Landlord and Tenant - Residential Leases and Holdover Tenancies - Local Good Cause Termination (Good Cause Eviction) [SB-651]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Authorizing a county to enact, by local law or ordinance, provisions prohibiting certain landlords of residential property from failing to renew a lease during the lease period or from terminating a holdover tenancy without good cause; establishing certain requirements and prohibitions for a local law or ordinance adopted in accordance with the Act; etc.
SB-651: Landlord and Tenant - Residential Leases and Holdover Tenancies - Local Good Cause Termination (Good Cause Eviction)
Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Muse
Hearing 2/18 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/04/2025
Property Tax – Low–Income Housing Tax Credit – Valuation of Property [SB-598]
[Housing ]
[Property Tax ]
[Taxes ]
[Community Development ]
[Finance ]
Requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development to notify the State Department of Assessments and Taxation, within 30 days of closing and the execution and delivery of a certain regulatory agreement, that a commercial property that is developed under a certain provision of federal law has been awarded a low-income tax credit; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 2025.
Sale of Residential Property - Taxes and Offers to Purchase (End Hedge Fund Control of Maryland Homes Act of 2025) [SB-582]
[Real Estate ]
[Taxes ]
[Housing ]
[Community Development ]
[Nonprofit ]
[Property Tax ]
Authorizing a person who offers for sale to a third party improved single-family residential real property, for the first 30 days, to accept an offer to purchase the property made only by an individual, a community development organization, a nonprofit organization, or a real estate enterprise that owns an interest in less than 3% of all residential real property in the county; and altering the rate of the State transfer tax payable for an instrument of writing for a sale of certain residential real property under certain circumstances.
SB-582: Sale of Residential Property - Taxes and Offers to Purchase (End Hedge Fund Control of Maryland Homes Act of 2025)
Sponsored by: Sen. Shaneka Henson
Hearing Canceled (budget And Taxation) And Hearing Canceled (judicial Proceedings) on 02/17/2025
Housing and Community Development - Statewide Rental Assistance Voucher Program Eligibility - Alterations [HB-716]
[Housing ]
[Community Development ]
[Funding ]
[Human Services ]
[Poverty ]
Including the Department of Housing and Community Development in the definition of "public housing agency" for the purposes of the Statewide Rental Assistance Voucher Program; authorizing a public housing agency to administer the Program in accordance with a local administrative plan; authorizing the Department to project-base up to 100% of its authorized voucher units; altering the manner in which the Department and each public housing agency shall prioritize vouchers and housing assistance payments for certain families; etc.
HB-716: Housing and Community Development - Statewide Rental Assistance Voucher Program Eligibility - Alterations
Sponsored by: Rep.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 234 on 04/22/2025
Landlord and Tenant - Residential Leases and Holdover Tenancies - Local Good Cause Termination (Good Cause Eviction) [HB-709]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Authorizing a county to adopt, by local law or ordinance, provisions prohibiting certain landlords of residential property from failing to renew a lease during the lease period or from terminating a holdover tenancy without good cause; establishing certain requirements and prohibitions for a local law or ordinance adopted in accordance with the Act; etc.
HB-709: Landlord and Tenant - Residential Leases and Holdover Tenancies - Local Good Cause Termination (Good Cause Eviction)
Sponsored by: Rep. Jheanelle Wilkins
Hearing Canceled on 02/13/2025
Property Tax - Low-Income Housing Tax Credit - Valuation of Property [HB-585]
[Property Tax ]
[Housing ]
[Taxes ]
[Community Development ]
[Real Estate ]
Requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development to notify the State Department of Assessments and Taxation, within 30 days of closing and the execution and delivery of a certain regulatory agreement, that a commercial property that is developed under a certain provision of federal law has been awarded a low-income tax credit; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 2025.
Housing Development Act [HB-503]
[Housing ]
[Community Development ]
[Economic Development ]
Requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development to periodically establish housing production targets for the State and certain local jurisdictions; requiring the Department to publish housing production targets on its website and notify certain local jurisdictions; requiring the Department to publish an annual report assessing the progress of the State and certain local jurisdictions with meeting specified housing targets; establishing the Housing Opportunities Made Equitable Commission; etc.
