Maryland 2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 115)

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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB64

Introduced
1/14/26  
Establishing the Task Force on Education Funding and Student Population Growth to analyze the challenges related to the delay in student enrollment counts and its effect on school funding and the connection between growing student populations and the provision of school funding; and requiring the Task Force to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before December 15, 2026.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB151

Introduced
1/14/26  
Requiring 3% of the sales and use tax revenue collected from the sale of cannabis to be distributed to the Maryland Veterans Trust Fund.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB149

Introduced
1/14/26  
Refer
1/14/26  
Report Pass
3/16/26  
Engrossed
3/18/26  
Refer
3/19/26  
Report Pass
4/8/26  
Authorizing a county or municipal corporation to designate assistant fire marshals with the approval of the State Fire Marshal or to request that the State Fire Marshal designate certain fire marshals and requiring the State Fire Marshal to adopt certain regulations governing the qualifications, training, standards, and certification of designees; requiring, by October 1, 2026, the installation of certain automatic fire sprinklers in certain high-rise residential buildings; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB104

Introduced
1/14/26  
Providing that all unhoused individuals have certain rights; establishing an affirmative defense of necessity to certain criminal charges relating to trespass or disturbing the peace; and repealing the authority of a municipality to prohibit vagrancy.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB257

Introduced
1/14/26  
Requiring, by January 1, 2028, and every 5 years thereafter, and after consultation with local jurisdictions and State agencies, the Department of the Environment to designate priority watersheds for the purpose of requiring subdivisions to conduct flood-related watershed studies; requiring a subdivision that contains a designated priority watershed to conduct a watershed study and submit the study to the Department for review and approval; specifying the required contents of a flood-related watershed study required under the Act; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB145

Introduced
1/14/26  
Refer
1/14/26  
Report Pass
4/9/26  
Engrossed
4/10/26  
Requiring and authorizing the State Administrator of Elections to take certain actions if the State Administrator receives a credible report that election misinformation or election disinformation, including a deepfake, has been or is being communicated, disseminated, or distributed; requiring the Administrator to communicate accurate information to the public; and prohibiting a person, under certain circumstances, from knowingly or with reckless disregard using or disseminating a deepfake to produce materially false information.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB228

Introduced
1/14/26  
Refer
1/14/26  
Report Pass
3/3/26  
Engrossed
3/4/26  
Refer
3/5/26  
Report Pass
4/1/26  
Enrolled
4/8/26  
Chaptered
4/14/26  
Prohibiting a person from slaughtering or causing the slaughter of a racehorse in the State for certain commercial purposes; prohibiting a person from purchasing, selling, transferring, offering for sale, importing into the State, or transporting a racehorse if the person knows or reasonably should know that the racehorse will be slaughtered for certain commercial purposes; requiring certain fines collected by the State Racing Commission to be distributed to the racing Special Fund; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB280

Introduced
1/14/26  
Refer
1/14/26  
Report Pass
3/3/26  
Engrossed
3/4/26  
Refer
3/5/26  
Report Pass
3/30/26  
Enrolled
4/7/26  
Chaptered
4/14/26  
Codifying in State law certain provisions of the Code of Federal Regulations related to mental health parity and clarifying the authority of the Maryland Insurance Administration to enforce certain laws; requiring health insurance carriers to collect and report on data in a certain manner; requiring health insurance carriers to provide certain benefits under certain circumstances; requiring health insurance carriers to explain differences in access to care under certain circumstances; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB203

Introduced
1/14/26  
Prohibiting employers from requiring, as a condition of employment, employees or prospective employees to enter into training repayment agreements; defining "training repayment agreement" as one that requires an employee to pay an employer or a third party, such as a training provider, a sum of money if the employee voluntarily or involuntarily leaves employment with the employer; and providing that an agreement that constitutes a training repayment agreement is null and void as being against the public policy of the State.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB143

Introduced
1/14/26  
Requiring the Public Service Commission and the Maryland Energy Administration jointly, in consultation with neighboring states, to study the benefits and costs of, and make recommendations on, potential options for certain actions with regard to withdrawing from the PJM Interconnection, LLC capacity market model, developing a certain multistate compact, withdrawing from PJM Interconnection, LLC, and establishing or joining an alternative regional transmission organization; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB239

Introduced
1/14/26  
Prohibiting local jurisdictions from adopting or enforcing certain zoning provisions relating to lot size, dimensions, setback requirements, lot coverage, and design or architectural elements for certain single-family homes; prohibiting local jurisdictions from prohibiting certain housing types in certain zones; and prohibiting local jurisdictions from prohibiting certain subdivisions of certain lot types.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB274

Introduced
1/14/26  
Refer
1/14/26  
Report Pass
2/16/26  
Engrossed
2/19/26  
Refer
2/20/26  
Report Pass
3/30/26  
Enrolled
4/7/26  
Chaptered
4/14/26  
Continuing the State Board of Environmental Health Specialists, in accordance with the provisions of the Maryland Program Evaluation Act (sunset law), by extending to July 1, 2032, the termination provisions relating to the statutory and regulatory authority of the Board.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB169

Introduced
1/14/26  
Authorizing a person to file a petition for expungement of any misdemeanor or felony conviction a certain period of time after the completion of the sentence, parole, probation, and any other form of mandatory treatment associated with the conviction; authorizing a court to grant a petition on a showing of good cause; and providing that a denial of a petition may not be appealed and a subsequent petition may not be filed for a certain period of time.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB65

Introduced
1/14/26  
Refer
1/14/26  
Report Pass
3/13/26  
Engrossed
3/18/26  
Refer
3/19/26  
Report Pass
4/9/26  
Clarifying that a communication between an attorney and a client that acts as a fiduciary is subject to the attorney-client privilege even if fiduciary funds are used to compensate the attorney for services rendered to the client.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB176

Introduced
1/14/26  
Requiring the State Department of Assessments and Taxation to prepare, install, and maintain certain appraisal aids that consist of a database of statewide and local geographic images; requiring each county and Baltimore City to reimburse the State for 100% of the costs of the database less than $1,000,000 and 50% of the costs over $1,000,000; and requiring, by June 30, 2026, the Department to develop policies to protect the identity of any individual whose image is captured by oblique aerial photographic imagery.