1996 Regular Session subject information current as of December 12, 1996 - 12:02

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HB 2	Status as of April 30, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 174
Sponsored By	Delegates Hixson, Taylor, Cummings, Hurson, Busch, Guns, Rawlings, Cryor, Finifter, and Vallario
Entitled	Property Tax - Manufacturing and Research and Development
Committee Assignments	House: Ways and Means Senate: Budget and Taxation

HB 5	Status as of March 31, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Senate Conference Committee Appointed
Sponsored By	Delegates Guns, Taylor, Cummings, Hurson, Busch, Hixson, Rawlings, Vallario, Owings, Klausmeier, Stup, Weir, Fulton, D. Davis, Redmer, D. Hughes, Frush, Billings, McHale, Hammen, Ciliberti, Morhaim, Stull, Oaks, Mohorovic, Finifter, Frank, Howard, and Harrison
Entitled	Brownfields - Voluntary Cleanup and Revitalization Programs
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs

HB 7	Status as of April 30, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 175
Sponsored By	Delegates Hixson, Taylor, Cummings, Hurson, Busch, Guns, Rawlings, and Vallario
Entitled	Education - Annual Budgets and Maintenance of Effort
Committee Assignments	House: Ways and Means Senate: Budget and Taxation and Economic and Environmental Affairs

HB 8	Status as of February 26, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Ways and Means
Sponsored By	Delegates Hixson, Taylor, Cummings, Hurson, Busch, Guns, Rawlings, and Vallario
Entitled	Education - Annual School Budget and Maintenance of Effort Requirements
Committee Assignments	House: Ways and Means

HB 18	Status as of March 27, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Judicial Proceedings
Sponsored By	Delegate Montague
Entitled	Courts - Family Division - Establishment
Committee Assignments	House: Judiciary Senate: Judicial Proceedings

HB 43	Status as of April 9, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 8
Sponsored By	Delegates Hixson, R. Baker, Barve, Bonsack, Bozman, E. Burns, Clagett, Conroy, Conway, Cryor, C. Davis, DeCarlo, Dembrow, Dypski, Finifter, Franchot, Gordon, Grosfeld, Guns, Harrison, Healey, Hecht, Heller, Howard, Hubbard, B. Hughes, Hurson, Kagan, Kopp, Leopold, Love, Mandel, Marriott, McIntosh, McKee, Menes, C. Mitchell, Montague, Muse, Patterson, Perry, Petzold, Pitkin, Preis, Rawlings, Rosapepe, Shriver, Slade, and Workman
Entitled	Public Libraries - Funding
Committee Assignments	House: Ways and Means Senate: Budget and Taxation

HB 136	Status as of March 21, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Environmental Matters
Sponsored By	Delegates Pendergrass, Billings, Barve, Bobo, Conroy, Cryor, Eckardt, Flanagan, Genn, Goldwater, Hubbard, Hurson, Kagan, Mandel, Morhaim, Petzold, and Pitkin
Entitled	Local Government - Sales of Tobacco Products
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters

HB 140	Status as of February 19, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Commerce and Government Matters
Sponsored By	Delegates Frank and Morhaim
Entitled	Local Government - Procurement - Resident Preferences - Prohibited
Committee Assignments	House: Commerce and Government Matters

HB 212	Status as of February 12, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Commerce and Government Matters
Sponsored By	Delegate Eckardt
Entitled	House of Delegates - Resident Delegates
Committee Assignments	House: Commerce and Government Matters

HB 214	Status as of April 3, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Budget and Taxation
Sponsored By	Allegany County Delegation
Entitled	Property Taxes - Constant Yield Tax Rate - County Advertisement Requirements
Committee Assignments	House: Ways and Means Senate: Budget and Taxation

HB 215	Status as of February 12, 1996: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Commerce and Government Matters
Sponsored By	Allegany County Delegation
Entitled	County-Funded State Offices - Fiscal Control
Committee Assignments	House: Commerce and Government Matters

HB 219	Status as of May 23, 1996: Vetoed by the Governor - Policy
Sponsored By	Delegate Slade (Chairman, Joint Budget and Audit Committee)
Entitled	General Assembly - Department of Fiscal Services - Office of Legislative Audits
Committee Assignments	House: Appropriations Senate: Budget and Taxation

HB 221	Status as of April 9, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 46
Sponsored By	Allegany County Delegation
Entitled	County Boards of Education - Emergency Procurements
Committee Assignments	House: Ways and Means Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs

HB 234	Status as of February 5, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Commerce and Government Matters
Sponsored By	Delegates Hecht and Brinkley
Entitled	Vehicle Laws - Commemorative Registration Plates - Education
Committee Assignments	House: Commerce and Government Matters

