| MD | HB54 | Pass | Exempting a grant of land transferring residential real property from the estate of a decedent to an heir or a legatee of the decedent from certain requirements for the payment of taxes on real property if the heir or legatee of the decedent enters i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 771 |
| MD | HB664 | Pass | Authorizing a certain protected individual or the Office of Information Privacy in the Administrative Office of the Courts to request that a governmental entity or person not publish personal information of the individual on the Internet, social medi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 414 |
| MD | HB1003 | Pass | Authorizing a plat in Montgomery County to be drawn, recorded, and maintained in electronic form in a manner approved by the State Archivist.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 696 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | HB216 | Pass | Authorizing the board of directors of a condominium to grant certain interests affecting the common elements of the condominium for the installation and use of leased clean energy equipment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 253 |
| MD | HB159 | Pass | Altering certain requirements for procedures relating to electric vehicle recharging equipment; establishing requirements and procedures relating to an application to the governing body of a cooperative housing corporation to install or use electric ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 268 |
| 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 | HB498 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 312 |
| 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 | 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 | HB1227 | Pass | Altering the types of elements and units for which a council of unit owners is required to maintain certain property insurance; requiring the council of unit owners to annually notify, in writing, owners of detached units of certain property insuranc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 296 |
| MD | HB1308 | Pass | Prohibiting a person from recording a deed or other instrument that the person knows contains false information; establishing a 3-year limitation on when a prosecution for a violation of the Act may be commenced; establishing a fine not to exceed $50...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 369 |
| MD | HB1397 | Pass | Altering certain provisions of law prohibiting discrimination based on certain protected characteristics to include prohibitions on discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, race, religious beliefs, marital status, and disability; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 377 |
| MD | HB181 | Engross
50% | Requiring the District Court to shield all court records within 60 days after the final resolution of a failure to pay rent proceeding under certain circumstances; authorizing the District Court to shield all court records relating to a failure to pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB477 | Engross
50% | 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 | HB281 | Engross
50% | Requiring that the annual budget of a cooperative housing corporation, a residential condominium, or a homeowners association include certain funds; requiring that certain funds for certain reserve accounts be deposited on or before the last day of e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB687 | Engross
50% | Requiring each member of a board of directors or officer of a council of unit owners of a condominium in Charles County and each member of a governing body of a homeowners association in Charles County to successfully complete a certain training curr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB970 | Engross
50% | 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
50% | 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 | HB793 | Engross
50% | Requiring certain members of a board of directors or certain officers of a council of unit owners of certain condominiums and certain members of a governing body of a homeowners association to successfully complete a training curriculum on the respon...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1356 | Engross
50% | Requiring each village community association for a village of Columbia to require each candidate for election to the village board or the Columbia Council who receives donations or makes disbursements to file reports of the donations and disbursement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1452 | 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] | 2024-03-17
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1316 | Engross
50% | 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 | HB705 | Engross
50% | Requiring a person conducting a meeting of a cooperative housing corporation, condominium, or homeowners association by telephone conference, video conference, or similar electronic means to provide a participant a reasonable opportunity to participa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB853 | 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] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1207 | Intro
25% | 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
50% | 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 | HB783 | Engross
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB366 | Engross
50% | Prohibiting a restriction on land use that increases the cost of installing a solar collector system by at least 5% over a certain cost or that reduces the efficiency of the system by at least 10% under a certain energy generation level; authorizing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1300 | Intro
25% | Providing that certain restrictions on use that prohibit the use of real property in Montgomery County for housing units otherwise authorized under law are void and unenforceable; and applying the Act retroactively to restrictions on use recorded bef...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB480 | Engross
50% | Requiring the vendor to provide a purchaser under a land installment contract with the results of a title search for the property at or before the time the purchaser signs the contract; requiring the inclusion of certain notice, terms, and recitals i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB1208 | Intro
25% | Exempting cooperative housing corporations, condominiums, and homeowners associations from conducting reserve studies on the vote of at least two-thirds of the members or owners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1496 | Intro
25% | 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
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB29 | Intro
25% | 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 | HB1295 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1457 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Common Ownership Community Ombudsman Unit in the Division of Consumer Protection in the Office of the Attorney General to receive and respond to certain complaints; requiring common ownership communities to file certain documents wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1445 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1274 | Intro
25% | 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 | HB1225 | Intro
25% | Altering certain requirements for a leasehold tenant to redeem a certain ground lease.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1262 | Intro
25% | Exempting the governing bodies of common ownership communities that are not established in Prince George's County or Montgomery County and have six or fewer units or lots from reserve study requirements; and extending the deadline, from 3 to 5 fiscal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1187 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Reserve Funding Assistance Program to provide funds to residents of common ownership communities in order to assist with the payment of increased assessments as a result of certain reserve studies; authorizing a resident to apply for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1196 | Intro
25% | Requiring the seller of any real property to provide a title report to the buyer prior to closing; permitting a buyer to rescind a contract of sale for real property under certain circumstances; and providing that a violation of the Act is an unfair,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1039 | Intro
25% | Establishing that certain required notices in certain resale contracts may be provided to a purchaser's real estate agent; altering certain fees a council of unit owners or a homeowners association or its agent may charge for providing certain disclo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1108 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1035 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Insufficient Condominium Reserve Account Grant Fund to provide grants to low-income condominium owners who live in condominiums with insufficient reserve accounts to enable a low-income unit owner to pay increased assessments necess...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
