Bills Signed and Vetoed
2000 Legislative Session

March 24, 2000

April 11, 2000

April 25, 2000

May 11, 2000

May 18, 2000

Vetoed Bills

To the Members of the General Assembly

Ladies and Gentlemen:

On March 24, 2000, the Honorable Parris N. Glendening, Governor; the Honorable Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr., President of the Senate; and the Honorable Casper R. Taylor, Jr., Speaker of the House of Delegates, signed the following pieces of legislation which you passed:

SB 158 Chapter 1

Annual Curative Bill Generally curing previous Acts of the General Assembly with possible title or other defects. The President (Department of Legislative Services)

Sincerely,

Karl S. Aro Executive Director

To the Members of the General Assembly

Ladies and Gentlemen:

On April 11, 2000, the Honorable Parris N. Glendening, Governor; the Honorable Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr., President of the Senate; and the Honorable Casper R. Taylor, Jr., Speaker of the House of Delegates, signed the following pieces of legislation which you passed:

SB 211 Chapter 2

Responsible Gun Safety Act of 2000 Prohibiting a firearms dealer from selling, renting, or transferring in the State any handgun manufactured after December 31, 2002, unless the handgun has an integrated mechanical safety device; altering the composition of the Handgun Roster Board; requiring the Maryland Police Training Commission to adopt regulations for a certified firearms safety training course; establishing a Cease Fire Council; etc. The President (Administration), et al

Sincerely,

Karl S. Aro Executive Director

To the Members of the General Assembly

Ladies and Gentlemen:

On April 25, 2000, the Honorable Parris N. Glendening, Governor; the Honorable Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr., President of the Senate; and the Honorable Casper R. Taylor, Jr., Speaker of the House of Delegates, signed the following pieces of legislation which you passed:

