Maryland 2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 97)

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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB504

Introduced
1/26/26  
Introduced
1/27/26  
Refer
1/26/26  
Altering the membership of the State Board of Examiners for Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and Music Therapists by removing the physician members.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB595

Introduced
1/28/26  
Refer
1/28/26  
Report Pass
3/9/26  
Engrossed
3/11/26  
Refer
3/12/26  
Report Pass
4/1/26  
Enrolled
4/8/26  
Chaptered
4/28/26  
Altering eligibility for a credit against the State income tax for physician preceptors by repealing a requirement that a student in a physician preceptorship program be enrolled in a medical school or medical training program in the State and reducing the required number of hours for a preceptor rotation for community-based clinical training; limiting to $100,000 the excess amount of tax credit certificates the Department may carry forward; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2025.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB592

Introduced
1/28/26  
Establishing the Task Force to Study Forced Infant Separation From Incarcerated Individuals to study and make recommendations regarding methods to reduce forced infant separation in the State and facilitate bonds between postpartum incarcerated individuals and their children; and requiring the Task Force to report its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly on or before December 1, 2027.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB578

Introduced
1/28/26  
Refer
1/28/26  
Report Pass
3/9/26  
Engrossed
3/12/26  
Refer
3/13/26  
Report Pass
4/8/26  
Enrolled
4/9/26  
Chaptered
4/28/26  
Requiring the Secretary of Natural Resources to review and, if warranted, update regulations related to the Irreplaceable Natural Areas Program by July 1, 2033, and at least every 10 years thereafter; requiring the Secretary to delist an endangered or threatened species under certain circumstances; authorizing the Secretary to adopt management protocols for designated essential habitats; requiring the Department of Natural Resources to promulgate regulations authorizing the taking of black vultures under certain circumstances; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB514

Introduced
1/26/26  
Introduced
1/27/26  
Refer
1/26/26  
Prohibiting certain charitable organizations from participating in or intervening in a political campaign on behalf of or in opposition to a candidate for public office; authorizing the Secretary of State and the Attorney General, acting jointly, to order a 2-year revocation of certain tax-exempt statuses if a certain determination is made; requiring the Comptroller and the Director of the State Department of Assessments and Taxation to revoke certain tax-exempt statuses under certain circumstances; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB493

Introduced
1/26/26  
Introduced
1/27/26  
Refer
1/26/26  
Refer
1/27/26  
Report Pass
3/21/26  
Engrossed
3/23/26  
Refer
3/23/26  
Report Pass
4/9/26  
Report Pass
4/11/26  
Report Pass
4/13/26  
Increasing from five to six the number of associate judges in the District Court in District 11 by increasing from two to three the number of associate judges appointed from Washington County.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB545

Introduced
1/26/26  
Introduced
1/27/26  
Refer
1/26/26  
Authorizing a licensed real estate broker, a licensed associate real estate broker, or a licensed real estate salesperson to establish nonagency relationships to act as a real estate transaction broker in a residential real estate transaction under certain circumstances; establishing the duties of a transaction broker in a transaction brokerage; requiring the State Real Estate Commission to develop a certain standard consent form for a transaction brokerage; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB540

Introduced
1/26/26  
Introduced
1/27/26  
Refer
1/26/26  
Prohibiting certain electric, gas, and gas and electric companies from initiating a proceeding that may lead to a rate change unless the company provides customers with a certain notice; requiring certain electric, gas, and gas and electric companies to include a certain statement in each customer bill and automatic payment e-mail and distribute a certain annual rate report in a certain manner; requiring the Public Service Commission, in consultation with the Office of People's Counsel, to develop a certain report; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB395

Introduced
1/22/26  
Refer
1/22/26  
Report Pass
3/2/26  
Engrossed
3/4/26  
Refer
3/5/26  
Report Pass
4/2/26  
Enrolled
4/8/26  
Chaptered
4/28/26  
Repealing certain provisions of law requiring a person to hold a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) general discharge permit issued by the Department of the Environment before the person may begin construction on any part of a new CAFO; and authorizing the Department, under certain circumstances, to authorize a person to begin construction on any part of a new animal feeding operation under a certain approval process established by the Department.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB603

Introduced
1/28/26  
Requiring the homestead property tax credit percentage in Baltimore County to be 100%.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB601

Introduced
1/28/26  
Refer
1/28/26  
Report Pass
3/2/26  
Engrossed
3/4/26  
Refer
3/5/26  
Report Pass
4/11/26  
Report Pass
4/13/26  
Authorizing the use of stop sign monitoring systems in school zones in the City of Gaithersburg and the City of Rockville under the pilot program authorized for Prince George's County, certain school zones in Baltimore City, and the City of Takoma Park if authorized by local law.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB881

Introduced
2/4/26  
Establishing the Task Force on Not-for-Profit Funeral Establishments to study the feasibility and necessity of the establishment of not-for-profit funeral establishments in the State.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB758

Introduced
2/4/26  
Altering the purposes for which the Secretary of Health may make grants from or agreements for the use of State and federal funds with respect to the provision of services for problem gamblers; and altering the purposes for which the Maryland Department of Health may utilize the Problem Gambling Fund to provide reimbursement to support peers providing behavioral health services to individuals with problem gambling issues who are receiving treatment or participating in certain prevention programs.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB829

Introduced
2/4/26  
Refer
2/4/26  
Report Pass
3/19/26  
Engrossed
3/19/26  
Refer
3/20/26  
Report Pass
4/8/26  
Enrolled
4/9/26  
Chaptered
4/28/26  
Requiring an applicant for certain for-hire driver's licenses to submit to the Public Service Commission documentation verifying that the applicant completed a certain human trafficking awareness training program; prohibiting licensed taxicab drivers, for-hire drivers, or transportation network operators and applicants for a transportation network operators license from being held civilly or criminally liable for reporting or responding to in good faith a suspected incident of human trafficking; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB830

Introduced
2/4/26  
Prohibiting a local board of elections from removing an absentee ballot from a return envelope or ballot/return envelope or counting the ballot unless the return envelope or ballot/return envelope is signed by the voter and a witness and the local board verify the voter's signature; and providing that the witness signature requirement does not apply to active duty uniformed services members serving overseas or their spouses or dependents who live overseas.