Maryland 2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 12)

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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB463

Introduced
1/23/26  
Prohibiting the earning of diminution credits to reduce the term of confinement of an incarcerated individual who is serving a sentence for murder in the first degree in a State or local correctional facility.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB398

Introduced
1/22/26  
Prohibiting persistent aerial surveillance by a unit, an agency, or a political subdivision of the State to gather evidence or other information in a criminal investigation, subject to certain exceptions; and defining "persistent aerial surveillance" as the use of aircraft to record video or a concurrent series of images or pictures that when viewed in aggregate depict a person's actions over time.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB461

Introduced
1/23/26  
Refer
1/23/26  
Report Pass
3/10/26  
Engrossed
3/12/26  
Refer
3/13/26  
Report Pass
3/30/26  
Establishing the Rural Readiness Program administered by the Rural Maryland Council to provide assistance to rural communities to enhance their capacity for economic development; requiring priority to be given when making certain grants to entities that have completed the Rural Readiness Program; and establishing the Rural Maryland Capacity Building Fund to be administered by the Council to provide grants to support collaborative planning and capacity building initiatives that address the needs of rural communities.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB455

Introduced
1/23/26  
Requiring the State Department of Education to approve and certify a nonprofit organization that meets certain requirements as a scholarship granting organization; requiring the Department, beginning in 2027, to annually provide the Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury a list of scholarship granting organizations; and requiring the Comptroller to make available online guidance that assists taxpayers in claiming a certain tax credit for certain contributions.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB478

Introduced
1/23/26  
Refer
1/23/26  
Report Pass
3/9/26  
Engrossed
3/11/26  
Refer
3/12/26  
Report Pass
4/2/26  
Enrolled
4/3/26  
Chaptered
4/14/26  
Altering a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for unreimbursed expenses paid or incurred by eligible teachers during a taxable year for the purchase of certain classroom supplies to include prekindergarten classroom teachers employed in publicly funded prekindergarten programs at eligible public providers or lead teachers or consulting teachers employed in a publicly funded prekindergarten program at an eligible private provider in the State; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2025.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB454

Introduced
1/23/26  
Requiring the State Administrator of Elections to enroll the State in the federal Systematic Alien Verification of Entitlement (SAVE) Program for a certain purpose; requiring the State Board of Elections to establish a process to verify the U.S. citizenship of certain individuals applying to or who have registered to vote in the State; and requiring the State Board to establish a certain appeal process for certain individuals who dispute a certain report that the individual lacks U.S. citizenship.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB467

Introduced
1/23/26  
Refer
1/23/26  
Report Pass
3/21/26  
Engrossed
3/23/26  
Refer
3/23/26  
Report Pass
4/8/26  
Requiring the annual report of the Maryland Parole Commission to include certain information; altering a certain provision of law to require the Commission to provide certain documents to an incarcerated individual and the incarcerated individual's representative at a certain time; requiring the Commission to document, state on the record, provide to an incarcerated individual, and make available to the public certain information; applying the Act retroactively; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB445

Introduced
1/23/26  
Refer
1/23/26  
Report Pass
2/23/26  
Engrossed
2/26/26  
Refer
2/27/26  
Report Pass
3/30/26  
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide certain coverage related to orthoses beginning January 1, 2027; clarifying that certain mandated benefits related to prostheses include all prostheses determined by a treating health care provider to be medically necessary for completing daily living activities, essential job-related activities or performing certain other physical activities; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB480

Introduced
1/23/26  
Refer
1/23/26  
Report Pass
3/9/26  
Engrossed
3/11/26  
Refer
3/12/26  
Report Pass
4/8/26  
Enrolled
4/9/26  
Chaptered
4/28/26  
Requiring a transportation network company to maintain a deactivation policy that provides the policies and procedures for the deactivation of operators; prohibiting a transportation network company from deactivating an operator for certain violations; authorizing a transportation network company to rely solely on a passenger report as the basis for deactivation under certain circumstances; requiring a transportation network company to allow an operator whose account is deactivated to withdraw certain earnings; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB476

Introduced
1/23/26  
Refer
1/23/26  
Repealing certain limitations on noneconomic damages in civil actions for personal injury or wrongful death; and applying the Act prospectively.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB427

Introduced
1/22/26  
Refer
1/22/26  
Report Pass
2/16/26  
Engrossed
2/19/26  
Refer
2/20/26  
Report Pass
4/8/26  
Enrolled
4/10/26  
Chaptered
4/28/26  
Extending to December 31, 2027, the Task Force on Responsible Use of Natural Psychedelic Substances to study and make recommendations related to the use of natural psychedelic substances; adding a representative of a historically Black college or university in the State to the Task Force; and requiring the Task Force to submit an updated report of its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before October 31, 2026.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB485

Introduced
1/23/26  
Refer
1/23/26  
Report Pass
2/24/26  
Engrossed
2/26/26  
Refer
2/27/26  
Report Pass
4/6/26  
Enrolled
4/9/26  
Chaptered
4/28/26  
Altering the name of the State Board of Examiners of Landscape Architects to be the State Board of Professional Landscape Architects; altering the definition of "licensed landscape architects" to be "professional landscape architects"; altering certain qualifications for membership on the Board; altering certain duties of the Board; altering certain educational and experience requirements of applicants for a license to practice landscape architecture; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB432

Introduced
1/22/26  
Refer
1/22/26  
Report Pass
2/16/26  
Engrossed
2/19/26  
Repealing the authority of a municipality to prohibit vagrancy.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB325

Introduced
1/16/26  
Refer
1/16/26  
Report Pass
2/23/26  
Engrossed
2/26/26  
Refer
2/27/26  
Report Pass
4/6/26  
Altering the composition of the Professional Standards and Teacher Education Board by removing a member who is chosen from a list of nominees provided by the Association of Independent Schools and increasing the number of members chosen from lists provided by the Maryland Association of Nonpublic Special Education Facilities.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB370

Introduced
1/19/26  
Allowing employers who provide certain parental engagement leave to certain qualified employees during the taxable year a credit against the State income tax; requiring the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Comptroller, to develop and make available a certain certification form; establishing that the credit equals the qualified employee's hourly wage rate times the number of parental leave hours used by the employee during the taxable year, up to $800; making the credit refundable under certain circumstances; etc.