| SB359 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Assessments and Taxation to waive certain document filing fees for certain entities certified under the federal Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program and certain veteran-owned small business enterprises; and requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB358 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing certain persons to claim a refund for the sales and use tax imposed on the sale of certain construction material and warehousing equipment purchased in years 2021 through 2025 and used solely in a certain target redevelopment area in Wash...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB331 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the State or a local jurisdiction from imposing or levying a vehicle-miles-traveled tax or other similar fees, tolls, or taxes; prohibiting the State or a local jurisdiction from requiring the installation of a device in or on a privately...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB500 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Director of the State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency, at the end of each fiscal year, to remit money in the unclaimed prize fund to the Comptroller for distribution to each county board of education in the State on a pro rata basis ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB278 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for up to $100,000 of income each year for individuals who are receiving certain benefits under the Social Security Act, or who are at least 65 years old and are not employed full-time...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB286 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding the scope of a certain prohibition against interfering with, injuring, tampering with, or destroying a horse used for a certain purpose to prohibit a person from interfering with, injuring, tampering with, or destroying livestock used for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB263 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring certain taxpayers to add a certain deduction for gains from sales or exchanges of qualified opportunity zone property back to federal adjusted gross income to determine Maryland adjusted gross income; requiring certain taxpayers to add a ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB445 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a veterinary practitioner from performing certain declawing procedures on a cat unless the procedure is necessary for a therapeutic purpose; requiring the State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners to refuse, suspend, or revoke any appli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB269 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering, from 55 years old to 50 years old, the age at which a resident is eligible for a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for retirement income attributable to certain employment; altering the amount of certain retirement inco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB428 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the term "podiatrist" to be "podiatric physician".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB336 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for certain deposits into certain catastrophe savings accounts and the interest earnings of the account; providing for the maximum amount that may be maintained in a catastrophe saving...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB444 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the fee that a homeowners association may impose for a certain inspection from $50 to $100; altering the circumstances under which the homeowners association is entitled to the inspection fee; establishing that a homeowners association shall...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB491 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring an action for repossession for failure to pay rent to contain certain statements on whether the property is registered or licensed under local law and is an affected property under certain lead-based paint abatement laws; authorizing a cour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| SB248 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that the juvenile court does not have jurisdiction over a child alleged to have committed attempted carjacking or attempted armed carjacking unless the child is under the age of 16 years or a court exercising criminal jurisdiction transfers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB67 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that the Maryland income tax does not apply to the income of an individual erroneously convicted, sentenced, and confined under State law for a crime the individual did not commit; requiring the Comptroller to adopt regulations to provide p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB61 | Intro
Sine Die | Including income from certain retirement plans within a certain subtraction modification allowed under the Maryland income tax for certain individuals who are at least a certain age or who are disabled or whose spouse is disabled; altering the maximu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB134 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to limit the cumulative amount a covered individual is required to pay on copayment or coinsurance for a covered prescription insulin drug to no more tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-28
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB107 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a mortgagor or a grantor who secures a mortgage or deed of trust for the purchase of a single family dwelling unit that is subject to fees imposed by a common ownership community to pay the fees as part of the payments made under the mortga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| SB308 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the title of the Executive Director of the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to be the Chief Executive Officer; making conforming changes; and authorizing the publisher of the Annotated Code of Maryland to make certain changes in a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB502 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each official custodian to adopt a certain policy of proactive disclosure; requiring each official custodian to publish a certain annual report on a certain website, to the extent practicable; requiring the Public Information Act Compliance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB401 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the intent of the General Assembly that each official custodian adopt an internet use policy and other technological advances to expand remote access to public records and increase the transparency of government; requiring the Public Inf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB19 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the University of Maryland Extension to provide a dedicated extension agent to assist individuals with the adoption of management-intensive farming and grazing practices; requiring the Governor to provide at least $500,000 each year to supp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| SB46 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State's Attorney in a certain criminal case to make a timely disclosure to a defendant if certain facial recognition technology or certain forensic genetic genealogical DNA analysis technology has been used during the criminal investiga...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn |
| HB74 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering a certain definition of "crime of violence" to include felony witness intimidation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary; Withdrawn |
| HB65 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering, from clear and convincing evidence to a preponderance of the evidence, the standard of proof by which a judge in a certain criminal case must make certain findings before the judge may admit a certain statement into evidence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
Unfavorable Report by Judiciary; Withdrawn |
