Vehicles Laws - Emergency Vehicles - Motorcades and Escorts [HB-889]
Authorizing the driver of specified emergency vehicles to exercise specified privileges while performing motorcade or escort duties; authorizing specified emergency vehicles to travel through any jurisdiction in the State as necessary to perform and return from motorcade or escort duty; requiring a jurisdiction that employs a driver who travels through another jurisdiction while performing or returning from motorcade or escort duty to provide specified notice to the other jurisdiction; etc.
HB-889: Vehicles Laws - Emergency Vehicles - Motorcades and Escorts
Sponsored by: Rep. James Malone
Vetoed By The Governor (duplicative) on 05/16/2013
Local Government - Fire, Rescue, and Ambulance Funds - Distribution [HB-778]
Requiring that each county distribute a specified minimum percentage of funds that the county receives from the Senator William H. Amoss Fire, Rescue, and Ambulance Fund to volunteer fire, rescue, and ambulance companies; requiring the Director of the Maryland Emergency Management Agency to submit an annual report to the General Assembly on the money distributed by each county to volunteer companies; requiring each county to provide a specified report; establishing a workgroup to study specified laws and policies; etc.
HB-778: Local Government - Fire, Rescue, and Ambulance Funds - Distribution
Sponsored by: Rep. Susan Krebs
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 332 on 05/02/2013
Workers' Compensation - Medical Presumptions - Statute of Limitations on Claims [HB-1314]
Altering the date by which a medical expert is required to conduct a specified study and report the findings of the study to the Department of Legislative Services; delaying the date by which a claim filed for an occupational disease may be based on alterations to a specified presumption; delaying the date by which alterations to a specified presumption may be construed to apply for a claim filed for an occupational disease; etc.
HB-1314: Workers' Compensation - Medical Presumptions - Statute of Limitations on Claims
Sponsored by: Rep. Sally Jameson
Unfavorable Report By Economic Matters Withdrawn on 03/14/2013
Privileged Communications - Critical Incident Stress Management and Peer Support [HB-1304]
Prohibiting a critical incident stress management team member, an individual who participates in a critical incident stress management team intervention, and a peer support member from disclosing specified confidential information acquired from a law enforcement officer, a correctional officer, or an emergency responder in the course of duty; etc.
HB-1304: Privileged Communications - Critical Incident Stress Management and Peer Support
Sponsored by: Sen. Barbara Robinson
Unfavorable Report By Judiciary Withdrawn on 03/18/2013
Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease - Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder [HB-1256]
Creating a presumption that, for purposes of workers' compensation, a first responder suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder is suffering from an occupational disease that was suffered in the line of duty and is compensable under specified circumstances; providing that a specified employee who is eligible for benefits under the Act or that employee's dependents shall receive the benefits in addition to specified retirement benefits; etc.
Workers' Compensation - Average Weekly Wage - Volunteer Company Member [HB-1248]
Altering the method of computing the average weekly wage for workers' compensation benefits for specified members of a volunteer ambulance, ambulance and rescue, or fire company in Baltimore County; and providing that the average weekly wage for workers' compensation benefits for specified members of volunteer companies shall be the greater of the salary or wages from other employment of the covered employee or the equivalent of the base salary of a specified professional firefighter or emergency medical technician.
HB-1248: Workers' Compensation - Average Weekly Wage - Volunteer Company Member
Sponsored by: Rep. Sally Jameson
Unfavorable Report By Economic Matters Withdrawn on 03/21/2013
Creation of a State Debt - Montgomery County - Bohrer Park Miniature Golf Course [HB-1007]
Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $150,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Mayor and City Council of the City of Gaithersburg for the planning, design, construction, repair, renovation, reconstruction, and capital equipping of a miniature golf course at Bohrer Park, located in the City of Gaithersburg; providing for disbursement of the loan proceeds, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc.
HB-1007: Creation of a State Debt - Montgomery County - Bohrer Park Miniature Golf Course
Sponsored by: Rep. Kumar Barve
Unfavorable Report By Appropriations on 04/08/2013
Income Tax - Subtraction Modification - Maryland Civil Air Patrol [HB-1004]
Providing a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax in the amount of $3,500 for qualifying members of the Maryland Civil Air Patrol, subject to specified conditions; providing for a delayed effective date; etc.
