Human Services - Public Assistance - Program Modifications [HB-731]
Requiring the Maryland Higher Education Commission to coordinate efforts among job training programs to help recipients in the Family Investment Program with specified services; altering specified eligibility requirements for assistance in the Program; altering a specified benefit for welfare avoidance grants under the Program; altering specified requirements under the Program; etc.
HB-731: Human Services - Public Assistance - Program Modifications
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Costa
Unfavorable Report By Appropriations on 03/26/2010
Health Occupations - Personal Trainers Act [HB-747]
Establishing the State Board of Personal Trainers; requiring specified persons to be licensed by the Board as personal trainers or personal trainer assistants before performing specified work in the State; establishing specified education and experience requirements for obtaining a license; establishing specified grounds for discipline; establishing hearing and appeal procedures; providing that the Board is subject to the Maryland Program Evaluation Act; etc.
HB-747: Health Occupations - Personal Trainers Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Costa
Unfavorable Report By Health And Government Operations Withdrawn on 04/08/2010
Health Insurance - Dental Provider Panels - Provider Contracts [HB-804]
Prohibiting a provider contract from containing a provision that requires a participating dental provider, as a condition of continued participation in specified dental provider panels, to accept an added, revised, or amended fee schedule that contains a lower fee; and providing that the Act applies to all dental provider contracts issued, renewed, or amended in the State on or after October 1, 2010.
HB-804: Health Insurance - Dental Provider Panels - Provider Contracts
Sponsored by: Sen. Joanne Benson
Approved By The Governor on 05/20/2010
Maryland Transportation Authority Police Officers - Collective Bargaining [HB-815]
Expanding the application of provisions of law relating to collective bargaining to specified Maryland Transportation Authority police officers; providing that the provisions of law do not apply to Maryland Transportation Authority police officers who are supervisory, managerial, or confidential employees, as defined in specified regulations; requiring the Maryland Transportation Authority Police officers to have a separate bargaining unit; etc.
General Assembly - Fiscal Notes - Analysis of Long-Term Savings [HB-887]
Requiring a fiscal note for a bill to include an analysis of any potential long-term reduction in the expenditures of State government and of local governments and other long-term savings that could result from the bill; and requiring the analysis to project the potential long-term savings for a 5-year period beginning 1 year after the effective date of the bill.
HB-887: General Assembly - Fiscal Notes - Analysis of Long-Term Savings
Sponsored by: Sen. Joanne Benson
Unfavorable Report By House Rules And Executive Nominations on 04/12/2010
Developmental Disabilities Administration - Recipient Appeals [HB-900]
Requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to provide notice and an opportunity for a Medicaid fair hearing under specified circumstances; requiring the Secretary to provide specified notice within 30 days after the denial of Medicaid-waiver services to a recipient under a plan of habilitation; authorizing an individual who receives written notice of a denial to appeal the decision; etc.
State Government - Commemorative Days - Fire, Rescue, and Emergency Services [HB-910]
Requiring the Governor to proclaim the first Sunday in June each year as the day to honor fire, rescue, and emergency services workers who made the ultimate sacrifice in the performance of their duties; requiring the Governor to order the State flag to be flown at half-staff on a specified day each year; and requiring, on the first Sunday in June each year, specified memorial plaques to be placed by the Maryland Fire-Rescue Services Memorial Foundation, Inc., on the Maryland Fire-Rescue Services Memorial in the City of Annapolis.
HB-910: State Government - Commemorative Days - Fire, Rescue, and Emergency Services
Sponsored by: Sen. Jim Mathias
Approved By The Governor on 05/04/2010
Maryland Winery Modernization Act [HB-921]
Authorizing the Comptroller to issue a farmer's market permit to specified alcoholic beverages license holders; specifying that a permit may be used only at a specified time and place and for specified purposes; requiring the licensee to notify the local licensing board of the issuance of a farmer's market permit; limiting the number of permits that the Comptroller may issue; altering the scope of the Class 4 limited winery license; authorizing a licensee to exercise specified privileges; etc.
HB-921: Maryland Winery Modernization Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Eric Bromwell
First Reading Education Health And Environmental Affairs on 03/23/2010
Creation of a State Debt - Anne Arundel County - Coordinating Center for Home [HB-949]
Authorizing the creation of a State Debt not to exceed $3,475,000, the proceeds to be used as a grant to the Board of Directors of the Coordinating Center for Home and Community Care, Inc. for the acquisition, planning, design, capital equipping, and build-out of the building facilities for the Coordinating Center for Home and Community Care, located in Millersville; providing for disbursement of the loan proceeds, subject to a requirement that the grantee provide and expend a matching fund; etc.
HB-949: Creation of a State Debt - Anne Arundel County - Coordinating Center for Home
Sponsored by: Rep. Theodore Sophocleus
Unfavorable Report By Appropriations on 04/12/2010