Housing And Community Development, Department Of
Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Housing Development Permit Applications - Local Reporting Requirements [HB-131]
[Housing ]
[Construction ]
[Community Development ]
[Real Estate ]
Requiring local jurisdictions with at least 150,000 residents to report certain information for each building or development permit application that includes a residential housing component as part of the development to the Department of Housing and Community Development and the Department of Planning on or before July 1 each year; and requiring a local jurisdiction to make a copy of the report publicly available on its website.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mary Lehman
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 213 on 04/25/2024
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Common Ownership Communities - Electric Vehicle Recharging Equipment (Electric Vehicle Recharging Equipment Act of 2024) [HB-159]
[Energy ]
[Housing ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Community Development ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
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 vehicle recharging equipment; and requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development to publish information on its common ownership community website regarding requirements, contractor information, certain points of contact, and resources on dispute resolutions.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Stein
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 268 on 04/25/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Department of the Environment - Environmental Justice Evaluation of Environmental Permit Applications [HB-24]
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[Air Quality ]
[Public Health ]
[Community Development ]
[Water ]
Requiring the Department of the Environment to perform a certain environmental justice evaluation of certain environmental permit applications under certain circumstances; authorizing the Department to take certain actions on certain environmental permit applications based on certain findings to address environmental concerns; requiring the Department to maintain a publicly accessible website, part of a website, or application that identifies pending permit applications with specific census tracts; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Stein
Third Reading Passed (103-36) on 03/18/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Services for Formerly Incarcerated Women - Commission and Pilot Program - Establishment [HB-37]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Human Services ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Establishing the Commission on Services for Formerly Incarcerated Women overseen by the Governor's Office of Crime Prevention, Youth, and Victim Services to create a comprehensive plan for services for formerly incarcerated women; requiring the Commission to study the challenges faced by formerly incarcerated women, identify existing services and service gaps, and report its findings to the Governor and General Assembly by June 30, 2025; and establishing the Pilot Program for Formerly Incarcerated Women.
Sponsored by: Rep. Frank Conaway
Hearing 3/26 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/20/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Housing and Community Development - Just Community Designation [HB-241]
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[Funding ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Economic Development ]
[Healthcare ]
Authorizing the Governor, on the recommendation of the Secretary of Housing and Community Development, to designate certain areas as Just Communities based on certain criteria; and providing for the prioritization of State funding for Just Communities to increase racial, economic and health equity in the State.
Sponsored by: Rep.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 147 on 04/25/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Housing Innovation Pilot Program and Housing Innovation Fund - Establishment (Housing Innovation Pilot Program Act of 2024) [HB-7]
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[Construction ]
[Economic Development ]
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[Grants ]
Establishing the Housing Innovation Fund to provide loans for local housing authorities and county governments to develop mixed-income, cross-subsidized housing; establishing the Housing Innovation Pilot Program in the Department of Housing and Community Development to assist public housing authorities and county governments in increasing housing production and to reward counties pursuing solutions to the problem of housing scarcity; authorizing the Governor to include an appropriation of $5,000,000 to the Fund in certain fiscal years; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dana Stein
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 212 on 04/25/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Housing and Community Development - Just Community Designation [SB-308]
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[Funding ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Economic Development ]
[Healthcare ]
Authorizing the Governor, on the recommendation of the Secretary of Housing and Community Development, to designate certain areas as Just Communities based on certain criteria; and providing for the prioritization of State funding for Just Communities to increase racial, economic, and health equity in the State.
Sponsored by: Sen.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 148 on 04/25/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Property Tax Credit - Permanent Supportive Housing - Established [SB-269]
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[Property Tax ]
[Taxes ]
[Real Estate ]
[Community Development ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Human Services ]
[Poverty ]
Establishing a property tax credit against the State, county, and municipal corporation real property tax on certain properties that provide permanent supportive housing; providing for the calculation of the tax credit; providing for the recapture of the tax credit under certain circumstances; requiring a certain reimbursement by the State to a county or municipal corporation for a certain percentage of the tax credit; applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 2025; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen.
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 02/05/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Sustainable Growth Subcabinet and Repeal of the Office of Smart Growth [HB-225]
[Community Development ]
[Economic Development ]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
Repealing the Office of Smart Growth; repealing the position of Special Secretary for Smart Growth; renaming the Smart Growth Subcabinet to be the Sustainable Growth Subcabinet; altering the membership of the Subcabinet; requiring the Subcabinet to review State assistance programs, promote interagency consensus and cooperation, provide advisory and technical assistance to local jurisdictions, and gather and disseminate information to the public related to the State's sustainable growth policy; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 91 on 04/09/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Department of the Environment - Fees, Penalties, Funding, and Regulation [HB-245]
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[Funding ]
[Water ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Public Health ]
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; authorizing the Department to establish by regulation a fee for the Responsible Personnel Training Program Certification; 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.
Sponsored by: Rep.
Hearing 3/26 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/21/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Interagency Food Desert Advisory Committee - Food Desert Study [SB-98]
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[Community Development ]
[Economic Development ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring, on or before November 30, 2024, Interagency Food Desert Advisory Committee to conduct a study and make recommendations on reducing the number of food deserts in the State and to submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the Senate Committee on Education, Energy, and Environment, the Senate Finance Committee, and the House Environment and Transportation Committee.