HB-503: Housing Development Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Kevin Hornberger
Rereferred To Education, Energy, And The Environment on 04/03/2025
Economic Development - Delivering Economic Competitiveness and Advancing Development Efforts (DECADE) Act [HB-498]
[Economic Development ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Small Business ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Taxes ]
Requiring the Department of Commerce to evaluate the potential employment and economic growth of the State's industry sectors and establish a certain list of industry sectors and activities to be considered for additional support; repealing the Maryland Economic Development Commission and Commerce Subcabinet; altering the designation, administration, and purposes of and eligibility for certain economic development programs; altering eligibility for and the calculation of certain economic development incentives; etc.
HB-498: Economic Development - Delivering Economic Competitiveness and Advancing Development Efforts (DECADE) Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Stein
Hearing Canceled (ways And Means) on 02/07/2025
Economic Development - Delivering Economic Competitiveness and Advancing Development Efforts (DECADE) Act [SB-427]
[Economic Development ]
[Small Business ]
[Film Production ]
[Taxes ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Altering the designation, administration, and purposes of and eligibility for certain economic development programs; redesignating the Maryland Economic Development Assistance Authority to be the Maryland Economic Competitiveness Fund; repealing the Maryland Small Business Development Financing Authority and certain related Funds; making the film production activity tax credit transferable; authorizing a qualified film production entity to amend its application for the tax credit under certain circumstances; etc.
SB-427: Economic Development - Delivering Economic Competitiveness and Advancing Development Efforts (DECADE) Act
Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence Lam
Rereferred To Ways And Means And Appropriations on 04/07/2025
Land Use - Regional Housing Infrastructure Gap (Housing for Jobs Act) [SB-430]
[Housing ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Community Development ]
[Economic Development ]
[Real Estate ]
[Construction ]
Requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development and the Department of Planning to calculate certain regional housing infrastructure gaps; providing for the apportionment of regional housing infrastructure gaps to counties and incorporated municipalities; authorizing local jurisdictions to reduce local housing infrastructure gaps in a certain manner; establishing that certain local jurisdictions have an affirmative obligation to expeditiously approve housing development project applications; etc.
SB-430: Land Use - Regional Housing Infrastructure Gap (Housing for Jobs Act)
Sponsored by: Sen. Cheryl Kagan
Hearing Canceled on 02/06/2025
Food Deserts Workgroup - Establishment [SB-353]
[Food ]
[Community Development ]
[Public Health ]
[Economic Development ]
[Healthcare ]
Establishing the Food Deserts Workgroup to study and make recommendations regarding solutions to eliminate food deserts in the State; and requiring the Workgroup to report its key findings and recommended solutions to eliminate food deserts by November 1, 2025, to the Governor and certain committees of the General Assembly.
SB-353: Food Deserts Workgroup - Establishment
Sponsored by: Sen. Johnny Salling
Hearing 2/06 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/22/2025
Common Ownership Communities - Ombudsman Unit, Governing Document Database, and Local Commissions [HB-306]
[Housing ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Community Development ]
[Real Estate ]
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 with the Department of Housing and Community Development; requiring the Department to establish a database of governing documents accessible to the public; and establishing requirements for a local common ownership commission established by the local government of a county.
HB-306: Common Ownership Communities - Ombudsman Unit, Governing Document Database, and Local Commissions
Sponsored by: Rep. Marvin Holmes
Hearing 2/04 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/15/2025
Housing and Community Development - Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions - Issuance of Loans and Achievement of Targets [SB-247]
[Housing ]
[Community Development ]
[Energy ]
[Climate Change ]
[Environmental ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Authorizing the Department of Housing and Community Development to issue loans, in addition to grants, for certain purposes relating to reducing direct greenhouse gas emissions from certain multifamily residential buildings; and expanding the sources of savings that the Department may include when calculating the achievement of certain greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets.
