HB 27 |
Baltimore County - United Cerebral Palsy Facility. Grant not to exceed $2,000,000 for the design, construction, and capital equipping of a multipurpose facility for the disabled. |
HB 29 |
Baltimore County - HopeWell Cancer Support Facility. Grant not to exceed $1,000,000 for the construction and reconstruction of a cancer support facility. |
HB 44 |
Maryland Clean Cars Act of 2007. Requiring the Department of the Environment and the Motor Vehicle Administration to adopt regulations by December 31, 2007, to establish a low emissions vehicle program applicable to vehicles of the model year 2011 and thereafter under specified circumstances. |
HB 101 |
Black History Months. Requiring the Governor to proclaim the months of January and February to be "Black History Months". |
HB 123 |
Personal Information Protection Act. Requiring a business to destroy or arrange for the destruction of records that contain specified personal information in a specified manner; requiring a business that compiles, maintains, or makes available specified personal information of an individual residing in the State to implement and maintain specified security procedures and practices; requiring businesses that compile, maintain, or make available specified records to notify specified individuals of a breach of the security of a system under specified circumstances. |
HB 126 |
Advanced Electric Meters. Requiring the Public Service Commission to adopt regulations to require electric companies to make advanced electric meters available to residential customers by a specified date. |
HB 172 |
Prohibition on Creation of Ground Rent Leases for Residential Property. Prohibiting, on or after January 22, 2007, the creation of a lease or sublease for single-family residential property improved by four or fewer single-family units that has an initial term of 99 years renewable forever and that creates a leasehold estate or subleasehold estate subject to the payment of an annual ground rent. |
HB 181 |
Baltimore County - Assistant Chief Election Judge. Creating the position of assistant chief election judge in Baltimore County. |
HB 216 |
HIV Testing - Prohibited Exposure - Victims. Including a forensic scientist who works under the direction of a law enforcement agency within the list of possible victims of prohibited exposure to HIV and within the definition of a public safety worker required to test for HIV in the event of a specified exposure. |
HB 220 |
Special and Commemorative Registration Plates - Sunset Provisions. Altering the termination date for the Chesapeake Bay Commemorative License Plate and the special registration plate honoring State agriculture. |
HB 243 |
Baltimore County - Athletic Turf Fields. Grant not to exceed $1,800,000 to be used for the design, construction, reconstruction, renovation, and capital equipping of artificial turf fields at Northwest Regional Park, Meadowood Regional Park, and the Community College of Baltimore County, Essex Campus. |
HB 245 |
Baltimore County - Athletic Lighting Renovations. Grant not to exceed $825,000 for the construction, reconstruction, renovation, and capital equipping of athletic field lighting systems at County Home Park, General John Stricker Middle School Recreation Center, and Shelbourne Park. |
HB 288 |
Healthy Maryland Initiative. Establishing the Healthy Maryland Initiative Fund; requiring specified appropriations from the Fund for specified health care purposes; altering the distribution of tobacco tax revenues; increasing the tobacco tax rate imposed on cigarettes and other tobacco products; expanding eligibility under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to specified parents having incomes at or below specified levels; establishing a Small Business Health Care Incentive Program. |
HB 316 |
Baltimore County - Irvine Nature Center. Grant not to exceed $1,000,000 for the planning, design, construction, capital equipping, site preparation, and landscaping of the Irvine Nature Center, located in Owings Mills. |
HB 334 |
Complimentary Chesapeake Bay Sport Fishing License - POWs and Disabled Veterans. Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to issue a lifetime complimentary Chesapeake Bay sport fishing license to former prisoners of war and disabled veterans. |
HB 359 |
Clean Indoor Air Act of 2007. Prohibiting a person from smoking tobacco products in indoor areas open to the public and places of employment. |
HB 360 |
Baltimore County - Storyville Children's Learning Center. Grant not to exceed $25,000 for the construction and reconstruction of a children's learning center at the Rosedale Public Library. |
HB 416 |
Maryland Agricultural Commission - Biofuel Industry Member. Altering the membership of the Maryland Agricultural Commission by requiring the Governor to appoint a member from a list of two nominees representing the biofuel industry. |
HB 418 |
