| SB888 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a background check for a person applying for a pesticide dealer permit or to become a certified applicator; and authorizing the Department of Agriculture to charge a fee to cover costs associated with background checks under specified circu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs |
| SB695 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from engaging in an activity or strategy to implement a State Watershed Implementation Plan until the State completes a full assessment of the environmental impacts of opening the Conowingo Dam floodgates in September 2011 follow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs |
| SB218 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing to 3.5% the maximum rate a county may impose on an individual's Maryland taxable income; authorizing a county to impose the increase to the county income tax rate on a bracket basis; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation Withdrawn |
| SB1083 | Intro
Sine Die | Amending the Maryland Consolidated Capital Bond Loan of 2010 to extend the deadline for the Board of Directors of Southeast Development, Inc. to present evidence that a matching fund will be provided for the renovation of the Southeast Neighborhood D...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation Withdrawn |
| SB862 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each political subdivision to adopt by regulation a minimum safety inspection standard for the maintenance and inspection of building exteriors; requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development to adopt by regulation a General ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs |
| SB1012 | Intro
Sine Die | Including motorcycles in the definition of "short-term vehicle rental" for purposes of determining the sales and use tax rate for short-term vehicle rentals; including motorcycles in the definition of "rental vehicle" for purposes of the Motor Vehicl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-16
Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m. |
| SB1042 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the circumstances for a person who takes delivery of, possesses, or transports a slot machine for specified purposes to require the person to operate as a distributor or vendor of slot machines with or without a direct affiliation to a manuf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-16
Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m. |
| SB827 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing that the State may not prohibit the installation of any on-site sewage disposal system until a specified amount of time after specified overflows at sewage pumping stations are fully mitigated and specified capital improvements are made ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs |
| SB940 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a tire manufacturer or distributor to affix on any tire manufactured for sale in the State a label that displays in a specified manner the month and year in which the tire was manufactured and a specified statement relating to tire age and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Finance Withdrawn |
| SB729 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring specified counties with at least 6,500 full-time employees to keep records relating to employee grievances or complaints for fiscal year 2013; requiring the counties to submit a report to the Employee Relations Division of the Department of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Finance Withdrawn |
| SB823 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, on or before October 1, 2012, the Department of the Environment to create a list that ranks best management practices relating to a Watershed Implementation Plan based on cost and expected pollution reduction value; requiring the Departmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs |
| SB821 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each entity that prepares a Watershed Implementation Plan to prepare a cost assessment of costs associated with implementing the Plan through 2017; requiring a cost assessment to be updated each year by December 1; requiring the Department ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs |
| SB518 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that when a primary procurement unit makes a specified determination concerning its participation in an intergovernmental cooperative purchasing agreement, the determination will include a statement that the agreement will allow an entity w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs |
| SB979 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Transit Administration to activate an audio recording device on specified vehicles; requiring the Administration to post a notice on vehicles, as specified; limiting, to specified persons and for specified purposes, the review ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| SB564 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that a public school student in elementary school be provided a daily program of physical education totaling at least 150 minutes each week; requiring that the program of physical education for a specified category of student be consistent ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs |
| SB701 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that the State Development Plan may be used in the determination of State funding decisions but may not be used to create or establish a new cause for the denial of a project, a permit, or an approval by the State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-15
Unfavorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs |
| SB697 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Office of the Inspector General in the State Department of Transportation; providing for the authority, duties, and powers of the Office; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-15
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB790 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Governor to proclaim March 10, 2012, as Harriet Tubman Day; and making the Act an emergency measure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-15
Unfavorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs Withdrawn |
| SB694 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "executive order" to remove from the definition an order or an amendment or a rescission of an order that adopts specified guidelines, rules of conduct, or rules of procedure for specified persons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-15
Unfavorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs |
| SB789 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a county or local government agency to consider an individual eligible for specified paratransit service on notification from the Maryland Department of Transportation that the individual has been certified eligible for paratransit service;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-15
Unfavorable Report by Finance Withdrawn |
| SB785 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting an insurer, with respect to private passenger motor vehicle insurance, from rating a risk based, in whole or in part, on the credit history of an applicant or insured in any manner; repealing provisions of law authorizing an insurer to us...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-15
Unfavorable Report by Finance Withdrawn |
| SB780 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting automatic renewal clauses in specified residential electricity supply contracts; prohibiting a residential supply contract from containing an early termination fee or penalty on cancellation of the contract unless the customer is given no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-15
Unfavorable Report by Finance Withdrawn |
| SB757 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing a credit against the State income tax for specified qualified expenditures at specified wineries and specified vineyards; requiring the Maryland Department of Agriculture to administer the tax credit; providing for the maximum amount of tax ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-15
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB844 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing a tax credit against the State income tax for contributions made to specified student assistance organizations; requiring the Department of Business and Economic Development to administer the tax credit; requiring specified entities to subm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-15
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB1054 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an automotive dismantler and recycler or scrap processor to give to specified persons under specified circumstances at least 10 days' notice of intent to dispose of specified vehicles; and providing that an automotive dismantler and recycle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-15
Unfavorable Report by Finance Withdrawn |
| SB835 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Planning and a county or municipal corporation to meet in good faith and seek to resolve a specified conflict between the State Development Plan and the county or municipal corporation under specified circumstances; and pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-15
Unfavorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs |
| SB832 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing provisions of law designating the Department of Planning as a principal department of State government and providing specified legal counsel to the Department of Planning; renaming the Department of Planning to be the Office of Planning and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-15
Unfavorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs |
| SB831 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Credit Counseling and Legal Assistance Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; specifying the purpose of the Fund; requiring the Division of Consumer Protection in the Office of the Attorney General to administer the Fund; requiring the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-15
Unfavorable Report by Finance Withdrawn |
| SB829 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Secretary of Planning to submit a State Development Plan to the General Assembly; prohibiting the Plan from being finalized until it is approved by an Act of the General Assembly; requiring the Governor to file with the Secretary of Sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-15
Unfavorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs |
| SB732 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a Low-Cost Automobile Insurance Program in Prince George's County; establishing the purpose of the Program; providing that the Program is part of the Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund; altering the purpose of the Fund; providing for the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-15
Unfavorable Report by Finance Withdrawn |
| SB826 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the Department of Planning, the Office of Smart Growth, the Special Secretary of Smart Growth, or the Smart Growth Subcabinet from adopting regulations or taking actions that restrict the planning and land use powers of local governments ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-15
Unfavorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs |
| SB728 | Intro
Sine Die | Waiving tuition and mandatory fees for children of State or local law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty who attend a public institution of higher education under specified circumstances; setting forth the conditions for receiving the wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-15
Unfavorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs |
| SB592 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a custodian of a public record to deny inspection under the Public Information Act of a public record that is produced or collected by a faculty of a public institution of higher education under specified circumstances; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-15
Unfavorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs Withdrawn |
| SB590 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a health benefit plan certified by the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange as a qualified health plan from providing coverage for an abortion; and establishing an exception.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-15
Unfavorable Report by Finance Withdrawn |
| SB810 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing a subtraction under the Maryland income tax for up to $240 a month of commuter expenses of an individual; reducing the amount allowed as a subtraction by the amount excluded for the same purposes from federal gross income; applying the Act ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-15
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB1090 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to supervise the provision of supplemental educational services in the State; requiring the Department to assist county boards of education in developing specified funding applications in a specified manner...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-15
Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m. |
| SB809 | Intro
Sine Die | Designating specified periods each year to be tax-free periods during which an exemption from the sales and use tax is provided for the sale of specified textbooks purchased by a full-time or part-time student enrolled at a public senior higher educa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-15
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB913 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a unit of State government, under specified circumstances, to reject a bid or proposal if the bidder or offeror is located outside the State or if the goods or services required to be provided under the contract would be provided by a subco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-15
Unfavorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs |
| SB221 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing specified burdens of proof in an alleged strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP) suit; requiring a court to consider specified evidence in ruling on a motion to dismiss or to stay an alleged SLAPP suit; authorizing specifi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-14
Third Reading Failed (21-25) |
| SB1035 | Intro
Sine Die | Reestablishing a job creation tax credit program for the hiring of specified qualified individuals; providing for the calculation of the credit; creating a Public School Apprenticeship Program established within the Department of Labor, Licensing, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-14
Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m. |
| SB904 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a pilot project in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to test alternative and innovative health care delivery systems that provide services to the fee-for-service Maryland Medical Assistance Program population in a specified man...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Hearing cancelled |
| SB608 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each governing board of a public institution of higher education in the State to develop a specified policy for the waiver of specified tuition for employees of the Maryland Higher Education Commission and their children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
Third Reading Failed (12-33) |
| SB730 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing the amount allowed as a deduction for additional exemptions under the Maryland income tax for individuals who as of the last day of the taxable year are blind or are at least 65 years old; applying the Act to tax years beginning after Dece...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB1034 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Attorney General of Maryland, rather than the head of each principal unit of State government, to assign to each unit a fair practices officer and an appropriate number of equal employment opportunity officers who report directly to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-13
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB699 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing from 35% to 50%, for fiscal year 2013 and thereafter, the percentage of operating costs for specified public transit services that the Maryland Transit Administration must recover from fares and other operating revenues; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-12
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB698 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Transit Administration to separately recover from fares and other operating revenues the total operating and capital costs for the Administration's bus, light rail, and subway services in the Baltimore region and passenger rail...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-12
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB280 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study Implementing a Civil Right to Counsel in Maryland; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving specified compensation, but authorizin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-12
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB696 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Red Line Transit Authority and the Purple Line Transit Authority to finance, construct, and operate the Red Line and the Purple Line light rail transit lines; providing for the members, appointments, terms, chairs, and staff of the A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-12
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB57 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "work zone" as it relates to work zone speed control systems; and providing that a work zone speed control system may be used only when a worker is present on the roadway, median divider, or shoulder within or adjacent to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-12
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB987 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing tax credits against the State, county, and municipal corporation property taxes and the State income tax for specified conservation property donated to NeighborSpace of Baltimore County, Inc.; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-03-12
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation Withdrawn |