SB-247: Housing and Community Development - Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions - Issuance of Loans and Achievement of Targets
Community Health and Safety Works Grant Program and Fund - Alterations [SB-188]
[Community Development ]
[Crime ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Public Safety ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Altering the projects eligible for funding under the Community Health and Safety Works Grant Program; altering the applicants eligible to apply for funding for certain projects under the Program; altering requirements for projects to purchase or install license readers; repealing certain requirements for projects to purchase or install camera networks; repealing minimum and maximum grant amounts under the Program; and expanding the authorized uses of the Community Health and Safety Works Grant Program Fund.
SB-188: Community Health and Safety Works Grant Program and Fund - Alterations
Sponsored by: Sen.
Hearing 1/29 At 10:30 A.m. on 01/14/2025
Housing and Community Development - Project Restore Program - Establishment [HB-90]
[Housing ]
[Community Development ]
[Economic Development ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Establishing the Project Restore Program within the Department of Housing and Community Development; authorizing the Department to distribute Program funds to certain place-based community development organizations and units of local governments; requiring certain recipients of Program funds to distribute subgrants to certain qualified entities; and specifying the eligible uses of Program funds.
HB-90: Housing and Community Development - Project Restore Program - Establishment
Sponsored by: Rep.
Hearing 1/23 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/09/2025
Department of the Environment - Fees, Penalties, Funding, and Regulation [SB-250]
[Environmental ]
[Air Quality ]
[Funding ]
[Water ]
[Energy ]
[Public Health ]
Altering the authorized uses of the Maryland Clean Air Fund to include certain activities relating to mitigating and reducing air pollution in the State; authorizing the Department of the Environment to charge a fee for processing and issuing on-site sewage disposal permits and individual well construction permits under certain circumstances; requiring a holder of a license to transfer oil into the State to pay a certain fee when oil owned by the licensee is first transferred into the State; establishing the Private Dam Repair Fund; etc.
SB-250: Department of the Environment - Fees, Penalties, Funding, and Regulation
Sponsored by: Sen.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 432 on 05/13/2025
Housing and Community Development - Project Restore Program - Establishment [SB-235]
[Housing ]
[Community Development ]
[Economic Development ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Establishing the Project Restore Program within the Department of Housing and Community Development; authorizing the Department to distribute Program funds to certain place-based community development organizations and units of local governments; requiring certain recipients of Program funds to distribute subgrants to certain qualified entities; and specifying the eligible uses of Program funds.
SB-235: Housing and Community Development - Project Restore Program - Establishment
Community Health and Safety Works Grant Program and Fund - Alterations [HB-172]
[Community Development ]
[Crime ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Public Safety ]
[Public Health ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Altering the projects eligible for funding under the Community Health and Safety Works Grant Program; altering the applicants eligible to apply for funding for certain projects under the Program; altering requirements for projects to purchase or install license readers; repealing certain requirements for projects to purchase or install camera networks; repealing minimum and maximum grant amounts under the Program; and expanding the authorized uses of the Community Health and Safety Works Grant Program Fund.
HB-172: Community Health and Safety Works Grant Program and Fund - Alterations
Sponsored by: Rep.
Hearing 3/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/24/2025
Housing and Community Development - Homeless Shelter Certification Program - Establishment [HB-93]
[Housing ]
[Community Development ]
[Human Services ]
[Public Health ]
Establishing a homeless shelter certification program in the Department of Housing and Community Development; requiring the Department to develop certain operational and building standards for homeless shelters and minimum standards for the protection of the rights of shelter residents; and requiring the operator of a homeless shelter to participate in a certain Homeless Management Information System.
HB-93: Housing and Community Development - Homeless Shelter Certification Program - Establishment
Sponsored by: Rep.
Hearing 2/04 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/15/2025
Housing and Community Development - Homeless Shelter Certification Program - Establishment [SB-234]
[Housing ]
[Community Development ]
[Human Services ]
[Public Health ]
Establishing a homeless shelter certification program in the Department of Housing and Community Development; requiring the Department to develop certain operational and building standards for homeless shelters and minimum standards for the protection of the rights of shelter residents; and requiring the operator of a homeless shelter to participate in a certain Homeless Management Information System.
SB-234: Housing and Community Development - Homeless Shelter Certification Program - Establishment