Mercury Switch Removal from Vehicles. Requiring motor vehicle manufacturers to develop and submit to the Department of the Environment a mercury minimization plan that includes information on mercury switch removal from motor vehicles by a specified date. |
HB 452 |
Ground Rents - Conversion of Irredeemable Ground Rents. Providing for the conversion of an irredeemable ground rent to a redeemable ground rent unless a notice of intention to preserve irredeemability is recorded in the land records on or before December 31, 2010. |
HB 458 |
Ground Rents - Property Owned by Baltimore City. Providing that in any suit to recover back rent, a ground rent landlord may only recover not more than 3 years back rent if the property is owned by Baltimore City and is abandoned or distressed. |
HB 461 |
Prostate Cancer Pilot Program. Establishing the Prostate Cancer Pilot Program; requiring the Program to provide specified services to at least 500 individuals. |
HB 463 |
Ground Rents - Remedy for Nonpayment of Ground Rent. Repealing provisions of law authorizing a landlord under a ground lease to bring an action for ejectment for nonpayment of ground rent; providing that the establishment of a lien is the sole remedy for nonpayment of a ground rent. |
HB 489 |
Ground Rents - Redemption. Repealing the waiting period for redeeming specified ground rents; requiring, before a voluntary transfer of a redeemable ground rent to a third party, that the landlord give the tenant notice of the tenant's right to redeem the ground rent and offer the tenant the opportunity to exercise the right. |
HB 502 |
Ground Rents - Notices Regarding Ground Leases. Requiring a tenant under a ground lease to notify the landlord of any change of address of the tenant; requiring a landlord under a ground lease to mail to the tenant a bill for the payment of ground rent due no later than 60 days before the payment is due. |
HB 546 |
Education - Compulsory Attendance - Age of Withdrawal. Changing the age at which a child may withdraw from required schooling to 17 years of age; and requiring individuals with the legal custody or care and control of children who are at least 5 years old and under 17 years old to see that the children attend school or receive specified instruction. |
HB 580 |
Ground Rents - Limitation of Actions - Registry of Ground Leases. Providing that a ground rent is extinguished if there is no demand or payment for more than 3 years of any specified ground rent; requiring the State Department of Assessments and Taxation to maintain and update regularly on-line registries of landlords and properties that are subject to ground leases. |
HB 597 |
Baltimore County - Leadership Through Athletics. Authorizing Baltimore County to provide a property tax credit against county tax on personal property owned by Leadership Through Athletics, Inc. |
HB 605 |
Statewide Empowerment Zones for Seniors Commission. Establishing the Statewide Empowerment Zones for Seniors Commission. |
HB 619 |
Public Schools - Notification of Criminal Charges. Requiring a county superintendent to notify the county board of education in writing of specified criminal charges. |
HB 621 |
Admissions and Amusement Tax - Exemption for Activities Related to Agricultural Tourism. Providing that the admissions and amusement tax may not be imposed by a county on gross receipts derived from any admissions and amusement charge for any activities related to agricultural tourism. |
HB 641 |
Towing or Removal of Vehicles from Parking Lots. Applying statewide specified provisions of law concerning the towing or removal of vehicles from parking lots; requiring a parking lot owner to provide a specified notice to a vehicle owner that the vehicle will be towed or removed, subject to an exception. |
HB 701 |
Preservation of Parkland. Requiring the Governor to appropriate specified funds for the operation of State forests and parks. |
HB 703 |
Maryland Commission on Climate Change and Clean Energy Alternatives. Creating the Maryland Commission on Climate Change and Clean Energy Alternatives. |
HB 713 |
Maryland Gang Prosecution Act of 2007. Prohibiting a person from participating in a specified criminal gang knowing that the members of the gang engage in or have engaged in a specified pattern of criminal gang activity; prohibiting a person from willfully promoting, furthering, or assisting in a criminal offense committed for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with a criminal gang. |
HB 744 |
Electric and Gas Companies - Energy Audits. Requiring electric and gas companies to perform energy audits of property and equipment of residential customer in accordance with regulations. |
HB 754 |
Children and Working Families Health Care Act of 2007. Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide medical care and other health care services to specified parents and specified adults; altering eligibility requirements for participation in the Maryland Children's Health Program. |
