Maryland 2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 182)

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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1595

Introduced
2/15/26  
Authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county to establish, by law, a subclass of personal property consisting of all the personal property of certain qualified data centers and set a special personal property tax rate for the subclass; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 2026.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1596

Introduced
2/15/26  
Refer
2/15/26  
Establishing the Maryland Growth Initiative in the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to support the growth of start-up companies; requiring the Initiative to create a certain list of companies in the State that are between certain growth phases according to a certain priority; establishing the Maryland Growth Initiative Fund to be administered by the Corporation as a special, nonlapsing fund; requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget an appropriation of $5,000,000 for the Initiative; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1597

Introduced
2/16/26  
Refer
2/16/26  
Refer
3/9/26  
Establishing an unregulated space in hospital operating suites pilot project; requiring the Health Services Cost Review Commission to administer the pilot project; requiring the Commission to develop certain criteria and standards for the pilot project; requiring the Commission by December 1 annually to submit a certain report to certain committees of the General Assembly; and requiring certain ambulatory surgical centers and freestanding surgical centers to provide the Commission with certain information.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1598

Introduced
2/16/26  
Refer
2/16/26  
Refer
3/9/26  
Refer
3/10/26  
Report Pass
4/9/26  
Engrossed
4/9/26  
Refer
4/10/26  
Refer
4/13/26  
Report Pass
4/13/26  
Authorizing, rather than requiring, a certain racing licensee to receive a grant for a capital construction plan from the Racetrack Facility Renewal Account without providing and expending a matching fund; requiring the racing licensee that receives the grant without providing and expending a matching fund to conduct live racing in the State for at least 10 years after the construction plan is complete; and requiring the State Racing Commission to recapture certain grant funds under certain circumstances and in a certain manner.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1599

Introduced
2/16/26  
Refer
2/16/26  
Refer
3/9/26  
Refer
3/10/26  
Report Pass
4/9/26  
Engrossed
4/10/26  
Refer
4/10/26  
Refer
4/13/26  
Report Pass
4/13/26  
Establishing the Chesapeake Bay Enhancement Program to provide funding for certain oyster propagation and replenishment projects that mitigate the effects of certain transportation projects on the State's oyster population; establishing the Maryland Seafood Industry Financial Assistance Fund to provide financial assistance to certain commercial watermen and small businesses; and prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from making certain approvals for tidal fish licenses or authorizations of certain borrowers.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1600

Introduced
2/16/26  
Requiring that books and records kept by or on behalf of certain homeowners associations be posted online; clarifying that a governing body of a homeowners association may secure a line of credit or loan to fund reserves; requiring that certain homeowners associations provide notice of a meeting by electronic transmission 14 days prior to the meeting; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1601

Introduced
2/16/26  
Requiring a deed presented for recording effecting a change in ownership of residential property to contain the name of the title insurer and the policy number if the purchaser or other party has obtained title insurance.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1602

Introduced
2/16/26  
Refer
2/16/26  
Refer
4/9/26  
Report Pass
4/10/26  
Engrossed
4/11/26  
Requiring counties in which a volunteer fire company is located to offer no-cost preventive cancer screenings in accordance with certain guidelines to volunteer firefighters volunteering and retired volunteer firefighters who volunteered with the volunteer fire company; authorizing a county to satisfy the requirement by providing a certain annual examination or applying for a certain grant; requiring the volunteer fire companies to maintain a list of volunteer firefighters and retired volunteer firefighters; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1603

Introduced
2/16/26  
Establishing requirements for certain vision benefits, vision benefit plans, and vision benefit discount plans; requiring an insurer or a vision benefit manager to disclose certain information on its website and in certain communications and maintain certain methods of communication for use by participating eye care providers; establishing certain requirements and prohibitions for contracts between insurers or vision benefit managers and participating eye care providers; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1604

Introduced
2/17/26  
Refer
2/17/26  
Refer
3/16/26  
Report Pass
4/9/26  
Engrossed
4/9/26  
Prohibiting certain provisions from being included in certain public school system contracts; specifying that certain provisions are void if included in a public school system contract; specifying the applicable law and interpretation of public school system contracts; and applying the Act prospectively.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1605

Introduced
2/17/26  
Refer
2/17/26  
Repealing the requirement that county governments are required to pay 50% of the amount of compensation to individuals erroneously convicted of a crime the individual did not commit.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1606

Introduced
2/17/26  
Prohibiting a person from charging an annual interest rate above 6% per year on a certain obligation held by an active service member or jointly by an active service member and the active service member's spouse; requiring that the active service member or the active service member's spouse provide the creditor with certain notice and documentation not later than 180 days after termination or discharge from active duty; and authorizing a court to grant a creditor relief from application of the Act after a certain finding.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1607

Introduced
2/17/26  
Refer
2/17/26  
Refer
3/9/26  
Repealing certain prohibitions on the location of a community solar energy generating system based on the combined installed capacity of all community solar energy generating systems on adjacent parcels of land.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1608

Introduced
2/17/26  
Refer
2/17/26  
Refer
3/9/26  
Altering a certain provision of law that prohibits a person from storing or leaving a certain firearm in a location if the person knew or should have known that an unsupervised minor is likely to gain access to the firearm; requiring an authorized individual to store a firearm in a certain secure storage depository at a certain time; prohibiting a certain individual from violating a certain firearm storage requirement; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1609

Introduced
2/17/26  
Refer
2/17/26  
Authorizing certain fire, rescue, and ambulance organizations conducting certain gaming events in Frederick County to accept credit from a person as payment to play a gaming device at the gaming event.