| SB32 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Governor to appoint five members, instead of three, to the Board of License Commissioners for Anne Arundel County; requiring that members be appointed from each legislative district in Anne Arundel County; limiting the number of terms t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| SB989 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the court to impose, on a person convicted of a hate crime, a requirement to attend an anti-bias education program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB382 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing certain residency and other requirements for an applicant for an alcoholic beverages license in Harford County; requiring that an applicant operate and serve as the manager or supervisor of the business conducted on the licensed premises, b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB394 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing that a referral to the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission is deemed approved under certain circumstances only if there is a complete submission or an explanatory narrative accompanied by architectural drawings that ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
Third Reading Passed (126-7) |
| SB247 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the definitions of "community association" and "local code violation" for purposes of certain provisions of law authorizing community associations to seek judicial relief for nuisance abatement in Baltimore County; repealing a provision of l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB1039 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing certain provisions of law specifying that certain provisions of law apply only to adoptions in which a juvenile court enters an order for adoption on or after January 1, 2000; altering, from 21 to 18, the age at which an adoptee, or biologi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB260 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring certain persons to submit to the Public Service Commission beginning July 1, 2021, monthly reports containing information on the supply of electricity and gas to certain residential customers; requiring certain initial reports to include in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB287 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Maryland Arts Capital Grant Program to provide grants for the expansion of, the renovation of, or major repairs to a facility operated by a certain eligible organization; requiring the Governor, for fiscal years 2022 through 2027, to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB1070 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring that the common amenities, to include pools, tennis and basketball courts, community centers, and other common amenities of a condominium be covered under an implied warranty on common elements from a developer to a council of unit owners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB627 | Engross
Sine Die | Extending the period of time after an offense was committed, from 3 to 4 years, during which a prosecution is required to be instituted for certain violations of State election law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB139 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing a provision allowing the Baltimore City Board of License Commissioners to issue a Class C beer, wine, and liquor license in the 45th alcoholic beverages district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB1380 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a campaign finance entity to initiate the transfer of a contribution made through a third-party payment processor from the account of the third-party payment processor to the designated campaign account of the campaign finance entity within...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB60 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring that the appropriate authority of a local pension system offer a special disability retirement allowance to a member if the member is, as determined by the appropriate authority of a local pension system, totally and permanently physically ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB736 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring each law enforcement agency to provide access to an employee assistance program or mental health program to address the mental health issues of police officers stemming from personal and work-related concerns and to provide police officers ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB498 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing an exception to the prohibition on compelling a person to undergo a certain test of the person's breath or blood for a test that is required by a valid warrant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB379 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the conditions under which a lawsuit is considered a strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP suit); specifying the conditions under which a lawsuit is not considered a SLAPP suit; altering the conditions under which a defendant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| SB556 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that certain provisions of law do not prohibit insurers, nonprofit health service plans, or health maintenance organizations from offering products or services at no charge or at a discounted price for certain purposes; prohibiting an insur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB279 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a certain restriction on use from imposing unreasonable limitations on low-impact landscaping under certain circumstances; providing that the Act may not be construed to prohibit a certain restriction on use from including certain reasona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB1079 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Statewide Steering Committee on Services for Adults with Sickle Cell Disease to work in conjunction with members of the medical community in leading a certain comprehensive education and treatment program; requiring the Maryland Departm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB615 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifying that a State contribution to a Maryland Senator Edward J. Kasemeyer College Investment Plan may be made to a limited number of accounts for each qualified beneficiary; limiting, for State contribution application periods after December 31,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SJ3 | Engross
Sine Die | Opposing certain inspection rules promulgated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that have drastically impeded the harvest and sale of blue catfish and thus rendered the State unable to adequately use the commercial harvest as a form of control ov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB1447 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Information Technology to conduct a certain review of certain information technology platforms used by certain health occupations boards and make certain recommendations on the feasibility and cost of developing a certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB693 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the court to include a provision regarding the legal name change of the child in an order issued in a paternity proceeding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB896 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of the Environment to establish and administer a statewide green business certification program; requiring the green business certification program to recognize businesses operating in a way that reduces their environmental f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB95 | Engross
Sine Die | Adding a haul seine to the list of methods a person may use to fish in certain waters of the Severn River under certain circumstances; repealing certain provisions of law that restrict the length of a haul seine that a person may use in certain water...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB30 | Engross