SB 198 Chapter 3	State Information Technology Board -- Membership and Duties Increasing the membership of the State Information Technology Board; clarifying the appointment and terms of specified members; providing for the removal of any member of the Board under specified circumstances; requiring the Board to make recommendations about Internet--based applications and services for State government and educational institutions; etc. The President (Administration), et al
SB 199 Chapter 4	Public Records -- Privacy Policies and Data Security Requiring that personal records be collected by units of government only under specified circumstances and subject to specified conditions; requiring custodians of public records to collect personal information in a specified manner; requiring units of State government to post privacy policies on their web sites; etc. The President (Administration), et al
HB 274 Chapter 5	Electronic Government Initiative Requiring the Secretary of Budget and Management to implement a specified time line for units of the Executive Branch of State government to offer public information and services over the Internet; requiring those units to report on their plans; requiring the statewide information technology master plan to include standards to assure nonvisual access to information and services made available to the public over the Internet under specified circumstances; etc. The Speaker (Administration), et al
HB 276 Chapter 6	eMaryland Initiative Creating the CEO Board of Advisors for E--Commerce; specifying the members of the Board; specifying the duties of the Board; creating the "eMaryland" ASP Consortium at the University of Maryland; specifying the duties of the Consortium; specifying the members of the Consortium's management committee; creating a special account in the Information Technology Investment Fund; etc. The Speaker (Administration), et al
HB 278 Chapter 7	Crimes -- Computer Piracy Revising the laws about computer--related crimes; creating a felony for specified computer--related crimes; setting penalties; etc. The Speaker (Administration), et al
SB 3 Chapter 8	Commercial Law -- The Maryland Uniform Electronic Transactions Act Adopting the Maryland Uniform Electronic Transactions Act; limiting the application of the Act to transactions where the parties have agreed to conduct transactions electronically; providing that an agreement to conduct a transaction electronically may not be contained in a standard form contract under specified circumstances; providing that an agreement to conduct a transaction electronically may not be inferred solely from specified facts; etc. Senator Miller
SB 522 Chapter 9	Public Libraries -- Internet Access by Minors -- Obscene Materials Requiring each county or board of trustees of a county library to adopt and implement policies and procedures for preventing a minor from obtaining access through the library to obscene materials or child pornography by means of the Internet or other interactive computer services; etc. Senator Van Hollen, et al
HB 15 Chapter 10	Circuit Courts -- Business and Technology Division Establishing a Business and Technology Division Task Force to study the creation of a business and technology division in appropriate circuit courts; authorizing that the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals consider, based on the study by the Task Force, the feasibility of the establishment of a business and technology court division in the State; etc. Delegate Taylor, et al
HB 19 Chapter 11	Maryland Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act Adopting the Maryland Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act; specifying that provisions of specified consumer protection laws apply to the subject matter of consumer contracts; establishing provisions of law applicable to agreements to create, modify, transfer, or distribute computer software, computer data and databases, Internet and online information, and computer information and products; establishing a Joint Technology Oversight Committee; etc. Delegate Taylor, et al
HB 794 Chapter 12	Sales and Use Tax -- Exemption for Digital Telecommunications Machinery and Equipment Exempting from the sales and use tax sales, on or after January 1, 2000, but before January 1, 2008, of machinery or equipment that enables a television or radio station to comply with or to facilitate compliance with the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and to originate and broadcast or to receive and broadcast digital signals. Delegate Finifter, et al
HB 1209 Chapter 13	Maryland Science, Engineering, and Technology Development Corporation Altering the name and Board membership of the Maryland Science, Engineering, and Technology Development Corporation; authorizing the Corporation to make grants or provide financing for technology--based businesses and engage specified persons; providing for the confidentiality of specified documents; providing for coverage of the Corporation's employees and officials by the Maryland Tort Claims Act; etc. Delegate Barve, et al
HB 1274 Chapter 14	Motor Vehicle Administration -- Drivers' Licenses and Identification Cards Modifying provisions under the Maryland Vehicle Law relating to the inclusion of photographs on drivers' licenses and identification cards; eliminating a requirement that an individual renewing a driver's license appear in person for each renewal; limiting the number of consecutive license renewals without an individual appearing in person at an office of the Motor Vehicle Administration; modifying a requirement pertaining to surrender of drivers' licenses; etc. Delegate Wood, et al
SB 863 Chapter 15	Maryland Health Programs Expansion Act of 2000 Expanding eligibility for the Children and Families Health Care Program to specified individuals under a private option plan; requiring that specified individuals enrolled in the Program receive health benefits through an employer--sponsored health benefit plan or a specified managed care organization; etc. Senator Miller, et al
HB 2 Chapter 16	Maryland Health Programs Expansion Act of 2000 Expanding eligibility for the Children and Families Health Care Program to children under a private option plan; requiring that individuals enrolled in the Program receive health benefits through an employer--sponsored health benefit plan or a managed care organization; establishing criteria for approval of an employer--sponsored health benefit plan; altering the income threshold for pregnant women to receive comprehensive medical and other health care services; etc. Delegate Taylor, et al
HB 1425 Chapter 17	Cigarette Restitution Fund Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Program -- Cancer Prevention, Education, Screening, and Treatment Program Establishing a Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Program and a Cancer Prevention, Education, Screening, and Treatment Program in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; providing that the programs shall be funded as provided in the State budget with money from the Cigarette Restitution Fund; authorizing the Legislative Auditor to audit the appropriations and expenditures made for purposes of the programs; etc. Delegate Rawlings, et al
SB 896 Chapter 18	Cigarette Restitution Fund -- Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Program -- Cancer Prevention, Education, Screening, and Treatment Program Establishing a Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Program and a Cancer Prevention, Education, Screening, and Treatment Program in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; providing that the programs shall be funded as provided in the State budget with money from the Cigarette Restitution Fund; authorizing the Legislative Auditor to audit the appropriations and expenditures made for purposes of the programs; etc. Senator Van Hollen, et al
SB 32 Chapter 19	Vehicle Law -- Vehicle Registration -- New Maryland Resident Increasing to 60 days the time allowed for a new Maryland resident to register the resident's vehicle and pay the appropriate vehicle excise tax. Chairman JPR (Dept)
SB 33 Chapter 20	Vehicle Law -- Businesses and Associations -- Federal Identification Number Requiring that a business, association, or corporation applying for a certificate of title of a vehicle supply a federal identification number on the application. Chairman JPR (Dept)
SB 34 Chapter 21	Vehicle Law -- Vehicle Transfers -- Continued Use of Registration Plates Allowing the continued use of the same registration plates on a vehicle that is transferred between specified family members under specified circumstances. Chairman JPR (Dept)
SB 37 Chapter 22	Entity Names -- Business Trusts Clarifying that business trusts are subject to the provisions of law governing the use of business entity names. Chairman JPR (Dept)
SB 38 Chapter 23	Child Support Enforcement -- Conciliation Conferences Authorizing the Child Support Enforcement Privatization Pilot Program and any demonstration site to conduct conciliation conferences; authorizing a circuit court to order parties, in an action to enforce or modify a duty of support, to appear and to produce documents; authorizing a representative of the Pilot Program or a demonstration site to apply to a court for a body attachment under specified circumstances; authorizing a court to issue a body attachment or compel compliance; etc. Chairman JPR (Dept)
SB 42 Chapter 24	Transportation -- Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights Clarifying that the Maryland Transportation Authority Police are covered by the Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights. Chairman JPR (Dept)
SB 43 Chapter 25	Disabled Persons -- Guardian of the Person -- Delegation of Authority Authorizing the Secretary of Aging to delegate responsibilities of guardianship of disabled persons to staff persons registered with the court. Chairman JPR (Dept)
SB 45 Chapter 26	Motor Vehicle Law -- Commercial Vehicle Information Systems and Network Transponders Prohibiting a person from knowingly removing a Commercial Vehicle Information Systems and Network (CVISN) transponder from the commercial vehicle to which it is registered and placing it in another vehicle; and providing that the registered owner of the motor vehicle shall be liable if the CVISN transponder is placed in a commercial vehicle to which it is not registered. Chairman JPR (Dept)
SB 46 Chapter 27	Nonresident Motor Carrier Citation Program -- Repeal Repealing the provisions of the motor vehicle law relating to the nonresident motor carrier citation program. Chairman JPR (Dept)
SB 47 Chapter 28	Maryland Advisory Council for Individuals with Disabilities -- Membership Increasing the membership of the Maryland Advisory Council for Individuals with Disabilities to include the Secretary or a designee from the Department of Housing and Community Development and a member of the nonprofit housing community. Chairman FIN (Dept)
SB 49 Chapter 29	Maryland Aviation Administration -- Financial Assistance for Public Use Airports Authorizing the Maryland Aviation Administration to grant or lend money for the establishment or operation of a privately owned airport that may be used by the public; and requiring the Administration to give priority to publicly owned airports when awarding loans and grants. Chairman FIN (Dept)
SB 50 Chapter 30	Assistance Card Programs -- Operation Repealing the requirement that the Secretary of Aging operate a "Golden Age Card" Program for individuals who are 65 years of age or older or disabled; requiring the Office for Individuals with Disabilities to operate a "Disability Access Card" Program for individuals who are disabled; prohibiting the Director of the Office from charging a fee for a disability access card; etc. Chairman FIN (Dept)
SB 52 Chapter 31	Health Insurance -- Dental Plan Organizations Requiring dental plan organizations to meet specified capital and surplus requirements; requiring organizations to deposit a specified amount of security with the Maryland Insurance Commissioner or an acceptable organization or trustee; specifying the purpose of the deposit; authorizing the Commissioner to reduce or eliminate the deposit requirement under specified circumstances; authorizing the Commissioner to impose specified penalties against organizations under specified circumstances; etc. Chairman FIN (Dept)
SB 53 Chapter 32	Maryland Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act -- Market Reforms Establishing market reforms consistent with the provisions of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act; repealing the provision allowing health benefit plans that do not use a preexisting condition to impose a waiting period or surcharge on enrollees; requiring small employers to provide a special enrollment period; etc. Chairman FIN (Dept)
SB 55 Chapter 33	Taxpayer Identification Information -- Confidentiality Allowing the Comptroller to disclose taxpayer identity information to commercial printers for the purpose of printing specified tax forms and to commercial entities for the purpose of using a lockbox or similar tangible or electronic system for specified tax forms and payments; and extending provisions allowing the disclosure of taxpayer identity information that relates to specified taxes. Chairman B&T (Dept)
SB 57 Chapter 34	Montgomery County -- Dam Assessments Repealing an exemption from assessment for a barrier or dam across the Potomac River in Montgomery County. Chairman B&T (Dept)
SB 58 Chapter 35	Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services System -- Ambulance Services -- Creation of Fund Establishing the Commercial Ambulance Service Fund within the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services System; requiring the Institute to pay all funds from the collection of licensing fees to the Comptroller of the State; requiring the Comptroller to distribute the collected fees to the Fund; specifying the purpose of the Fund; providing that the Fund is continuous and nonlapsing; providing that fees charged by the Institute are not transferred or reverted to the State General Fund; and requiring an audit of the Fund. Chairman B&T (Dept)
SB 59 Chapter 36	Motor Carriers -- Identification Markers and Permits Altering the conditions under which a motor carrier qualifies for an identification marker by repealing the $7 charge for each marker, payable to the Comptroller. Chairman B&T (Dept)
SB 61 Chapter 37	State Standby Petroleum Fuel Set--Aside Program -- Extension Continuing the existence of the State Standby Petroleum Fuel Set--Aside Program by extending the termination date for the Program to July 1, 2005. Chairman EEA (Dept)
SB 63 Chapter 38	Fish -- Duplicate Angler's License and Trout Stamp Clarifying provisions of law for obtaining a duplicate angler's license; and authorizing the issuance of a duplicate trout stamp under specified circumstances for a fee not exceeding $1. Chairman EEA (Dept)
SB 64 Chapter 39	Housing -- Maryland Building Performance Standards Modifying the title of the building code; defining International Code Council; modifying the time limit in which the Department must adopt subsequent versions of the Standards; etc. Chairman EEA (Dept)
SB 65 Chapter 40	Family Day Care Providers -- Grant Funds -- Repeal of Sunset Provision Repealing the termination of the provisions of law relating to the Family Day Care Provider Direct Grant Fund. Chairman EEA (Dept) and Senator Hoffman
SB 73 Chapter 41	Election Law -- Write--In Candidates Providing for the official reporting by boards of canvassers of write--in votes for certified write--in candidates. Chairman EEA (Dept)
SB 74 Chapter 42	Notaries Public Requiring a custodian of a public record to permit inspection of the part of a record that gives the home and business telephone numbers of a notary public; authorizing any Senator to approve the issuance of a notary public commission if an applicant resides in a senatorial district and subdistrict where the Senate office is vacant; providing that a commission may be issued to an individual living outside the State only if the individual's state allows a Maryland resident working in that state to serve as a notary public; etc. Chairman JPR (Dept)
SB 75 Chapter 43	Charitable Solicitations Establishing a late filing fee for charitable organizations failing to file an annual report within a specified time period; clarifying that specified charitable organizations are exempt from specified requirements of the Maryland Charitable Solicitations Act; clarifying the exempt organizations that are required to submit a fund--raising notice to the Secretary of State; requiring charitable organizations and persons to be registered with the Secretary before entering into a fund--raising agreement under specified circumstances; etc. Chairman JPR (Dept)
SB 78 Chapter 44	State Lottery -- Sale of Lottery Tickets by State Lottery Agency Authorizing the Maryland State Lottery Agency to sell State lottery tickets directly to the public at a promotional or special event under specified circumstances; etc. Chairman FIN (Dept)
SB 80 Chapter 45	Insurance -- Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund -- Motor Vehicle Administration Referrals Altering the conditions under which the Executive Director of the Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund is required to refer an individual to the Motor Vehicle Administration; etc. Chairman FIN (Dept)
SB 82 Chapter 46	Cecil County -- Economic Development Commission Altering provisions of law concerning the Cecil County Economic Development Commission; altering the composition and qualifications of the members of the Commission; altering the term of office of members of the Commission; altering the meeting schedule and the number of members needed to call a meeting of the Commission; requiring the Commission to file an annual report by a specified date; etc. Senators Baker and Hooper
SB 91 Chapter 47	Cecil County -- Deed Transfer Fee Increasing from $3 to $10 the transfer fee paid to the Board of County Commissioners of Cecil County before recording specified instruments involving the transfer of specified interests in real property. Senator Baker
SB 92 Chapter 48	Cecil County -- Public Facilities Bonds Authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of Cecil County to borrow not more than $8,000,000 in order to finance the cost of the construction and improvement of specified public facilities in Cecil County and to effect that borrowing by the issuance and sale at public or private sale of its general obligation bonds in like amount; empowering the County to fix and determine the details incident to the issuance and sale of the bonds; etc. Senators Baker and Hooper
SB 93 Chapter 49	Baltimore City -- King Memorial Child Care Family Center Loan of 1998 Amending Chapter 199 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1998, the Baltimore City -- King Memorial Child Care Family Center Loan of 1998, to extend the time by which the grantee shall provide evidence that a matching fund will be provided. Senators Blount and Kelley
SB 98 Chapter 50	Tax -- Property -- Prince George's County -- Property Tax Credit Altering a provision of law authorizing the governing body of Prince George's County to grant a property tax credit against the county property tax or special district tax for specified property to include property owned by the Lake Arbor Foundation, Inc. Senator Currie
SB 100 Chapter 51	Patient Care Advisory Committees -- Consultation and Evidentiary Use of Advice Requiring a patient care advisory committee to consult with a medical professional familiar with pediatric end--of--life care under specified circumstances. Senator Hollinger
SB 102 Chapter 52	Cecil County -- Alcoholic Beverages -- Golf Course Licenses Creating in Cecil County a golf course alcoholic beverages license; establishing the terms and conditions for the license; excluding the golf course alcoholic beverages license from the licenses to which restrictions on the aggregate number of licenses that the Board of License Commissioners may issue apply; and repealing provisions authorizing the Board to issue an existing golf course alcoholic beverages license to a club or organization. Senator Baker
SB 108 Chapter 53	Child Support -- Child Support Reinvestment Fund -- Modifications Altering the Child Support Reinvestment Fund to include all the federal performance incentive payments received by the Department of Human Resources in a fiscal year; repealing the requirement that the Fund may not receive more than $5 million in federal performance incentive dollars in a fiscal year, and the Fund balance may not exceed $5 million; altering uses of the Fund; providing that the moneys from the Fund may not be used to supplant the budget of a county or local support enforcement office; etc. Chairman B&T (Dept)
SB 113 Chapter 54	Anne Arundel County -- Carrie Weedon Science Center Loan of 1999 Amending Chapter 293 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1999, the Anne Arundel County -- Carrie Weedon Science Center Loan of 1999, to allow the use of in kind contributions as matching funds. Senators Astle and Miller
SB 126 Chapter 55	Baltimore City -- Alcoholic Beverages -- Licensing Restrictions Prohibiting a license for the sale of alcoholic beverages to be transferred into the 1st precinct of the 23rd ward of Baltimore City; and repealing the termination date for prohibiting the issuance of Class B beer, wine and liquor restaurant licenses in the 1st precinct of the 23rd ward of Baltimore City. Senator Della
SB 128 Chapter 56	Baltimore City -- Alcoholic Beverages -- Licenses Requiring in Baltimore City that a transfer of any alcoholic beverages license be completed not more than 180 days after the Board of Liquor License Commissioners for Baltimore City approves the transfer; repealing specified provisions regarding the expiration of a license in Baltimore City; establishing that a license in Baltimore City shall automatically expire under specified circumstances; establishing standards and procedures for extending the date of an automatic expiration of a license; etc. Senator Della
SB 130 Chapter 57	Baltimore City -- Alcoholic Beverages -- Summonses Served by Inspectors Allowing inspectors employed by the Board of Liquor License Commissioners for Baltimore City to serve summonses for witnesses at hearings and inquiries of the Board. Senator Della
SB 131 Chapter 58	Baltimore City -- Alcoholic Beverages -- Sunday Sales for Class A Licensees Prohibiting in Baltimore City the holder of a Class A retail alcoholic beverages license from selling alcoholic beverages on any Sunday before Thanksgiving and on any Sunday on or after New Year's Day; and raising a supplementary license fee to $50. Senator Della
SB 145 Chapter 59	Consumer Protection -- Contracts -- Late Fees Clarifying the circumstances under which parties to a contract may agree to the payment of late fees; authorizing the parties to a contract to agree to require that late fees be paid when a party fails to make a payment when due; requiring full disclosure of any late fees; requiring that specified late fees be disclosed in a specified manner; establishing specified limitations on the amount and duration of late fees included in specified consumer contracts; etc. Senator Bromwell
SB 151 Chapter 60	Attendant Care Program -- Administrative Costs Providing that the Attendant Care Program shall be funded as provided in the State budget; and repealing provisions of law that relate to administrative costs of the Attendant Care Program. Chairman B&T (Dept)
SB 159 Chapter 61	Annual Corrective Bill Correcting specified errors and omissions in various articles of the Annotated Code and in specified uncodified laws; establishing that the Act is not intended to affect any law other than to correct technical errors; ratifying and validating specified corrections made by the publisher of the Annotated Code; applying and construing the Act; etc. The President (Department of Legislative Services)
SB 165 Chapter 62	State Fire Marshal -- Fireworks -- Manufacture, Storage, and Packaging Clarifying the scope of licenses to manufacture fireworks; clarifying that the manufacture of specified fireworks is unlawful; clarifying the locations where specified fireworks may be stored under specified circumstances; authorizing the packaging and repackaging of specified fireworks in a specified location under specified circumstances; and altering definitions. Senator Baker
SB 172 Chapter 63	State Employees -- Contractual Employees -- Credit for Service Providing that a contractual employee who is selected to fill a specified budgeted position be given credit for service in the contractual position for the purpose of establishing steps in the pay grade applicable to the position, annual leave, and seniority; providing that a contractual employee who is selected to fill a specified budget position become a member of the Employees' Pension System of the State of Maryland; etc. Chairman FIN (Dept)
SB 189 Chapter 64	Maryland Health Care Commission -- Modifications and Clarifications Repealing the authority of the Maryland Health Care Commission to develop a payment system for health care services; altering specified provisions relating to publication of specified information related to reimbursements from payors; authorizing the Commission to promote the availability of information related to charges by practitioners and reimbursements from payors; authorizing the Commission to impose specified requirements on payors; etc. Chairman FIN (Dept)
SB 191 Chapter 65	Sales and Use Tax Exemption -- Property Used in a Production Activity Clarifying that the sales and use tax applies to personal property that is installed so that it becomes real property but does not apply to specified personal property used to comply with a pollution control law even if installed so that the personal property becomes real property. Chairman B&T (Dept)
SB 238 Chapter 66	Baltimore City Charter Amendment -- General Powers -- Tax Increment Financing Altering the conditions under which Baltimore City may borrow money by issuing and selling bonds to finance and refinance the development of tax increment financing development districts; authorizing the Mayor and City Council to conditionally pledge specified revenues, subject to annual appropriation, to the repayment of bonds issued for a district; providing that an ordinance authorizing the issuance of bonds for a district must be submitted to the legal voters of Baltimore City for approval; etc. Senator Hoffman, et al
SB 251 Chapter 67	Morticians -- State Board of Morticians -- Membership Prohibiting the State Board of Morticians from having more than one member who is employed by or affiliated with the same corporation, professional association, or other entity that owns, directly or through a subsidiary, one or more funeral homes. Senator Hollinger
SB 263 Chapter 68	Cecil County -- Municipal Property Tax -- Credits for Volunteer Firefighters Authorizing municipal corporations in Cecil County to grant, by law, a property tax credit against the municipal corporation property tax imposed on residential real property that is owned by, and occupied as the principal residence of, an individual serving in a volunteer fire company located in the municipal corporation; and authorizing the municipal corporation to provide, by law, for specified provisions relating to the property tax credit authorized by the Act. Senator Baker
SB 312 Chapter 69	Adult Dependent Care Programs -- State Criminal History Records Checks and Private Agency Background Checks Requiring a private agency, if an adult dependent care program requests a background check, to conduct a check in specified states under specified circumstances; requiring a private agency and an adult dependent care program to issue a statement of findings under specified circumstances; requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to provide a specified statement to specified persons; etc. Senator Middleton
SB 363 Chapter 70	State Athletic Commission -- Sunset Extension and Program Evaluation Continuing the State Athletic Commission in accordance with provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act (Sunset Law) by extending to July 1, 2011, the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority of the Commission; and requiring a report to the General Assembly on or before October 1, 2001. Chairman EEA
SB 423 Chapter 71	Hospital Bonds -- Maryland Hospital Bond Program -- Study Requiring the Maryland Health and Higher Education Facilities Authority and the Health Services Cost Review Commission to conduct a study of the Maryland Hospital Bond Program and report any findings and recommendations to the General Assembly on or before December 31, 2000. Senator Bromwell
SB 444 Chapter 72	Stanton Center Loan of 1998 Amending Chapter 186 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1998, the Stanton Center Loan of 1998, to change the location of the project from Clay Street to West Washington Street in the City of Annapolis and to extend the time by which the grantee shall provide and expend a matching fund to June 12, 2001; etc. Senator Astle
SB 448 Chapter 73	State Personnel -- Payment of Wages -- Direct Deposit Authorizing the State Treasurer, on warrant of the State Comptroller, to pay a wage by direct deposit; providing that the payment of wages by direct deposit shall be made in accordance with regulations adopted by the State Treasurer, with the concurrence of the State Comptroller; and providing that regulations adopted by the State Treasurer may not require the payment of wages by direct deposit for specified employees and shall require that employees, when hired, be notified of the right to request an exemption. Senator Currie, et al (Joint Committee on the Management of Public Funds)
SB 459 Chapter 74	Maternal Mortality Review Program Establishing a Maternal Mortality Review Program to review specified maternal deaths and develop specified strategies for the prevention of the deaths; authorizing the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to contract and consult with the State Medical and Chirurgical Faculty; authorizing the Secretary to provide specified vital records regarding specified maternal deaths; requiring specified health care providers and facilities to report maternal deaths to the Maternal Mortality Review Program; etc. Senator Hollinger, et al
SB 509 Chapter 75	Baltimore County -- Neighborhood Renewal Authority Authorizing Baltimore County to undertake and carry out projects for residential, commercial, and industrial development and redevelopment; authorizing Baltimore County to exercise the power of eminent domain; limiting the power of Baltimore County to undertake specified renewal projects to specified geographic areas within the County; limiting the County's exercise of eminent domain to specified properties within the County; requiring the County to provide specified compensation to displaced persons; etc. Senator Collins (Baltimore County Administration)
SB 536 Chapter 76	Baltimore City -- Parking Authority Expanding the definition of "county" within the Parking Authorities Act to include Baltimore City; etc. Senator McFadden (Baltimore City Administration)
SB 549 Chapter 77	Garrett County -- Alcoholic Beverages -- Caterer's License Authorizing in Garrett County the Board of License Commissioners to issue a caterer's (CAT) license to persons who meet specified requirements; authorizing a license holder to keep for sale and sell or provide off--sale alcoholic beverages during a catered event; etc. Senator Hafer
SB 573 Chapter 78	State Board of Chiropractic Examiners -- Sunset Extension Continuing the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act (Sunset Law) by extending to July 1, 2012, the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority of the Board; and generally relating to the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners. The President (Department of Legislative Services)
SB 575 Chapter 79	State Collection Agency Licensing Board -- Sunset Extension Continuing the State Collection Agency Licensing Board in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act (Sunset Law) by extending to July 1, 2012, the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority of the Board. The President (Department of Legislative Services)
SB 626 Chapter 80	Truth in Taxation -- Real Property Tax Assessments Altering the method of computing the assessment of real property; requiring the Board of Public Works to annually set specified tax rates for specified taxable years; requiring that the county and municipal tax rates for personal property and specified operating real property be set at a rate that is based on the rate for real property; altering the computation of exemptions, credits, and penalties to reflect the change in computation of assessments under the Act; etc. Senator Currie
SB 634 Chapter 81	Garrett County -- Garrett Information Enterprise Center Loan of 1998 Amending Chapter 310 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1998, the Garrett County Information Enterprise Center Loan of 1998, to extend the date by which the grantee must provide and expend a matching fund from June 1, 2000, to June 1, 2002. Senator Hafer
SB 640 Chapter 82	Cecil County -- Property Taxes -- Collection Altering provisions of law regarding the collection of specified taxes by the County Treasurer of Cecil County; limiting the rate of interest a municipal corporation in Cecil County may charge for an overdue property tax; altering provisions of law requiring the Treasurer to make a specified deduction against certain taxes collected for specified expenses; etc. Senator Baker
SB 691 Chapter 83	Dentistry -- Licensure of Retired Volunteer Dentists and Dental Hygienists Establishing a license for a retired volunteer dentist to practice dentistry in the State; establishing a license for a retired volunteer dental hygienist to practice dental hygiene in the State; providing for the qualifications and application procedures; and providing for specified limitations on the authority to practice dentistry or dental hygiene with a retired volunteer dentist's or dental hygienist's license. Senators Hollinger and Lawlah
SB 742 Chapter 84	Advisory Council on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Establishing an Advisory Council on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; providing for the membership, chairman, and staff of the Advisory Council; requiring the Advisory Council to study and take specified actions regarding attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; requiring the Governor and State agencies to implement the recommendations of the Task Force to Study the Uses of Methylphenidate and Other Drugs on School Children; requiring reports by the Advisory Council; etc. Senator Hollinger (Task Force to Study the Uses of Methylphenidate and Other Drugs on School Children)
SB 757 Chapter 85	Alcoholic Beverages -- Hard Cider Providing that hard cider shall be considered as beer for specified purposes; and specifying the alcohol content and other ingredients of hard cider. Senator Astle
SB 774 Chapter 86	Sales and Use Tax -- Exemption -- Prisoner of War and Missing in Action Flags Providing that the sales and use tax does not apply to the sale of prisoner of war flags or missing in action flags honoring and remembering military personnel who have served in the Armed Forces of the United States. Senator Green, et al
SB 828 Chapter 87	Baltimore City -- Alcoholic Beverages -- Caterer Privilege Authorizing the Baltimore City Board of License Commissioners to add a special off--sale caterer privilege to specified alcoholic beverages licenses; authorizing a licensee who holds a caterer privilege to contract to provide specified services; establishing the hours that a licensee may exercise a caterer privilege; requiring a licensee who holds a caterer privilege to have food preparation and delivery facilities; providing that a caterer privilege is incorporated into the existing license; etc. Senator Della
SB 843 Chapter 88	Election Law -- Election Judges -- Residency Requirements Altering the residency requirements for election judges; and altering a provision of law authorizing a local board of elections to appoint an election judge if no individual can be found in a specified area. Senator Green
SB 850 Chapter 89	Baltimore City -- Community Benefits Districts -- Review by Mayor and City Council Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to establish specified community benefits district management authorities to include the Midtown Community Benefits District; authorizing the Mayor and City Council, rather than the General Assembly, to review and determine the desirability of continuing specified community benefits districts established under the Act; etc. Senator Hughes, et al
SB 857 Chapter 90	Workers' Compensation Commission -- Location of Hearing Altering the location where the Workers' Compensation Commission is required to hold a hearing on a claim; and altering the location of a hearing on a claim filed by an employee of a government agency. Senators Dorman and Bromwell
SB 900 Chapter 91	State Government -- Forms Management -- Extension of Implementation Date for School Data Extending the implementation date until July 1, 2003, for the applicability of the standards enacted by Chapter 459 of the Acts of 1998 for data collection forms for schools, school systems, and the State Department of Education. Senator Blount
HB 6 Chapter 92	Health Insurance -- Coverage of Habilitative Services for Children Requiring insurers and nonprofit health service plans that provide hospital, medical, or surgical benefits to individuals or groups on an expense--incurred basis and health maintenance organizations that provide benefits to individuals or groups under policies or contracts issued or delivered in the State to provide coverage of habilitative services for children under the age of 19 years under specified circumstances; etc. Delegate Hurson, et al
HB 34 Chapter 93	Militia -- Honor Guard -- Compensation Establishing a specified minimum compensation, not to exceed the greater of 75\ of 1 day's basic pay or the required minimum wage, for members of an honor guard organized by the Adjutant General to attend the burial service of a deceased veteran. Delegate Leopold, et al
HB 35 Chapter 94	Motorized Wheelchair Warranty Enforcement Act -- Inclusion of Motorized Scooters Expanding the scope of the Motorized Wheelchair Warranty Enforcement Act to include motorized scooters and other motorized wheeled devices that are designed to provide mobility assistance for individuals with disabilities. Delegate Pendergrass, et al
HB 62 Chapter 95	Anne Arundel County -- Board of License Commissioners -- Issuance of Licenses Authorizing the Anne Arundel County Board of License Commissioners to issue to holders of a Class H alcoholic beverages license a second Class H (beer, wine and liquor) or Class H (beer and wine) license under specified conditions; authorizing the Board to issue to persons who do not hold a license a maximum of two licenses under specified conditions; authorizing the Board to issue a Class H (beer and wine) license to an independent owner and operator of a restaurant that is part of a common franchise entity under specified conditions; etc. Anne Arundel County Delegation
HB 93 Chapter 96	Business Licenses -- Penalties Increasing the fine for the failure to obtain or display certain business licenses from $100 to $300. Chairman ECM (Dept)
HB 95 Chapter 97	Comptroller -- Issuance of Cigarette Licenses Requiring the Comptroller to investigate applications for specified licenses issued or renewed by the Comptroller; expanding the circumstances under which the Comptroller may deny a license to any applicant, reprimand a licensee, or suspend or revoke a license; requiring the Comptroller to grant a waiver from specified provisions of the Act to applicants or licensees under specified circumstances; etc. Chairman ECM (Dept)
HB 98 Chapter 98	Department of Housing and Community Development -- Neighborhood Business Development Program -- Capital Access Program Creating a capital access program in the Neighborhood Business Development Program to encourage private sector loans to qualifying small businesses; requiring that lenders enrolling loans under the Program enter into a specified agreement with the Department of Housing and Community Development; providing for participating lenders to establish loan reserve accounts; and authorizing the Department to use moneys from the Neighborhood Business Development Fund for contributions to specified loan reserve accounts; etc. Chairman ECM (Dept) and Delegates Brown and Walkup
HB 111 Chapter 99	Memorial Day -- Moment of Silence Requiring the Governor to each year issue a proclamation encouraging the citizens of Maryland and specified entities to observe a moment of silence at 3 p.m. on Memorial Day to unite in remembrance and commemorate the acts and efforts of Marylanders who have served and died in the United States armed forces. Delegate Riley, et al
HB 117 Chapter 100	Howard County -- Board of Education -- Compensation Ho. Co. 8--00 Increasing the compensation paid to the Chairman of the Howard County Board of Education to $14,000 and to the members of the Howard County Board of Education to $12,000. Howard County Delegation
HB 119 Chapter 101	Mutual Insurance Holding Company Act Establishing a process by which a mutual insurance company can convert to a stock insurer and form a mutual insurance holding company; requiring mutual insurers that wish to use this process to convert in accordance with a plan of reorganization; requiring a plan of reorganization to contain specified provisions; providing membership rights to specified policyholders; providing for the application of mutual insurance policy terms and conditions after a reorganization; etc. Delegate Brown, et al
HB 135 Chapter 102	Health -- Sale or Possession of Methyl Methacrylate Liquid Monomer -- Prohibition Prohibiting the sale of methyl methacrylate liquid monomer by a person to a beauty salon; and providing that a person that is found guilty of violating the Act is subject to a fine not exceeding $1,000 for each violation. Delegates Owings and Stern
