Public Works
Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Electric and Gas Companies - Rate Regulation - Infrastructure Investments [SB-510]
Increasing to a maximum amount of $4, up from $2, a specified monthly natural gas surcharge for specified retail natural gas customers; authorizing an electric company to recover specified costs associated with specified electric system infrastructure investments through a specified electric system infrastructure investment surcharge on customer bills; requiring electric system infrastructure investment cost calculations to include specified elements; specifying when costs shall be collectible; etc.
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Prevailing Wage - Application to Career and Technology Centers or STEM and STEAM Classrooms [SB-440]
Providing that the provisions of the prevailing wage law do not apply to a public work contract or part of a public work contract for the construction or renovation of a career and technology center or for school classroom space to be used for science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) or science, technology, engineering, art, mathematics (STEAM) education.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Maryland Emergency Management Assistance Compact - City of Annapolis [SB-426]
Authorizing the City of Annapolis to participate in the Maryland Emergency Management Assistance Compact, the purpose of which is to provide for mutual assistance between the jurisdictions in managing an emergency.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Carroll County - Public Facilities Bonds [SB-296]
Authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of Carroll County, from time to time, to borrow not more than $31,000,000 in order to finance the construction, improvements, or development of specified public facilities in Carroll County, including water and sewer projects, to finance loans for fire or emergency-related equipment, buildings, or other facilities of volunteer fire departments in the County, and to effect such borrowing by the issuance and sale at public or private sale of its general obligation bonds; etc.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Gas Companies - Infrastructure Replacement Projects - Amendment to a Plan [SB-162]
Altering from 120 to 150 the number of days during which the Public Service Commission is required to take a final action after a gas company files an amendment to an approved plan to invest in eligible infrastructure replacement projects.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Housing and Community Development - Local Government Infrastructure Projects - Financing [SB-104]
Authorizing a county to agree with the Community Development Administration to pledge, on behalf of a municipal corporation located in the county, any money, including a share of income tax, that the county is entitled to receive from the State for specified infrastructure projects; authorizing each issuance by a municipal corporation of a local obligation for specified infrastructure projects to be secured by a pledge from the county in which the municipal corporation is located; etc.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Procurement - Prevailing Wage - Liquidated Damages [SB-1009]
Making a contractor under a public work contract that knew or reasonably should have known of the contractor's obligation to pay the prevailing wage rate and that deliberately failed or refused to pay to the prevailing wage rate liable to the public body for liquidated damages of $250 for each laborer or other employee under specified circumstances.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Prevailing Wage Law - Applicability to the University System of Maryland, Morgan State University, and St. Mary's College of Maryland [HB-860]
Providing that the State prevailing wage law applies to a procurement for a public work contract by the University System of Maryland, Morgan State University, and St. Mary's College of Maryland; etc.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Educational Institutions - Notice of Criminal Activity and Threats to Safety [HB-836]
Requiring a faculty member, teacher, or specified other employee of a specified educational institution to immediately notify an administrator if the individual observes or receives information about specified criminal activity or potential threats; requiring the administrator to forward specified information to an appropriate law enforcement agency as soon as practicable; providing that a specified individual is not subject to liability or disciplinary action arising solely from providing specified notice; etc.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Public Work Contracts - Payroll Reporting Requirements (The Transparency Act of 2016) [HB-792]
Applying specified payroll reporting requirements under the prevailing wage law to specified contractors under specified public work contracts with a value of at least $400,000; and providing that specified contractors under specified public work contracts with a value of less than $500,000 are not required to comply with specified payroll reporting requirements under the prevailing wage law.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Gas Companies - Infrastructure Replacement Projects - Amendment to a Plan [HB-75]
Altering from 120 to 150 the number of days during which the Public Service Commission is required to take a final action after a gas company files an amendment to an approved plan to invest in eligible infrastructure replacement projects.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Yard Waste and Food Residuals Diversion and Infrastructure Task Force [HB-743]
Establishing the Yard Waste and Food Residuals Diversion and Infrastructure Task Force; providing for the composition, cochairs, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to identify, evaluate, study, and make recommendations regarding specified matters; requiring the Task Force to report its final findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before January 1, 2018; etc.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Prevailing Wage Rates Reform Act of 2016 [HB-721]
Expanding the applicability of the prevailing wage rate law to political subdivisions, agencies, and public works on property where the State, a political subdivision, or an agency is the owner or lessee by altering the definition of "public body"; providing that the prevailing wage rate law applies to public work contracts greater than $25,000; requiring that prevailing wage rates be calculated using wage rates established by specified collective bargaining agreements; etc.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Procurement - Prevailing Wage - Liquidated Damages [HB-689]
Making a contractor under a public work contract that knew or reasonably should have known of the contractor's obligation to pay the prevailing wage rate and that deliberately failed or refused to pay the prevailing wage rate is liable to a public body for liquidated damages of $250 for each laborer or other employee under specified circumstances.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Prevailing Wage - Payroll Records - Submission by Contractors [HB-687]
Requiring contractors on a public work contract to submit payroll records within 30 days after the end of each payroll period.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Baltimore City - Remediation of Illegal Dumping - Report [HB-670]
Requiring the Baltimore City Department of Public Works to report annually to the members of the Baltimore City delegation to the General Assembly on actions taken to remediate illegal dumping in each legislative district during the previous year; and requiring the report to be made available on the Department's Web site.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Gas Companies - Rate Regulation - Environmental Remediation Costs [HB-571]
Authorizing the Public Service Commission, when determining specified expenses while setting a just and reasonable rate for a gas company, to include all costs reasonably incurred by the gas company for performing environmental remediation of real property in response to a State or federal law, regulation, or order under specified conditions; authorizing that specified environmental remediation costs be included in a gas company's specified expenses regardless of specified circumstances; etc.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Electric and Gas Companies - Rate Regulation - Infrastructure Investments [HB-546]
Increasing to a maximum amount of $4, up from $2, a specified monthly natural gas surcharge for specified retail natural gas customers; authorizing an electric company to recover specified costs associated with specified electric system infrastructure investments through a specified electric system infrastructure investment surcharge on customer bills; requiring electric system infrastructure investment cost calculations to include specified elements; specifying when costs shall be collectible; etc.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Harford County - Department of Public Works - Smart Water Meters [HB-527]
Requiring the Harford County Department of Public Works to provide each affected customer with written notice of the intention of the Department to install smart water meters; establishing a process by which a specified customer will be deemed to have given permission to the Department to install a smart water meter on the customer's premises; requiring the Department to pay to a customer $500 if the Department installs a smart water meter on the customer's premises without permission; applying the Act prospectively; etc.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Maryland Emergency Management Assistance Compact - City of Annapolis [HB-383]
Authorizing the City of Annapolis to participate in the Maryland Emergency Management Assistance Compact, the purpose of which is to provide for mutual assistance between the jurisdictions in managing an emergency.