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Bill Position Summary
The following is a summary of action taken (a Position) on specific legislation by the MACo Legislative Committee to date.
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| Bill Number: | HB 0007 |
| Issue Code: | Taxes & Revenue |
| Title: | PROPERTY TAX CREDIT – SECURITY GUARD DISABLED OR KILLED IN LINE OF DUTY |
| Synopsis: | Authorizing the governing body of a county or municipal corporation to grant, by law, a county or municipal corporation property tax credit for a dwelling house owned by an individual or surviving spouse of an individual who becomes disabled or dies as a result of or in the course of employment as a security guard under specified circumstances; authorizing the governing body of a county or municipal corporation to provide by law for the amount and duration of the property tax credit and other necessary provisions; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
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MACo Position:
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No Position |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0010 |
| Issue Code: | Employee Benefits and Relations |
| Title: | TEACHER AND EMPLOYEE PENSION SUSTAINABILITY AND SOLVENCY TRUST FUND |
| Synopsis: | Imposing a tax at a specified rate on income in excess of $1,000,000; requiring specified corporations to compute Maryland taxable income using a specified method; requiring that, subject to specified regulations, specified groups of corporations file a combined income tax return; establishing the Teacher Pension Sustainability and Solvency Trust Fund; altering the determination of the State’s contribution for specified plans in the State Retirement and Pension System; applying the Act to tax years beginning after 2010; etc. EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
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MACo Position:
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No Position |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0058 |
| Issue Code: | Public Information & Ethics |
| Title: | STATE GOVERNMENT – OPEN MEETINGS ACT – DEFINITION OF PUBLIC BODY |
| Synopsis: | Altering the definition of a public body in the context of the Open Meetings Act to include an entity created by a memorandum of understanding, memorandum of agreement, or contract entered into by the chief executive authority of a political subdivision of the State and an entity created by a political subdivision of the State while carrying out a quasi–legislative function; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
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MACo Position:
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Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0068 |
| Issue Code: | Environment |
| Title: | DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT – GRANTS – SMALL BUSINESSES AND CERTIFIED MINORITY BUSINESS ENTERPRISES |
| Synopsis: | Requiring a grantee who receives financial assistance of over $500,000 from the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Nonpoint Source Fund to demonstrate that specified steps were taken to include small businesses and specified minority business enterprises; and authorizing the Department of the Environment to withhold financial assistance for a project under specified circumstances. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
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MACo Position:
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Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
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Comment:
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MACo supported with an amendment requiring MDE to consider the availability of minority business enterprises capable of completing all or part of the project. The amendment was incorporated into the bill. |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0070 |
| Issue Code: | Environment |
| Title: | BAY RESTORATION FUND – EXPANDED USE OF FUNDS |
| Synopsis: | Authorizing the use of the Bay Restoration Fund as a source of revenue or security for the payment of principal of and interest on bonds issued by a local government if the proceeds are used to fund the eligible costs of enhanced nutrient removal under specified circumstances. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
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MACo Position:
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Support |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0073 |
| Issue Code: | Environment |
| Title: | ENVIRONMENT – WATER QUALITY REVOLVING LOAN FUND – USE OF FUNDS |
| Synopsis: | Authorizing the use of the Maryland Water Quality Revolving Loan Fund to provide assistance in the form of grants, negative interest loans, forgiveness of principal, subsidized interest rates, and any other form of financial assistance as authorized or required by specified provisions of federal law. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
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MACo Position:
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Support |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0078 |
| Issue Code: | Public Safety and Corrections |
| Title: | CRIMINAL LAW – CONTRABAND – TELECOMMUNICATION DEVICES – PENALTIES |
| Synopsis: | Making a felony specified offenses related to possessing, delivering, concealing, or receiving a telecommunication device in a place of confinement; and increasing maximum penalties to imprisonment not exceeding 5 years and a fine not exceeding $3,000 or both. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
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MACo Position:
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Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0111/ SB 174 |
| Issue Code: | Public Information & Ethics |
| Title: | CHARTER COUNTIES – LOCAL LAWS – DIGITAL COPIES |
| Synopsis: | Authorizing a charter county to make a digital copy of a specified compilation of laws or a specified code of local laws available on the Internet as an alternative to requirements to provide copies to specified entities; altering a specified requirement that a charter county provide a copy of a specified compilation of laws to the Department of Legislative Services to authorize the copy to be in either a digital or printed form; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
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MACo Position:
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Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
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Comment:
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Due to copyright and implementation issues, the scope of the bill was narrowed to remove the requirement that charter counties provide printed copies of their code to their delegations. MACo supported the final amended version. |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0120/ SB 629 |
| Issue Code: | Public Safety and Corrections |
| Title: | LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS – UNSUBSTANTIATED COMPLAINTS – ADMISSIBILITY |
| Synopsis: | Providing that evidence of a formal complaint against a law enforcement officer is not admissible in an administrative or judicial proceeding if the complaint resulted in the exoneration of the officer of all charges, a determination that the charges were unsustained or unfounded, the acquittal of the officer by a hearing board, the dismissal of the action against the officer, or a finding of not guilty by a hearing board. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
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MACo Position:
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No Position |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0147/ SB 314 |
| Issue Code: | Employee Benefits and Relations |
| Title: | HEALTH INSURANCE – ASSIGNMENT OF BENEFITS AND REIMBURSEMENT OF NONPREFERRED PROVIDERS |
| Synopsis: | Providing that an insured of specified health insurance carriers may not be liable to specified on–call physicians for specified services under specified circumstances; prohibiting specified on–call physicians from taking specified actions against an insured under specified circumstances; authorizing the on–call physicians to collect specified payments from an insured under specified circumstances; etc. VARIOUS EFFECTIVE DATES |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
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MACo Position:
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Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
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Comment:
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Senate crossfile, SB 314, passed with amendments. Among other changes, HMOs are exempt from the bill and the MD Health Care Comm. is to study the effect on carrier network adequacy, physician reimbursement and access, and balance billing. |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0151/ SB 141 |
| Issue Code: | Finance & Procurement |
| Title: | BUDGET RECONCILIATION AND FINANCING ACT OF 2010 |
| Synopsis: | Altering or repealing specified required appropriations; authorizing the transfer of specified funds to the General Fund; authorizing the use of specified funds for specified purposes; altering the distribution of specified revenues for specified fiscal years; etc.
EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
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MACo Position:
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Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0167/ SB 199 |
| Issue Code: | Health |
| Title: | SEASONAL FARMER’S MARKET PRODUCER SAMPLING LICENSE |
| Synopsis: | Authorizing a county to establish a seasonal farmer’s market producer sampling license to allow a producer of a farm product to prepare and offer samples of the product at a farmer’s market; requiring the license to be valid at all farmer’s markets in the county for a specified time period, for a single fee; limiting a licensee to offering samples only of a farm product produced by the licensee; and requiring a county issuing the license to adopt specified ordinances. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
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MACo Position:
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Support |
| Bill Status: | WITHDRAWN |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0169/ SB 464 |
| Issue Code: | Transportation & Public Works |
| Title: | MARILYN J. PRAISNER SAFE AND EARTH–FRIENDLY ROADWAY ACT |
| Synopsis: | Authorizing the State Highway Administration, the Maryland Transportation Authority, or a political subdivision to install or replace a specified luminaire for highway lighting only if it determines that the concerns to be addressed by the lighting cannot be addressed by specified alternative means; authorizing the Administration, the Authority, a political subdivision, or an electric company to install or replace a specified luminaire only with a luminaire that meets specified requirements; etc. EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
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MACo Position:
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Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
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Comment:
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MACo worked with bill sponsor to provide local government flexibility. Bill was voted unfavorable. |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0171/ SB 202 |
| Issue Code: | Education |
| Title: | CREATION OF A STATE DEBT – AGING SCHOOL PROGRAM – QUALIFIED ZONE ACADEMY BONDS |
| Synopsis: | Authorizing the creation of a State Debt in the amount of $4,543,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Interagency Committee on School Construction for specified development or improvement purposes; providing for disbursement of the loan proceeds and the allocation of funds to eligible school systems, subject to a requirement that the grantee document the provision of a required federal matching fund; authorizing the Board of Public Works to sell specified bonds at specified sales; providing for a specified allocation; etc. EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
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MACo Position:
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Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
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Comment:
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MACo suggested adding General Assembly intent language that the Aging Schools Program be funded through general funds whenever practicable. The amendment was rejected, due to the difficult fiscal climate. SB 202 passed. |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0211 |
| Issue Code: | Public Information & Ethics |
| Title: | STATE GOVERNMENT – OPEN MEETINGS ACT – NOTICE AND COMPLAINTS |
| Synopsis: | Requiring a complaint filed with the State Open Meetings Law Compliance Board to be filed within 1 year of the action that is the basis for the complaint; altering specified notice requirements; requiring a public body to give notice of a meeting by posting the notice on a website that is regularly used by the public body to provide information to the public or by posting the notice at a location accessible to the public and regularly used by the public body for posting notices under specified circumstances; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
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MACo Position:
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Support |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0216/ SB 779 |
| Issue Code: | Transportation & Public Works |
| Title: | STATE HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION – UNAUTHORIZED SIGNS ON HIGHWAY RIGHTS–OF–WAY |
| Synopsis: | Providing for original jurisdiction of the District Court for specified actions; prohibiting a person without authorization from the State Highway Administration from placing a sign within the right–of–way of a State highway; clarifying that such signs may be removed by the Administration or other designated agencies; authorizing the Administration or a specified county or municipal corporation government to collect civil penalties and to seek an injunction against violations; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
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MACo Position:
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Support |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0220/ SB 233 |
| Issue Code: | Parks & Recreation |
| Title: | PROGRAM OPEN SPACE – LOCAL AGRICULTURAL EXPOSITION CENTERS – AUTHORIZATION |
| Synopsis: | Authorizing each subdivision to construct and operate an agricultural exposition center on land that was acquired by the subdivision with Program Open Space funding; and authorizing the sale of specified agricultural products at each agricultural exposition center. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
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MACo Position:
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Support |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
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Comment:
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Bills were withdrawn by sponsors after an agreement was reached with Harford County over its exposition center. |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0224 |
| Issue Code: | Environment |
| Title: | PLUMBING – GREYWATER RECYCLING |
| Synopsis: | Prohibiting a county from adopting or enforcing provisions of a local plumbing code that prohibit a system that recycles greywater; and defining “greywater”. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
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MACo Position:
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No Position |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0243/ SB 590 |
| Issue Code: | Education |
| Title: | FAIRNESS IN NEGOTIATIONS ACT |
| Synopsis: | Establishing as an independent unit of State government a Public School Labor Relations Board to assume specified duties previously held by the State Board of Education; requiring the Public School Labor Relations Board to hear specified controversies and disputes; establishing that specified decisions by the Public School Labor Relations Board are final; etc. EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
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MACo Position:
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Oppose |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0273/ SB 879 |
| Issue Code: | Parks & Recreation |
| Title: | PUBLIC SAFETY – POOL LIFEGUARDS – REGULATION (CONNOR’S LAW) |
| Synopsis: | Requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to adopt regulations requiring the owners of specified types of swimming pools to have one lifeguard on duty for each group of 25 or fewer individuals in the water. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
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MACo Position:
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Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0304/ SB 310 |
| Issue Code: | Education |
| Title: | EDUCATION – MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT REQUIREMENT – PROCESS AND FACTORS |
| Synopsis: | Altering the date by which a county governing body must make a request to the State Board of Education for a waiver from the maintenance of effort requirement; requiring the State Board of Education to consider specified factors when making a decision whether to grant a waiver; altering the date by which the State Board of Education must inform the county governing body whether the waiver application has been granted or denied; etc. EMERGENCY BILL |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
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MACo Position:
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Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
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Comment:
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MACo sought amendments to create a right of appeal to the Office of Administrative Hearings, but the amendments were rejected. |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0334/ SB 256 |
| Issue Code: | Education |
| Title: | PUBLIC SCHOOLS – PHYSICAL EDUCATION FACILITIES |
| Synopsis: | Requiring the State Department of Education to adopt regulations that require all public school buildings newly constructed or completely renovated and occupied after January 1, 2013, to include a gymnasium and support spaces for physical education instruction and to adopt guidelines for facilities for physical education programs.
