Real Property
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Anne Arundel County - Property Tax Credit - Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake, Incorporated [SB-178]
[Property Tax ]
[Real Estate ]
[Housing ]
[Community Development ]
[Nonprofit ]
Altering the name of Arundel Habitat for Humanity, Inc., to be Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake, Incorporated, for purposes of a certain property tax credit against the county or municipal corporation tax imposed on the entity; authorizing the tax credit for any real property owned by the entity; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 2025.
Sponsored by: Sen. James Rosapepe
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 179 on 04/22/2025
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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.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ronald Watson
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 66 on 04/08/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Criminal Law - Hate Crimes - Law Enforcement Officers [SB-122]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
Including law enforcement officers within the scope of certain prohibitions against committing certain crimes against certain persons, damaging certain property of certain persons, burning certain objects, and damaging certain buildings with which certain persons or groups have contacts or associations or under circumstances exhibiting animosity against a certain person or group.
Sponsored by: Sen. William Folden
Hearing 1/16 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/09/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
State Department of Assessments and Taxation - Notification of Constant Yield Tax Rate - Alteration [SB-183]
[Taxes ]
[Property Tax ]
Altering the requirement that the State Department of Assessments and Taxation notify each taxing authority of the constant yield tax rate for each taxable year by requiring that the notice be sent by the Department to a taxing authority only on the request of the taxing authority.
Sponsored by: Sen.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 72 on 04/08/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Restrictions on Use - Solar Collector Systems - Alteration [SB-120]
[Energy ]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Construction ]
Prohibiting a restriction on land use that increases the cost of installing a solar collector system by at least 5% over a certain cost or that reduces the efficiency of the system by at least 10% under a certain energy generation level; authorizing a community association to impose certain restrictions on the installation of solar collector systems in common areas or common elements; authorizing a community association to install a solar collector system in common areas or common elements under certain circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Muse
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 516 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity - Overhead Transmission Lines - Conservation Easements [SB-34]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Real Estate ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Construction ]
Requiring the Public Service Commission to consider the impact of the development of overhead transmission lines on certain properties subject to an existing conservation easement in certain proceedings for a certificate of public convenience and necessity; and requiring the Commission to require an applicant for a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the development of overhead transmission lines to consider alternative routes for transmission lines affecting conservation easements or alter proposed routes.
Sponsored by: Sen. Benjamin Brooks
Hearing 2/13 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/27/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Restrictions on Use - Solar Collector Systems - Alteration [HB-4]
[Energy ]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Environmental ]
[Construction ]
Prohibiting a restriction on land use that increases the cost of installing a solar collector system by at least 5% over a certain cost or that reduces the efficiency of the system by at least 10% under a certain energy generation level; authorizing a community association to impose certain restrictions on the installation of solar collector systems in common areas or common elements; authorizing a community association to install a solar collector system in common areas or common elements under certain circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Stephanie Smith
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 517 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Eminent Domain – Agricultural and Conservation Easements – Prohibited Taking [SB-189]
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[Environmental ]
[Real Estate ]
[Property Tax ]
Prohibiting the State or any of its instrumentalities or political subdivisions from taking privately owned property that is subject to a perpetual agricultural or conservation easement.
Sponsored by: Sen. Benjamin Brooks
Hearing 1/23 At 1:00 P.m. (judicial Proceedings) on 01/09/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Criminal Law - Fraud - Conveyance, Lease, or Possession of Residential Real Property [HB-202]
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[Housing ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Prohibiting the intentional fraudulent sale, conveyance, or lease or attempted sale, conveyance, or lease of real property by a person who does not own the real property; prohibiting the acquisition, sale, or conveyance or the attempted acquisition, sale, or conveyance of real property by deception, intimidation, threat, or undue influence; prohibiting a person from possessing or claiming a right to possess residential real property the person does not lawfully possess or own, with the intent to defraud another; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ryan Nawrocki
Hearing 1/21 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/10/2025
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Residential Real Property - Local Limits on Summoning Law Enforcement or Emergency Services [SB-125]
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[Real Estate ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Prohibiting a local jurisdiction from enforcing a law or ordinance that limits the summoning of law enforcement or emergency services to a residential property by establishing a certain threshold or penalty.
