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SENATE BILL 192
B1 0lr0183
CF HB 152
By: The President (By Request – Administration)
Introduced and read first time: January 15, 2020
Assigned to: Budget and Taxation
Committee Report: Favorable with amendments
Senate action: Adopted with floor amendments
Read second time: March 6, 2020
CHAPTER ______
1 AN ACT concerning
2 Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act of 2020
3 FOR the purpose of repealing a requirement that the Comptroller publish, in a certain
4 manner, certain notices regarding persons appearing to be the owners of abandoned
5 property; requiring the Comptroller to establish and maintain a certain abandoned 1
6 property database and publish notice of the database in a certain manner; repealing
7 a requirement that the Comptroller publish, in a certain manner, certain notices
8 regarding persons appearing to be the owners of abandoned property; requiring the
9 Comptroller to establish and maintain a certain abandoned property database and
10 publish notice of the database in a certain manner; increasing a certain fee for
11 certain supervisees in the Drinking Driver Monitor Program; repealing the
12 termination date of a certain increase in the surcharge on certain recordable
13 instruments that the State Court Administrator is required to establish for the
14 Circuit Court Real Property Records Improvement Fund; reducing the amount the
15 State is required to appropriate to the Maryland Agricultural and Resource–Based
16 Industry Development Corporation in certain fiscal years; requiring the Corporation
17 to use the appropriation for certain programs in certain amounts, subject to a certain
18 contingency; altering the year by which the Corporation is to become self–sufficient
19 and in no further need of certain operating support; expanding the authorized uses
20 of certain funds; altering, for certain fiscal years, the total State operating fund per
21 full–time equivalent student for certain community colleges that the Governor is
22 required to request; altering, for certain fiscal years, the total State operating funds
23 required to be distributed to certain community colleges; altering, for a certain fiscal 1
24 year, the total State operating funds required to be distributed to certain community cont
EXPLANATION: CAPITALS INDICATE MATTER ADDED TO EXISTING LAW.
[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.
Underlining indicates amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken from the bill by amendment or deleted from the law by
amendment.
Italics indicate opposite chamber/conference committee amendments.
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1 colleges and the manner of distribution; authorizing the Governor to include a certain 1
2 mandated appropriation in either the operating budget or the capital budget; cont
3 authorizing, rather than requiring, the Governor to include in certain budgets
4 certain appropriations; altering, for certain fiscal years, the annual apportionment
5 for each institution that qualifies for aid under the Joseph A. Sellinger Program;
6 repealing a requirement that the Governor include certain appropriations in the
7 budget each year; reducing the rate increase for certain service providers the
8 Governor is required to include in a certain budget; requiring the State Department
9 of Education to work with a certain office in developing certain rates; clarifying that
10 a State contribution to a certain college investment plan may be made to one account
11 a limited number of accounts for each qualified beneficiary; limiting a certain
12 qualified beneficiary from receiving more than one State contribution a certain
13 number of State contributions under certain circumstances; authorizing a certain
14 board to adopt certain regulations; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to
15 pay certain penalties into a certain fund; increasing the amount of funds in a certain
16 fund over which certain funds shall revert to the General Fund; requiring the
17 Maryland Department of Health to establish a certain program, establish certain
18 criteria, carry out the program in a certain manner, and adopt certain regulations;
19 providing that no more than a certain percentage of certain payments shall be
20 subject to the collection of certain penalties; authorizing the Maryland Department
21 of Health to modify the program in a certain manner; prohibiting a certain penalty
22 or adjustment from being accomplished or implemented in a certain manner; altering
23 the fiscal agent of the Children’s Cabinet Interagency Fund; altering the amount the
24 Governor is authorized required to appropriate to a certain fund in certain budgets
25 in a certain fiscal year; limiting the amount of a certain subsidy that a certain
26 commission may receive each fiscal year; requiring that a certain subsidy for a
27 certain program must be at least a certain amount each fiscal year; reducing the
28 amount the State is required to appropriate in the State budget as a payment to a
29 certain city for certain services; repealing a requirement that a certain appropriation
30 to a certain city be increased each year by a certain amount; authorizing the use of
31 a certain fund to pay certain expenses only under certain circumstances; providing
