2008 Regular Session
Disabilities -see also- Blind; Deaf; Developmental
Status of Legislation
Total number of Bills: 82
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Guzzone
- Entitled
- Property Tax - Credit - Accessibility Features
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Holmes
- Entitled
- Income Tax Exemption Amounts - Blind and Elderly Individuals
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Lafferty, Boteler, Bromwell, and DeBoy
- Entitled
- Education - Special Education Services - Children in a Home School Setting
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Costa, Dwyer, George, Kipke, McConkey, and O'Donnell
- Entitled
- Income Tax - Subtraction Modification - Retirement Income
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Hixson, Hucker, and Mizeur
- Entitled
- Condominiums - Conversion of Rental Facilities - Extended Leases - Property Tax Credit
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters and Ways and Means
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Health and Government Operations Committee (By Request - Departmental - Health and Mental Hygiene)
- Entitled
- Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Living at Home Waiver Program
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Health and Government Operations Committee (By Request - Departmental - Disabilities)
- Entitled
- Assistive Technology Guaranteed Loan Program and Fund - Changes
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Ways and Means Committee (By Request - Departmental - Education)
- Entitled
- Tax Credits for Qualifying Employees with Disabilities - Sunset Extension
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Conaway
- Entitled
- Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners - System of Public School Buses Required
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- The Speaker (By Request - Administration) and Delegate Cardin
- Entitled
- Reorganization of State Government - Department of Information Technology
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Hubbard
- Entitled
- Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Birth Defects Research - Medical Information
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Niemann, Gilchrist, Lafferty, Benson, Frush, Hubbard, Manno, and Pena-Melnyk
- Entitled
- Residential Real Property - Maryland Building Performance Standards - Minimum Standards for Visitability
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Carroll County Delegation
- Entitled
- Creation of a State Debt - Carroll County - The Friendship School
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
HB 493
Status as of March 18, 2008: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Hubbard
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Disabled Individuals - Eligibility for the Maryland Health Insurance Plan
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Heller and Robinson
- Entitled
- Transit Service for Disabled Persons - Criminal History Records Check and Training for Persons Providing Service
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates McIntosh, Ali, Bobo, Cane, Carr, V. Clagett, Frush, Glenn, Healey, Holmes, Hucker, Lafferty, Niemann, Norman, and Stein
- Entitled
- Maryland Affordable Housing Investment Fund
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters and Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Tarrant, DeBoy, Malone, and Stukes
- Entitled
- Disabled Law Enforcement Officers and Rescue Workers - Property Tax Credit
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Ways and Means Committee (By Request - Departmental - Education)
- Entitled
- Children, Youth, and Families - Local Coordinating Councils - Membership
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Taylor, Cardin, Feldman, Kirk, Krysiak, Manno, and Vaughn
- Entitled
- Unemployment Insurance - Eligibility - Part-Time Work
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Hixson, Gutierrez, Hucker, and Mizeur
- Entitled
- Creation of a State Debt - Montgomery County - Easter Seals Inter-Generational Center
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
HB 747
Status as of February 6, 2008: Bill is in the House - First Reading Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Minnick
- Entitled
- Procurement - Service Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Participation
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Heller, Kramer, Manno, Hammen, Pendergrass, Beitzel, Benson, Bromwell, Costa, Donoghue, Elliott, Kach, Kipke, Kullen, Mizeur, Montgomery, Morhaim, Pena-Melnyk, Reznik, Riley, Tarrant, V. Turner, and Weldon
- Entitled
- Individuals With Disabilities and Parents of Minors with Disabilities - Service Animals
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
HB 783
Status as of March 11, 2008: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Robinson, Anderson, Conaway, Glenn, Hammen, Harrison, Haynes, Kirk, McHale, and Taylor
- Entitled
- Community Attendant Services and Supports Program - Personal Assistants - Requirements for Family Members
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Weldon, Bates, G. Clagett, Hecht, Miller, Stull, Hammen, Pendergrass, Beitzel, Benson, Bromwell, Costa, Donoghue, Elliott, Hubbard, Kach, Kipke, Kullen, McDonough, Mizeur, Montgomery, Morhaim, Nathan-Pulliam, Oaks, Pena-Melnyk, Reznik, Riley, Tarrant, and V. Turner
- Entitled
- Procurement - Preferences - Employment Works Program
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Kramer, Barkley, Conaway, Dwyer, Frank, Heller, Ivey, Kaiser, Kelly, Krebs, Manno, McComas, Montgomery, Myers, Shank, Valderrama, Waldstreicher, and Weldon
- Entitled
- Criminal Law - Crimes Against the Elderly or Persons with a Disability - Penalties
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Weldon, Hammen, Pendergrass, Beitzel, Benson, Bromwell, Costa, Donoghue, Elliott, Hubbard, Kach, Kipke, Kullen, McDonough, Mizeur, Montgomery, Morhaim, Nathan-Pulliam, Oaks, Pena-Melnyk, Reznik, Riley, Tarrant, and V. Turner
- Entitled
