Miscellaneous Bill Positions

HB 110 SB 267	Maryland Comparative Negligence Act. Abrogates longstanding doctrine of contributory negligence by instituting a system of comparative negligence, allowing a plaintiff whose negligence contributed to the death or injury to persons or property to recover damages. If plaintiff's negligence was equal to or greater than the defendant's, plaintiff's recovery is diminished in proportion to his negligence.	Simmons, et al Lenett	OPPOSE
HB 118	Priority Funding for Public School and Transportation Projects for BRAC. Requires the IAC in recommendations to the BPW for school construction projects to make projects needed to accommodate student population growth resulting from BRAC a funding priority; and requires the CTP's priorities to include transportation projects that are needed to accommodate BRAC.	Glassman, et al	MONITOR
SB 227 HB 816	Campaign Finance-Affiliated Business Entities-Attribution of Contributions. Attributes the campaign contributions of multiple business entities if the entities are owned or controlled by at least 80% of the same individuals. Currently, attribution is only required if the ownership/control of the entities is identical.	Frosh, et al Bobo, et al	OPPOSE
HB 560	Campaign Contributions-Limits on Contributions. Establishes a separate $10,000 aggregate campaign contribution limit for county offices.	McIntosh & Hixson	NO POSITION
HB 875 SB 423	Local Government-Street Lighting Equipment. Requires an electric utility to sell its street lights to municipalities, making the municipality responsible for the maintenance of the street lights.	Lawton, et al Madaleno, et al	OPPOSE
SB 950	Education Funding Act of 2007. Provides for a total of 15,500 video lottery terminals at up to four racetrack locations and 3 nonracetrack locations; and dedicates the revenues to: Thornton education funding, including GCEI (to be phased in FY 2009 – 2011)); $150 million in school construction; and capital facilities for higher education, including community colleges. State receives at least 70% of gross VLT revenues from nonracetrack locations and at least 64% from racetracklocations.	Miller
HB 1110	Landlord and Tenant-Commercial Retail Property-Common Area Maintenance. Prohibits a commercial landlord from charging a tenant a greater amount than the tenant's costs for actual expenses incurred by the landlord for common area maintenance charges; applies to locations with more than 6 spaces; requires the landlord to make all documentation regarding CAM costs available for inspection; and provides for a $1,000 penalty or the amount of damages, whichever is greater, for violations, as well as attorneys' fees.	Sossi, et al	OPPOSE

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