HB 145 Chapter 103	Kent County -- Board of Education -- Officers Changing the title of chairman of the Kent County Board of Education to president; and providing for an elected vice president of the County Board. Delegate Walkup, et al
HB 149 Chapter 104	Penalty for Possession of Unstamped or Improperly Stamped Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Altering the penalties imposed for offenses pertaining to unstamped or improperly stamped cigarettes and other tobacco products; etc. Chairman W&M (Dept)
HB 151 Chapter 105	Motor Fuel Licenses -- Qualifications of Applicants Altering the conditions under which an applicant may qualify for a motor fuel dealer's license; etc. Chairman W&M (Dept)
HB 154 Chapter 106	Assisted Suicide -- Definition of "Licensed Health Care Professional" Altering the definition of licensed health care professional to include emergency medical service providers in order to make specified provisions that exclude a licensed health care professional from criminal liability for performing specified activities applicable to emergency medical services providers; making the Act an emergency measure; etc. Chairman JUD (Dept)
HB 158 Chapter 107	Maryland Commercial Feed Law -- Fees Altering the annual registration fee for specified commercial feed. Chairman ENV (Dept)
HB 159 Chapter 108	Pesticide Applicator's Law -- Fees Altering the certificate fee for a pest control consultant and pest control applicator. Chairman ENV (Dept)
HB 161 Chapter 109	Health Occupations -- State Board of Physician Quality Assurance -- Examination and Licensure Requirements Repealing the requirement that the State Board of Physician Quality Assurance give examinations to applicants at specified times and places; altering the provision relating to an applicant being entitled to sit for a specified examination; repealing the requirement that the Board waive the examination requirements for specified applicants; etc. Chairman ENV (Dept)
HB 181 Chapter 110	Crimes -- Controlled Dangerous Substances -- Schedules Altering the list of Schedule III controlled dangerous substances to include Dronabinol (synthetic) in sesame oil and encapsulated in a soft gelatin capsule, and Ketamine, its salts, isomers, and salts of isomers. Chairman JUD (Dept)
HB 201 Chapter 111	Education -- Worcester County Board of Education -- Election of Members -- Straw Poll Requiring that a question be placed on the ballot in Worcester County at the November 2000 general election to determine the sense of the voters of the County on the issue of changing the method of selecting members of the Worcester County Board of Education from appointment by the Governor to election by the voters; and providing for the carrying out of the straw poll. Delegate Bozman, et al
HB 207 Chapter 112	Commercial Driver's License Violations -- Fines Setting penalties for violations of provisions of the Motor Vehicle Law relating to commercial drivers' licenses. Chairman CGM (Dept)
HB 222 Chapter 113	State Personnel -- Child Support Enforcement Administration -- Transfer of Personnel Ho. Co. 6--00 Transferring the Paternity and Support Division of the Office of the State's Attorney for Howard County to the Child Support Enforcement Administration of the Department of Human Resources; providing that employees of the local support enforcement office shall be transferred in accordance with provisions of law that provide for classified status, seniority, compensation, annual leave accrual, transfer of pension contributions, and other personnel matters for employees transferring to the Child Support Enforcement Administration; etc. Howard County Delegation
HB 241 Chapter 114	Anne Arundel County -- Board of License Commissioners -- Personnel Authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Anne Arundel County to hire up to two full--time administrators whose salaries shall be fixed by the Board within pay grade 16 in the general Anne Arundel County classified salary schedule; and increasing the number of liquor inspectors for the County. Anne Arundel County Delegation
HB 243 Chapter 115	Anne Arundel County -- Alcoholic Beverages -- Costs for Violations Altering from $25 to $100 the costs that the Anne Arundel County Board of License Commissioners is required to impose on a licensee or other party who violates an alcoholic beverages law or regulation. Anne Arundel County Delegation
HB 267 Chapter 116	State Employees -- Procurement -- Competitive Re--Engineering Pilot Program Altering the date on or before which the Council on Management and Productivity must submit a specified report on the effect of the Competitive Re--Engineering Pilot Program to specified committees of the General Assembly; and extending the termination date for the Competitive Re--Engineering Pilot Program. Delegate Rawlings, et al
HB 315 Chapter 117	Somerset County -- Property Tax Credits Repealing a provision authorizing the governing body of Somerset County to grant, by law, a property tax credit against the county property tax imposed on real property owned by the Crisfield Area Chamber of Commerce or the J. Millard Tawes Foundation; and authorizing the governing body of Somerset County to grant, by law, a property tax credit against the county property tax imposed on real property owned by the Crisfield Heritage Foundation, Inc. Somerset County Delegation
HB 322 Chapter 118	Estates and Trusts -- Small Estates -- Maximum Property Value Increasing to $30,000 the maximum value of an estate necessary to qualify for administration under the provisions of law for administration as a small estate; establishing an additional small estate maximum property value of $50,000 for estate transfers between spouses; altering the rate structure of small estate fees imposed by the register of wills; and providing that the Act applies to decedents who die on or after the effective date of the Act. Delegate Petzold, et al
HB 344 Chapter 119	Insurance Agents and Brokers -- Records Requiring the Maryland Insurance Commissioner to adopt regulations establishing the minimum length of time for which and the manner in which an independent agent or broker is required to maintain records of insurance transactions conducted by the agent or broker. Delegate Kach
HB 377 Chapter 120	Harford County -- Appointment of Deputy State's Attorneys Increasing from one to two the number of deputy State's Attorneys that the Harford County State's Attorney may appoint. Harford County Delegation
HB 396 Chapter 121	Family Law -- Child Support Guidelines Establishing that the presumption that the amount of child support which would result from the application of the child support guidelines is the correct amount of child support to be awarded may not be rebutted solely on the basis of evidence of the presence in the household of either parent of other children to whom that parent owes a duty of support and the expenses for whom that parent is directly contributing. Delegate Grosfeld, et al
HB 406 Chapter 122	Deer Hunting -- Bonus Stamps Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to issue bonus stamps for hunting antlerless deer to regulate deer populations in specified areas; setting the fee for bonus stamps; and making changes in nomenclature regarding deer hunting. Chairman ENV (Dept)
HB 412 Chapter 123	Health Insurance -- Private Review Agents Requiring specified entities to conduct utilization review in a specified manner; requiring private review agents to comply with specified provisions; requiring specified private review agents to relinquish the private review agent's certificate of registration under specified circumstances; altering specified provisions of the Act; altering specified penalties; etc. Chairman ECM (Dept)
HB 413 Chapter 124	Insurance -- Cancellation of Policies -- Required Notice Requiring specified insurers to provide a written notice of intention by certificate of mailing to an insured before the cancellation of an insurance policy. Chairman ECM (Dept)
HB 428 Chapter 125	Dorchester County -- Economic Development Bonds Authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of Dorchester County to borrow not more than $3,000,000 in order to finance the cost of improvement, rehabilitation, renovation, repair, and equipping of public school facilities in Dorchester County, the cost of improvement to Woods Road and other economic development projects, and any other costs incurred by the County in connection with them; etc. Dorchester County Delegation
HB 448 Chapter 126	Motor Vehicle Law -- Violations -- Fines for Certain Violations Requiring the driver of a diesel vehicle to stop for an emissions test when ordered to do so; authorizing the temporary seizure of specified vehicles for inspection, weighing, or measuring; setting penalties for failure to comply with an order to stop for inspection, weighing, or measuring and for violations of specified emissions, weight, and size limits; and prohibiting noncompliance with oversized or overweight load permits. Chairman CGM (Dept)
HB 449 Chapter 127	Election Law -- Deceased Registered Voters Requiring an election director to mail notice to a registered voter, as prescribed by the State Board, when the local board becomes aware of an obituary or other reliable report of the death of the registered voter, to verify whether the voter is in fact deceased; providing specified procedures for removal; etc. Chairman CGM (Dept)
HB 454 Chapter 128	St. Mary's County -- Citizens Nursing Home Board -- Selection of Members Altering the process by which the successors to the initial appointees to the St. Mary's County Citizens Nursing Home Board are selected to require that, rather than being elected by a majority vote of the Board, a successor be appointed by the County Commissioners of St. Mary's County for a term of 3 years if a term expires, or the rest of a term if a term is vacated. St. Mary's County Delegation
HB 455 Chapter 129	St. Mary's County -- Public Facilities Bonds Authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of St. Mary's County to borrow not more than $10,000,000 in order to finance the construction, improvement, or development of public facilities in St. Mary's County by the issuance and sale at public or private sale of general obligation bonds of St. Mary's County; etc. St. Mary's County Delegation
HB 485 Chapter 130	Wicomico County -- Property Tax Credit -- Salisbury Area Chamber of Commerce, Inc. Authorizing the governing body of Wicomico County or of a municipal corporation in Wicomico County to grant, by law, a property tax credit against the county or municipal corporation property tax imposed on property that is owned by a specified organization; authorizing Wicomico County or a municipal corporation in the County to provide for specified provisions relating to the property tax credit; etc. Delegate Conway, et al
HB 497 Chapter 131	Evidence -- Health Care Records and Writings Making health care records and writings of specified persons regulated by another state to provide health care services admissible in specified civil trials without presenting testimony by the health care provider. Delegates Zirkin and Vallario
HB 501 Chapter 132	Department of Housing and Community Development -- Affordable Housing Establishing a Self--Help Homeownership Technical Assistance Program in the Department of Housing and Community Development; requiring the Department to administer the Program and adopt specified regulations, policies, and procedures that encourage self--help homeownership; establishing specified conditions for the approval of project applications; providing that service as a trustee of the Board of Trustees for the Maryland Affordable Housing Trust may not be deemed an office or employment for specified purposes; etc. Delegate Cane, et al
HB 518 Chapter 133	Maryland Veterans Commission -- Membership Adding a representative from the Maryland Coalition of the Retired Enlisted Association to the Maryland Veterans Commission. Delegate Love, et al
HB 520 Chapter 134	Maryland State Arts Council -- Duties Requiring the Maryland State Arts Council to publish an annual report; and authorizing the publication of specified materials. Delegate Cadden, et al
HB 523 Chapter 135	Baltimore City -- Pen Lucy Community Center Loan of 1998 Amending Chapter 317 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1998 to change the location of the project to a specified location in Baltimore City and to extend the time by which the Govans Economic Management Senate must provide and expend a matching fund. Delegate Montague, et al
HB 528 Chapter 136	Baltimore City -- Fort McHenry -- Education and Visitors Center Loan of 1996 Amending Chapter 123 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1996, as amended by Chapter 26 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1998, to extend the time by which the Board of Directors of the Patriots of Fort McHenry, Inc. shall provide and expend a matching fund, for the Education and Visitors Center Loan of 1996, to June 1, 2002. Delegates McHale and Cole
HB 536 Chapter 137	Baltimore City -- Tax Credit Termination Date -- Newly Constructed and First Purchased Dwellings Altering from June 30, 2000, to June 30, 2002, the termination date applicable to provisions of law authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City to grant a property tax credit against the local property tax imposed on newly constructed dwellings or first purchased dwellings that meet specified requirements. Delegates Campbell and McHale
HB 538 Chapter 138	Garrett County -- Alcoholic Beverages -- Resort Licenses Authorizing the Board of License Commissioners of Garrett County to issue a Class B--resort license; specifying requirements to be met by the premises for which a resort license is sought; requiring that a licensee of a resort license may exercise specified privileges; requiring a holder of a resort license who seeks to sell draft beer to obtain a special license; specifying fees; etc. Delegate Edwards
HB 555 Chapter 139	Task Force on Food Allergies and Restaurant Patrons -- Extension of Time to Report Recommendations Requiring the Task Force on Food Allergies and Restaurant Patrons to report to the General Assembly on or before a specified date; and providing for the termination of the Act. Delegate Stern
HB 558 Chapter 140	Licensure of Physicians -- Qualifications -- Postgraduate Training Requiring specified applicants for a license to practice medicine to complete 1 year of specified postgraduate medical training; exempting specified foreign medical school graduates from specified educational requirements if the foreign graduates complete 2 years of specified postgraduate medical training; and repealing specified provisions of law that relate to graduates from foreign medical schools. Delegate Barve
HB 561 Chapter 141	Charles County -- County Treasurer -- Investments and Deposits Authorizing the County Treasurer of Charles County to invest in obligations that a federal agency or instrumentality has issued in accordance with an act of Congress; and altering the types of collateral that banks or financial institutions are required to set aside in escrow as collateral in order for the County Treasurer of Charles County to be authorized to make specified investments or deposits. Charles County Delegation
HB 565 Chapter 142	Charles County -- Alcoholic Beverages -- License Transfers Clarifying that, when seeking a transfer of an existing alcoholic beverages license, the transferor or assignor must present to the Board of License Commissioners certification from the Treasurer of the County showing that specified taxes do not remain unpaid. Charles County Delegation
HB 573 Chapter 143	State Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners -- Sunset Extension Continuing the State Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act (Sunset Law) by extending to July 1, 2012, the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority of the Board. The Speaker (Department of Legislative Services)
HB 581 Chapter 144	Maryland Home Improvement Commission -- Sunset Extension and Program Evaluation Continuing the Maryland Home Improvement Commission in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act (Sunset Law) by extending to October 1, 2012, the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority of the Commission; increasing the limitation on recovery from the Home Improvement Guaranty Fund for specified persons; requiring that an evaluation of the Commission and the statutes and regulations that relate to the Commission be performed on or before July 1, 2011; etc. Chairman ECM
HB 593 Chapter 145	Washington County -- County Commissioners -- Reimbursement of Expenses Authorizing reimbursement up to a specified amount of reasonable expenses incurred by the Washington County Commissioners in carrying out the functions of the office. Washington County Delegation
HB 618 Chapter 146	Caroline County -- Property Tax Credit -- Habitat for Humanity, Incorporated Authorizing the governing body of Caroline County to grant, by law, a property tax credit against the county property tax imposed on real property renovated as housing by Caroline County Habitat for Humanity, Incorporated; requiring Caroline County Habitat for Humanity, Incorporated to file an annual report with the governing body of Caroline County; authorizing the County to provide, by law, specified provisions relating to the property tax credit; etc. Delegate Eckardt, et al
HB 639 Chapter 147	Washington County -- Orphans' Court -- Hours of Operation Altering a provision of law so as to provide that the days and hours of operation of the Washington County Orphans' Court shall be set by the Court, in its judgment, to meet the requirements of public business and convenience. Washington County Delegation
HB 643 Chapter 148	Somerset County -- Fairmount Volunteer Fire Company Requiring the County Commissioners of Somerset County to appropriate to the Fairmount Volunteer Fire Company $19,400 for fiscal year 2001; and mandating that the required appropriation to the Fairmount Volunteer Fire Company for fiscal year 2001 shall remain in effect for subsequent fiscal years unless altered by future enactment. Somerset County Delegation
HB 689 Chapter 149	Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission -- Design and Construction of Facilities -- Projects PG/MC 3--00 Altering the authority of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission to allow a developer to design and construct facilities necessary for a specified project if the facilities are considered a specified project; and altering the definition of "major project". Prince George's County Delegation and Montgomery County Delegation
HB 699 Chapter 150	Frederick County -- Board of Education -- Compensation Altering the amounts that the President and other members of the Frederick County Board of Education receive annually for traveling and other expenses; and requiring that members of the Frederick County Board of Education receive specified compensation and benefits. Frederick County Delegation
HB 744 Chapter 151	Baltimore City -- Release of Liens for Unpaid City Real Property Taxes Authorizing the Board of Estimates of Baltimore City to release any liens for unpaid city real property taxes if specified conditions are met, including the Baltimore City Department of Housing and Community Development certifying that the property is a vacant lot or has a building or structure that is vacant and unsafe or unfit for habitation; etc. Delegate Marriott (Baltimore City Administration), et al
HB 770 Chapter 152	Health Care Providers -- Do Not Resuscitate Orders -- Outpatients Authorizing specified health care providers to withhold or withdraw treatment in the outpatient setting in accordance with an emergency medical services "do not resuscitate order" under specified circumstances; requiring the Attorney General, in consultation with specified agencies and officials, to conduct specified studies about emergency medical services "do not resuscitate orders"; and requiring the Attorney General to report to the General Assembly on or before a specified date. Delegate Bobo, et al
HB 791 Chapter 153	Real Property -- Landlord Tenant Conforming specified provisions of law to provisions that describe a judicial proceeding involving a landlord and a tenant; and authorizing the court to enter specified judgments against a tenant for failure to pay rent and late fees in a landlord and tenant proceeding. Delegate Krysiak
HB 800 Chapter 154	Montgomery County -- Restrictions on Political Activities -- Quasi--Judicial Officers, Employees, Board Members MC 7--00 Providing that the State Election Code and specified provisions of law relating to the political activities of employees of local entities do not preempt specified restrictions on the political activities of Montgomery County officers and employees serving in a quasi--judicial capacity or members of a Montgomery County board or commission serving in a quasi--judicial capacity under specified circumstances. Montgomery County Delegation
HB 802 Chapter 155	Alcoholic Beverages -- Montgomery County (Kensington) -- Special B--K License MC 14--00 Authorizing the Montgomery County Board of License Commissioners to issue a special alcoholic beverages license to a restaurant located in specified areas of the town of Kensington in Montgomery County; establishing the privileges, terms, and conditions for the license; and submitting the Act to a referendum of the legally qualified voters of the town of Kensington. Montgomery County Delegation
HB 803 Chapter 156	Montgomery County School Board Composition Task Force MC 15--00 Establishing the Montgomery County School Board Composition Task Force to study the authority, size, composition, and responsibilities of the Montgomery County Board of Education; providing for the membership and the chair of the Task Force; providing for a quorum and the time and location of meetings of the Task Force; etc. Montgomery County Delegation
HB 808 Chapter 157	Garrett County -- Agricultural Land -- Property Tax Credits Authorizing the County Commissioners of Garrett County to grant a property tax credit of up to 100\ against the county property tax on agricultural land in an agricultural land preservation district; authorizing the county to recapture taxes, plus interest, if the land is removed from a district; etc. Delegate Edwards
HB 834 Chapter 158	Calvert County -- Recording of Plats -- New Lot Altering provisions of law requiring the County Treasurer to certify on a specified plat that all taxes, assessments, and charges against the existing lots have been paid before the Clerk of the Court of Calvert County may accept and record the plat to include a plat that creates a new lot; and generally relating to the recording of plats by the Clerk of the Court of Calvert County. Calvert County Delegation
HB 874 Chapter 159	Caroline County -- Alcoholic Beverages Licensees -- Fingerprinting and Criminal Records Check Requiring in Caroline County the Board of License Commissioners to obtain from the Criminal Justice Information System Central Repository specified criminal records of applicants when the Board is considering an applicant for a new alcoholic beverages license or the transfer of an alcoholic beverages license; requiring an applicant to submit fingerprints; requiring the Board to charge a fee to cover the costs of the fingerprinting and criminal records check required by the Act; etc. Delegate Eckardt, et al
HB 1007 Chapter 160	Prince George's County -- Correctional Officers -- Workers' Compensation PG 318--00 Extending the presumption of compensability under the workers' compensation law to include, under specified conditions, Prince George's County correctional officers who suffer from heart disease or hypertension resulting in partial or total disability or death; requiring current correctional officers to submit specified medical information to the Director of the Prince George's County Department of Correctional Services; and allowing benefits under the Act to be added to retirement benefits subject to a specified limitation. Prince George's County Delegation
HB 1023 Chapter 161	Education -- Prince George's County Board of Education -- Selection of Student Member PG 412--00 Authorizing the Prince George's Regional Association of Student Governments to establish procedures for the election of the student member of the Prince George's County Board of Education; and making those procedures subject to the approval of the elected members of the Prince George's County Board of Education. Prince George's County Delegation
HB 1038 Chapter 162	Prince George's County Sheriff's Office -- Compensation PG 301--00 Increasing the salaries for the chief assistant sheriff and assistant sheriffs in Prince George's County; etc. Prince George's County Delegation
HB 1049 Chapter 163	Cecil County -- Development Excise Tax Authorizing the Board of County Commissioners of Cecil County to impose, by law, a development excise tax; requiring the Board to advertise and hold a public hearing before passing a local law imposing or altering the amount of the tax; limiting the tax to a maximum of $3,500 per residential unit; requiring that the tax be deposited in a special account to be used only for specified purposes; making the Act contingent on approval of the voters of Cecil County at a local referendum; etc. Cecil County Delegation
HB 1064 Chapter 164	Montgomery County -- Board of Education -- Public Hearings on Transportation of Students Requiring the Montgomery County Board of Education to hold a public hearing whenever it hears an appeal relating to bus stops and bus routes; requiring that specified individuals be given the opportunity to testify and present their views at specified hearings; requiring that a decision on an appeal be made at a public hearing and that the individual vote of each member of the Board be recorded on the public record; etc. Montgomery County Delegation
HB 1073 Chapter 165	Washington County -- Mentally Impaired or Handicapped Individuals, Inc. (MIHI) Loan of 1997 Amending Chapter 212 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1997, the Washington County -- Mentally Impaired or Handicapped Individuals Loan of 1997, to change the name of the grantee and the purpose of the funding to planning, design, construction, and capital equipping of accessible recreational facilities throughout Washington County. Washington County Delegation
HB 1092 Chapter 166	Calvert County -- Competitive Bidding Process -- Delegation of Authority Altering provisions of law concerning the competitive bidding process for the purchase of specified contracts in Calvert County to authorize a specified official to award the contract to a specified bidder under specified circumstances; and authorizing a specified official to invite proposals for specified contracts in a specified manner. Calvert County Delegation
HB 1105 Chapter 167	Queen Anne's County -- Board of Education -- Compensation Increasing the compensation of the members and the Chairman of the Queen Anne's County Board of Education from $1,000 and $1,200, respectively, to $3,000 and $3,200. Delegate W Baker
HB 1114 Chapter 168	Anne Arundel County -- State's Attorney -- Salary Altering provisions of law regarding the salary of the State's Attorney for Anne Arundel County to increase the salary of the State's Attorney to equal the salary of a circuit judge of specified judicial circuits; requiring the salary of the State's Attorney for Anne Arundel County to be increased annually by a specified amount in subsequent calendar years; providing for the application of the Act; etc. Delegate Cadden
HB 1115 Chapter 169	Pharmacies -- Record Logs Authorizing a pharmacy to keep record logs of prescriptions requested to be filled or refilled by a patient; and prohibiting a pharmacy from listing a patient's Social Security number, illness, disability, or condition, or the name and type of drug received in specified record logs. Delegate Dypski
HB 1128 Chapter 170	St. Mary's County -- Alcoholic Beverages -- Special Licenses Authorizing in St. Mary's County the Board of License Commissioners to issue special Class C alcoholic beverages licenses to specified persons; and authorizing a holder of a special license to purchase alcoholic beverages from a retail dealer. St. Mary's County Delegation
HB 1143 Chapter 171	Washington County -- Museum of Fine Arts -- Board of Trustees Creating specified positions on the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts Board of Trustees; repealing a limitation on the number of members on the Board; etc. Washington County Delegation
HB 1195 Chapter 172	Garrett County -- Marriage License Fee Authorizing the Board of County Commissioners of Garrett County to set an additional marriage license fee of up to $40 for funding domestic violence programs in Garrett County. Delegate Edwards
HB 1213 Chapter 173	Calvert County -- Agricultural Land Preservation Program -- General Obligation Installment Purchase Agreements Authorizing the County Commissioners of Calvert County to borrow not more than $10,300,000 to acquire under specified criteria transfer development rights in tracts or parcels of agricultural and forestry land in Calvert County, as part of the County's Agricultural Land Preservation Program, by the issuance and sale of its general obligation bonds; etc. Delegate Owings (Calvert County Delegation)
HB 1223 Chapter 174	Emergency Medical Services -- Public Safety Personnel -- Immunizations Authorizing emergency medical technician--paramedics to administer influenza and hepatitis B immunizations and tuberculosis skin testing in nonemergency environments to public safety personnel within their jurisdiction under specified circumstances; and defining "public safety personnel". Delegate Moe, et al
HB 1239 Chapter 175	Prince George's County -- Litter Control PG 311--00 Authorizing the governing body of Prince George's County to adopt an ordinance to prohibit littering under the authority of the State Litter Control Law; and imposing penalties for violations of the ordinance. Prince George's County Delegation
HB 1244 Chapter 176	Montgomery County -- Education -- Home and Hospital Teacher Representation MC 3--00 Including Montgomery County home and hospital teachers in the definition of "public school employees"; requiring the exclusive negotiating agent for public school employees in the County to represent home and hospital teachers in matters related to salary, wages, hours, and other working conditions; exempting county home or hospital teachers who work on a short--term, day--to--day basis from the requirement to pay a representation fee; and repealing an obsolete provision. Montgomery County Delegation
HB 1251 Chapter 177	Calvert County -- Special Taxing Districts -- Developing and Financing Infrastructure Improvements Authorizing Calvert County to exercise specified powers concerning the creation of special taxing districts, the levying of ad valorem or special taxes, and the issuing of bonds and other obligations for developing and financing specified infrastructure improvements. Calvert County Delegation
HB 1262 Chapter 178	Calvert County -- Public Facilities Bonds Authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of Calvert County, from time to time, to borrow not more than $9,500,000 in order to finance the construction, improvement, or development of specified public facilities in Calvert County and to effect such borrowing by the issuance and sale at private or public sale of its general obligation bonds; etc. Calvert County Delegation
HB 1270 Chapter 179	State Personnel -- Compensation of State Employees Clarifying when a State employee is eligible for overtime; creating a Sick Leave Incentive Program; increasing the death benefit for survivors of State employees killed while on duty; etc. Chairman HRU (Dept)
HB 1286 Chapter 180	Wicomico County -- Liquor Dispensaries -- Products Authorizing the Wicomico County liquor dispensaries to sell chilled beer, nonchilled beer, wine, liquor, ice, and bottled water. Delegate Conway, et al
HB 1287 Chapter 181	Wicomico County -- Liquor Control Board -- Salaries Increasing from $2,000 and $2,500, respectively, to $2,750 and $3,500, respectively, the salaries of the members and Chairman of the Liquor Control Board of Wicomico County; and providing that the Act does not apply to the salary or compensation of the incumbent members and Chairman of the Liquor Control Board of Wicomico County. Delegate Conway, et al
HB 1288 Chapter 182	Wicomico County -- Liquor Control Board -- Borrowing Limit Increasing the amount of money that the Liquor Control Board of Wicomico County may borrow to $500,000. Delegate Conway, et al
HB 1291 Chapter 183	Baltimore City -- Maryland Historical Society Loan of 1997 Amending Chapter 290 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1997, Baltimore City -- Maryland Historical Society Loan of 1997, to change the date, to June 1, 2002, by which the grantee shall provide and expend a matching fund. Delegate Dewberry
HB 1300 Chapter 184	Maryland Stadium Authority -- Montgomery County Conference Center Increasing the authorized bond issuance by the Maryland Stadium Authority and the Authority's contribution toward development of the Montgomery County Conference Center; and increasing Montgomery County's contribution toward the development of the Montgomery County Conference Center. Chairman HRU (Dept)
HB 1301 Chapter 185	Economic Development -- Maryland Stadium Authority -- Hippodrome Performing Arts Center Authorizing the Maryland Stadium Authority to provide for the development of the Hippodrome Performing Arts Center; specifying how funds are to be raised and used; requiring the Authority to seek specified agreements with other entities; authorizing the Authority to transfer or allow an Authority affiliate to transfer to any individual or entity specified tax credits to which the Authority or Authority affiliate would be entitled; etc. Chairman HRU (Dept)
HB 1302 Chapter 186	Economic Development -- Property Tax Payments -- Hippodrome Performing Arts Center Enabling the owner of the Hippodrome Performing Arts Center to negotiate a payment in lieu of property taxes with the Baltimore City Board of Estimates; and making the Act contingent on the passage of another Act. Chairman HRU (Dept)
HB 1307 Chapter 187	Optional Defined Contribution System -- Participation by Northeast Maryland Waste Disposal Authority Authorizing participation in the Optional Defined Contribution System by employees of the Northeast Maryland Waste Disposal Authority; and specifying how matching contributions are to be made. Chairman HRU (Dept)
HB 1332 Chapter 188	Charles County -- Alcoholic Beverages -- Sales to Underage Persons Authorizing the Charles County Board of License Commissioners to impose a $50 maximum fine for employees of licensees who sell or furnish alcoholic beverages to underage persons; etc. Charles County Delegation
HB 1333 Chapter 189	Charles County -- Public Nuisance -- Improved Residential Property Altering provisions of law concerning public nuisances in Charles County to include exterior building disrepair on an improved residential property; altering provisions of law ordering a property owner to fix a specified public nuisance to include an order to correct the exterior building disrepair; defining a specified term; and providing for the application of the Act. Charles County Delegation
HB 1355 Chapter 190	Dorchester County -- Public School Capital Improvement Bonds Authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of Dorchester County, from time to time, to borrow not more than $2,500,000 in order to finance, with specified restrictions, specified public school capital improvements in Dorchester County and to effect such borrowing by the issuance and sale at public or private sale of its general obligation bonds in like par amount; etc. Dorchester County Delegation
HB 1367 Chapter 191	Dorchester County -- Property Tax Credit -- Agricultural Land in Agricultural Preservation District Authorizing the governing body of Dorchester County to grant a property tax credit for property tax imposed on agricultural land that is located in an agricultural preservation district or is subject to an agricultural land preservation easement or similar easement. Dorchester County Delegation
HB 1380 Chapter 192	Harford County -- Senator William Amoss Agricultural Education Project Loan of 1998 Amending Chapter 189 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1998, the Harford County -- Senator William Amoss Agricultural Education Project Loan of 1998, to change the location of the Project to Harford County and extend the time by which the Board of Directors of the Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation, Inc. shall provide and expend a matching fund to June 1, 2001. Harford County Delegation
HB 1386 Chapter 193	Howard County -- Economic Development Incentive Fund Ho. Co. 13--00 Altering the uses of the Howard County Economic Development Incentive Fund to include encouraging and supporting the creation of new businesses in the County; and authorizing the use of the Fund to obtain funding to enhance State government grants. Howard County Delegation
HB 1390 Chapter 194	Queen Anne's County -- Board of County Commissioners -- Election and Number of Commissioners -- Straw Poll Requiring that questions be placed on the ballot in Queen Anne's County at the November general election of 2000 to determine the sense of the voters of the County on whether to elect commissioners to the Board of County Commissioners for Queen Anne's County from any area of the County or from designated districts in the County and whether to alter the number of commissioners of the Board of County Commissioners for Queen Anne's County from three commissioners to five commissioners; and providing for the carrying out of the straw poll. Delegate W Baker
HB 1400 Chapter 195	St. Mary's County -- Transfer Tax -- Sunset Extending the authority of the County Commissioners of St. Mary's County to impose a transfer tax on specified instruments of writing through July 1, 2005. St. Mary's County Delegation
HB 1402 Chapter 196	Private Detective Agencies -- Hiring Individuals Not Certified as Private Detectives Providing that an individual who is not certified as a private detective may provide private detective services in the State if the individual is employed by or has applied for employment with a licensed private detective agency, the licensed private detective agency has taken specified steps to have the individual certified as a private detective, the individual passes a preliminary investigation, and the Secretary of the State Police has not denied the application. Delegate McClenahan, et al
HB 1403 Chapter 197	Family Law -- Access to Birth and Adoption Records -- Disclosure Veto Transferring, from the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to the Director of the Social Services Administration of the Department of Human Resources, the responsibility over the filing of a disclosure veto prohibiting the disclosure of specified information contained in specified birth or adoption records; and requiring the Director of the Social Services Administration to immediately forward a copy of the disclosure veto to the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene. Delegate Turner
HB 1408 Chapter 198	Montgomery County -- Old Town Takoma Park Loan of 1998 Amending Chapter 436 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1998, the Montgomery County -- Old Town Takoma Park Loan of 1998, to change the purpose of the project to the planning, design, repair, renovation, reconstruction, and landscaping of and improvements to public properties in Old Takoma Park and to extend the date by which the grantee is required to provide and expend a matching fund to June 1, 2002; etc. Delegates Franchot and Hixson
HB 1417 Chapter 199	Washington County -- Washington County Water and Sewer Debt Reduction Fund Establishing the Washington County Water and Sewer Debt Reduction Fund; requiring the County Commissioners for Washington County to appropriate $500,000 to the Fund annually; providing that the Fund is in addition to funds appropriated for subsidies to Washington County water, sewer, and pretreatment facilities; requiring that the amount of any reduction in a specified subsidy be appropriated to the Fund under specified circumstances; etc. Washington County Delegation
HB 1427 Chapter 200	Washington County Hotel Rental Tax Increasing the hotel rental tax rate in Washington County from 3\ to 6\ ; providing for the distribution of 45\ of revenue from the tax to the general fund of the county for the Hagerstown/Washington County Convention and Visitors Bureau and the remainder to a special fund to be used for tourism attractions, economic development, and cultural and recreational projects; prohibiting use of the hotel rental tax revenue for a stadium until specified events occur; etc. Washington County Delegation
HB 1431 Chapter 201	Dorchester County -- Stanley Institute: Rock School House Restoration Loan of 1998 Amending Chapter 203 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1998, the Dorchester County -- Stanley Institute: Rock School House Restoration Loan of 1998, to extend the date by which the grantees must provide and expend a matching fund to June 1, 2002. Dorchester County Delegation
HB 1437 Chapter 202	Somerset County -- Consolidated Public High School -- Straw Poll Requiring that a question be placed on the ballot in Somerset County at the November general election of 2000 to determine the sense of the voters of the County on whether to consolidate the high schools in Somerset County. Delegate McClenahan, et al
SB 84 Chapter 203	Kent County -- Sheriff's Salary and Benefits Increasing the salary of the Sheriff of Kent County from $40,000 to $45,000 for calendar year 2003; increasing the salary of the Sheriff of Kent County by $1,000 per year for each of the calendar years 2004, 2005, and 2006; repealing the authority of the Board of County Commissioners of Kent County to establish a specified pension plan for the Kent County Sheriff's department under specified circumstances; etc. Senator Baker

