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Foreign Trade

Number	Legislature	Summary	Subjects
SB-1044	State (Maryland)	Requiring the State Treasurer to ensure that any shares held by the State are voted in favor of shareholder resolutions that ask companies to adopt policies of refusing to do business with governments engaging in genocide or crimes against humanity; requiring, when issuing an invitation for bids or a request for proposals, certain units of State government to require a certain bidder or offeror to disclose any company policy regarding a refusal to do business with governments that are engaged in genocide or crimes against humanity; etc. Democrat: 100% (1) 100% Democrat support	State Government - Agencies, Offices, And Officials State Government - Procurement State Government - Personnel Abduction Commerce And Business Committees And Commissions Contractors Contracts Crimes And Punishments Death
HB-1592	State (Maryland)	Requiring the State Treasurer to ensure that any shares held by the State are voted in favor of shareholder resolutions that ask companies to adopt policies of refusing to do business with governments engaging in genocide or crimes against humanity; requiring, when issuing an invitation for bids or a request for proposals, certain units of State government to require a certain bidder or offeror to disclose any company policy regarding a refusal to do business with governments that are engaged in genocide or crimes against humanity; etc. Democrat: 100% (1) 100% Democrat support	State Government - Agencies, Offices, And Officials State Government - Procurement State Government - Personnel Abduction Commerce And Business Committees And Commissions Contractors Contracts Crimes And Punishments Death
HB-1086	State (Maryland)	Establishing the Workgroup to Study Basic Economic Security; providing for the composition, cochairs, and staffing of the Workgroup; establishing the duties of the Workgroup; prohibiting a member of the Workgroup from receiving compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement of expenses; requiring the Workgroup to report to the Governor and General Assembly on or before December 15, 2020; and terminating the Act at the end of June 30, 2021. Democrat: 100% (21) 100% Democrat support	Private Sector Labor And Industry Economic And Community Development Commerce And Business Commerce, Department Of Committees And Commissions Foreign Trade Industry And Technology Labor, Department Of Reports Salaries And Compensation
SB-694	State (Maryland)	Requiring a certain worldwide headquartered company, if the company's parent corporation is a franchisor, to employ at the parent corporation's principal executive office in the State at least 400 full-time employees at all times between July 1, 2017, and June 30, 2020, in order to elect to use a certain formula to apportion certain income to the State for purposes of the income tax on corporations; applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2019; etc. Democrat: 100% (1) 100% Democrat support	Taxes - Income Corporations Exemptions Foreign Trade Franchises Income Tax Work, Labor And Employment
SB-447	State (Maryland)	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 law regarding the importing, sale, or offering for sale of any child care product containing certain chemicals; establishing certain civil penalties; requiring the Secretary of Health to consider certain factors in determining the amount of a certain penalty; etc. Democrat: 100% (5) 100% Democrat support	Public Health Age Chemical Tests Civil Actions Commerce And Business Consumer Protection Consumer Price Index Courts Equipment Fines
HB-424	State (Maryland)	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 law regarding the importing, sale, or offering for sale of any child care product containing certain chemicals; establishing certain civil penalties; requiring the Secretary of Health to consider certain factors in determining the amount of a certain penalty; etc. Democrat: 100% (8) 100% Democrat support	Public Health Age Chemical Tests Civil Actions Commerce And Business Consumer Protection Consumer Price Index Courts Equipment Fines
SB-311	State (Maryland)	Requiring that certain sales of tangible personal property be included in the numerator of the sales factor used for apportioning a corporation's income to the State under certain circumstances; requiring certain corporations to compute Maryland taxable income using a certain combined reporting method; authorizing certain corporations, subject to regulations adopted by the Comptroller, to determine certain income using a certain method; etc. Democrat: 100% (17) 100% Democrat support	Taxes - Income Comptroller Corporations Foreign Trade Franchise Tax Income Tax Interest Penalties And Sentences Personal Property Real Property
SB-24	State (Maryland)	Requiring affiliated retail trade and food services corporations with multiple locations to compute Maryland taxable income using a combined reporting method; requiring, subject to regulations, certain groups of retail trade and food services corporations to file income tax returns reflecting the aggregate income tax liability of all the members of the group; requiring the Comptroller to report to the General Assembly by March 31 each year an estimate of the total additional tax revenue resulting from the combined reporting method; etc. Democrat: 100% (1) 100% Democrat support	Taxes - Income Comptroller Food Foreign Ownership Foreign Trade Income Tax Interstate Affairs Reports Retail Sales Rules And Regulations
HB-1184	State (Maryland)	Reducing on a specified timetable specified filing fees paid by corporations and other business entities to the State Department of Assessments and Taxation; etc. Republican: 100% (11) 100% Republican support	Corporations And Associations Agriculture Assessments And Taxation, Department Of Associations Banks And Trust Companies Business Trusts Corporations Credit Unions Fees Foreign Trade
SB-205	State (Maryland)	Providing a subtraction modification under the Maryland corporate income tax for specified dividends included in federal taxable income as a result of a specified repatriation holiday enacted by federal legislation; requiring the Comptroller to provide for the administration of the Act if specified federal legislation is enacted; applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2016; etc. Republican: 100% (1) 100% Republican support	Taxes - Income Corporations Exemptions Foreign Trade Income Tax

