Antitrust Enforcement
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Access to Counsel in Evictions - Special Fund - Alteration [HB-876]
Altering the contents of the Access to Counsel in Evictions Special Fund to include money received by the Antitrust Division in the Office of the Attorney General from a final settlement, an agreement, or a judgment relating to a certain violation of the Maryland Antitrust Act, excluding restitution and certain costs the Attorney General is entitled to recover.
Sponsored by: Rep. Samuel Rosenberg
Hearing 2/11 At 1:00 P.m. (appropriations) on 01/31/2025
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Gettr Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Commercial Law - Maryland Antitrust Act - Enforcement Remedies [HB-1182]
Altering the definition of "restitution" to include disgorgement in certain provisions relating to remedies under the Maryland Antitrust Act.
Sponsored by: Rep.
Hearing 3/26 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/19/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Civil Enforcement Actions Brought by the Attorney General - Statute of Limitations [HB-595]
Providing that certain civil enforcement actions brought by the Attorney General may be instituted at any time.
Sponsored by: Rep.
Hearing 2/14 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/30/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Task Force to Study E-Commerce Monopolies in the State (E-Commerce Antimonopoly Study of 2024) [HB-53]
Establishing the Task Force to Study E-Commerce Monopolies in the State to investigate the business practices and industry impacts of e-commerce businesses that individually have annual revenue exceeding $10,000,000,000, have a presence in the State, and are engaged in selling on their own online platforms first- and third-party products; requiring the Task Force to report its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly by December 1, 2024; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Chao Wu
Hearing 3/19 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/15/2024
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Commercial Law - Maryland Antitrust Act - Premerger Notification Requirement and Remedies [HB-776]
Requiring a person who has acquired certain voting securities or assets of another person to file a certain notice with the Attorney General under certain circumstances; exempting certain information or documentary material filed with the Attorney General from the Maryland Public Information Act except under certain circumstances; and altering the definition of "restitution" relating to remedies for a violation of the Maryland Antitrust Act.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/08/2023
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Commercial Law – Maryland Antitrust Act – Premerger Notification Requirement and Remedies [SB-657]
Requiring a person who has acquired certain voting securities or assets of another person to file a certain notice with the Attorney General under certain circumstances; exempting certain information or documentary material filed with the Attorney General from the Maryland Public Information Act except under certain circumstances; and altering the definition of "restitution" relating to remedies for a violation of the Maryland Antitrust Act.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/13/2023
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Maryland 2021 Regular Session
Medical Cannabis – Dispensary Grower–Processor License [HB-706]
Requiring the Natalie M. LaPrade Medical Cannabis Commission to license medical cannabis dispensary grower-processors to grow, process, and dispense medical cannabis if certain requirements are met; providing that an applicant for a dispensary grower-processor license may not have received certain disciplinary action from the Commission or have failed to meet certain deadlines; requiring the Commission to establish a certain application review process; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Julian Ivey
Hearing 2/16 At 1:30 P.m. on 01/29/2021
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Commercial Law - Maryland Antitrust Act - Civil Penalty [SB-891]
Altering the maximum civil penalty that may be assessed against a person for a violation of the Maryland Antitrust Act from $100,000 to $10,000 for each violation; and providing that each day a violation of the Act continues is a separate violation.
Sponsored by: Sen. James Rosapepe
Enacted Under Article Ii, Section 17(c) Of The Maryland Constitution - Chapter 848 on 05/26/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Commercial Law - Maryland Antitrust Act - Civil Penalty [HB-1544]
Altering the maximum civil penalty that may be assessed against a person for a violation of the Maryland Antitrust Act from $100,000 to $10,000; and providing that each day a violation of the Act continues is a separate violation.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Dumais
Enacted Under Article Ii, Section 17(c) Of The Maryland Constitution - Chapter 847 on 05/26/2018
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Maryland 2018 Regular Session
Courts - Business and Technology Court [HB-1071]
Establishing a Business and Technology Court; establishing the purpose, jurisdiction, and appropriate venue of the business court; requiring the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals to appoint three or four nominated judges to the business court; requiring and authorizing certain administrative judges to nominate certain circuit court judges for consideration for the business court; establishing the compensation of business court judges; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Angela Angel
Unfavorable Report By Judiciary on 03/05/2018
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Maryland 2019 Regular Session
Medical Cannabis – Regulation of Dispensaries, Growers, and Processors [SB-426]
Providing that growers, processors, and dispensaries licensed under certain provisions of law are subject to the Maryland Antitrust Act and the Maryland Sales Below Cost Act; repealing the provision prohibiting the Natalie M. LaPrade Medical Cannabis Commission from issuing more than one medical cannabis grower license to each applicant; requiring the Commission to allow a person to have an ownership interest in or control of up to four dispensaries licensed under a certain provision of law; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Chris West
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 501 on 05/13/2019
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Environment - Mattress Stewardship Program [HB-1117]
Requiring specified producers or a representative organization to submit a plan for the establishment of a Mattress Stewardship Program to the Department of the Environment on or before July 1, 2017, and in accordance with specified requirements; requiring the Department to review and approve specified plans,including a specified assessment, submitted in accordance with the Mattress Stewardship Program; prohibiting the sale of specified mattresses under specified circumstances beginning October 1, 2017; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Frank Turner
Hearing 3/04 At 1:00 P.m. (environment And Transportation) on 03/04/2016
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Maryland 2011 Regular Session
Safe Harbor Legislation and Regulations Needed to Form Accountable Care [SJR-6]
Urging the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Health and Human Services to adopt regulations to guide the development of accountable care organizations and establish antitrust safe harbors that will allow health care providers to form and deliver care through accountable care organizations; and requesting that the United States Congress consider whether additional legislation, including antitrust safe harbor protections, is desirable to ensure health care delivery system reforms can be fully realized.
