| MD | HB34 | Pass | Authorizing a homeowners association to charge a reasonable fee not to exceed $50 for an inspection of a lot owner's lot if the inspection is required by the governing documents of the homeowners association.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-27
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 817 |
| MD | SB858 | Pass | Altering the circumstances under which a person, whose business or property has been injured or threatened with injury by a violation of specified provisions of law, may maintain an action for damages, an injunction, or both, against any person who h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-27
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 842 |
| MD | HB1415 | Pass | Altering the circumstances under which a person, whose business or property has been injured or threatened with injury by a violation of specified provisions of law, may maintain an action for damages, an injunction, or both, against any person who h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-27
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 841 |
| MD | SB969 | Pass | Authorizing a person to which a specified certificate of public convenience and necessity is issued for the construction of a specified overhead transmission line to acquire specified property or rights by condemnation; and applying the Act to the co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-27
Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 840 |
| MD | SB276 | Veto | Establishing that a specified affidavit or any two specified proofs may be provided as evidence of a domestic partnership to qualify for an exemption from the inheritance tax on the receipt of interest in real property held in joint tenancy that pass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-26
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | HB702 | Veto | Authorizing a secured party to petition a circuit court for leave to immediately commence an action to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on residential property if the property is vacant and abandoned under specified circumstances; requiring a se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-26
Vetoed by the Governor (Duplicative) |
| MD | SB49 | Pass | Altering the circumstances under which the liability of a person on active duty with the United States military, for rent under a lease, is limited; limiting the liability for rent of the spouse of a person on active duty with the United States milit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 705 |
| MD | SB261 | Pass | Altering a specified property tax credit authorized against the county or municipal corporation property tax for specified residential real property damaged by flooding to include damage caused by a natural disaster; and applying the Act to tax years...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 745 |
| MD | HB269 | Pass | Establishing the Housing Navigator and Aftercare Program to assist families and individuals who are experiencing, or who are in imminent danger of, a housing crisis in obtaining and maintaining permanent housing; requiring the Governor, subject to li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 637 |
| MD | SB487 | Pass | Prohibiting a ground lease holder from taking specified actions against the current leasehold tenant of specified abandoned property in Baltimore City to recover ground rent due and owing from a former leasehold tenant before the date that the curren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 595 |
| MD | SB531 | Pass | Establishing the Housing Navigator and Aftercare Program to assist families and individuals who are experiencing, or who are in imminent danger of, a housing crisis in obtaining and maintaining permanent housing; requiring the Governor, subject to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 638 |
| MD | HB659 | Pass | Establishing the Task Force to Study Tax Sales in Maryland to examine the tax sale system to maximize resources, facilitate properties getting to productive use, and protect residents; requiring the Task Force to evaluate the impact of tax sales, how...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 615 |
| MD | HB851 | Pass | Altering the circumstances under which the liability for rent under a lease is limited for a person on active duty with the United States military; limiting the liability for rent of the spouse of a person on active duty with the United States milita...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 704 |
| MD | SB823 | Pass | Establishing the Task Force to Study Tax Sales in Maryland to examine the tax sale system to maximize resources, facilitate properties getting to productive use, and protect residents; requiring the Task Force to evaluate the impact of tax sales, how...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 616 |
| MD | SB975 | Pass | Establishing that, unless a deed expressly provides otherwise, the grant of an agricultural land preservation easement governing two or more separate parcels of land owned by the same grantor under separate deeds or two or more parcels separately ide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 662 |
| MD | SB957 | Pass | Altering specified provisions of law concerning the authority of a municipality to establish a land bank authority; making specified provisions of law concerning the establishment of a land bank authority applicable to a municipality or county; autho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 619 |
| MD | HB1168 | Pass | Altering specified provisions of law concerning the authority of a municipality to establish a land bank authority; making specified provisions of law concerning the establishment of a land bank authority applicable to a municipality or county; autho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 618 |
| MD | SB1033 | Pass | Authorizing a secured party to petition a circuit court for leave to immediately commence an action to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on residential property if the property is vacant and abandoned under specified circumstances; requiring a se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 617 |
| MD | HB1246 | Pass | Expanding a specified liability exemption for a landowner who agrees to the use of a defined part of the landowner's property for cross-country skiing or off-highway vehicle use to apply to hunting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 746 |
| MD | HB44 | Pass | Requiring the ground lease registration form required by the State Department of Assessments and Taxation to include a section that allows the ground lease holder to include a telephone number and e-mail address; and requiring the reporting form for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 542 |
| MD | SB116 | Pass | Providing that a local government may spend 100 percent of its future annual apportionment on development projects and capital renewal after it has exceeded its acquisition goals under Program Open Space; requiring the Joint Subcommittee on Program O...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 406 |
| MD | SB178 | Pass | Altering specified conditions of eligibility for funding from the Racetrack Facility Renewal Account by specifying minimum amounts to be spent on capital maintenance and expenditures by specified race tracks; authorizing the Maryland Racing Commissio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 500 |
| MD | HB261 | Pass | Requiring a public service company that intends to terminate, because of nonpayment, electric or gas service to a specified customer to notify the property owner or manager before terminating service if the public service company has received a speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 534 |
