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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Labor and Employment - Equal Pay - Job Announcement and Salary History Information Disclosures [SB-404]
Requiring employers with 15 or more employees to include specified information in a job announcement to recruit an employee or independent contractor to fill a position within the employer's organization; prohibiting specified employers from paying less than the minimum rate of pay included in a specified job announcement to a specified employee; prohibiting specified employers from seeking salary history information for an employee by specified methods; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Susan Lee
Unfavorable Report By Finance on 03/23/2017
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Labor and Employment - Noncompete and Conflict of Interest Clauses [HB-506]
Providing that specified noncompete and conflict of interest provisions that restrict the ability of an employee to enter into employment with a new employer or to become self-employed in the same or similar business or trade are null and void as being against the public policy of the State.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sally Jameson
Hearing 3/29 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/29/2017
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Procurement - Prevailing Wage - Application to Leased Properties [HB-468]
Applying the prevailing wage law to specified construction contracts on property where the State or a political subdivision of the State is the owner and the State or political subdivision leases, or plans to lease, the property or a portion of the property; and applying the Act prospectively.
Sponsored by: Rep. Talmadge Branch
Unfavorable Report By Economic Matters on 03/17/2017
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Long-Term Care Insurance - Premium Rates [HB-493]
Requiring the Maryland Insurance Commissioner to provide information on the Maryland Insurance Administration's Web site describing specified factors and a specified process relating to premium rates for policies or contracts of long-term care insurance; requiring the Administration to make a specified assessment and determination relating to nonforfeiture benefits and to report its findings to specified committees of the General Assembly on or before January 1, 2018; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Stein
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 672 on 05/25/2017
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Hospitals - Establishment of Substance Use Treatment Program - Requirements [HB-515]
Requiring specified hospitals to establish a specified substance use treatment program; providing that the purpose of the program is to identify patients in need of substance use treatment and, if appropriate, admit the patient or, if admission is not required, to direct the patient to an outpatient treatment setting; requiring specified hospitals to operate or contract to operate specified substance use treatment units or to refer specified patients to a specified treatment unit; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kumar Barve
Hearing 2/28 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/28/2017
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
"EARN" Apprenticeships (Expand Apprenticeship Resources Now Act) [HB-465]
Requiring a contractor or subcontractor that performs work on specified construction projects to use workers that have completed or are enrolled in a specified apprenticeship program or to pay specified workers not less than a journeyworker's rate; providing that a person who violates a specified provision of law may be assessed a civil penalty and on conviction is subject to a fine not exceeding $20,000; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Nathaniel Oaks
Unfavorable Report By Economic Matters on 03/17/2017
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Transportation - State Highway Administration - Sale or Lease of Highway Naming Rights [SB-431]
Authorizing the State Highway Administration to sell or lease to a private entity the naming rights for all or part of a State highway; prohibiting the sale or lease of highway naming rights unless the Administration makes specified determinations; requiring the term of a contract for the sale or lease of naming rights to be at least 1 year; requiring the proceeds from the sale or lease of naming rights for all or part of a State highway be credited to the Transportation Trust Fund; etc
Sponsored by: Sen. Katherine Klausmeier
Hearing 2/15 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/15/2017
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Prevailing Wage - Tax Increment Financing Developments - Application [HB-466]
Altering the prevailing wage law to apply to specified structures or works constructed with specified bond proceeds in tax increment financing development districts established under State or local law; and applying the Act only to a contract executed on or after July 1, 2017.
