| MD | SB12 | Pass | Requiring a landlord to provide air-conditioning to residential rental units in apartment buildings with 10 or more individual dwelling units in a certain manner beginning June 1, 2026, for newly constructed residential rental units and beginning Oct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 664 |
| MD | HB315 | Pass | Providing that a certain landlord may not refuse to rent to a prospective tenant who pays rent with the assistance of an income-based housing subsidy under certain circumstances, subject to a certain exception; establishing that a violation of the Ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 772 |
| MD | SB335 | Pass | Providing that a certain landlord may not refuse to rent to a prospective tenant who pays rent with the assistance of an income-based housing subsidy under certain circumstances; providing that a violation of a provision of the Act is a discriminator...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 773 |
| MD | HB573 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Housing and Community Development to adopt certain regulations related to affirmatively furthering fair housing; providing that certain discriminatory housing practices may be committed without intent; prohibiting a pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 778 |
| MD | HB811 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Aging to make grants to nonprofit organizations and area agencies on aging to support social connection for individuals in aging-in-place programs through events or gatherings at multigenerational third places; and defin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 759 |
| MD | SB530 | Pass | Authorizing the Department of Aging to make grants to nonprofit organizations and area agencies on aging to support social connection for individuals in aging-in-place programs through events or gatherings at multigenerational third places.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 760 |
| MD | SB642 | Pass | Authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Baltimore City to issue a Class 7 micro-brewery license to the holder of a Class B-D-7 license in the 46th alcoholic beverages district, subject to a certain limitation; requiring the Board to establ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 845 |
| MD | HB998 | Pass | Authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Baltimore City to issue a Class 7 micro-brewery license to the holder of a Class B-D-7 license in the 46th alcoholic beverages district, subject to a certain limitation; requiring the Board to establ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 844 |
| MD | SB729 | Pass | Altering the Access to Counsel in Evictions Program to expand access to legal representation and other services under the Program to individuals who occupy premises of a mobile home park.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 754 |
| MD | SB807 | Pass | Requiring that a holder of a Class 8 farm brewery license engage in certain agritourism activity; altering certain standards and requirements for food service under a Class 8 farm brewery license; providing an exception to a prohibition against issui...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 861 |
| MD | SB767 | Pass | Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City and the governing body of a county or municipal corporation to grant, by law, a credit against the county or municipal corporation property tax imposed on a commercial building that is rented o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 603 |
| MD | SB937 | Pass | Prohibiting a landlord from requiring or requesting from a prospective tenant certain information relating to criminal history and prohibiting a landlord from considering certain information when evaluating the prospective tenant; permitting a landlo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 752 |
| MD | HB810 | Pass | Requiring the State Department of Assessments and Taxation, in coordination with certain entities, to evaluate the use of blockchain technology for securely recording and verifying real property ownership and leases and to assess its potential for us...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 747 |
| MD | HB571 | Pass | Altering the definition of "nonprofit housing corporation" for purposes of eligibility for an exemption from real property taxes and special assessments of the State or a political subdivision; exempting certain real property owned by certain subsidi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 727 |
| MD | HB994 | Pass | Establishing the Sellers of Travel Services Registration Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund in the Maryland Department of Labor; requiring that investment earnings be credited to the General Fund of the State; requiring the Secretary of Labor to annu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 611 |
| MD | SB168 | Pass | Requiring the State Department of Assessments and Taxation, in coordination with certain entities, to evaluate the use of blockchain technology for securely recording and verifying real property ownership and leases and to assess its potential for us...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 748 |
| MD | HB1430 | Pass | Requiring the Interagency Commission on School Construction to distribute funds to public charter schools for capital improvements to public charter school facilities; beginning in fiscal year 2028, requiring the Governor to include in the annual bu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-26
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 767 |
| MD | HB130 | Pass | Establishing the Task Force to Study Deed Fraud; requiring the Task Force to review the incidence of deed fraud in Maryland, including the number of complaints, resolved deed fraud cases, amount of restitution awarded, and geographic and demographic ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 399 |
| MD | HB246 | Pass | Establishing that the registered owner of a Class G (trailer) vehicle is liable under certain circumstances to the Maryland Transportation Authority for payment of a video toll assessed at the time of passage through a toll collection facility, subje...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 482 |
| MD | SB82 | Pass | Prohibiting a person with the intent to defraud another from creating, aiding in the creation of, or possessing a counterfeit lease of real property or rental agreement relating to real property; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 550 |
| MD | HB426 | Pass | Authorizing a party to the guardianship of the property of an alleged disabled person to request a stay of certain civil actions or proceedings on the filing of a petition for guardianship of the property of an alleged disabled person; requiring a ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 538 |
| MD | HB1267 | Pass | Requiring a certain local zoning authority to designate and maintain certain property in a zoning classification that restricts the uses in a certain manner under certain circumstances; requiring the appropriate authority to maintain certain property...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 541 |
| MD | HB1557 | Pass | Establishing a Real Estate Advisory Committee in the Department of General Services to advise the Department, the Board of Public Works, and the General Assembly on certain real estate matters; establishing additional requirements for the Board of Pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 368 |
| MD | HB1532 | Pass | Transferring the electric universal service program to the Office of Home Energy Programs and requiring the Office to authorize benefits under the program for certain electric customers; establishing the Green and Renewable Energy Efficiency for Nonp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 353 |
| MD | HB1063 | Pass | Providing that the Department of Natural Resources may authorize the reduction of the deer population on certain property with deer damage using certain methods; altering the time restrictions for Sunday deer hunting in certain counties during deer f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-05-12
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 421 |
| MD | HB85 | Pass | Authorizing a Maryland nonstock corporation to convert to a cooperative limited equity housing corporation subject to certain requirements; requiring a cooperative limited equity housing corporation to provide a certain notice and offer to certain ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 260 |
