Liability
Utah 2023 General Session
Medical Expense Liability Amendments [SB-196]
Medical Expense Liability Amendments
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Montana 2023 Regular Session
Provide cause of action for vaccine-related injuries [HB-451]
Provide cause of action for vaccine-related injuries
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Unemployment Insurance Modernization Act of 2023 [HB-724]
Altering the taxable wage base used to determine employer contributions to the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund; requiring the Secretary of Labor to set the taxable wage base and the maximum weekly benefit amount in a certain manner for certain years; prohibiting the applicable table of rates from shifting more than a certain number of tables under certain circumstances; establishing certain collateral requirements for certain investment funds that own certain portfolio companies; etc.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Health - Mental Health Care Provider Immunity and Establishment of Specialty Tertiary Care Psychiatric Programs [HB-732]
Establishing that certain mental health care providers, administrators of certain programs, and certain employees of administrators have immunity from liability for certain actions related to harm to or from certain patients; and providing that the Maryland Department of Health is a "reporting agency" for the purpose of certain provisions of law governing public-private partnerships under certain circumstances.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Criminal Law - False Statements - Emergency or Commission of Crime (Antiswatting Act of 2023) [HB-745]
Prohibiting a person from making or causing to be made a false statement, report, or complaint to a governmental emergency report recipient with reckless disregard of causing bodily harm to an individual as a direct result of a response to the statement, report, or complaint; and providing that a person who violates the Act, in addition to any penalties imposed, is civilly liable to an individual harmed by the violation.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Economic Development – Maryland Stadium Authority – Baltimore City Infrastructure Projects [SB-856]
Authorizing the Maryland Stadium Authority to issue certain bonds to finance site acquisition, design, and construction of any portion of a certain infrastructure project in Baltimore City, subject to certain limitations; establishing the Baltimore City Infrastructure Projects Financing Fund; etc.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Security Guard Agencies, Security Guard Employers, and Security Guards – Standards and Certifications [SB-760]
Requiring an individual who provides security guard services to the individual's employer to be certified as a security guard, subject to a certain exception; regulating certain security guard employers; altering the certification and renewal standards for security guards; requiring the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission to identify or establish certain training programs for the certification and renewal of certification of security guards; requiring security guards to complete certain security training programs; etc.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Payment Program and Climate Impact Health Coverage Program – Establishment [SB-843]
Establishing the Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Payment Program in the Department of the Environment to secure payments from certain businesses that extract fossil fuels or refine petroleum products in order to provide a source of revenue for certain climate change adaptive or mitigation infrastructure projects and efforts to address the health impacts of climate change on vulnerable populations; establishing the Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; etc.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Consumer Protection – Online Products and Services – Children’s Data [SB-844]
Requiring a business that offers an online product likely to be accessed by children to complete a certain data protection impact assessment under certain circumstances; prohibiting a business from offering a certain online product before completing a data protection impact assessment; requiring businesses to document certain risks associated with certain online products; requiring certain privacy protections for certain online products; prohibiting certain data collection and sharing practices; providing certain exemptions; etc.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Health – Mental Health Care Provider Immunity and Establishment of Specialty Tertiary Care Psychiatric Programs [SB-600]
Establishing that certain mental health care providers, administrators of certain programs, and certain employees of administrators have immunity from liability for certain actions related to harm to or from certain patients; and providing that the Maryland Department of Health is a "reporting agency" for the purpose of certain provisions of law governing public-private partnerships under certain circumstances.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Natural Resources – Licensed Tree Experts – Alterations [SB-586]
Prohibiting a person from engaging in the work of the treatment, care, or removal of certain trees for compensation under a tree expert's license unless the person is employed by the licensed tree expert; increasing a certain penalty for operating a tree expert business without a license; requiring a licensed tree expert to carry, show proof of, and maintain valid workers' compensation insurance for the period the license is in effect; etc.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Courts - Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation [SB-619]
Altering the conditions under which a lawsuit is considered a strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP suit); altering the conditions under which a defendant in a SLAPP suit is not civilly liable for certain communications; establishing certain standards and requirements relating to a motion to dismiss an alleged SLAPP suit; and applying the Act prospectively.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Corporations and Associations - Limited Worker Cooperative Associations - Authorization (Maryland Limited Worker Cooperative Association Act) [SB-870]
Authorizing the formation of limited worker cooperatives; and creating rules and procedures for the formation, governance, conversion, and dissolution of limited worker cooperatives.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Unemployment Insurance Modernization Act of 2023 [SB-670]
Altering the taxable wage base used to determine employer contributions to the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund; requiring the Secretary of Labor to set the taxable wage base and the maximum weekly benefit amount in a certain manner for certain years; prohibiting the applicable table of rates from shifting more than a certain number of tables under certain circumstances; establishing certain collateral requirements for certain investment funds that own certain portfolio companies; etc.
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Montana 2023 Regular Session
Revise offer of settlement law [SB-279]
Revise offer of settlement law
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Natural Resources - Licensed Tree Experts - Alterations [HB-612]
Prohibiting a person from physically engaging in the work of the treatment, care, or removal of certain trees for compensation under a tree expert's license unless the person is employed by the licensed tree expert, employs a licensed tree expert who can provide oversight, is employed by a company that employs a licensed tree expert who can provide oversight, or is a licensed tree expert; requiring a licensed tree expert to carry, show proof of, and maintain for a certain time period valid workers' compensation insurance; etc.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Human Relations - Housing Discrimination - Service Dogs [HB-608]
Prohibiting a person from discriminating in the sale or rental of, or otherwise making unavailable or denying, a dwelling to an individual with a disability who has, obtains, or retains a certain service dog.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Human Relations - Housing Discrimination - Service Dogs [SB-535]
Prohibiting a person from discriminating in the sale or rental of, or otherwise making unavailable or denying, a dwelling to an individual with a disability who has, obtains, or retains a certain service dog; and defining "service dog" as a dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Utility Account Holders - Victims of Abuse - Protections [HB-630]
Authorizing an account holder who is the victim of abuse to terminate, and requiring a utility to allow for the termination of, the account holder's future liability under a utility contract if the account holder provides the utility with certain written notice requesting termination of the account holder's future liability under the contract; requiring a utility to allow an account holder who terminates a utility contract under the Act to open a new utility account notwithstanding a certain account balance or arrearage; etc.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Water Pollution Control - Discharges From Construction Sites - Limits on Liability [HB-635]
Limiting the liability of a certain person for certain discharges from a construction site; and providing that the civil or administrative penalty for discharge from a construction site may not exceed $5,000 for each violation or $25,000 total.