HB 760 |
Diamondback Terrapin - Take and Possession. Repealing the requirement that the Department of Natural Resources prepare a fishery management plan for diamondback terrapin; prohibiting the take or possession of diamondback terrapin for commercial purposes; prohibiting the possession of a specified number of diamondback terrapin for noncommercial purposes. |
HB 770 |
Continuation of Passenger Railroad Service on Amtrak and CSX Lines. Requiring the Maryland Transit Administration to continue to operate passenger railroad service on specified railroad lines at levels equivalent to the levels established as of specified dates. |
HB 784 |
Affordable Housing - Enabling Authority for Counties and Municipalities. Authorizing counties and municipalities to take specified actions to support, foster, or promote an affordable housing program for individuals or families of low or moderate income. |
HB 786 |
Stormwater Management Act of 2007. Requiring local governments to update zoning ordinances to allow for the implementation of environmental site design techniques in specified stormwater management practices; requiring the Department of the Environment to adopt regulations that establish a model ordinance or model regulation for specified purposes. |
HB 839 |
Recycling - Bottle Deposits, Returns, and Refunds. Requiring bottle deposits, returns, and refunds on specified beverage containers. |
HB 860 |
Third Degree Sexual Offense - Person in a Position of Authority. Expanding the felony of sexual offense in the third degree to prohibit a person in a position of authority from engaging in sexual contact, a sexual act, or vaginal intercourse with a minor while the minor is enrolled or participating in a specified institution, program, or activity at which the person in authority works, or while the minor was enrolled or participating in a specified institution, program, or activity at the time the person in a position of authority was working at the institution, program, or activity. |
HB 874 |
Baltimore Metropolitan Transit District Advisory Council. Establishing the Baltimore Metropolitan Transit District Advisory Council; requiring the Advisory Council to study, investigate, monitor, and make recommendations to the Maryland Transit Administration with respect to bus and rail transit in the Baltimore Metropolitan Transit District. |
HB 880 |
Senior Citizen Activities Centers - Capital Improvement Grants Program. Increasing from $600,000 to $1,000,000 the maximum amount the State may grant for a capital improvement project through the Senior Citizen Activities Centers' Capital Improvement Grants Program. |
HB 890 |
Reductions in Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Establishing limits on emissions of greenhouse gases; requiring the Department of the Environment to determine the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level from 1990 and establish a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit based on that level. |
HB 906 |
Public Schools and Facilities - Preference for Locally Grown Foods. Providing a percentage price preference for locally grown foods under specified circumstances. |
HB 909 |
Maryland Energy Efficiency Standards Act of 2007. Requiring the Public Service Commission to adopt regulations on the purchase of equipment; requiring the Maryland Energy Administration to adopt regulations to establish minimum energy efficiency standards for new products sold in the State. |
HB 922 |
Landlord and Tenant - Expiration of Warrant - Striking Judgment for Possession. Providing that under specified circumstances, if a judgment for possession of leased premises is stricken, the judgment shall be counted in the number of judgments necessary to foreclose a specified right of redemption. |
HB 923 |
Secondary School - Graduation Requirements. Requiring the State Board of Education to establish a weighted numerical assessment system to calculate a passing score that students are required to achieve to graduate from a public high school in the State. |
HB 924 |
Health Care Disclosure Act. Requiring an applicant for specified State health programs to identify the employer of a proposed beneficiary or the employer of a specified family member of a proposed beneficiary. |
HB 983 |
Economic Development and Tax Incentive Act. Requiring the State Department of Assessments and Taxation to submit a Unified Property Tax Exemption and Credit Report on or before a specified date each year. |
HB 995 |
Income Tax - Donations to Public Schools. Providing a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax in an amount equal to 150% of a monetary donation made by a business entity to a public elementary or secondary school in the State. |
HB 1062 |
Alternative Energy Acceleration Act. Altering the renewable energy portfolio standard by increasing the specified percentages to be met in specified years from renewable energy credits from Tier 1 sources. |
