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- HB 1585 Check cashers; required to obtain customer identification, penalty.
- HB 1588 Autism spectrum disorder; mandated health insurance coverage therefor.
- HB 1636 Telephone utilities; SCC authorized to make changes to certain certificated service territories.
- HB 1649 Telegraph or telephone companies; not required to accept franchise, etc., that restricts services.
- HB 1650 Pharmacy contracts; establishes requirements for audit procedures and claims review process.
- HB 1674 Workers' Compensation; pharmacist filling a prescription to dispense therapeutically equivalent.
- HB 1698 Scrap metal processors; adds catalytic converters to list of proprietary articles.
- HB 1705 Community net metering; requires State Corporation Commission to establish.
- HB 1709 Payday lenders; prohibited from making an unsecured loan, etc., with interest rate in excess of 36%.
- HB 1726 Group life insurance; allows coverage to be extended to insure any class of persons.
- HB 1729 Electric transmission lines; locality may request an electric utility to install underground, etc.
- HB 1749 Workers' compensation; infectious disease presumption for wastewater systems employees.
- HB 1756 Workers' compensation insurance; written agreement approved by State Corporation Commission.
- HB 1761 Security for Public Deposits Act; establish guidleines to permit banks to withdraw from procedures.
- HB 1762 Successor corporations; asbestos-related liability.
- HB 1770 Telephone companies; offering additional services in underserved localities.
- HB 1787 Mortgage Lender and Broker Act; homeownership education program.
- HB 1809 Consumer Finance Act; open-end loan plans secured by motor vehicle titles.
- HB 1816 Unemployment benefits; eligibility of seasonal or temporary workers.
- HB 1819 Electric rates; any distribution electric cooperative may, without SCC approval, make adjustment.
- HB 1829 Health insurance, individual; requires SCC establish, by regulation, etc., for underwriting thereof.
- HB 1849 Post-Disaster Anti-Price Gouging Act; expands definition of disaster for purposes thereof.
- HB 1864 Viatical Settlements Act; incorporates regulating issuance of stranger-originated life insurance.
- HB 1869 Boiler inspections; extends protection of civil immunity to agents, etc., authorized to conduct.
- HB 1884 Credit reports; consumer reporting agency's duty to place security freeze thereon.
- HB 1885 Telephone regulatory alternatives; determination of competitiveness.
- HB 1886 Money order sales and transmission services; expands existing authority of SCC to regulate.
- HB 1887 Cancellation of property insurance policy; authorizes on grounds of foreclosure of deed of trust.
- HB 1889 Unemployment benefits; minimum earnings requirement, extended benefits.
- HB 1903 Post-Disaster Anti-Price Gouging Act; prohibition on price gouging during time of resource shortage.
- HB 1935 Confidentiality of insurance information; provides therefor of company licensing applications, etc.
- HB 1957 Limited liability companies; may change its principal office by filing statement of change on form.
- HB 1958 Infectious disease presumption; emergency declaration by Governor.
- HB 1959 Workers' compensation; prohibits State from terminating employment for line of duty injury, etc.
- HB 1964 Banking institutions; reclassification or conversion of shares of stock.
- HB 1970 Underground distribution system; delivery of propane service.
- HB 1971 Credit life insurance; reserve standards.
- HB 1972 Credit insurance; require that debtors be provided with notice disclosing right to refund premium.
- HB 1974 Crash prevention courses; reduction in rates for certain persons attending.
- HB 1977 Health insurance; mandated coverage for prosthetic devices and components.
- HB 1982 Insurance; makes forms for commercial automobile policies written to large risks eligible.
- HB 1994 Renewable portfolio standard program; establish goal for investor-owned incumbent electric utility.
- HB 2000 Electric utility rate structures; advancing conservation and efficiency.
- HB 2002 Energy Plan; promotes use of sustainable biofuels made from traditional agricultural crops, etc.
- HB 2009 Incandescent light bulbs; bans sale or distribution in State, effective July 1, 2010.
- HB 2012 Appliances, certain; bans sale or distribution in State of any clothes washer, dehumidifer, etc.
- HB 2024 Health insurance, basic; increasing availability thereof in State.
