| HB606 | Pass | Establishing the Juvenile Justice Reform Council; requiring the Council, using a data-driven approach, to develop a statewide framework of policies to invest in strategies to increase public safety and reduce recidivism of youth offenders; requiring ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 253 |
| HB251 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Aging to make grants to certain nonprofit organizations and area agencies on aging to expand and establish certain aging-in-place programs for seniors; requiring the Department to publicize the availability of the grants...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 308 |
| SB390 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to allow a person to hunt game birds or mammals on a Sunday during the open season for that game bird or mammal on private property or certain public land in St. Mary's County under certain circumstance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 242 |
| HB510 | Pass | Prohibiting the owner or operator of a refuse disposal system from accepting loads of separately collected organic waste for final disposal unless the owner or operator provides for the organics recycling of the organic waste; authorizing that loads ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 366 |
| HB1072 | Pass | Authorizing the Motor Vehicle Administration to accept a certain form of security from a transportation network company in place of a certain insurance policy if the other form of security adequately provides certain benefits and if the transportatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 226 |
| HB169 | Pass | Expanding the duties of the State Advisory Board for Juvenile Services to include the examination and review of fatalities involving children under the supervision of the Department of Juvenile Services for the purpose of advising the Secretary of Ju...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 271 |
| SB607 | Pass | Prohibiting an insurer, with respect to homeowner's insurance, from increasing the premium for an insured who becomes a surviving spouse based solely on the insured's change in marital status.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 331 |
| HB1090 | Pass | Declaring that the General Assembly finds that 9-1-1 specialists are key members of the team of public safety personnel; repealing references to the term "9-1-1 public safety telecommunicator" and substituting references to the term "9-1-1 specialist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 299 |
| HB1154 | Pass | Altering the applicability of certain security breach investigation requirements to certain businesses; altering the applicability of certain security breach notification requirements to a certain owner or licensee of computerized data to allow notif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 294 |
| SB634 | Pass | Authorizing an electric cooperative to construct, maintain, or operate or allow others to construct, maintain, or operate conducting or communications facilities for telecommunications and broadband Internet services along, on, under, or across vario...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 277 |
| SB646 | Pass | Altering the circumstances under which certain firefighters, fire fighting instructors, rescue squad members, advanced life support unit members, and sworn members of the Office of the State Fire Marshal are presumed to be suffering from an occupatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 216 |
| SB198 | Pass | Clarifying that a person who solicits another or conspires with another to commit murder in the first degree is guilty of murder in the first degree if the death of another occurs as a result of the solicitation or conspiracy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 247 |
| HB570 | Pass | Requiring that regulations adopted under certain provisions of law regulating behavioral health programs include provisions authorizing a behavioral health program licensed as an outpatient mental health center to satisfy any regulatory requirement t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 274 |
| HB679 | Pass | Prohibiting certain individuals granted special access to the State legislative complex from unlawfully harassing or discriminating against certain individuals; requiring the Department of General Services, if requested, to revoke access granted to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 222 |
| HB427 | Pass | Requiring the Behavioral Health Administration to allow an eligible individual to request enrollment into a certain outpatient civil commitment pilot program; requiring the Administration to allow an immediate family member of an eligible individual ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 360 |
| SB178 | Pass | Requiring that regulations adopted under certain provisions of law regulating behavioral health programs include provisions authorizing a behavioral health program licensed as an outpatient mental health center to satisfy any regulatory requirement t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 275 |
| HB178 | Pass | Authorizing the Maryland Stadium Authority to provide for the renovation of the Ocean City Convention facility; increasing, from $17,340,000 to $24,500,000, the amount the Board of Public Works may approve for the issuance of certain bonds related to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 217 |
| HB511 | Pass | Altering the definition of "soil conditioner" to include the digestate produced by anaerobic digestion for purposes of the Maryland Commercial Fertilizer Law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 367 |
| HB1189 | Pass | Establishing the Critical Medical Needs Program in the Office of Home Energy Programs of the Family Investment Administration within the Department of Human Services in recognition of the challenges with energy bills faced by individuals with critica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 282 |
| HB1405 | Pass | Requiring the Director of Finance of Howard County, instead of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Howard County, to collect the county tax on the recordation of an instrument of writing that conveys title to real property; and repealing a requirement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 311 |
| HB406 | Pass | Specifying that the application fee for a structural shoreline stabilization project located on or adjacent to a State-owned lake may not exceed $250; and requiring the Department of the Environment, in conjunction with the Department of Natural Reso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 362 |
| SB381 | Pass | Authorizing a trustee to provide notice to a person under the Maryland Trust Act by first-class mail, personal delivery, or delivery to the person's delivery address; requiring a trustee to receive authorization in writing from a person entitled to r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 291 |
| HB417 | Pass | Repealing a requirement that a report of a sewer overflow or treatment plant bypass provided to the Department of the Environment by an owner or operator of certain sewer systems or wastewater treatment plants be made by telephone; specifying the con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 310 |
| SB85 | Pass | Extending from October 1 to October 20 the day by which the Capital Debt Affordability Committee must submit an estimate of the total amount of new State debt that may be authorized for the next fiscal year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 298 |
| HB1081 | Pass | Repealing a provision of law that requires a certified public accountant firm to hold a permit issued by the State Board of Public Accountancy if the firm performs certain attest services for a client with a home office in this State; and authorizing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 329 |
