| MD | HB271 | Intro | Reducing the certificate of title fee to $50 for a trailer with gross vehicle weight of 3,000 pounds or less if the trailer is transferred to a spouse, child, grandchild, parent, sibling, grandparent, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | HB415 | Intro | Altering the eligibility requirements for a Maryland Community College Promise Scholarship to repeal a provision of law requiring a certain applicant to apply within 2 years after graduating from high school; altering certain eligibility requirements...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations |
| MD | HB875 | Intro | Authorizing a law enforcement agency in Montgomery County to place distracted driver monitoring systems on highways located in Montgomery County, if authorized by the governing body of Montgomery County; requiring that a recorded image made by a dist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
Unfavorable Report by Environment and Transportation; Withdrawn |
| MD | SB158 | Intro | Requiring each room accessible for individuals with disabilities in a lodging establishment to be furnished with a bed of at least a certain height; and defining the term "accessible room" to mean a room in a lodging establishment that is in complian...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-21
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| MD | HB78 | Engross | Altering the criteria for determining the use of funds in the Bay Restoration Fund for certain purposes in certain fiscal years to include climate resiliency and flood control; and specifying that certain grants to certain local governments may be us...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-21
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| MD | HB93 | Engross | Requiring, except under certain circumstances, certain lenders to serve on the borrower at least 30 days before a lender repossesses mobile home a written notice of the lender's intention to repossess a certain mobile home; providing that a mobile ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB750 | Intro | Establishing an exception under certain circumstances for low speed electric vehicles to the vehicle registration requirement; authorizing the Motor Vehicle Administration to issue a permit to a municipality that authorizes the municipality to operat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-20
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 12:00 pm]
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1627 | Intro | Prohibiting large vehicles with four or more axles or a gross weight exceeding 10,000 pounds from using the far left lane on a roadway that has three or more lanes for traffic moving in the same direction with a certain posted maximum speed limit; an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-20
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1623 | Intro | Establishing collective bargaining rights for community college employees; establishing procedures for the selection of an exclusive bargaining representative; establishing that a maximum number of six bargaining units may be designated at each commu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-20
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1625 | Intro | Stating that the purpose of the Concentration of Poverty School Grant Program is to provide concentration of poverty school grants to county boards of education; altering the fiscal years during which the State is required to distribute a concentrati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-20
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1624 | Intro | Requiring, on or before January 1 each year, each county board of education to notify the parent or legal guardian of a student who attends a failing school that the school is a failing school and provide a list of available alternative school option...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-20
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB178 | Engross | Providing that a manufacturer, distributor, or factory branch may not prohibit a dealer from listing on the dealer's website a vehicle for sale or lease at the purchase price or coerce or require a dealer to list a price different from the purchase p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-19
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB912 | Intro | Establishing a Climate Crisis Initiative in the Department of the Environment for certain purposes; requiring the Secretary of the Environment to administer certain schedules of greenhouse gas pollution fees; requiring the Secretary to delegate certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-18
[Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB1032 | Intro | Altering from 30 to 60 megawatts the capacity of certain hydroelectric power plants in the definition of a Tier 1 renewable source for the renewable energy portfolio standard; and extending the renewable energy portfolio standard percentage derived f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-17
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB172 | Engross | Altering the criteria for determining the use of funds in the Bay Restoration Fund for certain purposes in certain fiscal years to include climate resiliency and flood control; and specifying that certain grants to certain local governments may be us...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB242 | Engross | Repealing provisions of law authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to issue a license to feed waterfowl; repealing certain license application requirements; repealing provisions of law concerning the establishment, approval, and use of certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-14
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB307 | Engross | Altering the eligibility requirements for a Maryland Community College Promise Scholarship to repeal a provision of law requiring a certain applicant to apply within 2 years after graduating from high school; establishing certain eligibility requirem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-14
[Hearing: Mar 17 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1581 | Intro | Altering the purpose of the Maryland Technology Internship Program; providing for the cumulative 2.5 grade point average that an individual shall maintain to qualify for participation in the Program with a unit of State government; providing for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1508 | Intro | Providing that certain provisions of law governing resource sharing do not apply to any private industry entities that have separate legal rights of access under State or local law to install communications lines and associated facilities in the Stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-12
[Hearing: Mar 9 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1022 | Intro | Requiring each county board of education, beginning in the 2020-2021 school year, to report certain data and information for each alternative school within its jurisdiction to the State Department of Education; requiring the Department, on or before ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1074 | Intro | Repealing the prohibition on a public school employer negotiating the maximum number of students assigned to a class.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1127 | Intro | Altering the composition, powers, and duties of the State Board of Master Electricians; changing the name of the State Board of Master Electricians to the State Board of Electricians; establishing a low-voltage electrician license as a State license ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1157 | Intro | Prohibiting a person from altering the grade of a student to purposefully misrepresent the student's performance, knowledge, or achievement in a course; and establishing a penalty of up to 1 year of imprisonment for a violation of the Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1195 | Intro | Requiring each county board of education, beginning in the 2022-2023 school year, to submit a report on or before April 30 each year to the State Board of Education and the General Assembly on computer science courses offered in public schools in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1421 | Intro | Requiring that, beginning in the 2020-2021 school year, a student who exceeds grade level standards on the Maryland School Assessment, is identified as gifted and talented, or has reached college and career ready benchmarks on certain standardized te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1543 | Intro | Establishing a Climate Crisis Initiative in the Department of the Environment for certain purposes; requiring the Secretary of the Environment to administer certain schedules of greenhouse gas pollution fees; requiring the Secretary to delegate certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-11
