Procurement - Minority Business Participation - Real Property Title Insurance Services Reporting [SB-587]
[Small Business ]
[Insurance ]
[Real Estate ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
Requiring certain reporting relating to minority business participation in State procurement by industry type to include real property title insurance services, including commercial real property title insurance services; and prohibiting the Special Secretary for the Governor's Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs from waiving a certain reporting requirement related to real property title insurance services.
SB-587: Procurement - Minority Business Participation - Real Property Title Insurance Services Reporting
Sponsored by: Sen. Cory V. McCray
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 632 on 05/09/2024
Renters' Rights and Stabilization Act of 2024 [HB-693]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Community Development ]
Establishing the Office of Tenant and Landlord Affairs in the Department of Housing and Community Development to provide certain educational resources and information to tenants; requiring the Office to develop and publish a Maryland Tenants' Bill of Rights; requiring the most recently published version of the Maryland Tenants' Bill of Rights to be included as part of a residential lease; limiting the maximum security deposit required by a residential lease to 1 month's rent, except under certain circumstances; etc.
HB-693: Renters' Rights and Stabilization Act of 2024
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Healey
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 124 on 04/25/2024
Agricultural Land - Adversarial Foreign Governments - Restrictions on Property Interests [HB-616]
[Agriculture ]
[National Security ]
[Real Estate ]
[Trade ]
[Property Tax ]
Prohibiting adversarial foreign governments from purchasing, acquiring, leasing, or holding any property interest in agricultural land in the State; and requiring the Attorney General to enforce the Act in a certain manner.
HB-616: Agricultural Land - Adversarial Foreign Governments - Restrictions on Property Interests
Sponsored by: Rep. Rachel Munoz
Hearing 2/21 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/26/2024
Renters' Rights and Stabilization Act of 2024 [SB-481]
[Housing ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Real Estate ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Poverty ]
[Human Services ]
[Community Development ]
Increasing maximum surcharges for certain eviction proceedings from $8 to $93 and prohibiting the District Court from assigning the surcharge against a tenant; altering the priority and criteria in the Statewide Rental Assistance Voucher Program that are followed by the Department of Housing and Community Development and public housing agencies for providing vouchers and housing assistance payments to families; limiting the maximum security deposit required by a residential lease to 1 month's rent; etc.
SB-481: Renters' Rights and Stabilization Act of 2024
Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence K. Lam
Hearing Canceled (judicial Proceedings) on 02/05/2024
Real Property - Land Installment Contracts - Requirements and Vendor Duties and Limitations [HB-480]
[Real Estate ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Housing ]
Requiring the vendor to provide a purchaser under a land installment contract with the results of a title search for the property at or before the time the purchaser signs the contract; requiring the inclusion of certain notice, terms, and recitals in a land installment contract formed in the State; altering, from 40% to 20%, the percentage of the original cash price of a land installment contract that the purchaser must pay before the purchaser may demand a grant of the deed to the property to the purchaser; etc.
HB-480: Real Property - Land Installment Contracts - Requirements and Vendor Duties and Limitations
Sponsored by: Rep. Marvin E Holmes
Referred Judicial Proceedings on 02/26/2024
Agricultural Land - Adversarial Foreign Governments - Restrictions on Property Interests [SB-392]
[Agriculture ]
[National Security ]
[Real Estate ]
[Trade ]
[Property Tax ]
Prohibiting adversarial foreign governments from purchasing, acquiring, leasing, or holding any property interest in agricultural land in the State; and requiring the Attorney General to enforce the Act in a certain manner.
SB-392: Agricultural Land - Adversarial Foreign Governments - Restrictions on Property Interests
Sponsored by: Sen. Jason C. Gallion
Hearing 2/13 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/29/2024
Natural Resources - State Boat Act - Alterations [SB-304]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Environmental ]
[Recreation ]
[Water ]
Altering and repealing certain definitions for purposes of the State Boat Act; repealing certain advertising and public hearing requirements for proposed regulations implementing provisions of the State Boat Act; altering the fees for manufacturer and dealer licenses, certificates of number, Maryland use stickers, and the issuance of certificates of title, transfers of title, or duplicate or corrected certificates of title; requiring that certain vessels equipped with a sail be numbered for identification; etc.
