Commerce And Business
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Business Regulation - Enforcement for Miscellaneous State Business Licenses - Study [SB-664]
[Small Business ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Economic Development ]
[Funding ]
Requiring the Comptroller to consult with certain stakeholders to study and make recommendations on the enforcement process for miscellaneous State business licenses; and requiring the Comptroller to submit a report of the study's findings and recommendations to the General Assembly by December 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 632 on 05/20/2025
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Comptroller - Baby Bond Account Program Study [HB-753]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Economic Development ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Poverty ]
Requiring the Comptroller to conduct a study and report to the Governor and General Assembly on or before June 1, 2026, on the feasibility of a State baby bond account program.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Edelson
Hearing Canceled on 03/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Property Tax Exemption and Payment in Lieu of Taxes - The Hagerstown Multi-Use Sports and Events Facility, Inc. [SB-596]
[Property Tax ]
[Recreation ]
[Sports ]
[Taxes ]
Exempting from the property tax property that is owned by The Hagerstown Multi-Use Sports and Events Facility, Inc., and used primarily for public social, recreational, and entertainment purposes; and authorizing the Hagerstown Multi-Use Sports and Events Facility, Inc. to pay to the governing body of Washington County or the City of Hagerstown an amount, if any, that may be set by mutual agreement in lieu of the taxes that would otherwise be due on all or part of the facility.
Sponsored by: Sen.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 428 on 05/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Washington County - Property Tax Credit - Economic Development Projects [HB-750]
[Property Tax ]
[Economic Development ]
[Taxes ]
[Real Estate ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Altering eligibility requirements for a certain property tax credit for certain business entities that invest a certain amount in certain real property in Washington County and create a certain number of new and permanent full-time jobs in the county; and altering the amount and duration of the property tax credit.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 236 on 04/22/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Commission on State and Local Government Real Property Bearing Confederate Names [HB-752]
[Community Development ]
[Real Estate ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Ethics ]
Establishing the Commission on State and Local Government Real Property Bearing Confederate Names to develop and implement a framework to identify real property owned by the State or a political subdivision that bears a Confederate name; and requiring the Commission to make recommendations regarding the real property that should be renamed and report its findings to the Governor, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City, the governing body of each county, and the General Assembly by October 1, 2032.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Stein
Hearing 3/04 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/03/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Human Remains - Transportation Protection Agreements [SB-607]
[Consumer Protection ]
Excluding transportation protection agreements from the definition of "preneed burial contract" and "pre-need contract" under the Maryland Cemetery Act and the Maryland Morticians and Funeral Directors Act, respectively; and providing that transportation protection agreements are not insurance and are not subject to regulation under certain provisions of law.
Sponsored by: Sen. Chris West
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 02/17/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Commercial Financing - Small Business Truth in Lending Act [HB-693]
[Finance ]
[Small Business ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Economic Development ]
Regulating commercial financing transactions, including by establishing requirements related to certain disclosures, calculations of annual percentage rates, terms of repayments, and other related items, and the extension of specific offers.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Fraser-hidalgo
Favorable Report By Economic Matters on 03/17/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Business Regulation - Home Improvement Guaranty Fund - Alterations [SB-578]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Construction ]
[Housing ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Small Business ]
Authorizing the Maryland Home Improvement Commission to award a claimant for attorney's fees from the Home Improvement Guaranty Fund; prohibiting the Commission from awarding an amount for attorney's fees greater than the amount awarded for the actual loss from the acts of the contractor, provided that the total amount awarded to a claimant does not exceed $30,000; altering the content in a final court judgment or final award in arbitration that a claimant must provide to the Commission to claim payment from the Fund; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence Lam
Hearing Canceled on 03/18/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Municipal Incorporation - County Commissioners or County Council - Required Approval of Referendum Request [SB-546]
[Elections ]
[Community Development ]
Requiring a certain organizing committee to make certain determinations and provide a certain report to the county commissioners or county council of a certain county regarding a proposed municipal incorporation; requiring the county commissioners or county council to approve a certain referendum request in a certain manner if a valid petition to incorporate an area as a municipality is presented by at least 40% of the registered voters who are residents of the area proposed to be incorporated; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mary James
Hearing 2/25 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/04/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Alcoholic Beverages Industry - Study [SB-542]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
[Small Business ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Economic Development ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Requiring the Governor's Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs to contract with a third party to conduct a study of the structure and composition of the distribution and retail sector of the alcoholic beverages industry in the State and to make recommendations on identifying and eliminating barriers to minority participation in that industry; and requiring the Office to submit its report and recommendations on or before December 1, 2026.
Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Muse
Hearing 2/21 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/04/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Gasoline-Powered Leaf Blowers - Purchase, Use, and Sale - Prohibitions (Clean Air Quiet Communities Act) [HB-701]
[Air Quality ]
[Environmental ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Health ]
Prohibiting the State from purchasing gasoline-powered leaf blowers beginning July 1, 2025; establishing a certain process to phase out on or before a certain date the use by the State of gasoline-powered leaf blowers; requiring a person that sells or offers for sale a gasoline-powered leaf blower in the State to provide certain notice to the purchaser or potential purchaser; prohibiting the sale of gasoline-powered leaf blowers beginning on January 1, 2027; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michele Guyton
Hearing 2/11 At 1:00 P.m. (economic Matters) on 01/29/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Business Regulation - Enforcement for Miscellaneous State Business Licenses - Study [HB-577]
[Small Business ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Economic Development ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Requiring the Comptroller to consult with certain stakeholders to study and make recommendations on the enforcement process for miscellaneous State business licenses; and requiring the Comptroller to report the findings and recommendations of the study to the General Assembly by December 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 633 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
State Property Tax - Transportation Funding (Transportation Funding Act of 2025) [HB-641]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Property Tax ]
[Taxes ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Infrastructure ]
Requiring the Governor, after consultation with the Secretary of Transportation, to submit each year to the Board of Public Works and the General Assembly a proposal for a State property tax to support transportation projects and programs; requiring, on or before February 15 each year, the Board of Public Works to approve, reject, or modify the proposed State property tax; imposing a State property tax at the rates and on the classes and subclasses of property that the Board of Public Works approves; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sheila Ruth
Hearing 2/11 At 1:00 P.m. (ways And Means) on 01/28/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Anne Arundel County - Property Tax Credit - Supermarkets [HB-598]
[Property Tax ]
[Taxes ]
[Community Development ]
[Food ]
[Economic Development ]
[Real Estate ]
Authorizing the governing body of Anne Arundel County or of a municipal corporation in Anne Arundel County to grant, by law, a property tax credit against the personal property tax imposed on personal property of a supermarket that completes certain construction and is located in a certain food desert retail incentive area; requiring the governing body to designate what constitutes a food desert retail incentive area for purposes of the tax credit; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Heather Bagnall
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 177 on 04/22/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
St. Mary's County - Alcoholic Beverages Licenses - Multiple Licensing Plans [HB-574]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
Authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for St. Mary's County to issue not more than three Class B beer, wine, and liquor restaurant licenses to a person under certain circumstances; and prohibiting a person from having a direct or indirect interest in more than a certain number of Class B beer, wine, and liquor restaurant licenses.
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 840 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Economic Development - Small Business Guaranty Fund - Alterations [HB-601]
[Economic Development ]
[Small Business ]
[Finance ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Authorizing the Maryland Small Business Development Financing Authority to authorize the provision of a guaranty under the Small Business Guaranty Fund in an irrevocable letter of credit, an official treasurer's check, funds on deposit in an escrow or other depository account, or any other legal instrument promising a financial institution restitution or reimbursement for its loan losses, within the limits of the guaranty.
Sponsored by: Rep. Frank Conaway
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 3 on 04/08/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Economic Development - Business Resource Initiative for Developmental Growth and Empowerment (BRIDGE) Program - Establishment [HB-648]
[Economic Development ]
[Small Business ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Community Development ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
Establishing the Business Resource Initiative for Developmental Growth and Empowerment Program and Fund in the Department of Commerce to provide grants to certain business entities to establish certain business incubators; prohibiting the grants awarded under the Program from being used to support more than 25% of the operating expenses of a qualified incubator, except in the first year of a grant; requiring the Department to give priority for grants to incubators managed by socially or economically disadvantaged persons; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Regina Boyce
Hearing 2/20 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/31/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Transit Administration - Purple Line - Free Ridership and Promotional Materials and Services [HB-527]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Small Business ]
[Community Development ]
Requiring the Maryland Transit Administration to develop and implement a program providing for the first month after transit service begins on the Purple Line, free ridership on Purple Line transit vehicles to individuals residing within a one-quarter-mile radius of the Purple Line track; and requiring the Administration to include, beginning on October 1, 2025, for 3 months after service on the Purple Lines begins promotional materials and services at no cost to small businesses located within a one-quarter-mile radius of the Purple Line track.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Healey
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 494 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Security Guard Agencies - Special Police Officers - Application for Appointment [SB-455]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
Authorizing a certain security guard agency to apply for the appointment of special police officers in order to protect property owned or leased by the security guard agency's clients.
Sponsored by: Sen. William Smith
Vetoed By The Governor (policy) on 05/16/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Empowering New Energy Resources and Green Initiatives Toward a Zero-Emission (ENERGIZE) Maryland Act [SB-434]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Climate Change ]
[Public Health ]
Renaming the "renewable energy portfolio standard" to be the "clean energy portfolio standard"; altering the minimum required percentage of energy that must be derived from clean energy sources in certain years under the clean energy portfolio standard; altering the contents of and approval criteria for an application for an offshore wind project; establishing a process for the Public Service Commission to review and approve an application for a proposed nuclear energy generation project; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Benjamin Brooks
Hearing 2/20 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2025