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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Transportation - Dedication of Structures (Hero's Highway Act) [SB-802]
Requiring the Department of Transportation to establish a process by which a member of the General Assembly, another elected official, or any member of the general public may request that the Department dedicate a bridge or another appropriate structure under the jurisdiction of the Department to a specified deceased member of the armed forces or an emergency responder who died in the line of duty; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Astle
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 52 on 04/14/2015
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Task Force to Study Issues Related to the Use of Self-Driving Vehicles [SB-778]
Establishing the Task Force to Study Issues Related to the Use of Self-Driving Vehicles; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to make specified determinations, review specified information, consider specified issues, and make specified recommendations related to the use of self-driving vehicles; requiring the Task Force to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before January 1, 2017; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. William Ferguson
Unfavorable Report By Judicial Proceedings on 03/26/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Construction Contracts - Change Orders (State Procurement Change Order Fairness Act) [SB-708]
Prohibiting a unit from requiring a prime contractor and a prime contractor from requiring a subcontractor to begin change order work under a contract until the procurement officer for the unit issues a specified written change order; requiring, under specified circumstances, a unit to pay an invoice for the work performed and accepted under a change order within 30 days after the unit receives the invoice in accordance with a specified provision of law; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joan Conway
Favorable With Amendments Report By Education, Health, And Environmental Affairs on 04/13/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
State Personnel - Programs to Improve Employee to Supervisor or Manager Ratios [SB-657]
Requiring the Secretary of Budget and Management, the Secretary of Transportation, and the governing boards of State institutions of higher education to establish a program to improve the ratio of State employees to supervisors or managers beginning on specific dates; specifying the goals for establishing reasonable ratios of State employees to supervisors or managers; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Guy Guzzone
Hearing 3/19 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/19/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act of 2015 [SB-57]
Authorizing or altering the distribution of specified revenue; altering or repealing specified required appropriations; authorizing the use of specified funds for specified purposes; providing for the transfer of specified funds; repealing a specified requirement for a specified notice relating to abandoned property to be published in specified newspapers; requiring the Comptroller to maintain a specified abandoned property database; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Thomas Miller
Hearing 3/04 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/04/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
State Government - Display of the POW/MIA Flag on State Building Grounds [SB-381]
Requiring the Secretary of General Services and the Secretary of Transportation to cause the POW/MIA flag to be flown on the grounds of State buildings under their control whenever the flag of the United States is flown; defining "POW/MIA flag" as the POW/MIA flag of the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Delores Kelley
Hearing 3/06 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/06/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Transportation - Francis Scott Key Bridge Authority [SB-379]
Establishing the Francis Scott Key Bridge Authority to finance, construct, operate, and maintain the Francis Scott Key Bridge; providing for the members, appointment, terms, chair, and staff of the Authority; prohibiting the Department of Transportation from exercising jurisdiction or authority over the Francis Scott Key Bridge; authorizing the Authority to take specified actions in the performance of its duties; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Johnny Salling
Hearing 3/18 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/18/2015
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Unmanned Aircraft Systems Research, Development, Regulation, and Privacy Act of 2015 [SB-370]
Providing that only the State may enact a law or take other action to prohibit, restrict, or regulate the testing or operation of unmanned aircraft systems; requiring the Department of Business and Economic Development, in consultation with other specified institutions, to study specified benefits and concerns; requiring specified State and local government entities and officials to review the use of unmanned aircraft systems and report their findings to the Governor and General Assembly on or before December 31, 2018; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. James Rosapepe
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 164 on 05/12/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Maryland Commission on Climate Change [SB-258]
Establishing the Commission on Climate Change in the Department of the Environment to advise the Governor and General Assembly on ways to mitigate the causes of, prepare for, and adapt to the consequences of climate change; establishing the membership of the Commission; requiring the Commission to establish specified working groups; requiring the commission members and working group members to be appointed and the Commission to be convened on or before July 1, 2016; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Delores Kelley
Vetoed By The Governor (duplicative) on 05/12/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
General Assembly - Mandated Reports by State Agencies [SB-220]
Repealing provisions of law that require State agencies to submit reports to the General Assembly that are deemed obsolete, duplicative, impractical, inefficient, or otherwise unnecessary; combining specified reporting requirements with other more extensive annual reports required to be submitted by State agencies; requiring the Department of Legislative Services, in consultation with agencies of the State government, to periodically review and make recommendations regarding specified reports that may no longer be warranted; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Thomas Miller
Vetoed By The Governor (duplicative) on 05/12/2015
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Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act of 2015 [HB-72]
