| MD | HB872 | Intro
25% | Clarifying the circumstances under which liability for the failure to comply with certain requirements relating to a tenant's right of first refusal to purchase residential property is restricted to the owner of the property and does not attach to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
Second Reading Passed |
| MD | HB1531 | Intro
25% | Requiring the District Court for Anne Arundel County in an action to repossess for failure to pay rent to send a copy of the court's summons to the defendant by first-class mail and for the summons to be served on the tenant, assignee, or subtenant b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-23
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB927 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a Maryland nonstock corporation to convert to a limited equity housing cooperative subject to certain requirements; requiring a limited equity housing cooperative for certain households to receive notice and vacate a portion of a certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB273 | Engross
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB32 | Engross
50% | Requiring the 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 se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB709 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-13
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB856 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Department of the Environment, the Maryland Department of Health, the Department of Housing and Community Development, the Maryland Department of Labor, and the Department of General Services to develop a certain pamphlet and website; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB242 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the inclusion of a consumer credit history, any written account by a credit reporting agency bearing on a consumer's creditworthiness, credit standing, or credit capacity, in a reusable tenant screening report; prohibiting certain discrim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1152 | Intro
25% | Requiring the landlord of a residential rental property to provide the property's pet policy on the property's website, in digital advertisements, in information provided for residential rental search engines, and in applications for a rental unit on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1177 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Attorney General to establish a certain toll-free hotline for certain tenant complaints concerning repair and maintenance; authorizing the Office of the Attorney General to take certain actions under certain circumstances; and requiring...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1257 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a certain landlord from advertising the rental rate of a dwelling unit without including information on mandatory fees; requiring a landlord to provide certain information to prospective tenants about fees imposed on tenants and prohibiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1093 | Intro
25% | Providing for the disposition of a tenant's personal property in certain evictions; prohibiting a county or municipality from enacting or enforcing a local law or ordinance requiring a certain landlord to compensate a tenant for certain moving expens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1052 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a Maryland nonstock corporation to convert to a limited equity housing cooperative subject to certain requirements; requiring a limited equity housing cooperative for certain households to receive notice and vacate a portion of a certain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1077 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-05
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1076 | Intro
25% | Requiring a landlord to provide a tenant with certain written notice in a certain manner at least 48 hours in advance of when the landlord intends to enter a leased premises, except in the event of a certain emergency; and authorizing the court to is...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB132 | Intro
25% | Applying certain health and safety requirements to short-term rental units and home amenities; prohibiting certain activities at a home amenity or short-term rental; authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee |
| MD | SB651 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a county to enact, 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] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB677 | Intro
25% | 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 certain landlord may collect financial information fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB896 | Intro
25% | Requiring the landlord of a residential rental property to provide the property's pet policy on the property's website, in digital advertisements, in information provided for residential rental search engines, and in applications for a rental unit on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB911 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a landlord to impose an increased security deposit if a tenant operates or plans to operate a family child care home on the leased premises; prohibiting a landlord of certain residential rental property from prohibiting or unreasonably li...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB896 | Intro
25% | 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 certain landlord may collect financial information fro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB609 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a landlord from using certain algorithmic devices to determine the amount of rent to charge a residential tenant; making a violation of the Act an unfair, abusive, or deceptive trade practice under the Maryland Consumer Protection Act; an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB606 | Intro
25% | Clarifying the circumstances under which liability for the failure to comply with certain requirements relating to a tenant's right of first refusal to purchase residential property is restricted to the owner of the property and does not attach to th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB705 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the governing body of a county or municipality from enacting a local law or ordinance prohibiting the offering of residential property as a short-term rental by an operator solely because the operator is a lessee or sublessee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB747 | Intro
25% | Requiring a landlord of property that is served by an on-site wastewater system to ensure, on or before January 1, 2026, and before each new tenant occupies the property thereafter, that the system has been inspected and pumped out in a certain manne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB817 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a landlord from using certain algorithmic devices to determine the amount of rent to charge a residential tenant; making a violation of the Act an unfair, abusive, or deceptive trade practice under the Maryland Consumer Protection Act; an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB767 | Intro
25% | Requiring a landlord to provide certain notice to a tenant when a court has issued a warrant of restitution for a failure of a tenant to pay rent, a breach of lease, or a tenant holding over under certain circumstances; establishing certain procedure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB804 | Intro
25% | Requiring the governing body of a common ownership community to develop a smoking policy that applies to all common areas of the property if the property subject to the control of the governing body is a multifamily dwelling.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB808 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB442 | Intro
25% | Requiring a landlord to provide certain notice to a tenant when a court has issued a warrant of restitution for a failure of a tenant to pay rent, a breach of lease, or a tenant holding over under certain circumstances; establishing certain procedure...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB556 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the knowing and willful presentation of certain false documents in order to possess real property; prohibiting a person from leasing to another real property the person does not own or is not authorized to lease and from listing or advert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB514 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB549 | Intro
25% | Authorizing an individual to bring a nuisance action for damages caused by rodent harborage on certain real property against certain individuals; authorizing a landlord to bring a breach of lease action against a tenant for behavior that causes or co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB390 | Intro
25% | Authorizing an owner of real property used for rental housing and the governing body of a county to enter into a payment in lieu of taxes agreement for maintaining at least 50% of the rental housing units located at the real property as affordable dw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-18
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB339 | Intro
25% | Requiring a landlord to provide air-conditioning to certain residential rental units in a certain manner beginning June 1, 2025, for newly constructed residential rental units and beginning October 1, 2025, for residential rental units that undergo c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB327 | Intro
25% | Authorizing an owner of real property used for rental housing and the governing body of a county to enter into a payment in lieu of taxes agreement for maintaining at least 50% of the rental housing units located at the real property as affordable dw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | SB192 | Intro
25% | Requiring that certain owner-occupied property be withheld from tax sale; requiring a county or municipal corporation to withhold from tax sale certain property when the taxes consist only of a lien for unpaid water and sewer service; authorizing a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-14
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB229 | Intro
25% | Requiring the 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 se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | SB108 | Intro
25% | Requiring the governing body of a common ownership community to develop a smoking policy that is at least as stringent as the applicable State and local laws regarding smoking if the property subject to the control of the governing body is a multifam...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-09
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB87 | Intro
25% | Applying certain health and safety requirements to short-term rental units and home amenities; prohibiting certain activities at a home amenity or short-term rental; authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To House Ways and Means Committee |
| MD | HB59 | Intro
25% | Requiring that certain owner-occupied property be withheld from tax sale; requiring a county or municipal corporation to withhold from tax sale certain property when the taxes consist only of a lien for unpaid water and sewer service; authorizing a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To House Ways and Means Committee |