Preliminary analysis: local government mandate EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
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MACo Position:
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No Position |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0376 |
| Issue Code: | Government Liability & the Courts |
| Title: | TRAFFIC CITATIONS – NOTICE OF DEFENDANT’S RIGHT TO ELECT TO STAND TRIAL – PRESENCE OF POLICE OFFICER |
| Synopsis: | Requiring a specified traffic citation to include a notice to the person charged that the person may elect to stand trial for the offense; requiring a person who elects to stand trial for a specified offense and desires the presence at trial of the police officer who issued the citation to notify the District Court within the time allowed for payment of the fine in a specified manner; prohibiting a court from dismissing a specified offense on specified grounds; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
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MACo Position:
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Support |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0410 |
| Issue Code: | Education |
| Title: | EDUCATION – STATEWIDE MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT WAIVER |
| Synopsis: | Waiving the maintenance of effort requirement for the counties and Baltimore City for a specified fiscal year; providing for the calculation of specified levels of appropriations by the counties and Baltimore City for a specified fiscal year; making the Act an emergency measure; etc. EMERGENCY BILL |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
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MACo Position:
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Support |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0439/ SB 452 |
| Issue Code: | Education |
| Title: | EDUCATION – INNOVATIVE SCHOOL SCHEDULING MODELS – LOW–PERFORMING AND AT–RISK PUBLIC SCHOOLS |
| Synopsis: | Requiring the State Board of Education to explore the use of innovative school scheduling models, including extended year and year–round schooling, in low–performing and at–risk public schools; requiring the State of Maryland to include the funding of these school scheduling models as part of the State’s application to the United States Department of Education for the Race to the Top Fund; etc. EMERGENCY BILL |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
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MACo Position:
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No Position |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0474/ SB 278 |
| Issue Code: | Planning & Zoning |
| Title: | SMART, GREEN, AND GROWING – MARYLAND SUSTAINABLE GROWTH COMMISSION |
| Synopsis: | Repealing the Task Force on the Future for Growth and Development in Maryland; establishing the Maryland Sustainable Growth Commission; establishing the membership and the charge of the Commission; authorizing the Commission to adopt rules of procedure; etc. EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
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MACo Position:
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Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
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Comment:
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MACo asked for amendments to the Commission's membership and charge. The amendments were adopted. |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0475/ SB 285 |
| Issue Code: | Finance & Procurement |
| Title: | SMART, GREEN, AND GROWING – THE SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES ACT OF 2010 |
| Synopsis: | Stating findings and intent of the General Assembly concerning sustainable communities; providing for the designation of specified areas as sustainable communities eligible for specified programs; reestablishing and altering the Maryland Heritage Structure Rehabilitation Tax Credit Program to be the Sustainable Communities Tax Credit Program; authorizing the Director of the Maryland Historical Trust to issue up to $50,000,000 in the aggregate in initial credit certificates for the tax credit; etc.
EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
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MACo Position:
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Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
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Comment:
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MACo worked with the Administration on amendments to address concerns. |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0484 |
| Issue Code: | Taxes & Revenue |
| Title: | PROPERTY TAX – SEMIANNUAL PAYMENT SCHEDULE – SMALL BUSINESS PROPERTY |
| Synopsis: | Requiring the governing body of a county or the governing body of a municipal corporation to provide a semiannual payment schedule for State, county, municipal corporation, and special taxing district property taxes on small business property with a property tax bill of $50,000 or less; applying the Act to taxable years beginning after June 30, 2011; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
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MACo Position:
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No Position |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0493 |
| Issue Code: | Planning & Zoning |
| Title: | LAND USE – DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES AGREEMENTS |
| Synopsis: | Increasing from 5 to 10 years the time period after which a specified development rights and responsibilities agreement will be void under specified circumstances; and providing that a specified local jurisdiction may not enforce specified laws, rules, regulations, or policies governing the use, density, or intensity of specified real property that is subject to development rights and responsibilities agreements unless specified circumstances exist. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
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MACo Position:
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Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0516/ SB 247 |
| Issue Code: | Employee Benefits and Relations |
| Title: | HAZARDOUS MATERIAL RESPONSE TEAM EMPLOYEES – DEATH BENEFITS AND FUNERAL EXPENSES – LOCAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES |
| Synopsis: | Providing that individuals employed as hazardous material response team employees for local government agencies are eligible for death benefits and funeral expenses under specified circumstances; and authorizing local government agencies that employ a hazardous material response team employee to place in reserve each fiscal year the amount needed to pay for one death benefit and funeral benefit for a hazardous material response team employee per year if a death benefit or funeral benefit is to be paid. Preliminary analysis: local government mandate EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
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MACo Position:
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Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
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Comment:
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Bill passed with MACo amendment to clarify when benefit payment is to be made to the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0555 |
| Issue Code: | Public Information & Ethics |
| Title: | POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS – ELECTRONIC LEGAL NOTICES OPTION |
| Synopsis: | Authorizing a county or municipality to satisfy a requirement to publish specified legal notices in a newspaper of general circulation by posting the notice on its website; requiring a county or municipality that chooses to post notices on the Internet to publish a specified notice in a newspaper of general circulation in the county or municipality, and to offer a specified mail service to provide paper copies of notices; requiring the first year of the mail service to be paid for by the county or municipality; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
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MACo Position:
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Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
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Comment:
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MACo sought amendments adding tax sales and local laws or ordinances to the bill's provisions. The bill was a "discussion" bill and had little chance of passing this Session. |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0590/ SB 657 |
| Issue Code: | Taxes & Revenue |
| Title: | RECORDATION TAXES AND STATE TRANSFER TAX – DEBT FORGIVEN IN “SHORT SALE” |
| Synopsis: | Clarifying that for the purposes of recordation taxes and the State transfer tax, the consideration payable for an instrument of writing to which the tax applies does not include the amount of any debt forgiven or assumed by a person other than the grantee; and making this Act an emergency measure. EMERGENCY BILL |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
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MACo Position:
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Oppose |
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Revised Position:
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No Position |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
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Comment:
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Attorney General determined that a county does not have the authority to assess taxes on debt forgiven through a "short sale." |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0606/ SB 361 |
| Issue Code: | Environment |
| Title: | NATURAL RESOURCES – LOCAL FOREST CONSERVATION FUNDS – USE OF MONEY |
| Synopsis: | Repealing the requirement that, at the end of 2 years or 3 growing seasons, unused money in a local forest conservation fund be returned to the person who provided the money for specified tree planting purposes. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
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MACo Position:
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Support |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0632 |
| Issue Code: | Education |
| Title: | MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT – PENALTY |
| Synopsis: | Waiving the maintenance of effort penalty for fiscal year 2010; providing for the application of the Act; etc. EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
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MACo Position:
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Support |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0670 |
| Issue Code: | Government Liability & the Courts |
| Title: | JOINT COMMITTEE ON WORKERS’ COMPENSATION BENEFIT AND INSURANCE OVERSIGHT – MEMBERSHIP |
| Synopsis: | Expanding the membership of the Joint Committee on Workers’ Compensation Benefit and Insurance Oversight to include a representative from a self–insured local government entity. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
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MACo Position:
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Support |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
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Comment:
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MACo's concerns were resolved by a recent appointment to the joint committee who has local government experience. |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0685 |
| Issue Code: | Environment |
| Title: | ENVIRONMENT – FLUORESCENT AND COMPACT FLUORESCENT LIGHT RECYCLING – COUNTY PLANS |
| Synopsis: | Requiring a county recycling plan to address the collection and recycling of fluorescent and compact fluorescent lights that contain mercury; and requiring a county to submit a revised recycling plan by October 1, 2011, to address this new requirement. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
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MACo Position:
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Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
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Comment:
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A MACo amendment allowing counties to use recycling and take-back programs offered by manufacturers or distributors was accepted. |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0705/ SB 656 |
| Issue Code: | Intergovernmental Relations |
| Title: | ENERGY PERFORMANCE RATINGS – STATE, COUNTY, AND MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS |
| Synopsis: | Requiring, beginning October 1, 2011, the governing body of a county or a municipal corporation to post a specified Energy Star rating for specified county or municipal buildings in a specified area of the buildings; and beginning on specified dates, requiring the Department of General Services to post a specified Energy Star rating for specified State buildings in a specified area of the buildings. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
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MACo Position:
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Oppose |
| Bill Status: | WITHDRAWN |
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Comment:
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SB 656 was voted unfavorable. |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0710/ SB 229 |
| Issue Code: | Transportation & Public Works |
| Title: | BLUE RIBBON COMMISSION ON MARYLAND TRANSPORTATION FUNDING |
| Synopsis: | Establishing a Blue Ribbon Commission on Maryland Transportation Funding; requiring the Commission to review, evaluate, and make recommendations concerning specified issues; specifying the membership and staffing of the Commission; requiring the Governor to designate the chair of the Commission; prohibiting members of the Commission from receiving specified compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement of specified expenses; etc.EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
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MACo Position:
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No Position |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
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Comment:
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Bill was amended to include two MACo representatives on the Commission. |
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| Bill Number: | HB 0715 |
| Issue Code: | Intergovernmental Relations |
| Title: | DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING – DISPOSITION OF REAL PROPERTY |
| Synopsis: | Requiring the Department of Planning to give specified notice to the governing body of a specified jurisdiction regarding specified real property owned by the State if a unit of State government expresses interest in the property under specified circumstances; and requiring the Department to include the response of a specified jurisdiction to a proposed use of specified property by a unit of State government under specified circumstances.EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 0777 |
| Issue Code: | Intergovernmental Relations |
| Title: | LOCAL GOVERNMENT – APPLICABILITY OF LAWS TO COUNTIES AND BALTIMORE CITY |
| Synopsis: | Specifying that specified powers are granted to code home rule and charter home rule counties in addition to powers granted in the Express Powers Act under Article 25A, § 5 of the Annotated Code; providing that the additional powers are supplemental and not intended to limit specified other powers; clarifying that specified other provisions of law apply to specified types of counties; clarifying that specified provisions of law apply to Baltimore City; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 0786 |
| Issue Code: | Transportation & Public Works |
| Title: | STATE HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION – SIDEWALK CONSTRUCTION IN PRIORITY FUNDING AREAS |
| Synopsis: | Requiring the State Highway Administration to categorize as “system preservation” and give corresponding funding priority to sidewalk construction projects that are requested by a local government along an urban highway that is located in a priority funding area and is not under construction or reconstruction; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
No Position |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 0805 |
| Issue Code: | Finance & Procurement |
| Title: | PROPERTY TAX – HOMESTEAD CREDIT FOR SENIORS WITH TWO HOMES |
| Synopsis: | Extending the homestead property tax credit to a second home for specified homeowners at least age 65 under specified circumstances; and establishing the homestead credit percentage to be 110% for the second home.
