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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Solar Energy - Distributed Generation Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity, Ground-Mounted Solar, and Small Solar Siting Workgroup [HB-827]
[Energy ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Public Safety ]
[Construction ]
[Environmental ]
Establishing a distributed generation certificate of public convenience and necessity to authorize the construction and operation of a certain distributed solar energy generating system; requiring the Power Plant Research Program, by July 1, 2026, to develop and submit to the Public Service Commission proposed siting and design requirements and licensing conditions; prohibiting a county from enacting certain zoning laws or adopting certain regulations regarding certain ground-mounted solar systems and facilities; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Fraser-hidalgo
Hearing Canceled on 03/06/2025
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Baltimore City and Takoma Park - Stop Sign Monitoring Systems - Authorization of Pilot Program [SB-600]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Authorizing the use of stop sign monitoring systems in certain school zones in Baltimore City and the City of Takoma Park under the pilot program authorized for Prince George's County, if authorized by local law; and requiring that a certain percentage of the fines collected under the Act be distributed to the local management board for Baltimore City and be used only to provide youth programming and services for youth living in or attending a school located in the 45th or 46th legislative districts.
Sponsored by: Sen. Cory McCray
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 571 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Counties and Municipalities - Approval of Projects Denied by Maryland Historical Trust - Authorization [HB-760]
[Community Development ]
[Construction ]
[Real Estate ]
[Housing ]
Authorizing the governing body of a county or municipality to approve a certain project that was previously denied by the Maryland Historical Trust under certain circumstances; and requiring a local planning commission to hold a certain public hearing within 60 days after the request by a project applicant and to make a recommendation to the governing body of the county or municipality on whether or not to approve the project.
Sponsored by: Rep. Steven Arentz
Withdrawn By Sponsor on 03/03/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Municipalities - Annexed Land - Land Use and Density [HB-751]
[Real Estate ]
[Housing ]
[Community Development ]
Altering the restrictions on a municipality, for a period following an annexation of land, to authorize the development of certain annexed land for certain land uses or certain densities without obtaining the express approval of the county in which the municipality is located; and altering the authority of a municipality to authorize certain land uses or certain densities for certain annexed land with the express approval of the county in which the municipality is located.
Sponsored by: Rep. Matthew Schindler
Hearing 2/18 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/29/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Health - Maryland Commission on Health Equity - Membership and Purposes [SB-560]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Community Development ]
Altering the membership of the Maryland Commission on Health Equity; and altering the purposes of the Commission to include employing a health equity framework to examine the impact of access to transportation, transit programs, and transit services and proximity to health care facilities and primary care providers on the health of residents of the State.
Sponsored by: Sen. Clarence Lam
Hearing 2/13 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/30/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Utilities - Alternatives to Construction of New Transmission Lines [HB-657]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Agriculture ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Construction ]
[Public Safety ]
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.
Sponsored by: Rep. Barrie Ciliberti
Hearing 2/20 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/04/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Anne Arundel County - Class A (Off-Sale) and Class D (Off-Sale) Licenses - Population Ratio Quota [SB-571]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
Establishing a population ratio quota for certain Class A (off-sale) and Class D (off-sale) licenses in Anne Arundel County; specifying a certain official map to be used to identify certain tax assessment districts for purposes of the population ratio quota; and prohibiting the Board of License Commissioners for Anne Arundel County from approving the transfer of certain alcoholic beverages licenses under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Sen.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 818 on 05/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Public Utilities - Alternatives to Construction of New Transmission Lines [SB-483]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Agriculture ]
[Public Safety ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Construction ]
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.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mary Carozza
Hearing 3/06 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/05/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
State Property Tax - Transportation Funding (Transportation Funding Act of 2025) [HB-641]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Property Tax ]
[Taxes ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Infrastructure ]
Requiring the Governor, after consultation with the Secretary of Transportation, to submit each year to the Board of Public Works and the General Assembly a proposal for a State property tax to support transportation projects and programs; requiring, on or before February 15 each year, the Board of Public Works to approve, reject, or modify the proposed State property tax; imposing a State property tax at the rates and on the classes and subclasses of property that the Board of Public Works approves; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sheila Ruth
Hearing 2/11 At 1:00 P.m. (ways And Means) on 01/28/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Housing Development Act [HB-503]
[Housing ]
[Community Development ]
[Economic Development ]
Requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development to periodically establish housing production targets for the State and certain local jurisdictions; requiring the Department to publish housing production targets on its website and notify certain local jurisdictions; requiring the Department to publish an annual report assessing the progress of the State and certain local jurisdictions with meeting specified housing targets; establishing the Housing Opportunities Made Equitable Commission; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kevin Hornberger
Rereferred To Education, Energy, And The Environment on 04/03/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Land Use - Regional Housing Infrastructure Gap (Housing for Jobs Act) [SB-430]
[Housing ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Community Development ]