| SB403 | Pass | Requiring the Behavioral Health Administration to allow an eligible individual to request enrollment into a certain outpatient civil commitment pilot program; requiring the Administration to allow an immediate family member of an eligible individual ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 359 |
| SB261 | Pass | Requiring, rather than authorizing, a register of wills to waive certain fees for the administration of an estate if certain real property subject to administration in this State is to be transferred to a certain individual or is encumbered by a lien...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 224 |
| SB913 | Pass | Repealing a requirement that certain requests by retiree organizations to the Board of Trustees for the State Pension and Retirement System to assist the retiree organization in performing direct mailings to retirees of the State Retirement and Pensi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 328 |
| HB1246 | Pass | Expanding the vehicle excise tax credit for the purchase of certain plug-in electric drive vehicles to include the purchase of certain fuel cell electric vehicles; providing for the credit for a plug-in electric drive vehicle and a fuel cell electric...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 213 |
| HB1123 | Pass | Altering the name of the Industrial Hemp Pilot Program to be the Hemp Research Pilot Program; establishing the Hemp Farming Program to promote hemp as an agricultural commodity in the State, the commercial sale of hemp products within and outside the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 228 |
| SB513 | Pass | Repealing a provision of law that requires a certified public accountant firm to hold a permit issued by the State Board of Public Accountancy if the firm performs certain attest services for a client with a home office in this State; and authorizing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 330 |
| HB1021 | Pass | Increasing from one to three the number of students authorized to work under the supervision of a master barber.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 251 |
| SB532 | Pass | Reducing to 5 the minimum number of members of the board of directors that a domestic financial guaranty insurance company that is prohibited from issuing new policies must have on its board of directors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 234 |
| HB841 | Pass | 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] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 238 |
| SB736 | Pass | Altering certain definitions applicable to certain prohibitions against possessing, distributing, and creating child pornography; prohibiting a person from knowingly possessing and intentionally retaining a certain representation showing a computer-g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 326 |
| HB1010 | Pass | Authorizing the holder of a Class 5 brewery license to brew and bottle malt beverages at a location listed on an individual storage permit; authorizing a local licensing board to conditionally grant an applicant an on-site consumption permit or a Cla...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 317 |
| SB939 | Pass | Exempting under certain circumstances certain activities and the use of certain equipment that is associated with a shellfish nursery operation from the requirement to obtain certain licenses or permits from the Department of the Environment or the B...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 237 |
| HB28 | Pass | Exempting certain activities and the use of certain equipment that is associated with a shellfish nursery operation from the requirement to obtain certain licenses or permits; establishing that the use of certain equipment associated with a shellfish...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 236 |
| HB222 | Pass | Requiring an escrow agent to enter into a written agreement with the purchaser and the seller of certain residential real property when the escrow agent agrees to hold trust money in escrow for the residential real estate transaction; requiring a wri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 349 |
| HB465 | Pass | Altering the distribution of revenue from certain recordation taxes and local transfer taxes collected by the State Department of Assessments and Taxation so the recordation tax collected, after deducting certain revenues, is to be distributed to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 268 |
| HB808 | Pass | Repealing a certain list of plants considered to be noxious weeds in the State; requiring the Secretary of Agriculture to adopt regulations to establish a list of plants considered to be noxious weeds in the State; altering a certain condition under ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 278 |
| SB301 | Pass | Requiring each administrator of a hospital to provide patients with a certain patient's bill of rights; requiring each administrator of a hospital to provide certain patients with an interpreter, a translator, or other accommodation to provide assist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 286 |
| HB533 | Pass | Altering the membership of the Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland to include the Secretary of Commerce ex officio, one member each appointed by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House, and one additional student me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 346 |
| HB190 | Pass | Defining the term "failing on-site sewage disposal system" for certain provisions of law to mean an on-site sewage disposal system or a cesspool, or a component of an on-site sewage disposal system or a cesspool, that is a threat to the public health...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 342 |
| SB292 | Pass | Altering the definition of "public safety officer" to include certain volunteer emergency medical technicians for purposes of a certain property tax credit; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after June 30, 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 239 |
| SB290 | Pass | Altering the definition of "cottage food product" to include nonhazardous food, as specified in certain Department of Health regulations, that is sold in the State in accordance with certain provisions of law and regulations directly to a consumer or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 371 |
| HB284 | Pass | Requiring the Secretary of General Services, the Secretary of Transportation, the Chancellor of the University System of Maryland, and the President of Morgan State University to adopt certain regulations by December 31, 2019, to require the qualific...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 315 |
| HB145 | Pass | Requiring each administrator of a hospital to provide patients with a certain patient's bill of rights; requiring each administrator of a hospital to provide certain patients with an interpreter, a translator, or other accommodation to provide assist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 285 |
| HB225 | Pass | Adding an exemption from the Prince George's County school facilities surcharge for student housing designated by Bowie State University and the governing body of Prince George's County that is located within 1 mile of Bowie State University; authori...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 351 |
| HB1425 | Pass | Authorizing the Maryland Stadium Authority to prepare certain studies and, subject to the approval of the Board of Public Works, develop certain supplemental facilities and supplemental facility sites within Baltimore City that directly or indirectly...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2019-04-30
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 221 |
