| SB571 | Pass | Authorizing a landowner, without the approval of the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation, to erect and display on land subject to a certain easement a certain sign or outdoor advertising display for a certain purpose; authorizing the F...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 644 |
| HB302 | Pass | Altering the method by which an individual or a corporation may claim a credit against the State income tax for certain expenses related to certain wineries and vineyards in the State; extending for 3 years to June 30, 2021, a certain termination pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 613 |
| HB319 | Pass | Altering to under 16 years of age rather than 18 years, the age range for which a certain charge relating to truancy is applicable; reducing the maximum terms of imprisonment from 10 to 3 days for a first conviction and 30 to 5 days for subsequent co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 706 |
| HB1245 | Pass | Establishing the Task Force on the Canal Place Preservation and Development Authority to determine how to alter the powers of the Authority as a State agency in order to align the mission and purpose of the Canal Place Heritage Area with that of othe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 789 |
| HB183 | Pass | Establishing the Prince George's County Environmental Justice Commission; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Commission; requiring the Commission to study and make recommendations regarding certain environmental justice issues ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 779 |
| HB1343 | Pass | Repealing a certain restriction on an establishment for which a stadium beer, wine, and liquor license may be issued in Harford County; repealing a certain restriction on a stadium beer, wine, and liquor license in Harford County that allows an indiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 649 |
| SB1218 | Pass | Establishing the Ending Youth Homelessness Grant Program to focus on preventing and ending youth homelessness in the State and addressing disparities based on race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity; requiring the Department of Housi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 748 |
| HB1804 | Pass | Establishing the Academic Health Center Immunotherapy Research Fund to provide matching grants to statewide academic health centers for immunotherapy research only; requiring a statewide academic health center to dedicate funding from other sources f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 590 |
| HB856 | Pass | Altering the Maryland earned income tax credit to allow certain individuals without certain qualifying children to claim the credit; applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017; and making the Act contingent on the taking ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 612 |
| HB238 | Pass | Prohibiting the governing body of Prince George's County and the police department in Prince George's County from using other persons, equipment, or facilities for removing, preserving, and storing vehicles under State and local law except under cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 777 |
| HB239 | Pass | Altering requirements relating to advertising for the sale of residential real property in a community development in Prince George's County that will include a certain community amenity; requiring a copy of any recreational facilities agreement reco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 778 |
| HB251 | Pass | Requiring a county board of education to provide age-appropriate instruction on the meaning of "consent" which is defined as the unambiguous and voluntary agreement between all participants in each physical act within the course of interpersonal rela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 736 |
| HB743 | Pass | Authorizing a simple majority of the members of the Board of License Commissioners for Harford County to approve or deny an application for a per diem license in a certain formal meeting or, with a certain written voting record, through oral or writt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 648 |
| HB1635 | Pass | Prohibiting a certain hearing officer from ordering the release of an individual who meets the requirements for involuntary admission under a certain provision of law on the grounds that the individual was kept at an emergency facility for more than ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 729 |
| SB271 | Pass | Requiring, except under certain circumstances, certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations that provide certain benefits under certain insurance policies or contracts to provide coverage for certain fertilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 716 |
| HB694 | Pass | Transferring certain responsibilities relating to the administration of certain statewide building codes from the Department of Housing and Community Development to the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation; providing for the transfer of cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 673 |
| SB80 | Pass | Altering a certain licensure requirement by specifying that certain examinations an applicant may pass to meet a certain examination requirement are those given by national credentialing organizations approved by the State Board of Occupational Thera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 659 |
| HB727 | Pass | Designating the Calvert Marine Museum as the State paleontology collection and research center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 743 |
| HB990 | Pass | Requiring the State Department of Assessments and Taxation to mail a certain notice about the homestead tax credit to each individual who acquires residential real property within a reasonable period of time after the individual acquires the property...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 781 |
| SB1045 | Pass | Requiring that the terms of a certain grant or contract allow for reimbursement of indirect costs at the same rate the nonprofit organization has negotiated and received for indirect costs under a direct federal award or negotiated and received from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 734 |
| HB1216 | Pass | Authorizing a student or a student's parent or guardian to release the student's Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery score to certain apprenticeship programs and certain employers; authorizing the State Department of Education to adopt regulat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 694 |
| SB245 | Pass | Requiring the Board of Public Works to adopt regulations to establish separate forms for procurement officers to use to require security for certain fixed-price and multiyear contracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 712 |
| HB572 | Pass | Increasing from $750 to $1,500 the maximum allowable amount of a credit against the State income tax that provides $5 for each bushel of oyster shells recycled during a taxable year; extending the termination date of the credit to June 30, 2021; and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 603 |
| SB1176 | Pass | Reducing the terms of the members of the Housing Commission of Anne Arundel County from 5 to 4 years to run coterminous with that of the County Executive; and providing for the termination of the terms of certain members of the Housing Commission of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 675 |
| HB327 | Pass | Altering a subtraction modification under the State income tax for certain military retirement income for individuals who are at least a certain age; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 572 |
