Maryland 2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 4)

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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB189

Introduced
1/14/26  
Requiring, beginning in the 2028-2029 school year, each public middle school and each public high school to begin instruction not earlier than 8 a.m. and 8:30 a.m., respectively, unless granted a waiver by the State Board of Education under certain circumstances; and requiring each county board of education and each public charter school to implement a certain public service campaign to raise awareness of sleep deprivation and later school start times.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB186

Introduced
1/14/26  
Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to allow statewide a person to hunt deer on Sundays throughout the deer bow hunting season and to hunt turkey using a bow and arrow on Sundays throughout the turkey hunting season.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB93

Introduced
1/14/26  
Requiring certain home builders that construct model homes to make certain information about the model home available to prospective home buyers in a certain manner; requiring a home builder to provide certain information about model home upgrades to a home buyer at the time of signing a certain contract; providing that a home buyer has a right to rescind a contract for the intent to purchase a new home for any reason within a certain period of time; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB297

Introduced
1/14/26  
Refer
1/14/26  
Report Pass
3/11/26  
Engrossed
3/13/26  
Refer
3/16/26  
Report Pass
4/8/26  
Enrolled
4/10/26  
Chaptered
4/28/26  
Establishing the MDiplomaWorks pathway as an alternative method of earning a high school diploma in the State; providing the MDiplomaWorks pathway is a method to recognize and certify high school diploma achievement through demonstrated academic and career competencies, including workforce experience; and requiring, in calendar years 2027 and 2028, the Department of Labor to publish on its website information on the MDiplomaWorks pathway to inform potentially eligible applicants.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB44

Introduced
1/14/26  
Refer
1/14/26  
Report Pass
4/11/26  
Engrossed
4/13/26  
Altering the information that is required to be included on the signature page of a petition seeking to place a question on the ballot and with a question on the ballot; requiring that a certain summary included on the signature page of a petition seeking to place a question on the ballot and a certain statement about a question on the ballot be written in plain language; requiring certain boards of elections to post the text of ballot measures for at least 90 days before the general election; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB31

Introduced
1/14/26  
Authorizing a police officer who is denied a certain right to apply to the circuit court at any time before a hearing is held by the hearing board for an order that directs the law enforcement agency to show cause why the right should not be granted.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB87

Introduced
1/14/26  
Allowing a credit against the State income tax for certain costs paid or incurred by an individual for certain energy efficient home improvements made to the individual's residence during the taxable year, subject to certain limitations; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2025.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB122

Introduced
1/14/26  
Prohibiting a unit of State government or other State entity that provides State aid from providing State aid to a nonprofit entity unless the nonprofit is current with certain obligations under federal, State, and local law.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB229

Introduced
1/14/26  
Refer
1/14/26  
Report Pass
2/9/26  
Engrossed
2/13/26  
Refer
2/16/26  
Report Pass
4/1/26  
Enrolled
4/3/26  
Chaptered
4/14/26  
Increasing, from $4,000,000,000 to $5,000,000,000, the limit on the amount of certain revenue bonds that the Maryland Transportation Authority may have outstanding and unpaid on June 30 each year; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB237

Introduced
1/14/26  
Prohibiting a lender from accepting a tip from a consumer or giving a consumer the option to provide a tip; altering the timeline for certain refunds; subjecting certain earned wage access providers and loan lenders to certain consumer loan requirements; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB179

Introduced
1/14/26  
Requiring the Department of Commerce to create and maintain a complaint portal for reporting when a governmental unit takes longer than 60 days to process an application for a license, form, certificate, certification, permit, or registration for a business or nonprofit organization; and requiring the Department, by September 15, 2026, and each September 15 thereafter, to submit an annual report to certain committees of the General Assembly on the complaints filed through the portal.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB130

Introduced
1/14/26  
Refer
1/14/26  
Report Pass
3/21/26  
Engrossed
3/23/26  
Refer
3/23/26  
Report Pass
4/10/26  
Establishing the Task Force to Study Deed Fraud; requiring the Task Force to review the incidence of deed fraud in Maryland, including the number of complaints, resolved deed fraud cases, amount of restitution awarded, and geographic and demographic trends; requiring the Department of Legislative Services to provide staff for the Task Force; and requiring the Task Force by July 1, 2028, to report its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB27

Introduced
1/14/26  
Requiring the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to establish a grant and loan program to provide grants and loans for Long COVID innovation; requiring the Corporation to contract with an independent review committee composed of scientific experts in the field of Long COVID; establishing the Maryland Long COVID Research Fund under the administration of the Corporation as a special, nonlapsing fund; and requiring that the interest earnings of the Fund be credited to the Fund.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB137

Introduced
1/14/26  
Establishing qualifications for an individual to be appointed by a court as a custody evaluator; and authorizing a court to waive certain requirements for a court employee or an individual under contract with the court under certain circumstances.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB127

Introduced
1/14/26  
Requiring the governing body of Baltimore County to grant, by law, a property tax credit against the county property tax imposed on certain dwellings owned by public safety officers or Baltimore County public school employees under certain circumstances.