32 that for certain fiscal years a certain revenue estimate adjustment made by the
33 Bureau of Revenue Estimates may not exceed certain amounts; authorizing the
34 Governor to provide copies of certain budget books in print or electronic form;
35 prohibiting the restoration of certain proposed appropriations struck or reduced by
36 the General Assembly in the annual budget, except under certain circumstances;
37 repealing the requirement for certain personnel detail and strategic plan information
38 to be provided in certain budget books and requiring the information to be provided
39 on the Department of Budget and Management’s website; requiring that certain
40 information be provided in a certain manner on the Department of Budget and
41 Management’s website; repealing a requirement that the Governor submit certain
42 budget books and provide certain information in a certain manner; altering a
43 requirement that for a certain fiscal year the Governor include in the budget bill a
44 certain appropriation to the accumulation funds of the State Retirement and Pension
45 System; repealing altering a requirement that if certain revenues exceed a certain
46 estimate the Comptroller distribute a certain amount to a certain fund to be used for
47 certain purposes; repealing altering a requirement that money in a certain fund be
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1 used for a certain purpose; repealing a requirement that the State pay a certain
2 amount for certain fiscal years to a certain account as repayment for a certain
3 transfer; clarifying that a certain distribution shall be made in an annual
4 appropriation in a certain budget code; requiring the Comptroller to distribute a
5 certain amount for certain fiscal years to a certain account; altering the rate at which
6 the land of certain country clubs and golf courses is valued for property tax assessment
7 purposes; providing for a certain annual increase in the valuation rate for certain
8 country clubs and golf courses under certain circumstances; repealing a certain
9 vendor discount for certain car dealers; altering and clarifying a certain itemization 1
10 of a certain prior authorization of local transportation aid; reducing for a certain cont
11 fiscal year the total amount of film tax credit certificates that the Secretary of
12 Commerce may issue; increasing the percentage of certain costs for which each
13 county and Baltimore City are responsible for reimbursing the State; requiring
14 certain third–party settlement organizations to report, under certain circumstances,
15 certain payment information to the Comptroller and certain payees at least a certain
16 number of days before federal income tax filing deadlines; altering certain
17 requirements that for certain fiscal years the Governor appropriate certain amounts
18 from the General Fund to a certain special fund; providing, for certain fiscal years,
19 the budgeted Medicaid Deficit Assessment; altering the fiscal year budget that the
20 Governor is required to begin reducing the budgeted Medicaid Deficit Assessment by
21 a certain amount; repealing a requirement that for certain fiscal years certain
22 amounts be transferred between certain funds; providing, for a certain fiscal year,
23 that payments to providers with rates set by a certain committee may not increase
24 by more than a certain amount; authorizing the Governor to transfer certain
25 amounts from certain funds; repealing provisions of law relating to the National
26 Capital Strategic Economic Development Program; reducing for a certain fiscal year
27 a certain appropriation; requiring that for certain fiscal years a certain distribution
28 of revenue be used for a certain purpose; authorizing the transfer of certain funds;
29 requiring the transfer of certain funds; repealing certain obsolete provisions of law;
30 making a certain provision of this Act contingent on the taking effect of another Act;
31 providing for a delayed effective date for certain provisions of this Act; requiring the
32 publisher of the Annotated Code of Maryland, in consultation with and subject to the
33 approval of the Department of Legislative Services, to correct any cross–references
34 or terminology rendered incorrect by this Act and to describe any corrections made
35 in an editor’s note following the section affected; and generally relating to the
36 financing of State and local government.
37 BY repealing
38 Article – Economic Development
39 Section 4–513
40 Annotated Code of Maryland
41 (2018 Replacement Volume and 2019 Supplement)
42 BY repealing
43 Article – Housing and Community Development
44 Section 6–701 through 6–710 and the subtitle “Subtitle 7. National Capital Strategic
45 Economic Development Program”
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1 Annotated Code of Maryland
2 (2019 Replacement Volume and 2019 Supplement)
3 BY repealing
4 Article – Insurance
5 Section 19–801 through 19–808 and the subtitle “Subtitle 8. Maryland Health Care
6 Provider Rate Stabilization Fund”
7 Annotated Code of Maryland
8 (2017 Replacement Volume and 2019 Supplement)
9 BY repealing
10 Article – Public Safety
11 Section 4–1006
12 Annotated Code of Maryland
13 (2018 Replacement Volume and 2019 Supplement)