| HB800 | Pass | Requiring, under certain circumstances, that a dentist who is a faculty member at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry and was trained at a foreign dental school be qualified by the State Board of Dental Examiners to take a certain examinat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 710 |
| HB1049 | Pass | Increasing the maximum number of years of eligibility service that certain members of the State Police Retirement System may have to participate in the Deferred Retirement Option Program (DROP) to 30; increasing the number of years that certain membe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 725 |
| HB2 | Pass | Altering the definition of "grower" to mean an entity that cultivates or packages medical cannabis and is authorized to provide cannabis to certain entities; establishing a Compassionate Use Fund to provide access to medical cannabis for certain indi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 598 |
| HB296 | Pass | Providing a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax under certain circumstances for a certain amount of retirement income attributable to certain employment as a correctional officer; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning aft...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 581 |
| SB299 | Pass | Including certain individuals employed by the Department of Juvenile Services and the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services in the membership of the Correctional Officers' Retirement System; requiring a certain transfer and combinatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 579 |
| SB496 | Pass | Authorizing a person to use graywater for certain residential purposes, including household gardening, composting, lawn watering, landscape irrigation, and toilet and urinal flushing under certain circumstances and in accordance with certain requirem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 705 |
| HB1069 | Pass | Increasing the amount of a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for certain qualifying volunteer fire, rescue, and emergency medical services members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 582 |
| HB1696 | Pass | Establishing the Task Force to Study Access to Home Health Care for Children and Adults with Medical Disabilities; requiring the Task Force to make recommendations on improving access to home health care in all areas of the State and on reimbursement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 798 |
| HB230 | Pass | Altering the circumstances under which the State may withdraw from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative by requiring the General Assembly to enact a law approving the withdrawal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 768 |
| HB190 | Pass | Repealing the requirement that the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission develop standards for the mandatory psychological evaluation of a certain law enforcement officer; requiring the Commission to develop standards for the mandatory ps...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 671 |
| SB751 | Pass | Extending the termination date to September 30, 2022, for certain provisions of law authorizing certain hybrid vehicles to use a certain high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane regardless of the number of passengers under certain circumstances; extending t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 678 |
| SB105 | Pass | Altering the membership of the State Advisory Council on Hereditary and Congenital Disorders; requiring that the Secretary of Health, rather than the Governor, make appointments to the Advisory Council; and prohibiting the Secretary from appointing v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 660 |
| HB1012 | Pass | Clarifying that the compensation of the Executive Director for the State Retirement Agency and certain staff shall be as provided in the State budget; requiring the Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System to adopt criteria for s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 727 |
| SB78 | Pass | Requiring certain domestic risk retention groups to implement certain governance standards; requiring the boards of directors of certain risk retention groups to have a majority of independent directors; establishing certain standards concerning whet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 667 |
| SB730 | Pass | Prohibiting a municipality from requiring an individual to provide a certain reason in order to vote by absentee ballot.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 745 |
| SB52 | Pass | Altering references to certain Medicare supplement policy plans to conform with certain provisions in federal law; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 664 |
| SB108 | Pass | Repealing requirements that fees for the licensure and permitting of behavioral health programs and facilities, medical laboratories, tissue banks, and health care facilities be set by the Secretary of Health; repealing certain provisions of law rega...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 661 |
| SB284 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to apply, by September 1, 2018, to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for an amendment to a certain waiver to implement a pilot program to provide limited dental coverage to certain individuals;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 621 |
| SB423 | Pass | Clarifying the group of persons who may file a certain petition for postconviction DNA testing or a database or log search; authorizing a court to order a certain remedy under certain circumstances for certain classes of persons filing for postconvic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 602 |
| HB784 | Pass | Requiring the Public Service Commission to provide certain notice of an application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity on its website and social media platforms; requiring a certain applicant to identify whether a certain overhead ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 773 |
| HB36 | Pass | Including certain individuals employed by the Department of Juvenile Services and the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services in the membership of the Correctional Officers' Retirement System; requiring the State Retirement Agency by Ja...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 580 |
| SB286 | Pass | Requiring the Secretary of Information Technology, or the Secretary's designee, on or before January 1, 2020, to adopt new nonvisual access procurement standards that provide individuals with disabilities with certain nonvisual access so the individu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 632 |
| HB1295 | Pass | Defining "Tier 1 county" as a county exceeding certain unemployment rates and with less than or equal to 75% of the median State income during certain periods; repealing a certain start-up tax credit under the One Maryland Economic Development Tax Cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 584 |
| SB844 | Pass | Repealing the provisions of law that establish the Newsprint Recycling Board; authorizing the Secretary of the Environment, rather than the Board, to exempt a publisher from certain recycled content requirements under certain circumstances; providing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 630 |
| SB809 | Pass | Creating an exception from hours of sale restrictions for certain alcoholic beverages licenses issued for establishments in a certain area in Baltimore City; altering the closing hour of sale for a certain license holder in a certain area of Baltimor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 755 |