Sine Die | Clarifying that certain provisions of law relating to closed-door meetings of a board of directors of a condominium do not allow the board to withhold or agree to withhold from the unit owners the terms of any legal agreement to which the council of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB955 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing a prohibition against possessing a snare trap in certain counties; and repealing a prohibition against using, selling, possessing, setting, placing, or maintaining a snare trap in Cecil County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1661 | Engross
Sine Die | Allowing the Governor to transfer by budget amendment up to $50,000,000 from the Revenue Stabilization Account to fund costs associated with the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19); requiring the Governor to provide the Legislative Policy Committee w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| SB505 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering 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 an equine used for a certain purpo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| HB711 | Engross
Sine Die | Including placement data from State-sponsored out-of-home care organizations in the data collected, organized, managed, disaggregated, and analyzed by the Maryland Longitudinal Data System Center; altering the purpose of the Center to include generat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB699 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Special Education Ombudsman in the Office of the Attorney General to serve as a resource for information and support to parents, students, and educators regarding special education rights and services; requiring the Ombudsman to subm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB466 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing the funding allocation for the State Library Resource Center to be calculated as $1.89 per State resident in fiscal year 2022, $1.93 per State resident in fiscal year 2023, and $1.97 per State resident in each fiscal year thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| SB403 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing an exemption from the Maryland Wage and Hour Law for an individual employed at an agricultural stand, a retail farm, or a farmers' market that primarily sells agricultural products that the employer has produced.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| HB497 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the types of health care providers required to complete a physical examination of a student entering the Maryland Public School System for the first time to include a licensed physician assistant with a delegation agreement approved by the S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1094 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring early voting centers to be open in elections during the hours between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. each early voting day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1158 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a candidate who is defeated for the nomination for a public office from filing a certificate of candidacy as a write-in candidate at the next succeeding general election as a candidate for any office.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-10
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB527 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "practice social work" to include counseling for alcohol and drug use and addictive behaviors and to clarify that it includes, for certain individuals, the treatment of biopsychosocial conditions under the supervision of a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-09
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB656 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a pharmacist who meets certain requirements to administer a maintenance injectable medication to a patient under certain circumstances; requiring the State Board of Pharmacy, by September 1, 2021, and in consultation with the State Board ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-09
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB712 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing employees of certain employers to use certain leave with pay for bereavement leave in the event of the death of an immediate family member.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB274 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a financial institution that requires a customer to provide an answer to a security question for a certain purpose to allow a customer to choose from at least two security question options for each required security question; prohibiting a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB1187 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing a Class BA (bowling alley) license in Harford County; authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Harford County to issue the license to an owner of a bowling alley entitling the holder to sell beer and wine for on- and off-premis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-06
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB111 | Engross
Sine Die | Providing that certain provisions of a recorded covenant or restriction, a declaration, or the bylaws or rules of a condominium or homeowners association are void and unenforceable if they prohibit or unreasonably restrict the installation or use of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-06
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB1435 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring that a certain individual who has completed training in an approved alcohol awareness program be present on a licensed premises at certain times; authorizing the trained individual to be absent from the licensed premises for up to 2 hours f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-06
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SJ5 | Engross
Sine Die | Urging the U.S. Congress to pass legislation that prohibits the balance billing of consumers by certain air ambulances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-06
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| HB829 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing a Class DLR license in Harford County in accordance with certain requirements; authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Harford County to issue a Class DLR license to a certain license holder; authorizing the holder of a Class ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB962 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing an assisted living program beer, wine, and liquor license in Harford County; authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Harford County to issue the license to a manager of an assisted living program, but no more than five ALP lic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB865 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring food sales to exceed 40% of the average daily receipts from the sale of beer, wine, and liquor for a Class BNR license in Harford County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB642 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing a barbershop and beauty salon beer and wine license in Anne Arundel County; specifying the individuals who are qualified to hold the license include the holder of a barbershop permit or a beauty salon permit; authorizing the holder of a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB718 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Department of Education to establish, by October 1, 2020, a stakeholder advisory group to develop a reading and dyslexia handbook to guide local school systems in the implementation of best practices for early literacy and dyslexi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB532 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study the Veteran-Owned Small Business Enterprise Program; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to study and make recommendations regarding opportunities for vet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