Preliminary analysis: local government mandate EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 0813 |
| Issue Code: | Environment |
| Title: | AGRICULTURE – SLUDGE – TIMING OF WINTER APPLICATION |
| Synopsis: | Requiring the Department of Agriculture to adopt regulations establishing criteria for the timing of the winter application of sludge that are the same as or substantially similar to the criteria adopted for the timing of the winter application of animal manure. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
No Position |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 0817/ SB 685 |
| Issue Code: | Taxes & Revenue |
| Title: | PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX – HEAVY EQUIPMENT |
| Synopsis: | Authorizing a county or municipality to impose a tax, not exceeding 2%, on the gross receipts from the short–term lease or rental of specified heavy equipment property; requiring a person who owns a business with gross receipts subject to the tax to collect and remit the tax by the last day of the month after the end of each quarter; providing that specified heavy equipment property is not subject to the personal property tax under specified circumstances; etc. EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2011 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
Comment:
|
MACo worked with the industry on amendments to ensure "revenue neutrality" and that the tax is applied uniformly in jurisdictions that currently have a personal property tax. |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 0829/ SB 560 |
| Issue Code: | Government Liability & the Courts |
| Title: | VEHICLE LAWS – TRAFFIC CITATIONS – OPTION TO REQUEST TRIAL |
| Synopsis: | Requiring that a traffic citation issued to a person contain a notice that, if the citation is a payable violation, the person must comply with one of a specified list of options, including the option to request, within a specified time period, a trial date at the date, time, and place established by the District Court by writ or trial notice; and making conforming changes. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 0836/ SB 551 |
| Issue Code: | Finance & Procurement |
| Title: | EDUCATION – PUBLIC SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION – PROCUREMENT – PREFERENCE FOR LOCAL BUSINESS ENTITIES |
| Synopsis: | Authorizing a local governing body to adopt a preference–based arrangement that gives preference to local business entities for specified procurement for public school construction; and requiring the Board of Public Works to adopt regulations that specify elements to be included in any preference–based arrangement adopted by a local governing body that gives preference to local business entities for specified procurement for public school construction. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
Comment:
|
Senate crossfile, SB 551, passed. |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 0844/ SB 777 |
| Issue Code: | Finance & Procurement |
| Title: | LOCAL GOVERNMENT FUNDS – REDEPOSIT INTO INSURED ACCOUNTS |
| Synopsis: | Authorizing a local government to deposit unexpended or surplus money in any federally insured bank or savings and loan association without specified security under specified conditions. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 0850/ SB 652 |
| Issue Code: | Finance & Procurement |
| Title: | PROPERTY TAX CREDIT – HABITAT FOR HUMANITY |
| Synopsis: | 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 specified real property owned by Habitat for Humanity; authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county or of a municipal corporation to set, by law, the provisions of the credit; applying the Act to taxable years beginning after June 30, 2010; etc. EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
No Position |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 0869/ SB 780 |
| Issue Code: | Finance & Procurement |
| Title: | REAL PROPERTY – AFFORDABLE HOUSING LAND TRUSTS |
| Synopsis: | Authorizing an affordable housing land trust agreement to be recorded in the land records; exempting an affordable housing land trust agreement from specified provisions relating to a possibility of reverter and right of entry and the creation and redemption of reversionary interests; requiring an affordable housing land trust to register with the State Department of Assessments and Taxation; requiring the Department to maintain an online list of registered affordable housing land trusts; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
No Position |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 0881/ SB 225 |
| Issue Code: | Education |
| Title: | LIBRARIES – COLLECTIVE BARGAINING |
| Synopsis: | Establishing a process for collective bargaining between county library employees and library system employers; authorizing employees to perform specified acts related to collective bargaining; authorizing an exclusive representative to enforce specified collective bargaining agreement provisions; prohibiting an employer and an employer’s agents from performing specified acts related to collective bargaining; etc.
Preliminary analysis: local government mandate EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 0892/ SB 683 |
| Issue Code: | Taxes & Revenue |
| Title: | PROPERTY TAXES – HOMESTEAD PROPERTY TAX CREDIT |
| Synopsis: | Providing that the homestead property tax credit applies to any State, county, or municipal corporation property tax, including specified taxes imposed by a county for a bicounty commission and specified taxes imposed for special taxing districts; applying the Act to tax years beginning after June 30, 2010; etc. EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
Comment:
|
The crossfile, SB 683, passed with amendments addressing MACo's concerns. |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 0903/ SB 775 |
| Issue Code: | Transportation & Public Works |
| Title: | ENVIRONMENT – ROAD SALT MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS |
| Synopsis: | Requiring the State Highway Administration and each local jurisdiction that is responsible for highway maintenance to establish and implement a best practices road salt management program by October 31, 2011; requiring the Administration and a responsible local jurisdiction to submit a preliminary program to the Department of the Environment for review and comment and to review and update the program annually; establishing standards and requirements for a road salt management program; etc. Preliminary analysis: local government mandate EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
Comment:
|
Bill was amended to require the State Highway Administration to develop a guidance document for use by State and local governments. |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 0954/ SB 707 |
| Issue Code: | Government Liability & the Courts |
| Title: | VEHICLE LAWS – PARKING VIOLATIONS – ADMINISTRATIVE ENFORCEMENT BY COUNTIES AND MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS |
| Synopsis: | Authorizing a county or a municipal corporation, by ordinance, to establish an alternative enforcement program for the issuance of civil parking citations for violations of specified restrictions on the stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles; establishing requirements for an ordinance adopted under the Act; requiring an ordinance adopted under the Act to provide for a specified judicial review in the District Court; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 0959 |
| Issue Code: | Finance & Procurement |
| Title: | PROCUREMENT – SINGLE MINORITY BUSINESS ENTERPRISE CERTIFICATION AGENCY FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT |
| Synopsis: | Requiring the Board of Public Works to adopt regulations to designate one State agency as the certification agency for business entities seeking minority business enterprise status to participate in specified local government procurement. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 0982 |
| Issue Code: | Environment |
| Title: | SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT – RECYCLING – REQUIREMENTS |
| Synopsis: | Requiring the Office of Recycling in the Department of the Environment to establish specified commodity–based solid waste reduction through recycling goals; altering county recycling requirements by requiring counties to include in specified county plans a specified commodity–based recycling plan by October 1, 2011, that provides for specified solid waste reduction and requires full implementation by January 1, 2020; establishing a solid waste management fee; etc. Preliminary analysis: local government mandate EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
Comment:
|
Based on MACo concerns, bill was amended into a two year study. |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 0999/ SB 686 |
| Issue Code: | Environment |
| Title: | WATERSHED PROTECTION AND RESTORATION ACT |
| Synopsis: | Requiring counties and municipalities to adopt laws or ordinances to establish a stormwater remediation fee and a local watershed protection fund on or before July 1, 2011; requiring counties and municipalities to collect the fees and administer the funds in accordance with the Act; requiring counties and municipalities to set the amount of the fee and assess the fee in a specified manner; requiring counties and municipalities to report specified information to the Department of the Environment; etc. Preliminary analysis: local government mandate EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
No Position |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 1014/ SB 720 |
| Issue Code: | Finance & Procurement |
| Title: | CLEAN ENERGY LOAN PROGRAMS |
| Synopsis: | Altering the requirements of a specified Clean Energy Loan Program adopted by a political subdivision under specified circumstances; requiring that a specified energy audit required to be performed before a political subdivision approves a specified loan identify specified cost–effective energy efficiency projects and renewable energy projects that would generate a specified projected yearly energy cost savings; etc. EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 1062 |
| Issue Code: | Taxes & Revenue |
| Title: | PROPERTY TAX CREDIT – URBAN AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES |
| Synopsis: | 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 specified urban agricultural property; providing for the duration of the credit; providing for the repayment of tax credits under specified circumstances; applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 2010. EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
No Position |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 1120/ SB 788 |
| Issue Code: | Transportation & Public Works |
| Title: | MOTOR VEHICLES – TOWING PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES |
| Synopsis: | Providing for the statewide application for provisions of law governing the towing or removal of vehicles from parking lots; altering specified maximum amounts that a person may charge for towing and storing a vehicle; requiring a tower to release a towed vehicle to specified persons under specified circumstances; altering specified penalties related to towing; establishing a motor vehicle towing and storage lien on a towed motor vehicle on behalf of the tower for specified towing and storage charges; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 1125 |
| Issue Code: | Environment |
| Title: | STORMWATER MANAGEMENT – DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS – REDEVELOPMENT AND PRELIMINARY PLAN APPROVAL |
| Synopsis: | Establishing specified requirements for a specified redevelopment project design; authorizing a developer to make a fee–in–lieu payment to a local government to offset specified stormwater management requirements; requiring the fee–in–lieu payment to be in an amount determined by a local government and used for specified purposes; authorizing a person to submit a stormwater management plan that complies with specified laws and regulations if a development project receives specified approvals before May 4, 2010; etc. EMERGENCY BILL |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
Comment:
|
Bill was no longer necessary after MACo and other key stakeholders agreed to stormwater management provisions enacted through emergency regulation. |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 1131 |
| Issue Code: | Education |
| Title: | EDUCATION – MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT WAIVER – APPEAL PROCESS |
| Synopsis: | Requiring the State Board of Education to inform county boards of education of a specified decision; authorizing specified parties to appeal the decision of the State Board of Education to the Office of Administrative Hearings within a specified time frame; requiring the Office of Administrative Hearings to conduct a hearing and issue a decision within a specified time frame and according to specified provisions of law; etc. EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 1135 |
| Issue Code: | Taxes & Revenue |
| Title: | PROPERTY TAX CREDIT – GROCERY STORES – LOW–INCOME AREAS |
| Synopsis: | Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county or municipal corporation to grant, by law, a tax credit against the county or municipal corporation property tax imposed on specified grocery stores; authorizing the county or municipal corporation to provide the provisions to carry out the credit; applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 2010; etc. EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
No Position |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 1155/ SB 760 |
| Issue Code: | Planning & Zoning |
| Title: | TRANSPORTATION – CONSOLIDATED TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM – EVALUATION AND SELECTION OF PROPOSED CAPITAL PROJECTS |