Sponsored by: Sen. Thomas Middleton
First Reading House Rules And Executive Nominations on 03/19/2011
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Maryland 2011 Regular Session
Safe Harbor Legislation and Regulations Needed to Form Accountable Care [HJR-6]
Urging the United State Congress and the Federal Trade Commission to pass legislation and adopt regulations that will establish antitrust safe harbors for physicians to collaborate in specified health insurance marketplaces and form accountable care organizations.
Sponsored by: Rep. Norman Conway
Unfavorable Report By House Rules And Executive Nominations on 04/11/2011
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Maryland 2010 Regular Session
Commercial Law - Gasohol and Gasoline Products - Provision to Noncontrolled [HB-1502]
Altering the circumstances under which specified distributors must provide gasoline products to specified noncontrolled outlets at a specified wholesale price; and altering the definition of "independent jobber" for purposes of the Gasohol and Gasoline Products Marketing Act.
Sponsored by: Sen. Brian Feldman
Unfavorable Report By Economic Matters Withdrawn on 04/02/2010
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Labor and Employment - Health Care Facilities - Workplace Safety (Safe Care Act) [HB-1568]
Requiring State residential centers and State-operated hospitals to develop a workplace safety plan; establishing certain requirements for a certain workplace safety plan; requiring that certain training address certain risks and include certain instruction on certain matters; requiring certain State residential centers and State-operated hospitals to collaborate with a certain committee for certain purposes; requiring that certain procedures include certain other procedures; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Bonnie Cullison
Hearing 3/10 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/11/2020
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Medical Cannabis - Dispensary Grower-Processor License [HB-1317]
Requiring the Natalie M. LaPrade Medical Cannabis Commission to license medical cannabis dispensary grower-processors under certain circumstances; requiring an applicant to meet certain conditions to be licensed as a dispensary grower-processor; providing that an applicant for a dispensary grower-processor license may not have received certain disciplinary action from the Commission or have failed to meet certain deadlines; requiring the Commission to establish a certain application review process; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nick Mosby
Hearing 2/19 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/10/2020
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Maryland 2020 Regular Session
Medical Cannabis - Dispensary Grower-Processor License [SB-953]
Requiring the Natalie M. LaPrade Medical Cannabis Commission to license medical cannabis dispensary grower-processors under certain circumstances; requiring an applicant to meet certain conditions to be licensed as a dispensary grower-processor; providing that an applicant for a dispensary grower-processor license may not have received certain disciplinary action from the Commission or have failed to meet certain deadlines; requiring the Commission to establish a certain application review process; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Susan Lee
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/07/2020
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Commercial Law - Maryland Antitrust Act - Indirect Purchasers [HB-1415]
Altering the circumstances under which a person, whose business or property has been injured or threatened with injury by a violation of specified provisions of law, may maintain an action for damages, an injunction, or both, against any person who has committed the violation, regardless of whether the person maintaining the action dealt directly or indirectly with the person who has committed the violation; altering a specified defense that a defendant may raise in specified actions for damages; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Curtis Anderson
Enacted Under Article Ii, Section 17(c) Of The Maryland Constitution - Chapter 841 on 05/27/2017
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Commercial Law - Maryland Antitrust Act - Indirect Purchasers [SB-858]
Altering the circumstances under which a person, whose business or property has been injured or threatened with injury by a violation of specified provisions of law, may maintain an action for damages, an injunction, or both, against any person who has committed the violation, regardless of whether the person maintaining the action dealt directly or indirectly with the person who has committed the violation; altering a specified defense that a defendant may raise in specified actions for damages; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Thomas Middleton
Enacted Under Article Ii, Section 17(c) Of The Maryland Constitution - Chapter 842 on 05/27/2017