Authorizing or altering the distribution of specified revenue; increasing from 2 to 3 years the maximum number of years the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene may renew a registration of specified controlled dangerous substances; expanding the uses for which the Department of the Environment may use money in the Maryland Oil Disaster Containment, Clean-Up and Contingency Fund; requiring a local school system with a specified structural deficit to provide specified notifications under specified circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. The Speaker
Enacted Under Article Ii, Section 17(c) Of The Maryland Constitution - Chapter 489 on 05/30/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
State Personnel - Programs to Improve Employee to Supervisor or Manager Ratios [HB-702]
Requiring the Secretary of Budget and Management, the Secretary of Transportation, and the governing boards of State institutions of higher education to establish a program to improve the ratio of State employees to supervisors or managers beginning on specified dates; specifying the goals for establishing reasonable ratios of State employees to supervisors or managers; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Craig Zucker
Unfavorable Report By Appropriations; Withdrawn on 03/19/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
General Assembly - Mandated Reports by State Agencies [HB-67]
Repealing provisions of law that require State agencies to submit reports to the General Assembly that are deemed obsolete, duplicative, impractical, inefficient, or otherwise unnecessary; combining specified reporting requirements with other more extensive annual reports required to be submitted by State agencies; requiring the Department of Legislative Services, in consultation with agencies of the State government, to periodically review and make recommendations regarding specified reports that may no longer be warranted; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Nathaniel Oaks
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 58 on 04/14/2015
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Maryland Commission on Climate Change [HB-514]
Establishing the Commission on Climate Change in the Department of the Environment to advise the Governor and General Assembly on ways to mitigate the causes of, prepare for, and adapt to the consequences of climate change; establishing the membership of the Commission; requiring the Commission to establish specified working groups; requiring the Commission members and working group members to be appointed and the Commission to be convened on or before July 1, 2016; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Stein
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 429 on 05/12/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Transportation - Dedication of Structures (Hero's Highway Act) [HB-466]
Requiring the Department of Transportation to establish a process by which a member of the General Assembly, another elected official, or any member of the general public may request that the Department dedicate a bridge or another appropriate structure under the jurisdiction of the Department to a specified deceased member of the armed forces or an emergency responder who died in the line of duty; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. William Smith
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 53 on 04/14/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Department of Transportation - Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Services - Utilization Study [HB-300]
Requiring the Department of Transportation, in cooperation with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, to study specified matters relating to the utilization of services provided by the Authority every 5 years; requiring that the study include an evaluation of specified ridership information; requiring the Department to submit a report detailing the results of the study to the Governor and specified committees of the General Assembly on or before December 1, 2015, and every 5 years thereafter; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. William Smith
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 238 on 05/12/2015
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Task Force on the Disposition of the Crownsville Hospital Center Property [HB-27]
Establishing the Task Force on the Disposition of the Crownsville Hospital Center Property; requiring the Task Force to study and make recommendations regarding the sale, transfer, or other disposition of the Crownsville Hospital Center property; requiring the Task Force to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor, the General Assembly, and other specified entities on or before January 1, 2016; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 394 on 05/12/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Task Force to Study Issues Related to the Use of Self-Driving Vehicles [HB-172]
Establishing the Task Force to Study Issues Related to the Use of Self-Driving Vehicles; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to make specified determinations, review specified information, consider specified issues, and make specified recommendations related to the use of self-driving vehicles; requiring the Task Force to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before January 1, 2017; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kumar Barve
Hearing 3/26 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/26/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Construction Contracts - Change Orders (State Procurement Change Order Fairness Act) [HB-119]
Prohibiting a unit from requiring a prime contractor and a prime contractor from requiring a subcontractor to begin change order work under a contract until the procurement officer for the unit issues a specified written change order; requiring, under specified circumstances, a unit to pay an invoice for work performed and accepted under a change order within 30 days after the unit receives the invoice in accordance with a specified provision of law; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Nathaniel Oaks
Rereferred To Education, Health, And Environmental Affairs on 04/13/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Montgomery County - Transit Authority MC 24-15 [HB-104]
Authorizing the governing body of Montgomery County to create, by local law, a Transit Authority to perform county transit functions as an instrumentality of the county and body corporate and politic and to create a special taxing district, impose a specified special tax, specify the organization and powers of the Transit Authority, establish a specified budget process for the Transit Authority, and specify other matters related to the Transit Authority; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep.
Unfavorable Report By Environment And Transportation; Withdrawn on 03/10/2015