| Synopsis: | Altering the process and the criteria used for selecting projects to be included in the Consolidated Transportation Program; requiring that the annual Consolidated Transportation Program report include specified goals, a summary of how determinations were made, and specified information for each major capital project; requiring that each major capital project proposed by an entity include specified elements; and requiring the Department of Transportation to evaluate requests for, select, and provide for funding for capital projects. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
Comment:
|
HB 1155 passed after adoption of amendments addressing MACo's concerns. |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 1159/ SB 840 |
| Issue Code: | Finance & Procurement |
| Title: | BUDGET REDUCTION ACT |
| Synopsis: | Altering or repealing specified State aid to local jurisdictions; altering or repealing specified grants to specified persons or institutions; altering the distribution of specified revenues; altering or repealing specified required appropriations; altering the distribution of highway user revenues; stating the intent of the General Assembly regarding restraining spending in the State budget by implementation of specified actions; etc. VARIOUS EFFECTIVE DATES |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 1161 |
| Issue Code: | Finance & Procurement |
| Title: | TAX INCREMENT FINANCING AND SPECIAL TAXING DISTRICTS – STATE HOSPITAL REDEVELOPMENT |
| Synopsis: | Authorizing specified counties and municipal corporations to finance the costs of public improvements located in or supporting a State hospital redevelopment; authorizing specified counties and municipal corporations to designate special taxing districts, create special funds, and provide for the levy of specified taxes to pay costs of infrastructure improvements located in or supporting a State hospital redevelopment; etc. EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
No Position |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 1163 |
| Issue Code: | Finance & Procurement |
| Title: | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT – ENTERPRISE ZONES – DESIGNATION |
| Synopsis: | Increasing to two the number of enterprise zones that the Secretary of Business and Economic Development is authorized to designate in a county in a calendar year. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
No Position |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 1174/ SB 99 |
| Issue Code: | Business Affairs |
| Title: | JUNK DEALERS AND SCRAP METAL PROCESSORS – REQUIRED RECORDS |
| Synopsis: | Altering requirements for records that junk dealers and scrap metal processors must keep for each purchase of specified junk or scrap metal in the State; providing for the designation of primary law enforcement units; preempting specified rights and superseding specified laws of counties and municipalities; providing that provisions of law do not apply to specified transactions; providing that the Act applies to specified automotive dismantlers and scrap metal processors; making the Act an emergency measure; etc. Preliminary analysis: local government mandate EMERGENCY BILL |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 1182 |
| Issue Code: | Finance & Procurement |
| Title: | BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS |
| Synopsis: | Authorizing a county or municipal corporation to create specified business improvement districts; providing for the purposes of a district; requiring a county or municipal corporation to adopt specified resolutions to provide for the creation, organization, and alteration of a district; providing for the governance of the district through a district corporation; requiring that a county or municipal corporation impose a specified tax in a specified manner under specified circumstances; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
|
Revised Position:
|
No Position |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
Comment:
|
MACo worked with the sponsor and committee to provide for local government approval and flexibility in the establishment and discontinuance of a business improvement district. |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 1209/ SB 1083 |
| Issue Code: | Taxes & Revenue |
| Title: | PROPERTY TAX – SEMIANNUAL PAYMENT FOR RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY |
| Synopsis: | Requiring the governing body of a county or municipal corporation to provide for a semiannual payment of State, county, municipal corporation, and special taxing district property taxes for residential property; repealing obsolete provisions; etc. Preliminary analysis: local government mandate EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 1214 |
| Issue Code: | Finance & Procurement |
| Title: | EQUITY IN EDUCATION FUNDING ACT OF 2010 |
| Synopsis: | Altering the calculation of specified distributions required to be made to specified counties based on per yeild of county income taxes; providing for the calculation of net taxable income for the calculation of specified State aid for education; providing for the allocation of funds for State aid for education resulting from specified calculations; providing for the allocation of federal funds under specified circumstances; etc.
This bill requires a mandated appropriation in the annual budget bill. EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
No Position |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 1261 |
| Issue Code: | Business Affairs |
| Title: | JUNK DEALERS AND SCRAP METAL PROCESSORS – REQUIRED RECORDS |
| Synopsis: | Altering the requirements for records that specified junk dealers and scrap metal processors must keep for each purchase of specified junk or scrap metal in the State; providing that specified provisions of law do not apply to specified transactions; preempting specified rights of specified counties and municipalities; superseding specified laws of specified counties and municipalities; providing for the applicability of the record keeping requirements; providing for the form and contents of the records; etc. EMERGENCY BILL |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 1272 |
| Issue Code: | Employee Benefits and Relations |
| Title: | MARYLAND FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT |
| Synopsis: | Requiring employers in the State that are subject to the federal Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to provide specified leave to a specified eligible employee with respect to the eligible employee’s brother, sister, grandparent, grandchild, or domestic partner and the son or daughter of the eligible employee’s domestic partner; providing that an eligible employee who takes leave provided under the Act is entitled to specified protections and rights; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 1280/ SB 646 |
| Issue Code: | Government Liability & the Courts |
| Title: | WORKERS’ COMPENSATION – MEDICAL PRESUMPTIONS |
| Synopsis: | Altering the occupational disease presumption under the workers’ compensation law as applied to specified individuals; providing that specified diseases and cancers are considered occupational diseases suffered in the line of duty and are compensable in a specified manner; providing that a specified presumption applies only if specified circumstances are met; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
|
Revised Position:
|
Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
Comment:
|
MACo supported HB 1280 after it was amended to strike most of the new cancer and disease presumptions and changed the burden of proof in presumption cases to mirror that of most other states. |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 1290/ SB 911 |
| Issue Code: | Transportation & Public Works |
| Title: | UNDERGROUND FACILITIES – DAMAGE PREVENTION |
| Synopsis: | Repealing provisions of Maryland’s underground facilities damage prevention laws; expanding the scope of the underground facilities damage prevention laws to apply to an owner or lessee of a private residence who performs an excavation or demolition on the land of the private residence; establishing the Maryland Underground Facilities Damage Prevention Authority; establishing the Maryland Underground Facilities Damage Prevention Education and Outreach Fund; etc. Preliminary analysis: local government mandate VARIOUS EFFECTIVE DATES |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
|
Revised Position:
|
Support |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
Comment:
|
Senate crossfile, SB 911, passed with MACo supported amendments to continue marking fees, remove references to marking storm drains, and ensure local governments are not assessed for Prevention Authority operations. |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 1301 |
| Issue Code: | Public Information & Ethics |
| Title: | STATE GOVERNMENT – ACCESS TO PUBLIC RECORDS – ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS |
| Synopsis: | Requiring a custodian of a public record to provide specified applicants with a copy of the public record in an electronic format under specified circumstances; requiring the custodian to make a public record available in any electronic format in which the public record is kept; requiring a custodian of a public record to provide the public record in the electronic format requested under specified circumstances; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 1317/ SB 785 |
| Issue Code: | Employee Benefits and Relations |
| Title: | PUBLIC INVESTMENT PROTECTION ACT |
| Synopsis: | Establishing the Public Investment Protection Act; stating findings and declarations of the General Assembly; requiring that specified employers receiving specified State subsidies pay wages to employees, as specified; requiring employers to participate in an apprenticeship program, as specified; requiring employers to enter into labor agreements with labor organizations, as specified; requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to publish wage rates, as specified; specifying penalties; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 1318/ SB 953 |
| Issue Code: | Government Liability & the Courts |
| Title: | WORKERS’ COMPENSATION – DEATH BENEFITS – DEPENDENCY |
| Synopsis: | Altering the authority of the Workers’ Compensation Commission to make specified determinations of dependency; altering the provisions relating to calculation of death benefits for individuals who are wholly or partly dependent; providing the amount of death benefits to specified dependents who are neither a dependent spouse nor a dependent child; specifying that the Commission has continuing jurisdiction under specified circumstances; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 1325/ SB 1099 |
| Issue Code: | Finance & Procurement |
| Title: | STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT – BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES – PREFERENCE FOR STATE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS |
| Synopsis: | Requiring the State Treasurer to apply a specified preference in favor of a State financial institution when evaluating competing bids or proposals submitted by financial institutions to provide banking or financial services to the State or an agency of the State; requiring a local government unit to apply a specified preference in favor of a State financial institution when evaluating competing bids submitted by financial institutions to provide banking or financial services to the local government unit; etc. Preliminary analysis: local government mandate EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 1335/ SB 761 |
| Issue Code: | Public Safety and Corrections |
| Title: | MENTAL HEALTH – LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES – INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS |
| Synopsis: | Requiring the managing official of a local correctional facility to provide an inmate who has been incarcerated in a local correctional facility for at least 60 days and who has been diagnosed with a mental illness with access to a 30–day supply of medication for the mental illness on the release of the inmate under specified circumstances; providing that part of the supply of medication may be provided by prescription under specified circumstances; etc. Preliminary analysis: local government mandate EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
Comment:
|
MACo sought an amendment to make the provision of medication optional. Because State corrections is already required to provide the medication, the amendment failed. |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 1344 |
| Issue Code: | Planning & Zoning |
| Title: | CONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT – PERMITS AND APPROVALS – EXPIRATION DATES |
| Synopsis: | Correcting specified language relating to the applicability of specified provisions of law related to permits issued for construction and development; extending the tolling period for specified construction and development permits and approvals to December 31, 2012; etc. Preliminary analysis: local government mandate EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 1350 |
| Issue Code: | Finance & Procurement |
| Title: | REAL PROPERTY – RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY – LOCAL GOVERNMENT ABANDONED PROPERTY REGISTRY |
| Synopsis: | Authorizing a county or municipal corporation to enact a local law establishing an abandoned residential property registry for specified property located in the county or municipal corporation; requiring a local law enacted under the Act to require a specified creditor owner to register the property, pay a registration fee, and be responsible for the maintenance and security of the property; requiring a local law to provide that not maintaining or securing the property is a misdemeanor subject to a specified fine; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
No Position |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 1352/ SB 914 |
| Issue Code: | Environment |
| Title: | FOREST CONSERVATION FUND – CONTRIBUTION RATES – PRIORITY FUNDING AREAS |
| Synopsis: | Altering the rates for contributions required to be made to the Forest Conservation Fund and a local forest conservation fund on the basis of whether a project is inside or outside a priority funding area under specified circumstances; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
