| MD | HB139 | Enroll
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB693 | Enroll
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB1117 | Enroll
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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-08
Passed Enrolled |
| 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 | SB171 | Enroll
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Passed Enrolled |
| MD | HB93 | Enroll
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB372 | Enroll
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | HB498 | Enroll
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB162 | Enroll
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB19 | Enroll
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB354 | Enroll
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
Returned Passed |
| MD | SB147 | Enroll
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-01
Returned Passed |
| 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 | SB1167 | 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] | 2024-03-21
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 | 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 | SB725 | 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] | 2024-03-15
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | SB635 | Intro
25% | Altering the number of years of criminal history, from 7 years to 3 years, that are reviewed in a certain reusable tenant screening report; establishing certain prohibitions and limitations on the review and consideration of a prospective tenant's cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB644 | Intro
25% | Authorizing a county to adopt by local law or ordinance provisions prohibiting a landlord of residential property from failing to renew a lease or from terminating a holdover tenancy without just cause; and establishing certain requirements for a loc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| 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 | 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 | SB1146 | 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] | 2024-02-10
To Senate Rules 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 | 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 | HB1114 | 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] | 2024-02-08
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB885 | Intro
25% | Altering the limitation on the liability of a tenant for rent due under a lease due to the tenant's inability to live at the leased premises because of a medical condition to include individuals who will be under the care of a medical professional, p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB992 | 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] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB901 | Intro
25% | Altering the notice requirement for a leasehold tenant to apply to redeem a ground lease to require that a tenant must provide notice only to ground lease holders who have registered a ground lease in accordance with certain law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | SB946 | Intro
25% | Establishing that a landlord that offers a residential dwelling unit for rent is deemed to warrant the dwelling fit for human habitation; clarifying that certain mold hazards constitute dangerous conditions and defects for which a tenant may obtain r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB964 | Intro
25% | Altering the number of years of criminal history, from 7 years to 3 years, that are reviewed in a certain reusable tenant screening report; establishing certain prohibitions and limitations on the review and consideration of a prospective tenant's cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
| MD | SB481 | Intro
25% | Increasing maximum surcharges for certain eviction proceedings from $8 to $93 and prohibiting the District Court from assigning the surcharge against a tenant; altering the priority and criteria in the Statewide Rental Assistance Voucher Program that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee |
| MD | HB402 | Intro
25% | Authorizing an individual to bring a nuisance action for damages caused by rodent harborage on certain real property against certain individuals and authorizing a landlord to bring a breach of lease action against a tenant for behavior that causes or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Environment and Transportation Committee |
