2007 Regular Session
Liability -see also- Good Samaritan
Status of Legislation
Total number of Bills: 73
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Haynes
- Entitled
- Criminal Procedure - Expungement of Police Records - Arrest Without Charge - Automatic
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Morhaim, Aumann, Barve, Frank, Minnick, Oaks, Shank, and Stein
- Entitled
- Circuit Courts - Medical Injury - Medical Malpractice Administrative Review Board
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Eckardt, Cane, Haddaway, Smigiel, and Sossi
- Entitled
- Mid-Shore Regional Council - Membership
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Simmons, Barnes, and Smigiel
- Entitled
- Maryland Comparative Negligence Act
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Morhaim, Barve, Cardin, Jones, Shank, and Stein
- Entitled
- Health Care Malpractice - Expression of Regret or Apology - Inadmissibility
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Rosenberg, Anderson, and Carter
- Entitled
- Baltimore City - Local Government Tort Claims Act - Baltimore Public Markets Corporation and Lexington Market, Inc.
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Beitzel
- Entitled
- Garrett County - Local Government Tort Claims Act - Inclusion of Specified Nonprofit Entity
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Hubbard and Rosenberg
- Entitled
- Mental Health - Incarcerated Individuals with Mental Illness
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Cane, Conway, Eckardt, Elmore, Haddaway, and Mathias
- Entitled
- Tri-County Council for the Lower Eastern Shore of Maryland - Membership
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
HB 338
Status as of March 24, 2007: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Morhaim and Shank
- Entitled
- Task Force on Administrative Compensation for Birth-Related Neurological Injury
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations and Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Pendergrass
- Entitled
- Public Health Laboratories - Mutual Aid Agreements
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Hubbard
- Entitled
- Maryland Fetal and Infant Mortality Review
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Beitzel and Hammen
- Entitled
- Medical Malpractice Liability Insurance - Garrett County Memorial Hospital - Subsidy for Family Practitioners Who Also Perform Obstetrical Services
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Smigiel, Anderson, Carter, Dumais, Elmore, Kelly, Lee, Manno, Schuler, and Simmons
- Entitled
- Torts - Release of Claim for Damages - Voidable
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Weir, Boteler, and Minnick
- Entitled
- Real Property - Landlord Liability for Injury or Damage - Requirements
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Simmons, Olszewski, Vallario, Rosenberg, Anderson, Barnes, Carter, Conaway, Dumais, Dwyer, Frank, Kelly, Kramer, Lee, Levi, McComas, Ramirez, Schuler, Smigiel, Valderrama, and Waldstreicher
- Entitled
- Civil Actions - Liability of Insurer - Failure to Act in Good Faith
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Feldman
- Entitled
- Commercial Law - Consumer Protection - Vehicle Protection Products Act
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Frank and Boteler
- Entitled
- Protection of Persons and Property - Immunity
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Anderson, Barkley, Dwyer, Kelly, McConkey, and Rosenberg
- Entitled
- Civil Liability - AMBER Alert Dissemination - Immunity for Media and Commercial Mobile Radio Service Providers
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Anderson and Smigiel
- Entitled
- Action or Claim for Medical Injury - Attesting Experts - Reports
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Smigiel, Anderson, Carter, Conaway, Dumais, Heller, Kramer, Lee, Manno, Schuler, and Waldstreicher
- Entitled
- Motor Vehicle Insurance - Uninsured Motorist Coverage - Insureds
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Feldman
- Entitled
- Insurance - Binders or Policies - Personal Insurance
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
HB 735
Status as of February 14, 2007: Bill is in the House - First Reading Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Hubbard, Boteler, Bromwell, DeBoy, Elliott, Haddaway, Holmes, Hucker, Kullen, Malone, Mathias, McDonough, Nathan-Pulliam, Oaks, Rudolph, and Tarrant
- Entitled
- State Board of Massage Therapy Examiners - Licensure, Registration, and Regulation
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Carter, Anderson, and Rosenberg