[Economic Development ]
[Real Estate ]
[Construction ]
Requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development and the Department of Planning to calculate certain regional housing infrastructure gaps; providing for the apportionment of regional housing infrastructure gaps to counties and incorporated municipalities; authorizing local jurisdictions to reduce local housing infrastructure gaps in a certain manner; establishing that certain local jurisdictions have an affirmative obligation to expeditiously approve housing development project applications; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Cheryl Kagan
Hearing Canceled on 02/06/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Nuisance and Breach of Lease Actions - Rodent Harborage [HB-549]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Agriculture ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Animals ]
Authorizing an individual to bring a nuisance action for damages caused by rodent harborage on certain real property against certain individuals; authorizing a landlord to bring a breach of lease action against a tenant for behavior that causes or contributes to rodent harborage; and providing that a nuisance action may not be brought under the Act if the rodent harborage occurs on property that is zoned for agricultural use and is actually and primarily used as agricultural property.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robin Grammer
Hearing 2/11 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/27/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Economic Development - County or Municipal Corporation Economic Development Authority - Powers and Use of Proceeds [SB-409]
[Economic Development ]
[Community Development ]
[Small Business ]
Expanding the acceptable names authorized for an economic development authority established by a county or municipal corporation; expanding the powers of an authority, subject to limitations in the articles of incorporation of the authority and resolutions of the legislative body of a county or municipal corporation; providing that certain actions require prior approval of the legislative body of a county or municipal corporation under certain circumstances; expanding the authorized uses of tax increment proceeds; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Nancy King
Referred Ways And Means Environment And Transportation on 03/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
St. Mary’s County – County Plans – Public Sewerage Systems and Water Supply Systems [HB-480]
[Water ]
[Community Development ]
[Public Health ]
[Housing ]
Applying certain provisions relating to the adoption of or revision or amendment to a county plan to county plans in St. Mary's County; and repealing certain provisions relating to public sewerage systems and water supply systems in St. Mary's County.
Sponsored by: Rep. Matt Morgan
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 598 on 05/13/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Transportation - Major Highway Capacity Expansion Projects and Impact Assessments (Transportation and Climate Alignment Act of 2025) [SB-395]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Climate Change ]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Air Quality ]
Requiring the Department of Transportation, as part of the planning and implementation of certain major highway expansion projects to develop and implement a corresponding multimodal transportation program; requiring the Department beginning with a certain Consolidated Transportation Program to evaluate certain major capital projects for their impact on greenhouse gas emissions and vehicle miles traveled; requiring the Secretary of Transportation to perform certain capacity expansion impact assessments; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Shelly Hettleman
Hearing 1/29 At 10:30 A.m. on 01/20/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Local Comprehensive Planning and State Economic Growth, Resource Protection, and Planning Policy - Planning Principles [HB-286]
[Environmental ]
[Economic Development ]
[Community Development ]
Providing certain planning principles that are collectively intended to create sustainable communities and to protect the environment utilizing active public participation; altering the State Economic Growth, Resource Protection, and Planning Policy to consist of planning principles for advancing sustainable growth in the State; and requiring the publisher of the Annotated Code of Maryland, along with the Department of Legislative Services, to correct cross-references and terminology in the Code that are rendered incorrect by the Act.
Sponsored by: Rep.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 63 on 04/08/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Property Taxes - Authority of Counties to Establish a Subclass and Set a Special Rate for Commercial and Industrial Property [HB-23]
[Property Tax ]
[Taxes ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Education ]
Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county to establish, by law, a subclass of real property consisting of certain commercial and industrial property and to set a special property tax rate for certain commercial and industrial property for the purpose of financing certain transportation improvements or the approved budget of the county board of education; applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 2025; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Lorig Charkoudian
Hearing 3/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/24/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Maryland Department of Planning – Modernization [HB-272]
[Elections ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Community Development ]
Requiring the State Administrator of Elections to electronically submit certain precinct boundary information to the Secretary of Planning; altering certain requirements related to the Department of Planning preparing population projections for the Washington and Baltimore metropolitan areas to authorize the use of population figures developed by the Baltimore Metropolitan Council, the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments and their member jurisdictions; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep.
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 61 on 04/08/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Land Use - Transit-Oriented Development - Alterations [SB-190]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Community Development ]
[Taxes ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Economic Development ]
Authorizing the Maryland Department of Transportation to establish transit-oriented development (TOD) corridor funds financed by revenue from county special taxing districts to benefit transit-oriented development; altering the authority of local legislative bodies to regulate land use planning on certain land that is located within 0.5 miles of, or under certain circumstances, adjacent to, certain transit stations; exempting certain special taxes for the benefit of transit-oriented development from any county tax limitation or bond cap; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen.
Hearing 1/29 At 10:30 A.m. on 01/15/2025
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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