HB 258	Status as of March 4, 1996: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Ways and Means
Sponsored By	Delegate Beck
Entitled	Sales and Use Taxation of Food - State Income Tax Credit for Percentage of County Income Tax
Committee Assignments	House: Ways and Means

HB 259	Status as of March 19, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Ways and Means
Sponsored By	Delegates Campbell, Hammen, and Krysiak
Entitled	Land Value Taxation
Committee Assignments	House: Ways and Means

HB 269	Status as of March 19, 1996: Bill is in the House - Third Reading Failed
Sponsored By	Delegate Hixson
Entitled	Vehicle Laws - Traffic Control Signal Monitoring System - Owner Liability
Committee Assignments	House: Commerce and Government Matters

HB 363	Status as of February 26, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Commerce and Government Matters
Sponsored By	Delegates Brinkley, Poole, Hecht, Snodgrass, Elliott, Stull, Getty, Stocksdale, DeCarlo, Cryor, M. Burns, Rzepkowski, Walkup, and Beck
Entitled	Local Elected Officials - Salary, Compensation, Pension, or Benefits
Committee Assignments	House: Commerce and Government Matters

HB 369	Status as of February 19, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Commerce and Government Matters
Sponsored By	Delegates Ports, Redmer, Jacobs, Beck, Klausmeier, and Finifter
Entitled	Vehicle Laws - Special Registration Plates - Public School Construction
Committee Assignments	House: Commerce and Government Matters

HB 386	Status as of February 27, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Economic Matters
Sponsored By	Delegate Workman
Entitled	Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning, and Refrigeration Contractors - Employment by a Governmental Entity
Committee Assignments	House: Economic Matters

HB 387	Status as of February 19, 1996: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Commerce and Government Matters
Sponsored By	Delegate Workman
Entitled	Local Governments - Investment Authority - Credit Union Deposits
Committee Assignments	House: Commerce and Government Matters

HB 397	Status as of March 19, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Ways and Means
Sponsored By	Delegates Gordon and C. Davis
Entitled	Income Tax Reform
Committee Assignments	House: Ways and Means

HB 401	Status as of May 23, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 618
Sponsored By	Delegate Proctor (Chairman, Joint Committee on Pensions)
Entitled	Pensions - Administrative Procedures and Practice
Committee Assignments	House: Appropriations Senate: Budget and Taxation

HB 407	Status as of April 3, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Budget and Taxation
Sponsored By	Garrett County and Allegany County Delegations
Entitled	Forest or Park Reserve Fund - Distributions to Counties
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters Senate: Budget and Taxation

HB 446	Status as of April 3, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Appropriations
Sponsored By	Delegates C. Mitchell, Muse, Kirk, and Cummings
Entitled	Maryland Public Employee Labor Relations Act
Committee Assignments	House: Appropriations

HB 455	Status as of March 25, 1996: Bill is in the House - First Reading Appropriations
Sponsored By	Delegates Cadden and Klima
Entitled	Retirement and Pension Systems - Transfers Between Public Systems - Present Value of Accrued Benefits
Committee Assignments	House: Appropriations

HB 466	Status as of April 30, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 230
Sponsored By	Delegate McKee
Entitled	Real Property Assessments - Notice
Committee Assignments	House: Ways and Means Senate: Budget and Taxation

HB 489	Status as of February 19, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Judiciary
Sponsored By	Delegates Hecht, Bobo, Clagett, Elliott, Grosfeld, Mandel, Nathan-Pulliam, Pitkin, Snodgrass, Stup, Workman, Howard, and Donoghue
Entitled	Divorce Actions - Additional Filing Fee for Domestic Violence Programs
Committee Assignments	House: Judiciary

HB 508	Status as of March 4, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Environmental Matters
Sponsored By	Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (Departmental - Environment)
Entitled	Environmental Noise Control - Repeal
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters

HB 516	Status as of May 23, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 622
Sponsored By	Delegate T. Murphy
Entitled	State Police - Computer Crimes - Jurisdiction of the Department
Committee Assignments	House: Judiciary Senate: Judicial Proceedings

HB 517	Status as of March 19, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Ways and Means
Sponsored By	Delegates Ports, Baldwin, Beck, Bissett, Brinkley, M. Burns, Ciliberti, Cryor, Eckardt, Edwards, Elliott, Faulkner, Flanagan, Getty, Greenip, Harkins, Holt, D. Hughes, Hutchins, Jacobs, Kach, Kelly, Kittleman, Klima, La Vay, Leopold, McClenahan, McKee, Morgan, Mossburg, D. Murphy, O'Donnell, Redmer, Rzepkowski, Schade, Schisler, Snodgrass, Stocksdale, Stull, Stup, and Walkup
Entitled	Income Tax - Reduction
Committee Assignments	House: Ways and Means