SB-304: Natural Resources - State Boat Act - Alterations
Sponsored by: Sen. Education, Energy, and the Environment
Hearing 1/31 At 2:00 P.m. on 01/11/2024
Natural Resources - State Boat Act - Alterations [HB-239]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Environmental ]
[Recreation ]
[Water ]
Altering and repealing certain definitions for purposes of the State Boat Act; repealing certain advertising and public hearing requirements for proposed regulations implementing provisions of the State Boat Act; altering the fees for manufacturer and dealer licenses, certificates of number, Maryland use stickers, and the issuance of certificates of title, transfers of title, or duplicate or corrected certificates of title; etc.
HB-239: Natural Resources - State Boat Act - Alterations
Sponsored by: Rep. Environment and Transportation
Referred Education, Energy, And The Environment on 03/08/2024
Baltimore City - Collection of Unpaid Property Taxes [HB-867]
[Property Tax ]
[Housing ]
[Taxes ]
[Real Estate ]
[Community Development ]
Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City to establish an installment payment program for taxes in arrears on residential property; authorizing the Mayor of Baltimore City to cancel the annual tax sale; authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City to establish a program to divert residential property from the private tax lien sale process into an alternative program for the payment of taxes in arrears; etc.
HB-867: Baltimore City - Collection of Unpaid Property Taxes
Sponsored by: No sponsors
Third Reading Passed (133-0) on 03/20/2023
Tax Sales – Revisions [HB-779]
[Taxes ]
[Property Tax ]
[Real Estate ]
Authorizing the governing body of a county or municipal corporation to file a motion with a court to request that a certain certificate of sale be assigned to the governing body of the county or municipal corporation in a certain foreclosure action under certain circumstances; providing that, on a grant of the motion by the court, the holder of the certificate of sale forfeits certain rights and the amount paid to acquire the certificate of sale; etc.
HB-779: Tax Sales – Revisions
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason C. Buckel
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 79 on 04/11/2023
Baltimore City – Collection of Unpaid Property Taxes [SB-766]
[Property Tax ]
[Housing ]
[Taxes ]
[Real Estate ]
[Community Development ]
Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City to establish an installment payment program for taxes in arrears on owner-occupied residential property; authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City to establish a program to divert owner-occupied residential property from the private tax lien sale process into an alternative program for the payment of taxes in arrears; authorizing the collector of taxes in Baltimore City to withhold any owner-occupied residential property from tax sale; etc.
SB-766: Baltimore City – Collection of Unpaid Property Taxes
Sponsored by: Sen. Jill P Carter
Referred Ways And Means on 03/21/2023
Tax Sales - Revisions [SB-518]
[Taxes ]
[Real Estate ]
[Property Tax ]
Authorizing the governing body of a county or municipal corporation to file a motion with a court to request that a certain certificate of sale be assigned to the governing body of the county or municipal corporation in a certain foreclosure action under certain circumstances; providing that, on a grant of the motion by the court, the holder of the certificate of sale forfeits certain rights and the amount paid to acquire the certificate of sale; etc.
SB-518: Tax Sales - Revisions
Sponsored by: Sen. James C. Rosapepe
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 80 on 04/11/2023
Real Property - Land Installment Contracts - Requirements and Vendor Duties and Limitations [HB-425]
[Real Estate ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Housing ]
Requiring the vendor to provide a purchaser under a land installment contract with the results of a title search for the property at or before the time the purchaser signs the contract; requiring the inclusion of certain notice, terms, and recitals in a land installment contract formed in the State; altering, from 40% to 20%, the percentage of the original cash price of a land installment contract that the purchaser must pay before the purchaser may demand a grant of the deed to the property to the purchaser; etc.
HB-425: Real Property - Land Installment Contracts - Requirements and Vendor Duties and Limitations
Sponsored by: Rep. Marvin E Holmes
Hearing 3/23 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/16/2023
Real Property - Recordation and Land Records - Requirements [SB-163]
[Real Estate ]
[Property Tax ]
Limiting the requirement that an instrument effecting a change in ownership of real property be endorsed by the assessment office for a county to only those transfers subject to an agricultural land transfer tax; altering certain provisions relating to the filing, maintenance, and transmittal of land records; establishing that a deed of trust or mortgage presented for recordation is not required to be accompanied by an intake sheet or information that would otherwise be provided in an intake sheet unless required by a clerk; etc.
SB-163: Real Property - Recordation and Land Records - Requirements
Sponsored by: Sen. Ronald Lorenzo Watson
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 02/14/2023