Sponsored by: Sen. Nathaniel Oaks
Unfavorable Report By Economic Matters on 03/17/2017
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Education - Accountability Program - Assessments (More Learning, Less Testing Act of 2017) [HB-461]
Requiring the State Board of Education to develop, in collaboration with specified entities and individuals, a specified middle school level social studies assessment for implementation in the 2019-2020 school year; requiring the State Board, in collaboration with specified entities and individuals, to redesign the high school level social studies assessment for implementation in the 2018-2019 school year; requiring specified county boards to establish on or before specified dates a District Committee on Assessments; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Tawanna Gaines
Hearing 2/14 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/14/2018
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Economic Development - Maryland Energy Innovation Institute [HB-410]
Establishing a Maryland Energy Innovation Institute as part of the A. James Clark School of Engineering to collaborate with academic institutions on clean energy programs in the State and to attract private investment to clean energy innovation and commercialization in the State; establishing the Maryland Energy Innovation Fund to be used by the Institute and the Maryland Clean Energy Center; requiring the Center to develop a plan to become self-sustaining 5 years after the effective date of the Act; altering the purposes of the Center; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sally Jameson
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 364 on 05/04/2017
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Promoting Efficiencies in State Procurement [HB-426]
Altering provisions of State procurement law; altering the dollar value threshold that triggers the requirement to publish notice in eMaryland Marketplace; specifying a preferred procurement method for human, social, cultural, or educational services; establishing qualification based selection as the method of procurement for specified procurements; clarifying the authority of the board of trustees of a community college to advertise specified bids on eMaryland Marketplace; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Eric Bromwell
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 589 on 05/25/2017
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
State Finance and Procurement - Small and Minority Business Participation [HB-433]
Clarifying what constitutes good cause for the purposes of removal of a certified minority business enterprise after the execution of a contract; prohibiting the failure of a certified minority business to provide a specified bond from being considered nonperformance; altering a requirement that specified units structure specified procurement procedures to achieve a specified minimum percentage of the unit's total dollar value of specified contracts to be made directly to small businesses; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Tony McConkey
Hearing 3/01 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/01/2018
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Charles County - Collective Bargaining for Public Safety Officials [HB-446]
Altering the definition of "employer" to include Charles County under specified provisions of law; authorizing fire, emergency medical service, paramedic, and rescue employees to collectively bargain with specified counties and municipal corporations; altering a specified provision of law to provide that, with respect to Charles County, a memorandum of understanding between Charles County and a specified exclusive representative is subject to specified provisions concerning budgetary and fiscal procedures; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 178 on 04/18/2017
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Louisiana 2017 Regular Session
Provides relative to certain cooperative endeavor agreements. (gov sig) [SB-208]
Provides relative to certain cooperative endeavor agreements. (gov sig)
Sponsored by: Sen. Michael Walsworth
Introduced In The Senate; Read By Title. Rules Suspended. Read Second Time And Referred To The Committee On Revenue And Fiscal Affairs. on 04/10/2017
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Insurance - Short-Term Medical Insurance - Study [SB-380]
Requiring the Maryland Insurance Administration to conduct a study to assess the need in the State for short-term medical insurance offered by nonadmitted insurers; establishing specified requirements for the study; requiring the Administration to solicit input from specified persons in conducting the study; requiring the Administration to submit a specified report to the Governor and specified committees of the General Assembly on or before December 31, 2017; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. James Rosapepe
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 224 on 04/18/2017
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Montana 2017 Regular Session
Revise procurement laws for fire districts and service areas [HB-520]
Revise procurement laws for fire districts and service areas
Sponsored by: Rep. Ross Fitzgerald
Chapter Number Assigned on 04/03/2017
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Improving the State Procurement Oversight Structure [HB-390]
Repealing a specified provision of law relating to prequalification of bidders and offerors; increasing from $100,000 to $200,000 the total value of specified contracts, leases, or other agreements that require a business to file a specified disclosure with the Secretary of State; requiring the Department of Transportation, in consultation with a specified press association, to study the use and costs of public announcements of specified solicitations and report to specified committees of the General Assembly by December 1, 2017; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Eric Bromwell
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 586 on 05/25/2017
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Optional Retirement Program - Annuity Contracts - Employee Rights [HB-304]
Repealing a requirement that annuity contracts purchased under the optional retirement program shall be issued to and become the property of participating employees of the program; clarifying that the rights of participating employees who purchase annuity contracts under the program are fully vested and not subject to forfeit; authorizing a participating employee in the optional retirement program to select specified annuity contracts for the transfer of existing balances; applying the Act prospectively; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ben Barnes
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 527 on 05/04/2017
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Optional Retirement Program - Annuity Contract Providers [HB-328]
Repealing a default inclusion as an optional retirement program annuity contract provider of a company designated by a governing board of an employing institution on or before a specified date; altering the definition of "designated company" to mean one that is designated by the Board of Trustees; and providing the Board of Trustees may designate not more than five companies from which annuity contracts are to be purchased under the program.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ben Barnes
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 276 on 04/18/2017
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Maryland 2017 Regular Session
Health Insurance - Licensed Clinical Professional Art Therapists - Reimbursement [HB-298]
Adding a licensed clinical professional art therapist to the types of licensed clinical counselors and therapists whose services entitle an insured or specified other persons to reimbursement, under specified circumstances, under specified health insurance policies, contracts, or certificates.
Sponsored by: Rep. Angela Angel
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 219 on 04/18/2017