Pursuant to Article III, Section 52(6) of the Constitution of Maryland, Senate Bill 150 of 2000 has become Chapter 204 of the Acts of 2000.

SB 150 Chapter 204

Budget Bill (Fiscal Year 2001) Making the proposed appropriations contained in the State Budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2001, in accordance with Article III, Section 52 of the Maryland Constitution; etc. The President (Administration)

Pursuant to Article XIV, Section 1 of the Constitution of Maryland, the following constitutional amendment has been assigned Chapter number:

SB 400 Chapter 205

Prince George's County -- Eminent Domain -- Immediate Taking of Private Property for Redevelopment Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Maryland to authorize the Prince George's County Council to provide for the immediate taking of specified property situated in the County when there is an immediate need for the property for redevelopment; submitting this amendment to the qualified voters of the State of Maryland for their adoption or rejection; etc. Senator Currie, et al

Sincerely,

Karl S. Aro Executive Director

To the Members of the General Assembly

Ladies and Gentlemen:

On May 11, 2000, the Honorable Parris N. Glendening, Governor; the Honorable Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr., President of the Senate; and the Honorable Casper R. Taylor, Jr., Speaker of the House of Delegates, signed the following pieces of legislation which you passed:

SB 207 Chapter 206	Smart Codes -- Maryland Building Rehabilitation Code Requiring the adoption of the Maryland Building Rehabilitation Code for specified purposes; providing for the enforcement of the Code; specifying which units must adopt regulations; setting standards for the regulations; establishing the Maryland Building Rehabilitation Code Advisory Council; setting the Council's duties and membership; etc. The President (Administration), et al
HB 285 Chapter 207	Smart Codes -- Models and Guidelines -- Infill Development and Smart Neighborhoods Requiring the Office of Planning to draft model land--use codes for infill and smart neighborhood development and to draft guidelines for local governments to encourage that development; requiring the Office of Planning to circulate the codes and guidelines to and work with State and local units; etc. The Speaker (Administration), et al
SB 202 Chapter 208	Procurement -- Prevailing Wage -- School Construction Repealing a specified limitation on the applicability of the Prevailing Wage Law to the construction of an elementary or secondary school; requiring that specified school contracts be awarded with consideration given to the bidder's plans for utilization of minority contractors; requiring that prequalification questionnaires include specified information; etc. The President (Administration), et al
SB 204 Chapter 209	State Government -- Department of Planning Renaming the Office of Planning to be the Department of Planning and making it a principal department of State government; specifying that the head of the Department of Planning is the Secretary of Planning; specifying the duties and functions of the Secretary of Planning; etc. The President (Administration), et al
SB 811 Chapter 210	Mass Transit Services -- Costs and Revenues Modifying the percentage of operating costs that must be recovered from fares and other revenues for mass transit services; establishing a cost recovery goal of 50 percent; requiring implementation of specified performance indicators, in addition to the farebox recovery indicator, for mass transit services; requiring an independent management audit; establishing a panel to study mass transit policies; etc. The President (Administration) and Senator Hoffman
HB 1248 Chapter 211	Mass Transit Services -- Costs and Revenues Modifying the percentage of operating costs that must be recovered from fares and other revenues for mass transit services; establishing a cost recovery goal of 50\ ; requiring implementation of specified performance indicators, in addition to the farebox recovery indicator, for mass transit services; requiring an independent management audit; establishing a panel to study mass transit policies; etc. The Speaker (Administration) and Delegate Rawlings
SB 794 Chapter 212	Nursing Homes -- Staffing Stating the intent of the General Assembly that the Governor provide in the State budget for fiscal years 2002 and 2003 additional funds for nursing home services; specifying how nursing homes are allowed to use the additional funds; providing that nursing home expenditures are subject to audit and cost settlement by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; requiring the Department to reconvene the Medicaid Nursing Home Reimbursement Study Group; etc. Senator Hollinger, et al (Task Force on Quality of Care in Nursing Homes)
HB 784 Chapter 213	Nursing Homes -- Staffing Stating the intent of the General Assembly that the Governor provide in the State budget for fiscal years 2002 and 2003 additional funds for nursing home services; specifying how nursing homes are allowed to use the additional funds; providing that nursing home expenditures are subject to audit and cost settlement by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; requiring the Department to reconvene the Medicaid Nursing Home Reimbursement Study Group; etc. Delegate Nathan--Pulliam, et al
SB 764 Chapter 214	Long--Term Care Ombudsman Program -- Staffing Ratios Requiring the Secretary of Aging to establish and budget for specified staffing ratios for the Maryland Long--Term Care Ombudsman Program; etc. Senator Teitelbaum, et al (Task Force on Quality of Care in Nursing Homes)
SB 688 Chapter 215	Nursing Homes -- Quality of Care -- Inspections Requiring the Office of Health Care Quality in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to make a site visit and a full survey of each licensed nursing home at least two times per year; exempting specified nursing homes from specified site visits and surveys under specified circumstances; and requiring all surveys to be unannounced. Senator Collins, et al (Task Force on Quality of Care in Nursing Homes)
HB 748 Chapter 216	Nursing Homes -- Quality of Care Oversight Establishing an Oversight Committee on Quality of Care in Nursing Homes; requiring the Office of Health Care Quality of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to report to the Oversight Committee twice annually; requiring the Oversight Committee to submit an annual report to the Governor and General Assembly; requiring the Deputy Secretary of Health Care Financing to report annually to the Oversight Committee; etc. Delegate Hammen, et al
HB 747 Chapter 217	Nursing Homes -- Quality Assurance Requiring a nursing home, by January 1, 2001, to establish and implement a quality assurance program that meets specified requirements and is approved by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; requiring a nursing home, by September 1, 2000, to designate a qualified individual to coordinate and manage the program; requiring a nursing home to establish a Quality Assurance Committee that must follow specified guidelines; requiring the designation of a medical director; etc. Delegate Hammen, et al
SB 690 Chapter 218	Nursing Homes -- Quality Assurance Requiring a nursing home, by January 1, 2001, to establish and implement a quality assurance program that meets specified requirements and is approved by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; requiring a nursing home, by September 1, 2000, to designate a qualified individual to coordinate and manage the program; requiring a nursing home to establish a Quality Assurance Committee that must follow specified guidelines; requiring the designation of a medical director; etc. Senator Hollinger, et al (Task Force on Quality of Care in Nursing Homes)
SB 689 Chapter 219	Nursing Homes -- Sanctions and Penalties Authorizing the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to impose specified sanctions for specified deficiencies found in nursing homes; establishing the burden of proof in the imposition of fines; establishing specified monetary penalties for specified deficiencies; repealing specified provisions of law relating to notice requirements and appeals; authorizing the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to appoint an independent monitor for specified purposes; establishing a Health Care Quality Account; etc. Senator Collins, et al (Task Force on Quality of Care in Nursing Homes)
SB 6 Chapter 220	Cigarette Sales in Packages of Less Than 20 Cigarettes Prohibiting retailers or vending machine operators from purchasing from tobacco product manufacturers and selling, dispensing, distributing, or giving away cigarettes in packages of less than 20 cigarettes per package; prohibiting wholesalers from selling, reselling, distributing, dispensing, or giving away cigarettes in packages of less than 20 cigarettes per package; authorizing the State Comptroller to enforce the provisions of the Act; etc. Senator Green, et al
SB 17 Chapter 221	State Personnel -- Organ Donation Leave Providing that all State employees may be entitled to organ donation leave with pay; establishing the maximum number of days of leave that an employee may use to serve as a bone marrow donor and an organ donor; requiring the employee to obtain approval for organ donation leave from the employee's appointing authority; requiring the Secretary of Budget and Management to adopt specified regulations, including a requirement for medical documentation of the proposed donation before leave is approved; etc. Senators Hollinger and Conway
SB 23 Chapter 222	Creation of a State Debt -- Anne Arundel County -- Anne Arundel Medical Center Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $250,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of Anne Arundel Medical Center, Inc. for the planning, design, renovation, repair, construction, and capital equipping of the emergency department of Anne Arundel Medical Center, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; and providing generally for the issuance and sale of bonds evidencing the loan. Senator Astle
SB 39 Chapter 223	Department of Juvenile Justice -- Facilities -- Places of Confinement Establishing that specified facilities for delinquent or detained youth are established and operated by the Department of Juvenile Justice and are considered places of confinement for diagnosis, care, training, education, and rehabilitation of children who need these services; etc. Chairman JPR (Dept)
SB 44 Chapter 224	State Correctional Facilities -- Abandoned Property -- Contraband Creating a procedure that a State correctional facility must use to dispose of abandoned or unclaimed inmate property; stating when the property may be delivered to an inmate or a person outside of the State correctional facility; authorizing correction officials to adopt regulations; etc. Chairman JPR (Dept)
SB 56 Chapter 225	Financial Institutions -- Taxation Terminating the financial institution franchise tax and the savings and loan association franchise tax; providing that specified financial institutions are subject to income tax for tax years beginning after a specified date; providing that, for income tax purposes, interest received by specified financial institutions from one of its subsidiary corporations shall be allocated to the State only to the extent that the interest is derived from the subsidiary's trade or business within the State; etc. Chairman B&T (Dept)
SB 68 Chapter 226	Creation of a State Debt -- Calvert County -- Battle Creek Nature Education Society Environmental Education Center Creating a State Debt not to exceed $100,000, with a matching fund requirement, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Battle Creek Nature Education Society for the planning, design, construction, and capital equipping of an environmental education center at Flag Ponds Nature Park in Calvert County. Senators Miller and Dyson
SB 77 Chapter 227	Unemployment Insurance -- Self--Employment Assistance Program -- Modification of Termination Date Altering the termination provisions for the Self--Employment Assistance Program; providing for the termination of the Program when the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation determines that federal funding or other sources of funding for self--employment assistance programs are no longer available; etc. Chairman FIN (Dept)
SB 79 Chapter 228	County Boards of Elections -- Employee Grievances Providing that specified county boards of elections shall be the principal unit in specified employee grievance matters. Chairman FIN (Dept)
SB 111 Chapter 229	Patient Referrals by Health Care Practitioners -- Prohibition -- Exemptions Excluding payments made for the rental or lease of equipment, or for the sale of property or of a health care practice, from the definition of compensation arrangement for purposes of specified prohibitions and disclosure requirements relating to patient referrals; and exempting from a specified prohibition against patient referrals a health care practitioner who refers a patient to a hospital in which the practitioner has a beneficial interest if the practitioner meets specified requirements. Senator Hafer, et al
SB 116 Chapter 230	Workers' Compensation Commission -- Offsets and Credits for Overpayment of Certain Benefits Authorizing the Workers' Compensation Commission to order an offset or credit against an award for permanent partial disability benefits for vocational rehabilitation benefits previously provided to a covered employee or for temporary total disability benefits previously paid to a covered employee. Senators Dorman and Roesser
SB 117 Chapter 231	Workers' Compensation -- Benefits for Permanent Partial Disability -- Repeal of Sunset Provision for Benefit Payments for Certain Scheduled Members Repealing the termination date for specified changes to the workers' compensation benefit structure for permanent partial disability that exempt the loss of the thumb, fingers, and great toe from the lower tier of benefits and require the payment of benefits for the loss of the thumb, fingers, and great toe at the middle tier of benefits. Senators Dorman and Roesser
SB 121 Chapter 232	Creation of a State Debt -- Baltimore City -- South Baltimore Learning Center Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $350,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the South Baltimore Learning Corporation for the planning, design, construction, repair, renovation, and capital equipping (including the upgrading of handicapped--accessibility fixtures) of, and the addition of an elevator to, the South Baltimore Learning Center, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Senator Della
SB 132 Chapter 233	Baltimore City -- Alcoholic Beverages -- Arena License Increasing to $10,000 the license fee for an arena license issued by the Board of Liquor License Commissioners for Baltimore City. Senator Della
SB 134 Chapter 234	Creation of a State Debt -- Howard County Conservancy Ho. Co. 11--00 Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $150,000, with a matching fund requirement, to be used as a grant to the Board of Trustees of the Howard County Conservancy, Inc. for the planning, design, construction, and capital equipping of an educational facility on the grounds of Mount Pleasant, a historic estate located in Howard County; etc. Senator McCabe, et al
SB 136 Chapter 235	State Used Tire Cleanup and Recycling Fund Clarifying that the State Used Tire Cleanup and Recycling Fund may be used to pay for scrap tire recycling programs, including research, planning, monitoring, public education, and market development; exempting under specified circumstances specified persons from the requirement that specified expenditures from the Fund be reimbursed to the Department of the Environment; lowering the maximum amount of the used tire recycling fee from $1 to 40 cents per tire; etc. Chairman EEA (Dept)
SB 137 Chapter 236	Sales and Use Tax -- Tobacco Use Cessation Products Exempting from the sales and use tax the sale of nicotine patches, nicotine gum, or any other product intended for use as an aid in tobacco use cessation and approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for that purpose. Senator Hoffman
HB 128 Chapter 237	Sales and Use Tax -- Tobacco Use Cessation Products Exempting from the sales and use tax the sale of nicotine patches, nicotine gum, or any other product intended for use as an aid in tobacco use cessation and approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for that purpose. Delegate Doory
SB 146 Chapter 238	Continuing Care Communities -- Certificate of Need Exemption -- Direct Admission Altering the definition of a health care facility to allow a subscriber who has executed a continuing care agreement and paid specified entrance fees before entering the continuing care community to be admitted to a comprehensive care nursing bed, regardless of the level of care needed by the subscriber at the time of admission; providing specified limitations on direct admissions to comprehensive case nursing beds; etc. Senator Bromwell
SB 147 Chapter 239	State Board of Dental Examiners Clarifying that the provisions of Chapter 38 of the Laws of Maryland of 1999 relating to the waiver of education qualifications for a limited license to practice dentistry may be applied to general licensee applicants who fulfill existing requirements provided in law and meet specified conditions. Senator Dorman
SB 154 Chapter 240	Volunteer Company Assistance Fund Repealing provisions concerning the Emergency Assistance Trust Fund; establishing the Volunteer Company Assistance Fund as a continuing, nonlapsing fund for volunteer fire fighting and emergency services; establishing the Emergency Assistance Trust Account and the Low Interest Revolving Loan Account in the Fund; etc. Chairman B&T (Dept)
SB 166 Chapter 241	Alcoholic Beverages -- Class A Licensees -- Lottery Ticket Terminal Operators Providing that in establishments holding a Class A alcoholic beverages license a person 18 years old or older may be employed as a lottery ticket terminal operator. Senator Haines, et al
SB 171 Chapter 242	Income Tax -- Credit for Long--Term Care Insurance Premiums Allowing an individual a credit against the State income tax for 100\ of long--term care insurance premiums paid by the individual for the individual or the individual's spouse, parent, stepparent, child, or stepchild if the insured is a Maryland resident; limiting the credit to $500 for each insured and to one taxable year for each insured; requiring the Comptroller to report to the Governor and the General Assembly regarding the credit annually beginning December 1, 2005; applying the Act to tax years after 1999; etc. Senator Hollinger, et al
SB 195 Chapter 243	World War II Memorial Fund Requiring the Governor to include $250,000 in the State budget of fiscal year 2001 to the Department of Veterans Affairs, to be donated by the Department to the World War II Memorial Fund; and generally relating to the World War II Memorial Fund. Senator Bromwell, et al
SB 214 Chapter 244	Circuit Court Real Property Records Improvement Fund Extending, from June 30, 2001, to June 30, 2006, the termination date of provisions of law establishing and governing the Circuit Court Real Property Records Improvement Fund. Chairman JPR (Maryland Judicial Conference)
SB 220 Chapter 245	Teachers' Retirement and Pension Systems -- Reemployment of Retired Personnel Exempting from an offset of a retirement allowance retirees of the Teachers' Retirement System or the Teachers' Pension System who are employed in specified personnel positions; requiring county boards of education to provide information to the State Retirement Agency on personnel who qualify for the exemption; requiring the State Board of Education to adopt regulations; etc. Senator Green, et al
SB 254 Chapter 246	Creation of a State Debt -- Baltimore City -- U.S.S. Constellation Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $475,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Constellation Foundation, Inc. for the design, repair, restoration, improvement, and preservation of the U.S.S. Constellation, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Senator Bromwell
SB 271 Chapter 247	Tobacco Products -- Vending Machines -- Access by Minors Prohibiting the sale or dispensing of a tobacco product by means of a vending machine; establishing exceptions; establishing a penalty; repealing an exemption from specified penalties for sales of tobacco products to minors for owners of and other persons exercising control over tobacco product vending machines; defining specified terms; etc. Senator Ruben, et al
SB 274 Chapter 248	Health Insurance -- Retroactive Denial of Reimbursement to Health Care Providers Clarifying that a carrier may retroactively deny reimbursement to a health care provider or attempt to retroactively collect reimbursement already paid to a health care provider only during a specified period under specified circumstances; providing that provisions of law related to the retroactive denial of reimbursement to a provider do not apply to adjustments to reimbursements made as part of an annual contracted reconciliation of a risk sharing arrangement under an administrative service provider contract; etc. Senator Dorman
SB 279 Chapter 249	Creation of a State Debt -- Baltimore County -- PACT: Helping Children with Special Needs Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $350,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of PACT: Helping Children with Special Needs, Inc. for the construction and capital equipping of a new building for PACT: Helping Children with Special Needs, a therapy outreach center for children in Baltimore, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Senator Kelley, et al
SB 280 Chapter 250	Kent County -- Alcoholic Beverages -- Licensees Authorizing the Kent County Board of License Commissioners to issue a caterer's license to a Class B restaurant or hotel (on--sale) beer and light wine licensee; altering the periods of time during which the Board may not issue a new alcoholic beverages license for use on premises that have previously been refused a license; establishing that the prohibition against the Board issuing a new license during specified time periods for use on premises that have previously been refused a license does not apply under specified circumstances; etc. Senator Baker
SB 281 Chapter 251	Vehicle Laws -- Special Registration Plates -- Honoring State Agriculture Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to develop and make available a specially designed registration plate honoring Maryland agriculture; prescribing who may apply for and the classes of vehicles eligible for the registration plate; providing the manner in which fees in connection with the registration plate will be established, collected, and distributed; etc. Senator Baker, et al
SB 291 Chapter 252	Creation of a State Debt -- Baltimore City -- Lyric Opera House Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $500,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Lyric Foundation, Inc. for the expansion and capital equipping of the stage and the stage housing, the expansion of the freight elevator, and the construction and capital equipping of dressing rooms, offices, multiple use facilities, and a passenger elevator at the Lyric Opera House in Baltimore City, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Senator McFadden
SB 295 Chapter 253	Health Insurance -- Requirements for Providers to Serve on Provider Panels Prohibiting a carrier that offers coverage for health care services through health benefit plans, or contracts with providers to offer health care services through provider panels, from requiring a provider, as a condition of participation or continuation on a provider panel, to serve on another provider panel under specified circumstances; etc. Senator Roesser, et al
HB 559 Chapter 254	Health Insurance -- Requirements for Providers to Serve on Provider Panels Prohibiting a carrier that offers coverage for health care services through health benefit plans, or contracts with providers to offer health care services through provider panels, from requiring a provider, as a condition of participation or continuation on a provider panel, to serve on another provider panel under specified circumstances; requiring a provider to give notice to a specified carrier of the provider's intention to terminate participation on a provider panel; etc. Delegate Barve, et al
SB 300 Chapter 255	Elections -- Baltimore City -- Compensation of Election Board Members and Election Judges Increasing the minimum annual salaries of the president and members of the Baltimore City Board of Elections; increasing the minimum compensation of substitute members of the Baltimore City Board of Elections; and increasing the compensation for election judges in Baltimore City. Senator McFadden, et al
SB 304 Chapter 256	Creation of a State Debt -- Baltimore City -- Greektown Plateia Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $400,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Trustees of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, Inc. for the planning, design, construction, and capital equipping of the Greektown Plateia, to be located in Baltimore, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Senator Sfikas, et al
SB 311 Chapter 257	Statewide Commission on the Crisis in Nursing Creating the Statewide Commission on the Crisis in Nursing to convene a summit on the crisis in nursing and to determine the current extent and long--term implications of the growing nursing personnel shortage in the State; etc. Senator Hollinger
HB 363 Chapter 258	Statewide Commission on the Crisis in Nursing Creating the Statewide Commission on the Crisis in Nursing to convene a summit on the crisis in nursing and to determine the current extent and long--term implications of the growing nursing personnel shortage in the State; etc. Delegate Mandel, et al
SB 322 Chapter 259	Crimes -- State Health Plan Fraud Revising and restating the laws relating to State health plan fraud and related offenses; prohibiting a person from knowingly and willfully defrauding or attempting to defraud a State health plan; prohibiting a person from knowingly and willfully obtaining or attempting to obtain, by means of a false representation, money, property, or anything of value; prohibiting a person from knowingly and willfully defrauding or attempting to defraud a State health plan of the right to honest services; etc. Senators Stone and Hughes (Committee to Revise Article 27)
SB 327 Chapter 260	Creation of a State Debt -- Anne Arundel County -- Community Center at Woods Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $500,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of Woods Community Center, Inc. for the planning, design, construction, renovation, and capital equipping of the Community Center at Woods, located in Severna Park, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; providing that no proceeds of the loan or any matching funds may be used for religious purposes; etc. Senator Neall
SB 331 Chapter 261	Property Tax Credits -- Construction Providing that a law granting or authorizing a property tax credit may not be construed to affect eligibility of any entity for a property tax exemption; and providing for the prospective application of the Act. Senator Van Hollen, et al
HB 821 Chapter 262	Property Tax Credits -- Construction Providing that a law granting or authorizing a property tax credit may not be construed to affect eligibility of any entity for a property tax exemption; and providing for the prospective application of the Act. Delegate Bozman, et al
SB 332 Chapter 263	Fishing -- Regulation of Pound or Stake Nets Repealing the requirement that applications for finfish licenses provide specified information on where pound nets will be set; authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to adopt regulations relating to the placement of pound or stake nets, including a specified limit on the number of locations that may be assigned to a licensee; etc. Senator Stoltzfus
SB 345 Chapter 264	Criminal Procedure -- Enhanced Sentences -- Controlled Dangerous Substances Allowing specified enhanced sentences for second or subsequent controlled dangerous substance offenses to be imposed in conjunction with other sentences for controlled dangerous substance offenses. Senator Jimeno
SB 348 Chapter 265	Baltimore City and Baltimore County -- Property Tax -- Neighborhood Stabilization Credits Extending to June 30, 2002, the applicability of credits against Baltimore City and Baltimore County property taxes and the State income tax; expanding the geographic area of Baltimore County that is eligible for the tax credit; requiring an individual to apply for the property tax credit within 6 months of the transfer of title; etc. Senator Kasemeyer, et al
SB 351 Chapter 266	Creation of a State Debt -- Baltimore County -- Mars Estates Elementary Police Athletic League/Recreation Center Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $575,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the County Council and the County Executive of Baltimore County for the planning, design, construction, and capital equipping of a facility located at 1500 Homberg Avenue, Baltimore, for use as a Police Athletic League/Recreation Center, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; and providing generally for the issuance and sale of bonds evidencing the loan. Senator Collins (Baltimore County Administration)
SB 357 Chapter 267	State Aid for Police Protection -- Qualifying Municipality Altering the definition of a qualifying municipality for State allocation of money to municipalities for police protection; etc. Senator Exum, et al
SB 365 Chapter 268	Police Training Commission -- Police Officer -- Definition Adding the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation Police Force to the definition of police officer under the law relating to the Police Training Commission. Senator Green
SB 368 Chapter 269	Maryland Horse Racing Act -- Sunset Extension and Program Evaluation Extending to July 1, 2011, the date on which the Maryland Horse Racing Act terminates; requiring that an evaluation in accordance with the Maryland Program Evaluation Act (Sunset Law) be made of the Racing Commission and specified race fund advisory committees on or before July 1, 2010; and requiring that the Racing Commission inspect satellite simulcast facilities at least four times each year to determine if the permit holders are continuing to comply with specified requirements, including specified evaluations. Chairman FIN
SB 371 Chapter 270	Medical Records -- Confidentiality Prohibiting the disclosure by sale, rental, or barter of medical records; exempting from the prohibition medical records that relate to the transfer of ownership of a health care practice or facility; requiring payors that accept claims from medical care electronic claims clearinghouses to accept only claims from accredited or certified medical care electronic claims clearinghouses; establishing the State Advisory Council on Medical Privacy and Confidentiality to examine confidentiality issues; etc. Senator Hollinger, et al
SB 378 Chapter 271	Motor Vehicle Titling Tax and Inspection Certificate Requirements -- Exemptions Exempting from the motor vehicle titling tax and inspection certificate requirements a vehicle titled in this State that is transferred into a written inter vivos trust; exempting from the motor vehicle titling tax and inspection certificate requirements a vehicle titled in this State that is transferred as a result of specified mergers or consolidations of corporations and limited liability companies; applying the Act to any vehicle transferred on or after July 1, 2000; etc. Senator Roesser
SB 395 Chapter 272	Medical Assistance -- Expedited Eligibility Clarifying the application of expedited eligibility for any individual who applies for the Children and Families Health Care Program; etc. Senator Kelley, et al
SB 397 Chapter 273	Creation of a State Debt -- Baltimore City -- The League for People with Disabilities, Inc. Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $400,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of The League for People with Disabilities, Inc. for the construction, repair, reconstruction, and capital equipping of The League for People with Disabilities, Inc. facility, located at 1111 East Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; and providing generally for the issuance and sale of bonds evidencing the loan. Senator Conway
SB 403 Chapter 274	Continuing Care Communities -- Certificate of Need Exemption -- Comprehensive Care Nursing Beds Altering the number of comprehensive care nursing beds a continuing care community may maintain to qualify for an exemption from a certificate of need; and requiring a specified report by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene on or before January 1, 2002. Senators Kasemeyer and Kelley
SB 405 Chapter 275	Health Maintenance Organizations -- Reimbursement of Non--Contracting Providers Altering the reimbursement that a health maintenance organization (HMO) must pay a non--contracting health care provider for specified services delivered to an enrollee or subscriber; requiring an HMO to reimburse a non--contracting health care provider at a specified rate; requiring an HMO to disclose a specified reimbursement rate on request of a specified health care provider; etc. Senator Astle
SB 407 Chapter 276	Natural Resources -- Boat Excise Tax -- Certificate of Title Altering the definition of "fair market value" under the boat excise tax to eliminate the requirement that a licensed dealer or a dealer licensed by another state or foreign country take title to a used vessel that is traded in as part of the consideration for the sale of a new vessel in order to qualify for an exclusion from the computation of the boat excise tax. Senator Astle
SB 415 Chapter 277	Sexual Offenses -- Juvenile Justice Facilities and Licensed Institutions Making it a misdemeanor for an employee of the Department of Juvenile Justice or of a licensee of the Department to engage in specified sexual activity with an individual confined in specified institutions licensed or operated by the Department. Senator Hoffman, et al
SB 417 Chapter 278	Power Dredging -- Oysters Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to grant permits to persons before allowing them to catch oysters with a power dredge in specified counties; authorizing the Department to issue a power dredge permit to holders of an oyster harvester license; and prohibiting persons permitted to catch oysters with a power dredge from harvesting oysters by any other method on specified days. Senator Stoltzfus
SB 455 Chapter 279	Health Insurance -- Notice of Health Care Providers on Carrier's Provider Panel Requiring a carrier to make specified information about health care providers available to enrollees and prospective enrollees in a specified manner; altering the timing of when the information must be made available and must be updated; etc. Senator Teitelbaum, et al
SB 500 Chapter 280	Workers' Compensation -- Subsequent Injury Fund -- Permanent Total Disability Claims -- Cost of Living Adjustments Requiring that the Subsequent Injury Fund pay cost of living adjustments for specified permanent total disability workers' compensation claims arising during a specified period; requiring that the Fund make the payments in a lump--sum payment; providing for the construction and application of the Act; and providing for the termination of the Act. Senator Teitelbaum, et al
SB 507 Chapter 281	Property Tax Credits -- Rehabilitated Real Property Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county or of a municipal corporation to grant, by law, a property tax credit for property that is rehabilitated under regulations adopted by the governing body; authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county or of a municipal corporation to provide for the amount and duration of the property tax credit, subject to specified limits; etc. Senator Ruben, et al
SB 516 Chapter 282	Health Insurance -- Coverage for In Vitro Fertilization Prohibiting specified insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from excluding benefits for in vitro fertilization under specified circumstances; authorizing insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to limit coverage of benefits required under the Act to three in vitro fertilization attempts per live birth, not to exceed a maximum lifetime benefit of $100,000; etc. Senators Pinsky and Sfikas
HB 350 Chapter 283	Health Insurance -- Coverage for In Vitro Fertilization Prohibiting specified insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from excluding specified benefits for in vitro fertilization under specified circumstances; providing that, to be eligible for in vitro fertilization health insurance benefits, the patient and the patient's spouse have a history of infertility of at least 2 years' duration or the infertility is associated with abnormal male factors contributing to the infertility; requiring that the benefits be provided to specified extents; etc. Delegate Clagett, et al
SB 527 Chapter 284	Criminal History Records Check -- Parent or Guardian of Child in Out--of--Home Placement Requiring a parent or guardian of a child committed to the local department of social services and placed in an out--of--home placement within the past year and any adult residing with the parent or guardian to obtain a criminal history records check if requested by a local department of social services; requiring the local department to reimburse an adult residing with the parent or guardian for specified costs; etc. Senator Green
SB 532 Chapter 285	Baltimore City -- Abandoned Property -- Statute of Limitations and Damages Establishing that the statute of limitations for an action at law or in equity against Baltimore City by a person with an interest in abandoned property is 3 years from the date a court vests title to the property in the City; and limiting the damages awarded to a person for improper taking of abandoned property by the City to the fair market value of the property at the time of the taking. Senator McFadden (Baltimore City Administration), et al
SB 544 Chapter 286	Creation of a State Debt -- Baltimore City -- Grace Outreach Center Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $150,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of Grace Outreach Development Corporation, Inc. for the planning, design, construction, and capital equipping of the Grace Outreach Center, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Senator Hughes, et al
SB 582 Chapter 287	Creation of a State Debt -- Anne Arundel County -- Heritage Harbour Respite Care Home Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $150,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of Heritage Harbour Health Group, Inc. for the construction and capital equipping of a respite care home in Annapolis, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Senator Neall
SB 591 Chapter 288	Crimes -- Robbery Revision and Value of Property or Services in Theft and Related Offenses Revising and restating the laws relating to robbery; increasing to a specified amount the value of property or services subject to penalties and offenses relating to destruction of property, obtaining property or services by bad check, credit card offenses, theft, robbery, and extortion; establishing and clarifying the application of specified robbery offenses to the commission of or as an element of specified offenses, definitions, sentencing, court jurisdiction, and communications interception; etc. Senator Stone (Committee to Revise Article 27 -- Crimes and Punishments)
SB 614 Chapter 289	Commission on Juvenile Justice Jurisdiction -- Extension of Sunset Extending from September 30, 2000, to September 30, 2001, the termination date for the Commission on Juvenile Justice Jurisdiction; and requiring the Commission to submit, on or before September 30, 2001, a supplemental report relating to the Commission's work. Senators Jimeno and Hughes
SB 616 Chapter 290	Baltimore City -- Civilian Review Board -- Law Enforcement Units Expanding the authority of the Baltimore City Civilian Review Board to include specified law enforcement units in Baltimore City; defining specified terms; removing a termination provision in a specified chapter in the Acts of the General Assembly. Senator Conway, et al
SB 631 Chapter 291	Creation of a State Debt -- Allegany County -- Western Maryland Scenic Railroad Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $175,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of Western Maryland Scenic Railroad Development Corporation for the acquisition of land and a turntable for, and the repair, reconstruction, and renovation of a steam engine, diesel engines, and passenger cars for, the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad, based in Cumberland, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Senator Hafer
SB 636 Chapter 292	Uniform Principal and Income Act Enacting the 1997 revision of the Uniform Principal and Income Act; establishing default rules for fiduciaries administering a trust or estate to allocate receipts and disbursements to or between principal and income; etc. Senator Baker
SB 648 Chapter 293	Education -- Public School Holidays -- Presidents' Day Establishing Presidents' Day as a public school holiday in the State. Senator Miller
SB 651 Chapter 294	Criminal Procedure -- Statute of Limitations -- Abuse or Neglect of Vulnerable Adult Increasing, from 1 year to 2 years, the statute of limitations for prosecution of offenses relating to abuse or neglect of vulnerable adults. Senator Collins
SB 670 Chapter 295	Maryland Clean Energy Incentive Act Exempting from the sales and use tax clothes washers, room air conditioners, and refrigerators that meet or exceed applicable Energy Star efficiency guidelines, specified energy efficient heating and cooling equipment, and fuel cell electric generating equipment; allowing a motor vehicle excise tax credit for qualified electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles; allowing State income tax credits for specified solar energy property and for electricity produced from qualified energy resources; etc. Senator Van Hollen, et al
HB 20 Chapter 296	Maryland Clean Energy Incentive Act Providing an exemption from the sales and use tax for specified appliances that meet or exceed applicable energy efficiency guidelines; allowing a credit against the motor vehicle excise tax for a qualified electric vehicle or a qualified hybrid vehicle; allowing a credit against the State income tax for specified costs of specified equipment that uses solar energy to generate electricity or to heat or cool a structure or provide hot water for use in a structure; etc. Delegate Taylor, et al
SB 673 Chapter 297	Motor Coaches -- Not--for--Profit Entities Requiring not--for--profit entities that own and operate motor coaches with a capacity of at least 30 passengers and a gross vehicle weight rating of at least 32,000 pounds each to obtain licenses from the Public Service Commission; requiring those motor coaches to be inspected every 12 months at an authorized inspection station; and providing that motor coaches licensed under the Act that only provide services by or on behalf of a not--for--profit entity are not subject to tariffs and rate making. Senator Astle
SB 680 Chapter 298	Creation of a State Debt -- Good Samaritan Hospital Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $300,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of Good Samaritan Hospital, Inc. for the planning, design, construction, renovation, repair, and capital equipping of the outpatient renal and hemodialysis units, to be located in Baltimore, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Senator Conway
SB 706 Chapter 299	Creation of a State Debt -- Washington County -- Fairgrounds Park Pavilions Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $75,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Mayor and City Council of the City of Hagerstown for the construction of pavilions in a fairgrounds park, located in Hagerstown, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Senators Munson and Mooney
SB 711 Chapter 300	Public School Construction -- Use of Solar Energy -- Pilot Program Establishing a pilot program to use solar energy in public school buildings; requiring the Interagency Committee on Public School Construction to implement and administer the pilot program; authorizing a local board to apply to the Committee for a grant to cover 90 percent of the total additional cost of constructing or renovating school buildings to utilize solar energy systems to meet specified percentages of the buildings' electrical energy needs and demand; etc. Senator Pinsky, et al
