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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Maryland Commercial Receivership Act [HB-1180]
Authorizing a court to appoint a receiver under specified circumstances; providing that a specified mortgagee is entitled to the appointment of a receiver; requiring a court to appoint a receiver under specified circumstances; authorizing a court to condition the appointment of a receiver on the giving of a specified security under specified circumstances; authorizing a court to appoint a specified person as an ancillary receiver for specified property; etc.
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Commercial Law - Credit Services Businesses - Authority to Charge and Receive Consideration [HB-1166]
Limiting the circumstances under which a credit services business is prohibited from charging or receiving any money or other valuable consideration prior to full and complete performance of the services that the credit services business has agreed to perform for or on behalf of the consumer; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Health Insurance - Prescription Drugs - Formulary Changes [HB-1128]
Prohibiting insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from making specified formulary changes during a plan year and the open enrollment period that precedes the plan year; and applying the Act to all policies, contracts, and health benefit plans issued, delivered, or renewed in the State on or after October 1, 2017.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Pharmacy Benefits - Processing and Adjudication of Claims - Restrictions on Fees [HB-1162]
Prohibiting pharmacy benefits managers or specified purchasers from directly or indirectly charging a contracted pharmacy, or holding a contracted pharmacy responsible for, specified fees; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Health Insurance - Health Care Services Delivered Through Telehealth - Coverage [HB-983]
Requiring the health care services delivered through telehealth under health insurance to include counseling for substance use disorders; and applying the Act to all policies, contracts, and health benefit plans issued, delivered, or renewed in the State on or after October 1, 2017.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Reorganization of State Procurement [HB-1021]
Reorganizing procurement by establishing a Chief Procurement Officer to control and oversee specified State procurement activity; providing for the appointment of the Chief Procurement Officer; renaming the Procurement Advisory Council as the Procurement Improvement Council; requiring the Council to advise the General Assembly on proposed legislation to enhance the efficiency and transparency of State procurement; transferring to the Department of General Services the authority of specified primary procurement units; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Maryland Technology Development Corporation [HB-1073]
Prohibiting specified provisions of the Public Ethics Law from being construed to prohibit a member of the Maryland Technology Corporation Board from being employed by or having a financial interest in a specified entity under specified circumstances; and requiring the Corporation, in consultation with the State Ethics Commission, to adopt specified procedures to govern conflicts of interest.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Business Regulation - Home Improvement Contracts [HB-1058]
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 a home improvement contract.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Commercial Law - Consumer Protection - Door-to-Door Sales [SB-929]
Recodifying, in part, the definition of "door-to-door sale" as provisions that establish the application of the Maryland Door-to-Door Sales Act; altering the transactions to which the Maryland Door-to-Door Sales Act applies; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Real Property - New Home Sales - Information on Energy-Efficient Options [HB-970]
Requiring, for a development with 11 or more homes to be built by the same builder, a home builder to provide a purchaser with written information on energy-efficient options available for installation in a new home; and requiring a contract for the initial sale of a new home to contain a specified acknowledgment that the purchaser was provided with specified information about energy-efficient options for the home.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
School Overcrowding Reduction Act of 2017 [SB-994]
Renaming the Maryland Stadium Authority to be the Maryland Construction Authority; authorizing governmental units to request specified assistance from the Authority regarding public school facility construction projects; establishing a design-construct-operate-maintain-finance arrangement as an alternative financing method; providing that specified construction costs that exceed a specified amount per student are ineligible for State funding; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Procurement - Nondiscrimination Clauses and State Policy Prohibiting Discrimination [SB-971]
Altering the requirements for a specified nondiscrimination clause that prohibits specified discrimination by a contractor against an employee or applicant for employment; requiring the Maryland Commission on civil rights, in conjunction with the Department of Commerce, to study strategies for increasing the diversity on boards of directors of for-profit and nonprofit entities in Maryland and report the findings and recommendations to the General Assembly on or before December 1, 2017; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Maryland Commercial Receivership Act [SB-895]
Authorizing a court to appoint a receiver under specified circumstances; providing that a specified mortgagee is entitled to the appointment of a receiver; requiring a court to appoint a receiver under specified circumstances; authorizing a court to condition the appointment of a receiver on the giving of a specified security under specified circumstances; authorizing a court to appoint a specified person as an ancillary receiver for specified property; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Commercial Law - Consumer Protection - Door-to-Door Sales [HB-959]
Recodifying, in part, the definition of "door-to-door sale" as provisions that establish the application of the Maryland Door-to-Door Sales Act; altering the transactions to which the Maryland Door-to-Door Sales Act applies; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Legislative and Congressional Districting [HB-966]
Creating the General Assembly Legislative Redistricting and Apportionment Commission; requiring the Commission to divide the State to create specified General Assembly districts; providing for the membership, qualifications, and duties of the Commission; specifying requirements for the adoption of redistricting plans; establishing the Commission to Study Congressional Districting; requiring the Commission to Study Congressional Districting to report its findings and recommendations on or before December 31, 2017; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Health Insurance - Coverage of Fertility Preservation Procedures for Iatrogenic Infertility [SB-918]
Requiring specified insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations that provide specified benefits under specified insurance policies or contracts to provide coverage for specified fertility preservation procedures; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Charles County - Collective Bargaining for Public Safety Officials [SB-909]
Altering the definition of "employer" to include Charles County under specified provisions of law; authorizing fire, emergency medical service, paramedic, and rescue employees to collectively bargain with specified counties and municipal corporations; altering a specified provision of law to provide that, with respect to Charles County, a memorandum of understanding between Charles County and a specified exclusive representative is subject to specified provisions concerning budgetary and fiscal procedures; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Estates and Trusts - Elective Share of Surviving Spouse [SB-881]
Repealing specified provisions of law relating to a surviving spouse making an election to take a specified share of the net estate of the decedent instead of the property left to the surviving spouse under the will; providing that a surviving spouse may take a specified elective share amount of a specified augmented estate; establishing the priority to be used in determining the sources from which a specified elective share amount is payable; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Child Abuse and Neglect - Memorandum of Understanding With Military Family Advocacy Program [HB-937]
Requiring a local department of social services with a military installation in its jurisdiction to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the Military Family Advocacy Program for that installation; and establishing specified requirements for a memorandum of understanding under the Act.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Maryland Personal Information Protection Act - Revisions [HB-974]
Requiring a specified business, when destroying an employee's or a former employee's records containing specified personal information of the employee or former employee, to take specified steps to protect against unauthorized access to or use of the information; altering the circumstances under which a specified business must conduct an investigation and notify specified persons of a specified breach; authorizing a specified business to provide a specified required notice in a specified manner under specified circumstances; etc.