Sen. Malcolm Augustine
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Consumer Protection - Mobile Home Purchasers [SB-155]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Housing ]
[Finance ]
Requiring, except under certain circumstances, certain lenders to serve on the borrower at least 30 day before a lender repossesses a mobile home a written notice of the lender's intention to repossess a certain mobile home; providing that a mobile home retailer has a duty of good faith and fair dealing in providing financial information to a prospective consumer borrower; prohibiting a mobile home retailer from steering a prospective consumer borrower to certain financing products; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. James Rosapepe
Enacted Under Article Ii, Section 17(c) Of The Maryland Constitution - Chapter 49 on 05/08/2020
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Crimes - Hate Crimes - Use of an Item or a Symbol to Threaten or Intimidate [SB-161]
[Crime ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Prohibiting a person from placing or inscribing an item or a symbol, including an actual or depicted noose or swastika, whether temporary or permanent, on any real or personal property, public or private, without the express permission of the owner, owner's agent, or lawful occupant of the property, with the intent to threaten or intimidate any person or group of persons; and establishing that a penalty of imprisonment not exceeding 3 years or a fine not exceeding $5,000 or both applies to a violation of the Act.
Sponsored by: Sen. James Rosapepe
Enacted Under Article Ii, Section 17(c) Of The Maryland Constitution - Chapter 22 on 05/08/2020
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Labor and Employment - Wage History and Wage Range [SB-217]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Requiring an employer, on request, to provide to an applicant for employment the wage range for the position for which the applicant applied; prohibiting an employer from taking negative actions against an applicant for employment because the applicant did not provide wage history or wage range; prohibiting an employer from relying on wage history, except when voluntarily provided, for the purpose of determining fair wage, and from seeking an applicant's wage history from former employers or their agents; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Delores Kelley
Favorable With Amendments Report By Economic Matters on 03/18/2020
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Business Regulation - Flavored Tobacco Products - Prohibition [SB-233]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Health ]
[Small Business ]
Providing that certain licenses to manufacture, sell, buy, and store cigarettes, other tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices do not authorize the licensee to manufacture, ship, import, or sell into or within the State a flavored tobacco product with a taste or smell of fruit, mint, candy, or other nontobacco flavors; providing that a public statement that cigarettes, other tobacco products, or electronic smoking devices have or produce a certain smell or taste is presumptive evidence that they are flavored tobacco products; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Delores Kelley
First Reading Finance on 01/17/2020
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Toll Roads, Highways, and Bridges - County Government Consent Requirement - Expansion [SB-229]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Construction ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Expanding to all counties in the State a prohibition on State agencies constructing within the nine Eastern Shore counties a toll road, toll highway, or toll bridge without the consent of a majority of the affected counties.
Sponsored by: Sen. James Rosapepe
Hearing Canceled on 01/24/2020
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Procurement - Prevailing Wage - Applicability [SB-232]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Construction ]
Repealing a certain limitation on the applicability of the Prevailing Wage Law to the construction of a public work by revising a certain definition.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joanne Benson
First Reading Finance on 01/17/2020
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
State Finance and Procurement - Prohibited Appropriations - Magnetic Levitation Transportation System [SB-253]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Finance ]
Prohibiting the State and certain units and instrumentalities of the State from using any appropriation for a magnetic levitation transportation system in the State; prohibiting a public or private entity that receives money from the State from authorizing a permit or giving any other form of approval for a magnetic levitation transportation system in the State; and prohibiting a proposal for a magnetic levitation transportation system from using certain rights-of-way or track owned or operated by Amtrak or CSX transportation.
Sponsored by: Sen. Paul Pinsky
Hearing Canceled (budget And Taxation) on 01/28/2020
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Income Tax Subtraction Modification – Correctional Officers, Law Enforcement Officers, and Fire, Rescue, and Emergency Services Personnel (Hometown Heroes Act) [SB-269]
[Taxes ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Retirement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
Altering, from 55 years old to 50 years old, the age at which a resident is eligible for a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for retirement income attributable to certain employment; altering the amount of certain retirement income that may be included under a certain subtraction modification; applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2019; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. William Ferguson
Hearing Canceled on 01/28/2020
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Maryland Arts Capital Grant Program [SB-287]
[Arts and Culture ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Establishing the Maryland Arts Capital Grant Program to provide grants for the expansion of, the renovation of, or major repairs to a facility operated by a certain eligible organization; requiring the Governor, for fiscal years 2022 through 2027, to include $3,000,000 for the Program in the State budget; requiring the establishment of a competitive application process and a quantitative system to evaluate each application; prohibiting an organization from receiving a grant for a single project that exceeds $1,000,000 in any fiscal year; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. James Rosapepe
Referred Appropriations on 03/12/2020
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Corporate Tax Fairness Act of 2020 [SB-311]
[Taxes ]
[Finance ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Small Business ]
[Economic Development ]
Requiring that certain sales of tangible personal property be included in the numerator of the sales factor used for apportioning a corporation's income to the State under certain circumstances; requiring certain corporations to compute Maryland taxable income using a certain combined reporting method; authorizing certain corporations, subject to regulations adopted by the Comptroller, to determine certain income using a certain method; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Delores Kelley
First Reading Budget And Taxation on 01/22/2020