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Maryland 2011 Special Session
Transportation - Chesapeake Bay Bridge Authority [HB-16]
Establishing the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Authority to finance, construct, operate, and maintain the Chesapeake Bay Bridge; providing for the members, appointment, terms, chair, and staff of the Authority; prohibiting the Department of Transportation from exercising jurisdiction or authority over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge; authorizing the Authority to take specified actions in the performance of its duties; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Glen Glass
First Reading House Rules And Executive Nominations on 10/17/2011
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Maryland Transportation Authority - Fixing or Revising Tolls - Legislative [HB-15]
Prohibiting the Maryland Transportation Authority from fixing or revising a toll on any part of any transportation facilities project unless the General Assembly approves the toll through legislation; authorizing the Authority, on or after the effective date of the Act, to continue to charge and collect a toll of the same amount in effect before the effective date of the Act; and making the Act an emergency measure.
Sponsored by: Rep. Glen Glass
First Reading House Rules And Executive Nominations on 10/17/2011
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Maryland 2011 Special Session
Maryland Transportation Authority - Audit Statements Available Online [HB-12]
Requiring the Maryland Transportation Authority to make audit statements publicly available on its Internet site, including audit statements relating to each transportation facilities project throughout the entire existence of each transportation facilities project; and defining "audit statement".
Sponsored by: Rep. Glen Glass
First Reading House Rules And Executive Nominations on 10/17/2011
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Maryland 2011 Special Session
Maryland Transportation Authority - Termination - Exchange of Bonds [HB-11]
Terminating the Maryland Transportation Authority; transferring, subject to specified exceptions, all functions, powers, duties, responsibilities, regulations, policies, property, equipment, assets, liabilities, and employees of the Authority to the Maryland Department of Transportation on a specified date; requiring the State to issue revenue refunding bonds in exchange for revenue bonds issued by the Authority before a specified date; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Glen Glass
First Reading House Rules And Executive Nominations on 10/17/2011
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Maryland 2011 Special Session
Transportation - Toll, Fee, or Other Charge Increases - Notice and Public [HB-10]
Requiring specified staff of the Maryland Transportation Authority to provide, by a specified date, public notice regarding a proposal to increase specified tolls, fees, or other charges; requiring the Authority to make the proposal available to the public in a specified manner; requiring the Authority to receive comments from the public at the meeting at which the Authority votes to implement the proposal; and making the Act an emergency measure.
Sponsored by: Rep. Glen Glass
First Reading House Rules And Executive Nominations on 10/17/2011
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Maryland 2011 Regular Session
Maryland Transportation Authority - Supplemental Tolls - Highway User Revenues [SB-543]
Requiring the Maryland Transportation Authority to charge an additional 50 cents in tolls for each vehicle for the use of specified Chesapeake Bay bridges, the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel, and the Fort McHenry Tunnel; providing that the tolls be distributed to the Gasoline and Motor Vehicle Revenue account and used to provide highway user revenues to municipalities; providing for the redirection of toll revenues if highway user revenues are equal to, or exceed, highway user revenues for municipalities during the 2009 fiscal year; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Delores Kelley
Hearing Cancelled on 02/23/2011
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Maryland 2011 Regular Session
Transportation - Chesapeake Bay Bridge Crossing - Environmental Impact Study [SB-520]
Explicitly stating the power of the Maryland Transportation Authority to conduct or coordinate a study of the environmental impact of a proposed transportation facility; requiring the Transportation Authority, in collaboration with specified other agencies, to commence the process, on or before January 1, 2012, to conduct and complete an Environmental Impact Study for a third crossing of the Chesapeake Bay; and requiring that the Environmental Impact Study be for a span at a specified location.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Astle
Hearing 2/17 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/09/2011
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Maryland 2011 Regular Session
Maryland Department of Transportation and Maryland Transportation Authority - [SB-458]
Requiring the Maryland Department of Transportation, in consultation with the Maryland Transportation Authority, to adopt, by July 1, 2012, regulations concerning enhanced inspection of bridges in the State; requiring the regulations to include specified policies and practices; and authorizing the Maryland Department of Transportation and the Maryland Transportation Authority to supplement or revise specified policies or practices in order to enhance safety.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Astle
Unfavorable Report By Environmental Matters on 04/08/2011
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Maryland 2011 Regular Session
Calvert County - Regulation of Roads [SB-393]
Authorizing the County Commissioners of Calvert County, by ordinance, to regulate the grading, constructing, improving, maintaining, and repairing of specified roads; authorizing the County Commissioners to establish standards for utility cuts in and across county rights-of- way; authorizing the County Commissioners to regulate access to county-owned roads; authorizing the County Commissioners to establish specified minimum standards for new roads; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen.
