| MD | HB227 | Intro
25% | Providing that certain unclaimed money held by an electric cooperative and due to a past member is not considered abandoned property; and authorizing an electric cooperative to use this money only to assist members of the cooperative or make donation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
Favorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB194 | Intro
25% | Requiring that a merchant provide a refund for shipping costs to a consumer who received an incorrect item within 30 days after a certain request is made; and making a violation of the Act an unfair, abusive, or deceptive trade practice that is subje...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
Favorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | SB561 | Intro
25% | Providing that certain unclaimed money held by an electric cooperative and due to a past member is not considered abandoned property; and authorizing an electric cooperative to use this money only to assist members of the cooperative or make donation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| MD | HB1331 | Intro
25% | Regulating the manner in which a developer or deployer of artificial intelligence must protect consumers from certain risks; requiring a developer that offers to sell a certain artificial intelligence system to provide certain information and make ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1274 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain litigation financiers from engaging in certain conduct with respect to litigation financing transactions and certain litigation financing contracts; requiring that the litigation financing contracts contain certain disclosures and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1441 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Executive Director of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission and the Attorney General to take certain action relating to the licensure of certain electronic smoking devices manufacturers, wholesalers, importers, and retailers a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1345 | Intro
25% | Requiring, to make a claim under a warranty for certain agricultural equipment, a consumer to provide written notice to certain parties to report a nonconformity, defect, or condition occurring in certain agricultural equipment; requiring certain par...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1348 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a contractor or person acting on behalf of a contractor from soliciting or attempting to solicit a disaster victim within 48 hours after a disaster; and establishing that a violation of the Act is an unfair, abusive, or deceptive trade pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1294 | Intro
25% | Subjecting certain earned wage access products to the Maryland Consumer Loan Law and other provisions that regulate entities that provide consumer credit, revolving credit, and closed end credit; restricting the acceptance of tips by certain lenders ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1471 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Innovative Financial Product or Service Certification Program to be administered by the Commissioner of Financial Regulation; requiring the Commissioner to issue a certification under the Program to a qualifying peer-to-peer lending ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1353 | Intro
25% | Adding Article 12 of the Uniform Commercial Code to the Maryland Uniform Commercial Code to establish provisions governing the transfer of property rights in certain controllable electronic records, controllable accounts, and controllable payment int...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1248 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain online platforms to establish a process for an individual or an individual's representative to provide certain notice of and request the disabling of access to or removal of certain visual depictions; requiring a certain online plat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB1407 | Intro
25% | Establishing that each individual and a certain right holder have the right to authorize the use of the voice or visual likeness of the individual in a digital replica; providing that the right does not expire on the death of the individual and is tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1477 | Intro
25% | Establishing requirements for consumer reporting agencies that use algorithmic systems to assemble or evaluate consumer credit information on consumers for the purpose of furnishing consumer reports to third parties; and requiring the Commissioner of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1400 | Intro
25% | Establishing consumer protections related to service fees charged by food service facilities; specifying the State minimum wage rate; prohibiting, beginning July 1, 2028, employers of tipped employees from including a tip credit amount as part of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1405 | Intro
25% | Establishing that a certain person has a lien on a motor vehicle towed or removed from a privately owned parking lot for certain charges under certain circumstances; establishing the circumstances in which the lien is extinguished or suspended; estab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB1365 | Intro
25% | Altering requirements for a controller to limit the collection of personal data to what is adequate, relevant, and reasonably necessary in relation to the purposes for which the data is processed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1258 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a local government or unit of State government from restricting the sale, purchase, or use of a certain consumer good solely on the basis of the energy source used to power the consumer good; repealing provisions of law requiring the Depa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB844 | Intro
25% | Requiring an operator of a certain self-service storage facility to notify an occupant in default at least 10 days before conducting a sale of the occupant's property stored in the self-storage facility of the time, place, and terms of the sale by ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB823 | Intro
25% | Establishing consumer protections related to service fees charged by food service facilities; specifying the State minimum wage rate; prohibiting, beginning July 1, 2028, employers of tipped employees from including a tip credit amount as part of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB831 | Intro
25% | Requiring a lender for a reverse mortgage loan to establish a certain escrow account for the payment of eligible homeowner expenses, deduct a certain amount of funds from each loan distribution to a borrower, deposit the deducted funds into the escro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB918 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the Executive Director of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission and the Attorney General to take certain action relating to the licensure of certain electronic smoking devices manufacturers, wholesalers, importers, and retailers a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB917 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain entities that process electronic payment transactions to exclude, under certain circumstances, the amount of tax and gratuity included in the electronic payment transaction from the amount on which an interchange fee is charged; req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB985 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting certain litigation financiers from engaging in certain conduct with respect to litigation financing transactions and certain litigation financing contracts; requiring that the litigation financing contracts contain certain disclosures and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB928 | Intro
25% | Establishing prohibitions and requirements regarding compensation for certain services related to veterans benefits matters; prohibiting a person that is not V.A. accredited from making certain guarantees; providing for the enforcement of the Act und...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB936 | Intro
