| HB126 | Engross
Sine Die | Making certain provisions of law relating to the filing, issuance, and modification of certain peace orders and to the shielding of certain court records of certain peace order proceedings apply to certain peace orders filed by certain employers on t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Second Reading Passed with Amendments |
| SB217 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring an employer, on request, to provide to an applicant for employment the wage range for the position for which the applicant applied; prohibiting an employer from taking negative actions against an applicant for employment because the applica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters |
| SB625 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "retail pet store" to include a broker that transfers dogs for resale by another person for purposes of certain provisions of law regulating retail pet stores; clarifying a certain prohibition on the sale of cats or dogs by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed |
| HB801 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Commissioner of the Division of Correction to operate a comprehensive rehabilitative prerelease facility for female inmates; requiring that a certain prerelease facility be located in Baltimore City; requiring the Department of Public S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Motion Rules Suspend Two Readings Same Day Const/Rule 24 (Senator Washington) (31-14) Rejected |
| HB882 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the holder of presumed abandoned property valued at $1,000 or more to send certain written notice to the apparent owner by registered mail requiring a signature, rather than by first-class mail; requiring the holder of abandoned property va...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| HB174 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing that certain motor vehicle offenses related to following too closely do not apply to a group of individual trucks that are traveling in a unified manner at electronically connected speeds and are being operated in a certain manner; and a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator Waldstreicher) Adopted |
| SB158 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring each room accessible for individuals with disabilities in a lodging establishment to be furnished with a bed of at least a certain height, beginning December 31, 2021; requiring 25% by December 31, 2021, 50% by December 31, 2022, 75% by Dec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Motion Special Order until End Of This Calendar (Delegate Dumais) Adopted |
| HB754 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a county board of education to waive high school graduation requirements established by the county board that are in addition to high school graduation requirements established by the State Board of Education for a student in foster care or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB603 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the county boards of education in Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne's, and Talbot counties to establish a regional Career and Technical Education (CTE) school to provide career and technical education programs to public high school s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB555 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the time that a local board of elections may begin opening absentee ballot envelopes to canvass the absentee ballots cast in an election to before 9 a.m. on the Friday following election day instead of prior to 8 a.m. on the Wednesday follow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| HB938 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Office of Home Energy Programs, in coordination with the United Way of Central Maryland and the Fuel Fund of Maryland, to establish the Power to the People Pilot Program on or before July 1, 2021, to expand access to the Critical Medica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Third Reading Passed 45-0 |
| HB540 | Engross
Sine Die | Allowing certain qualified businesses impacted by the construction of the Purple Line light rail project in Montgomery County and Prince George's County a credit against the State income tax; requiring the Department of Commerce, in consultation with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| HB1430 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "proceeds" to allow a video lottery operator, under certain circumstances, to reduce the amount of proceeds received from video lottery terminals and table games by the amount of certain uncollectible negotiable instruments...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB985 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the State's Attorney to certify that a conviction was in error under certain circumstances; altering a provision of law to require, rather than authorize, the Board of Public Works to pay certain compensation to a certain individual who h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Motion Rules Suspend Two Readings Same Day Const/Rule 24 (Senator Smith) Rejected (29-15) |
| HB984 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to ensure that providers of and individuals who receive certain services are not negatively impacted when using a certain software system or function; requiring that an individual receiving certain services...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB209 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting, on or after July 1, 2021, a certain retail establishment from distributing plastic carryout bags to a customer at the point of sale; providing that, on or after July 1, 2021, only the State may enact a law or take other action to prohibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Favorable Report by Finance |
| HB1056 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Racing Commission to establish the Equine Health, Safety, and Welfare Advisory Committee; requiring the owner of the Bowie Race Course Training Center to convey the property to the City of Bowie in a certain manner; authorizing, s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Third Reading Passed (44-1) |
| HB39 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing a prohibition on the Board of License Commissioners for Queen Anne's County from issuing a license to an establishment located within 500 feet of a place of worship.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| SB1052 | Engross
Sine Die | Repealing a certain exception authorizing, under certain circumstances, a student who is a registered sex offender to enter onto real property used for public or nonpublic elementary or secondary education; requiring a county board of education to ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB591 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering penalties applicable to failing to report a lost or stolen regulated firearm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| SB1050 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering penalties applicable to failing to report a lost or stolen regulated firearm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB317 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing an Executive Branch agency to ban or regulate the sale of coffee in conjunction with a career exploration and development activity in a public high school in Frederick County; and providing an exception for a career exploration and develo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Senate Requests House Recede |
| HB447 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program, beginning January 1, 2021, to provide services for pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric acute onset neuropsychiatric syndrome under c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Third Reading Passed 45-0 |
| HB424 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from importing, selling, or offering for sale any juvenile product, mattress, upholstered furniture, or reupholstered furniture that contains more than 0.1% of flame-retardant chemicals by mass; repealing certain provisions of la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| HB454 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring that each fiscal year $250,000 of undisputed taxes collected as a result of the Motor Vehicle Administration's refusal to renew or transfer certain vehicle registrations or renew the driver's license of certain applicants be distributed to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB609 | Engross
