| HB729 | Intro
Sine Die | Reducing the number of days, from 30 to 3, after the receipt of certain claims or certain information under certain circumstances within which an insurer, a nonprofit health service plan, or a health maintenance organization is required to mail or o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB723 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Evaluate Existing School Civic Literacy Programs; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to evaluate existing school civic literacy programs, determine a certain s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB792 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the governing body of Montgomery County to establish, by law, a system of public campaign financing for the elected members of the county board of education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB724 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "public charter school" to include a virtual learning program; defining "virtual learning program" as a program of instruction that provides a significant portion of its curriculum and delivers a significant portion of its ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB641 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that a certain summary that certain employers are required to keep conspicuously posted in certain places of employment include certain antiretaliation provisions; prohibiting certain employers from taking certain actions under the Maryland...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB535 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Preventive Measure Unit Pilot Program in Anne Arundel County; requiring the Anne Arundel County Board of Education, in collaboration with the County Police Department and the County Mental Health Agency, to establish a preventive mea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB411 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a pawnbroker from charging interest on a pawn transaction beyond certain specified rates; establishing the maximum interest rates a pawnbroker may charge for certain pawn transactions, with certain exceptions; and establishing the maximum...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB575 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Education and certain nonpublic schools to develop and implement a program of age-appropriate education on the awareness and prevention of sexual abuse and assault; and including, for students in grades 6 through 8, mater...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB708 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding eligibility for a property tax exemption for the dwelling house of a disabled veteran to include veterans with a service connected disability of at least 80%; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB659 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a carrier to make available to an individual enrolled in a Medicare supplement policy plan different Medicare supplement policy plans with certain benefits during the 30 days following the individual's birthday; prohibiting a carrier, for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB742 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that an agreement by a foreign worker to waive certain rights is void as contrary to public policy; requiring an individual to be licensed by the Commissioner of Labor and Industry before the individual may perform a foreign labor contracti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB831 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing, from 30 years to 40 years, the maximum term of imprisonment that may be imposed for attempting to commit second-degree murder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB516 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a public school student in elementary school to be provided a daily program of physical activity totaling 150 minutes each week to include physical education and developmentally appropriate, moderate-to-vigorous activity, including recess a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB547 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the actions with regard to which hospitals and related institutions are prohibited from discriminating against individuals on certain grounds to include the treatment or procedure sought by the individual under certain circumstances; alterin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB871 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a membership entity to require a member to donate to noncampaign political activity of the membership entity up to 25% of the total annual amount the member is required to pay as dues, fees, or other assessments as a condition of membersh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB522 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to study certain matters relating to the Home and Hospital Teaching Program for Students and make recommendations regarding any statutory or regulatory changes to the program; requiring, by December 31, 202...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB834 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that the juvenile court does not have jurisdiction over a child at least 16 years old alleged to have committed attempted carjacking or attempted armed carjacking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB881 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that certain required envelopes used by certain voters voting by absentee ballot to return their ballots include prepaid postage; requiring the State Board of Elections to reimburse each local board of elections for 50% of the costs of prep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB859 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Board of Elections approved absentee ballot application to require the applicant to provide certain information; repealing a provision of law requiring a local board of elections to provide an absentee ballot by facsimile transmis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB898 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the purpose of the Protective Body Armor Fund to include assistance to first responders; requiring the Treasurer to make payments out of the Fund to a first responder unit; authorizing a first responder unit to use State money only to acquir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB484 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each carrier to inform members and beneficiaries in a certain manner of the right to request a referral to a specialist or nonphysician specialist who is not part of the carrier's provider panel; requiring, under certain circumstances, cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB867 | Intro
Sine Die | Designating a State tartan made up of a plaid reflecting design composed of the colors in the State flag and a certain thread count.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB830 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that multiple thefts committed by the same person in multiple counties under one scheme or continuing course of conduct may be aggregated and prosecuted in any county in which any one of the thefts occurred; altering a certain provision rel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB653 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a carrier to make available to an individual enrolled in a Medicare supplement policy plan different Medicare supplement policy plans with certain benefits during the 30 days following the individual's birthday; prohibiting a carrier, for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB952 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing certain prohibitions on certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations regarding the imposition of step therapy or fail-first protocols; requiring a step therapy protocol to be established by using ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB623 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring, to the extent authorized under federal law, certain entities to include payments made by certain persons when calculating certain contributions to an out-of-pocket maximum or a cost-sharing requirement for an insured, a subscriber, or a me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB416 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Medical Cannabis Business Development Fund to provide financial assistance and grants relating to small, minority and women business owners; requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development to administer the Fund; requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB724 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Secretary of Budget and Management, in partnership with the Secretary of Information Technology and the State Chief Information Security Officer, to establish certain minimum qualifications for skilled service and professional service c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB439 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposing a tax of 17% on the Maryland taxable income attributable to certain investment management services of an individual or a corporation or the distributive share of a pass-through entity; providing that the tax does not apply to investment mana...