- HB 2030 Mortgage Lender and Broker Act; eliminates provision that lenders, etc., are required to conduct.
- HB 2031 Mortgage loan originators; definition, establishes licensure and registry.
- HB 2039 Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practice to sell, etc., a children's recalled product.
- HB 2046 Unemployment compensation; employees at seasonal establishment shall not be paid benefits.
- HB 2056 Advanced shipbuilding training facility grant program; established.
- HB 2081 Underground gas service; unlawful to sell & distribute natural gas, etc., to public via underground.
- HB 2086 Retail Franchise Act; replaces references to grants of franchises with sales of franchises.
- HB 2105 Electric utility regulation; directs SCC to take into account whether facility consistent.
- HB 2111 Workers' Compensation; adds sworn Port Authority police officers to those entitled to presumption.
- HB 2114 Payroll processing services; require provider to register annually with Commissioner of Agriculture.
- HB 2126 Employing illegal aliens; relocate provision requiring cancellation of limited liability companies.
- HB 2127 Bank accounts, minors'; authorizes bank to establish deposit account in which minors are sole owner.
- HB 2145 Health insurance provider contracts; access to coverage information by Internet, etc.
- HB 2151 Retention of energy savings; school boards required to prepare approved energy conservation.
- HB 2152 Stand-by service charges; SCC to adopt regulations requiring rates charged by electric utility.
- HB 2155 Electric utility service; net energy metering.
- HB 2157 Biodiesel & green diesel; all diesel fuel sold, etc. in State to consumers to contain at least 2%.
- HB 2171 Agricultural waste; excludes any farm, etc., that owns & operates facilities within State.
- HB 2172 Renewable energy sources; location of facilities for distribution of electricity, steam, etc.
- HB 2173 Utility Facilities Act; excludes certain companies from regulation as public utility, etc.
- HB 2175 Small renewable energy projects; DEQ to develop procedure permitting construction and operation.
- HB 2176 Energy Efficiency and Conservation Fund; established.
- HB 2191 Health insurance; mandated coverage for telehealth services.
- HB 2209 Health insurance; policy offered to small employer with 50 or less employees to protect uninsured.
- HB 2222 Limited liability companies; domestications and cancellations thereof.
- HB 2235 Clean Energy Manufacturing Incentive Grant Fund; created.
- HB 2252 Workers' compensation; establishes limitations period in which public safety employee may claim.
- HB 2261 Consumer Protection Act; foreclosure rescues.
- HB 2262 Mortgage Lender and Broker Act; authorizes SCC to request Attorney General to investigate violation.
- HB 2267 Renewable energy facilities; definition.
- HB 2268 Renewable energy; definition thereof.
- HB 2272 Workers' Compensation; person contracting for subcontractor to perform work not required to insure.
- HB 2291 Release of deed of trust; prohibits settlement agents, etc. from facilitating an assignment.
- HB 2292 Workers' Compensation Act; insurance notices.
- HB 2315 Electric utility rates; deferral of increases.
- HB 2320 Financial Guaranty Insurance; established.
- HB 2332 Enterprise zone economic incentive grants; increases amount of investment made to be eligible.
- HB 2337 Health insurance; mandated coverage for amino acid based elemental formulas.
- HB 2371 Rates; SCC to conduct proceeding relating thereto for certain sales of electric power to customers.
- HB 2372 Electric utility rates; curtailing peak power purchases.
- HB 2394 Personal information privacy; prohibits sale of credit inquiry information to third parties.
- HB 2417 Covenants regarding solar power; clarifies community associations may prohibit or restrict.
- HB 2430 Electronic delivery of insurance notices; authorizes insurers to electronically transmit.
- HB 2431 Underinsured motorist insurance coverage; claim settled for amount exhausting policy limits.
- HB 2445 Stock and Nonstock Corporation Acts; conforms provisions and makes technical amendments.
- HB 2446 Motor fuels and lubricating oils; updates referenced standard for testing thereof.
- HB 2467 Life insurance; funding preneed funeral contracts.
- HB 2478 Infectious disease presumption; emergency declaration by Governor.
- HB 2495 Child labor; permits children 17 years of age satisfying enumerated criteria to drive automobiles.
- HB 2506 Energy efficiency programs; investor-owned electric utilities to recover costs of designing, etc.