No Position |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
Comment:
|
While MACo had "No Position" on the bill, MACo was successful in removing amendments that would have reduced the forest coservation fees collected by county governments. |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 1377 |
| Issue Code: | Planning & Zoning |
| Title: | DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION – LOCAL DEVELOPMENT REVIEWS – COMMENTS |
| Synopsis: | Requiring the Department of Transportation to act as a reviewing unit for specified land use and development review activities of local jurisdictions in a specified manner; requiring the Department to provide comments in a specified manner to specified local jurisdictions in the development of the transportation element of a comprehensive plan and specified plans and plats; providing for the scope of actions subject to review under the Act; requiring the comments of the Department to address specified matters; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 1401 |
| Issue Code: | Employee Benefits and Relations |
| Title: | LOCAL GOVERNMENT – COLLECTIVE BARGAINING REFERENDUM – LOCAL ORDINANCE PROHIBITION |
| Synopsis: | Prohibiting a county from enacting prohibitions on collective bargaining by county employees under specified conditions; authorizing a county under specified conditions to submit a specified local law for referendum; establishing that a specified local law enacted under specified conditions shall not take effect unless approved by referendum; and requiring the county governing body and board of elections to take specified actions to provide for and hold the referendum. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
No Position |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 1427/ SB 514 |
| Issue Code: | Environment |
| Title: | ENVIRONMENT – PERMITS TO CONSTRUCT OR MATERIALLY ALTER AN INCINERATOR – LIMITATIONS ON ISSUANCE |
| Synopsis: | Prohibiting the Secretary of the Environment from issuing permits to construct or materially alter an incinerator located within 3 miles of specified locations; repealing a provision prohibiting the Secretary from issuing specified permits to construct or operate a municipal waste incinerator for the disposal of a solid waste stream within 1 mile of specified schools; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 1446/ SB 1046 |
| Issue Code: | Finance & Procurement |
| Title: | BONDS SUPPORTED BY THE AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT |
| Synopsis: | Authorizing the Board of Public Works to issue general obligation bonds and other evidence of indebtedness of the State or of a local government unit that are authorized under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA); authorizing the Board to provide for specific terms and conditions of the ARRA bonds; providing that the Board may issue ARRA bonds to finance State projects that have been authorized by separate State enabling acts; providing that ARRA bonds issued to finance State projects shall be State debt; etc. EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 1533 |
| Issue Code: | Finance & Procurement |
| Title: | DEFICIT REDUCTION FINANCING ACT OF 2010 |
| Synopsis: | Altering specified State funding requirements; repealing inflation adjustments for the calculation of specified State funding requirements; altering the calculation of specified State aid; altering the distribution of specified revenues; altering the distribution of highway user revenues for fiscal year 2011; stating the intent of the General Assembly regarding constraining spending in the fiscal 2011 State budget by implementation of specified actions; etc. EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | HB 1536 |
| Issue Code: | Business Affairs |
| Title: | JUNK DEALERS AND SCRAP METAL PROCESSORS – REQUIRED RECORDS AND REPORTING |
| Synopsis: | Altering the requirements for records that specified junk dealers and scrap metal processors must keep for each acquisition of specified junk or scrap metal in the State; providing that specified provisions of law do not apply to specified transactions; providing that specified provisions of law do not preempt or supersede a county or municipal government from enacting and enforcing specified measures; providing for the applicability of the record keeping requirements; providing for the form and contents of the records; etc. EMERGENCY BILL |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0005 |
| Issue Code: | Public Safety and Corrections |
| Title: | PUBLIC SAFETY – POLICE TRAINING COMMISSION – SWAT TEAM ACTIVATION AND DEPLOYMENT |
| Synopsis: | Requiring the Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention to report to the Police Training Commission specified analyses and summaries relating to the activation and deployment of specified SWAT teams; requiring the Commission to annually review the report and, based on the review, to adopt and annually review regulations establishing qualifications, standards, and prerequisites for a law enforcement officer assigned to a SWAT team by a law enforcement agency; etc. EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
No Position |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0030 |
| Issue Code: | Public Safety and Corrections |
| Title: | CRIMINAL PROCEDURE – SEARCH WARRANT – DEPLOYMENT OF SWAT TEAM |
| Synopsis: | Establishing the requirements for a search warrant to be executed in the deployment of a SWAT team; establishing that a judge may issue a search warrant to deploy a SWAT team if there is probable cause to believe a felony is being committed by a person or in a specified location; requiring an application for a search warrant to deploy a SWAT team be reviewed, signed, and sworn to by a State’s Attorney; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
No Position |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0031 |
| Issue Code: | Intergovernmental Relations |
| Title: | MARYLAND COMMUNITIES FOR A LIFETIME COMMISSION |
| Synopsis: | Reestablishing the Statewide Empowerment Zones for Seniors Commission as the Maryland Communities for a Lifetime Commission to continue the work of the Statewide Empowerment Zones for Seniors Commission; providing for the membership of the Commission; authorizing the Commission to consult with specified individuals and entities; authorizing the Secretary of Aging to perform specified duties; etc. EMERGENCY BILL |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
No Position |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0063 |
| Issue Code: | Planning & Zoning |
| Title: | TRANSIT–ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT – PLEDGE AND USE OF TAX INCREMENT REVENUES – OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE FUNDING |
| Synopsis: | Authorizing the governing body of a political subdivision to use a specified special fund for a development district for direct payment of operation and maintenance costs for specified improvements located in or supporting a transit–oriented development or for specified payments under a specified agreement; authorizing a political subdivision that has created a specified special fund for a development district to use the fund for specified purposes; etc. EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0086 |
| Issue Code: | Public Safety and Corrections |
| Title: | CORRECTIONAL SERVICES – MEDICATION FOR CHRONIC OR ACUTE MEDICAL CONDITION – WAIVER OF LIABILITY |
| Synopsis: | Authorizing the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and local correctional facilities to issue medication and prescriptions under specified circumstances to inmates of a correctional facility as a component of the inmate release process; prohibiting the Department, local correctional facilities, and specified persons from being held liable for issuing medication or a prescription on an inmate’s release under specified circumstances; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0095 |
| Issue Code: | Planning & Zoning |
| Title: | MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL LAND PRESERVATION FOUNDATION – FARMLAND PRESERVATION PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM |
| Synopsis: | Authorizing the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation to establish a Farmland Preservation Partnership Program to preserve productive agricultural and forested lands; authorizing the Foundation to form partnerships to purchase easements on specified qualifying properties; requiring the Foundation’s partners to cover specified costs associated with the purchase of easements; requiring properties that qualify for the Partnership Program to meet specified criteria developed by the Foundation; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0099/ HB 1174 |
| Issue Code: | Business Affairs |
| Title: | JUNK DEALERS AND SCRAP METAL PROCESSORS – REQUIRED RECORDS |
| Synopsis: | Altering requirements for records that specified junk dealers and scrap metal processors must keep for each purchase of specified junk or scrap metal in the State; preempting specified rights and superseding specified laws of specified counties and municipalities; providing that specified provisions of law do not apply to specified transactions; providing that the Act applies to specified automotive dismantlers and scrap metal processors; making the Act an emergency measure; etc. Preliminary analysis: local government mandate EMERGENCY BILL |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0141/ HB 151 |
| Issue Code: | Finance & Procurement |
| Title: | BUDGET RECONCILIATION AND FINANCING ACT OF 2010 |
| Synopsis: | Altering or repealing specified required appropriations; authorizing the transfer of specified funds to the General Fund; authorizing the use of specified funds for specified purposes; altering the distribution of specified revenues for specified fiscal years; etc. EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0156 |
| Issue Code: | Environment |
| Title: | ENVIRONMENT – RECYCLING – APARTMENT BUILDINGS AND CONDOMINIUMS |
| Synopsis: | Requiring owners or managers of apartment buildings or condominiums that contain 10 or more dwelling units to provide for recycling for residents on or before October 1, 2014; requiring that the recycling required under the Act be done in accordance with specified recycling plans; providing for a civil penalty for a violation of the Act; and providing for disbursement of penalties collected under the Act to specified jurisdictions. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0158 |
| Issue Code: | Finance & Procurement |
| Title: | FORECLOSURES – UNPAID WATER AND SANITARY CHARGES – PROHIBITION |
| Synopsis: | Prohibiting the forced sale or foreclosure of a property due to unpaid water, sewer, or other sanitary system bills; and repealing provisions rendered inconsistent with the Act. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0174/ HB 111 |
| Issue Code: | Public Information & Ethics |
| Title: | CHARTER COUNTIES – LOCAL LAWS – DIGITAL COPIES |
| Synopsis: | Authorizing a charter county to make a digital copy of a specified compilation of laws or a specified code of local laws available on the Internet as an alternative to requirements to provide copies to specified entities; altering a specified requirement that a charter county provide a copy of a specified compilation of laws to the Department of Legislative Services to authorize the copy to be in either a digital or printed form; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
Comment:
|
Due to copyright and implementation issues, the scope of the bill was narrowed to remove the requirement that charter counties provide printed copies of their code to their delegations. MACo supported the final amended version. |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0199/ HB 167 |
| Issue Code: | Health |
| Title: | SEASONAL FARMER’S MARKET PRODUCER SAMPLING LICENSE |
| Synopsis: | Authorizing a county to establish a seasonal farmer’s market producer sampling license to allow a producer of a farm product to prepare and offer samples of the product at a farmer’s market; requiring the license to be valid at all farmer’s markets in the county for a specified time period, for a single fee; limiting a licensee to offering samples only of a farm product produced by the licensee; and requiring a county issuing the license to adopt specified ordinances. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
Comment:
|
Senate Bill 199 passed. Its House crossfile, HB 167 did not pass. |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0202/ HB 171 |
| Issue Code: | Education |
| Title: | CREATION OF A STATE DEBT – AGING SCHOOL PROGRAM – QUALIFIED ZONE ACADEMY BONDS |
| Synopsis: | Authorizing the creation of a State Debt in the amount of $4,543,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Interagency Committee on School Construction for specified development or improvement purposes; providing for disbursement of the loan proceeds and the allocation of funds to eligible school systems, subject to a requirement that the grantee document the provision of a required federal matching fund; authorizing the Board of Public Works to sell specified bonds at specified sales; providing for a specified allocation; etc. EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
Comment:
|
MACo suggested adding General Assembly intent language that the Aging Schools Program be funded through general funds whenver practicable. The amendment was rejected due to the difficult fiscal climate. SB 2020 passed. |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0225/ HB 881 |
| Issue Code: | Education |
| Title: | LIBRARIES – COLLECTIVE BARGAINING |
| Synopsis: | Establishing a process for collective bargaining between county library employees and library system employers; authorizing employees to perform specified acts related to collective bargaining; authorizing an exclusive representative to enforce specified collective bargaining agreement provisions; prohibiting an employer and an employer’s agents from performing specified acts related to collective bargaining; etc.
