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MDSB15Engross
50%
Altering procedures for the dispute settlement mechanism under the Maryland Cooperative Housing Corporation Act; and applying the Act prospectively.
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB162Engross
50%
Limiting a tenant's liability for rent under a residential lease to not more than 2 months' rent after the date on which the tenant vacates a leased premises if a physician or psychologist completes a form specifying that the tenant has a mental diso...
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB372Engross
50%
Establishing the Rent Court Workforce Solutions Pilot Program in Montgomery County and Prince George's County to provide residential tenants who are facing eviction for a failure to pay rent with information on workforce development and employment op...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB428Engross
50%
Establishing the Rental Assistance for Community School Families Program to provide rental assistance to eligible student households; requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Housing and Community Developmen...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDHB598Engross
50%
Prohibiting discrimination based on military status with regard to public accommodation, housing, employment, financial transactions, education, insurance, the provision of public utility services, and State personnel actions.
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB693Engross
50%
Increasing maximum surcharges for certain eviction proceedings from $8 to $93 and prohibiting the District Court from assigning the surcharge against a tenant; altering the priority and criteria in the Statewide Rental Assistance Voucher Program that...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB823Engross
50%
Establishing certain requirements relating to the installation of certain fire safety equipment in residential rental high-rise buildings and certain other property; authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a ...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB897Engross
50%
Establishing the Baltimore Convention and Tourism Redevelopment and Operating Authority Task Force to study and make recommendations concerning the membership, purpose, and function of an authority to govern the renovation, revitalization, financing,...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB970Engross
50%
Prohibiting a landlord from increasing a tenant's rent if the landlord violates a requirement that the landlord provide notification of an increase in rent; and prohibiting a landlord from taking certain retaliatory actions as a result of the inabili...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB916Engross
50%
Altering the definition of "hotel" for purposes of the hotel rental tax in Garrett County to include a transient vacation rental unit and exclude certain facilities; altering the definition of "transient charge" for purposes of the county hotel renta...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDSB896Engross
50%
Establishing the Baltimore Convention and Tourism Redevelopment and Operating Authority Task Force to study and make recommendations concerning the membership, purpose, and function of an authority to govern the renovation, revitalization, financing,...
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2024-03-18
Third Reading Passed (45-0)
MDSB892Engross
50%
Establishing the Public Charter School Facility Fund to provide funding on an annual basis to public charter schools in the State for eligible expenses associated with school facilities; exempting the Fund from a requirement that interest earnings on...
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2024-03-18
Third Reading Passed (45-0)
MDHB1117Engross
50%
Establishing that a landlord that offers a residential dwelling unit for rent is deemed to warrant the dwelling fit for human habitation; clarifying that certain mold hazards constitute dangerous conditions and defects for which a tenant may obtain r...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB1441Engross
50%
Establishing certain requirements for a teacher's certificate in early childhood education; altering the teaching credentials required for staff of qualified providers for prekindergarten services for purposes of the Prekindergarten Grant Program; re...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB376Engross
50%
Requiring the Prince George's County Board of Education to hire an independent consultant to study and make recommendations on the feasibility of relocating the Prince George's County public school system headquarters and to report its recommendation...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDHB1452Intro
25%
Requiring a written lease for certain residential or commercial real property in Howard County to include information on the annual charge assessed by the Columbia Association and a description of certain rights and privileges under certain circumsta...
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2024-03-17
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB370Engross
50%
Establishing the Rental Assistance for Community School Families Program to provide rental assistance to eligible student households; requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Housing and Community Developmen...
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2024-03-15
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB725Intro
25%
Requiring a residential lease to include a requirement that a tenant hold a renter's insurance policy; prohibiting a lease from containing certain requirements regarding a renter's insurance policy; and requiring a landlord to acquire a renter's insu...
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2024-03-15
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB810Engross
50%
Exempting a lease of county property for a term of 5 years or less made by Dorchester County from certain notice requirements.
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2024-03-15
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB359Engross
50%
Requiring an automatic stay of certain civil actions or proceedings on the filing of a petition for guardianship of the property of an alleged disabled person; and requiring, to effectuate service of process for certain civil actions against an alleg...
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2024-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB477Engross
50%
Authorizing a county to adopt by local law or ordinance provisions prohibiting a landlord of residential property from failing to renew a lease or from terminating a holdover tenancy without just cause; and establishing certain requirements for a loc...
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2024-03-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB853Engross
50%
Altering a prohibition concerning the maximum penalty for the late payment of rent that a landlord may charge in a residential lease to prohibit a penalty in excess of 5% of the amount of the unpaid rent rather than of the amount due.
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2024-03-13
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB16Engross
50%
Applying certain campaign finance requirements for a political committee to draft committees and exploratory committees; establishing requirements and prohibitions for draft and exploratory committees relating to the establishment of the committees, ...
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2024-03-11
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB498Engross
50%
Altering the information relating to the Access to Counsel in Evictions Program required to be reported by the Maryland Legal Services Corporation each year to include disaggregation by case type, the amount paid to attorneys for each case managed, t...
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2024-03-11
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB342Engross
50%
Excluding the cash value of any qualified retirement savings plans or individual retirement accounts from the definition of "assets" for purposes of certain property tax relief provided to certain renters; and applying the Act to all taxable years be...
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2024-03-05
[Hearing: Mar 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Ways and Means Committee
MDHB1061Intro
25%
Establishing the Public Charter School Facility Fund to provide funding on an annual basis to public charter schools in the State for eligible expenses associated with school facilities; exempting the Fund from a requirement that interest earnings on...
