-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1333 | 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 House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB126 | Intro | Prohibiting an employer from requiring, as a condition of employment or continued employment, an employee or a prospective employee, under certain circumstances, to join or remain a member of a labor organization, pay charges to a labor organization,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB1300 | 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] | 2019-02-14
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1250 | Intro | Requiring the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation to develop a mobile application to target employers in industries in which industry skills align with the skills developed through membership in a certain student organization; requiring co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1125 | Intro | Requiring each local school system to report to the State Department of Education on or before March 1 each year the number of high school students accepted into postsecondary career and technology education programs during the previous calendar year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB500 | Intro | Establishing the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program; providing for the manner in which the Program is to be administered; providing for the powers and duties of the Secretary of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation under the Program; requiring, b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB738 | Intro | Requiring an employer, on request, to provide to an applicant for employment the wage range for the position for which the applicant applied; prohibiting an employer from taking certain actions against an applicant for employment under certain circum...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB794 | Intro | Requiring that certain employees working at a heightened security interest location be paid a certain wage or combination of wages and benefits; declaring findings of the General Assembly; specifying that certain provisions of the Act do not diminish...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB558 | Intro | Requiring each local workforce development board to recruit employers to provide youth apprenticeships, registered apprenticeships, and job opportunities for certain students and graduates; requiring each local workforce development board to match hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB648 | Intro | Providing for the exemption of certain money and assets under certain retirement plans from certain claims; prohibiting the transfer or assumption of certain retirement annuity contracts between certain insurers except under certain circumstances; re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB790 | Intro | Requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry or a court to require a certain employer to pay a civil penalty equal to 10% of the amount of damages owned by the employer for violations of the Equal Pay for Equal Work Law; authorizing the Commissio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-08
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB629 | Intro | Requiring that certain employees working at a heightened security interest location be paid a certain wage or combination of wages and benefits; specifying that low wages, high turnover rates, and the inexperience of many employees at certain locatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-07
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB634 | Intro | Requiring an employer, on request, to provide to an applicant for employment the wage range for the position for which the applicant applied; prohibiting an employer from taking certain actions against an applicant for employment under certain circum...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-07
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB686 | Intro | Prohibiting a certain provision of the Maryland Healthy Working Families Act from being construed to prohibit an employer from applying a certain absence control policy if the employer provides at least 40 hours of paid leave a year, excluding earned...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-07
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB863 | Intro | Prohibiting certain employers from requiring an applicant for employment or an employee to disclose the applicant's or employee's use of marijuana or cannabis and from taking certain other action; providing that certain provisions of the Act do not p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-06
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB864 | Intro | Prohibiting a party to a contract from rescinding a contract between the party and a qualifying patient or caregiver based on the individual's status as a qualifying patient or caregiver; prohibiting an employer from discriminating against a qualifyi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-06
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