Preliminary analysis: local government mandate EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0228 |
| Issue Code: | Environment |
| Title: | ENVIRONMENT – INCINERATOR PERMITS – CONDITIONS FOR ISSUANCE |
| Synopsis: | Prohibiting the Department of the Environment from issuing a permit to construct an incinerator unless specified conditions are met; prohibiting local jurisdictions from issuing a building permit for an incinerator unless specified conditions are met; providing for the application of the Act; and providing that existing obligations or contract rights may not be impaired by the Act. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0229/ HB 710 |
| Issue Code: | Transportation & Public Works |
| Title: | BLUE RIBBON COMMISSION ON MARYLAND TRANSPORTATION FUNDING |
| Synopsis: | Establishing a Blue Ribbon Commission on Maryland Transportation Funding; requiring the Commission to review, evaluate, and make recommendations concerning specified issues; specifying the membership and staffing of the Commission; requiring the Governor to designate the chair of the Commission; prohibiting members of the Commission from receiving specified compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement of specified expenses; etc. EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
No Position |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
Comment:
|
Bill was amended to include two MACo representatives. |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0232 |
| Issue Code: | Taxes & Revenue |
| Title: | PROPERTY TAX – HOMESTEAD TAX CREDIT – EXTENSION TO SECOND PROPERTY |
| Synopsis: | Extending the homestead property tax credit to a second dwelling under specified circumstances; and applying the Act to tax years beginning after a specified date. EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0233/ HB 220 |
| Issue Code: | Parks & Recreation |
| Title: | PROGRAM OPEN SPACE – LOCAL AGRICULTURAL EXPOSITION CENTERS – AUTHORIZATION |
| Synopsis: | Authorizing each subdivision to construct and operate an agricultural exposition center on land that was acquired by the subdivision with Program Open Space funding; and authorizing the sale of specified agricultural products at each agricultural exposition center. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
Comment:
|
Bills were withdrawn by sponsors after an agreement was reached with Harford County over its exposition center. |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0247/ HB 516 |
| Issue Code: | Employee Benefits and Relations |
| Title: | HAZARDOUS MATERIAL RESPONSE TEAM EMPLOYEES – DEATH BENEFITS AND FUNERAL EXPENSES – LOCAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES |
| Synopsis: | Providing that individuals employed as hazardous material response team employees for local government agencies are eligible for death benefits and funeral expenses under specified circumstances; and authorizing local government agencies that employ a hazardous material response team employee to place in reserve each fiscal year the amount needed to pay for one death benefit and funeral benefit for a hazardous material response team employee per year if a death benefit or funeral benefit is to be paid.
Preliminary analysis: local government mandate EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
Comment:
|
Bill passed with MACo amendment to claifiry when payment is to be made to the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0256/ HB 334 |
| Issue Code: | Education |
| Title: | PUBLIC SCHOOLS – PHYSICAL EDUCATION FACILITIES |
| Synopsis: | Requiring the State Department of Education to adopt regulations that require public schools that are newly constructed or completely renovated and occupied on or after January 1, 2013, to include a gymnasium and adequate support space for physical education instruction and to adopt guidelines for facilities for physical education programs. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
No Position |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0257 |
| Issue Code: | Government Liability & the Courts |
| Title: | VEHICLE LAWS – DISPOSITION OF TRAFFIC CITATIONS |
| Synopsis: | Requiring persons who receive traffic citations for offenses that are not punishable by incarceration to, within 30 days, waive the right to trial and pay the fine, request a specified hearing, or elect to stand trial; altering the traffic citations for which the District Court or a circuit court are required to issue a notice to appear; authorizing the District Court to notify the Motor Vehicle Administration of the failure of a person to comply with a citation; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2011 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0278/ HB 474 |
| Issue Code: | Planning & Zoning |
| Title: | SMART, GREEN, AND GROWING – MARYLAND SUSTAINABLE GROWTH COMMISSION |
| Synopsis: | Repealing the Task Force on the Future for Growth and Development in Maryland; establishing the Maryland Sustainable Growth Commission; establishing the membership and the charge of the Commission; authorizing the Commission to adopt rules of procedure; etc. EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
Comment:
|
MACo asked for amendments to the Commission's membership and charge. The amendments were adopted. |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0285/ HB 475 |
| Issue Code: | Finance & Procurement |
| Title: | SMART, GREEN, AND GROWING – THE SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES ACT OF 2010 |
| Synopsis: | Stating findings and intent of the General Assembly concerning sustainable communities; providing for the designation of specified areas as sustainable communities eligible for specified programs; reestablishing and altering the Maryland Heritage Structure Rehabilitation Tax Credit Program to be the Sustainable Communities Tax Credit Program; authorizing the Director of the Maryland Historical Trust to issue up to $50,000,000 in the aggregate in initial credit certificates for the tax credit; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
Comment:
|
MACo worked with the Administration on amendments to address concerns. |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0310/ HB 304 |
| Issue Code: | Education |
| Title: | EDUCATION – MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT REQUIREMENT – PROCESS AND FACTORS |
| Synopsis: | Altering the date by which a county governing body must make a request to the State Board of Education for a waiver from the maintenance of effort requirement; requiring the State Board of Education to consider specified factors when making a decision whether to grant a waiver; altering the date by which the State Board of Education must inform the county governing body whether the waiver application has been granted or denied; etc. EMERGENCY BILL |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
Comment:
|
MACo sought amendments to create a right of appeal to the Office of Administrative Hearings, but the amendments were rejected. |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0314/ HB 147 |
| Issue Code: | Employee Benefits and Relations |
| Title: | HEALTH INSURANCE – ASSIGNMENT OF BENEFITS AND REIMBURSEMENT OF NONPREFERRED PROVIDERS |
| Synopsis: | Providing that an insured of specified health insurance carriers may not be liable to specified on–call physicians for specified services under specified circumstances; prohibiting specified on–call physicians from taking specified actions against an insured under specified circumstances; authorizing the on–call physicians to collect specified payments from an insured under specified circumstances; etc. VARIOUS EFFECTIVE DATES |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
Comment:
|
SB 314 passed with amendments. Among other changes, HMOs are exempt from the bill and the MD Health Care Comm. is to study the effect on carrier network adequacy, physician reimbursement and access, and balance billing. HB 147 did not pass. |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0315 |
| Issue Code: | Public Information & Ethics |
| Title: | PUBLIC ETHICS LAWS – ELECTED LOCAL OFFICIALS AND BOARD OF EDUCATION MEMBERS – REQUIREMENTS |
| Synopsis: | Requiring local ethics commissions or other appropriate entities to certify to the State Ethics Commission compliance with specified provisions of law relating to elected local officials on or before a specified date each year; requiring conflict of interest and financial disclosure provisions for elected local officials enacted by a county or municipal corporation to be equivalent to or exceed requirements under specified provisions of law; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
No Position |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0333 |
| Issue Code: | Environment |
| Title: | ENVIRONMENT – PERMITS TO CONSTRUCT INCINERATORS – LIMITATION ON ISSUANCE NEAR NATIONAL PARKS |
| Synopsis: | Prohibiting the Secretary of the Environment from issuing a permit to construct an incinerator within 1 mile of a battlefield, wildlife, or a recreational area in the National Park System; and exempting the Baltimore–Washington Parkway. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0349 |
| Issue Code: | Public Safety and Corrections |
| Title: | LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES – SENTENCED INMATES |
| Synopsis: | Reducing from 18 months to 12 months the period of time a judge may sentence an individual to a local correctional facility; etc. This bill requires a mandated appropriation in the annual budget bill. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
Comment:
|
Bill was a MACo response to State budget cuts on local correctional facilities, including a suspension of prisoner reimbursement payments. It failed due to fiscal cost to State. |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0361/ HB 606 |
| Issue Code: | Environment |
| Title: | NATURAL RESOURCES – LOCAL FOREST CONSERVATION FUNDS – USE OF MONEY |
| Synopsis: | Repealing the requirement that, at the end of 2 years or 3 growing seasons, unused money in a local forest conservation fund be returned to the person who provided the money for specified tree planting purposes. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0403 |
| Issue Code: | Education |
| Title: | EDUCATION – MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT – PENALTY |
| Synopsis: | Altering the penalty provisions for a county governing body that fails to meet the maintenance of effort requirement for primary and secondary education. EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0413 |
| Issue Code: | Taxes & Revenue |
| Title: | PROPERTY TAX CREDIT – REPLACEMENT HOME PURCHASED AFTER ACQUISITION OF DWELLING FOR PUBLIC USE |
| Synopsis: | Requiring the State and the governing body of a county and municipal corporation to grant a tax credit against the State, county, and municipal corporation property taxes for a replacement dwelling purchased by a displaced owner of a dwelling acquired for public use by eminent domain; providing for the computation of the credit; requiring owners to apply for the credit; etc. Preliminary analysis: local government mandate EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
Comment:
|
Bill passed with MACo amendments for local option. |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0428 |
| Issue Code: | Taxes & Revenue |
| Title: | REAL PROPERTY TAX ASSESSMENTS – MARKET DECLINES – ASSESSMENT NOTICES |
| Synopsis: | Requiring a supervisor of assessments to provide a written notice of assessment for owner–occupied residential real property in any year of the 3–year assessment cycle when the property is not valued or revalued, if the Department of Assessments and Taxation has determined that a specified market decline has occurred for homes in the county or assessment district or ward where the property is located; requiring a specified assessment notice to include specified information; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0452/ HB 439 |
| Issue Code: | Education |
| Title: | EDUCATION – INNOVATIVE SCHOOL SCHEDULING MODELS – LOW–PERFORMING AND AT–RISK PUBLIC SCHOOLS |
| Synopsis: | Requiring the State Board of Education to explore the use of innovative school scheduling models, including extended year and year–round schooling in low–performing and at–risk public schools; requiring the State of Maryland to include the funding of these school scheduling models as part of the State’s application to the United States Department of Education for the Race to the Top Fund; etc. EMERGENCY BILL |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
No Position |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0464/ HB 169 |
| Issue Code: | Transportation & Public Works |
| Title: | MARILYN J. PRAISNER SAFE AND EARTH–FRIENDLY ROADWAY ACT |
| Synopsis: | Authorizing the State Highway Administration, the Maryland Transportation Authority, or a political subdivision to install or replace a specified luminaire for highway lighting only if it determines that the concerns to be addressed by the lighting cannot be addressed by specified alternative means; authorizing the Administration, the Authority, a political subdivision, or an electric company to install or replace a specified luminaire only with a luminaire that meets specified requirements; etc. EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0476 |
| Issue Code: | Education |
| Title: | MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT – PENALTY |
| Synopsis: | Waiving the maintenance of effort penalty for fiscal year 2010; requiring certain committees to report to the Legislative Policy Committee by December 31, 2010; providing for the application of the Act; etc. EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0514/ HB 1427 |
| Issue Code: | Environment |
| Title: | ENVIRONMENT – PERMITS TO CONSTRUCT OR MATERIALLY ALTER AN INCINERATOR – LIMITATIONS ON ISSUANCE |
| Synopsis: | Prohibiting the Secretary of the Environment from issuing permits to construct or materially alter an incinerator located within 3 miles of specified locations; repealing a provision prohibiting the Secretary from issuing specified permits to construct or operate a municipal waste incinerator for the disposal of a solid waste stream within 1 mile of specified schools; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0533 |
| Issue Code: | Finance & Procurement |
| Title: | PROPERTY – TAX SALE – STATEMENT OF TAXES IN ARREARS AND NOTICE OF SALE |
| Synopsis: | Increasing the length of time before property is advertised for sale for unpaid property taxes that a collector is required to have mailed the Final Bill and Legal Notice to the person who last appears on the tax roll as owner of the property. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0534 |
| Issue Code: | Taxes & Revenue |
| Title: | PROPERTY TAX CREDIT – FALLEN SECURITY GUARD |
