2009 Regular Session
Attorney General
Status of Legislation
Total number of Bills: 62
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Bobo and Manno
- Entitled
- Health Care Decisions Counseling - Workgroup
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Carter
- Entitled
- Maryland Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Hucker, Ali, Barkley, Barve, Beidle, Bobo, Burns, Conaway, Dumais, Feldman, Frush, Gilchrist, Gutierrez, Harrison, Hubbard, King, Kipke, Krysiak, Lafferty, Love, Manno, McComas, Minnick, Montgomery, Reznik, Rice, Smigiel, Stein, Tarrant, Taylor, and Waldstreicher
- Entitled
- Consumer Protection - Fur Labeling Requirements for Articles of Clothing
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
HB 284
Status as of January 29, 2009: Bill is in the House - First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Schuh and Minnick
- Entitled
- Election Law - Legislative Districting and Apportionment Commission
- Committee
Assignments -
House: House Rules and Executive Nominations
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Proctor
- Entitled
- Attorney General - State Legal Business - Hiring Counsel
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- The Speaker (By Request - Administration) and Delegates Ali, Barve, Braveboy, Bronrott, Frush, Griffith, Holmes, Hubbard, Ivey, James, Niemann, Pena-Melnyk, Ramirez, Rosenberg, F. Turner, V. Turner, and Vaughn
- Entitled
- Maryland False Health Claims Act of 2009
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary and Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- The Speaker (By Request - Administration) and Delegates Ali, Barnes, Beidle, Bronrott, Carr, V. Clagett, Frush, Glenn, Healey, Holmes, Howard, Hucker, Lafferty, Lee, Malone, Montgomery, Niemann, Pena-Melnyk, Stein, Stukes, Valderrama, Cane, O'Donnell, Sossi, and Weir
- Entitled
- Aquaculture - Shellfish - Leasing
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
HB 391
Status as of April 7, 2009: Bill is in the Senate - Re-referred Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Rosenberg, Dumais, Gutierrez, Ivey, Rice, Ross, F. Turner, Frick, Gilchrist, Shank, Murphy, Cardin, Howard, Hixson, Bartlett, Kaiser, Myers, Walker, Olszewski, Stukes, and George
- Entitled
- Voter's Rights Protection Act of 2009
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Rudolph, Barkley, Feldman, Hecht, Minnick, Pendergrass, Rosenberg, and Taylor
- Entitled
- Public Safety - Emergency Management - Essential Goods and Services
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Aumann, Bates, Bobo, Boteler, Branch, Conway, Eckardt, Gaines, Gutierrez, Haynes, Howard, Jones, Levy, Robinson, Sophocleus, and Wood
- Entitled
- Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation - Easements - Inspection Requirements
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
HB 502
Status as of March 24, 2009: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Miller, Malone, Bromwell, Costa, Kipke, McDonough, and Weldon
- Entitled
- State Procurement - Employment of Unauthorized Aliens and the Federal E-Verify Program
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Ross, Barnes, Bronrott, Cardin, Gilchrist, Gutierrez, Guzzone, Ivey, Kaiser, Manno, Nathan-Pulliam, Niemann, Ramirez, Rice, Taylor, and F. Turner
- Entitled
- Tobacco Tax - Tax Stamps
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Morhaim
- Entitled
- Procurement - Service Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Participation
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegate G. Clagett
- Entitled
- State Personnel - Attorney General - Special Appointments
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Chair, Economic Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Comptroller)
- Entitled
- Fire Safety Performance Standard for Cigarettes - Sale or Distribution for Consumer Testing Under Controlled Settings
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Ali and Bobo
- Entitled
- Special Session Campaign Finance Reform Act
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Hixson, Bobo, Boteler, Cardin, Frick, George, Ivey, Myers, Olszewski, and F. Turner
- Entitled
- Election Law - Audit of Election Results - Transparency in Election Administration
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Braveboy
- Entitled
- Common Ownership Communities - Fidelity Insurance
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Jones, G. Clagett, Bronrott, Aumann, Bates, DeBoy, Stocksdale, Bohanan, Gaines, Sophocleus, and Guzzone
- Entitled
- State Personnel - At-Will Employment - Reforms and Reports
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Appropriations
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Impallaria, Boteler, and McDonough
- Entitled
- Courts - Death Penalty Court