14 BY repealing
15 Article – State Finance and Procurement
16 Section 7–116 and 7–329(b–1) 6–226(a)(2)(ii)22.
17 Annotated Code of Maryland
18 (2015 Replacement Volume and 2019 Supplement)
19 BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
20 Article – Commercial Law
21 Section 17–311
22 Annotated Code of Maryland
23 (2013 Replacement Volume and 2019 Supplement)
24 BY renumbering
25 Article – State Finance and Procurement
26 Section 6–226(a)(2)(ii)23. through 6–226(a)(2)(ii)122., respectively
27 to be Section 6–226(a)(2)(ii)22. through 6–226(a)(2)(ii)121., respectively
28 Annotated Code of Maryland
29 (2015 Replacement Volume and 2019 Supplement)
30 BY repealing
31 Chapter 193 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 2005
32 Section 3
33 BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
34 Article – Commercial Law 1
35 Section 17–311 cont
36 Annotated Code of Maryland
37 (2013 Replacement Volume and 2019 Supplement)
38 BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
39 Article – Correctional Services
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1 Section 6–115
2 Annotated Code of Maryland
3 (2017 Replacement Volume and 2019 Supplement)
4 BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
5 Article – Courts and Judicial Proceedings
6 Section 13–604
7 Annotated Code of Maryland
8 (2013 Replacement Volume and 2019 Supplement)
9 BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
10 Article – Economic Development
11 Section 10–523
12 Annotated Code of Maryland
13 (2018 Replacement Volume and 2019 Supplement)
14 BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
15 Article – Education
16 Section 5–219(a), 24–201, and 24–204(a) and 18–19A–01(c)
17 Annotated Code of Maryland
18 (2018 Replacement Volume and 2019 Supplement)
19 BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
20 Article – Education
21 Section 5–219(g), 16–305(c)(1), 8–417(b)(1), 16–305(c)(1), 16–320(c), and 17–104(a) 1
cont
22 17–104(a), and 18–19A–04.1(a)
23 Annotated Code of Maryland
24 (2018 Replacement Volume and 2019 Supplement)
25 BY adding to
26 Article – Education
27 Section 18–19A–04.1(h)
28 Annotated Code of Maryland
29 (2018 Replacement Volume and 2019 Supplement)
30 BY repealing
31 Article – Education
32 Section 24–204(d)
33 Annotated Code of Maryland
34 (2018 Replacement Volume and 2019 Supplement)
35 BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
36 Article – Health – General
37 Section 7–307(a)(3), 16–201.3(a)(2), 16–201.4(a), and 19–2201(a) and (e)(1)
38 Annotated Code of Maryland
39 (2019 Replacement Volume)
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1 BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
2 Article – Health – General
3 Section 7–307(d)(2), 16–201.3(d)(2), 16–201.4(b)(1), and 19–2201(e)(2)(iv) Section
4 15–103.3(b)(1) and (c)(1) and (4)
5 Annotated Code of Maryland
6 (2019 Replacement Volume)
7 BY adding to
8 Article – Health – General
9 Section 19–2201(e)(2)(v) 15–103.7
10 Annotated Code of Maryland
11 (2019 Replacement Volume)
12 BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
13 Article – Housing and Community Development
14 Section 4–509(a)(1) and (4)
15 Annotated Code of Maryland
16 (2019 Replacement Volume and 2019 Supplement)
17 BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
18 Article – Housing and Community Development
19 Section 4–509(j)(3)
20 Annotated Code of Maryland
21 (2019 Replacement Volume and 2019 Supplement)
22 BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
23 Article – Human Services
24 Section 8–508
25 Annotated Code of Maryland
26 (2019 Replacement Volume and 2019 Supplement)
27 BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
28 Article – Insurance
29 Section 6–121(a)
30 Annotated Code of Maryland
31 (2017 Replacement Volume and 2019 Supplement)
32 BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
33 Article – Insurance
34 Section 14–106(d) and (e) 6–121(b)(1) and 31–107.2(a)
35 Annotated Code of Maryland
36 (2017 Replacement Volume and 2019 Supplement)
37 BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
38 Article – Labor and Employment
39 Section 10–301(a) and (c)
40 Annotated Code of Maryland
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1 (2016 Replacement Volume and 2019 Supplement)
2 BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
3 Article – Labor and Employment
4 Section 10–314
5 Annotated Code of Maryland
6 (2016 Replacement Volume and 2019 Supplement)
7 BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
8 Article – State Finance and Procurement
9 Section 4–608, 6–104(e), 7–115, 7–311(j)(1), 7–329(c) and (d) 7–329(b–1), and
10 7–330(g) and (j)
11 Annotated Code of Maryland
12 (2015 Replacement Volume and 2019 Supplement)
13 BY adding to
14 Article – State Finance and Procurement
15 Section 7–114.3
16 Annotated Code of Maryland
17 (2015 Replacement Volume and 2019 Supplement)
18 BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
19 Article – Stat