| MD | HB36 | Pass | Prohibiting a public adjuster, or anyone acting on behalf of a public adjuster, from soliciting or attempting to solicit a client between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m.; altering the statements that are required to be included in a public adjus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 826 |
| MD | HB823 | Pass | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 744 |
| MD | HB397 | Pass | Requiring gas companies serving at least 75,000 customers in their distribution territories and authorizing gas companies serving fewer than 75,000 customers to develop a plan for a pilot thermal energy network system or systems on or before October ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 564 |
| MD | HB864 | Pass | Requiring each electric company, each gas company, and the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop a plan for achieving certain energy efficiency, conservation, and greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets through certain program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 539 |
| MD | HB991 | Pass | Establishing a food processing residuals utilization permit; prohibiting a person from utilizing food processing residuals in the State unless the person obtains a permit; requiring the Department of Agriculture to provide a certain notice and inform...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 531 |
| MD | HB38 | Pass | Prohibiting the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City from adopting or enforcing a local law that requires the creation of new motor vehicle off-street parking for a development that includes residential use and that is located within a 0.25-mile ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 651 |
| MD | HB13 | Pass | Authorizing a condominium regime to be established on certain land owned by an affordable housing land trust.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 287 |
| MD | HB143 | Pass | Establishing the unenforceability of contracts for the sale of condominium units that do not contain a statement by the vendor or unit owner as to whether the vendor or unit owner has actual knowledge of the presence of asbestos in the condominium, i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 292 |
| MD | HB139 | Pass | Adding gas and electric utility services to the types of services for which landlords of buildings that contain six or more residential units are required to provide a written notice to a tenant, before the initiation of a lease and each term thereaf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 225 |
| MD | HB93 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 290 |
| MD | HB309 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 256 |
| MD | HB372 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 294 |
| MD | HB486 | Pass | Requiring the seller of residential real property located within 1 mile of a National Priorities List (NPL) Superfund site to provide the buyer with an addendum to the contract for the sale of the property that contains the identification of the Supe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 351 |
| MD | HB693 | Pass | Establishing the Office of Tenant and Landlord Affairs in the Department of Housing and Community Development to provide certain educational resources and information to tenants; requiring the Office to develop and publish a Maryland Tenants' Bill of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 124 |
| MD | HB697 | Pass | Establishing certain requirements and prohibitions for commercial real estate transactions related to a buyer's right to make certain title, settlement, and escrow selections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 198 |
| MD | HB765 | Pass | Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county or municipal corporation to grant, by law, a tax credit against the county or municipal corporation property tax imposed on real property that is used for cer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 149 |
| MD | HB873 | Pass | Expanding eligibility for financial assistance under the Appraisal Gap From Historic Redlining Financial Assistance Program to include individuals who purchase certain qualified property after a qualified project is completed, at an affordable sales ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 155 |
| MD | HB1117 | Pass | Establishing that a landlord that offers a residential dwelling unit for rent is deemed to warrant the dwelling fit for human habitation; authorizing multiple tenants to join as plaintiffs in a civil action against a landlord and authorizing a court ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 125 |
| MD | HB538 | Pass | Establishing the Historic Property Revitalization Director as a position in the Department of Housing and Community Development; prohibiting a local legislative body from prohibiting the placement of certain manufactured homes or modular dwellings in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 122 |
| MD | HB11 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing the Leasing Training Program in the Maryland Department of Labor to train, prepare, and connect job seekers with careers in the residential rental housing industry; requiring the Division of Workforce Development and Adult Learning to ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB477 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a county, including Baltimore City, to adopt by local law or ordinance provisions prohibiting certain landlords of residential property from failing to renew a lease or from terminating a holdover tenancy without good cause; and establish...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB100 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a certain register of wills to allow an installment payment plan for the inheritance tax to be paid by a certain beneficiary of limited means under certain circumstances and subject to certain limitations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB970 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a landlord from increasing a tenant's rent during a certain lease term if the landlord violates a requirement that the landlord provide notification of an increase in rent; and prohibiting a landlord from taking certain retaliatory action...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1408 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a seller and buyer of certain residential property to rescind a contract of sale without penalty at any time before closing if a certain seller does not provide a certain notice; establishing that a buyer is entitled to a refund of any de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB288 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from conducting visual surveillance with prurient intent of an individual located in a residence or place of private use or accommodation without the consent of the individual; altering the penalties for the crime of visual surve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1452 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-17
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB359 | Engross
Sine Die | Authorizing a petitioner 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, to effectuate service of process for certain civil actions again...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1316 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring a District Court to hold a hearing on a tenant holding over within 45 days after a landlord makes a complaint if the landlord or the landlord's spouse is on active duty with the United States military; and authorizing a private process serv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB853 | Engross
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1207 | Intro
Sine Die | Limiting the application of a requirement that owners of residential, detached units in a condominium regime carry homeowners insurance coverage to units in condominium regimes composed only of residential, detached units.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB673 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting the creation of a lien on owner-occupied residential property by contract or as a result of a breach of contract for the payment of medical debt.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB721 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the collector of taxes in Baltimore City to withhold any owner-occupied residential property from tax sale.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB777 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City to sell at tax sale a residential property to enforce a lien for unpaid charges for water and sewer service if the property is not owner-occupied.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1496 | Intro
Sine Die | Reducing the percentage of unit owners listed on the current roster of a condominium needed to consent to an amendment of a condominium's declaration if none of the units of the condominium are owned by a developer of the condominium from 80% to 66 2...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB564 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB29 | Intro
Sine Die | Providing that certain requirements for the prepayment of certain real property taxes do not apply to an instrument of writing transferring real property from the estate of a decedent to an heir of the decedent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1265 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring a county or municipality to implement the web-based platform SolarAPP+ for features supporting the tracking and approval of residential building permits for certain residential solar energy projects, residential energy storage projects, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1295 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1374 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a person from locating a new crematory within 1,000 feet of an assisted living or nursing facility, a property that primarily serves children, or a residential property that is designed primarily for human habitation; and prohibiting the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1445 | Intro
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1274 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring that a complaint to repossess a residential premises for the failure to pay rent include evidence that the landlord provided the tenant with notice of the landlord's intent to file a claim.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1454 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing Baltimore City, a county, or a municipal corporation to grant the property tax credit to offset increases in local income tax revenues to the owner-occupied property of a homeowner for taxable years beginning after June 30, 2022, but befo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1324 | Intro
Sine Die | Expanding eligibility for the homestead property tax credit to include additional residences.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB1108 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB247 | Intro
Sine Die | Repealing the use of a preliminary loss mitigation affidavit in an order to docket or complaint to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on residential property; altering certain requirements for the filing of an action to foreclose a mortgage or dee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB968 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempting condominiums in which the council of unit owners votes to fund repairs to the common elements through a special assessment by an affirmative vote of 80% of certain unit owners and certain homeowners associations from provisions of law perta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1000 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting a contract of sale for single-family residential real property from containing the name of an individual buyer prior to acceptance of the contract of sale by the seller; and applying the Act prospectively.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB751 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing a person who offers for sale to a third party improved single-family residential real property, for the first 30 days, to accept an offer to purchase the property made only by an individual, a community development organization, a nonprof...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB889 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the construction of new multifamily residential buildings with separate garages, carports, or driveways for each residential unit to include certain parking spaces for electric vehicle charging; requiring certain significant renovations of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1007 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering a certain limit on the unified credit used for determining the estate tax for decedents dying on or after a certain date; altering a certain limitation on the amount of the estate tax for decedents dying on or after a certain date; requiring...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Ways and Means Committee |