HB 528	Status as of March 11, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Judiciary
Sponsored By	Delegate Vallario
Entitled	Local Government Tort Claims Act - Limitations on Liability - Interest on Judgment Not Included
Committee Assignments	House: Judiciary

HB 555	Status as of April 30, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 244
Sponsored By	Chairman, Ways and Means Committee (Departmental - Housing and Community Dev.)
Entitled	Department of Housing and Community Development - Community Development Administration - Infrastructure Financial Assistance
Committee Assignments	House: Ways and Means Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs

HB 566	Status as of April 8, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Budget and Taxation
Sponsored By	Delegates Hixson, Goldwater, Kopp, and Genn
Entitled	Property Tax Credit - Businesses That Create New Jobs
Committee Assignments	House: Ways and Means Senate: Budget and Taxation

HB 596	Status as of March 4, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Commerce and Government Matters
Sponsored By	Delegate Campbell
Entitled	Vehicle Laws - All-Terrain Vehicles
Committee Assignments	House: Commerce and Government Matters

HB 598	Status as of March 11, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Environmental Matters
Sponsored By	Delegates Leopold and Rosapepe
Entitled	Economic Growth, Resource Protection, and Planning - Local Jurisdiction Rating Systems
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters

HB 604	Status as of April 30, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 251
Sponsored By	Delegate Montague
Entitled	Foster Care Review Boards - Membership
Committee Assignments	House: Judiciary Senate: Judicial Proceedings

HB 610	Status as of April 30, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 252
Sponsored By	Delegates Eckardt, W. Baker, Bozman, Conway, Guns, D. Hughes, McClenahan, Rudolph, Schisler, and Walkup
Entitled	Educational Funding - Children Living in Out-of-County Living Arrangements
Committee Assignments	House: Ways and Means Senate: Budget and Taxation and Economic and Environmental Affairs

HB 640	Status as of March 18, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Economic Matters
Sponsored By	Delegate Exum
Entitled	Government Inspection of Business Entities - Copies of Reports
Committee Assignments	House: Economic Matters

HB 677	Status as of May 23, 1996: Vetoed by the Governor - Cross-filed bill was signed
Sponsored By	Delegate Barve
Entitled	State Aid to Local Subdivisions
Committee Assignments	House: Ways and Means Senate: Budget and Taxation

HB 717	Status as of February 20, 1996: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Ways and Means
Sponsored By	Delegate Campbell
Entitled	Income and Sales and Use Tax Reform
Committee Assignments	House: Ways and Means

HB 721	Status as of March 4, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Environmental Matters
Sponsored By	Delegates Boston and Cadden
Entitled	For-Hire Vehicles - Uniform Standards
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters

HB 746	Status as of May 23, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 687
Sponsored By	Delegates Barve and Exum
Entitled	Transportation Services - Fiscal Assistance
Committee Assignments	House: Appropriations Senate: Budget and Taxation

HB 799	Status as of April 30, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 274
Sponsored By	Chairman, Appropriations Committee (Departmental - Transportation)
Entitled	State Highways - Sidewalks - Funding to Local Governments
Committee Assignments	House: Ways and Means Senate: Finance

HB 810	Status as of May 14, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 559
Sponsored By	Delegates Cryor, Beck, Mossburg, La Vay, Shriver, Genn, Goldwater, Kopp, and Barve
Entitled	Property Tax Relief - Potomac Conservancy
Committee Assignments	House: Ways and Means Senate: Budget and Taxation

HB 839	Status as of April 3, 1996: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Appropriations
Sponsored By	Delegate Slade
Entitled	Circuit Courts - Efficiency and Fiscal Assistance
Committee Assignments	House: Appropriations

HB 898	Status as of May 23, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 588
Sponsored By	Delegates Hubbard, Shriver, Hurson, Owings, Rosapepe, Exum, Fry, Menes, R. Baker, Montague, O'Donnell, Bobo, Frush, Crumlin, Patterson, DeCarlo, Benson, Bissett, Bonsack, Bozman, Brinkley, Conroy, D. Davis, Edwards, Elliott, Fulton, Getty, Goldwater, Grosfeld, Harkins, Healey, Hecht, Heller, Howard, Hutchins, Kagan, Mandel, McIntosh, McKee, T. Murphy, Pendergrass, Pitkin, Preis, Rudolph, Slade, Stup, Snodgrass, Valderrama, Workman, and Conway
Entitled	Court Costs - State Aid for Police Protection, Criminal Injuries Compensation, and Victim and Witness Protection and Relocation
Committee Assignments	House: Judiciary Senate: Budget and Taxation and Judicial Proceedings

HB 900	Status as of May 23, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 638
Sponsored By	Delegates Mandel and Faulkner
Entitled	Local Government - Computer Software Programs - Sale, Lease, or Licensing
Committee Assignments	House: Commerce and Government Matters Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs

HB 917	Status as of March 11, 1996: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Ways and Means
Sponsored By	Delegates Healey and Howard
Entitled	Property Tax Assessment - Real Property
Committee Assignments	House: Ways and Means

HB 921	Status as of March 26, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Budget and Taxation
Sponsored By	Delegates Bobo , Fry, Healey, Bonsack, Bozman, Cryor, and Shriver
Entitled	County Income Tax
Committee Assignments	House: Ways and Means Senate: Budget and Taxation

HB 925	Status as of February 28, 1996: Bill is in the House - Re-assigned Appropriations
Sponsored By	Delegates Fry, R. Baker, Beck, Benson, Bissett, Bonsack, Bozman, Brinkley, M. Burns, Cadden, Ciliberti, Conroy, Conway, Curran, C. Davis, Donoghue, Eckardt, Edwards, Elliott, Faulkner, Franchot, Getty, Gordon, Guns, Harkins, Healey, Hecht, Holt, Howard, Hubbard, Hutchins, Jacobs, Kagan, Kelly, Klima, B. Hughes, Crumlin, Baldwin, Leopold, Malone, Mandel, Marriott, McClenahan, McKee, Minnick, V. Mitchell, Mohorovic, Morgan, Owings, Palumbo, Pendergrass, Pitkin, Poole, Preis, Rudolph, Rzepkowski, Schade, Schisler, Shriver, Slade, Snodgrass, Stocksdale, Stull, Stup, Walkup, Wood, Workman, W. Baker, Dewberry, O'Donnell, Flanagan, DeCarlo, Frush, and Klausmeier
Entitled	State Mandates on Local Government - Constitutional Restriction
Committee Assignments	House: Appropriations

HB 941	Status as of March 11, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Ways and Means
Sponsored By	Delegates Rosenberg and Campbell
Entitled	Property Tax Base Sharing
Committee Assignments	House: Ways and Means

HB 947	Status as of March 26, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Environmental Matters
Sponsored By	Delegates Perry, Cadden, Baldwin, Conroy, Proctor, Hammen, Kach, M. Burns, Rzepkowski, Love, Turner, Pitkin, Bissett, Clagett, Hubbard, Bobo, Frush, Leopold, Greenip, and Schade
Entitled	Rubble Landfills - Liners - Local Authority
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters

HB 962	Status as of March 22, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Ways and Means
Sponsored By	Delegate Morgan
Entitled	Horse Racing - Off-Track Facilities - County Approval
Committee Assignments	House: Ways and Means

HB 970	Status as of April 30, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 289
Sponsored By	Delegates Rosenberg and C. Mitchell
Entitled	Property Tax Credit for Renovations to Commercial Buildings to Provide State-of-the-Art Communications and Utility Systems
Committee Assignments	House: Ways and Means Senate: Budget and Taxation

HB 971	Status as of April 8, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Referred to interim study
Sponsored By	Delegates Rudolph and Cryor
Entitled	Deaf Students - Access to Out-of-State Specialized Educational Centers
Committee Assignments	House: Ways and Means Senate: Budget and Taxation

HB 981	Status as of April 3, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Appropriations
Sponsored By	Delegate Dembrow
Entitled	Transfer of Duties of Local Health and Social Services Departments to Counties
Committee Assignments	House: Appropriations

HB 991	Status as of May 23, 1996: Vetoed by the Governor - Duplicative
Sponsored By	Delegates Valderrama, Muse, and Patterson
Entitled	Correctional Officers - County and Municipal Facilities - Power to Make Arrests
Committee Assignments	House: Judiciary Senate: Judicial Proceedings

HB 1058	Status as of March 19, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Commerce and Government Matters
Sponsored By	Delegate C. Mitchell
Entitled	Election Laws - Political Parties - Continued Ballot Access
Committee Assignments	House: Commerce and Government Matters

HB 1095	Status as of May 23, 1996: Vetoed by the Governor - Cross-filed bill was signed
Sponsored By	Delegates Minnick, Arnick, Mohorovic, Weir, DeCarlo, Holt, Klausmeier, Redmer, and Ports
Entitled	Chesapeake Bay Critical Area - Impervious Surface Limits
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs

HB 1118	Status as of April 30, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 156
Sponsored By	Delegates Hixson, Heller, and Gordon
Entitled	Property Tax - Computer Software
Committee Assignments	House: Ways and Means Senate: Budget and Taxation