SB 717 Chapter 301	Real Property -- Abatement of Nuisance -- Controlled Dangerous Substances Clarifying that under provisions of law that relate to abatement of nuisances, an "owner" includes an owner--occupant and a "tenant" does not include the owner of the property; requiring a plaintiff who brings a specified nuisance abatement action to post a specified notice in a conspicuous place on the property on which the nuisance is located no later than 48 hours before the hearing; etc. Senator McFadden (Baltimore City Administration), et al
SB 723 Chapter 302	Creation of a State Debt -- Washington County -- Agricultural/Education Center Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $75,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of Washington County Agricultural/Education Center, Inc. for the construction and capital equipping of the Washington County Agricultural/Education Center, located in Boonsboro, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Senators Munson and Mooney
SB 731 Chapter 303	Transportation -- Priority Funding Areas Requiring the Department of Transportation to report annually to the General Assembly on the attainment of transportation goals and benchmarks for the Maryland Transportation Plan and the Maryland Transportation Program; altering the time period for revising the Maryland Transportation Plan; altering provisions of law concerning the format of the Plan; etc. Senator Van Hollen, et al
SB 777 Chapter 304	Creation of a State Debt -- Baltimore City -- Star Spangled Banner Flag House and 1812 Museum Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $100,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Star Spangled Banner Flag House Association, Inc. for the construction and capital equipping of a new museum and for the repair, renovation, and reconstruction of the Star Spangled Banner Flag House, located in Baltimore, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; providing that the grantee will grant and convey a certain easement to the Maryland Historical Trust; etc. Senator Mitchell
SB 783 Chapter 305	Business and Economic Development -- Financing Programs Consolidation Act of 2000 Consolidating the Department of Business and Economic Development's programs for financial assistance; repealing the Department's capacity to provide assistance for commercial rehabilitation; repealing the statute governing the Brownfields Revitalization Incentive Program within the Department; altering the list enumerating the Department's financial assistance programs; repealing the statute governing the Enterprise Zone Venture Capital Guarantee Fund; etc. Senator Middleton, et al
SB 513 Chapter 306	Environment -- Brownfields Revitalization Incentive and Voluntary Cleanup Programs Revising the requirements for participation in the Brownfields Revitalization Incentive Program; authorizing the Department of Business and Economic Development to provide loans and grants to specified persons for environmental site assessments of proposed brownfields sites; providing that specified low--interest loans convert to market rate loans under specified circumstances; etc. Senator Frosh, et al
SB 791 Chapter 307	Oral Health Programs -- Reducing Oral Cancer Mortality Requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to establish the Oral Health Program to prevent and detect oral cancer in the State; providing for the program to target the needs of high--risk underserved populations; requiring the Secretary, in consultation with specified providers, to develop and implement programs to train health care providers to screen and refer patients with oral cancers and to promote smoking cessation programs; etc. Senator Lawlah, et al
HB 1184 Chapter 308	Oral Health Programs -- Reducing Oral Cancer Mortality Requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to establish the Oral Health Program to prevent and detect oral cancer in the State with a specified focus and intent; targeting the program to the needs of high--risk underserved populations; requiring the Secretary to establish the Prevent Oral Cancer Pilot Program to screen, refer, and treat high--risk underserved adults; etc. Delegate Nathan--Pulliam, et al
SB 813 Chapter 309	Racing Act of 2000 Establishing the Maryland Racing Facility Redevelopment Program; authorizing the Maryland Economic Development Corporation to issue bonds under specified circumstances; authorizing the Racing Commission and the Corporation to deny the issuance of specified bonds under specified circumstances; altering the allocation of amounts bet on thoroughbred and harness races; altering the termination provision relating to the allocation of specified amounts bet on thoroughbred and harness races; etc. Senator Bromwell
SB 823 Chapter 310	Creation of a State Debt -- Montgomery County -- Rehabilitation Opportunities Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $500,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of Rehabilitation Opportunities, Inc. for the acquisition, planning, design, construction, and capital equipping of a facility located in Clarksburg, for use in helping developmentally disabled adults enter the workforce, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Senators Hogan and Roesser
SB 824 Chapter 311	Creation of a State Debt -- Calvert County -- Kellam Recreational Complex Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $250,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Mayor and Town Council of the Town of Chesapeake Beach, Inc. for the planning, design, construction, and capital equipping of the Kellam Recreational Complex and related facilities and parking, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Senator Miller
SB 825 Chapter 312	Calvert County -- Parks and Recreational Facilities -- Impact Fees Prohibiting the County Commissioners of Calvert County from modifying development impact fee schedules imposed on development within a municipality for recreational sites or facilities without consent of the municipality; restricting specified property transfers in lieu of impact fees without consent of the municipality; restricting use of specified impact fee revenues without municipal approval; etc. Senator Miller
SB 826 Chapter 313	Criminal Procedure -- Warrantless Arrest -- State Forest and Park Service Police Force Adding a member of the State Forest and Park Service Police Force to the list of police officers authorized to arrest a person without a warrant under specified circumstances for specified offenses. Senator Hafer
SB 834 Chapter 314	Crimes -- Offenders -- Registration Altering the required term of registration for specified offenders. Senator Green
SB 836 Chapter 315	Motor Vehicles -- Reckless Driving -- Penalties Increasing the number of points that the Motor Vehicle Administration is required to assess against an individual who is convicted of reckless driving; and increasing the fine that may be imposed on a person who is convicted of reckless driving. Senators Jimeno and Forehand
SB 854 Chapter 316	Commission to Coordinate the Study, Commemoration, and Impact of Slavery's History and Legacy in Maryland Creating the Commission to Coordinate the Study, Commemoration, and Impact of Slavery's History and Legacy in Maryland; providing for the purpose of the Commission; providing for the membership of the Commission and the appointment, terms, and compensation of the members; providing for the staffing of the Commission; requiring the initial members to be appointed on or before October 1, 2000; etc. Senator Blount, et al
SB 860 Chapter 317	Creation of a State Debt -- Baltimore County -- Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Maryland, Inc. Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $250,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Maryland, Inc. for the acquisition, renovation, repair, reconstruction, and capital equipping of an existing building in Arbutus, for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Maryland, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Senator Kasemeyer
SB 874 Chapter 318	Property Tax Credit -- Dental Equipment in Underserved Areas Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county or of a municipal corporation to grant, by law, a tax credit against the county or municipal corporation property tax imposed on personal property used in practicing dentistry in a geographic area of the State designated by the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene as being underserved by dentists. Senator Lawlah
HB 1169 Chapter 319	Property Tax Credit -- Dental Equipment in Underserved Areas Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county or of a municipal corporation to grant, by law, a tax credit against the county or municipal corporation property tax imposed on personal property used in practicing dentistry in a geographic area of the State designated by the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene as being underserved by dentists. Delegate V Jones, et al
SB 883 Chapter 320	Health Insurance -- Task Force to Study the Non--Group Health Insurance Market -- Repeal Repealing the Task Force to Study the Non--Group Health Insurance Market. Senator Dorman
SB 885 Chapter 321	Creation of a State Debt -- Baltimore City -- Randolph A. Carr Education, Training, and Empowerment Center Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $175,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of Rehoboth Square Community Services, Inc. for the repair, renovation, reconstruction, and capital equipping of an existing vacant building for use as an education, training, and empowerment center, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; prohibiting the use of the proceeds of the sale of the bonds or the matching fund for religious purposes; etc. Senator Blount
SB 894 Chapter 322	Creation of a State Debt -- Aging School Program -- Qualified Zone Academy Bonds Authorizing the creation of a State Debt in the amount of $9,828,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Interagency Committee on School Construction for the allocation to eligible school systems under the Aging School Program for the repair, renovation, and capital improvements of qualified zone academies, subject to a requirement that the grantee document the provision of a required federal matching fund; etc. Senator Miller, et al
HB 5 Chapter 323	Health Maintenance Organizations -- Responsibility for and Regulation of Downstream Risk Requiring health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and specified other entities that enter into administrative service provider contracts to meet specified requirements; clarifying the responsibility of HMOs for specified claims and payments for health care services under an administrative service provider contract; specifying that requirements concerning administrative service provider contracts apply to managed care organizations under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program; etc. Delegate Taylor, et al
HB 16 Chapter 324	Corporate Charter Computerization and Administration Fund Authorizing the Department of Assessments and Taxation to use a specified fund for the costs of reviewing, processing, and auditing specified documents filed or requested; requiring specified fees, revenues, and recordation taxes to be credited to the fund; increasing the fee for recording documents on an expedited basis; altering the fee payable by a business trust for processing specified documents on an expedited basis; etc. Delegate Barve, et al
HB 17 Chapter 325	Maryland Aviation Administration -- Regional Air Service Development Program Requiring the Maryland Aviation Administration (MAA) to establish a Regional Air Service Development Program to foster development of a system of regional air transportation facilities and scheduled air service linking underserved regions of the State to the national and international air transportation system; specifying the powers and duties of the MAA under the Program; requiring the MAA to develop a strategic plan and to make recommendations; providing for the funding of the Program; etc. Delegate Taylor, et al
HB 22 Chapter 326	Health Benefit Plans -- Coverage for Hair Prostheses for Hair Loss Resulting from Treatment for Cancer Requiring specified insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for a hair prosthesis under specified circumstances; limiting the cost of a hair prosthesis for an enrollee or insured whose hair loss results from chemotherapy or radiation treatment for cancer to $350; requiring that the hair prosthesis must be prescribed by the oncologist in attendance; etc. Delegate Conroy, et al
HB 32 Chapter 327	Higher Education -- Edward T. Conroy Memorial Scholarship Program Providing that a scholarship granted under the Edward T. Conroy Memorial Scholarship Program may not be less than the lesser of $3,000 or the equivalent annual tuition and mandatory fees of a resident of the institution attended by the recipient; etc. Delegate Leopold, et al
HB 37 Chapter 328	Social Security Numbers on Identification Cards -- Prohibitions Prohibiting a local government from printing or having printed a local government employee's Social Security number on any type of identification card; prohibiting public institutions of higher education from printing or having printed an employee's or a student's Social Security number on any type of identification card; prohibiting public schools from printing or having printed a student's Social Security number on any type of identification card; etc. Delegates Kagan and Minnick
HB 59 Chapter 329	Health Insurance -- Adverse Decisions and Grievance Decisions -- Notification Requirements Requiring insurance carriers to include additional information in a notice of an adverse decision or grievance decision that is sent to a member; eliminating a requirement that an insurer provide specified notification to a member within 2 days after the member contacts the insurer regarding an adverse decision; altering the information that insurance carriers must include in specified policies, plans, certificates, enrollment materials, or other evidences of coverage; etc. Delegate Dembrow
HB 85 Chapter 330	Civil Actions -- Disclosure of Business Address Requiring an insurer or a person that has a self--insurance plan to provide the business address, if known, of an insured defendant under specified circumstances; and providing civil and criminal immunity to a person who discloses information required under the Act. Delegate Dembrow
HB 92 Chapter 331	Health Insurance -- Risk Based Capital Standards for Insurers and Managed Care Organizations Requiring specified insurers to meet specified risk based capital requirements; requiring the Insurance Commissioner to take action against specified insurers under specified circumstances; requiring the Commissioner, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene, to adopt regulations that apply risk based capital standards to specified managed care organizations no later than July 1, 2001; etc. Chairman ECM (Dept)
HB 104 Chapter 332	Vehicle Laws -- Drivers Failing to Stop for School Buses -- Enforcement Initiative Establishing a grant program to assist law enforcement agencies with enforcement efforts pertaining to motorists' failure to stop for school vehicles; establishing the School Bus Safety Enforcement Fund; providing $600,000 each year, through fiscal year 2005, from uninsured motorist penalties to fund the program; requiring the Department of State Police to administer the program; increasing, from 2 to 3, the points assessed by the Motor Vehicle Administration against a motorist convicted for failure to stop for a school vehicle; etc. Delegate Wood, et al
HB 118 Chapter 333	Creation of a State Debt -- Howard County -- Florence Bain Senior Center Ho. Co. 12--00 Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $500,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the County Executive and the County Council for Howard County for the planning, renovation, repair, and construction of an addition to the Florence Bain Senior Center, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; and providing generally for the issuance and sale of bonds evidencing the loan. Howard County Delegation
HB 122 Chapter 334	Creation of a State Debt -- Baltimore City -- Baltimore Museum of Industry Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $250,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of Baltimore Museum of Industry, Inc. for the planning, design, construction, repair, renovation, reconstruction, and capital equipping of the Baltimore Museum of Industry, a nonprofit, educational institution located in Baltimore, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; and providing generally for the issuance and sale of bonds evidencing the loan. Delegates McHale and Cole
HB 131 Chapter 335	Motor Vehicle Administration -- Hearings -- Venue for Judicial Review Altering a provision to provide that the proper venue in specified hearings concerning the license of a party to drive is in the county in which the party resides; altering a provision to provide that the proper venue in specified hearings concerning a license or privilege of a party is in the county where the principal place of business of the party is located; etc. Delegate Arnick, et al
HB 139 Chapter 336	State Fire Marshal -- Powers and Duties -- Inspectors Authorizing the State Fire Marshal to designate civilian employees to conduct inspections; and requiring that the minimum qualification for a civilian employee shall be the completion of the National Fire Protection Association Standard 1031. Chairman ENV (Dept)
HB 142 Chapter 337	Kent County -- Alcoholic Beverages -- Caterer's License Allowing in Kent County a holder of a Class B restaurant or hotel (on--sale) beer and light wine license to be issued a caterer's license. Delegate Walkup, et al
HB 155 Chapter 338	Vehicle Theft Prevention Council and Vehicle Theft Prevention Fund -- Extension of Sunset Extending the termination date of the Act that established the Vehicle Theft Prevention Council and the Vehicle Theft Prevention Fund; etc. Chairman JUD (Dept)
HB 167 Chapter 339	Criminal Procedure -- Accessories Before the Fact -- Abrogation Abrogating the distinction between an accessory before the fact and a principal in a crime, except for death penalty proceedings; allowing proceedings against an accessory before the fact in the same manner as a principal; allowing proceedings against an accessory before the fact regardless of proceedings or dispositions concerning a principal in the crime; allowing proceedings against an accessory before the fact in any county where the act of accessoryship occurred or where a principal may be tried; etc. Delegate Doory (Committee to Revise Article 27), et al
HB 169 Chapter 340	Motor Vehicle Administration -- Chesapeake Bay Commemorative License Plate Program -- Extension Extending the termination date of the Chesapeake Bay Commemorative License Plate Program until July 1, 2002. Delegate W Baker, et al
HB 176 Chapter 341	State Police Retirement System -- Military Service Credit Authorizing members, former members, or retirees of the State Police Retirement System who were hired by the Department of State Police as aviators to operate helicopters for the State emergency medical system to receive military service credit; and providing that the Act apply to individuals who were hired by the State Police on or after July 1, 1987. Delegate Proctor
HB 177 Chapter 342	State Procurement -- Intergovernmental Cooperative Purchasing Expanding the definition of "governmental entity" under provisions of the State procurement law concerning intergovernmental purchasing to include affiliations, alliances, consortiums, or groups composed solely of governmental entities that are established for purposes of promoting intergovernmental purchasing. Delegate Wood
HB 178 Chapter 343	Drug Dealer Liability Act Making persons who are convicted under specified provisions of law of knowingly and willfully manufacturing, distributing, dispensing, bringing into, or transporting in the State a controlled dangerous substance liable in a civil action for damages for the death of an individual proximately caused by the individual's use of the controlled dangerous substance under specified conditions; specifying persons entitled to bring an action for damages under the Act; etc. Delegates Menes and Grosfeld
HB 180 Chapter 344	Crimes -- Drug--Induced Conduct Prohibiting a person from administering a controlled dangerous substance or other drug to another without that person's knowledge and committing a specified crime of violence or a specified sexual offense against that person; establishing penalties; and establishing that a sentence imposed under the Act may be imposed separate from and consecutive to or concurrent with a sentence for any offense based on the act or acts establishing the violation of the Act. Delegates Menes and Grosfeld
HB 196 Chapter 345	Worcester County -- Property Tax Credit -- Pocomoke City Chamber of Commerce Authorizing the governing body of Worcester County or of a municipal corporation in Worcester County to grant, by law, a property tax credit against the county or municipal corporation property tax imposed on property that is owned by a specified organization; authorizing Worcester County or a municipal corporation in the County to provide for specified provisions relating to the property tax credit; etc. Delegate Bozman, et al
HB 197 Chapter 346	Worcester County -- Property Tax Credit -- Ocean City Chamber of Commerce Authorizing the governing body of Worcester County to grant, by law, a property tax credit against the county property tax imposed on property that is owned by a specified organization; authorizing Worcester County to provide for specified provisions relating to property tax credits granted by the County; etc. Delegate Bozman, et al
HB 198 Chapter 347	Creation of a State Debt -- Baltimore City -- Druid Heights Daycare/Community Center Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $200,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Druid Heights Community Development Corporation, Inc. for the acquisition of a building for, and the planning, design, construction, repair, renovation, reconstruction, and capital equipping of, the Druid Heights Daycare/Community Center, to be located at 2140 McCulloh Street, Baltimore, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Delegate V Jones, et al
HB 199 Chapter 348	Creation of a State Debt -- Baltimore City -- Goodwill Industries Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $450,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of Goodwill Industries of Baltimore, Inc. for the planning, design, repair, renovation, and capital equipping of a building on East Redwood Street in Baltimore City, to be used as a career development center for Goodwill Industries, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; and requiring the grantee to convey a historic easement to the Maryland Historical Trust. Delegate V Jones, et al
HB 220 Chapter 349	Motor Vehicle Titling Tax -- Exercise of Option to Purchase Under Vehicle Leasing Agreement Exempting from the motor vehicle titling tax a vehicle titled in this State that is transferred to a lessee who exercises an option under a vehicle lease to purchase the leased vehicle at the end of the lease; providing that a specified exemption from the tax does not apply until any Consolidated Transportation Bonds are no longer outstanding and unpaid; etc. Delegate Dewberry, et al
HB 223 Chapter 350	Howard County -- Confinement as a Condition of Probation Ho. Co. 4--00 Authorizing in Howard County the court to impose a sentence of confinement as a condition of probation. Howard County Delegation
HB 264 Chapter 351	Vehicle Law -- Vehicles Over 10,000 Pound Rating -- Restriction on Passengers in Cargo Area Prohibiting the drivers of trucks and trailers exceeding a specified gross vehicle weight rating from allowing a person to occupy the cargo area while the vehicle is operated on a highway; prohibiting a person from occupying the cargo area while the vehicle is operated on a highway; and providing specified exceptions. Delegate Wood
HB 296 Chapter 352	Natural Resources -- Public Recreation on Private Land and Land Owned by Local Governments -- Liability Making specified provisions concerning the duty of care and liability applicable to specified land owned by a unit of local government and used for recreational or educational purposes; providing that specified provisions concerning the duty of care and liability to specified land used for recreational or educational purposes are in addition to other common law or statutory defenses or immunities; etc. Delegate Sher, et al
HB 299 Chapter 353	Maryland Horse Industry Board -- Sunset Extension and Program Evaluation Continuing the Maryland Horse Industry Board in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act (Sunset Law) by extending to July 1, 2006, the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority of the Board; requiring that an evaluation of the Board and the statutes and regulations that relate to the Board be performed on or before July 1, 2005; altering the reporting requirements of the Board; etc. Chairman W&M
HB 302 Chapter 354	Anne Arundel County -- Sheriff's Salary -- Equal to a Captain of the Police Department Altering the salary of the Sheriff of Anne Arundel County to equal the salary of a captain in the Anne Arundel County Police Department at the highest rate in the pay scale; etc. Delegate Clagett
HB 304 Chapter 355	Health Insurance -- Preauthorized Health Care Services -- Denials of Reimbursement by Carriers Prohibiting specified health insurance carriers from denying reimbursement to a health care provider for preauthorized or approved services delivered to a patient if a health care service has been preauthorized or approved for the patient; providing specified exceptions; providing that a carrier must pay a claim for a preauthorized or approved covered health service in accordance with specified provisions of law; etc. Delegate Donoghue
HB 310 Chapter 356	Commuter Benefits Act of 2000 Allowing a credit against specified State taxes for employers who provide employees a cash in lieu of parking program or a guaranteed ride home; allowing specified tax--exempt organizations to apply tax credits allowed for employer--provided commuter benefits as a credit against the payment of employee withholding taxes required to be withheld from the wages of employees and required to be paid to the Comptroller; requiring that a specified report be submitted to the General Assembly on or before December 1, 2005; etc. Delegate Carlson, et al
SB 244 Chapter 357	Commuter Benefits Act of 2000 Allowing a credit against specified State taxes for employers who provide employees a cash in lieu of parking program or a guaranteed ride home; allowing specified tax--exempt organizations to apply tax credits allowed for employer--provided commuter benefits as a credit against the payment of employee withholding taxes required to be withheld from the wages of employees and required to be paid to the Comptroller; requiring that a specified report be submitted to the General Assembly on or before December 1, 2005; etc. Senator Ruben, et al
HB 314 Chapter 358	Health Occupations -- Renaming the State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors Renaming the State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors to the State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists; renaming the State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors Fund to the State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists Fund; etc. Delegate Hubbard
HB 316 Chapter 359	Health Insurance Carriers -- Standing Referral to Obstetrician for Pregnancy Requiring health insurance carriers to provide members who are pregnant with a standing referral to an obstetrician; providing that the obstetrician is responsible for the primary management of the member's pregnancy through the postpartum period; and providing that a written treatment plan may not be required when a standing referral is to an obstetrician. Delegate Krysiak, et al
HB 346 Chapter 360	Property Tax -- Talbot County -- Personal Property Authorizing the governing body of Talbot County or of a municipal corporation in Talbot County to grant, by law, a property tax credit against the County or municipal corporation property tax imposed on personal property; specifying the authority of the governing body of the County or municipal corporation with respect to the credit; etc. Delegates Schisler and Eckardt
HB 347 Chapter 361	Hunting -- Duck Blinds -- Site Licenses Repealing specified requirements for an application for a duck blind site license; repealing specified requirements for obtaining a blind site license; repealing specified requirements for the content of a blind site license; repealing specified requirements for issuance of a blind site license; and repealing specified exceptions to requirements for a blind site license. Delegate Schisler, et al
HB 348 Chapter 362	Retirement and Pensions -- Transfers to or from Contributory Employees' Pension System or Teachers' Pension System Altering provisions that relate to the transfer of service credit to or from specified State or local retirement or pension systems and to or from the Employees' Pension System or the Teachers' Pension System by members or former members who are subject to a certain contributory pension benefit; altering the amount of the contributions to be deposited for the transfer of service credit to or from the part of the Employees' Pension System or the Teachers' Pension System that provides a contributory pension benefit; etc. Delegate Proctor (Chairman Joint Committee on Pensions)
HB 349 Chapter 363	Employees' Pension System -- Purchase of Service Credit Altering the amount that a member of the Employees' Pension System who is not an employee of a participating governmental unit or former participating governmental unit that has withdrawn from participation in the Employees' Pension System shall pay to the Board of Trustees of the State Retirement and Pension System when purchasing service credit for periods of employment with the State. Delegate Proctor (Chairman Joint Committee on Pensions)
HB 352 Chapter 364	Creation of a State Debt -- Anne Arundel County -- Lula G. Scott Community Center Renovation Project Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $200,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Anne Arundel County Economic Opportunity Committee, Inc. for the repair, renovation, construction, reconstruction, and capital equipping of the Lula G. Scott Community Center, an Early Head Start center in southern Anne Arundel County, serving pregnant women, infants, and toddlers, with a focus on low--income families, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Delegate Clagett, et al
HB 355 Chapter 365	Board of Physical Therapy Examiners -- Changes in the Physical Therapy Practice Act Amending the Physical Therapy Practice Act to allow the Board of Physical Therapy Examiners to disclose specified information to other regulatory boards or a law enforcement or prosecutorial authority; requiring the Board to ensure, to the extent possible, that specified names are kept confidential when specified information is disclosed under the Act; allowing the Board to grant a specified waiver and to reinstate a license under specified circumstances; requiring an individual to return a suspended or revoked license to the Board; etc. Delegate Nathan--Pulliam, et al
HB 357 Chapter 366	Courts -- Transfer of Structured Settlement Payment Rights Establishing specified conditions under which a direct or indirect transfer of structured settlement payment rights is effective; prohibiting a structured settlement obligor or annuity issuer from making payments to a transferee of structured settlement payment rights unless the transfer is authorized in an order of a court based on specified findings; providing for jurisdiction in cases involving transfers of structured settlement payment rights; etc. Delegates Dembrow and Montague
HB 360 Chapter 367	Health Care Workers' Safety Act -- Bloodborne Pathogen Standard Requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to adopt regulations that implement the Bloodborne Pathogen Standard as established by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration; requiring the Commissioner to submit a specified notice and make recommendations to the General Assembly; etc. Delegate Morhaim, et al
HB 397 Chapter 368	Creation of a State Debt -- Baltimore City -- Kennedy Krieger Children's Hospital, Inc. Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $1,250,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of Kennedy Krieger Children's Hospital, Inc. for the planning, design, renovation, repair, construction, and capital equipping of a community behavioral health center, to be located in the 800 block of North Broadway in East Baltimore, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Delegates Harrison and C Davis
HB 402 Chapter 369	Unemployment Insurance Benefits -- Maximum Benefit Increasing the amount of the maximum weekly unemployment insurance benefit to $280 per week; and providing for the application of the Act. Delegate Harrison, et al
HB 404 Chapter 370	Correctional Officers' Retirement System -- Transfer of Service Credit from Employees' Pension System Authorizing members of the Correctional Officers' Retirement System to receive eligibility service credit in the Correctional Officers' Retirement System for service transferred from the Employees' Pension System if the member was vested in the Employees' Pension System; providing for a specified limit to the eligibility service transferred; etc. Delegate A Jones, et al
HB 405 Chapter 371	Health Insurance -- Internal Appeal and Grievance Processes Requiring insurance carriers to document an adverse decision and to provide written notice of an adverse decision that includes the factual basis for the decision and references specified criteria and standards to specified persons; requiring carriers to establish an internal appeal process for use by their members and health care providers for disputes relating to coverage decisions and providing that carriers can comply with this requirement in a specified manner; requiring carriers to meet the burden of persuasion as specified; etc. Chairman ECM (Dept)
HB 419 Chapter 372	State Retirement and Pension System -- Administrative Expense Cap Altering the base upon which the limit on the amount of the administrative and operational expenses of the Board of Trustees of the State Retirement and Pension System and the State Retirement Agency is calculated. Delegate Proctor (Chairman Joint Committee on Pensions)
HB 420 Chapter 373	Employees' and Teachers' Retirement and Pension Systems -- Transfers of Service Credit Clarifying that transfers between a State employees' retirement or pension system and a State teachers' retirement or pension system are not subject to provisions of law concerning transfers between State and local retirement or pension systems under specified circumstances; clarifying that eligibility service for a member who has transferred between the Employees' Retirement System and the Teachers' Retirement System includes eligibility service recognized under the previous system; etc. Delegate Proctor (Chairman Joint Committee on Pensions)
HB 423 Chapter 374	Employees' Pension System -- Participating Governmental Units -- Local Pension System Deleting from the definition of "special accrued liability" of the Employees' Pension System for participating governmental units the portion of the liability associated with the retirees of the units; providing that an eligible governmental unit may elect to continue to operate a local pension system after the effective date of participation in the Employees' Pension System under specified circumstances; etc. Delegate Proctor (Chairman Joint Committee on Pensions)
HB 432 Chapter 375	Maryland Health Care Commission and Health Services Cost Review Commission -- Use of Assessed Fees -- Direct Costs Clarifying that the fees assessed by the Maryland Health Care Commission on hospitals, nursing homes, payors, and health care practitioners, and the user fees assessed by the Health Services Cost Review Commission on hospitals, shall be used exclusively to cover the actual documented costs of fulfilling the statutory and regulatory duties of the Maryland Health Care Commission and the Health Services Cost Review Commission; etc. Delegate Guns
HB 433 Chapter 376	Governor's Wellmobile Program Establishing the Governor's Wellmobile Program to provide primary and preventive health care services to specified populations and communities; providing for the funding of the Program; providing that the Program shall be operated, managed, and administered by the University of Maryland School of Nursing; establishing the Governor's Wellmobile Program Advisory Board; requiring the School of Nursing and the Board to submit an annual report to the Governor and the General Assembly; etc. Delegate Goldwater, et al
HB 439 Chapter 377	Circuit Courts -- Civil Enforcement of Administrative Orders Authorizing parties to seek civil enforcement of administrative orders in the circuit courts under specified circumstances; providing for specified venue, procedures, and forms of relief in an action for civil enforcement of administrative orders; etc. Delegates Montague and Bobo
HB 447 Chapter 378	Caroline County -- Sheriff's Salary -- Increase Altering the salary of the Sheriff of Caroline County; providing for the application of the Act; and providing for a delayed effective date. Caroline County Delegation
HB 450 Chapter 379	Creation of a State Debt -- Baltimore City -- New Song Community Center Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $300,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Trustees of New Song Urban Ministries, Inc. for the construction and capital equipping of the New Song Community Center in Baltimore City, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; prohibiting the use of the proceeds of the loan or any of the matching funds for religious purposes; etc. Delegate Marriott, et al
HB 453 Chapter 380	St. Mary's County -- Alcoholic Beverages -- License Renewal Authorizing in St. Mary's County the renewal of an alcoholic beverages license under specified conditions; setting a 1--year term and an April 30 expiration date for a license; and authorizing a holder of an expired license to apply for a new license. St. Mary's County Delegation
HB 483 Chapter 381	Police and Criminal Records -- Expungement of Records -- Nolle Prosequi Before Service Authorizing the District Court to order expungement of specified records relating to specified criminal charges if the State enters a nolle prosequi as to all charges in a criminal case within the jurisdiction of the District Court with which a defendant has not been served, unless the State objects and shows cause why a record should not be expunged; and prohibiting the District Court from assessing costs against a defendant for specified proceedings. Chairman JUD (Maryland Judicial Conference)
HB 489 Chapter 382	Wicomico County -- Alcoholic Beverages -- License Fees Increasing in Wicomico County specified alcoholic beverages license fees; and generally relating to alcoholic beverages licenses in Wicomico County. Delegate Conway, et al
HB 492 Chapter 383	Wicomico County -- Alcoholic Beverages -- Wine Tasting and Sampling Authorizing the Board of License Commissioners to issue a wine tasting (WT) license for wine tasting and sampling events; restricting license holders to holders of Class A beer and wine (off--sale) licenses; specifying a $150 annual license fee; etc. Delegate Conway, et al
HB 504 Chapter 384	Alcoholic Beverages -- Local Licensing Boards -- Appeals to Circuit Courts Establishing that any alcoholic beverages licensee issued a license by the local licensing board, an applicant for an alcoholic beverages license that is the subject of the decision by the local licensing board, or a specified group in which the licensed place of business is located or proposed to be located may appeal a decision of a local alcoholic beverages licensing board to the circuit court of the county under specified circumstances. Delegate Arnick
HB 532 Chapter 385	Vehicle Laws -- Issuance of Temporary "Maryland Only" Driver's License Authorizing the Motor Vehicle Administration to issue a temporary driver's license, valid only in Maryland, to an applicant for reinstatement of a suspended or revoked driver's license, renewal of a driver's license, or a duplicate or corrected driver's license under specified circumstances; providing that a temporary license issued under the Act is valid for 90 days; etc. Delegates Dembrow and Arnick
HB 541 Chapter 386	Vehicle Laws -- Drivers' Schools and Instructors Authorizing the Motor Vehicle Administration to immediately suspend, revoke, or deny certification of a drivers' school or instructor if the school or instructor has been convicted of a crime of moral turpitude; etc. Delegate Bronrott, et al
HB 554 Chapter 387	Creation of a State Debt -- Baltimore City -- St. Frances Academy Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $300,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to St. Frances Academy, Inc. for the planning, design, construction, and capital equipping of a multipurpose community and athletic facility, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Delegate Paige, et al
HB 557 Chapter 388	Motor Vehicles -- Transfers Between Family Members -- Exemption from Excise Tax Exempting from the vehicle excise tax a vehicle transferred to a niece or nephew of the transferor if no money or other valuable consideration is involved in the transfer; etc. Delegate Menes
HB 566 Chapter 389	Charles County -- Possession and Consumption of Alcohol -- Regulation Altering provisions of law authorizing specified counties to regulate the possession and consumption of alcohol on any public property, on property used by the public in general, or on any highway to include Charles County. Charles County Delegation
HB 567 Chapter 390	Charles County -- Property Tax Credits Providing that the governing body of Charles County may grant to new businesses locating in the County a property tax credit for machinery and equipment used in manufacturing, assembling, processing, or refining products for sale or for new facilities in the generation of electricity and may define, fix, or limit the terms thereof; etc. Charles County Delegation
HB 576 Chapter 391	State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners -- Sunset Extension Continuing the State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act (Sunset Law) by extending to July 1, 2012, the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority of the Board. The Speaker (Department of Legislative Services)
HB 586 Chapter 392	Victim's Rights -- Transfer to Juvenile Court -- Definitions Altering the definition of victim relating to transfer of criminal cases to the juvenile court; altering the definition of victim to include family members and guardians of deceased or disabled victims for purposes of rights and procedures relating to victims; etc. Delegate Vallario (Task Force to Examine Maryland's Crime Victims' Rights Laws), et al
HB 589 Chapter 393	Homeowners' Property Tax Credit -- Home Purchasers -- Residency Eligibility Altering the definition of "dwelling" for the purpose of determining eligibility for the homeowners' property tax credit so as to require that a home purchaser applicant occupy a dwelling for the remainder of the taxable year in which the tax credit is sought; and providing for the application of the Act. Delegate C Davis
HB 590 Chapter 394	Homeowners' Property Tax Credit -- Home Purchaser Applications Authorizing home purchasers to apply for a homeowners' property tax credit after execution of a contract of sale on a dwelling; requiring home purchasers applying for the tax credit to apply within a specified period and provide the Department with a copy of the executed contract of sale; authorizing the Department to determine the amount of the tax credit a home purchaser may receive; requiring the Department to provide written notice of its decision to a home purchaser applying for the tax credit; etc. Delegate C Davis, et al
HB 604 Chapter 395	Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System -- Benefits Changing the contribution rate for specified members of the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System; altering the formula for computing the retirement allowance of specified members of the Pension System; establishing a Deferred Retirement Option Program for specified members; changing the criteria for receiving an accidental disability retirement allowance; modifying the cost--of--living adjustment for specified members; repealing an exception to provisions of law that govern transfers between specified systems; etc. Chairman APP (Dept)