- Entitled
- Lead-Based Paint Damages - Reimbursement by Manufacturer - Market Share Liability
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Anderson, Carter, Conaway, Glenn, Haynes, Kirk, Krysiak, McHale, Oaks, Robinson, Stukes, and Tarrant
- Entitled
- Disease Prevention - Sexually Transmitted Diseases - Expedited Partner Therapy Pilot Program
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Shank
- Entitled
- Civil Actions - Limitation of Actions - Land Surveyors
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Benson, Barnes, Bobo, Burns, Cane, Costa, Davis, Gaines, Haynes, Healey, Holmes, Howard, Hubbard, Ivey, Nathan-Pulliam, Niemann, Pena-Melnyk, Proctor, Ross, Stukes, Taylor, Vallario, Vaughn, and Walker
- Entitled
- Commercial Law - Consumer Protection - Wireless Telephone Consumer Protection Act
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Burns, Anderson, Aumann, Cane, Elmore, Frank, Jennings, Nathan-Pulliam, Smigiel, Stukes, and Vaughn
- Entitled
- Commercial Vehicle Warranty Enforcement - Study
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Simmons and Vallario
- Entitled
- Motor Carrier Transportation Contracts - Indemnity Agreements Void
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Davis, Impallaria, N. King, Montgomery, Myers, and Taylor
- Entitled
- Vehicle Laws - Consumer Access to Replacement Key Information
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Vallario
- Entitled
- Maryland Uniform Power of Attorney Act
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
HB 980
Status as of March 7, 2007: Bill is in the House - First Reading Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Nathan-Pulliam, Benson, Kullen, Mizeur, and Tarrant
- Entitled
- HIV Testing, Education, and Treatment for Inmates
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Feldman
- Entitled
- Commercial Law - Internet Auction Sales Act
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Rudolph, Conway, and McKee
- Entitled
- Maryland Tort Claims Act - State Personnel - Definition and Claims
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Valderrama, Ali, and Kramer
- Entitled
- Task Force to Study Risk Management and Loss Control
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Judiciary Committee (By Request - Departmental - Transportation)
- Entitled
- Maryland Transit Administration - Limits of Liability
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Hubbard, Bohanan, Frush, Hammen, Hecht, James, McHale, Pena-Melnyk, Rosenberg, Beitzel, Benson, Bromwell, Donoghue, Elliott, Kach, Kipke, Kullen, McDonough, Mizeur, Montgomery, Morhaim, Nathan-Pulliam, Oaks, Pendergrass, Riley, Tarrant, V. Turner, and Weldon
- Entitled
- Maryland HIV/AIDS Reporting Act
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Health and Government Operations Committee (By Request - Departmental - Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems)
- Entitled
- Automated External Defibrillator Program
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Feldman
- Entitled
- Real Property - Mortgage or Deed of Trust - Release by Title Insurance Professional
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates McComas and Shewell
- Entitled
- Real Property - Condominium Regimes - Liability for Defect of Common Element
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Allegany County Delegation
- Entitled
- Vehicle Laws - Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Racing Events - Approval
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
HB 1357
Status as of March 2, 2007: Bill is in the House - First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Morhaim
- Entitled
- Maryland Transit Administration - Limitation of Tort Liability - Performance of Third Party Contracts
- Committee
Assignments -
House: House Rules and Executive Nominations
- Sponsored By
- Senator Della
- Entitled
- Baltimore City - Local Government Tort Claims Act - Baltimore Public Markets Corporation and Lexington Market, Inc.
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Senator Zirkin
- Entitled
- Health Care Malpractice - Expression of Regret or Apology - Inadmissibility
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senators Kelley, Colburn, Conway, Exum, Hooper, Jacobs, Jones, Miller, Mooney, and Rosapepe
- Entitled
- Insurers - Third Party Claimants - Notice of Payment to Claimant's Attorney
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Edwards
- Entitled
- Garrett County - Local Government Tort Claims Act - Inclusion of Garrett County Municipalities, Inc.
