SB 762 received an unfavorable report from the Senate Judicial Proceedings committee. The primary objection to the bill was that it could interfere with a business owner's ability to establish a dress code.
SB 762 would prohibit the owners or operators of a bar, hotel, motel, restaurant, or tavern from refusing to serve an individual on the basis of the individual's mode of personal transportation, hairstyle, or specified style of dress.
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Good News!!
The bill that would prohibit children as passengers on motorcycles was given an unfavorable report by the Commerce and Government Matters (CGM) Committee on March 9, 2001. ABATE of Maryland members testified in opposition of this bill and the phone calls, letters, and faxes from members kept this bill from becoming law.
The vote count was Yea 0, Nay 21, and the chairman did not vote. Please take the time to send a thank you note to the committee members.
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The full Senate voted on SB 197. The vote was 22 in favor and 25 opposed. The bill did not pass the Senate. However, we added two more yes votes. We need only two more votes to get this bill out of the Senate. In 1999, the vote was 20 in favor and 27 opposed.
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Withdrawn by Sponsor.
HB 141 was a bill that would make the Maryland Motorcycle Safety Program Mandatory before obtaining a motorcycle license. It also would require the MVA to conduct courses year-round.
This bill was heard by the Commerce and Government Matters Committee on January 1, 2001. After the hearing, the bill was withdrawn by the sponsor.
The Maryland Transportation Authority (MTA) and MARK IV Industries have been working to correct problems with motorcycle use of M-TAG, electronic toll collection, lanes. They are working to produce an M-TAG transponder mounting device suitable for motorcycles. The mounting devices are ready and MTA is working to get them to motorcyclists.
The Authority is now in the
process of purchasing from MARK IV Industries, the developer and
manufacturer of the device, a limited quantity of the mounts that will be
more than sufficient to serve the current known population of M-TAG
customers who use M-TAGs with motorcycles. The Authority will
provide the devices to these M-TAG customers at no cost to the
motorcyclists.
MTA still needs to work out the logistics of how and when they will
distribute the devices to this subset of the M-TAG customer
population. The initial use of the device with the M-TAG program
will be a pilot project that will likely have the interest of the E-ZPass
InterAgency Group (IAG) of northeast toll authorities, of which the
Maryland Transportation Authority is a member. It is expected that
this group, which currently has more than five million transponders in
use, will work with MARK IV Industries to define long-range plans for use
of this product with all current and future E-ZPass-affiliated
electronic-toll-collection systems.
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