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB808 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing a pilot program to examine the testing of oral fluid samples by certain police officers to assist in determining whether an individual is operating a motor vehicle while impaired by a controlled dangerous substance; authorizing a police ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB803 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing certain penalties relating to the prohibition against intercepting and disclosing certain communications; providing that a certain communication that was intercepted in violation of certain provisions of law may be admissible in certain pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB797 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Court Administrator to collect, maintain, provide certain access to, and, on or before July 1, 2021, and quarterly thereafter, make and publish on a website accessible to the public a report on certain information related to certa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB895 | Intro
Sine Die | Replacing references to Columbus Day in certain provisions of law with references to Indigenous Peoples' Day; and establishing that Indigenous Peoples' Day is to be observed on October 12 or if the United States Congress designates another day for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB957 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring certain businesses that collect a consumer's personal information to provide certain clear and conspicuous notices to the consumer at or before the point of collection; authorizing a consumer to submit a certain request for information to a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB738 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the actions with regard to which hospitals and related institutions are prohibited from discriminating against individuals on certain bases; altering the characteristics of an individual on the basis of which hospitals and related institutio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB264 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that a student in a Prince George's County public elementary school be provided a daily program of physical activity each week totaling 150 minutes, including a minimum of 90 minutes of physical education; requiring the program of physical ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB795 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the High School Level of Registered Youth Apprenticeships Program in the Maryland Department of Labor to enable high school students to accelerate their acquisition of occupational skills and work experience; requiring each local board o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB644 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to report to the Senate Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee and the House Committee on Ways and Means, on or before December 1 each year, on the implementation by local school systems of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB773 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring each county board of education and authorizing nonpublic schools in the State to establish a policy to authorize certain school personnel to administer bronchodilators to certain students under certain circumstances; prohibiting a school nu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB767 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Maryland Workers' Compensation Commission, if there is no compensation payable to a covered employee, to order that a fee of not more than $2,000 for legal services rendered on behalf of the covered employee be payable by the covered ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB828 | Intro
Sine Die | Defining the term "prerelease unit for women" as it relates to prerelease services provided by the Division of Correction; requiring the Commissioner of Correction to determine where to place a prerelease unit for women; requiring a certain prereleas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB755 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Baltimore County Board of Education to adopt a retention policy for the financial records of the Baltimore County public school system on or before January 1, 2021; and requiring the retention policy to require retention of all financia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB770 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing from one-third to one-half the maximum portion of a home improvement contract price that a person may receive as a deposit before or at the time of execution of the home improvement contract.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB625 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Natalie M. LaPrade Medical Cannabis Commission, on or before October 1 each year, to report certain information to the Governor and the General Assembly on certain cannabis use and enforcement of criminal laws regarding cannabis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-04
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB127 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a person to use reasonable force to remove an unattended cat or dog from a motor vehicle if the person reasonably believes that the health or safety of the dog or cat is imminently endangered, provided that the person contacts law enforce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-03
Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| HB780 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering certain definitions of "crime of violence" to include a certain offense of abuse or neglect of a vulnerable adult in the first degree.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB733 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Private Sector Transportation Projects Ombudsman within the Department of Transportation; requiring the Secretary of Transportation to designate an Ombudsman to respond to concerns, complaints, and inquiries from residents, local gov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-03
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB690 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering, in Queen Anne's County, certain conditions required for an applicant to be issued a Class A beer, wine, and liquor license on behalf of a partnership.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-03
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB727 | Intro
Sine Die | Increasing from $15,000 to $30,000 the maximum amount in controversy in a civil action in which a party may not demand a jury trial; providing for the construction and application of the Act; and making the Act contingent on the passage and ratificat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB762 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study Impaired Driving and New Technologies to study efforts made to reduce impaired driving in the last 20 years, current initiatives, national best practices, and new technologies to combat impaired driving; requiring...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