HB 421 Chapter 396	Employees' and Teachers' Pension Systems -- Contributory Pension Benefit Providing that on the return of accumulated contributions of former members of the Employees' Pension System or the Teachers' Pension System who are entitled to contributory pension benefits, the former members are not entitled to further benefits on account of membership in the systems, except under specified circumstances; providing for membership in the Employees' Pension System or the Teachers' Pension System to continue for a specified period of time after separation from employment under specified circumstances; etc. Delegate Proctor (Chairman Joint Committee on Pensions)
HB 605 Chapter 397	Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System -- Police Officers and Fire Rescue Employees -- Membership Providing that specified employees of the BWI Airport Fire & Rescue Department, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the Department of General Services, the Motor Vehicle Administration, and the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation are in the Law Enforcement Officers' Pension System. Chairman APP (Dept)
HB 612 Chapter 398	Workers' Compensation -- Temporary Total Disability Benefits -- Jurisdiction of the Commission Expanding the circumstances under which the Workers' Compensation Commission retains jurisdiction pending an appeal to include a request for temporary total disability benefits; authorizing the Commission, under specified circumstances, to pass a supplemental order that an employer provide temporary total benefits pending an appeal; providing that the insurer or self--insurer is entitled to an offset or credit for overpayment of benefits under specified circumstances; etc. Delegate Moe, et al
HB 638 Chapter 399	Crimes -- Possession of Vehicles Without Vehicle Identification Numbers -- Exceptions Authorizing an insurance company or its agent to buy, receive, and possess a motor vehicle knowing that the vehicle identification number has been removed in specified situations; authorizing an insurance company or its agent to sell or dispose of a motor vehicle knowing that the identification number of the vehicle has been removed in specified situations; and restricting transfers to specified licensed entities. Delegate Doory
HB 649 Chapter 400	Health Insurance -- Small Group Market -- Eligibility Requirements Altering criteria for determining when a person is considered a small employer for purposes of small group market health insurance; altering criteria for determining when an employee is considered to be an eligible employee; altering minimum participation requirements; requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission to submit a report to the House Economic Matters and the Senate Finance Committees on the effect of group size in the small group insurance market on specified delivery systems of each prominent carrier in the market; etc. Delegate Donoghue, et al
HB 652 Chapter 401	Creation of a State Debt -- Garrett County -- Garrett Information Enterprise Center Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $500,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the County Commissioners of Garrett County for the planning, design, construction, and capital equipping and furnishing of the Garrett Information Enterprise Center, subject to a matching fund requirement; etc. Delegate Edwards
HB 669 Chapter 402	Health Insurance -- Access to Obstetric and Gynecological Services Requiring insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to allow a woman to have direct access to obstetric and gynecological services from a certified nurse midwife or other providers; and requiring a certified nurse midwife and specified other health care providers to consult with a specified obstetrician/gynecologist in accordance with a collaborative agreement regarding the delivery of specified health care. Delegate Goldwater, et al
HB 671 Chapter 403	Property Tax Credit -- Community Associations Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county or of a municipal corporation to grant, by law, a property tax credit against the county or municipal corporation property tax imposed on personal property owned by community associations. Delegate Turner, et al
HB 675 Chapter 404	Juvenile Law -- Juvenile Court Jurisdiction -- Peace Orders Transferring jurisdiction, from the District Court to the juvenile court, over peace order proceedings in which the respondent is a child; etc. Delegate Vallario, et al
HB 690 Chapter 405	Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission -- Public Utility Construction -- Violations PG/MC 2--00 Subjecting a person to a civil monetary fine for a violation of rules and regulations governing public utility construction; authorizing the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission to adopt rules and regulations on public utility construction; etc. Prince George's County Delegation and Montgomery County Delegation
HB 702 Chapter 406	State Government -- Procurement -- Conflict of Interests Providing that an individual who assists in a selection or award made in response to a solicitation for bids or a request for proposal in a State procurement, or the employer of that individual, may not submit a bid or proposal or assist another person who submits a bid or proposal; requiring that an invitation for bids or request for proposals for the selection of a consultant who will assist in specified State contracting activities require the submission of an affidavit addressing conflicts of interest; etc. Delegate McIntosh, et al
HB 736 Chapter 407	Fiduciary Institutions -- Customer Financial Records -- Allowable Disclosures Allowing a fiduciary institution or its officers, employees, agents, or directors to disclose a customer's financial records and other information if exploitation is suspected and a report of suspected exploitation is filed with an adult protective services program; providing that a report filed under the Act shall be deemed to protect against and prevent actual or potential fraud, unauthorized transactions, or other liability; etc. Delegate McIntosh, et al
HB 743 Chapter 408	Baltimore City -- Tax Sales -- Abandoned Property Altering the applicability of provisions authorizing specified abandoned property in Baltimore City to be sold for a sum less than a specified amount otherwise due for tax sales; requiring the collector to establish a minimum bid for the sale of specified abandoned property at a tax sale; providing that a tax sale certificate for abandoned property reverts to the City and is void as to a private purchaser unless a foreclosure proceeding is filed within 3 months and a foreclosure decree is secured within 18 months; etc. Delegate Marriott, et al
HB 750 Chapter 409	Creation of a State Debt -- Baltimore County -- Todd's Inheritance Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $250,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the County Council and the County Executive of Baltimore County for the renovation and restoration of Todd's Inheritance, located in Edgemere, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; and requiring the grantee to grant and convey a specified easement to the Maryland Historical Trust. Delegate Minnick (Baltimore County Administration), et al
HB 762 Chapter 410	Health Insurance -- Uniform Claims Forms Consolidating provisions relating to acceptance of uniform claims forms for reimbursement by insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations; requiring the Insurance Commissioner to adopt regulations relating to uniform claims forms for reimbursement of hospitals and health care practitioners by insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations; specifying the contents of the regulations; requiring uniform claims forms to be properly completed in accordance with regulations; etc. Delegate Hammen, et al
HB 775 Chapter 411	Creation of a State Debt -- Baltimore City -- Hiram Grand Foundation Community Center Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $250,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Hiram Grand Foundation, Inc. for the acquisition, planning, design, construction, and capital equipping of the Hiram Grand Community Center, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Delegate Kirk, et al
HB 785 Chapter 412	Occupational Therapy -- Scope of Practice Altering the scope of practice for occupational therapy professionals; removing limitations on practices carried out by orthotists or prosthetists; providing for the annual election of one or more chairpersons to the Board of Occupational Therapy Practice; requiring the appointment of an Executive Director to the Board; authorizing the Board to employ specified staff and experts; authorizing the Board to adopt regulations in consultation with the State Boards of Physical Therapy and Chiropractic Examiners, respectively; etc. Delegate D Davis, et al
HB 797 Chapter 413	Creation of a State Debt -- Baltimore County -- Reisterstown Elementary Police Athletic League/Recreation Center Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $575,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the County Council and the County Executive for Baltimore County for the planning, design, construction, and capital equipping of a facility located in Reisterstown, for use as a Police Athletic League/Recreation Center, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; and providing generally for the issuance and sale of bonds evidencing the loan. Delegate Finifter, et al (Baltimore County Administration)
HB 809 Chapter 414	Angler's Licenses -- Nontidal Waters -- Nonresident License Fees Modifying the fees for nonresident annual and short--term freshwater fishing licenses to provide that the fee shall be the same as the fee charged a Maryland resident by the applicant's home state or the current statutory fee, whichever is greater; limiting how the fee revenues may be used; etc. Delegate Edwards
HB 823 Chapter 415	Task Force on the Environmental Effects of MTBE Establishing a Task Force on the Environmental Effects of MTBE; requiring the Task Force to determine and assess the environmental and health risks associated with ground and surface water contamination from MTBE, to examine national and regional efforts concerning ground and surface water contamination from MTBE, to recommend a plan to minimize and counteract the environmental and health risks associated with ground and surface water contamination from MTBE, and to explore alternatives to MTBE; etc. Delegate Clagett, et al
HB 826 Chapter 416	Creation of a State Debt -- Anne Arundel County -- Maryland Therapy and Education Center Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $100,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of Maryland Therapeutic Riding, Inc. for the planning, design, construction, and capital equipping of a therapeutic riding facility, including indoor and outdoor riding and education areas, located in Anne Arundel County, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Delegate Love, et al
HB 827 Chapter 417	Workers' Compensation -- Calculation of Hearing Loss Requiring the calculation of hearing loss for workers' compensation to be measured by specified criteria; requiring the measurements to be conducted in a sound room that meets specified criteria; increasing the threshold of hearing for specified frequencies; altering the levels of hearing loss for which employers must provide compensation; etc. Delegate Love
HB 837 Chapter 418	Creation of a State Debt -- Baltimore City -- Maryland Institute, College of Art Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $2,900,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to Maryland Institute, College of Art for the acquisition, planning, design, repair, renovation, restoration, construction, and capital equipping of a new academic building, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Delegate Kopp, et al
HB 845 Chapter 419	Disease Prevention -- Reporting Hepatitis C Requiring the director of a medical laboratory to submit a report to a local health officer if specified evidence indicates the presence of viral hepatitis type C in an individual. Delegate D Davis
HB 846 Chapter 420	Related Institutions -- Immunizations -- Influenza Virus and Pneumococcal Disease Requiring specified related institutions to immunize residents against the influenza virus and pneumococcal disease and employees against the influenza virus in accordance with specified standards and within specified time frames; requiring specified related institutions to obtain specified consent from specified individuals prior to administering an immunization; requiring specified related institutions to document specified information; etc. Delegate Goldwater, et al
HB 853 Chapter 421	Creation of a State Debt -- Washington County -- The Children's Village Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $75,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of Children's Village of Washington County, Inc. for the construction, repair, renovation, reconstruction, and capital equipping of the Children's Village, located in Hagerstown, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Washington County Delegation
HB 854 Chapter 422	Creation of a State Debt -- Washington County -- Hagerstown Police Athletic League Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $50,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of Hagerstown Area Police Athletic League, Inc. for the construction and capital equipping of the Hagerstown Police Athletic League, to be located in Washington County, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; providing that the grantee shall grant and convey a specified easement to the Maryland Historical Trust; etc. Washington County Delegation
HB 855 Chapter 423	Creation of a State Debt -- Washington County -- Hagerstown YMCA Family Center Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $250,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Young Men's Christian Association of Hagerstown, Maryland, Inc. for the construction and capital equipping of the Hagerstown YMCA Family Center, to be located in Washington County, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Washington County Delegation
HB 881 Chapter 424	Local Boards of Election -- Employee Compensation Requiring the State Board of Elections, upon the recommendation of the State Administrator of Elections, to determine the fixed rate of compensation of local election board employees. Delegate Cadden, et al
HB 882 Chapter 425	Anne Arundel County -- Noise Control -- Sports Shooting Clubs Repealing an exception so as to make applicable to Anne Arundel County a prohibition against a political subdivision adopting noise control ordinances that prohibit specified hunting activities by sports shooting clubs that meet specified criteria; etc. Delegates Cadden and Owings
HB 889 Chapter 426	Growth Management -- Land Use Definitions and Controls Revising, restating, and recodifying the growth management and land use laws of the State; renaming Article 66B -- Zoning and Planning of the Annotated Code of Maryland to be Article 66B -- Land Use; and making stylistic changes in the growth management and land use laws of the State. Delegate Guns (Article 66B Study Commission)
SB 523 Chapter 427	Land Use Authorizing a local legislative body to grant an adaptive reuse that allows a change of use restrictions in a zoning classification for a particular improved property in a designated neighborhood under specified conditions; authorizing a local legislative body to authorize a planning director or other designee to grant specified administrative adjustments; requiring the local legislative body to consult with its planning commission and board of appeals in developing criteria and procedures for adjustments; etc. Senator Frosh (Article 66B Study Commission)
SB 893 Chapter 428	Charles County -- Subdivision -- Reservation of Land Authorizing the Charles County Planning Commission to include in its subdivision regulations specified provisions relating to the reservation of land for traffic, recreation, or other public purposes; requiring that the reservation of land continue for no more than 3 years; requiring that the property that is reserved for public use be exempt from property tax; requiring the Charles County Planning Commission to provide specified notifications to the Supervisor of Assessments for Charles County; etc. Senator Middleton
HB 894 Chapter 429	Creation of a State Debt -- Baltimore County -- Woodlawn Community Center Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $300,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the County Council and the County Executive of Baltimore County for the demolition, planning, design, construction, and capital equipping of the Woodlawn Community Center in Woodlawn, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; and providing generally for the issuance and sale of bonds evidencing the loan. Delegate Burns, et al (Baltimore County Administration)
HB 905 Chapter 430	Creation of a State Debt -- Baltimore City -- Family Tree Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $400,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to Family Tree for the planning, design, renovation, repair, and capital equipping of buildings in Baltimore City, located at 2104 through 2108 North Charles Street, to be used for child abuse prevention and parenting programs, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; and providing generally for the issuance and sale of bonds evidencing the loan. Delegate Rosenberg, et al
HB 909 Chapter 431	Creation of a State Debt -- Loyola College Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $200,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to Loyola College for the planning, design, construction, repair, renovation, restoration, reconstruction, and capital equipping of Maryland Hall, located in Baltimore City, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Delegate Rosenberg, et al
HB 926 Chapter 432	Film Production Activity -- Sales and Use Tax Exemption Providing a sales and use tax exemption for tangible personal property and taxable services used in a film production activity; authorizing the Department of Business and Economic Development to certify applicants for the exemption; requiring the Department to conduct a study and report to the General Assembly on the effect of the tax credit and the potential economic effect of a specified income tax exemption on the film and video production industry in the State and on the actual effect of similar credits enacted in other states; etc. Chairman W&M (Dept), et al
HB 933 Chapter 433	Task Force on Resource Based Industry in Maryland -- Establishment Establishing a Task Force on Resource Based Industry to examine the need for, and the feasibility of, establishing a financing development authority for specified rural industries; requiring the Task Force to submit a report on or before December 1, 2000; providing for the membership of the Task Force; requiring the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House jointly to appoint the co--chairs of the Task Force; etc. Eastern Shore Delegation, et al
HB 944 Chapter 434	Prospective Jurors -- Motor Vehicle Administration Lists Expanding the sources from which prospective jurors are selected to include lists of individuals who have received a driver's license or identification card from the Motor Vehicle Administration; requiring juror selection plans to include lists of individuals who have received a driver's license or identification card from the Motor Vehicle Administration; requiring that the Administration make the lists available to jury commissioners or clerks at no cost; and providing for a delayed effective date. Delegate Zirkin, et al
HB 945 Chapter 435	County Income Tax Disparity Grants Altering the calculation of State grants to counties based on disparities in county income tax revenues to account for the alteration of the computation of the county income tax; altering requirements for eligibility for the grants to account for the alteration of the computation of the county income tax; and applying the Act to grants for fiscal years beginning on or after July 1, 2001. Delegate Hixson
HB 949 Chapter 436	Real Property -- "Quick--Take" Condemnation -- Payment -- Time Requiring payment to a property owner from the court within a prescribed time in "quick--take" condemnation proceedings. Delegate Giannetti
HB 950 Chapter 437	Medical Assistance -- Program Recipients -- Continuity of Care Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to establish mechanisms for identifying the primary care provider of a recipient of medical assistance and maintaining continuity of care with that provider; requiring a managed care organization, under specified circumstances, to assign a recipient of medical assistance to a particular primary care provider and to honor a request to change primary care providers within the same managed care organization; etc. Delegate D Davis, et al
HB 951 Chapter 438	Calvert County -- Alarm System Regulation Authorizing the Board of County Commissioners of Calvert County to adopt regulations to register alarm system contractors and alarm users, provide penalties and issue civil citations for specified violations, and provide exemptions from the issuance of specified civil citations and penalties; authorizing the designated county enforcement agency to keep records and inform specified persons of a pattern of false alarms; providing that specified provisions do not apply in Calvert County under specified circumstances; etc. Calvert County Delegation
HB 962 Chapter 439	Creation of a State Debt -- Talbot County -- Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $400,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Governors of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, Inc. for the planning, design, construction, and capital equipping of new buildings, and for the repair, renovation, restoration, and reconstruction of existing facilities and exhibits, including Marine Railway, Vessels, and Historic Skipjacks, at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in Talbot County, subject to a matching fund requirement; etc. Delegates Schisler and Eckardt
HB 965 Chapter 440	Creation of a State Debt -- Baltimore City -- Park Heights Golf Range and Family Sports Park Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $250,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of Park Heights Golf Range and Family Sports Park, Inc. for the planning, design, construction, and capital equipping of a family sports park, golf driving range, miniature golf park, and related buildings, to be located on Reisterstown Road in Baltimore, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Delegate Oaks, et al
HB 967 Chapter 441	Alcoholic Beverages -- License Prohibitions -- Exceptions Creating an exception to the prohibition against issuing specified alcoholic beverages licenses to specified persons; etc. Delegate Love, et al
HB 976 Chapter 442	Child Support Orders -- Decedent Father's Estate -- Repeal Repealing a provision of law authorizing a court to issue summons to representatives, heirs, or sureties on a bond of a decedent father and to the mother or other person in charge of a child, if the father dies after the court declares him to be the father or orders him to make child support payments; repealing a provision of law authorizing a court to order that an amount be paid from the decedent father's estate for support of a child; etc. Delegate Mitchell
HB 981 Chapter 443	Sales and Use Tax -- Fuel or Repair Part for Commercial Vessels Broadening the applicability of an exemption under the sales and use tax for fuel or a repair part for commercial fishing vessels to include vessels otherwise used for commercial purposes. Delegate Bozman, et al
HB 1004 Chapter 444	Prince George's County -- Transfer Tax Rate PG 403--00 Creating a Task Force on the Prince George's County Transfer Tax Rate; requiring the Task Force to conduct a thorough review of the transfer tax rate in Prince George's County and its effect on citizens, businesses, and schools in the County; specifying the composition, powers, and duties of the Task Force; etc. Prince George's County Delegation
HB 1006 Chapter 445	Prince George's County -- Retirement Contributions -- Employees of Magnet Schools Program PG 413--00 Requiring the State Retirement Agency to include in its determination of eligibility for State payment of retirement contributions employees whose salaries are paid by the Prince George's County Board of Education through funding of the Magnet Schools Program and who are members of the Teachers' Pension System or the Teachers' Retirement System; providing for the retroactive application of the Act to retirement contributions made on or after July 1, 1999; etc. Prince George's County Delegation
HB 1008 Chapter 446	Prince George's County -- Alcoholic Beverages -- License Fees and Inspector Salaries PG 306--00 Increasing the annual fees for specified classes of alcoholic beverages licenses in Prince George's County; altering the salaries of part--time inspectors in Prince George's County; etc. Prince George's County Delegation
HB 1010 Chapter 447	State Highway Administration -- Controlled Access Highways -- Service Signage Program PG 410--00 Modifying the authority of the State Highway Administration (SHA) to place signs relating to the availability of specified services along State controlled access highways; requiring the SHA to consult with the Department of Business and Economic Development and the appropriate local government officials on specified matters; etc. Prince George's County Delegation
HB 1015 Chapter 448	Work, Not Welfare, and Qualifying Employees with Disabilities Tax Credits Altering the time period for which an individual must be on welfare for the individual to qualify for purposes of tax credits allowed to employers that hire qualified employment opportunity employees; providing for the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation to administer the tax credits for employment of qualified individuals with disabilities; altering the calculation of the credit; making disabled veterans qualified individuals for purposes of the credit; extending specified provisions and dates; etc. Delegate Shriver, et al
HB 1016 Chapter 449	Health Insurance -- Discrimination -- Specified Diseases or Diagnoses Prohibiting specified insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from making benefits for treatment of a specified disease or diagnosis subject to different copayment amounts, coinsurance, deductibles, or specified maximum limits than those that apply to all other diseases or diagnoses unless otherwise provided by law. Delegates Hurson and Brown
HB 1026 Chapter 450	Prince George's County -- Alcoholic Beverages -- Additional Class B Licenses PG 308--00 Authorizing the Prince George's County Board of License Commissioners to allow specified individuals and entities to hold or have an interest in more than one Class B beer, wine and liquor license for restaurants that are located in specified areas under specified circumstances. Prince George's County Delegation
HB 1047 Chapter 451	State Board of Nursing -- Probationary License Allowing the State Board of Nursing to grant a probationary license under specified circumstances to an applicant for or holder of a nurse's license. Delegate Hubbard, et al
HB 1051 Chapter 452	State Board of Nursing -- Nursing Assistants in the Rehabilitation Program Adding nursing assistants to the health professionals who may participate in the rehabilitation program of the State Board of Nursing; authorizing the Rehabilitation Committee to review and designate treatment facilities and services and to determine if a nursing assistant may safely continue to practice; requiring the Rehabilitation Committee to prepare specified reports and rehabilitation programs for participants and report to the Board; requiring the Board to keep rehabilitation records confidential; etc. Delegate Hubbard, et al
HB 1052 Chapter 453	Lead Poisoning Prevention -- Property Inspection -- Notice Requiring owners of affected property to include a copy of a current verified inspection certificate with the notice of tenant's rights that is provided to the tenant under the Lead Poisoning Prevention Program of the Department of the Environment. Delegate Marriott (Baltimore City Administration), et al
HB 1058 Chapter 454	Montgomery County -- Alcoholic Beverages Licenses MC 5--00 Authorizing in Montgomery County the issuance of Class B beer, wine and liquor licenses in specified election districts of Montgomery County; authorizing the issuance of specified multiple licenses to single licensees for use in a specified area of Germantown; altering the number of licenses a single licensee may hold in Montgomery County under specified conditions; etc. Montgomery County Delegation
HB 1075 Chapter 455	Washington County -- Property Tax Credit -- Musical and Cultural Education Authorizing the governing body of Washington County or of a municipal corporation in Washington County to grant, by law, a property tax credit against the county or municipal corporation property tax imposed on property that is owned by a specified organization; etc. Washington County Delegation
HB 1094 Chapter 456	Prince George's County -- Public School Facilities PG 416--00 Modifying provisions governing the school facilities surcharge imposed in Prince George's County to require, rather than authorize, the surcharge; setting the amount of the surcharge; eliminating authority to provide a credit against the surcharge for moderately priced dwelling units; requiring the imposition of specified adequate public facilities standards and requirements in the County; etc. Prince George's County Delegation
HB 1102 Chapter 457	State Board of Physicians -- Powers and Duties Removing a provision of law that requires the State Board of Physician Quality Assurance to receive a written and signed complaint before investigating an alleged violation of the laws relating to the licensure and regulation of physicians. Delegate Goldwater
HB 1111 Chapter 458	Kent County Board of Education -- Participation by Supportive Service Employees in Employees' Pension System Making it mandatory, and not optional, for supportive service employees of the Board of Education of Kent County to participate in the Employees' Pension System as of the effective date of participation in the Employees' Pension System by the Board of Education of Kent County; and providing for supportive service employees of the Board of Education of Kent County to receive service credit for specified prior service, except under specified circumstances. Delegate Walkup, et al
HB 1124 Chapter 459	Montgomery County -- Soil Conservation Districts -- Delegation of Approval Authority to Municipal Corporations Authorizing a soil conservation district to delegate approval authority of a grading and sediment control plan to a municipal corporation in Montgomery County that has its own sediment control review provisions, issues sediment control permits, and meets the necessary performance standards established by written agreement; etc. Montgomery County Delegation
HB 1129 Chapter 460	Automobile Insurance -- Proof of Insurance Requiring an authorized insurer to provide specified proof of insurance upon renewal of an automobile insurance policy and on request of an insured or person with an insurable interest in property; authorizing an insurer to require specified authorization before providing proof of insurance; etc. Delegate Love, et al
HB 1154 Chapter 461	Baltimore City -- Alcoholic Beverages -- Closing Hours for Licensed Premises Requiring in Baltimore City a licensed premises to cease all operations after a specified time; authorizing the Board of Liquor License Commissioners to exempt specified persons for specified purposes; entitling specified pharmacies to sell products other than alcohol after normal closing hours; providing an exception applicable to specified hotels; etc. Delegate Dypski, et al
HB 1176 Chapter 462	Creation of a State Debt -- Baltimore City -- Fraternal Order of Police Memorial Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $50,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Baltimore Fraternal Order of Police Memorial Fund for the planning, design, and construction of a memorial to the policemen of the City of Baltimore who have died in the line of duty; providing for a matching fund requirement; etc. Delegate Doory, et al
HB 1181 Chapter 463	Comptroller -- Local Government Audit Requirements Altering the authority of the Legislative Auditor to authorize a less frequent audit of once every 4 years, rather than annually or biennially to cover 2 years, for a municipal corporation or a special taxing district with annual revenues of less than $50,000 for the prior 4 fiscal years. Delegate Eckardt, et al
HB 1208 Chapter 464	Economic Development -- Enterprise Zones Requiring designated enterprise zones to be located in areas that are designated as priority funding areas or meet an exception; requiring the Department of Business and Economic Development to consider whether a business project is located in a focus area or an enterprise zone when making specified funding decisions; establishing a Task Force to Study the Maryland Enterprise Zone Program; etc. Delegates Hill and Brown
HB 1222 Chapter 465	Private Review Agents -- Market Conduct Examinations Requiring private review agents to undergo market conduct examinations; requiring private review agents to pay for the expense of market conduct examinations; and requiring that examinations of health maintenance organizations be conducted in the same manner as examinations of insurers and nonprofit health service plans. Delegate Busch
HB 1232 Chapter 466	Task Force to Study the Health Care Needs of Inmates in Transition from Correctional Institutions Establishing a task force to study the health care needs of inmates in transition from correctional institutions; providing for the membership, duties, and staffing of the task force; requiring the task force to issue a report by a specified date; and providing for the termination of the Act. Delegate Cane, et al
HB 1256 Chapter 467	Creation of a State Debt -- Anne Arundel County -- St. John's College Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $2,900,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to St. John's College for the planning, design, construction, repair, restoration, renovation, reconstruction, and capital equipping of Mellon Hall, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Delegate Busch, et al
HB 1257 Chapter 468	Workers' Compensation Insurer -- Office and Personnel Requirements Requiring an insurer that provides workers' compensation insurance to have in the State an office run by a competent individual; requiring workers' compensation insurers in the State, governmental self--insurance groups, and employers that self--insure to establish toll--free telephone numbers; etc. Delegate McClenahan
HB 1267 Chapter 469	Alcohol and Drug Treatment to Work Pilot Program Establishing the Alcohol and Drug Treatment to Work Pilot Program for selected individuals from specified jurisdictions who have completed inpatient alcohol or drug treatment programs to receive specified training or employment; requiring the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Administration to adopt regulations regarding the selection of participants and the administration of the pilot program; limiting the number of participants from specified counties; etc. Delegate Oaks, et al
HB 1268 Chapter 470	Mortality Review Committee -- Deaths of Individuals with Developmental Disabilities Establishing a Mortality Review Committee in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to evaluate the causes or factors contributing to deaths of individuals with developmental disabilities who are in facilities or programs operated or licensed by the Developmental Disabilities Administration; establishing the membership and duties of the Committee; requiring the Committee to submit an annual report for public distribution; requiring confidentiality for specified information submitted to the Committee; etc. Delegate Hubbard
HB 1298 Chapter 471	Security Systems Technicians -- Denial of Registration Requiring the Secretary of the State Police to consider specified mitigating factors before denying an applicant's registration as a security systems technician because that applicant pleaded guilty or nolo contendere or was convicted of a felony, theft offense, or crime of moral turpitude. Delegate Conway, et al
HB 1303 Chapter 472	Income Tax -- Subtraction Modification for Fire, Rescue, or Emergency Medical Services Membership Reducing, over a period of 4 years, the duration of service required in bona fide Maryland volunteer fire, rescue, or emergency medical service organizations from 72 months to 36 months in order for an individual to be eligible for a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax; and providing for the application of the Act. Delegate Conway, et al
HB 1305 Chapter 473	Ballast Water Management -- Reporting and Prohibition Requiring the Department of the Environment to adopt specified guidelines relating to vessel ballast water management; requiring specified persons to complete and return a form relating to vessel ballast water management; specifying penalties for violations of the Act; etc. Delegate Hubbard, et al
HB 1306 Chapter 474	Town of Oakland, Garrett County -- Participation by Employees in Employees' Pension System Making it mandatory, and not optional, for employees of the Town of Oakland to participate in the Employees' Pension System of the State of Maryland as of the effective date of participation in the Employees' Pension System by the Town of Oakland; and providing for employees of the Town of Oakland to receive one--third of the service credit for specified prior service, except under specified circumstances. Delegate Edwards
HB 1323 Chapter 475	Natural Resources -- Critical Areas -- Reasonable Accommodations Providing that a local government's critical area program shall include provisions for reasonable accommodations in policies and procedures when the accommodations are necessary to avoid discrimination on the basis of physical disability, including provisions that authorize a local jurisdiction to require removal of a specified structure when the accommodation is no longer necessary; etc. Delegate Weir
HB 1345 Chapter 476	Anne Arundel County -- Alcoholic Beverages -- Bottle Clubs Regulating the operation of bottle clubs in Anne Arundel County; and prohibiting an owner or operator of a bottle club from evading the alcoholic beverages laws in the County and from selling, giving, serving, dispensing, keeping, or allowing to be consumed in the bottle club alcoholic beverages and specified other beverages. Anne Arundel County Delegation
HB 1351 Chapter 477	Creation of a State Debt -- Baltimore City -- W.W. Payne Education and Community Center Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $200,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the City Temple Development Corporation, Inc. for the planning, design, construction, and capital equipping of a new building for the W.W. Payne Education and Community Center, to be located in Baltimore, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; prohibiting the use of the proceeds of the sale of the bonds or the matching fund for religious purposes; etc. Delegate Marriott, et al
HB 1384 Chapter 478	Baltimore City -- Alcoholic Beverages -- License Fees Increasing in Baltimore City specified alcoholic beverages license fees by specified amounts. Delegate C Davis
HB 1389 Chapter 479	Washington County -- Gaming Commission -- Tip Jar Proceeds Altering the effective dates of the appointment of members of the Washington County Gaming Commission; establishing a specified distribution of specified tip jar proceeds to specified entities; limiting the distribution of tip jar proceeds to $50,000 to each applicant per application; etc. Washington County Delegation
HB 1395 Chapter 480	Creation of a State Debt -- Calvert County -- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Calvert County, Inc. Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $100,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of The Boys and Girls Clubs of Calvert County, Inc. for the acquisition, planning, design, construction, reconstruction, and capital equipping of a site in Calvert County to house a Boys and Girls Club, subject to a matching fund requirement; etc. Delegates O'Donnell and Owings
HB 1404 Chapter 481	Teachers' Retirement System -- Employment of Retirees Exempting from a specified offset of a retirement allowance specified retirees of the Teachers' Retirement System who retired from a board of education or local school system and are reemployed in a part--time position with the University System of Maryland. Delegate Bohanan, et al
HB 1406 Chapter 482	Vehicle Laws -- Driver's License Restrictions -- Vision Correction Authorizing an individual with a driver's license containing a vision related restriction who has had vision correction surgery enabling the individual to qualify for an unrestricted license to apply to the Motor Vehicle Administration for a corrected license or to carry, for a specified period, a written certification from a licensed ophthalmologist that the individual meets specified vision requirements. Delegate Brinkley
HB 1414 Chapter 483	Correctional Services -- Juvenile Justice Requiring the Correctional Training Commission to develop and implement a specific program design and appropriate course curriculum and training for Department of Juvenile Justice employees; requiring the Commission to establish the minimum qualifications for probationary or permanent appointment as a Department employee; altering the membership and appointment of specified members of the Commission; etc. Delegate Conway, et al
HB 1418 Chapter 484	Creation of a State Debt -- Baltimore City -- The Morgan Center Authorizing the creation of a State Debt in the amount of $400,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Morgan Christian Center, Inc. for the repair, renovation, restoration, and capital equipping of the Morgan Center, located in Baltimore City, for use in community activities, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; prohibiting the use of the proceeds of the sale of the bonds or the matching funds for religious purposes; etc. Delegate Montague, et al
HB 327 Chapter 485	Department of Agriculture -- Nutrient Management Altering the name and purpose of the Department of Agriculture's cost--sharing poultry matching service to include all livestock manure; establishing a cost--sharing rate for livestock manure; eliminating a cap on the amount of available State cost--sharing funds; and eliminating specified requirements of immediate implementation of nutrient management plans for agricultural operations that use State cost--share funds for the preparation of nutrient management plans. Chairman ENV (Dept)
SB 355 Chapter 486	Prospective Jurors -- Motor Vehicle Administration Lists Expanding the sources from which prospective jurors are selected to include lists of individuals who have received a driver's license or identification card from the Motor Vehicle Administration; requiring juror selection plans to include lists of individuals who have received a driver's license or identification card from the Motor Vehicle Administration; requiring that the Administration make the lists available to jury commissioners or clerks at no cost; and providing for a delayed effective date. Senator Ruben, et al
SB 506 Chapter 487	Creation of a State Debt -- Montgomery County -- Alpha Phi Alpha Smithville School Museum Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $250,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of Iota Upsilon Lambda, Inc. for the planning, design, construction, reconstruction, repair, renovation, and capital equipping of buildings located in Colesville, for use as a museum, educational center, and community and meeting center, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Senator Ruben
HB 634 Chapter 488	Nursing Homes -- Sanctions and Penalties Authorizing the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to impose specified sanctions for specified deficiencies found in nursing homes; authorizing the Department to appoint an independent nursing home monitor under specified circumstances; establishing the burden of proof for the imposition of fines; establishing specified monetary penalties for specified deficiencies; authorizing the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to utilize specified monetary fines for programs to improve the quality of care; etc. Delegate Boutin, et al
HB 830 Chapter 489	Revitalization Property Tax Credits -- Rehabilitated Real Property Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county or of a municipal corporation to grant, by law, a property tax credit for real property that is rehabilitated under regulations adopted by the governing body; authorizing the Mayor and City Council or the governing body of a county or of a municipal corporation to provide for the amount and duration of the property tax credit, subject to specified limits; etc. Delegate Bozman, et al

