Financial Institutions - Conventional Home Mortgage Loans - Assumption and Required Disclosures [SB-689]
[Finance ]
[Real Estate ]
[Housing ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Requiring banking institutions, credit unions, mortgage lenders, mortgage lending businesses, and mortgage loan originators to include a certain provision in certain conventional home mortgage loans authorizing a certain borrower to purchase the property interest of a certain borrower in connection with a decree of absolute divorce if the lending entity determines that the assuming borrower qualifies for the loan; and applying certain provisions of the Act retroactively.
SB-689: Financial Institutions - Conventional Home Mortgage Loans - Assumption and Required Disclosures
Sponsored by: Sen. Dawn Gile
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 203 on 04/22/2025
Environment - On-Site Wastewater Systems - Requirements for Inspection and Pumping Services and Extension of Sunset and Implementation Dates [HB-747]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Housing ]
[Public Health ]
Requiring a landlord of property that is served by an on-site wastewater system to ensure, on or before July 1, 2028, and before each new tenant occupies the property thereafter, that the system has been inspected and pumped out in a certain manner; requiring a landlord or an owner of property to notify a certain delegated approval authority that an on-site sewage disposal system has failed and when the system is fixed, under certain circumstances; extending certain dates; etc.
HB-747: Environment - On-Site Wastewater Systems - Requirements for Inspection and Pumping Services and Extension of Sunset and Implementation Dates
Sponsored by: Rep. Michele Guyton
Motion Laid Over (senator Ready) Adopted on 04/07/2025
You have voted HB-747: Environment - On-Site Wastewater Systems - Requirements for Inspection and Pumping Services and Extension of Sunset and Implementation Dates.
State Government - Maryland Reparations Commission - Establishment (Harriet Tubman Community Investment Act) [SB-469]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Human Rights ]
[Human Services ]
[Poverty ]
[Community Development ]
[Economic Development ]
Establishing the Maryland Reparations Commission to develop and administer a program to provide compensatory benefits to the descendants of individuals enslaved in the State; providing that any individual whose ancestors were enslaved in the State is eligible to receive certain benefits; authorizing the Commission to seek the assistance of State agencies to develop and evaluate processes and applications; requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill such sums as necessary to carry out the Act; etc.
SB-469: State Government - Maryland Reparations Commission - Establishment (Harriet Tubman Community Investment Act)
Sponsored by: Sen. Joanne Benson
Hearing 2/20 At 1:00 P.m. (education, Energy, And The Environment) on 01/30/2025
Real Property – Recordation and Land Records – Requirements [HB-347]
[Real Estate ]
Altering certain provisions relating to the filing, maintenance, and transmittal of land records; and defining "land record" as any document recorded by a clerk of the circuit court relating to property.
HB-347: Real Property – Recordation and Land Records – Requirements
Sponsored by: Rep. Marvin Holmes
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 65 on 04/08/2025
Real Property - Recordation and Land Records - Requirements [SB-150]
[Real Estate ]
Altering certain provisions relating to the filing, maintenance, and transmittal of land records; and defining "land record" as any document recorded by a clerk of the circuit court relating to property.
SB-150: Real Property - Recordation and Land Records - Requirements
Sponsored by: Sen. Ronald Watson
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 66 on 04/08/2025
SB-2240: Resolve, to Establish the Commission to Recommend Methods for Preventing Deed Fraud in the State
Sponsored by: Rep. Matthew Moonen
Carried Over, In The Same Posture, To Any Special Session Of The 131st Legislature, Pursuant To Joint Order Hp 1482. on 05/10/2024
School Construction - Public Charter School Facility Fund - Establishment [HB-1061]
[Education ]
[Construction ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Establishing the Public Charter School Facility Fund to provide funding on an annual basis to public charter schools in the State for eligible expenses associated with school facilities; exempting the Fund from a requirement that interest earnings on State money accrue to the General Fund of the State; requiring the Interagency Commission on School Construction to administer the Fund; and requiring the Fund to be used only to acquire, plan, develop, finance, construct, lease, improve, repair, and maintain public charter school facilities.
HB-1061: School Construction - Public Charter School Facility Fund - Establishment
Sponsored by: Rep. Caylin Young
Hearing Canceled on 03/05/2024
Revitalizing Neighborhoods Through Homeownership Program and Fund – Established [HB-1090]
[Housing ]
[Community Development ]
[Real Estate ]
[Finance ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Economic Development ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Poverty ]
Establishing the Revitalizing Neighborhoods Through Homeownership Program to provide financial assistance in the form of loans to political subdivisions to support the purchase and renovation of HUD dollar homes and abandoned residential properties for resale to low-to moderate-income buyers; and establishing the Revitalizing Neighborhoods Through Homeownership Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to provide financial assistance in the form of loans under the provisions of the Program.
HB-1090: Revitalizing Neighborhoods Through Homeownership Program and Fund – Established
Sponsored by: Rep. Marvin Holmes
Hearing 2/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/08/2024
Real Property - Residential Contracts of Sale - Buyer Privacy Rights [HB-1000]
[Real Estate ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Housing ]
[Data Privacy ]
Prohibiting a contract of sale for single-family residential real property from containing the name of an individual buyer prior to acceptance of the contract of sale by the seller; and applying the Act prospectively.
HB-1000: Real Property - Residential Contracts of Sale - Buyer Privacy Rights
Sponsored by: Rep. Malcolm Ruff
Hearing 2/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/07/2024
Financial Institutions - Heritage Areas - Canal Place [SB-1070]
[Community Development ]
[Economic Development ]
[Finance ]
Altering the Canal Place Preservation and Development Authority to be the Passages of the Western Potomac Heritage Area Authority; altering and repealing certain duties and powers of the Authority; establishing the Canal Place Preservation and Development Board to manage the Canal Place Properties; requiring the Board, to the extent practicable, to enter into certain memoranda of understanding to delegate the management of certain Canal Place Properties and other projects; etc.
SB-1070: Financial Institutions - Heritage Areas - Canal Place
Sponsored by: Sen. Mike McKay
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/04/2024
School Construction - Public Charter School Facility Fund - Establishment [SB-892]
[Education ]
[Construction ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Establishing the Public Charter School Facility Fund to provide funding on an annual basis to public charter schools in the State for eligible expenses associated with school facilities; exempting the Fund from a requirement that interest earnings on State money accrue to the General Fund of the State; requiring the Interagency Commission on School Construction to administer the Fund; and requiring the Fund to be used only to acquire, plan, develop, finance, construct, lease, improve, repair, and maintain public charter school facilities.
SB-892: School Construction - Public Charter School Facility Fund - Establishment
Sponsored by: Sen. James Rosapepe
Hearing 3/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/20/2024