| MD | HB186 | Engross | Renaming the Court Dog and Child Witness Program to be the Court Dog Program; expanding the application of the Program to veterans participating in a court-supervised, comprehensive, and voluntary treatment-based program; establishing that the Progr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-24
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB939 | Intro | Establishing the Citizens Complaint Oversight Board of Charles County to conduct investigations into incidents of alleged police misconduct that occur in Charles County in a fair and timely manner, identify and address patterns of police misconduct, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-17
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB831 | Intro | Altering certain provisions of law to require the State Board of Elections to make all open meeting materials publicly available on its website before a certain meeting; altering the method by which a political party is determined for the purpose of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 3 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | SB7 | Engross | Renaming the Court Dog and Child Witness Program to be the Court Dog Program; expanding the application of the Program to veterans who are participating in a court-supervised, comprehensive, and voluntary treatment-based program; establishing that t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1066 | Intro | Authorizing the governing body of a county to establish a system of public campaign financing for certain offices after the governing body of the county has implemented a system of public campaign financing for elective offices in the executive or le...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1308 | Intro | Repealing the requirement that the Motor Vehicle Administration suspend the driving privileges of a person for delinquent unpaid traffic fines; requiring the District Court or a circuit court to refer delinquent unpaid traffic fines to the Central Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 1:30 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1012 | Intro | Requiring certain employers at the Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport to reinstate certain laid-off employees under certain circumstances; requiring certain employers to provide certain laid-off employees with certain writte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-09
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:30 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB862 | Intro | Authorizing a judge of the District Court or judge of a circuit court, on a finding of good cause, to recall an arrest warrant issued by a District Court commissioner and issue a summons in its place.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-09
[Hearing: Mar 3 @ 12:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB375 | Intro | Establishing the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program to provide temporary benefits to a covered individual who is taking leave from employment; establishing the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Fund; requiring, beginning January 1, 2022, cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1044 | Intro | Prohibiting the clerk of the Circuit Court for Washington County from issuing a certain business license under certain circumstances unless the applicant submits to the clerk a certification that the location of the business for which the license is ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-08
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1069 | Intro | Establishing the Private Well Safety Program in the Department of the Environment to address and manage the contamination of private water supply wells in the State; establishing the Private Well Safety Fund to be used to implement the Program and to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1024 | Intro | Establishing the Citizens Complaint Oversight Board of Charles County to conduct investigations into incidents of alleged police misconduct that occur in Charles County in a fair and timely manner, identify and address patterns of police misconduct, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1084 | Intro | Providing that a certain person is not civilly liable for an act or omission related to the person's failure to comply with certain guidance during a catastrophic health emergency unless it is shown by clear and convincing evidence that the act or om...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 3 @ 1:30 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB222 | Engross | Repealing certain provisions requiring certain courts exercising criminal jurisdiction in certain cases involving a child to order the child to be held in a secure juvenile facility pending a certain determination; requiring a certain child to be hel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB263 | Intro | Clarifying that the charter or bylaws of a corporation may require that any internal corporate claim be brought only in certain specified courts; repealing the authority of certain corporations to effect a certain reverse stock split; altering the ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-02
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB893 | Intro | Requiring the local department of social services and the circuit court to provide notice to a child's foster parent, kinship parent, preadoptive parent, or caregiver of the right to intervene as a party in any child abuse or neglect, termination of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB767 | Intro | Authorizing the Montgomery County Council to adopt, by law, a ranked choice voting method or an approval voting method for elections for certain local offices; defining "ranked choice voting" and "approval voting"; and authorizing a local law adoptin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB852 | Intro | Establishing the Homeowner Protection Program in the Department of Assessments and Taxation; providing that the purpose of the Program is to divert vulnerable homeowners from the private tax lien sale process into an alternative program with certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-01
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | SB532 | Intro | Prohibiting a person from engaging in the business of making or soliciting a sales-based financing transaction unless the person is licensed by the Commissioner of Financial Regulation; requiring an applicant for a license to have $20,000 in availabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB744 | Intro | Prohibiting the clerk of a circuit court from collecting fees for docketing the appearance of a petitioner's counsel in certain domestic violence cases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-31
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB627 | Intro | Repealing the Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights; providing for the discipline of law enforcement officers; providing that provisions of the Act supersede and preempt any other law of the State, a county, or a municipal corporation; providing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-31
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB781 | Intro | Clarifying that the charter or bylaws of a corporation may require that any internal corporate claim be brought only in certain specified courts; repealing the authority of certain corporations to effect a certain reverse stock split; altering the ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB664 | Intro | Prohibiting a person from engaging in the business of making or soliciting a sales-based financing transaction unless the person is licensed by the Commissioner of Financial Regulation; requiring an applicant for a license to have $20,000 in availabl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-28
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB685 | 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] | 2021-01-28
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB31 | Intro | Increasing certain surcharges on certain fees, charges, and costs in certain civil cases in the circuit courts and the District Court; requiring that certain surcharges collected be equally deposited into the Maryland Legal Services Corporation Fund ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB478 | Intro | Increasing surcharges for certain civil cases in the circuit courts from $55 to $75 per case and in the the District Court from $8 to $13 per summary ejectment case and from $18 to $24 per case for all other civil cases; and prohibiting the surcharge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB486 | Intro | Requiring the Chancellor of the University System of Maryland to act on behalf of the University System of Maryland and certain system institutions for the purpose of collective bargaining; altering the application of certain collective bargaining re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-19
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB447 | Intro | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution relating to the selection, election, tenure, and continuance in office of a judge of an appellate court or a circuit court; altering the methods for filling vacancies in the offices of such judges; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB35 | Intro | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution to provide for retention elections for judges of the circuit courts; proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution decreasing the term of office from 15 years to 12 years for the judges of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB75 | Intro | Specifying that certain provisions of election law govern the nomination and election of circuit court judges, subject to certain exceptions; requiring circuit court judges to be elected on a nonpartisan basis; specifying that any registered voter of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB366 | Intro | Authorizing a judge of the District Court or a judge of a circuit court, on a finding of good cause, to recall an arrest warrant issued by a District Court commissioner and issue a summons in its place.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB9 | Intro | Requiring the Chancellor of the University System of Maryland to act on behalf of the University System of Maryland and certain system institutions for the purpose of collective bargaining; altering the application of certain collective bargaining re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-11
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB232 | Intro | Increasing surcharges for certain civil cases in the circuit courts from $55 to $75 per case and in the the District Court from $8 to $13 per summary ejectment case and from $18 to $24 per case for all other civil cases; and prohibiting the surcharge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-28
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB295 | Intro | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution relating to the selection and tenure of circuit court judges; altering the method of filling vacancies in the office of a judge of a circuit court; providing for retention elections following an app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-28
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB211 | Intro | Establishing the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program to provide temporary benefits to a covered individual who is taking leave from employment; establishing the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Fund; requiring, beginning January 1, 2022, cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB107 | 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] | 2020-12-23
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB57 | Intro | Prohibiting a local board of elections from making a covered change in voting locations except under certain circumstances; requiring a local board to attempt to contact a voter who failed to sign a paper absentee ballot application and attempt to ob...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-22
To House Ways and Means Committee |