Vetoed By The Governor (duplicative) on 05/19/2011
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Maryland 2011 Regular Session
Calvert County - Regulation of Roads [HB-992]
Authorizing the County Commissioners of Calvert County, by ordinance, to regulate the grading, constructing, improving, maintaining, and repairing of specified roads; authorizing the County Commissioners to establish standards for utility cuts in and across county rights-of- way; authorizing the County Commissioners to regulate access to county-owned roads; authorizing the County Commissioners to establish specified minimum standards for new roads; etc.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Approved By The Governor on 05/10/2011
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Maryland 2011 Regular Session
Maryland Transportation Authority - Chesapeake Bay Bridge - Electronic Toll [HB-916]
Requiring the Maryland Transportation Authority to take all necessary actions to ensure that, by May 1, 2014, all tolls collected in connection with the William Preston Lane, Jr. Memorial Chesapeake Bay Bridge and parallel Chesapeake Bay Bridge are collected by means of electronic toll collection.
Sponsored by: Rep. Herbert McMillan
Unfavorable Report By Ways And Means Withdrawn on 03/23/2011
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Maryland 2011 Regular Session
Transportation Authority - Chesapeake Bay Bridge - Electronic Toll Collection [HB-74]
Requiring the Maryland Transportation Authority to take all necessary actions to ensure that, by January 1, 2020, all tolls collected in connection with the William Preston Lane, Jr. Memorial Chesapeake Bay Bridge and parallel Chesapeake Bay Bridge are collected by means of electronic toll collection.
Sponsored by: Rep. Marvin Holmes
Hearing 3/1 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/16/2011
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Maryland 2010 Regular Session
Maryland Transportation Authority - Chesapeake Bay Bridge - Tolls [SB-991]
Requiring the Maryland Transportation Authority to temporarily stop collecting tolls for the William Preston Lane, Jr. Memorial Bridge (Chesapeake Bay Bridge) under specified congested traffic conditions; requiring the Authority to resume collecting tolls when specified congested traffic conditions no longer exist; requiring the Authority to take specified action to obtain a necessary modification of a specified trust agreement; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. E. J. Pipkin
Hearing Cancelled on 03/23/2010
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Maryland 2010 Regular Session
Maryland Transportation Authority - Toll Increase - Public Meeting Requirement [SB-651]
Requiring that, prior to instituting a toll increase for a transportation facilities project under its jurisdiction, the Maryland Transportation Authority hold a public meeting at a place located within a 30-mile radius of the transportation facilities project.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Astle
Hearing 3/10 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/17/2010
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Maryland 2010 Regular Session
Maryland Transportation Authority - Proposed Toll or Fee Charges - Public [SB-650]
Requiring specified staff of the Maryland Transportation Authority to submit a specified report to the members of the Authority, make the report available to the public in a specified manner at a specified time, and make specified comments available to the members of the Authority on request.
Sponsored by: Sen. E. J. Pipkin
Hearing 4/6 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/31/2010
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Maryland 2010 Regular Session
Chesapeake Bay Bridge - Inspection by Independent Entity Required [SB-649]
Requiring the Maryland Transportation Authority to cause an inspection to be conducted of all elements of the superstructure and substructure of the William Preston Lane, Jr. Memorial Bridge (Chesapeake Bay Bridge) on or before December 31, 2010; requiring the Authority to retain the services of an entity independent of and not affiliated with the Authority to conduct the inspection; requiring the Authority to mandate that the entity conducting the inspection use the most exacting technology available; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. E. J. Pipkin
Unfavorable Report By Finance on 03/08/2010
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Maryland 2010 Regular Session
Transportation - Chesapeake Bay Bridge Crossing - Environmental Impact Study [SB-648]
Explicitly stating the power of the Maryland Transportation Authority to conduct or coordinate a study of the environmental impact of a proposed transportation facility; requiring the Transportation Authority, in collaboration with specified other agencies, to commence the process, on or before a specified date, to conduct and complete an Environmental Impact Study for a third crossing of the Chesapeake Bay; and requiring that the Environmental Impact Study be for a span at a specified location.
Sponsored by: Sen. E. J. Pipkin
Unfavorable Report By Finance on 03/08/2010
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Maryland 2010 Regular Session
Advisory Committee on the Naming of State Facilities, Roads, and Bridges - [SB-164]
Repealing the Advisory Committee on the Naming of State Facilities, Roads, and Bridges and other related provisions of law.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joan Conway
Approved By The Governor on 05/04/2010
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Maryland 2010 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Maryland Transportation Authority - Highways [HB-975]
Altering and redesignating the definition of "vehicular crossing" for purposes of specified provisions of the Maryland Vehicle Law to include specified highways under the jurisdiction of the Maryland Transportation Authority, thereby applying specified provisions of law to highways under the jurisdiction of the Authority; etc.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Approved By The Governor on 05/04/2010
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Maryland 2010 Regular Session
Local Government - Applicability of Laws to Counties and Baltimore City [HB-777]
Specifying that specified powers are granted to code home rule and charter home rule counties in addition to powers granted in the Express Powers Act under Article 25A, § 5 of the Annotated Code; providing that the additional powers are supplemental and not intended to limit specified other powers; clarifying that specified other provisions of law apply to specified types of counties; clarifying that specified provisions of law apply to Baltimore City; etc.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Approved By The Governor on 05/20/2010