- Procurement - Preference Procurement Program for Sheltered Workshops - Individual With Disability Owned Businesses
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
HB 895
Status as of April 5, 2008: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Ross, Waldstreicher, Carr, and Gutierrez
- Entitled
- State Government - Dandy-Walker Syndrome and Hydrocephalus Awareness Month
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
HB 951
Status as of February 13, 2008: Bill is in the House - First Reading Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Kullen, Bromwell, Costa, Gaines, Hubbard, Kipke, Montgomery, Nathan-Pulliam, Pena-Melnyk, Taylor, and V. Turner
- Entitled
- Living at Home Waiver Program - Case Management - Eligibility
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Weir, Aumann, Boteler, Hucker, Impallaria, Jennings, Kach, Krebs, McDonough, Minnick, Olszewski, Schuler, Sossi, and Stein
- Entitled
- Vehicle Laws - Registration Fees - Discount for Seniors and Individuals with Disabilities
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Krebs, Aumann, Bartlett, Bates, Conaway, Dwyer, Eckardt, Elliott, Frank, George, Howard, James, Kipke, McComas, O'Donnell, Riley, Schuh, Shank, Sossi, and Stocksdale
- Entitled
- Income Tax - Subtraction Modification - Retirement Income
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Conway and Mathias
- Entitled
- Creation of a State Debt - Wicomico County - Epilepsy Association Facility
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Conway and Walkup
- Entitled
- Creation of a State Debt - Kent County - Camp Fairlee Manor
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Lee, McComas, and Niemann (Task Force to Study Identity Theft), and Delegates Aumann, Barkley, Barnes, Beitzel, Benson, Bronrott, Carter, DeBoy, Dumais, Eckardt, Elliott, Frank, Frick, George, Gutierrez, Howard, James, Jones, Kaiser, Kramer, Krebs, Kullen, Levy, McConkey, McDonough, Miller, Montgomery, Myers, Norman, Pena-Melnyk, Pendergrass, Ramirez, Robinson, Schuh, Schuler, Shank, Shewell, Smigiel, Sophocleus, Sossi, Stocksdale, Valderrama, Waldstreicher, and Wood
- Entitled
- Identity Fraud - Prohibitions, Evidence, and Penalties
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
HB 1124
Status as of April 7, 2008: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Levi and Shank
- Entitled
- Task Force on Administrative Compensation for Birth-Related Neurological Injury
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations and Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Kullen, Eckardt, Hammen, Pendergrass, Benson, Donoghue, Elliott, Hubbard, Kach, Kipke, McDonough, Mizeur, Montgomery, Morhaim, Nathan-Pulliam, Oaks, Pena-Melnyk, Reznik, Riley, Tarrant, V. Turner, and Weldon
- Entitled
- Nurse Practitioners - Authority to Certify
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Kach and Olszewski
- Entitled
- Vehicle Excise Tax - Vehicles Equipped for Individuals with Mobility Impairments - Exemption
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Kramer, Barkley, Carr, Heller, Kelly, Lee, Manno, Montgomery, and Simmons
- Entitled
- Missing Senior Adult Alert Program - Establishment
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Impallaria, McDonough, and Weir
- Entitled
- Property Tax Credit - Dwellings Owned by Disabled or Injured Police Officers, Firefighters, and Correctional Officers
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Bronrott
- Entitled
- Sales and Use Tax on Computer Services and Motor Vehicle Excise Tax - Rates
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Rosenberg, Beidle, Bronrott, Carr, Elmore, Lee, Mizeur, O'Donnell, Simmons, and Waldstreicher
- Entitled
- Children in Need of Assistance - Custody Determinations - Prohibition Against Consideration of Disabilities
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Kaiser, Bronrott, Carr, Conway, Healey, Love, Manno, Montgomery, Howard, Ivey, Rice, Ross, and Stukes
- Entitled
- Fitness and Athletics Equity for Students with Disabilities Act
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Health and Government Operations Committee (By Request - Departmental - Veterans Affairs)
- Entitled
- Procurement - Small Business Preference Program - Veteran-Owned and Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Appropriations Committee (By Request - Departmental - Veterans Affairs)
- Entitled
- State Employees - Veterans Seniority Points
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Morhaim, Cardin, and Stein
- Entitled
- Maryland Consolidated Capital Bond Loan of 2007 - Baltimore County - United Cerebral Palsy Facility
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
HB 1532
Status as of March 20, 2008: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Health and Government Operations Committee (By Request - Departmental - Health and Mental Hygiene)
- Entitled
- Health - Direct Access of State Agencies to Criminal Background Checks Conducted by Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
HB 1533
Status as of April 3, 2008: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Nathan-Pulliam, Benson, Burns, Carter, Harrison, Jones, Oaks, Robinson, Stukes, and Tarrant
- Entitled
- Task Force to Study Health Disparities Among Minority Children with Learning Disabilities
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Glenn
- Entitled
- Creation of a State Debt - Baltimore City - Maryland School for the Blind
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Ramirez, Anderson, Barnes, Bobo, Cane, Glenn, Guzzone, Oaks, and Stukes
- Entitled
- Maryland Youth Entrepreneur Connection Program
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate O'Donnell
- Entitled
- Motor Vehicles - Registration for Individuals with Disabilities
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Ramirez, Ivey, and Niemann
- Entitled
- Creation of a State Debt - Prince George's County - St. James ADA Ramp
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Senator Brochin
- Entitled
- Education - Special Education Services - Children in a Home School Setting