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Holmes
- Entitled
- Real Property - Common Interest Community Association Annual Registration
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Smigiel, Dumais, Frank, Levi, McConkey, Shank, and Stocksdale
- Entitled
- Lawyers - Simultaneous Service As Counsel to Counties and Municipalities - Prohibition
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Smigiel
- Entitled
- Maryland False Claims Act
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary and Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Hubbard, Carr, V. Clagett, Frush, Holmes, Lafferty, Montgomery, Morhaim, Nathan-Pulliam, and Oaks
- Entitled
- Agriculture - Fertilizers and Pesticides - Release Reporting
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Serafini, Bartlett, Bates, Beitzel, Boteler, Costa, Donoghue, Dwyer, Eckardt, George, Haddaway, Kelly, Kipke, Krebs, Miller, Myers, Norman, O'Donnell, Schuh, Shank, Shewell, Stukes, Stull, Walker, and Weldon
- Entitled
- Education - Public Schools - Student Speech on Religious Issues
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Ways and Means
HB 982
Status as of March 30, 2009: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Morhaim and Hammen
- Entitled
- Health Occupations - Licensure of Physician Assistants
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Hammen, Benson, Costa, Montgomery, Nathan-Pulliam, Oaks, Pena-Melnyk, Pendergrass, Reznik, and V. Turner
- Entitled
- Health Services Cost Review Commission - Financial Assistance and Debt Collection Policies
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Davis
- Entitled
- Labor and Employment - Misclassification of Employees as Independent Contractors
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
HB 1146
Status as of March 28, 2009: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Smigiel
- Entitled
- Reorganization of State Government - Department of Emergency Services
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations and Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Rosenberg, Anderson, Carter, Conaway, Glenn, McHale, Oaks, Robinson, and Stukes
- Entitled
- Baltimore City Lead Poisoning Recovery Act of 2009
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Hixson, Barnes, Barve, Bromwell, Frush, Gaines, Hecht, Ivey, Proctor, Ross, and F. Turner
- Entitled
- Moist Snuff - Taxation and Regulation
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters and Ways and Means
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Mathias, Cane, Conway, Rudolph, Haddaway, and Eckardt
- Entitled
- Criminal Law - Salvinorin A and Salvia Divinorum - Distribution to and Possession by Individual Under 21 Years of Age
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Valderrama, Ali, Anderson, Barnes, Benson, Cane, Carr, Carter, Feldman, Guzzone, Howard, Ivey, Kramer, Lee, Manno, McConkey, Pena-Melnyk, Simmons, Smigiel, V. Turner, and Waldstreicher
- Entitled
- Public Safety - SWAT Team Activation and Deployment - Reports
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
HB 1275
Status as of April 13, 2009: Bill is in the Senate - Re-referred Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Nathan-Pulliam, Benson, Montgomery, Oaks, Pena-Melnyk, Tarrant, and V. Turner
- Entitled
- Health Occupations Boards - Revisions
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Ali
- Entitled
- Credit and Debit Card Fraud Prevention Act
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
HB 1477
Status as of March 24, 2009: 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 - Pharmaceutical Manufacturer Advertising and Gifts to Health Care Providers - Reports
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Health and Government Operations
HB 1504
Status as of March 4, 2009: Bill is in the House - First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations
- Sponsored By
- Prince George's County Delegation
- Entitled
- Prince George's County - SWAT Team Activation and Deployment - Reports PG 329-09
- Committee
Assignments -
House: House Rules and Executive Nominations
- Sponsored By
- Senator Forehand
- Entitled
- Tobacco Product Manufacturers - Settlement of State Claims - Nonparticipating Manufacturers - Deposit of Funds in Escrow - Codification of Model Statute
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Senators Kasemeyer and Frosh
- Entitled
- Maryland Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- The President (By Request - Administration) and Senators Colburn, Conway, Forehand, Harrington, Lenett, Middleton, Pinsky, Raskin, and Klausmeier
- Entitled
- Aquaculture - Shellfish - Leasing
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- The President (By Request - Administration) and Senators Frosh, Harrington, Lenett, Madaleno, Pinsky, Raskin, Robey, and Forehand
