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MDHB143Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDHB139Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDSB46Enroll
75%
Establishing the unenforceability of contracts for the sale of condominium units that do not contain a statement by the vendor or the unit owner as to whether the vendor or owner has knowledge of the presence of asbestos in the condominium, including...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDHB693Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDSB590Intro
25%
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.
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2024-04-08
Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator Simonaire) Adopted
MDSB1106Enroll
75%
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 this Act is not intended to affect any ...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDSB1015Engross
50%
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 notify owners of detached units within a condominium of certain property insurance...
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2024-04-08
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee
MDHB1117Enroll
75%
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 ...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDHB1227Enroll
75%
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 within a condominium of cert...
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDHB1308Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-04-08
Returned Passed
MDHB1397Enroll
75%
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.
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2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled
MDHB181Engross
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...
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2024-04-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB125Enroll
75%
Requiring a contract for the sale of residential real property to contain certain buyer notice relating to Internet resources for locating hazardous waste sites identified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; establishing that a buyer of resi...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDSB171Enroll
75%
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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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDHB486Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled
MDHB13Enroll
75%
Authorizing a condominium regime to be established on certain land owned by an affordable housing land trust.
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB93Enroll
75%
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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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB372Enroll
75%
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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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDSB465Enroll
75%
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 ...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB498Enroll
75%
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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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB664Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDSB665Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDHB1003Enroll
75%
Authorizing a plat in Montgomery County to be drawn, recorded, and maintained in electronic form in a manner approved by the State Archivist.
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2024-04-04
Returned Passed
MDSB162Enroll
75%
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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2024-04-03
Returned Passed
MDSB19Enroll
75%
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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2024-04-03
Returned Passed
MDSB206Enroll
75%
Authorizing the board of directors of a condominium, by a majority vote, to grant leases in excess of 1 year or similar interests affecting the common elements of the condominium for the installation and use of leased clean energy equipment.
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2024-04-03
Returned Passed
MDSB354Enroll
75%
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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2024-04-03
Returned Passed
MDSB423Enroll
75%
Requiring a county treasurer, tax collector, or director of finance to provide a certificate enumerating certain taxes, assessments, and charges against a property and to establish certain procedures to facilitate the issuance of a certificate; requi...
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2024-04-03
Returned Passed
MDSB575Enroll
75%
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 protected individual on the Internet, s...
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2024-04-03
Returned Passed
MDHB216Enroll
75%
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.
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2024-04-02
Passed Enrolled
MDHB54Enroll
75%
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...
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2024-04-02
Passed Enrolled
MDHB159Enroll
75%
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 ...
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2024-04-02
Passed Enrolled
MDSB199Enroll
75%
Authorizing a condominium regime to be established on certain land owned by an affordable housing land trust.
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2024-04-01
Returned Passed
MDSB147Enroll
75%
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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2024-04-01
Returned Passed
MDSB1157Intro
25%
Requiring that certain funds for the reserve account of a cooperative housing corporation, a residential condominium, or a homeowners association be deposited on or before the last day of each fiscal year; extending from 3 to 5 years the duration to ...
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2024-03-27
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB477Engross
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...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Judicial Proceedings 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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2024-03-21
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB281Engross
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...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB687Engross
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...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB970Engross
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...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB1408Engross
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...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB793Engross
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...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB1356Engross
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...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings 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
To House Environment and Transportation 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
MDHB1316Engross
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...
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2024-03-14
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB705Engross
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...
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2024-03-13
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
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB884Intro
25%
Requiring the treasurer, tax collector, or director of finance for a county to provide a certificate enumerating certain taxes, assessments, and charges against a property and to establish certain procedures to facilitate the issuance of the certific...
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2024-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1207Intro
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.
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2024-03-11
Withdrawn by Sponsor
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