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Senators Kelley, Colburn, Della, Hogan, Jones, Middleton, and Raskin
- Entitled
- Maryland Uniform Power of Attorney Act
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senator Edwards
- Entitled
- Garrett County - Local Government Tort Claims Act - Inclusion of Specified Nonprofit Entity
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Senator Lenett
- Entitled
- Maryland Comparative Negligence Act
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senators Middleton and Munson
- Entitled
- Maryland Tort Claims Act - Employee or Official of the Maryland Agricultural and Resource-Based Industry Development Corporation
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Senators Forehand and Middleton
- Entitled
- Motor Carrier Transportation Contracts - Indemnity Agreements Void
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Senator McFadden
- Entitled
- Disease Prevention - Sexually Transmitted Diseases - Expedited Partner Therapy Pilot Program
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Senator Muse
- Entitled
- Torts - Release of Claim for Damages - Voidable
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Senators Muse, Frosh, Pugh, and Rosapepe
- Entitled
- Interstate Compact for Juveniles
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Senators Raskin, Forehand, Haines, Jacobs, and Muse
- Entitled
- Civil Liability - AMBER Alert Dissemination - Immunity for Media and Commercial Mobile Radio Service Providers
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Senator Stone
- Entitled
- Civil Actions - Liability of Insurer - Failure to Act in Good Faith
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Senators Colburn and Pipkin
- Entitled
- Mid-Shore Regional Council - Membership
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Colburn and Stoltzfus
- Entitled
- Tri-County Council for the Lower Eastern Shore of Maryland - Membership
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Pugh, Britt, Colburn, Exum, Gladden, Harris, Jones, McFadden, Middleton, and Muse
- Entitled
- Correctional Services - Inmates - Mandatory Health Testing
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senator Munson
- Entitled
- Mental Hygiene Law - Court Records Relating to a Petition for Emergency Evaluation - Confidentiality
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Senator Astle
- Entitled
- Commercial Law - Consumer Protection - Vehicle Protection Products Act
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Jacobs, Colburn, DeGrange, Edwards, Greenip, Haines, Harris, Hooper, Kittleman, Mooney, Munson, Pipkin, Simonaire, and Stoltzfus
- Entitled
- Protection of Persons and Property - Immunity
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senator Garagiola
- Entitled
- Insurance - Binders or Policies - Personal Insurance
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Raskin
- Entitled
- Courts - Health Care Malpractice - Certificate of a Qualified Expert
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senator Edwards
- Entitled
- Medical Malpractice Liability Insurance - Garrett County Memorial Hospital - Subsidy for Family Practitioners Who Also Perform Obstetrical Services
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator McFadden
- Entitled
- Lead-Based Paint Damages - Reimbursement by Manufacturer - Market Share Liability
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
SB 707
Status as of March 23, 2007: Bill is in the House - First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations
- Sponsored By
- Senators Hooper, Forehand, and Munson
- Entitled
- Vehicle Laws - Consumer Access to Replacement Key Information
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: House Rules and Executive Nominations
- Sponsored By
- Senator Middleton
- Entitled
- Mental Health - Incarcerated Individuals with Mental Illness
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Senators Harris and Zirkin
- Entitled
- No-Fault Cerebral Palsy Insurance Fund
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senator Edwards
- Entitled
- Vehicle Laws - Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Racing Events - Approval
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Conway
- Entitled
- Maryland HIV/AIDS Reporting Act
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Health and Government Operations
SB 993
Status as of April 2, 2007: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Klausmeier and Hooper
- Entitled
- State Board of Massage Therapy Examiners - Licensure, Registration, and Regulation
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Stone, DeGrange, Della, Kasemeyer, Klausmeier, McFadden, and Zirkin
- Entitled
- Liquefied Natural Gas and Liquefied Petroleum Gas - Liability
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings and Finance