25% | Requiring a certain developer of, and a certain deployer who uses, a certain high-risk artificial intelligence system to use reasonable care to protect consumers from known and reasonably foreseeable risks of certain algorithmic discrimination in a c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1106 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain providers of travel services to file with the Department of Labor evidence of financial security; and requiring the Consumer Protection Division of the Attorney General's Office and the Department to provide reasonable notice of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1046 | Intro
25% | Establishing that a licensed vehicle dealer, an obligor, or an agent that sells mechanical repair contracts for motor vehicles may not make deceptive or misleading statements regarding the mechanical repair contract and shall ensure that testimonials...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 19 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1089 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Privacy Protection and Enforcement Unit within the Division of Consumer Protection in the Office of the Attorney General; establishing a data broker registry; requiring certain data brokers to register each year with the Comptroller;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB904 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Privacy Protection and Enforcement Unit within the Division of Consumer Protection in the Office of the Attorney General; establishing a data broker registry; requiring certain data brokers to register each year with the Comptroller;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Budget and Taxation Committee |
| MD | HB1041 | Intro
25% | Providing an exemption to reserve funding requirements for homeowners associations that experience exigent financial circumstances, subject to certain requirements; establishing that a violation of the Act is an unfair, abusive, or deceptive trade pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB990 | Intro
25% | Requiring, to make a claim under a warranty for certain agricultural equipment, a consumer to provide written notice to a certain parties to report a nonconformity, defect, or condition occurring in certain agricultural equipment; requiring certain p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB761 | Intro
25% | Making certain virtual currency subject to the abandoned property laws in the State; establishing certain provisions to determine certain information about certain apparent owners of abandoned property; altering and establishing certain provisions pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB979 | Intro
25% | Requiring a certain operator of a certain self-service storage facility to notify at least 10 days prior to conducting a sale of an occupant's personal property stored in certain leased space at the self-service storage facility of the time, place, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB1020 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a consumer reporting agency from furnishing any consumer report containing certain adverse information relating to a consumer's medical debt, or any collection action against a consumer for medical debt, or maintain a file on a consumer r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB866 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Common Ownership Community Ombudsman Unit in the Office of the Attorney General to monitor relevant changes in federal and State laws, make certain information publicly available, assist members in understanding certain rights and pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB883 | Intro
25% | Establishing that a certain person has a lien on a motor vehicle towed or removed from a privately owned parking lot for charges incurred for any towing, recovery, storage, or notice provided under certain circumstances; and establishing the circumst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
[Hearing: Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB614 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a consumer reporting agency from including certain medical debt information in a consumer report; prohibiting a person from using medical debt information included in a consumer report when making a creditworthiness determination; prohibi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-01
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB659 | Intro
25% | Requiring the Commissioner of Financial Regulation to adopt consumer protection regulations for domestic electronic funds transfers that apply to financial institutions in the State and are consistent with the federal Electronic Fund Transfer Act; et...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-01
[Hearing: Feb 20 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB103 | Intro
25% | Making permanent distributions by the Comptroller from funds gained from abandoned property in the State to the Access to Counsel in Evictions Special Fund; terminating the Access to Counsel in Evictions Task Force on January 31, 2026; and making per...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | HB876 | Intro
25% | Altering the contents of the Access to Counsel in Evictions Special Fund to include money received by the Antitrust Division in the Office of the Attorney General from a final settlement, an agreement, or a judgment relating to a certain violation of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Appropriations Committee |
| MD | SB784 | Intro
25% | Correcting certain errors or omissions in certain articles of the Annotated Code; clarifying language; correcting certain obsolete references; reorganizing certain sections of the Annotated Code; providing that the Act is not intended to affect any l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
To Senate Rules 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
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB665 | Intro
25% | Making certain virtual currency subject to the abandoned property laws in the State; establishing certain provisions to determine certain information about certain apparent owners of abandoned property; altering and establishing certain provisions pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 13 @ 1:00 pm]
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB895 | Intro
25% | Establishing rules of interpretation related to the uniformed services; altering the rule of interpretation for "veteran"; and altering the application of certain provisions of law governing the regulation of business, economic development, insurance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
[Hearing: Feb 12 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | HB903 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the State or a local government, or an agency of the State or a local government, from filing an action for monetary damages or alleged economic damages against a business for the adverse effects of global warming or climate change in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| MD | HB842 | Intro
25% | Requiring a farm equipment manufacturer to make available certain documentation, updates, or information to an independent repair provider or owner of farm equipment to allow for the diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of the farm equipment; prohibitin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters 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
[Hearing: Feb 18 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | HB843 | Intro
25% | Requiring a manufacturer of certain motor vehicles to provide certain information and tools related to the diagnosis, service, and repair of motor vehicles to certain owners and independent repair facilities under certain circumstances; requiring a m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
[Hearing: Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Economic Matters Committee |
| MD | SB466 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting a caregiver, family member, or household member from knowingly and willfully obtaining the property of an individual the caregiver, family member, or household member knows or reasonably should know is a vulnerable or senior adult with th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