- HB 2514 Elder abuse; staff members of financial institutions to report.
- HB 2515 Workers' Compensation Act; increases maximum tax rate that may be assessed on uninsured, etc.
- HB 2516 Crash prevention courses; to be delivered via Internet or other electronic means if approved by DMV.
- HB 2519 Electric utilities; SCC to establish procedures regarding refunds of moneys collected.
- HB 2521 Health insurance; coverage for length of hospital inpatient stay for mother and newborn.
- HB 2525 Small wind energy projects; DEQ to develop procedure permitting construction and operation thereof.
- HB 2531 Electricity; SCC to conduct proceeding to determine appropriate energy conservation, etc.
- HB 2576 Solid waste; electricity generated therefrom.
- HB 2629 Antifreeze bittering agent; engine coolant, etc., manufactured after Jan. 1, 2011, must contain.
- HB 2655 Accident and sickness claim proceeds; provider services rendered outside of State.
- SB 860 Income tax credit, earned; employers to provide notice to employees that may be eligible.
- SB 884 Banking institutions; reclassification or conversion of shares of stock.
- SB 903 Corporate directors and officers; indemnification thereof.
- SB 910 Automatic dialing-announcing devices; prohibits use of if making commercial telephone solicitation.
- SB 920 Health insurance; policy offered to small employer with 50 or less employees to protect uninsured.
- SB 945 Group life insurance; allows coverage to be extended to insure any class of persons.
- SB 954 Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practice to sell, offer for sale, etc., recalled product.
- SB 1013 Crash prevention courses; to be delivered via Internet or other electronic means if approved by DMV.
- SB 1044 Insurers; SCC with discretion to prescribe method of filing annual statements.
- SB 1047 Workers' Compensation; respiratory disease, etc. causing death of Port Authority police compensable.
- SB 1065 Wind energy drying devices; no community association shall prohibit an owner from installing, etc.
- SB 1100 Uniform Commercial Code; financing statements.
- SB 1116 Health insurance; mandated coverage for prosthetic devices and components.
- SB 1146 Biodiesel & green diesel; requires state public bodies to procure only diesel fuel containing 2%.
- SB 1158 Workers' Compensation; pharmacist filling a prescription to dispense therapeutically equivalent.
- SB 1171 Mortgage loan originators; definition, establishes licensure and registry.
- SB 1212 Clean Energy Financing Program; locality may authorize contracts to finance by ordinance.
- SB 1215 Clean Energy Manufacturing Incentive Grant Fund; created.
- SB 1241 Limited liability companies; bound by its operating agreement whether or not executes.
- SB 1243 Securities Act; increases maximum civil penalty that SCC may impose for violation thereof.
- SB 1248 Electrical generation; base rates of return for certain types thereof.
- SB 1264 Wages and salaries; employer to pay by credit to prepaid debit card or card account.
- SB 1328 Limited liability partnerships; cancellation of status.
- SB 1339 Electric utility regulation; directs SCC to require utilities to offer service under tariffs.
- SB 1345 Energy efficiency in state government; goal of reducing annual cost nonrenewable energy purchases.
- SB 1346 Coastal Energy Research Consortium; makes certain technical corrections to membership.
- SB 1347 Small renewable energy projects; DEQ to develop procedure permitting construction and operation.
- SB 1348 Electricity; SCC to conduct proceeding to determine appropriate energy conservation, etc.
- SB 1349 Mid-Atlantic Offshore Wind Energy Infrastructure Development Compact; established.
- SB 1350 Marine Resources Commission; authority to lease subaqueous lands for generating electrical energy.
- SB 1352 Insurance holding companies; SCC to approve any ordinary dividend by a registered insurer.
- SB 1372 Workers' compensation insurance; SCC establishes a mechanism for merger.
- SB 1411 Health insurance, basic; increasing availability thereof in State.
- SB 1427 Energy Plan; promotes use of sustainable biofuels made from traditional agricultural crops, etc.
- SB 1470 Payday lenders; prohibits any person licensed under Payday Loan Act from making open end loan.
- SB 1480 Life insurance policies; delivery method.
- SB 1495 Unemployment compensation; voluntarily leaving employment to accompany military spouse.