| MD | SB376 | Pass | Repealing the requirement that a mortgage or deed of trust bear a specified certification that the instrument was prepared by a specified person in order to be recorded; providing that a deed other than a mortgage, deed of trust, or an assignment or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 521 |
| MD | SB355 | Pass | Authorizing the Public Service Commission, when determining specified expenses while setting a just and reasonable rate for a gas company, to include all costs reasonably incurred by the gas company for performing environmental remediation of real pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 388 |
| MD | SB392 | Pass | Providing that a specified disclosure provided by a lender to a borrower in compliance with a specified federal law shall satisfy specified disclosure requirements under provisions of law governing closed end credit loans secured by a first mortgage ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 484 |
| MD | HB469 | Pass | Exempting from recordation and State and county transfer taxes specified instruments of writing that transfer specified residential real property surrendered in bankruptcy under specified circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 538 |
| MD | HB595 | Pass | Repealing the requirement that a mortgage or deed of trust bear a specified certification that the instrument was prepared by a specified person in order to be recorded; providing that a deed other than a mortgage, deed of trust, or an assignment or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 520 |
| MD | HB592 | Pass | Requiring a hearing on an appeal to a supervisor of assessments concerning the value or classification of a specified dwelling to occur no later than 120 days after the Department of Assessments and Taxation receives the appeal, unless the property o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 537 |
| MD | HB789 | Pass | Altering the minimum percentage of affirmative votes required to amend the bylaws of a condominium to require the affirmative vote of unit owners in good standing having at least 60% of the votes in the council of unit owners; repealing specified pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 480 |
| MD | SB809 | Pass | Requiring the governing body of a condominium or, under specified circumstances, the developer to provide written notice no less than 30 days before the sale of any common element under specified circumstances; requiring the governing body of a homeo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 481 |
| MD | HB1104 | Pass | Establishing that a specified affidavit or specified other proof may be provided as evidence of a domestic partnership to qualify for an exemption from the inheritance tax on the receipt of interest in real property held in joint tenancy that passes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-04
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 503 |
| MD | HB26 | Pass | Requiring the person authorized to make a foreclosure sale to give written notice of the proposed sale to a specified condominium or homeowners association that, at least 30 days before the date of the proposed sale, has recorded a statement of lien ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 346 |
| MD | SB247 | Pass | Requiring the person authorized to make a foreclosure sale to give written notice of the proposed sale to a specified condominium or homeowners association that, at least 30 days before the date of the proposed sale, has recorded a statement of lien ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 347 |
| MD | HB760 | Pass | Specifying that a licensee of the State Real Estate Commission does not breach a duty or obligation to a client by showing a lessee other available properties or by discussing other properties with prospective buyers or lessees during an open house i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 350 |
| MD | SB875 | Pass | Requiring a person authorized to sell residential property subject to foreclosure to file a notice of foreclosure with the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation under certain circumstances; establishing that a notice of foreclosure may be fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 348 |
| MD | HB1048 | Pass | Requiring a person authorized to sell residential property subject to foreclosure to file a notice of foreclosure with the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation under specified circumstances; establishing that a notice of foreclosure may be ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 349 |
| MD | SB255 | Pass | Exempting from specified procurement law expenditures made by the Board of Trustees for the State Retirement and Pension System for the safe custody, domestic or global, of investments of the State Retirement and Pension System; transferring the auth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 267 |
| MD | SB671 | Pass | Requiring the Department of Human Resources, on a showing by an applicant for long-term Medicaid benefits that the applicant has been unable to obtain from a specified fiduciary institution financial records related to financial and real property ass...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-18
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 202 |
| MD | SB40 | Pass | Altering a specified prohibition on converting or misappropriating specified trust money; requiring specified controlling persons and specified trust money controllers to hold a license to act as a title insurance producer and, if applicable, a speci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 41 |
| MD | SB111 | Pass | Exempting a transfer of real property from a sole proprietorship to a limited liability company from recordation and transfer taxes if the sole member of the limited liability company is identical to the converting sole proprietor and specified other...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 63 |
| MD | SB204 | Pass | Repealing specified provisions of law relating to the PenMar Development Corporation, its board of directors, and its powers to develop, manage, and control Fort Ritchie; transferring specified remaining real and personal property interests, along wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 142 |
| MD | SB251 | Pass | Authorizing the governing body of Anne Arundel County or of a municipal corporation in Anne Arundel County to grant, by law, a tax credit against the county or municipal corporation property tax imposed on real property owned and used as a principal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 59 |
| MD | HB363 | Pass | Exempting a transfer of real property from a sole proprietorship to a limited liability company from recordation and transfer taxes if the sole member of the limited liability company is identical to the converting sole proprietor and specified other...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 64 |
| MD | HB291 | Pass | Authorizing specified notices and statements relating to homeowner's insurance to be delivered by electronic means if the insurer complies with specified requirements; authorizing insurers to comply with specified renewal notice requirements relating...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 123 |
| MD | SB279 | Pass | Authorizing specified notices and statements relating to homeowner's insurance to be delivered by electronic means if the insurer complies with specified requirements; authorizing insurers to comply with specified renewal notice requirements relating...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-11
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 124 |