Sincerely,

Karl S. Aro Executive Director

To the Members of the General Assembly

Ladies and Gentlemen:

On May 18, 2000, the Honorable Parris N. Glendening, Governor; the Honorable Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr., President of the Senate; and the Honorable Casper R. Taylor, Jr., Speaker of the House of Delegates, signed the following pieces of legislation which you passed:

SB 205 Chapter 490	Maryland Teacher Scholarships Increasing the maximum amount of a Maryland teacher scholarship to $5,000 for a student enrolled in a 4--year institution and to $2,000 for a student enrolled in a 2--year institution; authorizing recipients of specified Maryland scholarships, grants, or awards to be eligible for specified other State financial assistance; etc. The President (Administration), et al
SB 206 Chapter 491	Homeownership Opportunities for Teachers Declaring the intent of the General Assembly that the Department of Housing and Community Development develop a program to promote homeownership opportunities for teachers in consultation with the State Board of Education and local boards of education; etc. The President (Administration), et al
HB 1247 Chapter 492	Governor's Teacher Salary Challenge Program -- Public School Funding Enhancement Establishing the Governor's Teacher Salary Challenge Program; requiring the State Board of Education to make specified grants to county boards of education under specified circumstances; establishing a transitional education fund to be used to implement the Program; etc. The Speaker (Administration), et al
SB 810 Chapter 493	Governor's Teacher Salary Challenge Program -- Public School Funding Enhancement Establishing the Governor's Teacher Salary Challenge Program; requiring the State Board of Education to make specified grants to county boards of education under specified circumstances; establishing a transitional education fund to be used to implement the Program; etc. The President (Administration), et al
HB 11 Chapter 494	Maryland Prepaid College Trust and Maryland College Investment Plan Changing the name of the Maryland Higher Education Investment Program to the Maryland Prepaid College Trust; requiring the Governor under specified circumstances to include an appropriation for the Maryland Prepaid College Trust in the annual budget submitted to the General Assembly; establishing the Maryland College Investment Plan as a means to allow individuals to make contributions to accounts for the purpose of meeting qualified higher education expenses; etc. Delegate Shriver, et al
SB 808 Chapter 495	Procurement -- Minority Business Enterprise Participation Modifying the threshold governing the application of the State's Minority Business Enterprise Program to Maryland Department of Transportation construction contracts; continuing until July 1, 2002, specified provisions of the State Procurement Law relating to procurement from minority businesses; requiring an executive summary of a study of the Minority Business Enterprise Program; etc. Senator Conway, et al
HB 287 Chapter 496	Procurement -- Minority Business Enterprise Participation Modifying the threshold governing the application of the State's Minority Business Enterprise Program to Maryland Department of Transportation construction contracts; extending until July 1, 2002, provisions of law regarding procurement from minority businesses; requiring an executive summary of a study of the Minority Business Enterprise Program to be submitted to the Legislative Policy Committee of the General Assembly by December 1, 2000; extending to January 10, 2001, the deadline for completion of a final report; etc. Delegate Dobson, et al
SB 1 Chapter 497	Inheritance Tax -- Exemption for Lineal Beneficiaries and Siblings Exempting from the inheritance tax property that passes from a decedent to or for the use of the decedent's grandparent, parent, spouse, child or other lineal descendant, stepparent, stepchild, brother, sister, or spouse of a child or other lineal descendant or passes from the decedent to or for the use of a corporation owned only by those relatives of the decedent; and applying the Act to decedents dying on or after July 1, 2000. Senators Miller and Bromwell
SB 12 Chapter 498	Real Property -- Recordation -- Lien for Unpaid Personal Property Taxes Providing that requirements for payment of specified personal property taxes before specified property may be transferred on the assessment books or records do not apply to specified grants of land made by a deed in lieu of foreclosure; providing that specified land is free and clear of any lien or claim of lien for unpaid taxes on personal property under specified circumstances; etc. Senator Hoffman
HB 157 Chapter 499	Real Property -- Recordation -- Lien for Unpaid Personal Property Taxes Providing that requirements for specified payment of specified personal property taxes before the property may be transferred on the assessment books or records do not apply to specified grants of land made by a deed in lieu of foreclosure; providing that specified land is free and clear of any lien or claim of lien for unpaid taxes on personal property under specified circumstances; etc. Delegates Hixson and Franchot
SB 71 Chapter 500	Maryland Solicitations Act Providing the Secretary of State with specified powers to take action against public safety solicitors that have violated the Maryland Solicitations Act; requiring registration of public safety solicitors; providing penalties for persons who violate this provision; prohibiting specified acts by public safety solicitors; changing the name of the Maryland Charitable Solicitations Act to the Maryland Solicitations Act; etc. Chairman JPR (Dept)
SB 86 Chapter 501	Tax Credits -- New or Expanded Business Premises Reducing from 25 to 10 the required number of individuals that must be employed by a business in new permanent full--time positions for the business to qualify for property tax and State tax credits allowed for new or expanded businesses in a county with a population under 30,000. Senator Baker
SB 95 Chapter 502	Creation of a State Debt -- Carroll County -- General Hospital, Inc. Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $640,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of Carroll County General Hospital, Inc. for the planning, design, renovation, repair, construction, and capital equipping of the family birth place, to be located at 200 Memorial Avenue in Westminster, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; and providing generally for the issuance and sale of bonds evidencing the loan. Carroll County Senators
SB 106 Chapter 503	Education -- Grants for Transportation Services for Public School Students Making adjustments to the formula for transportation grants to county boards of education; and adjusting the time period for calculating increases in the grant amounts. Chairman B&T (Dept)
SB 107 Chapter 504	Education -- Public Education Partnership Fund Creating the Public Education Partnership Fund; specifying the status of the Fund, the source of money for the Fund, the way money in the Fund is to be held, and the purpose of the Fund; authorizing the Legislative Auditor to audit the Fund; and authorizing the State Board of Education to use the money in the Fund. Chairman B&T (Dept)
SB 149 Chapter 505	Vehicle Laws -- Automotive--Related Industries -- Regulation Requiring automotive repair facilities and vehicle storage facilities to maintain prescribed business records; requiring specified businesses to make specified records, vehicles, and major component parts available for inspection by the Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA) and by specified law enforcement officers; establishing civil penalties for specified regulatory violations; modifying the jurisdiction of the District Court; authorizing MVA investigators to issue citations for specified violations; etc. Senator Stone (Task Force to Study the Comprehensive Licensing of Automotive--Related Industries)
SB 181 Chapter 506	Waiver of Tuition and Fees -- Foster Care Recipients Providing a waiver from tuition and mandatory fees for specified students who enter an institution of higher education and who reside or have resided in foster care; providing the conditions for receiving the waiver; exempting a recipient from repaying specified amounts; providing for the duration of the waiver; requiring the Department of Human Resources to provide specified information to the Maryland Higher Education Commission each year; etc. Senator Frosh, et al
SB 216 Chapter 507	Kent County -- Custody and Transportation of Inmates Authorizing the County Commissioners of Kent County to provide, by resolution or law, for the custody, safekeeping, and transportation of prisoners by corrections officers or law enforcement officers other than the Sheriff. Senator Baker
SB 225 Chapter 508	Creation of a State Debt -- Maryland Consolidated Capital Bond Loan of 2000, the Maryland Consolidated Capital Bond Loans of 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999, and the general construction loan of 1982 Authorizing the creation of a State Debt in the amount of $428,623,000 for specified purposes; altering provisions of prior capital budgets; etc. The President (Administration)
SB 237 Chapter 509	State Board of Docking Masters Establishing the State Board of Docking Masters in the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation; providing for the membership, powers, and duties of the Board; providing for the establishment of an association of State licensed docking masters; establishing a Joint Committee on the Port of Baltimore; etc. Senator Blount, et al
SB 240 Chapter 510	Income Tax -- Earned Income Credit Increasing from 12.5\ to 15\ the percentage of the federal earned income credit used for determining the amount that an individual with one or more dependents may claim as a refundable credit; authorizing the counties and Baltimore City to make the county earned income credit refundable under specified circumstances; etc. Senator Hoffman, et al
SB 256 Chapter 511	Creation of a State Debt -- St. Mary's County -- Summerseat Sanctuary Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $200,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of Summerseat Sanctuary, Inc. for the acquisition of Summerseat Sanctuary, to be used as an animal sanctuary and environmental interactive education center for residents throughout Maryland with a special emphasis on school children and persons who are developmentally disabled, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Senator Dyson
SB 287 Chapter 512	State Board of Spinal Cord Injury Research Establishing a State Board of Spinal Cord Injury Research in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; specifying the duties of the Board, including the administration of a specified grant program and fund; providing specified powers and duties of the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene; establishing the Spinal Cord Injury Research Trust Fund; providing for the distribution of specified insurance premium tax revenue to the Fund; etc. Senator Hollinger, et al
HB 300 Chapter 513	State Board of Spinal Cord Injury Research Establishing a State Board of Spinal Cord Injury Research in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; specifying the duties of the Board, including the administration of a specified grant program and fund; specifying powers and duties of the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene; providing that specified members of the Board may not vote on specified matters; establishing a Spinal Cord Research Trust Fund; etc. Delegate Hixson, et al
SB 307 Chapter 514	Motor Vehicle Liability Insurance -- Voluntary Cancellation of Policy -- Regulations Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration, in consultation with the Maryland Insurance Administration and representatives of the automobile insurance industry, to adopt regulations that establish procedures to be used by an insurer to provide timely notification to an insured of specified penalties that may be imposed if the insured fails to renew or replace a motor vehicle liability insurance policy without surrendering the evidences of registration. Senator Baker
SB 309 Chapter 515	Maryland Research and Development Tax Credit Allowing a State income tax credit in an amount equal to 3\ of qualified Maryland research and development expenses, up to a specified base amount, incurred during a taxable year; allowing a credit in an amount equal to 10\ of the expenses paid or incurred for Maryland research and development in excess of the base amount; providing for applications to the Department of Business and Economic Development for approval and certification of credit amounts, up to $3,000,000 total statewide for each credit; etc. Senator Hogan, et al
HB 14 Chapter 516	Maryland Research and Development Tax Credit Allowing a State income tax credit in the amount of 3\ of qualified Maryland research and development expenses, not exceeding the Maryland base amount for the individual or corporation, incurred or paid during a taxable year and 10\ of the amount by which the Maryland qualified research and development expenses incurred or paid during a taxable year exceed the base amount; providing for applications to the Department of Business and Economic Development for approval and certification of credit amounts; etc. Delegate Taylor, et al
SB 316 Chapter 517	Income Tax -- Subtraction Modification for Adoption Expenses Increasing the maximum amounts allowed as a subtraction modification under the income tax for specified expenses incurred by adoptive parents in the adoption of a child who is a Maryland resident at the time of adoption, from $3,000 to $6,000 for a child determined to be a child with a special need and from $2,000 to $5,000 for a child without a special need; and applying the Act to tax years after 1999. Senator Green
SB 326 Chapter 518	Creation of a State Debt -- Prince George's County -- Prince George's Hospital Center, Inc. Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $1,000,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of Prince George's Hospital, Inc. for the planning, design, renovation, repair, construction, and capital equipping of the obstetrical triage, labor and delivery, postpartum, nursery, and neonatal intensive care areas, to be located in Cheverly, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Senator Dorman, et al
SB 328 Chapter 519	Health Care Credentialing Study Requiring a study on credentialing of health care professionals by a specified institution; requiring a report to the Governor and the General Assembly within 60 days of completion of the study, including findings and recommendations; etc. Senator Lawlah, et al
SB 335 Chapter 520	Income Tax -- Credit for Child and Dependent Care Expenses Altering the State income tax credit for child and dependent care expenses to equal the lesser of 32.5\ of the federal child and dependent care credit or the State income tax for the taxable year; increasing from $40,000 to $50,000 the maximum income for eligibility for the credit and from $20,000 to $25,000 in the case of a married individual filing a separate return; altering income levels at which the credit is phased out; applying the Act to tax years after 2000; etc. Senator Van Hollen, et al
SB 354 Chapter 521	Business Regulation -- Registration of Service Station Dealers and Sale of Gasoline Products Extending to October 1, 2004, a conditional prohibition on the Comptroller of the State from issuing a certificate of registration to a retail service station dealer who markets motor fuel through a retail service station that has been altered, enlarged, or structurally modified; and altering the effective date of a provision that would require a producer, refiner, or wholesaler of motor fuel to extend voluntary allowances uniformly to all retail service station dealers supplied by the producer, refiner, or wholesaler. Senator Ruben, et al
SB 380 Chapter 522	Maryland Home Builder Registration Act Establishing the Home Builder Registration Unit in the Consumer Protection Division of the Office of the Attorney General; requiring the Unit, together with the home building industry, to create a consumer information pamphlet; establishing a Home Builder Registration Fund; providing that specified lenders are exempt from the requirements relating to registration provided they hire a registered builder; etc. Senator Kelley, et al
SB 381 Chapter 523	Election Law -- Identification Providing that a political action committee that makes a transfer to the treasurer or political committee of a candidate or a slate of candidates shall display its official name, as filed with the State Board of Elections, and a reference that the entity is a political action committee or "PAC", in a prominent place on the face of the check by which the PAC makes a transfer; modifying a requirement regarding the identification of a candidate by residency; etc. Senator Frosh, et al
SB 401 Chapter 524	Income Tax -- Subtraction for Retirement Income Defining "employee retirement system" for purposes of the subtraction modification allowed under the income tax for specified retirement income of an individual who is at least 65 years old, or who is totally disabled, or whose spouse is totally disabled; and applying the Act to tax years after 1999. Senator Teitelbaum, et al
SB 411 Chapter 525	Land Patents -- Property Line Surveyors Expanding the definition of "surveyor" to include a property line surveyor with respect to the application, review, and issuance of land patents; and authorizing the Commissioner of Land Patents to accept, under specified circumstances, a survey previously performed by a qualified property line surveyor in lieu of a survey performed under a warrant. Senators Sfikas and Pinsky
SB 414 Chapter 526	Property Taxation -- Property Used to Generate Steam or Hot or Chilled Water Providing a credit against the corporate income tax for 60\ of property taxes paid by a public utility on operating real property used to generate steam for sale; providing an addition modification under the corporate income tax in the amount of the credit; providing a partial exemption from property tax for machinery and equipment used to generate electricity or steam for sale or hot or chilled water for sale that is used to heat or cool a building; etc. Senator Hoffman
SB 438 Chapter 527	Creation of a State Debt -- Cecil County -- Town of Elkton Authorizing the creation of a State Debt in the amount of $650,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Mayor and Commissioners of the Town of Elkton for the placement of underground utilities, to be located beneath Main Street in Elkton; etc. Senator Baker
SB 451 Chapter 528	Real Property -- Abatement of Nuisance Actions -- Municipal Corporation Authorizing a municipal corporation within whose boundaries a specified nuisance is located to bring an action for abatement of nuisance. Senator Jacobs, et al
SB 463 Chapter 529	State Personnel -- Employees Transferred to the Child Support Enforcement Administration of the Department of Human Resources Requiring that specified employees of a local support enforcement office who are transferred to the Child Support Enforcement Administration of the Department of Human Resources must be credited with the years of service with the local jurisdiction for purposes of seniority, including the determination of specified layoff rights; requiring that the salary grade of the transferred employees must be determined in a specified manner; and applying the Act. Senator Stone
HB 525 Chapter 530	State Personnel -- Employees Transferred to the Child Support Enforcement Administration of the Department of Human Resources Requiring that specified employees of a local support enforcement office who are transferred to the Child Support Enforcement Administration of the Department of Human Resources must be credited with the years of service with the local jurisdiction for purposes of seniority, including the determination of specified layoff rights; requiring that the salary grade of the transferred employees must be determined in a specified manner; and applying the Act. Delegate A Jones, et al
SB 464 Chapter 531	Vehicle Laws -- Noise Limitations -- Penalty Changing the penalty for a violation of the noise limitations on the use of sound amplification systems from a civil penalty to a criminal fine of up to $500. Senator Colburn
SB 465 Chapter 532	Caroline County -- Alcoholic Beverages -- Open Container Law Adding Caroline County to the list of counties in which a person may not possess in an open container any alcoholic beverage while in a shopping center or other specified areas. Senator Colburn
SB 470 Chapter 533	Creation of a State Debt -- Dorchester County -- Meredith House Creating a State Debt not to exceed $100,000, with a matching fund requirement, as a grant to the Board of Trustees of the Dorchester County Historical Society, Inc. for the design, construction, repair, renovation, reconstruction, and capital equipping of the Meredith House, the primary museum building on the LaGrange Plantation, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Senator Colburn
SB 501 Chapter 534	Creation of a State Debt -- Prince George's County -- Potomac Curling Club of the National Capital Area, Inc. Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $250,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Potomac Curling Club of the National Capital Area, Inc. for the construction, reconstruction, renovation, repair, and capital equipping of a building to be used as a curling facility, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Senator Dorman
SB 511 Chapter 535	Vehicle Law -- Excise Tax Exemption for Vehicles Used in Coal Mining Operations -- Extension Eliminating the December 31, 2000, termination date applicable to a provision of law that grants an exemption from the excise tax imposed under the Maryland Vehicle Law for qualifying vehicles used in coal mining operations. Senator Hafer
SB 519 Chapter 536	Education -- Maryland Dent--Care Program Establishing the Maryland Dent--Care Program to provide education loan assistance grants to dentists who agree that 30\ of their patients treated for a 3--year period will be Maryland Medical Assistance Program recipients; requiring the State Scholarship Administration to administer the Maryland Dent--Care Program with the assistance of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Office of Oral Health; establishing requirements for receiving a grant under the Program; etc. Senator Lawlah, et al
HB 543 Chapter 537	Education -- Maryland Dent--Care Program Establishing the Maryland Dent--Care Program to provide education loan assistance grants to dentists who agree that 30\ of their patients treated for a 3--year period will be Maryland Medical Assistance Program recipients; requiring the State Scholarship Administration to administer the Maryland Dent--Care Program with the assistance of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Office of Oral Health; establishing requirements for receiving a grant under the Program; etc. Delegate Hammen, et al
SB 550 Chapter 538	Coal Mining Operations -- Bureau of Mines -- Recognition of Certification of Other States Authorizing the Director of the Bureau of Mines, Department of the Environment, to enter into agreements with regulatory agencies of other states to provide for the reciprocal recognition of specified certifications pertaining to coal mining operations; providing procedures to an individual with an out--of--state certificate to apply to the Bureau for reciprocal certification; requiring an individual with reciprocal certification to notify the Bureau if the other state takes disciplinary action against the original certificate; etc. Senator Hafer
SB 552 Chapter 539	For--Hire Driving Services Providing for an assessment on specified for--hire vehicle permits for specified purposes; authorizing the Public Service Commission to require an applicant to obtain a State criminal history records check through the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services; requiring providers of taxicab services in Baltimore City licensed after July 1, 2002, to obtain specified training; establishing the For--Hire Driving Services Enforcement Fund using an assessment made on the vehicle permits; etc. Senator Roesser
SB 595 Chapter 540	Montgomery County -- Joseph White House Loan of 1998 Amending Chapter 304 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1998, Montgomery County -- Joseph White House Loan of 1998, to change the grantee from the Board of Directors of the Parks Foundation, Inc. to the Maryland--National Capital Park and Planning Commission and extend the time by which the grantee shall provide and expend a matching fund to June 1, 2001; etc. Senator Ruben
SB 598 Chapter 541	Insurance Rating Law -- Exempt Commercial Policyholders Exempting from filing requirements under prior approval insurance rating law insurers that issue policies to exempt commercial policyholders; requiring an exempt commercial policyholder to certify to the insurer issuing coverage and the Insurance Commissioner that the policyholder meets specified criteria for exemption; specifying the contents of the certification; authorizing the Insurance Commissioner to require by regulation information about policies written for exempt commercial policyholders; etc. Senator Dorman
SB 603 Chapter 542	Higher Education -- Regional Higher Education Centers Revising the Maryland Charter for Higher Education to include regional higher education centers; requiring the operating funds for each regional higher education center administered by the University System of Maryland to be included in the appropriation of the System office as a separate line item in the budget; requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to review, negotiate, and approve the mission statements developed by regional higher education centers; etc. Senator Middleton, et al
SB 604 Chapter 543	Creation of a State Debt -- Charles County -- Port Tobacco Players Theater Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $400,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of Port Tobacco Players, Inc. for the acquisition, planning, design, construction, renovation, and capital equipping of the Port Tobacco Players Theater, to be located in La Plata, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Senator Middleton
SB 621 Chapter 544	Maryland Pharmacy Assistance Program -- Coverage Programs Requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to develop a program to provide information to applicants to the Maryland Pharmacy Assistance Program to seek specified prescription coverage; requiring the Secretary, together with the Maryland Health Care Commission, specified persons, and other appropriate State agencies, to study and report on the possibility of a specified pharmacy assistance plan; etc. Senator Sfikas
SB 627 Chapter 545	Caroline County -- Alcoholic Beverages -- Possession or Consumption Adding Caroline County to those counties that may regulate the possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages on public property or highways. Senator Colburn
SB 632 Chapter 546	Ruth Enlow Library of Garrett County Codifying under the Education Article the name of the public library system in Garrett County. Senator Hafer
SB 650 Chapter 547	Libraries -- Funding -- Regional Resource Centers Altering to specified amounts in specified fiscal years the minimum allocations per each resident that each participating regional resource center shall receive for operating and capital expenses. Senator Middleton, et al
SB 657 Chapter 548	Creation of a State Debt -- Frederick County -- Weinberg Center for the Arts Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $200,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of Frederick for the acquisition, renovation, repair, reconstruction, and capital equipping of a facility located in Frederick, for the Weinberg Center for the Arts, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; providing that the grantee must grant and convey a preservation covenant to the Maryland Historical Trust; etc. Senators Ferguson and Mooney
SB 659 Chapter 549	Creation of a State Debt -- Frederick County -- Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $75,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of The Frederick Arts Center Foundation, Inc. for the repair, renovation, and reconstruction of the Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center, located on South Carroll Street in Frederick, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Senators Mooney and Ferguson
SB 671 Chapter 550	Child Welfare -- Integration of Child Welfare and Substance Abuse Treatment Services Requiring the Secretary of Human Resources and the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to develop a statewide protocol for integrating child welfare and substance abuse treatment services; specifying the elements to be included in the protocol; requiring a court to order substance abuse assessment and testing of an at--risk parent upon a request by a local department of social services; requiring the Governor to include in the State budget, for fiscal year 2004, $500,000 for an independent results--based evaluation; etc. Senator Van Hollen, et al
HB 7 Chapter 551	Child Welfare -- Integration of Child Welfare and Substance Abuse Treatment Services Requiring the Secretary of Human Resources and the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to develop a statewide protocol for integrating child welfare and substance abuse treatment services; specifying the elements to be included in the protocol; requiring a court to order substance abuse assessment and testing of an at--risk parent upon a request by a local department of social services; requiring the Governor, under specified circumstances, to include funds in the State budget; etc. Delegate Taylor, et al
SB 679 Chapter 552	Maryland Agricultural Education and Rural Development Assistance Fund Act of 2000 Establishing the Maryland Agricultural Education and Rural Development Assistance Fund to be administered by the Board of Public Works as a continuing, nonlapsing fund; stating legislative findings and the purpose of the Act; providing for the purpose of the Fund; providing that expenditures from the Fund may only be made under specified circumstances; establishing the Maryland Agricultural Education and Rural Development Assistance Board; etc. Senator Middleton, et al
SB 684 Chapter 553	Health -- General -- Advance Directives Requiring documentation of the substance of oral advance directives; requiring documentation when accepting oral revocations of advance directives; etc. Senator Harris
SB 693 Chapter 554	Maryland Social Workers Act -- Revision Altering the membership of and method of appointing the State Board of Social Work Examiners; altering the term of the chairman and secretary of the Board; requiring the Board to appoint an executive director; requiring individuals to hold specified licenses before practicing social work or clinical social work in the State; altering specified exemptions from licensing; altering qualification, education, training, and experience requirements that applicants must meet to obtain social work licenses; etc. Senator Hollinger
SB 699 Chapter 555	Business Occupations -- Plumbers -- Natural Gas Fitters License Creating a master natural gas fitters license, a journeyman natural gas fitters license, and an apprentice natural gas fitters license; requiring that an individual shall be licensed by the State Board of Plumbing as a plumber or a natural gas fitter before providing natural gas services in the State; etc. Senators Collins and Haines
SB 715 Chapter 556	Baltimore City -- Local Government Tort Claims Act -- Lexington Market, Inc. Providing that Lexington Market, Inc., in Baltimore City, meets the definition of local government for the purposes of the Local Government Tort Claims Act; etc. Senator McFadden (Baltimore City Administration)
SB 729 Chapter 557	Potomac River Protection Act Requiring the Secretary of the Environment to submit specified reports to the General Assembly by July 1, 2002; prohibiting the Secretary from issuing permits for the construction of a water intake pipe into the Potomac River before a specified time except when specified conditions are met; providing specified exceptions to the prohibition; providing that the Act does not preempt or prohibit any ordinance, resolution, law, or rule more stringent than the Act; etc. Senator Van Hollen, et al
SB 738 Chapter 558	Local Government -- Debt Authorization Authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of Carroll County, from time to time, to borrow not more than $33,740,000 in order to finance the acquisition, construction, improvement, or development of specified public facilities in Carroll County; authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of Frederick County, from time to time, to borrow not more than $3,000,000 in order to finance the cost of construction of specified buildings and facilities for the use and benefit of the Tourism Council of Frederick County, Inc.; etc. Senators Haines and Ferguson (Carroll County Senators)
SB 773 Chapter 559	Education -- New Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners -- Bonding Authority Authorizing the New Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners to issue bonds for the acquisition, development, or improvement of public school facilities in the Baltimore City Public School System; establishing the rights and duties associated with the bonding authority; requiring passage of a resolution by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore approving the Board's issuance of the bond before the bond may be issued; etc. Senator McFadden
SB 788 Chapter 560	Garrett County -- Deep Creek Lake Establishing the Deep Creek Lake Policy and Review Board; providing for the establishment of a Deep Creek Lake recreation and land use plan; authorizing the Secretary of Natural Resources to adopt regulations relating to Deep Creek Lake; providing that specified regulations and fees are subject to the review and consent of the Board; etc. Senator Hafer
HB 733 Chapter 561	Garrett County -- Deep Creek Lake Establishing the Deep Creek Lake Policy and Review Board; providing for the establishment of a Deep Creek Lake recreation and land use plan; authorizing the Secretary of Natural Resources to adopt regulations relating to Deep Creek Lake; providing that specified regulations and fees are subject to the review and consent of the Board; requiring the Department to submit a specified report on or before December 1, 2002; etc. Delegate Edwards
SB 804 Chapter 562	Creation of a State Debt -- Prince George's County -- Melwood -- Horticultural Training Center Facilities Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $250,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Melwood Horticultural Training Center, Inc. for the planning, design, construction, and capital equipping of a new grounds maintenance, storage, and repair facility, subject to a matching fund requirement; etc. Senators Currie and Lawlah
SB 839 Chapter 563	Creation of a State Debt -- Prince George's County -- St. Paul Community Centre Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $400,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Saint Paul Community Development Corporation for the construction and capital equipping of a building for the St. Paul Community Centre in Capitol Heights, to be used as an expansion of an existing day care center and for office space, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Senator Currie
SB 842 Chapter 564	Creation of a State Debt -- Prince George's County -- Springhill Lake Recreation Center Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $25,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Mayor and City Council of the City of Greenbelt for the planning and design of a future expansion of the Springhill Lake Recreation Center, located in Greenbelt, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Senator Green
SB 855 Chapter 565	Senior Assistance -- Short--Term Prescription Drug Subsidy Plan Establishing a prescription drug plan for specified Medicare Plus Choice--eligible individuals residing in medically underserved counties or portions of counties; requiring a carrier to provide the plan as a condition of receiving a specified hospital rate differential; creating a Short--Term Prescription Drug Subsidy Plan Fund; requiring that the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene adopt specified regulations and issue a report jointly with the Maryland Insurance Administration and the Health Services Cost Review Commission; etc. Senator Dyson, et al
SB 869 Chapter 566	Judith P. Hoyer Blue Ribbon Commission on the Financing of Early Child Care and Education Creating the Judith P. Hoyer Blue Ribbon Commission on the Financing of Early Child Care and Education; providing for the purpose, duties, and membership of the Commission; providing for the terms and compensation of members; providing for the appointment of members; requiring the Commission to meet at specified times and issue reports on or before specified dates; providing for the staffing of the Commission; etc. Senator Kasemeyer
SB 881 Chapter 567	Injured Workers' Insurance Fund -- Regulation Requiring the Injured Workers' Insurance Fund to be a member of the Property and Casualty Insurance Guaranty Corporation; increasing the number of members on the Board for the Fund; increasing the number of Board members that must concur for the Board to act; prohibiting a member from serving more than two terms under specified circumstances; repealing specified requirements regarding the Fund; etc. Senator Bromwell
SB 892 Chapter 568	Creation of a State Debt -- Prince George's County -- Spirit of Faith Christian Center Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $400,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of Hosanna, Inc. for the acquisition of property for, and for the planning, design, construction, and capital equipping of, a new facility for the Spirit of Faith Christian Center, to be located in Prince George's County, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; prohibiting use of the proceeds of the sale of the bonds or the matching fund for religious purposes; etc. Senator Lawlah
SB 903 Chapter 569	Contracts Between Health Maintenance Organizations and Subscribers or Groups of Subscribers -- Subrogation Provisions Authorizing contracts between a health maintenance organization (HMO) and a subscriber or a group of subscribers to contain provisions allowing the HMO to be subrogated to a cause of action that a subscriber has against another person under specified circumstances; requiring an HMO that includes a subrogation provision in its contract to use in its rating methodology an adjustment reflecting the subrogation and identify in its rate filing all amounts recovered through subrogation; etc. Senators Miller and Bromwell
HB 53 Chapter 570	Harford County -- Ripken Museum Loan of 1998 Amending Chapter 158 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1998, Harford County -- Ripken Stadium Loan of 1998, to change the grantee to the Board of Directors of Ripken Museum, Inc., to change the project name to Harford County -- Ripken Museum, and to change the purpose of the project to the acquisition of a building in Aberdeen to be used as a museum, for administrative offices, and for the storage of memorabilia; etc. Delegate James, et al
HB 96 Chapter 571	State Commission of Real Estate Appraisers -- Real Estate Appraiser Trainees -- Creation of License Creating a real estate appraiser trainee license under the State Commission of Real Estate Appraisers; requiring an applicant to meet the Commission's requirements to qualify and obtain a real estate appraiser trainee license; authorizing a real estate appraiser trainee to provide appraisal services under a supervising appraiser's supervision; etc. Chairman ECM (Dept)
HB 101 Chapter 572	Domestic Violence Unit Pilot Program Fund Establishing a Domestic Violence Unit Pilot Program Fund; specifying that the Fund shall provide grant money to the sheriff's office or police department in one or more counties for the creation of a separate domestic violence unit dedicated to the service and data entry of ex parte orders and protective orders; etc. Delegate Boschert
HB 136 Chapter 573	Pensions and Retirement -- Accidental Disability Applications Altering a provision of law that prohibits the Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System from accepting an application for accidental disability retirement more than 5 years after the date of a claimed accident; and providing for the Act to apply to applications filed on or after July 1, 1999. Delegates Owings and O'Donnell
HB 141 Chapter 574	Creation of a State Debt -- Kent County -- Schooner Sultana Project Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $100,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of Chester River Craft and Art, Inc. for the planning, design, construction, and capital equipping of a reproduction of the 1767 schooner "Sultana" for use as a "hands on" classroom for the teaching of colonial history, environmental science, and vocational skills, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; and providing generally for the issuance and sale of bonds evidencing the loan. Delegate Walkup, et al
HB 152 Chapter 575	Higher Education -- Repayment Obligations Requiring payment of interest at a specified rate on repayment obligations for specified programs administered by the Maryland Higher Education Commission; requiring repayment obligations to commence at a specified time; making the Act apply only to specified individuals; etc. Chairman W&M (Dept)
HB 170 Chapter 576	Sales and Use Tax -- Tax--Free Week Designating the week of August 10, 2001, through August 16, 2001, as a tax--free week during which various sales and use tax exemptions will apply; defining the term accessory items; providing for exemptions from the sales and use tax for various clothing and accessory items during the back--to--school tax--free shopping week; etc. Delegate Cryor, et al
SB 103 Chapter 577	Sales and Use Tax -- Tax--Free Week Designating the week of August 10, 2001, through August 16, 2001, as a tax--free week during which the sales and use tax exemptions will apply; defining accessory items; providing for exemptions from the sales and use tax for clothing or footwear for which the taxable price is less than $100, excluding accessory items, during the back--to--school tax--free shopping week; etc. Senator Kasemeyer, et al
HB 192 Chapter 578	Higher Education -- Community Colleges -- Tuition and Fees for Nonresident Students Altering the formula that determines the out--of--state fee and the out--of--county or out--of--region fee charged to nonresident students who attend specified community colleges; providing for a specified waiver of specified fees; etc. Chairman W&M (Dept)
HB 195 Chapter 579	Creation of a State Debt -- Worcester County -- Pocomoke City Fair Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $200,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Mayor and City Council of Pocomoke City for the construction of a grandstand, rest rooms, and exhibition area for the Pocomoke City Fair, an annual community event organized and conducted by Pocomoke City volunteers, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; and providing generally for the issuance and sale of bonds evidencing the loan. Delegate Bozman, et al
HB 227 Chapter 580	Institutions of Higher Education -- Students -- Vaccination for Meningococcal Disease Requiring students enrolled in institutions of higher education living in on--campus student housing to receive a vaccination for meningococcal disease or sign a specified waiver; requiring the parent or guardian of the student to sign the waiver if the student is a minor; requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene, in consultation with the Maryland Higher Education Commission, to adopt regulations to implement these requirements; etc. Delegate Rosso, et al
HB 231 Chapter 581	Higher Education -- Student Financial Assistance and Scholarships Allowing graduates of a high school outside of Maryland to be eligible for a Guaranteed Access Grant under the Educational Excellence Awards Program; allowing recipients of specified State scholarships, grants, or awards to also hold specified other State scholarships, grants, or awards; requiring Maryland residency as a condition of eligibility for the Edward T. Conroy Memorial Scholarship and tuition assistance for career or volunteer firefighter, ambulance, or rescue squad members; etc. Chairman W&M (Dept)
HB 291 Chapter 582	Creation of a State Debt -- Prince George's County -- Bethel Recreation Center Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $250,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Trustees of Union Bethel A.M.E. Church for the planning, design, construction, and capital equipping of the Bethel Recreation Center for use as a gymnasium, cafe and bookstore, and community meeting area, to be located in Brandywine, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Delegates Proctor and Vallario
HB 301 Chapter 583	Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation -- Development Rights Requiring a local governing body to submit a statement to the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation of the total current development rights on agricultural land subject to an easement upon local approval of an application to sell an easement to the Foundation; and requiring the statement to include the total number of development rights that have been subdivided or transferred. Delegates Glassman and James
HB 311 Chapter 584	Higher Education -- Community Colleges -- State Funding Providing that unrestricted grants shall be distributed to specified small community colleges beginning in fiscal year 2003; providing that the grant amounts shall increase in subsequent fiscal years depending on the increase in the amount of specified funding to the 4--year public institutions of higher education in the State; requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to periodically review the unrestricted grants authorized by the Act and make a specified determination; etc. Delegate Heller, et al
HB 313 Chapter 585	Children's Environmental Health and Protection Advisory Council Establishing a Children's Environmental Health and Protection Advisory Council; establishing the membership of the Council; specifying the terms of the members of the Council; providing for staffing of the Council; specifying the purpose of the Act; specifying the duties of the Council; requiring specified units of State government to submit specified information to the Council before submitting a proposed regulation for publication in the Maryland Register; etc. Delegate Hubbard, et al
HB 324 Chapter 586	Crimes -- Harboring a Fugitive Modifying the definition of "fugitive", as it pertains to a crime relating to harboring a fugitive, to apply to individuals for whose arrest a felony warrant has been issued, whether or not the warrant is issued under State law. Delegate Petzold, et al
HB 329 Chapter 587	Education -- High School Diplomas -- World War II Veterans Allowing an individual who was honorably discharged from military service to apply to a specified county board of education to obtain a high school diploma if the individual withdrew from a full--time public or private school accredited by the State Board to enlist in the United States armed forces during World War II; and requiring that each county board of education adopt rules and regulations that establish procedures for awarding diplomas. Delegate Conroy, et al
HB 340 Chapter 588	Creation of a State Debt -- Montgomery County -- Olney Boys and Girls Club Community Park Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $300,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Olney Boys and Girls Club for the planning, design, construction, repair, renovation, reconstruction, and capital equipping of the Olney Boys and Girls Club Community Park, a recreational facility for the over 4,500 children who are members of the Olney Boys and Girls Club, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Delegate Heller, et al
HB 353 Chapter 589	Tobacco Authority -- Sunset Extension and Program Evaluation Continuing the Tobacco Authority in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act (Sunset Law) by extending to July 1, 2006, the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority of the Tobacco Authority; requiring that an evaluation of the Tobacco Authority and the statutes and regulations of the Tobacco Authority be performed on or before July 1, 2005; and requiring the Tobacco Authority to issue an annual report on the status of tobacco growing in the State to the General Assembly. Chairman ENV
SB 585 Chapter 590	State Government -- Maryland Program Evaluation Act -- Corrective Bill Altering the dates by which evaluations must be made of governmental activities and units under the Maryland Program Evaluation Act; making technical changes to the codification of the timetables for the evaluations; and altering the date by which preliminary evaluation reports shall be prepared. The President (Department of Legislative Services)
HB 358 Chapter 591	Human Remains -- Removal from Burial Sites -- Authorization and Procedures Allowing the Office of the State's Attorney to authorize the removal of human remains by persons in interest after requirements are met; requiring notice to be published one time in a paper of general circulation in the area where the remains are located; requiring a person seeking to remove human remains to prove by archaeological or other comparable means the location and boundaries of the burial site; etc. Delegates Petzold and Bozman
HB 359 Chapter 592	Crimes -- Impersonating a Federal Police Officer Expanding a prohibition against impersonating a police officer to include impersonating a federal police officer; setting forth a definition; etc. Delegate Dewberry
HB 369 Chapter 593	Alcohol and Drug Abuse Administration -- Substance Abuse Program -- Repeal Repealing the requirement for the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Administration to find a location for a specified substance abuse program. Delegates McHale and Cole
HB 392 Chapter 594	Creation of a State Debt -- Caroline County -- Denton Armory Building Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $150,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Denton Development Corporation for the repair, renovation, construction, reconstruction, and capital equipping of the Denton Armory Building, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; requiring the grantee to grant and convey a specified easement to the Maryland Historical Trust; and providing generally for the issuance and sale of bonds evidencing the loan. Delegate Eckardt (Caroline County Delegation)