Sine Die | Renaming the Office of the Inspector General in the Maryland Department of Health to be the Maryland Office of the Inspector General for Health and providing that the Office is an independent unit of the State, rather than a unit in the Department; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SB309 | Engross
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] | 2020-03-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1474 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring that the pay rate for certain employees at Clifton T. Perkins Hospital be at least two grades higher than the employee's pay rate effective June 30, 2020; requiring that the pay rate for certain employees in the Behavioral Health Administra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB595 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the student member of the Baltimore County Board of Education to vote on matters relating to capital and operating budgets.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-18
Motion Recommit to Committee (Senator Kagan) Adopted |
| SB919 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Task Force to Study Felony Murder to review the provisions, penalties, and jurisprudence for felony murder, including its applicability to juveniles, in the State and in other states; providing for the composition, chair, and staffin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB1424 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Public-Private Partnership Oversight Review Board; requiring a certain reporting agency to include in presolicitation reports for certain public-private partnerships presolicitation reports of certain contracts and a certain environm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Third Reading Passed (97-37) |
| SB70 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing, from 120 to 240, the minimum number of calendar days that the Correctional Education Council must require certain inmates in correctional institutions to participate in a certain mandatory education program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB1036 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing the Cybersecurity Coordination and Operations Office within the Maryland Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) to help improve statewide cybersecurity readiness and response; requiring the Director of MEMA to appoint an Executive Director a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| HB1397 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to conduct a study on methods of obtaining more accurate harvest data for the recreational striped bass fishery; requiring the study to examine certain issues relevant to obtaining more accurate harvest d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB787 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting reducing or terminating temporary cash assistance for certain individuals under certain circumstances; prohibiting reducing or terminating temporary cash assistance for certain individuals because of good cause as determined by the Secret...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HB784 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Cybersecurity Council to review certain practices and methods of collection, use, storage, and disclosure of consumers' personally identifiable information and personal information by certain entities; and requiring the Council...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Finance |
| HB1220 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a public-private partnership agreement for a project involving road, highway, or bridge assets from establishing or altering toll rates, a range of toll rates, a formula or algorithm to determine fluctuating toll rates, or any late paymen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| HB993 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the compensation of the members of the Montgomery County Board of Education; authorizing a student member to elect to receive certain compensation at a certain time; and providing for the application of the Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Motion Special Order until 3/18 (Senator Zucker) Adopted |
| SB646 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering a certain prohibition to prohibit a person from storing or leaving a firearm in a location where a minor could gain access to the firearm; altering a certain exception to the prohibition; establishing certain exceptions to the prohibition; p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB836 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of the Environment to monitor effluent discharged from sewage treatment plants and evaluate whether the effluent impacts midge populations in the surrounding land and water areas; and requiring the Department to report to the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1008 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the hiring of a certain emergent employee by a county board of education or nonpublic school for a period not to exceed 60 days under certain conditions; authorizing a county board or nonpublic school to take certain actions within the 60...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1505 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the mileage at which the owner of a Class F (tractor) vehicle that has been in operation for not more than 5 years is required to have the vehicle inspected, maintained, and repaired to 35,000 miles; and altering the mileage at which the own...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| HB1316 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a builder of certain new housing units or a builder's agent to provide each buyer or prospective buyer with the option to include on or in a certain garage, carport, or driveway a certain electric vehicle charging station or a dedicated ele...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1438 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the processing of poultry litter for a certain alternative use, or the resulting product, to meet certain requirements; requiring a certain product to be able to be procured and handled or applied in a certain manner for a certain purpose; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| HB1481 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the length of time a zero-emission electric school vehicle may be operated from 12 years to 15 years, unless it fails to meet the applicable school bus and motor vehicle safety standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
To Senate Education Health and Environmental Affairs Committee |
| SB440 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a pharmacist who meets the requirements of certain regulations to prescribe and dispense aids for the cessation of the use of tobacco products; requiring the State Board of Pharmacy, by September 1, 2021, to adopt regulations establishing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| SB771 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the State Lottery and Gaming Control Agency to conduct a certain study on the use of proceeds from certain gambling activities; requiring the Agency to report its findings to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before December 1, 20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1354 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "taxable service" under the sales and use tax to impose the tax on certain services; providing an exemption from the sales and use tax for certain materials, parts, and equipment used to repair, maintain, or upgrade aircraf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| HB529 | Engross
Sine Die | Increasing, from $20 to $40, the amount of the surcharge on certain recordable instruments that the State Court Administrator is required to establish for the Circuit Court Real Property Records Improvement Fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
Third Reading Passed (45-0) |
| SB1061 | Engross
Sine Die | Extending to October 1, 2024, the termination provision relating to the authority of the County Commissioners of St. Mary's County to impose a transfer tax on certain instruments of writing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
To House Ways and Means Committee |
