Sheriffs
Maryland 2014 Regular Session
St. Mary's County - Public Officials - Salaries [HB-1390]
[Finance ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Taxes ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Increasing the salary of the Treasurer of St. Mary's County, the Sheriff of St. Mary's County, the Judges of the Orphans' Court for St. Mary's County, the President of the Board of County Commissioners of St. Mary's County, and the County Commissioners of St. Mary's County in each calendar year 2015-2018; and providing that the provisions of the Act shall take effect at the beginning of the next following term of office.
Sponsored by: Rep.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 454 on 05/05/2014
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Anne Arundel County - Sheriff - Salary Increases [HB-1381]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Finance ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Taxes ]
Increasing the annual salary of the Sheriff of Anne Arundel County to $128,657 for calendar year 2014 and $133,000 for calendar year 2015, and each subsequent calendar year; repealing a specified requirement that the annual salary of the sheriff equal the salary of a captain in the Anne Arundel County Police Department at a specified rate in the pay scale; providing that the Act does not apply to the salary or compensation of the Sheriff while serving in a term of office beginning before the effective date of the Act; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 108 on 04/08/2014
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
State Retirement and Pension System - Correctional, Police, and Law Enforcement Officers - Forfeiture of Retirement Benefits for Criminal Conviction [HB-1171]
[Pensions ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Retirement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Prohibiting the payment of retirement benefits payable from the State Retirement and Pension System to specified correctional officers, police officers, and law enforcement officers who are convicted of or enter a plea of nolo contendere for specified crimes; requiring a specified court to order the forfeiture of specified retirement benefits under specified circumstances; requiring a specified court to order the restoration of specified retirement benefits under specified circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Curtis Anderson
Unfavorable Report By Appropriations; Withdrawn on 02/24/2014
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
Real Property - Landlord and Tenant - Service of Process [HB-1077]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Authorizing a constable or sheriff who is serving a summons in specified landlord and tenant actions to effect service by affixing an attested copy of the summons conspicuously on the common area entrance of a multiple unit property under specified circumstances; establishing that a specified method of serving process at a multiple unit property is conclusively presumed to be sufficient service to support specified actions; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. C.T. Wilson
Unfavorable Report By Environmental Matters; Withdrawn on 03/13/2014
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Maryland 2014 Regular Session
Workers' Compensation - Baltimore County Deputy Sheriff [HB-1051]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Providing for enhanced workers' compensation benefits for a deputy sheriff in Baltimore County for a compensable permanent partial disability of less than a specified number of weeks; and applying the Act only prospectively.
Sponsored by: Rep.
Favorable With Amendments Report By Finance on 04/07/2014
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Maryland 2013 Regular Session
Harford County - Appointment of Fire Company Members as Deputy Sheriffs - Number [SB-923]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
Increasing from 12 to 20 the number of members of a fire company in Harford County that a commanding officer may designate to be appointed by the sheriff as deputy sheriffs.
Sponsored by: Sen. J.B. Jennings
Third Reading Passed (43-0) on 04/02/2013
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Maryland 2013 Regular Session
Courts - Baltimore City Sheriff and Fees for Filing and Service of Process [SB-846]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Crime ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Altering the type and the number of specified employee positions to which the Baltimore City Sheriff may appoint employees; increasing a specified annual expense allowance for specified deputy sheriffs; altering specified surcharges on filing fees in the District Court in Baltimore City; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joan Conway
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 325 on 05/02/2013
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Maryland 2013 Regular Session
Washington County - Salary Study Commission - Updating Salary and Expense Provisions [SB-814]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Education ]
[Finance ]
[Funding ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Updating specified provisions concerning the salaries of the members of the Board of License Commissioners, the Treasurer, the members of the Board of Education, and the Orphans' Court judges in Washington County to conform to provisions regarding the setting of the salaries under a specified law; altering the membership of the Washington County Salary Study Commission; altering provisions relating to the expense allowance for the judges of the Orphans' Court for Washington County; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Christopher Shank
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 557 on 05/16/2013
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Maryland 2013 Regular Session
Employees' Pension System - Elected or Appointed Officials - Membership [SB-674]
[Pensions ]
[Retirement ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Prohibiting specified individuals who are serving in specified elected or appointed positions from being members of the Employees' Pension System while serving in the positions.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jim Mathias
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 522 on 05/16/2013
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Maryland 2013 Regular Session
Residential Property - Prohibition on Nonjudicial Evictions [SB-642]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Prohibiting a party claiming the right to possession from taking possession or threatening to take possession of specified residential property from a specified protected resident by locking the resident out; requiring a party claiming the right to possession to provide a specified notice in a specified manner under specified circumstances; establishing that specified persons may take possession of residential property from a protected resident only under specified circumstances; providing specified remedies for a violation of the Act; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joan Conway
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 514 on 05/16/2013
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Maryland 2013 Regular Session
Somerset County - Emergency Burning Ban - Adoption and Enforcement [SB-424]
[Public Safety ]