HB 1152	Status as of March 19, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Ways and Means
Sponsored By	Delegates Hixson, Rawlings, Guns, Busch, Arnick, W. Baker, Bozman, Clagett, Conway, Curran, Dewberry, Dypski, Finifter, Franchot, Frank, Fry, Gordon, Hammen, Harrison, Hecht, Hurson, Klausmeier, Malone, Minnick, V. Mitchell, Mohorovic, Morhaim, Owings, Perry, Rudolph, Slade, Vallario, Wood, Branch, and B. Hughes
Entitled	Income Tax Reform
Committee Assignments	House: Ways and Means

HB 1156	Status as of March 20, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Economic and Environmental Affairs
Sponsored By	Chairman, Commerce and Government Matters Committee (Departmental - Ethics, State Commission on)
Entitled	Ethics Law - Registration and Disclosure - Local Lobbyists - School Board Lobbyists
Committee Assignments	House: Commerce and Government Matters Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs

HB 1179	Status as of April 30, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 313
Sponsored By	Chairman, Commerce and Government Matters Committee (Departmental - Planning)
Entitled	Maryland Office of Planning - Transportation Planning Activity
Committee Assignments	House: Commerce and Government Matters Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs

HB 1185	Status as of April 8, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Referred to interim study
Sponsored By	Delegates Rawlings and Busch
Entitled	Maryland Industrial Development Financing Authority
Committee Assignments	House: Economic Matters Senate: Budget and Taxation

HB 1219	Status as of April 4, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Third Reading Passed with Amendments
Sponsored By	Delegate Guns
Entitled	Forest Conservation
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs

HB 1220	Status as of February 14, 1996: Bill is in the House - First Reading Environmental Matters
Sponsored By	Delegate Guns
Entitled	Air Quality - Ozone Transport Region - Exclusions
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters

HB 1266	Status as of April 3, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Environmental Matters
Sponsored By	Delegates Hubbard, Mohorovic, Morhaim, Frush, Oaks, Hammen, McHale, Nathan-Pulliam, Rosapepe, T. Murphy, Pitkin, Conroy, Crumlin, Rosenberg, Marriott, Proctor, R. Baker, Patterson, Clagett, Grosfeld, Bobo, Menes, Turner, Kagan, C. Mitchell, Franchot, Pendergrass, McIntosh, Poole, Dypski, Kelly, Kach, and Perry
Entitled	Environment - Permits - Standing
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters

HB 1278	Status as of March 19, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Environmental Matters
Sponsored By	Frederick County Delegation
Entitled	Forest Conservation Act - Exemption
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters

HB 1287	Status as of March 4, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Judiciary
Sponsored By	Delegates Fulton, Branch, and C. Mitchell
Entitled	Law Enforcement Agencies - Disposition of Abandoned, Confiscated, and Recovered Property
Committee Assignments	House: Judiciary

HB 1304	Status as of May 23, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 656
Sponsored By	Delegate Linton
Entitled	Property Tax Exemptions - Privately Owned Public Use Airports
Committee Assignments	House: Ways and Means Senate: Budget and Taxation

HB 1320	Status as of March 11, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Commerce and Government Matters
Sponsored By	Delegates Mossburg and Poole
Entitled	Vested Development Rights
Committee Assignments	House: Commerce and Government Matters

HB 1321	Status as of April 6, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Third Reading Passed with Amendments
Sponsored By	Chairman, Economic Matters Committee (Departmental - Dept. Business & Economic Dev.)
Entitled	Maryland Business Financing Fund
Committee Assignments	House: Economic Matters Senate: Budget and Taxation

HB 1335	Status as of April 30, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 336
Sponsored By	Delegate Snodgrass
Entitled	Home Improvement Permits
Committee Assignments	House: Economic Matters Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs

HB 1338	Status as of May 23, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 661
Sponsored By	Delegate Proctor (Chairman, Joint Committee on Pensions)
Entitled	Retirement and Pensions - Funding - Participating Governmental Units
Committee Assignments	House: Appropriations Senate: Budget and Taxation

HB 1344	Status as of March 11, 1996: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Environmental Matters
Sponsored By	Delegate Owings
Entitled	Rubble Landfills - Environmental Inspectors
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters

HB 1345	Status as of March 11, 1996: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Environmental Matters
Sponsored By	Delegate Owings
Entitled	Rubble Landfills - Recycling Plan
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters

HB 1356	Status as of March 21, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Environmental Matters
Sponsored By	Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (Departmental - Health and Mental Hygiene)
Entitled	Mental Hygiene Facilities
Committee Assignments	House: Environmental Matters

HB 1409	Status as of March 21, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Judiciary
Sponsored By	Delegate Montague
Entitled	Juvenile Causes - Child in Need of Assistance - Proceedings
Committee Assignments	House: Judiciary

HB 1452	Status as of March 26, 1996: Bill is in the House - Third Reading Failed
Sponsored By	Delegates Benson and Conroy
Entitled	Incentive Program - Reporting Improperly Registered Motor Vehicles - Employees of Local Law Enforcement Agencies
Committee Assignments	House: Commerce and Government Matters