- Entitled
- Maryland False Health Claims Act of 2009
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
SB 320
Status as of February 11, 2009: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Gladden
- Entitled
- Voter's Rights Protection Act of 2009
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Pugh, Della, Gladden, Lenett, Madaleno, Pinsky, Raskin, and Rosapepe
- Entitled
- Consumer Protection - Fur Labeling Requirements for Articles of Clothing
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Muse, Frosh, Haines, Mooney, Peters, Raskin, Stone, Brochin, Forehand, Gladden, Jacobs, and Simonaire
- Entitled
- Public Safety - SWAT Team Activation and Deployment - Reports
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Senators Garagiola, Currie, Exum, Forehand, Jones, King, Lenett, Madaleno, McFadden, Muse, Peters, Pinsky, Raskin, Robey, Rosapepe, and Zirkin
- Entitled
- Tobacco Tax - Tax Stamps
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Senator Kelley
- Entitled
- Common Ownership Communities - Fidelity Insurance
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Frosh and Middleton
- Entitled
- State Personnel - Attorney General - Special Appointments
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senator Pipkin
- Entitled
- Lawyers - Simultaneous Service As Counsel to Counties and Municipalities - Prohibition
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
SB 595
Status as of February 11, 2009: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Kasemeyer
- Entitled
- Election Law - Audit of Election Results - Transparency in Election Administration
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
SB 656
Status as of April 2, 2009: Bill is in the House - Re-referred Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Senators Peters, Astle, Colburn, Conway, Dyson, Garagiola, Munson, Rosapepe, Harrington, Harris, Pinsky, Lenett, and Greenip
- Entitled
- Procurement - Service Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Participation
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
House: Health and Government Operations
- Sponsored By
- Senator Raskin
- Entitled
- Attorney General - State Legal Business - Hiring Counsel
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
SB 674
Status as of February 11, 2009: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Greenip
- Entitled
- Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation - Easements - Inspection Requirements
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
SB 696
Status as of March 30, 2009: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Kittleman
- Entitled
- State Procurement - Employment of Unauthorized Aliens and the Federal E-Verify Program
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Pugh, Astle, Della, Exum, Kelley, Klausmeier, and McFadden
- Entitled
- Public Safety - Emergency Management - Essential Goods and Services
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senator Middleton
- Entitled
- State Personnel - At-Will Employment - Reforms and Reports
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Appropriations
- Sponsored By
- Senators Pipkin and Astle
- Entitled
- Reorganization of State Government - Department of Emergency Services
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance and Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Senators Currie, King, and McFadden
- Entitled
- Moist Snuff - Taxation and Regulation
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Budget and Taxation
- Sponsored By
- Senator Lenett
- Entitled
- Maryland False Claims Act
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Judicial Proceedings
SB 847
Status as of February 11, 2009: Bill is in the Senate - First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Harris
- Entitled
- Election Law - Legislative Districting and Apportionment Commission
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Conway, Pugh, Astle, Currie, Della, Dyson, Exum, Forehand, Frosh, Garagiola, Gladden, Harrington, Jones, Klausmeier, Lenett, Madaleno, McFadden, Middleton, Muse, Peters, and Rosapepe
- Entitled
- Labor and Employment - Misclassification of Employees as Independent Contractors
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
SB 917
Status as of February 26, 2009: Bill is in the Senate - Re-referred Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Lenett, Exum, McFadden, Pinsky, Rosapepe, and Stone
- Entitled
- Agriculture - Fertilizers and Pesticides - Release Reporting
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
SB 956
Status as of March 9, 2009: Bill is in the Senate - Re-referred Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Conway
- Entitled
- Health Occupations Boards - Revisions
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Education Health and Environmental Affairs