| Synopsis: | Requiring the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City and the governing body of a county or municipal corporation to grant a property tax credit against the county or municipal corporation property tax imposed on a dwelling that is owned by the surviving spouse of a specified fallen security guard; defining terms; applying the Act to tax years beginning after June 30, 2010; etc. EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0551/ HB 836 |
| Issue Code: | Finance & Procurement |
| Title: | EDUCATION – PUBLIC SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION – PROCUREMENT – PREFERENCE FOR LOCAL BUSINESS ENTITIES |
| Synopsis: | Authorizing a local governing body to adopt a preference–based arrangement that gives preference to local business entities for specified procurement for public school construction; and requiring the Board of Public Works to adopt regulations that specify elements to be included in any preference–based arrangement adopted by a local governing body that gives preference to local business entities for specified procurement for public school construction. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
Comment:
|
House crossfile, HB 836, did not pass. |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0560/ HB 829 |
| Issue Code: | Government Liability & the Courts |
| Title: | VEHICLE LAWS – TRAFFIC CITATIONS – OPTION TO REQUEST TRIAL |
| Synopsis: | Requiring that a traffic citation issued to a person contain a notice that, if the citation is a payable violation, the person must comply with one of a specified list of options, including the option to request, within a specified time period, a trial date at the date, time, and place established by the District Court by writ or trial notice; and making conforming changes. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0590/ HB 243 |
| Issue Code: | Education |
| Title: | FAIRNESS IN NEGOTIATIONS ACT |
| Synopsis: | Establishing as an independent unit of State government a Public School Labor Relations Board to assume specified duties previously held by the State Board of Education; requiring the Public School Labor Relations Board to hear specified controversies and disputes; establishing that specified decisions by the Public School Labor Relations Board are final; etc. EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0629/ HB 120 |
| Issue Code: | Public Safety and Corrections |
| Title: | LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS – UNSUBSTANTIATED COMPLAINTS – ADMISSIBILITY |
| Synopsis: | Providing that evidence of a formal complaint against a law enforcement officer is not admissible in an administrative or judicial proceeding if the complaint resulted in the exoneration of the officer of all charges, a determination that the charges were unsustained or unfounded, the acquittal of the officer by a hearing board, the dismissal of the action against the officer, or a finding of not guilty by a hearing board. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
No Position |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0630 |
| Issue Code: | Finance & Procurement |
| Title: | PROPERTY TAXES – HOMESTEAD PROPERTY TAX CREDIT – NOTIFICATION AND RECOUPMENT |
| Synopsis: | Requiring a specified form developed by the State Real Estate Commission to contain a specified notice; providing that under specified circumstances the homestead property tax credit may not be denied for specified real property; providing for the refund of specified property taxes paid under specified circumstances; etc. EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0646/ HB 1280 |
| Issue Code: | Government Liability & the Courts |
| Title: | WORKERS’ COMPENSATION – MEDICAL PRESUMPTIONS |
| Synopsis: | Altering the occupational disease presumption under the workers’ compensation law as applied to specified individuals; providing that specified diseases and cancers are considered occupational diseases suffered in the line of duty and are compensable in a specified manner; providing that a specified presumption applies only if specified circumstances are met; terminating the Act at the end of June 30, 2015; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
|
Revised Position:
|
Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
Comment:
|
MACo supported HB 1280 after it was amended to strike most of the new cancer and disease presumptions and changed the burden of proof in presumption cases to mirror that of most other states. |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0652/ HB 850 |
| Issue Code: | Finance & Procurement |
| Title: | PROPERTY TAX CREDIT – HABITAT FOR HUMANITY |
| Synopsis: | 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 specified real property owned by Habitat for Humanity; authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county or of a municipal corporation to set, by law, the provisions of the credit; applying the Act to taxable years beginning after June 30, 2010; etc. EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
No Position |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0656/ HB 705 |
| Issue Code: | Intergovernmental Relations |
| Title: | ENERGY PERFORMANCE RATINGS – STATE, COUNTY, AND MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS |
| Synopsis: | Requiring, beginning October 1, 2011, the governing body of a county or a municipal corporation to post a specified Energy Star rating for specified county or municipal buildings in a specified area of the buildings; and beginning on specified dates, requiring the Department of General Services to post a specified Energy Star rating for specified State buildings in a specified area of the buildings. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
Comment:
|
HB 705 was withdrawn. |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0657/ HB 590 |
| Issue Code: | Taxes & Revenue |
| Title: | RECORDATION TAXES AND STATE TRANSFER TAX – DEBT FORGIVEN IN “SHORT SALE” |
| Synopsis: | Clarifying that for the purposes of recordation taxes and the State transfer tax, the consideration payable for an instrument of writing to which the tax applies does not include the amount of any debt forgiven or assumed by a person other than the grantee; and making the Act an emergency measure. EMERGENCY BILL |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
|
Revised Position:
|
No Position |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
Comment:
|
Attorney General determined that a county does not have the authority to assess taxes on debt forgiven through a "short sale." |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0683/ HB 892 |
| Issue Code: | Taxes & Revenue |
| Title: | PROPERTY TAXES – HOMESTEAD PROPERTY TAX CREDIT |
| Synopsis: | Providing that the homestead property tax credit applies to any State, county, or municipal corporation property tax, including specified taxes imposed by a county for a bicounty commission and specified taxes imposed for special taxing districts; applying the Act to tax years beginning after June 30, 2010; etc. EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
Comment:
|
Bill passed with amendments to address MACo concerns. |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0685/ HB 817 |
| Issue Code: | Taxes & Revenue |
| Title: | PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX – HEAVY EQUIPMENT |
| Synopsis: | Authorizing a county or municipality to impose a tax, not exceeding 2%, on the gross receipts from the short–term lease or rental of specified heavy equipment property; requiring a person who owns a business with gross receipts subject to the tax to collect and remit the tax by the last day of the month after the end of each quarter; providing that specified heavy equipment property is not subject to the personal property tax under specified circumstances; etc. EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2011 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support with Amendment |
|
Revised Position:
|
Support |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
Comment:
|
MACo worked with the industry on amendments to ensure "revenue neutrality" and that the tax is applied uniformly in jurisdictions that currently have a personal property tax. |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0686/ HB 999 |
| Issue Code: | Environment |
| Title: | WATERSHED PROTECTION AND RESTORATION ACT |
| Synopsis: | Requiring counties and municipalities to adopt laws or ordinances to establish a stormwater remediation fee and a local watershed protection fund on or before July 1, 2011; requiring counties and municipalities to collect the fees and administer the funds in accordance with the Act; requiring counties and municipalities to set the amount of the fee and assess the fee in a specified manner; requiring counties and municipalities to report specified information to the Department of the Environment; etc. Preliminary analysis: local government mandate EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
No Position |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0707/ HB 954 |
| Issue Code: | Government Liability & the Courts |
| Title: | VEHICLE LAWS – PARKING VIOLATIONS – ADMINISTRATIVE ENFORCEMENT BY COUNTIES AND MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS |
| Synopsis: | Authorizing a county or a municipal corporation, by ordinance, to establish an alternative enforcement program for the issuance of civil parking citations for violations of specified restrictions on the stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles; establishing requirements for an ordinance adopted under the Act; requiring an ordinance adopted under the Act to provide for a specified judicial review in the District Court; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0720/ HB 1014 |
| Issue Code: | Finance & Procurement |
| Title: | CLEAN ENERGY LOAN PROGRAMS |
| Synopsis: | Altering the requirements of a specified Clean Energy Loan Program adopted by a political subdivision under specified circumstances; requiring that a specified energy audit required to be performed before a political subdivision approves a specified loan identify specified cost–effective energy efficiency projects and renewable energy projects that would generate a specified projected yearly energy cost savings; etc. EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0724 |
| Issue Code: | Finance & Procurement |
| Title: | PROPERTY TAXES – ASSESSMENTS AND APPEALS – EXPANSION OF PROPERTY OWNER’S BILL OF RIGHTS |
| Synopsis: | Requiring the State Department of Assessments and Taxation to hold specified public education sessions; requiring specified valuation records to be included in specified notices; altering the circumstances under which the Department provides specified worksheets and cards; altering the number of days in which an assessment notice may be appealed; providing that property owners have the right to record specified property tax assessment appeal hearings under specified circumstances; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0760/ HB 1155 |
| Issue Code: | Planning & Zoning |
| Title: | TRANSPORTATION – CONSOLIDATED TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM – EVALUATION AND SELECTION OF PROPOSED CAPITAL PROJECTS |
| Synopsis: | Altering the process and the criteria used for selecting projects to be included in the Consolidated Transportation Program; requiring that the annual Consolidated Transportation Program report include specified goals, a summary of how specified determinations were made, and specified information for each major capital project; requiring that each major capital project proposed by an entity include specified elements; and requiring the Department of Transportation to evaluate requests for, select, and provide funding. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0761/ HB 1335 |
| Issue Code: | Public Safety and Corrections |
| Title: | MENTAL HEALTH – LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES – INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS |
| Synopsis: | Requiring the managing official of a local correctional facility to provide an inmate who has been incarcerated in a local correctional facility for at least 60 days and who has been diagnosed with a mental illness with access to a 30–day supply of medication for the mental illness on the release of the inmate under specified circumstances; providing that part of the supply of medication may be provided by prescription under specified circumstances; etc. Preliminary analysis: local government mandate EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
Comment:
|
MACo sought an amendment to make the provision of medication optional. Because State corrections is already required to provide the medication, the amendment failed. |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0775/ HB 903 |
| Issue Code: | Transportation & Public Works |
| Title: | ENVIRONMENT – ROAD SALT MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS |
| Synopsis: | Requiring the State Highway Administration and each local jurisdiction that is responsible for highway maintenance to establish and implement a best practices road salt management program by October 31, 2011; requiring the Administration and a responsible local jurisdiction to submit a preliminary program to the Department of the Environment for review and comment and to review and update the program annually; establishing standards and requirements for a road salt management program; etc. Preliminary analysis: local government mandate EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
Comment:
|
Bill was amended to require the State Highway Administration to develop a guidance document foruse by State and local governments. |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0777/ HB 844 |
| Issue Code: | Finance & Procurement |
| Title: | LOCAL GOVERNMENT FUNDS – REDEPOSIT INTO INSURED ACCOUNTS |
| Synopsis: | Authorizing a local government to deposit unexpended or surplus money in any federally insured bank or savings and loan association without specified security under specified conditions. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0779/ HB 216 |
| Issue Code: | Transportation & Public Works |
| Title: | STATE HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION – UNAUTHORIZED SIGNS ON HIGHWAY RIGHTS–OF–WAY |
| Synopsis: | Providing for original jurisdiction of the District Court for specified actions; prohibiting a person without authorization from the State Highway Administration from placing a sign within the right–of–way of a State highway; clarifying that such signs may be removed by the Administration or other designated agencies; authorizing the Administration or a specified county or municipal corporation government to collect civil penalties and to seek an injunction against violations; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0780/ HB 869 |
| Issue Code: | Finance & Procurement |
| Title: | REAL PROPERTY – AFFORDABLE HOUSING LAND TRUSTS |
| Synopsis: | Authorizing an affordable housing land trust agreement to be recorded in the land records; exempting an affordable housing land trust agreement from specified provisions relating to a possibility of reverter and right of entry and the creation and redemption of reversionary interests; requiring an affordable housing land trust to register with the State Department of Assessments and Taxation; requiring the Department to maintain an online list of registered affordable housing land trusts; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