HJ 16	Status as of May 23, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 7
Sponsored By	Delegate Curran
Entitled	Governing Local Governments Into the 21st Century
Committee Assignments	House: Commerce and Government Matters Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs

SB 4	Status as of April 30, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 88
Sponsored By	Senator Miller
Entitled	Education - School System Performance Audit
Committee Assignments	Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs and Budget and Taxation House: Ways and Means

SB 5	Status as of March 19, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Budget and Taxation
Sponsored By	Senator Miller
Entitled	Education - Annual School Budget and Maintenance of Effort Requirements
Committee Assignments	Senate: Budget and Taxation and Economic and Environmental Affairs

SB 61	Status as of February 13, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Economic and Environmental Affairs
Sponsored By	Senator Colburn
Entitled	House of Delegates - Resident Delegates
Committee Assignments	Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs

SB 64	Status as of April 8, 1996: Bill is in the House - Favorable with Amendments Environmental Matters
Sponsored By	Senators Colburn and Derr
Entitled	Forest Conservation
Committee Assignments	Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs House: Environmental Matters

SB 66	Status as of February 21, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Budget and Taxation
Sponsored By	Senator Colburn
Entitled	Property Tax - Semiannual Payment Schedule - Local Option
Committee Assignments	Senate: Budget and Taxation

SB 69	Status as of April 6, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Ways and Means
Sponsored By	Senator Haines
Entitled	Recordation Tax - Payment and Collection
Committee Assignments	Senate: Budget and Taxation House: Ways and Means

SB 84	Status as of April 30, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 95
Sponsored By	Senator Astle
Entitled	Vehicle Laws - Local Regulation of Parking - Motorcycles
Committee Assignments	Senate: Judicial Proceedings House: Commerce and Government Matters

SB 93	Status as of April 30, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 97
Sponsored By	Chairman, Budget and Taxation Committee (Departmental - Assessments and Taxation)
Entitled	Property Tax - Semiannual Payment
Committee Assignments	Senate: Budget and Taxation House: Ways and Means

SB 94	Status as of April 30, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 98
Sponsored By	Chairman, Budget and Taxation Committee (Departmental - Assessments and Taxation)
Entitled	Property Tax - Operating Property - Estimated Taxes
Committee Assignments	Senate: Budget and Taxation House: Ways and Means

SB 121	Status as of May 23, 1996: Vetoed by the Governor - Cross-filed bill was signed
Sponsored By	Chairman, Judicial Proceedings Committee (Departmental - State Police, Dept. of)
Entitled	State Police - Computer Crimes - Jurisdiction of the Department
Committee Assignments	Senate: Judicial Proceedings House: Judiciary

SB 130	Status as of February 21, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Budget and Taxation
Sponsored By	Senator Haines
Entitled	Hearing Impaired Individuals Over Age 72 - Tax Exemption
Committee Assignments	Senate: Budget and Taxation

SB 178	Status as of March 1, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Recommit to Committee Budget and Taxation
Sponsored By	Senators Amoss and Hoffman
Entitled	Homestead Property Tax Credit - Homestead Credit Percentage
Committee Assignments	Senate: Budget and Taxation

SB 186	Status as of April 8, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Appropriations
Sponsored By	Senators Young , Trotter, and McFadden
Entitled	Payroll Deductions - Mass Transit
Committee Assignments	Senate: Budget and Taxation House: Appropriations

SB 200	Status as of February 27, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Withdrawn Judicial Proceedings
Sponsored By	Senator Forehand
Entitled	Juvenile Records - Use by Local Pretrial and Correctional Agencies
Committee Assignments	Senate: Judicial Proceedings

SB 224	Status as of February 21, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Budget and Taxation
Sponsored By	Senators Kelley, Stone, Hoffman, Lawlah, McFadden, Kasemeyer, Van Hollen, and Hollinger
Entitled	Closing Costs Reduction - Divorced or Widowed Individuals
Committee Assignments	Senate: Budget and Taxation

SB 246	Status as of May 23, 1996: Vetoed by the Governor - Cross-filed bill was signed
Sponsored By	Senators Ruben, Teitelbaum, Frosh, Green, Forehand, Pinsky, Trotter, Dorman, Lawlah, Hogan, Van Hollen, Currie, Roesser, Hafer, and Kasemeyer
Entitled	Transportation Funding - Grants for Local Paratransit Service
Committee Assignments	Senate: Budget and Taxation House: Ways and Means

SB 252	Status as of May 23, 1996: Vetoed by the Governor - Cross-filed bill was signed
Sponsored By	Senator Boozer
Entitled	Property Tax - Income Producing Real Property - Penalty for Failing to File Information
Committee Assignments	Senate: Budget and Taxation House: Ways and Means