| SB21 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the holder of a manufacturer's license in each jurisdiction of the State to provide or conspicuously display a menu of food options or conspicuously display the actual food items available for purchase if the holder sells food for on-premis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-27
Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs; Withdrawn |
| HB296 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting, beginning January 1, 2021, a food service business from providing a single-use plastic straw to a customer dining in the food service business unless the customer requests a straw; and applying the Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB167 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that an amount equal to 100% of the State's General Fund per full-time equivalent student appropriation to the 4-year public institutions of higher education be provided by the State to certain eligible private nonprofit institutions of hig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB237 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a business that maintains personal information of an individual residing in the State to implement and maintain certain security procedures and practices; altering the circumstances under which the owner or licensee of certain computerized ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB220 | Intro
Sine Die | Extending the termination date for the credit against the State income tax for the employment of an eligible apprentice to January 1, 2025, under certain circumstances; providing that Section 2 of Chapter 149 of the Acts of 2017 shall remain effecti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB98 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "qualifying biomass" for purposes of excluding energy derived from certain material from being eligible for meeting certain Tier 1 obligations under the renewable energy portfolio standard; providing that existing obligatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB495 | Intro
Sine Die | Adding cases concerning neglect of a minor under a certain provision of law as a type of case in which a court may admit into evidence a certain out of court statement made by a certain child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB479 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission, in consultation with the Anne Arundel County Police Academy, to develop and maintain a uniform statewide training and certification curriculum that includes role-playing exercises to en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB393 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the period of time within which the Maryland Department of Health must present a claim against the estate of a deceased Maryland Medical Assistance Program recipient before the claim is barred.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB458 | Intro
Sine Die | Extending the jurisdiction of the equity court to include a petition for the emancipation of a minor; altering the conditions under which an individual who is 17 years old may marry; requiring a clerk of the court to review a certain order before iss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB423 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifying that a certain appropriation calculated under the Senator John A. Cade Funding Formula and a certain appropriation for Baltimore City Community College include appropriations, regardless of where they are budgeted, designated for the gener...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB449 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding the applicability of a certain exception to the hearsay rule by authorizing the admission of a certain statement in any criminal case; expanding the applicability of a certain exception to the hearsay rule by authorizing the admission of a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB485 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the court to impose, on a person convicted of a hate crime, at least 8 hours of educational instruction relating to the group or community against whom the person convicted has committed a prohibited act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB438 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the eligibility of certain sources of energy for the creation of credits under the renewable energy portfolio standard; removing certain sources from the definition of a "Tier 1 renewable source"; providing that existing obligations or contr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB342 | Intro
Sine Die | Allowing certain individuals a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for a certain amount of income; establishing certain limits on the subtraction modification for certain taxable years; prohibiting income included in certain subtra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB302 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a Joint Committee on Workforce Development to evaluate the condition of the State's public and private sector workforces, monitor skills shortages, identify strategies to expand employment opportunities, increase earnings, and evaluate t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB474 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing an amendment to the Maryland Constitution to change the name of the Court of Appeals to be the Supreme Court of Maryland, to change the name of the Court of Special Appeals to be the Maryland Appellate Court, to change the name of a Judge o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB361 | Intro
Sine Die | Phasing out, over 2 taxable years, a certain limitation on the amount of certain military retirement income that may be included in a certain subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax; applying the Act to all taxable years beginning afte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB345 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing a certain exception that allowed an insurer to cancel or refuse to renew coverage for homeowner's insurance based on weather-related claims if there were three or more weather-related claims within the preceding 3-year period; and requiring...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB446 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the membership of the Correctional Officers' Retirement System to include Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services employees in the position of chaplain on or after July 1, 2020; requiring a certain transfer and combination of c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SB229 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding to all counties in the State a prohibition on State agencies constructing within the nine Eastern Shore counties a toll road, toll highway, or toll bridge without the consent of a majority of the affected counties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB354 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting an owner, an operator, or a manager of a lodging establishment from providing a certain personal cleansing product in a certain small plastic bottle under certain circumstances; authorizing an owner, an operator, or a manager of a lodging...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB350 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering, from 55 years old to 50 years old, the age at which a resident is eligible for a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for retirement income attributable to certain employment; altering the amount of certain retirement inco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB419 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each institution of higher education to collect data on the number of students who have unpaid fees, the average amount of unpaid fees, the common categories for which fees are owed, the number of academic documents withheld because of unpa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB212 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that a manufacturer, distributor, or factory branch may not take adverse action against a dealer for advertising a vehicle for sale or lease at the purchase price or coerce or require a dealer to change the medium for advertisement of the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
To House Economic Matters Committee |
