Real Property
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Utilities - Alternatives to Construction of New Transmission Lines [SB-483]
Requiring the Public Service Commission to examine alternatives to the construction of a new transmission line if the use of an alternative will best maintain historical, environmental, or agricultural preservation areas, or will avoid any overlap with certain lots, parcels, or tracts of land.
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Gettr Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Dorchester County - County Property Leases - Notice Exemptions [HB-563]
Exempting a lease of county property for a term of 5 years or less made by Dorchester County from certain notice requirements.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Port of Deposit State Historical Park - Size and Scope [SB-477]
Altering the size and scope of the Port of Deposit State Historical Park; extending the deadline for the Bainbridge Development Corporation to transfer certain property to the Department of Natural Resources to June 1, 2026; and altering the purpose for which a certain appropriation may be used.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Criminal Law – Fraud – Possession of Residential Real Property [HB-560]
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; authorizing the owner of certain residential real property to file a certain sworn affidavit and requiring a sheriff to remove a certain person from residential real property under certain circumstances; and providing that the Act does not prohibit the owner of property from filing a wrongful detainer action.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Property Tax - Property Adjacent to Rail Stations - Subclasses and Special Rates [SB-472]
Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county to establish, by law, certain subclasses of real property located within 1 mile of a rail station and to set a special property tax rate for each subclass of the property.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Common Ownership Communities - Local Commissions [HB-558]
Establishing requirements for a local commission on common ownership communities established by the local government of a county.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Real Property - Transfer-on-Death Deed - Establishment [HB-625]
Altering the Maryland Uniform Disclaimer of Property Interests Act to provide for the disclaimer of nonprobate transfers at death; providing for the creation, revocation, recordation, and effects of a transfer-on-death deed for real property; requiring the Administrative Office of the Courts to develop an informational sheet regarding transfer-on-death deeds; providing example forms for the creation and revocation of a transfer-on-death deed; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Criminal Law - Fraud - Possession of Residential Real Property [SB-489]
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; authorizing the owner of certain residential real property to file a certain sworn affidavit and requiring a sheriff to remove a certain person from residential real property under certain circumstances; and providing that the Act does not prohibit the owner of property from filing a wrongful detainer action.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
St. Mary's County - Public Facilities Bond [HB-561]
Authorizing and empowering the County Commissioners of St. Mary's County to borrow not more than $71,000,000 in order to finance the construction, improvement, or development of certain public facilities in St. Mary's County, and to effect such borrowing by the issuance and sale at public or private sale of its general obligation bonds; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity – Overhead Transmission Lines – Conservation Easements [HB-640]
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.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Residential Owners in Common Ownership Communities - Bill of Rights [HB-557]
Establishing a bill of rights for unit owners of a condominium, members of a cooperative housing corporation, and lot owners of a homeowners association.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Real Property - Condominiums - Assessments [HB-581]
Authorizing the board of directors of a condominium to increase the amount of the assessment levied each year for common expenses other than reserves by not more than 5% notwithstanding provisions of the declaration, articles of incorporation, or bylaws requiring approval by the council of unit owners.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Condominiums and Homeowners Associations - Clarification [HB-615]
Clarifying terminology in provisions relating to the proposed budget for a condominium and the appointment of a receiver for a homeowners association.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Eminent Domain - Agricultural and Conservation Easements - Prohibited Taking [HB-631]
Prohibiting the State or any of its instrumentalities or political subdivisions from taking certain property that is subject to a perpetual agricultural or conservation easement.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Real Property - New Home Sales - Entry of Final Sale Price in Multiple Listing Service [HB-606]
Requiring a developer, builder, broker, or real estate agent to enter the final sale price of a new home into a multiple listing service or similarly accessible database.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Real Property - Condominiums - Responsibility for Property Insurance Deductibles [HB-636]
Increasing, from $10,000 to $20,000, the maximum amount of the council of unit owners' property insurance deductible for which a unit owner is responsible; and applying the Act to all policies of property and casualty insurance issued, delivered, or renewed in the State to a condominium council of unit owners.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Government. [SB-1535]
Provides for the transfer of certain parcels in the Liliha Civic Center area and Iwilei Fire Station area from various state agencies to the City and County of Honolulu. Provides for the transfer of the parcel of land on which Alii Place is sited from the City and County of Honolulu to the State. Repeals the sunset provision of Act 4, SLH 2024. Requires the City and County of Honolulu to accept the properties transferred in satisfaction of all amounts owed by Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation under the Kapolei roadways, drainage,
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Tennessee 114th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 35, relative to foreclosure sales. [HB-323]
As introduced, changes from a preponderance of the evidence to clear and convincing evidence the burden of proof for a debtor to prove that property sold at a foreclosure sale for an amount materially less than the fair market value in order to rebut the presumption that the foreclosure sale price of the property was equal to the fair market value at the time of sale. - Amends TCA Title 35.
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Tennessee 114th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 11, Chapter 14, Part 2; Title 11, Chapter 15 and Title 67, Chapter 5, relative to the Agricultural, Forest and Open Space Land Act of 1976. [SB-247]
As enacted, clarifies that property that is qualified as agricultural, forest land, or open space land, owned by two individuals, and held under the titles of tenancy by the entireties or of joint tenancy with right of survivorship, is deemed to have unchanged ownership upon the death of an owner if the property is retained by the other owner through a right of survivorship or upon the divorce of the owners if the property is retained by either owner through division and distribution of property in the divorce proceeding. - Amends TCA Title 11,
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Utah 2025 General Session
Municipal Services Fees and Political Subdivision Lien Amendments [HB-295]
Municipal Services Fees and Political Subdivision Lien Amendments