HB-1004: Income Tax - Subtraction Modification - Maryland Civil Air Patrol
Sponsored by: Rep. Jay Walker
Rereferred To Budget And Taxation on 04/05/2013
HB-97: Rescue squads, state agencies, counties, municipalities, authorized to donate funds, equipment, or property to organized search, air, and rescue squads, Sec. 9-3-18 am'd.
Sponsored by: Rep. John Merrill
Third Reading Passed on 05/20/2013
You have voted HB-97: Rescue squads, state agencies, counties, municipalities, authorized to donate funds, equipment, or property to organized search, air, and rescue squads, Sec. 9-3-18 am'd..
Workers' Compensation - Medical Presumptions [SB-949]
Providing that specified occupational disease presumptions under the workers' compensation law apply only for a specified number of years after an individual separates from service; providing that specified diseases and cancers are considered occupational diseases suffered in the line of duty and are compensable in a specified manner; limiting a jurisdiction's total benefit payout for specified workers' compensation benefits to a specified amount; etc.
SB-949: Workers' Compensation - Medical Presumptions
Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Muse
Hearing 3/22 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/01/2012
Washington County - Volunteer Fire and Rescue Companies - Reimbursement of [SB-623]
Authorizing the County Commissioners of Washington County to establish, by resolution or ordinance, a system of fees under which a volunteer fire department, rescue squad, or ambulance company in the county may charge for services rendered at an emergency fire or rescue incident; and authorizing a resolution or ordinance adopted under the Act to provide for the reimbursement of reasonable costs for equipment, personnel, and consumable products used at an emergency fire or rescue incident.
SB-623: Washington County - Volunteer Fire and Rescue Companies - Reimbursement of
Sponsored by: Sen. Ronald Young
Unfavorable Report By Finance Withdrawn on 02/23/2012
Workers' Compensation - Emergency Responders - Revisions [SB-431]
Altering the definition of "on duty" in the workers' compensation law to include the performance of specified duties assigned to deputy sheriffs or members of a specified fire police unit; altering the definition of "volunteer company" to include a volunteer fire police unit; specifying that a covered member of a volunteer company may not be considered a paid covered employee of the company for receiving as a membership benefit a yearly stipend of $5,200 or less to help offset out-of-pocket expenses; etc.
Higher Education - The Charles W. Riley Fire and Emergency Medical Services [SB-365]
Repealing a specified fire and medical services tuition reimbursement program and establishing the Charles W. Riley Fire and Emergency Medical Services Scholarship; establishing eligibility requirements for a scholarship; authorizing the use of a scholarship for specified educational expenses; authorizing the annual amount of a scholarship to be up to a specified percentage of the equivalent tuition and specified fees of a specified institution of higher education; etc.
SB-365: Higher Education - The Charles W. Riley Fire and Emergency Medical Services
Sponsored by: Sen. Thomas Middleton
Vetoed By The Governor (technical) on 05/22/2012
Local Government - Fire, Rescue, and Ambulance Funds - Distribution of Money to [SB-1087]
Requiring that each county distribute a specified minimum amount of money that the county receives from the Senator William H. Amoss Fire, Rescue, and Ambulance Fund to volunteer fire, rescue, and ambulance companies; requiring the Director of the Maryland Emergency Management Agency to submit an annual report to the General Assembly on the amount of money distributed by each county to volunteer companies; requiring each county to include specified information in a specified report; etc.
SB-1087: Local Government - Fire, Rescue, and Ambulance Funds - Distribution of Money to
Sponsored by: Sen. Jim Mathias
Favorable With Amendments Report By Budget And Taxation on 04/06/2012
Vehicle Laws - Red Light and Speed Monitoring Systems - Emergency Vehicles [HB-848]
Providing that specified images of an emergency vehicle recorded by a traffic control signal monitoring system, a speed monitoring system, or a work zone speed control system may not be the basis for a civil penalty or the issuance of a citation under specified provisions of law; etc.
HB-848: Vehicle Laws - Red Light and Speed Monitoring Systems - Emergency Vehicles
Sponsored by: Rep. Frank Conaway
Unfavorable Report By Environmental Matters on 03/12/2012