Title: State Government - Prevention of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity and the Commission on Genocide Prevention

Session: Maryland 2020 Regular Session

Number: SB-1044

Subjects: State Government - Agencies, Offices, And Officials, State Government - Procurement, State Government - Personnel, Abduction, Commerce And Business, Committees And Commissions, Contractors, Contracts, Crimes And Punishments, Death

Democrat: 100% (1)

Title: State Government - Prevention of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity and the Commission on Genocide Prevention

Session: Maryland 2020 Regular Session

Number: HB-1592

Democrat: 100% (1)

Title: Workgroup to Study Basic Economic Security

Session: Maryland 2020 Regular Session

Number: HB-1086

Subjects: Private Sector Labor And Industry, Economic And Community Development, Commerce And Business, Commerce, Department Of, Committees And Commissions, Foreign Trade, Industry And Technology, Labor, Department Of, Reports, Salaries And Compensation

Democrat: 100% (21)

Title: Corporate Income Tax - Single Sales Factor Apportionment Exemption - Worldwide Headquartered Company Election

Session: Maryland 2020 Regular Session

Number: SB-694

Subjects: Taxes - Income, Corporations, Exemptions, Foreign Trade, Franchises, Income Tax, Work, Labor And Employment

Democrat: 100% (1)

Title: Public Health - Products Containing a Flame-Retardant Chemical

Session: Maryland 2020 Regular Session

Number: SB-447

Subjects: Public Health, Age, Chemical Tests, Civil Actions, Commerce And Business, Consumer Protection, Consumer Price Index, Courts, Equipment, Fines

Democrat: 100% (5)

Title: Public Health - Products Containing a Flame-Retardant Chemical

Session: Maryland 2020 Regular Session

Number: HB-424

Subjects: Public Health, Age, Chemical Tests, Civil Actions, Commerce And Business, Consumer Protection, Consumer Price Index, Courts, Equipment, Fines

Democrat: 100% (8)

Title: Corporate Tax Fairness Act of 2020

Session: Maryland 2020 Regular Session

Number: SB-311

Subjects: Taxes - Income, Comptroller, Corporations, Foreign Trade, Franchise Tax, Income Tax, Interest, Penalties And Sentences, Personal Property, Real Property

Democrat: 100% (17)

Title: Small Business Fairness Act

Session: Maryland 2020 Regular Session

Number: SB-24

Subjects: Taxes - Income, Comptroller, Food, Foreign Ownership, Foreign Trade, Income Tax, Interstate Affairs, Reports, Retail Sales, Rules And Regulations

Democrat: 100% (1)

Title: Corporations and Associations - Filing Fees - Reductions

Session: Maryland 2017-2017 Regular Session

Number: HB-1184

Subjects: Corporations And Associations, Agriculture, Assessments And Taxation, Department Of, Associations, Banks And Trust Companies, Business Trusts, Corporations, Credit Unions, Fees, Foreign Trade

Republican: 100% (11)

Title: Corporate Income Tax - Federal Repatriation Holiday

Session: Maryland 2017-2017 Regular Session

Number: SB-205

Subjects: Taxes - Income, Corporations, Exemptions, Foreign Trade, Income Tax

Republican: 100% (1)

Foreign Trade

SB-1044

State (Maryland)

HB-1592

State (Maryland)

HB-1086

State (Maryland)

SB-694

State (Maryland)

SB-447

State (Maryland)

HB-424

State (Maryland)

SB-311

State (Maryland)

SB-24

State (Maryland)

HB-1184

State (Maryland)

SB-205

State (Maryland)