| MD | HB298 | Engross | 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] | 2019-03-22
Laid Over (Senator Eckardt) Adopted |
| MD | SB652 | Engross | Entering into the Interstate Physical Therapy Licensure Compact to facilitate interstate practice of physical therapy with the goal of improving public access to services; requiring a state to meet certain requirements to participate in the Compact; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-22
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | SB371 | Engross | Requiring a dental practice to be owned, managed, or operated by a licensed dentist, subject to certain exceptions; authorizing an unlicensed person to take certain actions; prohibiting a licensed dentist from raising a certain defense in a certain a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB826 | Engross | Providing that certain provisions of a recorded covenant or restriction, a declaration, or the bylaws or rules of a condominium or homeowners association are void and unenforceable; establishing certain requirements and procedures relating to an appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 12:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1218 | Engross | Authorizing a landlord in Wicomico County to repossess property for failure to pay rent in a certain manner under certain circumstances; requiring the landlord to provide a certain notice to a certain tenant in a certain manner; establishing a certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 12:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB217 | Engross | Altering the definitions of "community association" and "local code violation" for purposes of certain provisions of law authorizing community associations to seek judicial relief for nuisance abatement in Baltimore County; repealing a provision of l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-21
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 12:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB33 | Engross | 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] | 2019-03-19
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB158 | Engross | Establishing the Community Dental Clinics Grant Program; authorizing the Board of Public Works, on the recommendation of the Secretary of Health, to make grants under the Program to counties, municipal corporations, and nonprofit organizations for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB655 | Engross | Requiring a person applying for a certain residential rental license to certify that the dwelling unit is not more than 60 days in arrears for a common ownership community fee; and providing that the Act does not preclude a county or municipality fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 27 @ 12:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB512 | Engross | 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] | 2019-03-19
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB841 | Engross | Authorizing a leaseholder of certain aquaculture leases to, with prior written approval from the Department of Natural Resources, place shellfish, bags, nets, and structures on submerged aquatic vegetation, subject to certain requirements and limitat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB786 | Engross | Providing that a person who is not a certain licensee may not complete the transfer of a certain rifle or shotgun as transferor or transferee, except under certain circumstances; requiring, before a certain transfer is conducted, the transferor and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1243 | Engross | Requiring that motor scooter sharing companies include on each motor scooter a tactile phone number through which an individual who is blind or visually impaired may contact the company; and requiring that motor scooter sharing companies provide indi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1228 | Engross | Requiring certain continuing education courses required by the State Real Estate Commission to include the principles of real estate brokerage relationships and disclosures; prohibiting licensees of the commission from disclosing confidential informa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-18
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB1178 | Intro | Establishing the Social Housing Program in the Division of Development Finance of the Department of Housing and Community Development; establishing the Social Housing Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; requiring the Governor to appropriate $2,500,00...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB332 | Engross | Establishing the Community Dental Clinics Grant Program; authorizing the Board of Public Works, on the recommendation of the Secretary of Health, to make grants under the Program to counties, municipal corporations, and nonprofit organizations for th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-15
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB473 | Intro | Defining "rent" to mean, for premises subject to a residential lease, the fixed periodic sum for use and possession of the leased premises and does not include any additional payments due from the tenant to the landlord under the lease; and providing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-15
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB558 | 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] | 2019-03-15
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB753 | Engross | Clarifying that a ground lease holder may not bring any suit, action, or proceeding against the current leasehold tenant or a former leasehold tenant to recover the ground rent that was due and owing before the date the current leasehold tenant acqui...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-15
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB340 | 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] | 2019-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means; Withdrawn |
| MD | SB448 | Engross | 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] | 2019-03-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB648 | Engross | Entering into the Interstate Physical Therapy Licensure Compact; stating that the goal of the Compact is to improve public access to physical therapy services; requiring a state to meet certain requirements to participate in the Compact; requiring a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB610 | Intro | Providing that a manufacturer, distributor, or factory branch may not prohibit a dealer from advertising a vehicle for sale or lease at a certain price or coerce or require a dealer to change the advertising medium for a certain price; and requiring ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-14
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB359 | Engross | Repealing certain provisions of law that relate to the Building Authority Commission in St. Mary's County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-13
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] | 2019-03-13
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| MD | SB837 | Intro | Prohibiting a person from driving a motor vehicle in a dedicated bus lane unless authorized by a local jurisdiction, subject to certain exceptions; authorizing the Maryland Transit Administration to use, under certain standards and procedures, a cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-13