[Environmental ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Authorizing the County Commissioners of Somerset County to adopt an emergency burning ban; prohibiting a person from starting or allowing any open air burning during an emergency burning ban, subject to specified exceptions; authorizing the County Commissioners, by resolution, to set a fine for a violation of an emergency burning ban; and authorizing the Sheriff and the Sheriff's deputies to assess a fine against any person believed to be in violation of an emergency burning ban.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jim Mathias
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 263 on 05/02/2013
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Maryland 2013 Regular Session
Washington County - Special Deputy Sheriffs [SB-408]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Insurance ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
Specifying that the duties to which the Sheriff of Washington County is required to assign special deputy sheriffs include specified duties; making the provision of county liability insurance to a special deputy sheriff discretionary, rather than mandatory; establishing that designation as a special deputy sheriff does not authorize the special deputy sheriff to perform law enforcement duties outside the special deputy sheriff's jurisdiction except under specified circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ronald Young
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 47 on 04/09/2013
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Maryland 2013 Regular Session
Workers' Compensation - Anne Arundel County Deputy Sheriff [SB-313]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Altering a specified definition of "public safety employee" to include Anne Arundel County deputy sheriffs for purposes of establishing eligibility for enhanced workers' compensation benefits for a permanent partial disability award for less than a specified number of weeks; and applying the Act prospectively.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Astle
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 225 on 05/02/2013
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Maryland 2013 Regular Session
Howard County - Sheriff - Salary Increase [SB-3]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Increasing the annual salary of the Sheriff of Howard County to $95,000 over a 4-year period; and providing that the Act does not apply to the salary or compensation of the incumbent Sheriff during a specified term of office.
Sponsored by: Sen. James Robey
Unfavorable Report By Judicial Proceedings Withdrawn on 02/05/2013
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Maryland 2013 Regular Session
Harford County - Correctional Officers' Bill of Rights [SB-216]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Adding Harford County to the provisions of law relating to the Cecil County, Garrett County, and St. Mary's County Correctional Officers' Bill of Rights; providing that specified provisions of law relating to hearing board procedures and the finality of specified hearing board decisions do not apply in Harford County; and defining terms.
Sponsored by: Sen. J.B. Jennings
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 30 on 04/09/2013
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Maryland 2013 Regular Session
Courts - Service of Process - Increase in Sheriff's Fees - Distribution to Rental Allowance Program Fund [SB-156]
[Housing ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Community Development ]
Increasing fees for service of process of papers by a sheriff; requiring that $10 of the fees be distributed to a fund established for the Rental Allowance Program of the Department of Housing and Community Development; establishing the Rental Allowance Program Fund; specifying that the Fund is a special, nonlapsing fund; providing that the money in the Fund may be used only for specified purposes; adding the Fund to the list of funds the interest earnings of which are exempt from accruing to the General Fund of the State; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. James Brochin
Unfavorable Report By Judicial Proceedings on 02/18/2013
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Maryland 2013 Regular Session
Harford County - Charitable Gaming [SB-130]
[Gaming ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Nonprofit ]
[Public Safety ]
Creating in Harford County a permit to be issued by the Sheriff of Harford County that authorizes specified nonprofit organizations to conduct a gaming contest; specifying requirements that organizations must meet to be issued a permit; limiting to four the number of gaming contests an organization may hold in a year; stating the location and hours for conducting a gaming contest; specifying that the maximum bet a single individual may place on a game is $10; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. J.B. Jennings
Hearing 3/26 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/26/2013
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Maryland 2013 Regular Session
State Aid for Critical Services - County Maintenance of Effort Requirements [SB-1055]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Human Services ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring each county, beginning in fiscal year 2015, to appropriate at least the same amount of local funds to specified categories of critical services as the county appropriated in the prior fiscal year; requiring the Secretary of Budget and Management to withhold specified State aid if a county does not meet specified maintenance of effort requirements in specified categories of critical services; requiring the Secretary to disburse specified withheld State aid if specified maintenance of effort requirements are met; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Nancy King
Hearing 3/20 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/20/2013
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Maryland 2013 Regular Session
Landlord and Tenant - Commencement of Actions to Repossess [HB-968]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Providing that a landlord may file a written complaint to repossess for failure to pay rent no sooner than 3 days after the day unpaid rent is due and payable; altering the time after which a trial may be held in District Court from 5 to 10 days after the filing of a complaint for an action to repossess for failure to pay rent; altering the process by which a summons is served on a tenant in actions to repossess for failure to pay rent, holding over, and breach of lease; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Frush
Unfavorable Report By Environmental Matters on 03/11/2013
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Maryland 2013 Regular Session
Motor Vehicles - Speed Monitoring Systems - Local Jurisdictions [HB-929]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Altering the standards and requirements for the required warning period for violations recorded by speed monitoring systems; establishing that speed monitoring systems placed in specified areas may only be placed on highways with a specified minimum speed limit; applying notice and signage standards for unmanned local stationary speed monitoring systems to all local speed monitoring systems; requiring local jurisdictions to designate specified persons to act in a liaison capacity; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Frank Conaway
Floor Amendment (senator Pipkin) {603623/1 on 04/08/2013