SB 259	Status as of February 7, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Withdrawn Economic and Environmental Affairs
Sponsored By	Senator Trotter
Entitled	Municipal Corporations - Application of County Legislation
Committee Assignments	Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs

SB 260	Status as of January 24, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Finance
Sponsored By	Senator Pica
Entitled	For-Hire Vehicles - Uniform Standards
Committee Assignments	Senate: Finance

SB 265	Status as of March 19, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Budget and Taxation
Sponsored By	Senator Pinsky
Entitled	Education - Maintenance of Effort Requirements
Committee Assignments	Senate: Budget and Taxation and Economic and Environmental Affairs

SB 267	Status as of February 26, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Judicial Proceedings
Sponsored By	Senators Ruben and Boozer
Entitled	Local Government - Authority to Regulate the Sale or Distribution of Tobacco Products
Committee Assignments	Senate: Judicial Proceedings

SB 284	Status as of May 23, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 574
Sponsored By	Senator Della
Entitled	Pensions - Transfer of Service Credit
Committee Assignments	Senate: Budget and Taxation House: Appropriations

SB 293	Status as of February 19, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Finance
Sponsored By	Senator Della
Entitled	Collective Bargaining and Binding Arbitration for Fire and Rescue Personnel
Committee Assignments	Senate: Finance

SB 310	Status as of March 5, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Judicial Proceedings
Sponsored By	Senator Teitelbaum
Entitled	Vehicle Laws - Traffic Control Signal Monitoring System - Owner Liability
Committee Assignments	Senate: Judicial Proceedings

SB 312	Status as of May 23, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 575
Sponsored By	Senator Collins (Baltimore County Administration)
Entitled	Correctional Officers - County and Municipal Facilities - Power to Make Arrests
Committee Assignments	Senate: Judicial Proceedings House: Judiciary

SB 357	Status as of March 4, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Withdrawn Economic and Environmental Affairs
Sponsored By	Senator Hollinger
Entitled	Primary and Secondary Education - School Health Services - School Health 2000 Partnership Committees
Committee Assignments	Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs and Finance

SB 386	Status as of March 15, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Economic and Environmental Affairs
Sponsored By	Senator Derr (Frederick County Delegation)
Entitled	Forest Conservation Act - Exemption
Committee Assignments	Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs

SB 393	Status as of April 8, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Appropriations
Sponsored By	Senators McCabe and Middleton
Entitled	Agricultural Land Preservation - Easements Held By County Agricultural Land Preservation Programs - Condemnation Payments
Committee Assignments	Senate: Budget and Taxation House: Appropriations

SB 405	Status as of May 23, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 581
Sponsored By	Senator Amoss
Entitled	Natural Resources Pension System
Committee Assignments	Senate: Budget and Taxation House: Appropriations

SB 406	Status as of March 26, 1996: Bill is in the House - First Reading Ways and Means
Sponsored By	Senator Amoss
Entitled	Education - Annual School Budget and Maintenance of Effort Requirements
Committee Assignments	Senate: Budget and Taxation and Economic and Environmental Affairs House: Ways and Means

SB 424	Status as of February 19, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Judicial Proceedings
Sponsored By	Senator Jimeno
Entitled	Divorce Actions - Additional Filing Fee for Domestic Violence Programs
Committee Assignments	Senate: Judicial Proceedings

SB 430	Status as of April 4, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Environmental Matters
Sponsored By	Senator Dorman
Entitled	911 Emergency Telephone System - Local Charges - Notification and Billing
Committee Assignments	Senate: Finance House: Environmental Matters

SB 443	Status as of May 14, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 398
Sponsored By	Senators Roesser, Ruben, Frosh, and Forehand
Entitled	Property Tax Relief - Potomac Conservancy
Committee Assignments	Senate: Budget and Taxation House: Ways and Means

SB 463	Status as of April 2, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Commerce and Government Matters
Sponsored By	Senators Madden and Green
Entitled	Incentive Program - Reporting Improperly Registered Motor Vehicles - Employees of Local Law Enforcement Agencies
Committee Assignments	Senate: Judicial Proceedings House: Commerce and Government Matters

SB 534	Status as of April 5, 1996: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Judiciary
Sponsored By	Senators Forehand, Ruben, Teitelbaum, Roesser, and Hogan
Entitled	County Detention Centers - Prisoners - Costs of Confinement
Committee Assignments	Senate: Judicial Proceedings House: Judiciary

SB 546	Status as of March 27, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Budget and Taxation
Sponsored By	Senator Ferguson
Entitled	Golf Courses - Use of State or Political Subdivision Public Funds - Prohibition
Committee Assignments	Senate: Budget and Taxation

