Safety
Hawaii 2017 Regular Session
Relating To Private Property. [SB-843]
Authorizes a property owner or agent to enter adjacent property under certain conditions to eradicate albizia trees before they become hazardous. Provides defense to criminal prosecution.
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Gettr Hawaii 2017 Regular Session
Relating To Highway Safety. [HB-724]
Increases the fines for violations of operating a vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant.
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Hawaii 2017 Regular Session
Relating To Highway Safety. [HB-739]
Increases the fines for violations involving use of mobile electronic devices while operating a motor vehicle.
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Hawaii 2017 Regular Session
Relating To Private Property. [HB-172]
Authorizes a property owner or agent to enter adjacent property under certain conditions to eradicate albizia trees before they become hazardous. Provides defense to criminal prosecution. (HB172 HD2)
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Schools and Child Care Centers - State Grant Program - Security Upgrades for Facilities at Risk of Hate Crimes or Attacks [SB-1191]
Authorizing the Maryland Center for School Safety to make grants for specified security-related projects to schools and child care centers determined to be at risk of specified hate crimes or attacks; authorizing specified schools or child care centers to apply to the Center for a specified State grant; establishing the terms and conditions for the use of specified State grant funds by specified recipients; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Bay Restoration Fund - Upgraded Wastewater Facilities - Grants to Counties and Municipalities [SB-1190]
Authorizing the Department of the Environment to use funds from the Bay Restoration Fund to provide grants to a county or municipality that upgraded a wastewater facility to enhanced nutrient removal before July 1, 2013, under specified circumstances; and specifying that the Department may award up to $2,000,000 in grants on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Schools and Child Care Centers - State Grant Program - Security Upgrades for Facilities at Risk of Hate Crimes or Attacks [HB-1661]
Authorizing the Maryland Center for School Safety to make grants for specified security-related projects to schools and child care centers determined to be at risk of specified crimes or attacks; authorizing specified schools or child care centers to apply to the Center for a specified State grant; establishing the terms and conditions for the use of specified State grant funds by specified recipients; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Prince George's County - School Facilities and Public Safety Surcharges - Maryland Transit Administration Station PG 430-17 [HB-1636]
Establishing a specified cap on the school facilities surcharge in Prince George's County for specified residential construction that abuts an existing or planned mass transit rail station site operated by the Maryland Transit Administration; authorizing the Prince George's County Council to reduce the school facilities surcharge by a percentage not to exceed 50% for dwelling units in multifamily housing constructed within a specified distance of the Purple Line station; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Foreclosures - Dorchester County - Certificate of Vacancy or Certificate of Property Unfit for Human Habitation [SB-1108]
Requiring Dorchester County to issue a certificate of vacancy or a certificate of property unfit for human habitation under specified circumstances; and requiring a certificate of vacancy or a certificate of property unfit for human habitation to be issued or denied in Dorchester County within 14 days after the request for the certificate.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Health Care Practitioners - Use of Teletherapy [SB-1106]
Authorizing specified health care practitioners to use teletherapy for a specified patient under specified circumstances; and requiring specified health occupations boards to adopt specified regulations on or before April 1, 2018, that, to the extent practicable, are uniform and nonclinical.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Primary and Secondary Education - Health and Safety Guidelines and Procedures - Digital Devices [SB-1089]
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to develop health and safety guidelines and procedures for the use of digital devices in public school classrooms; and requiring each county board of education to implement specified health and safety guidelines and procedures for the use of digital devices in public school classrooms beginning in the 2018-2019 school year.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Public Safety - Agritourism - Permit Exemption [HB-1547]
Adding Cecil County to the list of counties that exempt agricultural buildings engaged in agritourism from a specified permit requirement; and providing that no more than 200 people at one time be allowed to occupy a building engaged in agritourism in Cecil County under specified circumstances.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Police Training Commission - Training Requirements - Human Trafficking [HB-1279]
Requiring the Police Training Commission to require that the specified entrance-level and in-service police training conducted by the State and each county and municipal police training school include specified training relating to the criminal laws concerning human trafficking, including services and support available to victims and the rights and appropriate treatment of victims; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Criminal Procedure - Pretrial Release - Criteria [HB-1280]
Providing that a defendant is entitled to be released before verdict on personal recognizance or on bail, with or without conditions imposed, under specified circumstances; creating a presumption that a defendant who has been charged with specified crimes and has not failed to appear as required by a court within the past 3 years shall be released on personal recognizance; requiring a judicial officer to take specified information into account in making a specified determination; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Natural Resources - Apprentice Hunting License - Establishment [HB-1427]
Establishing an apprentice hunting license that confers specified rights on a purchaser of the license; authorizing a person to obtain an apprentice hunting license on satisfactory completion of a short online or electronic course of instruction in competency in firearms and hunter safety approved by the Department of Natural Resources; authorizing specified persons to hunt under an apprentice license only if accompanied and directly supervised by a person who is at least 18 years old and has a valid resident nonapprentice hunting license; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Natural Resources - Aquaculture Leases - National Historic Landmarks [HB-1284]
Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to authorize an Aquaculture Enterprise Zone and a submerged land lease located within 300 feet of the mean high watermark of the shoreline of property designated by the United states Secretary of the Interior as a National Historic Landmark only under specified circumstances; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Southern Maryland Code Counties - Towing Companies - Authority to Regulate [HB-1320]
Authorizing the county commissioners of a code county in the Southern Maryland class to adopt rules and regulations for the licensing, maintenance, and operation of towing companies in the county for specified purposes; authorizing the rules and regulations adopted by the county commissioners to require a person who operates a towing company in the county to obtain a license and pay a specified fee; requiring the county commissioners, before adopting regulations, to hold a public hearing that is advertised in advance; etc.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
The Roadkill Bill of 2017 [HB-1251]
Requiring the State Highway Administration, in consultation with all interested parties, to adopt timely and comprehensive regulations establishing an accessible process for citizens to report to the Administration roadkill on State highways.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Vehicle Laws - Obstruction Hanging From Rearview Mirror - Enforcement [HB-1335]
Providing for enforcement only as a secondary offense for a violation of the prohibition under specified circumstances against a person driving a vehicle on a highway with any object, material, or obstruction hanging from the rearview mirror that interferes with the clear view of the driver through the windshield.
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Public Safety - Elevator Inspections - Testing [HB-1226]
Requiring that a specified test on an elevator unit performed in connection with an inspection required by specified provisions of law, the Safety Code, or a regulation adopted by the Commissioner be performed by a specified licensed elevator mechanic; and requiring a State inspector or third-party qualified inspector to be physically present during a specified test in its entirety to witness that the test has been performed correctly and to verify the proper recording of the result of a specified test on an elevator unit.