| MD | HB220 | Pass | Authorizing the installation of individual water submeters, used to determine the actual use of water, for each residential unit in an apartment house and mobile home parks; prohibiting the owner, operator, or manager of an apartment house, or mobile...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 262 |
| MD | SB130 | Pass | Authorizing the installation of individual water submeters, used to determine the actual use of water, for certain apartment houses and mobile home parks; prohibiting the owner, operator, or manager of an apartment house or a mobile home park, or a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 261 |
| MD | SB438 | Pass | Prohibiting an occupant from using the occupant's self-service storage facility beyond the term of a rental agreement after delivery of a notice of nonrenewal; requiring an operator to give an occupant at least 30 days after delivery of a notice of n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 215 |
| MD | HB618 | Pass | Prohibiting an occupant from using the occupant's self-service storage facility beyond the term of a rental agreement after delivery of a notice of nonrenewal; requiring an operator to give an occupant at least 30 days after delivery of a notice of n...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 216 |
| MD | HB784 | Pass | Extending to June 30, 2030, the authorization of a leaseholder of certain aquaculture leases, with prior written approval from the Department of Natural Resources, to place shellfish, bags, nets, and structures on submerged aquatic vegetation, subjec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 255 |
| MD | SB872 | Pass | Altering the definition of "rental dwelling unit" for purposes of provisions of law governing the reduction of lead risk in housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 225 |
| MD | SB166 | Pass | Authorizing the suspension or revocation of a shellfish aquaculture harvester permit or shellfish aquaculture harvester registration card for certain violations; prohibiting a person whose permit or registration card has been suspended or revoked in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 305 |
| MD | HB1400 | Pass | Authorizing the suspension or revocation of a shellfish aquaculture harvester permit or shellfish aquaculture harvester registration card for certain violations; prohibiting a person whose permit or registration card has been suspended or revoked in ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-28
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 304 |
| MD | SB624 | Pass | Requiring certain short-term rental units to post certain evacuation diagrams and certain emergency telephone numbers in the unit and to provide certain fire extinguishers and smoke alarms and carbon monoxide alarms in the unit; requiring a certain s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 10 |
| MD | HB1221 | Pass | Requiring certain short-term rental units to post certain evacuation diagrams and certain emergency telephone numbers in the unit and to provide certain fire extinguishers and smoke alarms and carbon monoxide alarms in the unit; requiring a certain s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 9 |
| MD | SB344 | Pass | Altering the date from December 31, 2025, to December 31, 2030, by which certain community solar energy generating systems must be approved by the Public Service Commission in order for land that is used by the community solar energy generating syste...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 46 |
| MD | HB734 | Pass | Altering the date from December 31, 2025, to December 31, 2030, by which certain community solar energy generating systems must be approved by the Public Service Commission in order for land that is used by the community solar energy generating syste...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 45 |
| MD | HB153 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a landlord to provide air-conditioning to residential rental units in apartment buildings with four or more individual dwelling units in a certain manner beginning June 1, 2026, for newly constructed residential rental units and beginning O...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
Third Reading Passed (90-30) |
| MD | SB65 | Engross
Sine Die | Applying certain campaign finance requirements for a political committee to exploratory committees; establishing requirements and prohibitions for exploratory committees relating to the establishment of the committees, receipt of funds, and permissib...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
Third Reading Passed (99-35) |
| MD | SB274 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing the Department of Housing and Community Development to adopt certain regulations related to affirmatively furthering fair housing; prohibiting a person from acting in a certain manner that has a discriminatory effect; and providing that c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
Third Reading Passed (33-11) |
| MD | HB993 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting the governing body of a county or municipality from enacting a local law or ordinance prohibiting the offering of certain residential property as a short-term rental by an operator solely because the operator is a lessee or sublessee of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
Second Reading Passed |
| MD | SB666 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the governing body of a county or municipality from enacting a local law or ordinance prohibiting the offering of certain residential property as a short-term rental by an operator solely because the operator is a lessee or sublessee of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| MD | SB841 | Engross
Sine Die | Transferring the electric universal service program to the Office of Home Energy Programs and requiring the Office to authorize benefits under the program for certain electric customers; establishing he Green and Renewable Energy Efficiency for Nonpr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation |
| MD | SB511 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a Maryland nonstock corporation to convert to a cooperative limited equity housing corporation subject to certain requirements; requiring a cooperative limited equity housing corporation to provide a certain notice and offer to certain ho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-10
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB960 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Interagency Commission on School Construction to distribute funds to public charter schools for capital improvements to public charter school facilities, debt service, or rent or lease payments; beginning in fiscal year 2028, requiring ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-10
Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator Rosapepe) Adopted |
| MD | HB774 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a county to adopt, by local law or ordinance, provisions prohibiting certain landlords of residential property from failing to renew a lease during the lease period or from terminating a holdover tenancy without good cause; establishing c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-07
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | SB267 | Engross
Sine Die | Establishing certain policies and processes to facilitate the development of residential housing in the State; requiring an entity that owns residential real property in the State to make a certain certification to the Department of Housing and Commu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-02
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB305 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the definitions of "community association" and "local code violation" to authorize community associations to seek judicial relief for nuisance abatement in Baltimore County; requiring certain notices relating to nuisance actions to be provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-25
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB989 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring the Department of Aging, in consultation with the Department of Disabilities, the Department of Health, the Department of Housing and Community Development, and the Department of Human Services, to conduct a study on the calculation of inco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