SB 569	Status as of March 19, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Budget and Taxation
Sponsored By	Senator Ruben
Entitled	Education - Maryland Public School Supplemental Fund
Committee Assignments	Senate: Budget and Taxation

SB 578	Status as of May 23, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 587
Sponsored By	Senators Amoss, Green, Forehand, Kasemeyer, Lawlah, McFadden, and Munson
Entitled	Court Costs - State Aid for Police Protection, Criminal Injuries Compensation, and Victim and Witness Protection and Relocation
Committee Assignments	Senate: Budget and Taxation and Judicial Proceedings House: Judiciary

SB 602	Status as of March 25, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Budget and Taxation
Sponsored By	Senator Hoffman
Entitled	State Tobacco Tax - Smoking and Cancer Prevention Fund
Committee Assignments	Senate: Budget and Taxation

SB 614	Status as of February 6, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Finance
Sponsored By	Senator Madden
Entitled	The Welfare Innovation Act of 1996
Committee Assignments	Senate: Finance

SB 625	Status as of March 19, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Budget and Taxation
Sponsored By	Senator Colburn
Entitled	Educational Funding - Children Living in Out-of-County Living Arrangements
Committee Assignments	Senate: Budget and Taxation and Economic and Environmental Affairs

SB 636	Status as of April 30, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 155
Sponsored By	Senator Hogan
Entitled	Property Tax - Computer Software
Committee Assignments	Senate: Budget and Taxation House: Ways and Means

SB 657	Status as of May 14, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 410
Sponsored By	Senators Collins and Stone
Entitled	Chesapeake Bay Critical Area - Impervious Surface Limits
Committee Assignments	Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs House: Environmental Matters

SB 673	Status as of April 30, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 163
Sponsored By	Senators Ruben, Forehand, Ferguson, Dorman, Astle, McCabe, Roesser, Middleton, Haines, Teitelbaum, Hogan, Craig, Colburn, Stoltzfus, Frosh, Derr, Van Hollen, Madden, and Dyson
Entitled	Transportation - State Aid to Local Subdivisions
Committee Assignments	Senate: Budget and Taxation House: Ways and Means

SB 692	Status as of March 6, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Budget and Taxation
Sponsored By	Senators Cade, Hogan, McCabe, Madden, Stoltzfus, Boozer, Hafer, Munson, Roesser, Haines, Craig, Ferguson, Middlebrooks, Colburn, and Derr
Entitled	Income Tax Rate Reduction
Committee Assignments	Senate: Budget and Taxation

SB 737	Status as of February 12, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Senate Rules
Sponsored By	Senator Colburn
Entitled	Forest Conservation - Declaration of Intent - Prohibition
Committee Assignments	Senate: Senate Rules

SB 744	Status as of March 15, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Economic and Environmental Affairs
Sponsored By	Senator Colburn
Entitled	Forest Conservation - Alterations
Committee Assignments	Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs

SB 763	Status as of February 21, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Senate Rules
Sponsored By	Senator Craig
Entitled	State Mandates on Local Government - Constitutional Restriction
Committee Assignments	Senate: Senate Rules

SB 766	Status as of May 14, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 421
Sponsored By	Senator Dorman
Entitled	Vehicle Laws - Vehicle Registration - Political Subdivisions and State Agencies
Committee Assignments	Senate: Judicial Proceedings House: Commerce and Government Matters

SB 778	Status as of May 14, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 351
Sponsored By	Senators Bromwell, Dorman, Astle, Della, Derr, Hafer, Madden, Pica, Roesser, Trotter, Young, Miller, and Currie
Entitled	Welfare Innovation Act of 1996
Committee Assignments	Senate: Finance House: Appropriations

SB 792	Status as of March 13, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Re-referred Budget and Taxation
Sponsored By	Senator Amoss
Entitled	Transportation - Highway User Revenues - Distribution Formula
Committee Assignments	Senate: Budget and Taxation

SB 793	Status as of March 8, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Re-referred Economic and Environmental Affairs
Sponsored By	Senator Miller (By Request, Maryland Economic Growth Task Force)
Entitled	Office of Planning - Statewide Infrastructure Study
Committee Assignments	Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs

SB 804	Status as of May 14, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 424
Sponsored By	Senator Amoss
Entitled	Howard and Prince George's Counties - Fire Protection - Funding
Committee Assignments	Senate: Budget and Taxation House: Ways and Means

SB 806	Status as of April 30, 1996: Became Law - Chapter 173
Sponsored By	Senators Pica, Young, Blount, McFadden, Hughes, Hoffman, Sfikas, Bromwell, Kelley, and Della
Entitled	County Income Tax Disparity Grants
Committee Assignments	Senate: Budget and Taxation House: Ways and Means