Sponsored by: Sen. Dawn Gile
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 477 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Short-Term Rentals and Home Amenity Rentals - Taxation, Regulation, and Crimes [HB-87]
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[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Safety ]
[Tourism ]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Applying certain health and safety requirements to short-term rental units and home amenities; prohibiting certain activities at a home amenity or short-term rental; authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county to adopt certain rules or regulations relating to short-term rentals; including "short-term rental platform" and "short-term rental unit" in the definition of "hotel" for the purpose of the county and municipal corporation hotel rental tax; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Linda Foley
First Reading Ways And Means And Environment And Transportation on 01/08/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
State Finance and Procurement - State Leasing of Real Property [SB-194]
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[Finance ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Housing ]
Increasing the noncompetitive threshold for State leases of real property from less than 2,500 square feet to up to 5,000 square feet; altering the time frame during which the State is required to advertise the need for rental of building space from at least 30 days to 20 days before proposals for lease are due; requiring the advertisement to be in certain newspapers providing notice to at least the people of the affected locality; and requiring the notice to be posted on the Department's website and eMaryland Marketplace.
Sponsored by: Sen.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 76 on 04/08/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Access to Counsel in Evictions – Task Force Termination and Special Fund [HB-103]
[Housing ]
[Funding ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Property Tax ]
Making permanent distributions by the Comptroller from funds gained from abandoned property in the State to the Access to Counsel in Evictions Special Fund; terminating the Access to Counsel in Evictions Task Force on January 31, 2026; and making permanent an annual $14,000,000 appropriation by the Governor from the Access to Counsel in Evictions Special Fund to the Maryland Legal Services Corporation.
Sponsored by: Rep. Samuel Rosenberg
Hearing 2/11 At 1:00 P.m. (appropriations) on 01/31/2025
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Cooperative Housing Corporations, Condominiums, and Homeowners Associations – Funding of Reserve Accounts and Preparation of Funding Plans [SB-63]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Community Development ]
Requiring that certain funds for certain reserve accounts be deposited on or before the last day of each fiscal year; requiring that certain updated reserve studies be prepared by a certain person; requiring the governing body of a cooperative housing corporation, a residential condominium, or a homeowners association to prepare a certain funding plan subject to certain requirements; authorizing a reasonable deviation from certain reserve funding requirements following a certain financial hardship determination; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Muse
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 518 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Real Property - Expedited Wrongful Detainer Proceedings - Property for Sale or Lease [HB-271]
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[Housing ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Property Tax ]
Requiring certain expedited proceedings in a wrongful detainer action if the property that is the subject of the action is, at the time of the complaint, advertised or listed for sale or lease by the complainant and requiring that notice of a hearing or appeal be served in person or, under certain circumstances, posted conspicuously on the property; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jackie Addison
Hearing Canceled on 03/04/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Real Property - Holding Over - Expedited Hearing and Service of Summons for Active Duty Service Members [HB-229]
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[Veterans ]
[Military ]
[Housing ]
Requiring the 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 server to serve a certain summons if the constable or sheriff of the county fails to serve the summons within 10 days after the summons is issued by the court.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholaus Kipke
Hearing 1/29 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/10/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Residential Property - Assignment of Contracts of Sale - Disclosure Requirements and Rescission [SB-160]
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[Housing ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Authorizing a seller, buyer, or assignee of certain residential property to rescind a contract of sale without penalty at any time before closing if a certain seller does not provide a certain notice; establishing that an assignee is entitled to a refund of any deposit paid for the purchase of residential real property under certain circumstances; requiring that a contract of sale comply with the requirements of the Act; and applying the Act prospectively.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jeff Waldstreicher
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 509 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Access to Counsel in Evictions - Task Force and Special Fund [SB-154]
[Housing ]
[Funding ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Poverty ]
[Human Services ]
Extending through fiscal year 2028 distributions by the Comptroller from funds gained from abandoned property in the State to the Access to Counsel in Evictions Special Fund; altering the staff and duties of the Access to Counsel in Evictions Task Force; and extending through fiscal year 2028 an annual $14,000,000 appropriation by the Governor from the Access to Counsel in Evictions Special Fund to the Maryland Legal Services Corporation.
Sponsored by: Sen. Guy Guzzone
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 457 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland Department of Planning - Modernization [SB-236]
[Elections ]
[Environmental ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
Requiring the State Administrator of Elections to immediately send electronically the description and map related to a new or changed precinct boundary to the Secretary of Planning; altering a requirement that the Department of the Environment submit certain proposals to the Department of Planning under certain circumstances; altering certain requirements related to the Department of Planning preparing certain population projections; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 62 on 04/08/2025
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Task Force on Common Ownership Communities [SB-71]
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[Real Estate ]
[Community Development ]
Establishing the Task Force on Common Ownership Communities to study the education and training needs of common ownership community boards and new and prospective owners of homes and dwelling units in common ownership communities; and requiring the Task Force to submit a final report of its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before December 31, 2026.
Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Sydnor
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 01/27/2025