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| MD | SB941 | Intro | Establishing that "rent" means, for premises subject to a residential lease, the fixed periodic sum for use and possession of the leased premises and does not include any additional payments due from the tenant to the landlord under the lease; and pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-13
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| MD | SB647 | Intro | Prohibiting an insurer from discriminating against certain breeds or mixed breeds of dogs in an offer of a homeowner's insurance or renter's insurance policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-08
To Senate Finance 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] | 2019-03-07
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs 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] | 2019-03-06
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation |
| MD | HB628 | Intro | Prohibiting a landlord from evicting a tenant from leased premises in Montgomery County in the absence of just cause; specifying the circumstances under which just cause exists; requiring a certain notice to a tenant to be sent by certified mail, ret...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-05
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB812 | Intro | Expanding the housing policy of the State to include providing for fair housing to all citizens regardless of source of income; stating the Act seeks to deconcentrate poverty by providing additional opportunities for tenants utilizing public subsidie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1054 | Intro | Requiring the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation to establish and maintain an online Leased Residential Property Registry for certain property; establishing that the Department is not responsible for the accuracy of certain information; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-03-04
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| MD | SB247 | Engross | Prohibiting 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 if the vehicle owned by the individual is not in use because of a w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-26
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1309 | 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] | 2019-02-26
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB451 | Intro | Expanding the housing policy of the State to include providing for fair housing to all citizens regardless of source of income; stating the Act seeks to deconcentrate poverty by providing additional opportunities for tenants utilizing public subsidie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-25
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| MD | SB956 | Intro | Clarifying that a ground lease holder may not bring any suit, action, or proceeding against the current leasehold tenant or a former leasehold tenant to recover the ground rent that was due and owing before the date the current leasehold tenant acqui...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-25
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB23 | Intro | Declaring a certain State policy concerning rental residential buildings; prohibiting the owner of a rental residential building that receives financial assistance from the Department of Housing and Community Development from entering into or renewin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-18
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | HB1360 | Intro | Limiting a statutory exception to the common-law rule against perpetuities that provides that the rule does not apply to an option of a tenant to purchase all or part of the premises leased by the tenant to an option that is exercisable only during t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-18
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB534 | Intro | Requiring, except under certain circumstances, that a diaper-changing facility be installed in certain restrooms in certain public buildings and certain places of public accommodation; requiring the Board of Public Works, through the Department of Ge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-15
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB632 | Intro | Amending the Maryland Constitution to establish that, subject to certain exceptions, an individual in the State who is at least 21 years old may under State law use cannabis, possess up to 1 ounce of cannabis, cultivate up to six cannabis plants, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB156 | Intro | Establishing the Public Charter School Facility Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; specifying that the Fund shall be used to provide funding to public charter schools in the State to acquire, plan, develop, finance, construct, improve, repair, and m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB488 | Intro | Establishing that the Act applies only to an action against a manufacturer of a toxic substance for damages allegedly caused by the presence of paint or surface coatings containing the toxic substance in a residential building located in Baltimore Ci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB884 | Intro | Requiring certain hosting platforms to collect the sales and use tax on the sale of the right to occupy certain lodging accommodations; requiring that the sales and use tax be stated and shown in a certain manner for each retail sale or sale for use ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1015 | 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] | 2019-02-12
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB805 | Intro | Requiring that motor scooter sharing companies include on each motor scooter a tactile phone number through which an individual who is blind or visually impaired may contact the company; and requiring that motor scooter sharing companies provide indi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1068 | Intro | Requiring an action for repossession for failure to pay rent to contain certain statements on whether the property is registered or licensed under local law and is an affected property under certain lead-based paint abatement laws; authorizing a cour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1269 | Intro | Authorizing a certain property owner to file a complaint for wrongful detainer of property under certain circumstances; and requiring a court to hold an emergency hearing on motion of any party to determine the legitimacy of a lease agreement for con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1191 | Intro | Establishing that the Act applies only to an action against a certain manufacturer of a toxic substance for damages allegedly caused by the presence of paint or surface coatings containing the toxic substance in a residential building located in Balt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-11
Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m. (Environment and Transportation) |
| MD | SB436 | Intro | Establishing that the owner of a rental vehicle may satisfy a certain insurance requirement by maintaining a certain security that is primary under certain circumstances and secondary to any other valid and collectible coverage under certain circumst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-02-08
To Senate Finance Committee |