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2024-03-05
To House Appropriations Committee
MDSB354Engross
50%
Establishing the Rent Court Workforce Solutions Pilot Program in Montgomery County and Prince George's County to provide defendant tenants in failure to pay rent cases with workforce resources and information on workforce development, registered appr...
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2024-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB783Engross
50%
Prohibiting the governing documents of a homeowners association from restricting or prohibiting the leasing of property to an individual who is not the lot owner for a period of 6 months or more.
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2024-03-04
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB1070Intro
25%
Altering the Canal Place Preservation and Development Authority to be the Passages of the Western Potomac Heritage Area Authority; altering and repealing certain duties and powers of the Authority; establishing the Canal Place Preservation and Develo...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB633Engross
50%
Authorizing an operator or a manager of a self-service storage facility to advertise in a newspaper, by electronic mail, or on a website the sale of the personal property in a self-service storage unit to satisfy a certain lien without the occupant's...
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2024-03-01
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDHB93Engross
50%
Limiting a tenant's liability for rent to not more than 2 months' rent after the date on which the tenant vacates a leased premises if a physician or psychologist completes a form specifying that the tenant has a mental disorder, the management of wh...
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2024-02-26
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB1381Intro
25%
Altering the definition of prekindergarten enrollment for private prekindergarten providers; requiring the State Department of Education to forward fund the State and local share or provide a pay guarantee of not greater than 30 days for certain prek...
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2024-02-26
To House Appropriations Committee
MDHB287Engross
50%
Excluding the cash value of any qualified retirement savings plans or individual retirement accounts from the definition of "assets" for purposes of certain property tax relief provided to certain renters; and applying the Act to all taxable years be...
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2024-02-23
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee
MDHB309Engross
50%
Altering procedures for the dispute settlement mechanism under the Maryland Cooperative Housing Corporation Act; applying the dispute settlement mechanism established by the Act to apply to any complaint or demand formally arising on or after October...
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2024-02-23
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB413Engross
50%
Prohibiting discrimination based on military status with regard to public accommodation, housing, employment, financial transactions, education, insurance, the provision of public utility services, and State personnel actions.
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2024-02-23
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB139Engross
50%
Adding gas and electric utility services to the types of utility services for which certain landlords are required to provide a certain notice in a written lease and a copy of a certain receipt or bill summary under certain circumstances.
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2024-02-23
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB171Engross
50%
Adding gas and electric utility services to the types of services for which certain landlords are required to provide a certain notice in a written lease and a copy of a certain receipt or bill summary under certain circumstances.
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2024-02-23
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1513Intro
25%
Requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill for each fiscal year an appropriation of $225,000 for Economic Action Maryland to support the Securing Older Adult Resources program; and specifying that the appropriation may be used only t...
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2024-02-23
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDSB19Engross
50%
Requiring the District Court to shield all court records within 60 days after the final resolution of a failure to pay rent proceeding that did not result in a judgment of possession; authorizing the District Court, on motion of a tenant, to shield a...
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2024-02-21
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB147Engross
50%
Altering the information relating to the Access to Counsel in Eviction Program required to be reported by the Maryland Legal Services Corporation each year to include the number of cases in which an individual was provided legal representation, the a...
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2024-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee
MDHB564Intro
25%
Requiring a residential lease to include a requirement that a tenant hold a renter's insurance policy; prohibiting a lease from containing certain requirements regarding a renter's insurance policy; and requiring a landlord to acquire a renter's insu...
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2024-02-15
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1422Intro
25%
Prohibiting discrimination based on an individual's refusal to undergo a genetic procedure in education, public accommodations, commercial leasing, housing, and employment and by certain licensed or regulated persons.
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2024-02-14
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB1167Intro
25%
Authorizing a landlord to offer the payment of a fee in lieu of a security deposit in a residential lease subject to certain requirements; requiring a landlord to purchase certain insurance coverage using a fee in lieu of a security deposit; establis...
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2024-02-14
To Senate Rules Committee
MDSB635Intro
25%
Altering the number of years of criminal history, from 7 years to 3 years, that are reviewed in a certain reusable tenant screening report; establishing certain prohibitions and limitations on the review and consideration of a prospective tenant's cr...
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2024-02-13
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB689Intro
25%
Establishing certain requirements relating to the installation of certain fire safety equipment in residential rental high-rise buildings and certain other property; authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a ...
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2024-02-13
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee
MDHB1419Intro
25%
Prohibiting the intentional fraudulent sale, conveyance, or lease or attempted sale, conveyance, or lease of real property by a person who does not own the real property; prohibiting the acquisition, sale, or conveyance or the attempted acquisition, ...
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2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee
MDSB301Engross
50%
Extending to June 30, 2027, the authorization of a leaseholder of certain aquaculture leases to, with prior written approval from the Department of Natural Resources, place shellfish, bags, nets, and structures on submerged aquatic vegetation, subjec...
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2024-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDSB644Intro
25%
Authorizing a county to adopt by local law or ordinance provisions prohibiting a landlord of residential property from failing to renew a lease or from terminating a holdover tenancy without just cause; and establishing certain requirements for a loc...
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2024-02-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB1295Intro
25%
Requiring a landlord to provide air-conditioning to certain residential rental units in a certain manner beginning June 1, 2024, for newly constructed residential rental units and beginning October 1, 2024, for residential rental units that undergo r...
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2024-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee
MDHB1445Intro
25%
Authorizing service of process in an action to repossess leased residential property that also seeks a money judgment to be carried out by a private detective that is also otherwise authorized to serve process under the Maryland Rules.
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2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee
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