HB 394 Chapter 595	Sales and Use Tax -- Bulk Vending Machines Exempting from the sales and use tax a sale of tangible personal property through a bulk vending machine for a taxable price of 25 cents or less; and defining bulk vending machine for purposes of the exemption. Delegate Hixson, et al
HB 401 Chapter 596	Creation of a State Debt -- Montgomery County -- Suburban Hospital Healthcare System, Inc. Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $1,000,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of Suburban Hospital Healthcare System, Inc. for the planning, design, construction, and capital equipping of a comprehensive cancer center, to be located at Rockledge Drive in Bethesda, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; and providing generally for the issuance and sale of bonds evidencing the loan. Delegate Kopp, et al
HB 407 Chapter 597	Tidal Fish License -- Transfer and Authorization Provisions Allowing the authorized representative of a deceased holder of a tidal fish license to request transfer of the license under specified circumstances; including the number of specified tidal fish authorizations relinquished to the Department of Natural Resources under specified procedures among the factors considered by the Department when modifying the target number of authorizations; etc. Chairman ENV (Dept)
HB 414 Chapter 598	Alcoholic Beverages -- Permits -- Limited Winery License and Restrictions Upon Retail Dealers Creating a winery special event permit, which may be issued by the Comptroller; setting the fees and qualifications for the permit; limiting the number of permits that may be issued to a specified winery licensee in any calendar year for use in a political subdivision; setting the conditions under which the permit may be issued; and setting the conditions under which manufacturers may bring specified products to a retail licensed premises. Chairman ECM (Dept)
HB 418 Chapter 599	Creation of a State Debt -- Montgomery County -- Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $650,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Hebrew Home of Greater Washington for the construction, repair, renovation, reconstruction, and capital equipping of the Hebrew Home of Greater Washington, a 558--bed geriatric care facility located in Montgomery County with services available to the entire community, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Delegate Kopp, et al
HB 427 Chapter 600	Frederick County -- Alcoholic Beverages -- Cultural Arts Center License Establishing in Frederick County a special beer and wine license for the Cultural Arts Center of Frederick County; specifying that the annual license fee shall be $100; authorizing the licensee to store for sale and sell beer and wine to the public; and specifying the times during which the beer and wine shall be consumed. Frederick County Delegation
HB 436 Chapter 601	Carroll County -- Recodification of the Code of Public Local Laws Revising, restating, and recodifying specified public local laws of Carroll County, including laws relating to the county's boundaries, the circuit court, the county commissioners, crimes and punishments, election districts, licenses, motor vehicles, the Orphans' Court, open space maintenance, revenue and taxes, roads, the sheriff's office, solid waste projects, the Springfield State Hospital, and water, sewerage, and drainage systems; etc. Carroll County Delegation
HB 446 Chapter 602	Frederick County -- Motor Carrier Permits -- Exception for Transportation System Exempting the Public Transportation System for Frederick County from the requirement of obtaining specified motor carrier permits. Frederick County Delegation
HB 456 Chapter 603	Estates and Trusts -- Personal Representatives, Trustees, and Fiduciaries -- Donation of Conservation Easement Authorizing a personal representative to donate a conservation easement on real property under specified circumstances; authorizing specified trustees or fiduciaries to donate a conservation easement or consent to a donation of a conservation easement by a personal representative of an estate under specified circumstances; etc. Delegates Petzold and Vallario
HB 457 Chapter 604	Environment -- Maryland Oil Disaster Containment, Clean--Up and Contgncy Fund and Oil Contaminated Site Environmental Cleanup Fund Altering the per barrel fee for oil transferred in the State and credited to the Maryland Oil Disaster Containment, Clean--Up and Contingency Fund; designating a specified per barrel fee to be credited to the Oil Contaminated Site Environmental Cleanup Fund and a specified date on which the fee expires; designating specified dates that site rehabilitation costs from contamination caused by releases from specified oil tanks may be eligible for reimbursement from specified funds; etc. Chairman ENV (Dept)
HB 470 Chapter 605	Creation of a State Debt -- Prince George's County -- Riversdale Mansion Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $300,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Maryland--National Capital Park and Planning Commission for the construction, reconstruction, repair, renovation, and capital equipping of Riversdale Mansion and surrounding property, subject to a matching fund requirement; etc. Delegate Healey, et al
HB 476 Chapter 606	HOPE for Nontraditional Students -- Community College Transfer Scholarship Program Establishing the Community College Transfer Scholarship Program and providing for the award of scholarships under the Program; establishing qualifications and requirements for the receipt and retention of an award under the Program; providing for the funding of the scholarship Program; requiring repayment obligations for specified programs administered by the Maryland Higher Education Commission to be calculated at a specified interest rate and in a specified manner; etc. Delegate Healey, et al
HB 478 Chapter 607	Upland Wildlife Habitat Fund Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to use specified funds for the purpose of planting food or cover for upland game birds and mammals and wetland game birds; authorizing the Department to enter into contracts with farmers to reimburse farmers for specified planting to provide food or cover for upland game birds and mammals and wetland game birds; creating an Upland Wildlife Habitat Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund in the Department; providing for funding of the Fund through voluntary donations; etc. Delegate Guns, et al
HB 481 Chapter 608	Resident Agents -- Service Allowing units of the State government and political subdivisions and other local entities to file with the Department of Assessments and Taxation the names, addresses, designations, and written consents of persons on whom process and notice may be served on behalf of the entities; authorizing resident agents to change addresses and resign; specifying that there is no charge for these filings; providing for the effect of these filings; providing for the effect of service on a resident agent; etc. Chairman JUD (Maryland Judicial Conference)
HB 490 Chapter 609	Wicomico County -- Appearance Fees -- Court Library Altering provisions of law concerning the use of appearance fees collected by the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Wicomico County; requiring the Clerk to make a deposit of appearance fees monthly; altering the title of the account for appearance fees; repealing provisions of law limiting the use of the account to purchasing and maintaining legal publications under specified circumstances; requiring that the account is for the general use of the court library; etc. Delegate Conway, et al
HB 491 Chapter 610	Creation of a State Debt -- Wicomico County -- Pemberton Hall Foundation Authorizing the creation of a State Debt in the amount of $200,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to The Board of Directors of The Pemberton Hall Foundation, Inc. for the repair, renovation, reconstruction, and capital equipping of Pemberton Hall and associated facilities on the surrounding plantation land, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Delegate Conway, et al
HB 494 Chapter 611	Creation of a State Debt -- Wicomico County -- Drill Academy for Youth Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $750,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the County Council of Wicomico County for the planning, design, construction, equipping, and furnishing of a residential drill academy, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Delegate Conway, et al
HB 509 Chapter 612	Frederick County -- Employees' Pension System -- Contributory Pension Benefit Allowing the employees of Frederick County who are members of the Employees' Pension System to become subject to a contributory pension benefit that alters the benefits those members receive and requires a member contribution; authorizing the purchase of service credit under specified circumstances; altering a cost--of--living adjustment of specified allowances; requiring Frederick County to pay for the additional pension liabilities according to a specified amortization schedule approved by the Board of Trustees; etc. Frederick County Delegation
HB 513 Chapter 613	Alcoholic Beverages -- Brewed Products -- Advertising Signs Increasing the value from $50 to $150 of a specified sign that a brewer, nonresident dealer, or beer wholesaler can provide to retail alcoholic beverages license holders; and prohibiting a specified sign to exceed a specified value. Delegate Love, et al
HB 516 Chapter 614	Check Cashing Services -- Licensing -- Maximum Fees Prohibiting a person from providing check cashing services unless licensed by the Commissioner of Financial Regulation or exempt from licensure under specified circumstances; exempting specified check cashing services, loans, and financial institutions from the applicability of the Act; exempting subsidiaries and affiliates of specified financial institutions from specified provisions of the Act; establishing the qualifications, procedures, and fees for check cashing license applicants; etc. Delegate Bobo, et al
HB 542 Chapter 615	Creation of a State Debt -- Carroll County Agricultural Center Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $300,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Carroll County Agricultural Center for the planning, design, construction, and capital equipping of an agricultural building, subject to a matching fund requirement; etc. Carroll County Delegation
HB 548 Chapter 616	Home Improvement Guaranty Fund -- Payment of Claims Altering the amount of approved claims against a home improvement contractor under the Home Improvement Guaranty Fund that must be submitted to the Maryland Home Improvement Commission before the Commission may pay the approved claims proportionately. Delegate Barve
HB 552 Chapter 617	Special Education -- Extending Age of Eligibility Extending the time through which a child is eligible for special education and related services to the end of the school year in which the child turns 21 years of age; and requiring special education and related services regulations of the State Board of Education to cover a child through the end of the school year in which the child turns 21 years of age. Delegate Hubbard, et al
HB 572 Chapter 618	Commission on Funding and Services for Gifted and Talented Student Education in Maryland -- Establishment Establishing the Commission on Funding and Services for Gifted and Talented Student Education in Maryland to review the status of funding and services for gifted and talented students in major academic areas, the arts, and leadership; providing for the membership and duties of the Commission; requiring the Commission to submit interim and final reports to the Governor and the General Assembly by specified dates; etc. Delegate Hubbard, et al
HB 592 Chapter 619	State Procurement -- Information Technology -- Nonvisual Access Requiring the Chief of Information Technology in the Department of Budget and Management to issue and enforce nonvisual access standards to be used in the procurement of information technology and the provision of information technology services by or on behalf of units of State government; requiring the adoption of the standards on or before January 1, 2003; requiring the inclusion of a nonvisual access clause in each request for proposal or solicitation of bids in State procurement; etc. Delegate Benson, et al
SB 607 Chapter 620	State Procurement -- Information Technology -- Nonvisual Access Requiring the Chief of Information Technology in the Department of Budget and Management to issue and enforce nonvisual access standards to be used in the procurement of information technology and the provision of information technology services by or on behalf of units of State government; requiring the adoption of the standards on or before January 1, 2003; requiring the inclusion of a nonvisual access clause in each request for proposal or solicitation of bids in State procurement; etc. Senator Conway, et al
HB 600 Chapter 621	Procurement -- Construction Contracts -- Prompt Payment Limiting the retainage that may be specified in a State procurement contract for construction under specified circumstances; authorizing a primary procurement unit to withhold payments from a contractor in addition to retainage for specified purposes; restricting the amount that a contractor may withhold from a subcontractor; etc. Delegate DeCarlo
HB 613 Chapter 622	Creation of a State Debt -- Caroline County -- Adkins Arboretum Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $200,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Trustees of Adkins Arboretum, Ltd. for the planning, construction, replanting, restoration, and expansion of Adkins Arboretum, Maryland's only State--owned arboretum dedicated to the conservation of the native flora, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; and providing generally for the issuance and sale of bonds evidencing the loan. Delegate W Baker, et al
HB 614 Chapter 623	Creation of a State Debt -- St. Mary's County -- Lexington Park Family Support and Head Start Center Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $250,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Commissioners of St. Mary's County for the planning, design, construction, and capital equipping of a family support and Head Start center in Lexington Park, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Delegate Wood (St. Mary's County Delegation)
HB 626 Chapter 624	Creation of a State Debt -- Montgomery County -- Silver Spring Innovation Center Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $500,000, subject to a matching fund requirement, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the County Executive and County Council of Montgomery County for the acquisition, planning, design, construction, capital equipping, and furnishing of, and for professional services related to building design and tenant requirements for, the Silver Spring Innovation Center, an incubator for information technology companies and early--stage businesses; etc. Delegates Franchot and Hixson
HB 651 Chapter 625	Creation of a State Debt -- Prince George's County -- Suitland Business Incubator Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $240,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of Suitland Family and Life Development Corporation for the construction, repair, renovation, reconstruction, and capital equipping of a facility located in Suitland, for use as a business incubator, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Delegate Brown, et al
HB 655 Chapter 626	Creation of a State Debt -- Prince George's County -- Suitland Citizens Association Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $200,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of Suitland Citizens Association, Inc. for the construction, renovation, repair, reconstruction, and capital equipping of the Suitland Citizens Association building, located in Suitland; etc. Delegate Griffith, et al
HB 656 Chapter 627	Natural Resources -- Wild Waterfowl -- Blind Sites Prohibiting a person from possessing shotgun shells that are loaded with specified shot under specified circumstances; providing that persons that have the written consent of adjoining landowners to achieve 250 yards of continuous shoreline may erect an offshore stationary blind or blind site; allowing a riparian landowner who owns less than 250 yards of continuous shoreline to establish an offshore blind site if no other shoreline is licensed within 125 yards of the blind site; etc. Delegates Weir and Guns
HB 665 Chapter 628	Creation of a State Debt -- Prince George's County -- Brentwood Veterans Memorial Park Authorizing the creation of a State Debt in the amount of $60,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Mayor and Town Council of Brentwood for the repair, reconstruction, renovation, and capital equipping of an existing park dedicated to veterans of all wars, located in Brentwood; etc. Delegate Benson, et al
HB 676 Chapter 629	Alcohol or Drug Related Offenses -- Evidence -- Tests Providing that a copy of a report of specified tests to determine alcohol concentration is admissible in a criminal trial concerning a violation of specified driver's license restrictions; providing that a specified determination of an alcohol concentration is prima facie evidence of a violation of specified alcohol restrictions; and providing that evidence of specified tests or analyses is not admissible in prosecutions of specified alcohol or drug related offenses if the evidence is obtained contrary to specified procedures. Delegates Vallario and Petzold
HB 677 Chapter 630	Creation of a State Debt -- Cecil County -- Cecil County Family Support and Education Center Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $250,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Trustees of Cecil Community College for the planning, design, construction, and capital equipping of a facility, located on Hollingsworth Manor in Cecil County, for use as a family support and education center, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Cecil County Delegation
HB 698 Chapter 631	Commercial Law -- Revolving Credit Plans -- Access to Home Equity Credit Through Use of Credit Device Repealing a provision of law that prohibits a revolving credit plan from being secured by a lien on residential real property under specified circumstances. Delegate McIntosh, et al
HB 716 Chapter 632	Natural Resources -- Interstate Environment Compact -- Repealing Repealing provisions of law concerning the Interstate Environment Compact; repealing provisions of law concerning the findings, purpose, reservations of power, short title, definitions, limitations, construction, and effective date of the Compact; repealing provisions of law concerning intergovernmental cooperation and supplementary agreements under the Compact; and repealing provisions of law concerning amendments to the Compact. Delegate Heller (Chairman Joint Committee on Federal Relations)
HB 727 Chapter 633	Commissioner of Financial Regulation -- Investigative and Enforcement Powers Authorizing the Commissioner of Financial Regulation to make investigations to determine whether a person has violated a provision of law, regulation, rule, or order over which the Commissioner has jurisdiction; authorizing the Commissioner to administer oaths, subpoena witnesses, and require the production of documents for an investigation; requiring the Governor to appropriate in the State budget to the Division of Financial Regulation funding for the positions necessary to implement the Act; etc. Delegate McIntosh, et al
HB 740 Chapter 634	Task Force to Study the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation Establishing a Task Force to Study the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation; specifying the membership and duties of the Task Force; requiring the appointment of a chairman; providing for staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving specified compensation; authorizing a member to receive specified reimbursement; providing for meetings of the Task Force; requiring the Task Force to report to the General Assembly on or before specified dates; and providing for the termination of the Act. Delegate Rudolph, et al
HB 759 Chapter 635	Department of Aging -- Senior Citizens Activities Center Operating Fund Creating a Senior Citizens Activities Center Operating Fund; providing for the administration of the Fund; providing for distributions from the Fund to counties for senior citizens activities centers; requiring the Governor to include $500,000 in the State budget for fiscal year 2002, and each fiscal year thereafter, for the Fund; etc. Delegate McIntosh, et al
HB 767 Chapter 636	Creation of a State Debt -- Queen Anne's County -- Maryland Watermen's Monument Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $85,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of Queen Anne's County Watermen's Festival, Inc. for the construction and capital equipping of the Maryland Watermen's Monument, to be located in Kent Narrows in Queen Anne's County, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Delegate W Baker
HB 769 Chapter 637	Chesapeake College -- Board of Trustees -- Term Limit Establishing that a member of the Board of Trustees of Chesapeake College may not serve for more than three 4--year terms; providing that terms that began before July 1, 2000, do not count toward the term limit; and conforming the time periods of the terms of incumbent members to the time periods of the terms of other members. Delegate W Baker, et al
HB 790 Chapter 638	Landlord and Tenant -- Eviction -- Extreme Weather Conditions Requiring that a warrant of restitution of residential property that is stayed by an administrative judge because of extreme weather conditions be executed within 3 days after the extreme weather conditions cease. Delegate Krysiak
HB 792 Chapter 639	Recordation Tax -- Payment and Collection Providing for collection of the recordation tax by a county tax collector or by the clerk of the circuit court, as designated by the governing body of a county; and requiring a county tax collector to deduct from the recordation tax and remit to the Comptroller a specified percentage for fiscal year 2001. Delegates Marriott and Bozman
HB 805 Chapter 640	Hunting -- Recovery of Killed, Wounded, or Injured Deer -- Use of Dogs Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to adopt regulations governing the use of dogs to aid in the prompt recovery of killed, wounded, or injured deer; clarifying the application of a provision allowing other dogs pursuing deer to be killed; etc. Delegate Schisler
HB 840 Chapter 641	Creation of a State Debt -- Worcester County -- Ocean City Visitors and Information Center Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $400,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of The Ocean City, Maryland Chamber of Commerce, Inc. for the planning, design, construction, and capital equipping (including furnishing) of the Ocean City Visitors and Information Center, to be located in Worcester County, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Delegate Bozman, et al
HB 851 Chapter 642	Corporations and Real Estate Investment Trusts -- Miscellaneous Provisions Altering the manner in which certificates of correction may be executed; providing that specified officers of specified entities may execute specified documents; providing that articles of incorporation may include a specified provision; providing that provisions of the bylaws of a corporation or a real estate investment trust may be made dependent on facts ascertainable outside the bylaws; providing that the term "future director" may be defined in a stockholder rights plan; etc. Delegate Barve
HB 859 Chapter 643	Creation of a State Debt -- Charles County -- Western Charles County Business/Industrial Park Authorizing the creation of a State Debt in the amount of $150,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Commissioners of Charles County for the construction and installation of water and sewer lines, and for the improvement of roads, on a parcel of property that is part of a larger tract of land formerly known as Chapman's Landing, for use as an industrial and business park; providing for disbursement of the loan proceeds; etc. Delegate Linton (Charles County Delegation)
HB 860 Chapter 644	Creation of a State Debt -- Charles County -- Lions Camp Merrick Program Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $150,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of Lions Camp Merrick, Inc. for the construction and capital equipping of Lions Camp Merrick, located in Nanjemoy, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Charles County Delegation
HB 873 Chapter 645	Creation of a State Debt -- Frederick County -- Frederick Memorial Healthcare System, Inc. Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $250,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of Frederick Memorial Healthcare System, Inc. for the planning, design, construction, renovation, repair, and capital equipping of an emergency department, to be located in Frederick, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Frederick County Delegation
HB 885 Chapter 646	Creation of a State Debt -- Kent County -- Kent Family Center Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $300,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of Shared Opportunity Service, Inc. for the construction and capital equipping of the Kent Family Center, to be located in Chestertown, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Delegate Guns, et al
HB 887 Chapter 647	Public Service Commission and People's Counsel -- Personnel Authorizing the Public Service Commission (PSC) and the Office of People's Counsel (OPC) to alter the salary plan and classes of their respective personnel, subject to specified review; providing that specified personnel of the PSC and of the OPC are in the executive service or the management service or are special appointments in the State Personnel Management System; requiring annual reports by specified dates; clarifying the method of funding of the Office of People's Counsel; etc. Delegate Guns, et al
HB 888 Chapter 648	Natural Resources -- Transferable Development Rights -- Rural Legacy Program Authorizing the Rural Legacy Board in the Department of Natural Resources to transfer development rights from Rural Legacy Areas to specified areas within a priority funding area in a specified manner; authorizing that specified funds may be used for the purchase of development rights in specified situations; providing that specified information be contained in the instrument of purchase of specified development rights; etc. Delegate Guns, et al
HB 898 Chapter 649	Frederick County -- Crimes -- Fire, Rescue, and Ambulance Services Repealing in Frederick County the criminal penalties for providing formally organized fire, rescue, or ambulance service unless approved and recognized by specified organizations. Frederick County Delegation
HB 906 Chapter 650	Creation of a State Debt -- Somerset County -- Three Lower Counties Community Service Clinic Authorizing the creation of a State Debt in the amount of $300,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of Three Lower Counties Community Services, Inc. for the construction, repair, renovation, reconstruction, and capital equipping of an expansion to a medical and dental clinic, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Delegates Conway and Bozman
HB 907 Chapter 651	Creation of a State Debt -- Frederick County -- Frederick County Girl Scout Day Camp Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $100,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to The Board of Directors of Penn Laurel Girl Scout Council, Inc. for the acquisition, construction, and capital equipping of the Frederick County Girl Scout Day Camp, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Delegates Hecht and Snodgrass
HB 913 Chapter 652	Circuit Courts -- Funding of Masters and Juror Per Diems Requiring circuit court standing masters hired on or after July 1, 2002, to be State employees; authorizing existing masters to elect to become State employees; requiring the State to reimburse counties or Baltimore City for the salaries and benefits of county or Baltimore City employed masters; increasing the State juror per diem amount from $5 to $15; requiring counties to use the fiscal savings from the Act solely to increase local expenditures for circuit court or public safety purposes; etc. Chairman APP (Maryland Judicial Conference) and Delegate Vallario
HB 918 Chapter 653	Montgomery County -- Property and Income Taxes -- Neighborhood Stabilization Credits MC 17--00 Authorizing the governing body of Montgomery County to grant, by law, a property tax credit against county property tax imposed on specified owner--occupied, residential real property; providing for the eligibility criteria for the credit; providing for the phaseout of the credit; specifying the taxable year in which the tax credit is first applicable; requiring the County Executive of Montgomery County to hold a public hearing, under specified circumstances; etc. Montgomery County Delegation
HB 925 Chapter 654	Community College of Baltimore County -- Board of Trustees and Chancellor -- Delegation of Authority Authorizing the Board of Trustees of the Community College of Baltimore County to authorize the Chancellor of the Community College of Baltimore County to sign specified documents under an appropriate resolution of the Board of Trustees; etc. Delegate Minnick (Baltimore County Administration)
HB 928 Chapter 655	Procurement -- Action by Supplier on Payment Security Prohibiting an executory contract between a supplier and a contractor or subcontractor that is related to a construction contract from waiving or requiring a supplier to waive the right to sue on payment security provided by a contractor; prohibiting an executory contract between a supplier and a contractor or subcontractor that conditions payment to the supplier on receipt of payment by the person from a third person, from containing a provision abrogating or waiving the right of a supplier to sue on payment security; etc. Delegate Malone
HB 929 Chapter 656	Vehicle Laws -- Administrative Per Se Offenses -- Issuance of Identification Card Authorizing the Motor Vehicle Administration to issue an identification card to an applicant who has been issued a temporary license under circumstances involving an administrative per se offense. Delegate Giannetti, et al
HB 960 Chapter 657	Creation of a State Debt -- Frederick County -- American Red Cross Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $300,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Frederick County Chapter of the American Red Cross for the acquisition, repair, renovation, reconstruction, and capital equipping of the Frederick County Chapter of the American Red Cross, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Frederick County Delegation
HB 974 Chapter 658	Ethics -- Lobbyists -- Disclosure of Business Transactions Requiring specified individual regulated lobbyists to file reports with the State Ethics Commission disclosing any business transactions involving the exchange of value of $1,000 or more for a single transaction or of $5,000 or more for a series of transactions involving specified individuals and business entities, including a member of the General Assembly, the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, the Attorney General, the Secretary of State, the Comptroller of the Treasury, the State Treasurer, and others; etc. Delegates Taylor and Mandel
HB 977 Chapter 659	Real Property -- Foreclosure Sales -- Notice and Disclosure Requirements Requiring a person authorized to make a foreclosure sale of real property to give a specified notice to the county or municipal corporation where the property subject to the sale is located, not less than 15 days prior to sale; requiring a county or municipal corporation that receives a notice under the Act to disclose to the person authorized to make the foreclosure sale whether the county or municipal corporation has any outstanding liens, charges, taxes, or assessments against the property; etc. Delegate Mitchell
HB 978 Chapter 660	Life Insurers -- Classes of Reserve Investments Altering the classes of reserve investments authorized for life insurers; imposing specified limitations on classes of reserve investments authorized for life insurers; specifying that the reserve investments of a life insurer may include specified foreign investments; etc. Delegates Krysiak and Brown
HB 979 Chapter 661	Insurance -- Regulation of Extraordinary Dividends and Distributions Altering the circumstances under which a dividend or distribution of cash or other property by a specified insurer is considered extraordinary; providing that the insurer may not pay an extraordinary dividend or make a distribution except under specified circumstances; and clarifying that specified provisions regulating transactions within insurance holding company systems apply to specified insurers. Delegate Busch
HB 1009 Chapter 662	Prince George's County -- Property and Income Taxes -- Neighborhood Stabilization Credits PG 408--00 Authorizing the governing body of Prince George's County to grant, by law, a property tax credit against county property tax imposed on specified owner--occupied, residential real property; allowing residential property owners a credit against State income tax for a portion of the county property tax that has been paid; providing for the eligibility criteria for the credit; providing for the phase--out of the credit; specifying the taxable year in which the tax credit is first applicable; etc. Prince George's County Delegation
HB 1032 Chapter 663	Creation of a State Debt -- Prince George's County -- Minority Access Community Center Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $300,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of Minority Access, Inc. for the planning, design, repair, expansion, renovation, and capital equipping of a building for the Minority Access Community Center, subject to a matching fund requirement; etc. Delegates R Baker and Healey
HB 1091 Chapter 664	Task Force to Study College Readiness for Disadvantaged and Capable Students Creating a Task Force to Study College Readiness for Disadvantaged and Capable Students; providing for the membership, duties, compensation, and staffing of the Task Force; requiring that the members be appointed by June 15, 2000; etc. Delegate Rawlings, et al
HB 1103 Chapter 665	Elevator Handrails in Health Care Facilities -- Income Tax Subtraction Modification Allowing an income tax subtraction modification for expenses incurred to purchase and install handrails in existing elevators in health care facilities and buildings in which at least 50\ of the space is used for medical purposes; and applying the Act to tax years after 1999. Delegate Heller, et al
HB 1108 Chapter 666	Homicide by Motor Vehicle While Intoxicated or Under the Influence of Alcohol, Drugs, or Controlled Dangerous Substances -- License Revocation Requiring the clerk of the court to notify the Motor Vehicle Administration of persons convicted of homicide by a motor vehicle while intoxicated or under the influence of alcohol, drugs, or a controlled dangerous substance; requiring the Administration to revoke the license of a person convicted of homicide by a motor vehicle while intoxicated or under the influence of alcohol, drugs, or a controlled dangerous substance; etc. Delegate Hutchins
HB 1112 Chapter 667	Frederick County and Baltimore County -- Alcoholic Beverages -- Light Wine Licenses Authorizing a Class A light wine licensee in Frederick County and Baltimore County to keep for sale and sell light wines and ports with 21 percent or less alcohol by volume. Frederick County Delegation and Baltimore County Delegation
HB 1118 Chapter 668	Natural Resources -- Freshwater Fishing Guides Delineating specified areas where a person may provide fishing guide services for compensation to a person fishing for game and freshwater fish; providing for specified application and renewal fees to be used by the Department of Natural Resources for specified purposes; prohibiting a recreational angler under the guidance of specified freshwater fishing guides from catching or attempting to catch striped bass in spawning areas and rivers from March 1 through May 31; etc. Delegates Guns and Weir
HB 1134 Chapter 669	Natural Gas Suppliers -- Licensing and Consumer Protection Requiring the Public Service Commission to license gas suppliers; providing that the Commission has authority to take specified actions with respect to gas suppliers; requiring the Commission to adopt consumer protection provisions; providing that the Act does not affect the authority of the Office of Consumer Protection in the Office of the Attorney General to enforce specified laws; etc. Delegate D Davis, et al
HB 1147 Chapter 670	Bicycle and Pedestrian Access 2001 Declaring specified policies of the State regarding bicycle and pedestrian access to transportation facilities; providing for a Director of Bicycle and Pedestrian Access in the office of the Secretary of the Department of Transportation; requiring the Director to develop a Statewide 20--Year Bicycle--Pedestrian Master Plan; expanding the focus of the Bicycle Advisory Committee to include pedestrians; requiring the Department to use the funds in the Transportation Trust Fund for specified purposes; etc. Delegate Pitkin, et al
HB 1160 Chapter 671	Welfare Innovation Act of 2000 Authorizing the Secretary of Human Resources to establish as many as six Family Investment Program demonstration sites; altering the model hiring agreement used by the Secretary of Human Resources under the Program to allow priority hiring to positions that are not entry--level positions; requiring the Secretary and local directors of social services to work with local governments in recruiting and hiring Program recipients for local government positions; etc. Delegate Rosenberg, et al
HB 1172 Chapter 672	Education -- Early Childhood Literacy -- Grants Requiring the State Board of Education to distribute grants to organizations that promote literacy at an early age in a health care setting; requiring an organization that is awarded a grant to use the grant to purchase books and train health care providers; requiring the Governor to include funding for the grants in the State budget; and requiring the State Board to adopt regulations to implement the Act. Delegate Shriver
HB 1183 Chapter 673	South Mountain Battlefield Establishing a Civil War State Battlefield at South Mountain; requiring the Department of Natural Resources to manage and operate the Battlefield and set and charge fees based upon approximate operating costs; authorizing the Department to adopt regulations concerning the Battlefield; requiring the Governor annually to appropriate the necessary funds for the purposes of the Act under specified circumstances; etc. Washington County Delegation and Frederick County Delegation
HB 1203 Chapter 674	Mortgage Lenders -- Continuing Education Requirements Providing that specified continuing education requirements established by the Commissioner of Financial Regulation shall apply to the first renewal of a license of a mortgage lender licensed under the Maryland Mortgage Lender Law; and applying the Act. Delegate Minnick
HB 1205 Chapter 675	Substance Abuse Treatment Outcomes Partnership -- S.T.O.P. Fund Creating a Substance Abuse Treatment Outcomes Partnership Fund to finance proposals for drug treatment from participating local jurisdictions; prohibiting participating counties from supplanting existing levels of spending on drug treatment programs with Partnership funds and providing that Partnership funds may be used only to supplement levels of spending on drug treatment programs; requiring an annual report to specified entities by December 1; etc. Delegate Gladden, et al
HB 1206 Chapter 676	Smart Growth -- Visions -- Adequate Public Facilities Adding a new vision relating to adequate public facilities and infrastructure under the control of the county or municipal corporation to the list of visions to be implemented by local planning commissions in the development of land use policy; adding to the State Economic Growth, Resource Protection, and Planning Policy the policy of having adequate public facilities and infrastructure in Smart Growth areas; etc. Delegate Schisler
HB 1221 Chapter 677	Education -- Lead Poisoning Tests -- Administering and Reporting Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to adopt regulations to require parents or legal guardians of children entering a school to report the results of blood tests for lead poisoning at a specified time; requiring specified public schools to report on blood test results to the local health department; providing for a waiver of blood lead testing for religious reasons; etc. Delegate Marriott (Baltimore City Administration), et al
HB 1226 Chapter 678	Department of Health and Mental Hygiene -- Assisted Living Facilities Grant Program Establishing the Assisted Living Facilities Grant Program to provide grants to counties, municipal corporations, and nonprofit organizations for the conversion of public buildings to assisted living facilities, the acquisition of existing buildings or parts of buildings for use as assisted living facilities, the renovation of assisted living facilities, the purchase of capital equipment for assisted living facilities, and the planning, design, and construction of assisted living facilities; etc. Delegate Pitkin, et al
HB 1246 Chapter 679	Recordation Tax -- Security Agreements Filed with Department of Assessments and Taxation Exempting from the recordation tax a security agreement filed with the Department of Assessments and Taxation; correcting cross--references; making the Act effective July 1, 2001; etc. Delegates Taylor and Hixson
HB 1249 Chapter 680	Judith P. Hoyer Early Child Care and Education Enhancement Program Establishing the Judith P. Hoyer Early Child Care and Education Enhancement Program; providing that the Program shall be funded as provided in the State budget; authorizing the State Department of Education to distribute grants to county boards of education for specified purposes; establishing application procedures for the grants; etc. Delegate Shriver, et al
HB 1250 Chapter 681	Agriculture -- Industrial Hemp -- Pilot Program Establishing a pilot program to study the growth and marketing of industrial hemp; requiring the Secretary of Agriculture to administer the pilot program in consultation with specified State and federal agencies; requiring the Secretary to ensure safe cultivation of industrial hemp by conducting specified activities; requiring that participants in the pilot program shall be licensed by the Department; requiring the Department to determine an individual's eligibility for a license by obtaining specified information; etc. Delegate C Davis, et al
HB 1254 Chapter 682	Natural Resources -- Submerged Aquatic Vegetation -- Recreational Watercraft Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to establish a program to study the impact of recreational watercraft on submerged aquatic vegetation beds; requiring the Department to designate specified submerged aquatic vegetation beds for the study; requiring the Department to mark designated submerged aquatic vegetation beds with buoys; requiring the study to make specified evaluations; authorizing the Department to adopt specified regulations; and requiring the Department to make a report of the results of the study. Delegate Weir, et al
HB 1259 Chapter 683	Vehicle Laws -- Licenses and Registration -- Outstanding Arrest Warrants Requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to suspend an individual's driver's license or privilege to drive and refuse to register or transfer the registration of the individual's vehicle if the individual is named in an outstanding arrest warrant; requiring the MVA to follow specified procedures before suspending a driver's license or privilege to drive or refusing to register a vehicle under the Act; establishing notice and hearing requirements; etc. Delegates Minnick and Marriott
HB 1260 Chapter 684	Passenger Railroad Services -- Bicycles -- Transport Requiring the Mass Transit Administration to adopt regulations to facilitate the transportation of bicycles on passenger railroad services. Delegate Moe
HB 1271 Chapter 685	Academic Facilities Bonding Authority Increasing the bonding authority for the University System of Maryland and specifying the projects that are to be funded by the increase. Chairman HRU (Dept)
HB 1293 Chapter 686	Tidal Fish License -- Apprenticeship -- Exemptions Requiring that the Department of Natural Resources issue a specified fish license to a person who has received a pardon after being incarcerated for a criminal offense without requiring the person to participate in a specified apprenticeship program. Delegates Schisler and Eckardt
HB 1294 Chapter 687	Real Property -- Grants of Property -- Business Trusts Excluding business trusts from provisions of law providing that a grant of property to a specified trust has the same effect as if the grantor had granted the property to a specified trustee. Delegate Brown
HB 1297 Chapter 688	Teachers' Retirement and Pension Systems -- Employment by Private Contractors Authorizing specified members of the Teachers' Retirement System and the Teachers' Pension System who become employed by private contractors to work in a school that is reconstituted by order of the Maryland State Board of Education the right to withdraw their accumulated contributions; authorizing reinstatement rights for specified prior members of the Teachers' Retirement System and the Teachers' Pension System; authorizing specified former members to purchase service credit under specified circumstances; etc. Delegate Rawlings, et al
HB 1299 Chapter 689	Department of Agriculture -- Maryland Crop Insurance Premium Program Authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to pay a farmer eligible to participate in the Federal Crop Insurance Program a specified amount of money for Federal Crop Insurance premiums paid; authorizing moneys provided under the Program to be distributed from a specified source; and authorizing the Secretary to adopt specified regulations. Delegate Conway, et al
HB 1322 Chapter 690	Hunting and Trapping -- Coyotes -- Repeal of Sunset Repealing the termination of provisions of law relating to the hunting and trapping of coyotes and the inclusion of coyotes under the definition of "fur--bearing mammal". Delegate Owings
HB 1337 Chapter 691	Credit Regulation -- Mortgage Lending Clarifying the fees that may be charged by a mortgage broker; prohibiting a mortgage broker from charging a specified finder's fee under specified circumstances; prohibiting a mortgage broker from receiving any fee in the form of a note, mortgage, or other evidence of indebtedness; prohibiting a finder's fee from being charged unless it is pursuant to a specified written agreement between the mortgage broker and the borrower; requiring that a copy of the agreement be provided to the borrower within a specified time period; etc. Delegate Krysiak, et al
HB 1338 Chapter 692	Limited Liability Companies -- Tax Exemption for Transfers of Real Property to a Limited Liability Company and Conversions to a Limited Liability Company Allowing a foreign general partnership or a foreign limited partnership to convert to a Maryland limited liability company; altering the exemption from recordation and State and county transfer taxes, for an instrument in writing that transfers title to real property to a limited liability company, to include transfers from a foreign general partnership, foreign limited partnership, foreign limited liability partnership, foreign limited liability limited partnership, foreign proprietorship, or foreign joint venture; etc. Delegate Finifter
HB 1339 Chapter 693	Property and Casualty Insurers -- Requests for Data by Commissioner Authorizing the Insurance Commissioner to request by bulletin from a property and casualty insurer data about policies written by the insurer; specifying the contents of a request by bulletin; requiring that data requested by bulletin be filed with the Commissioner in a required form; providing for the expiration of a request by bulletin after 2 years; requiring the Commissioner to provide specified notice to an insurer under specified circumstances before granting an application to inspect specified data filed by the insurer; etc. Delegate Donoghue
HB 1341 Chapter 694	Creation of a State Debt -- Prince George's County -- NorBrooke Knolls Center Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $250,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the NorBrooke Knolls Center, Inc. for the planning, design, construction, and capital equipping of an addition to, the construction of a parking lot for, and the repair, renovation, and reconstruction of the existing facility at the NorBrooke Knolls Center located in Capitol Heights, Prince George's County, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Delegate Howard, et al
HB 1342 Chapter 695	Creation of a State Debt -- Prince George's County -- Mt. Rainier Revitalization Project Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $60,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Housing Initiative Partnership, Inc. for the planning, design, repair, renovation, reconstruction, and capital equipping of an apartment building in Mt. Rainier, Prince George's County, for residences for low--income artists, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc. Delegate Benson, et al
HB 1359 Chapter 696	Creation of a State Debt -- Cecil County -- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Cecil County, Inc. Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $100,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of The Boys and Girls Clubs of Cecil County, Inc. for the acquisition, planning, design, and capital equipping of a site in Cecil County to house a Boys and Girls Club. Cecil County Delegation
HB 1393 Chapter 697	Maryland Condominium Act -- Conditions of Right to Expand -- Calvert County Providing that in Calvert County a right shall be deemed reserved in a condominium developer to expand a condominium for a specified amount of time; etc. Calvert County Delegation
HB 1421 Chapter 698	Streamlined Sales Tax System for the 21st Century Requiring the Comptroller to enter discussions with other states regarding the development of a multistate, voluntary, streamlined sales and use tax collection and administration system; authorizing the Comptroller to participate in a sales tax pilot project and enter into joint agreements to test means for simplifying sales and use tax administration; requiring the Comptroller to report to the Governor and the General Assembly regarding the status of the discussions with other states; etc. Delegate Hixson
HB 897 Chapter 699	Military Service Credit -- Membership in Maryland National Guard Authorizing members of State retirement and pension systems to receive service credit for military service as a member of a unit of the National Guard at the rate of 4 months for each full year of service, not exceeding a total of 36 months of credit. Delegate Conway, et al