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
[Hearing: Mar 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1279 | Intro | Requiring that a certain refill be dispensed in the smallest commercially available package under certain circumstances if a prescription cannot be dispensed or sold in a 14-day or less supply or unit of use.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1319 | Intro | Establishing local regulation and control of alcoholic beverages in the City of Salisbury; authorizing the Mayor and City Council to constitute the Board of License Commissioners for the City of Salisbury or delegate certain authority; specifying tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1400 | Intro | Substituting the term "cannabis" for the term "marijuana" in certain provisions of law; altering a certain quantity threshold and establishing a certain age limit applicable to a certain civil offense of use or possession of cannabis; establishing an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1146 | Intro | Requiring that the agricultural land transfer tax revenue attributable to transfers of parcels of land that are at least 80% woodland, rather than entirely woodland, be remitted by each county to the Comptroller for certain purposes; increasing, from...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1117 | Intro | Prohibiting the Secretary of Commerce from designating a new enterprise zone or granting an expansion of an existing enterprise zone under certain circumstances; altering the circumstances under which the Secretary may grant an expansion of an enterp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1196 | Intro | Repealing an exemption for certain check cashing services from provisions of law governing the licensure of check cashing services; authorizing a person to provide check cashing services without obtaining a certain license by registering with the Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1176 | Intro | Establishing the Maryland Healthy Soils Grant Program to provide funds to eligible grantees to administer projects to improve the health, yield, and profitability of soils of the State; requiring the Department of Agriculture to implement and adminis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1216 | Intro | Making certain provisions of law that prohibit a local government from imposing certain requirements relating to wireless security systems also apply to certain battery-charged fence security systems; defining "battery-charged fence security system" ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 2 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1285 | Intro | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to reclassify an oyster sanctuary in which the oyster population has declined by 15% or more over a 10-year period as an oyster growth sanctuary; establishing the purpose of an oyster growth sanctuary; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1295 | Intro | Prohibiting, beginning July 1, 2021, the Interagency Commission on School Construction from approving a public school construction project for a school district that has not adopted or updated a certain school district energy policy; specifying the c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB1306 | Intro | Authorizing the Secretary of Natural Resources to adopt regulations to define and govern the use of hydraulic clam dredges, subject to certain requirements; increasing the frequency with which the Department of Natural Resources must update the delin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1349 | Intro | Establishing a clean energy attribute credit standard for certain purposes; repealing certain provisions relating to the renewable energy portfolio standard; stating certain findings of the General Assembly; stating certain policies of the State rega...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1312 | Intro | Prohibiting the Department of the Environment from issuing certain discharge permits to a person for a new industrial poultry operation or for the purpose of extending or expanding an industrial poultry operation in operation on or before September 3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1330 | Intro | Revising provisions relating to the Maryland Underground Facilities Damage Prevention Authority; altering the application and scope of certain provisions relating to underground facilities and damage prevention; requiring certain newly installed unde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1406 | Intro | Requiring local governments to allow the development of certain units in certain qualifying zones, with certain exceptions; authorizing local governments to establish and implement certain regulations; requiring the Department of Housing and Communit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1425 | Intro | Increasing the greenhouse gas emissions reductions that the State must achieve by 2030; requiring the State to achieve net-zero statewide greenhouse gas emissions by 2045; requiring the Department of the Environment to adopt a final plan that reduces...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1416 | Intro | Requiring a supplier of water to inspect certain valves in a public water system in a certain manner, repair or replace certain valves, inspect certain fire hydrants, formulate and implement a certain plan, identify the locations of certain valves, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1369 | Intro | Authorizing a person to submit a certain application to the Department of Agriculture to approve the use of a pesticide in the production of cannabis; requiring that an application include a certain certified risk assessment; requiring the Natalie M....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1392 | Intro | Setting the renewable energy portfolio standard for municipal electric utilities for 2020 and later.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1506 | Intro | Substituting the word "cannabis" for the word "marijuana" in various provisions of law; providing that use or possession of a certain personal use amount of cannabis by an individual who is under a certain age is a civil offense; providing that use o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1545 | Intro | Prohibiting the carbon dioxide emissions rate for certain affected electric generating units from exceeding a certain amount; establishing the Fossil Fuel Community Transition Account to provide grants to certain individuals and communities; requirin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1538 | Intro | Requiring, beginning on January 1, 2021, a waste hauler to report on a semiannual basis to the Department of the Environment on certain information regarding waste collected or hauled; requiring a waste hauler to keep a copy of the report for at leas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1490 | Intro | Requiring the Department of the Environment, in consultation with the Building Codes Administration and the Maryland Energy Administration, to adopt regulations on monitoring and reporting greenhouse gas emissions from certain buildings on or before ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1370 | Intro | Requiring the State, for certain construction projects and major renovation projects proposed after December 31, 2020, to require that the project be designed, engineered, and constructed in a manner that allows the roof to withstand the weight of so...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
[Hearing: Mar 10 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