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Senators Kelley and Jones (Task Force to Study Identity Theft) and Senators Astle, Britt, Colburn, Conway, Currie, Della, Dyson, Edwards, Exum, Forehand, Garagiola, Gladden, Glassman, Greenip, Jacobs, Kasemeyer, King, Kittleman, Klausmeier, Kramer, Lenett, McFadden, Middleton, Miller, Mooney, Munson, Muse, Pinsky, Pugh, Raskin, Rosapepe, Stone, and Zirkin
- Entitled
- Identity Fraud - Prohibitions, Evidence, and Penalties
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Senator Raskin
- Entitled
- Creation of a State Debt - Montgomery County - Easter Seals Inter-Generational Center
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- The President (By Request - Administration)
- Entitled
- Reorganization of State Government - Department of Information Technology
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Senators McFadden and Kasemeyer
- Entitled
- Creation of a State Debt - Baltimore City - Maryland School for the Blind
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
SB 302
Status as of February 13, 2008: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Conway
- Entitled
- Maryland Affordable Housing Investment Fund
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs and Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Senators Currie and Kasemeyer
- Entitled
- State Employment Opportunity Credit - Sunset Extension
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Senators Kelley, Conway, Dyson, Exum, Forehand, Gladden, Jones, Madaleno, Muse, Pinsky, Pugh, and Raskin
- Entitled
- Unemployment Insurance - Eligibility - Part-Time Work
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Conway
- Entitled
- Procurement - Preferences - Employment Works Program
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Carroll County Senators
- Entitled
- Creation of a State Debt - Carroll County - The Friendship School
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
SB 477
Status as of February 13, 2008: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Madaleno
- Entitled
- State Government - Dandy-Walker Syndrome and Hydrocephalus Awareness Month
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators DeGrange, Astle, Currie, Dyson, Jones, Klausmeier, Kramer, McFadden, Munson, Peters, Robey, and Zirkin
- Entitled
- Disabled Law Enforcement Officers and Rescue Workers - Property Tax Credit
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Senators Kramer, DeGrange, Forehand, Garagiola, Glassman, Haines, Jacobs, Jones, King, Klausmeier, Madaleno, Middleton, Mooney, Muse, Pugh, Raskin, Rosapepe, and Stone
- Entitled
- Missing Senior Adult Alert Program - Establishment
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senators Kramer, DeGrange, Forehand, Garagiola, Glassman, Haines, Jacobs, Jones, King, Madaleno, Middleton, Mooney, Muse, Pugh, Rosapepe, and Stone
- Entitled
- Criminal Law - Crimes Against the Elderly or Persons with a Disability - Penalties
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Budget and Taxation Committee
- Entitled
- Spending Mandate and Revenue Dedication Relief Act
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Senator Gladden
- Entitled
- Children in Need of Assistance - Custody Determinations - Prohibition Against Consideration of Disabilities
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Senators Forehand, Brochin, Frosh, Gladden, Haines, Jacobs, Mooney, Muse, Raskin, Simonaire, and Stone
- Entitled
- Individuals with Disabilities and Parents of Minors with Disabilities - Service Animals
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Senators Lenett, Dyson, and Middleton
- Entitled
- Procurement - Preference Procurement Program for Sheltered Workshops - Individual With Disability Owned Businesses
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Senators Peters, Astle, Dyson, Munson, Garagiola, Colburn, Conway, Lenett, and Rosapepe
- Entitled
- Procurement - Service Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Participation
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Senator Colburn
- Entitled
- Compensation Program for Family Member Caretakers
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senator Stone
- Entitled
- Vehicles Equipped for Disabled Individuals - Fees and Taxes
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Senator Lenett
- Entitled
- Residential Real Property - Maryland Building Performance Standards - Minimum Standards for Visitability - Study
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator DeGrange
- Entitled
- Prior Authorizations of State Debt to Fund Capital Projects - Alterations
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
House: Appropriations
SB 813
Status as of March 20, 2008: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Pipkin
- Entitled
- Education - Scholarship Program for Children with a Disability
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators McFadden, Astle, Dyson, Exum, Gladden, Muse, Pugh, and Rosapepe
- Entitled
- Maryland Youth Entrepreneur Connection Program
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senator Conway
- Entitled
- Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Birth Defects Research - Medical Information
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Senator Rosapepe
- Entitled
- Fitness and Athletics Equity for Students with Disabilities Act
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Senator Dyson
- Entitled
- Nurse Practitioners - Authority to Certify
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Senator Stoltzfus
- Entitled
- Creation of a State Debt - Wicomico County - Epilepsy Association Facility
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Senator Kelley
- Entitled
- Traumatic Brain Injury Advisory Board - Sunset - Repeal
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Senator Pipkin
- Entitled
- Creation of a State Debt - Kent County - Camp Fairlee Manor
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Senator Harrington
- Entitled
- Creation of a State Debt - Prince George's County - St. James ADA Ramp
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