No Position |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0785/ HB 1317 |
| Issue Code: | Employee Benefits and Relations |
| Title: | PUBLIC INVESTMENT PROTECTION ACT |
| Synopsis: | Establishing the Public Investment Protection Act; stating findings and declarations of the General Assembly; requiring that specified employers receiving State subsidies pay wages to employees, as specified; requiring employers to participate in an apprenticeship program, as specified; requiring employers to enter into labor agreements with labor organizations, as specified; requiring the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to publish wage rates, as specified; specifying penalties; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0788/ HB 1120 |
| Issue Code: | Transportation & Public Works |
| Title: | MOTOR VEHICLES – TOWING PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES |
| Synopsis: | Providing for the statewide application for provisions of law governing the towing or removal of vehicles from parking lots; altering specified maximum amounts that a person may charge for towing and storing a vehicle; requiring a tower to release a towed vehicle to specified persons under specified circumstances; altering specified penalties related to towing; establishing a motor vehicle towing and storage lien on a towed motor vehicle on behalf of the tower for specified towing and storage charges; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0828 |
| Issue Code: | Finance & Procurement |
| Title: | SPECIAL TAXING DISTRICTS – TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENTS – EXEMPTION FROM COUNTY TAX LIMITATIONS |
| Synopsis: | Exempting ad valorem and special taxes imposed only within a special taxing district for the purpose of financing the cost of transportation improvements from county tax limitations; and defining specified terms. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
No Position |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0835 |
| Issue Code: | Finance & Procurement |
| Title: | EQUITY IN STATE AID TO COUNTIES ACT OF 2010 |
| Synopsis: | Altering the calculation of specified distributions to counties based on per capita yield of county income taxes; altering the definition of “net taxable income” in the calculation of specified State aid for education by changing a specified date; etc. This bill requires a mandated appropriation in the annual budget bill. EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
No Position |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0840/ HB 1159 |
| Issue Code: | Finance & Procurement |
| Title: | BUDGET REDUCTION ACT |
| Synopsis: | Altering or repealing specified State aid to local jurisdictions; altering or repealing specified grants to specified persons or institutions; altering the distribution of specified revenues; altering or repealing specified required appropriations; altering the distribution of highway user revenues; stating the intent of the General Assembly regarding restraining spending in the State budget by implementation of specified actions; etc. VARIOUS EFFECTIVE DATES |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0879/ HB 273 |
| Issue Code: | Parks & Recreation |
| Title: | PUBLIC SAFETY – POOL PERSONNEL – REGULATION (CONNOR’S LAW) |
| Synopsis: | Requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to adopt regulations requiring the owners of specified types of swimming pools to have on the premises when the pool is in operation one lifeguard and one adult who holds current certificates in specified first aid training. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0911/ HB 1290 |
| Issue Code: | Transportation & Public Works |
| Title: | UNDERGROUND FACILITIES – DAMAGE PREVENTION |
| Synopsis: | Repealing provisions of Maryland’s underground facilities damage prevention laws; expanding the scope of the underground facilities damage prevention laws to apply to an owner or lessee of a private residence who performs an excavation or demolition on the land of the private residence; establishing the Maryland Underground Facilities Damage Prevention Authority; establishing the Maryland Underground Facilities Damage Prevention Education and Outreach Fund; etc. Preliminary analysis: local government mandate VARIOUS EFFECTIVE DATES |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
|
|
MACo Position:
|
Oppose |
|
Revised Position:
|
Support |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
|
Comment:
|
SB 911 passed with MACo supported amendments to continue marking fees, remove references to marking storm drains, and ensure local governments are not assessed for Prevention Authority operations. House crossfile, HB 1290, failed. |
|
| Bill Number: | SB 0914/ HB 1352 |
| Issue Code: | Environment |
| Title: | FOREST CONSERVATION FUND – CONTRIBUTION RATES – PRIORITY FUNDING AREAS |
| Synopsis: | Altering the rates for contributions required to be made to the Forest Conservation Fund and a local forest conservation fund on the basis of whether a project is inside or outside a priority funding area under specified circumstances; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
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MACo Position:
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No Position |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
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Comment:
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While MACo had "No Position" on the bill, MACo was successful in removing amendments that would have reduced the forest coservation fees collected by county governments. |
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| Bill Number: | SB 0922 |
| Issue Code: | Taxes & Revenue |
| Title: | HOMESTEAD PROPERTY TAX CREDIT FOR HOUSING UNITS AT INDEPENDENT LIVING RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES |
| Synopsis: | Making specified housing units at independent living retirement communities eligible for a homestead property tax credit under specified circumstances; etc. EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
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MACo Position:
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Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
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| Bill Number: | SB 0929 |
| Issue Code: | Taxes & Revenue |
| Title: | ESTATES AND TRUSTS – TRANSFERS – RECORDATION AND TRANSFER TAXES |
| Synopsis: | Altering a prohibition on the imposition of taxes on property transfers by a personal representative without consideration or the recordation of instruments effecting those transfers; prohibiting the imposition of specified taxes on specified transfers of real property to or from specified trusts or the recordation of instruments effecting those transfers; providing exemptions under the recordation tax and State transfer tax relating to specified transfers from an estate and specified transfers to or from specified trusts; etc.
Preliminary analysis: local government mandate EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
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MACo Position:
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Support with Amendment |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
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| Bill Number: | SB 0953/ HB 1318 |
| Issue Code: | Government Liability & the Courts |
| Title: | WORKERS’ COMPENSATION – DEATH BENEFITS – DEPENDENCY |
| Synopsis: | Altering the authority of the Workers’ Compensation Commission to make specified determinations of dependency; altering the provisions relating to calculation of death benefits for individuals who are wholly or partly dependent; providing the amount of death benefits to specified dependents who are neither a dependent spouse nor a dependent child; specifying that the Commission has continuing jurisdiction under specified circumstances; etc. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
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MACo Position:
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Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
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| Bill Number: | SB 0959 |
| Issue Code: | Employee Benefits and Relations |
| Title: | STATE RETIREMENT AND PENSION SYSTEM – LOCAL EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS – EDUCATORS AND EDUCATIONAL STAFF |
| Synopsis: | Providing for the calculation of a payment of a portion of the employer contributions for local school board employees and community college employees who are members of the Teachers’ Retirement System or the Teachers’ Pension System; requiring counties to pay a portion of the employer contributions for local school board employees and community college employees who are members of the Teachers’ Retirement System or the Teachers’ Pension System; etc. Preliminary analysis: local government mandate EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
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MACo Position:
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Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
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| Bill Number: | SB 1004 |
| Issue Code: | Finance & Procurement |
| Title: | BUDGET RECONCILIATION AND BALANCING ACT |
| Synopsis: | Altering or repealing specified required appropriations; repealing provisions of law regarding stem cell research; altering or repealing specified grant programs; altering or repealing specified funding requirements; repealing inflation adjustments for the calculation of specified State funding requirements; altering State aid provided to community colleges and to specified nonpublic institutions of higher education; altering the distribution of specified revenues; etc. Preliminary analysis: local government mandate EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
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MACo Position:
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Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
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| Bill Number: | SB 1014 |
| Issue Code: | Education |
| Title: | EDUCATION – MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT REQUIREMENT – WAIVER AND APPEAL PROCESS |
| Synopsis: | Altering the date by which a county governing body must make a request to the State Board of Education for a waiver from the maintenance of effort requirement; clarifying the maintenance of effort requirement for which a county or Baltimore City may apply for a waiver; requiring the State Board to grant a waiver, subject to specified limitations, under specified circumstances; etc. EMERGENCY BILL |
| Staff Assigned: |
Leslie Knapp Jr.
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MACo Position:
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Support |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
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| Bill Number: | SB 1046/ HB 1446 |
| Issue Code: | Finance & Procurement |
| Title: | BONDS SUPPORTED BY THE AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT |
| Synopsis: | Authorizing the Board of Public Works to issue general obligation bonds and other evidence of indebtedness of the State or of a local government unit that are authorized under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA); authorizing the Board to provide for specific terms and conditions of the ARRA bonds; providing that the Board may issue ARRA bonds to finance State projects that have been authorized by separate State enabling acts; providing that ARRA bonds issued to finance State projects shall be State debt; etc. EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
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MACo Position:
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Support |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
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| Bill Number: | SB 1083/ HB 1209 |
| Issue Code: | Taxes & Revenue |
| Title: | PROPERTY TAX – SEMIANNUAL PAYMENT FOR REAL PROPERTY |
| Synopsis: | Requiring the governing body of a county or municipal corporation to provide for a semiannual payment of State, county, municipal corporation, and special taxing district property taxes for real property; repealing obsolete provisions; etc. Preliminary analysis: local government mandate EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
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MACo Position:
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Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
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| Bill Number: | SB 1099/ HB 1325 |
| Issue Code: | Finance & Procurement |
| Title: | STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT – BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES – PREFERENCE FOR STATE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS |
| Synopsis: | Requiring the State Treasurer to apply a specified preference in favor of a State financial institution when evaluating competing bids or proposals submitted by financial institutions to provide banking or financial services to the State or an agency of the State; requiring a local government unit to apply a specified preference in favor of a State financial institution when evaluating competing bids submitted by financial institutions to provide banking or financial services to the local government unit; etc. Preliminary analysis: local government mandate EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
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MACo Position:
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Oppose |
| Bill Status: | FAILED |
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| Bill Number: | SB 1123 |
| Issue Code: | Employee Benefits and Relations |
| Title: | POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS – COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS – BINDING ARBITRATION |
| Synopsis: | Authorizing a county or municipal corporation to adopt a specified local law or ordinance regarding binding arbitration in specified collective bargaining disputes; and applying the Act retroactively. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2010 |
| Testimony: | Testimony |
| Staff Assigned: |
Andrea Mansfield
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MACo Position:
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Oppose |
| Bill Status: | PASSED |
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Comment:
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MACo worked with the FOP on amendments to address concerns. Amendments limit scope of bill to those jurisdictions that had approved binding arbitration prior to the effective date. |
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