Sponsored by: Sen. Johnny Salling
Hearing 3/26 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/21/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Housing Innovation Pilot Program and Housing Innovation Fund - Establishment (Housing Innovation Pilot Program Act of 2024) [SB-203]
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[Community Development ]
[Economic Development ]
[Construction ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Establishing the Housing Innovation Pilot Program in the Department of Housing and Community Development to create opportunities for the State's public housing authorities and county governments to increase the volume of housing production and to reward counties pursuing innovative solutions to the problem of housing scarcity; establishing the Housing Innovation Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; requiring the Department to prioritize funding for projects that do not use low-income housing tax credit equity or tax-exempt volume cap; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jeff Waldstreicher
Referred Rules And Executive Nominations on 04/06/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Charter Counties - Comprehensive Plans - Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing [HB-17]
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[Real Estate ]
[Community Development ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
Altering requirements for the housing element of a charter county's comprehensive plan to include requirements related to affirmatively furthering fair housing; requiring the housing element of a comprehensive plan that is enacted or amended on or after January 1, 2025, to include an assessment of fair housing to ensure that the county is affirmatively furthering fair housing; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 90 on 04/09/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Community Development Administration - Live Near Where You Teach Program - Establishment [HB-69]
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[Education ]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Public Safety ]
Authorizing the Community Development Administration in the Department of Housing and Community Development to administer a home buyer assistance program, a rental assistance program, and certain community development projects that assist certain school staff members with the purchase or rental of homes near where the school staff member is employed; requiring a school staff member, to qualify for home buyer assistance, to have been employed at an elementary or secondary school in the State for at least the preceding 18 months; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Marlon Amprey
Hearing Canceled on 01/22/2024
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Land Use - Expedited Development Review Processes for Affordable Housing - Requirements [HB-3]
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[Community Development ]
[Real Estate ]
[Construction ]
[Economic Development ]
Requiring local jurisdictions to establish and implement an expedited development review process for certain proposed affordable housing developments; applying the process to a charitable organization seeking to develop affordable housing on its own land and a public housing authority proposing to develop affordable housing on land owned by a charity or a government entity; and establishing a good-faith waiver for local jurisdictions that cannot implement an expedited development review process.
Sponsored by: Rep. Vaughn Stewart
Hearing Canceled on 01/22/2024
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Fire Protection and Prevention - Sprinkler Systems - Requirements (Melanie Diaz Sprinklers Save Lives Act) [SB-970]
[Construction ]
[Housing ]
[Public Safety ]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
Requiring certain high-rise buildings to be protected by automatic sprinkler systems beginning January 1, 2033; and requiring high-rise buildings that are not protected by a complete automatic sprinkler system to provide conspicuous notice in any lease agreement indicating that the building is not currently protected by a complete automatic sprinkler system and that the building is required to be protected by a complete automatic sprinkler system on or before January 1, 2023.
Sponsored by: Sen. William Smith
Third Reading Passed (42-4) on 04/05/2023
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Fire Protection and Prevention – Sprinkler Systems and Smoke Alarms – Requirements (Melanie Diaz Sprinklers Save Lives Act) [HB-1292]
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[Public Safety ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Construction ]
Requiring the installation of smoke alarms in public corridors accessible by units in high-rise buildings; prohibiting a landlord from requiring a deaf or hard of hearing tenant to pay for the cost of a notification appliance or to provide supporting documentation with a written request for a notification appliance; prohibiting a landlord from requiring a tenant to reimburse the landlord for the cost of installing certain smoke alarms; requiring certain high-rise buildings to have automatic sprinkler systems by January 1, 2033; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Marvin Holmes
First Reading House Rules And Executive Nominations on 02/28/2023
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Commercial Law - Ability to Repay Verification - Exemption [SB-943]
[Finance ]
[Housing ]
[Community Development ]
[Small Business ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Exempting mortgage loans made by community development financial institutions from certain requirements to verify the borrower's ability to repay.
Sponsored by: Sen. J.B. Jennings
First Reading Senate Rules on 02/20/2023
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Natural Resources - Greenspace Equity Program - Establishment [SB-923]
[Environmental ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Community Development ]
[Public Health ]
[Grants ]
[Funding ]
[Water ]
Establishing the Greenspace Equity Program in the Department of Natural Resources to provide grants to eligible applicants for enhancing the public health and livability of overburdened communities and underserved communities by implementing projects to preserve, create, and enhance community greenspace; requiring the Department to submit certain grant applications to the Maryland State Clearinghouse for Intergovernmental Assistance; establishing the Greenspace Equity Advisory Board in the Department; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. James Rosapepe
Third Reading Passed (40-7) on 04/10/2023
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Electric Companies, Gas Companies, and the Department of Housing and Community Development - Energy Efficiency and Conservation Plans [SB-905]
[Energy ]
[Housing ]
[Environmental ]
[Climate Change ]
[Public Health ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Air Quality ]
Requiring each electric company and gas company and the Department of Housing and Community Development to procure or provide for its customers or certain individuals, beginning September 1, 2023, and every 3 years thereafter, certain energy efficiency, conservation, and greenhouse gas emissions reduction programs and services to encourage and promote the efficient use and conservation of energy in support of certain greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals and targets; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Brian Feldman
Hearing 3/14 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/12/2023