Maryland 2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 116)

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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB980

Introduced
2/6/26  
Refer
2/6/26  
Report Pass
3/20/26  
Engrossed
3/21/26  
Refer
3/23/26  
Report Pass
4/9/26  
Enrolled
4/13/26  
Chaptered
4/28/26  
Requiring the Secretary of Human Services to establish and maintain a Guardianship Assistance Program to promote the placement and maintenance of children in permanent guardianship homes by providing guardianship assistance to guardians of minor children; establishing the State Foster Youth Ombudsman in the Department of Human Services; requiring the Ombudsman to provide legal expertise in child welfare, custody and guardianship matters, and appeal and due process; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB986

Introduced
2/6/26  
Refer
2/6/26  
Report Pass
3/13/26  
Engrossed
3/18/26  
Requiring certain applicants for a license to practice registered nursing or licensed practical nursing to produce adequate evidence, including official transcripts, that the applicants' educational credentials meet certain requirements; and authorizing the State Board of Nursing to take certain disciplinary action for the failure to complete certain education requirements.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB711

Introduced
2/6/26  
Altering the definition of child neglect to include the failure or refusal to provide to a child the education required by law.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB689

Introduced
2/6/26  
Refer
2/6/26  
Report Pass
3/20/26  
Engrossed
3/23/26  
Altering the requirements of the Task Force on the Creation of a Division of Returning Citizens and Expanded Reentry Services to include studying programs and services to prevent recidivism by individuals in the State after release from incarceration; and extending the deadline for the reporting requirement for the Task Force to December 31, 2026.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB669

Introduced
2/6/26  
Extending the deadline by which a solar energy generating system must be placed in service to be eligible for certification under the Small Solar Energy Generating System Incentive Program from January 1, 2028, to January 1, 2031; and increasing the total amount of in-State generating capacity for certain solar energy generating systems from 270 megawatts to 540 megawatts.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB972

Introduced
2/6/26  
Refer
2/6/26  
Report Pass
3/20/26  
Engrossed
3/23/26  
Refer
3/23/26  
Report Pass
4/9/26  
Enrolled
4/13/26  
Chaptered
4/28/26  
Establishing the Maryland Fair and Agricultural Education Promise Fund to provide grants that advance agricultural fairs and education in the State; requiring interest earnings of the Fund to be credited to the Fund; requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $200,000 to the Fund each year; requiring the Comptroller to pay $100,000 to the Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation, Inc, and $100,000 to the Maryland FFA Association from the Fund for agricultural education programs; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB662

Introduced
2/6/26  
Refer
2/6/26  
Report Pass
3/9/26  
Engrossed
3/12/26  
Refer
3/13/26  
Report Pass
4/8/26  
Altering the examination fee for a new commercial bank charter; requiring a certain nondepository trust company to include certain disclosures in its articles of incorporation; exempting from certain provisions of law a certain nondepository trust company authorized to provide certain services by the Commissioner of Financial Regulation; authorizing a certain nondepository trust company to request that the Commissioner reduce the capital stock requirements under certain circumstances; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB661

Introduced
2/6/26  
Refer
2/6/26  
Report Pass
3/20/26  
Engrossed
3/20/26  
Authorizing a person to intercept a wire, oral, or electronic communication that is a recording or part of a recording of the commission or attempted commission of a certain crime; providing that the contents of a certain intercepted communication and evidence derived from the communication may be received in evidence in a criminal trial or hearing before the District Court or circuit court under certain circumstances; and providing for a certain affirmative defense to a charge under the wiretap statute.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB651

Introduced
2/6/26  
Refer
2/6/26  
Report Pass
3/20/26  
Engrossed
3/23/26  
Refer
3/23/26  
Report Pass
4/8/26  
Altering the Maryland Uniform Disclaimer of Property Interests Act to provide for the disclaimer of nonprobate transfers at death; providing for the creation, revocation, recordation, and effects of a transfer-on-death deed for real property; providing example forms for the creation and revocation of a transfer-on-death deed; providing for the retroactive application of the Act to transfer-on-death deeds executed prior to the effective date of the Act for a transferor who dies on or after October 1, 2026; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB971

Introduced
2/6/26  
Requiring the Maryland Medical Advisory Committee to form subcommittees and workgroups, as necessary, to carry out the duties of the Committee; establishing the Workgroup to Study the Adoption of a Fee-for-Service Model for all Medicaid Services to study the feasibility of implementing a direct care payment model throughout the State's Medicaid program; and requiring the workgroup to report its findings and recommendations to the Advisory Committee and certain members of the General Assembly by January 1, 2027.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB653

Introduced
2/6/26  
Refer
2/6/26  
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 instead of authorizing the Board of Architects to deny, reprimand, or suspend a license to practice architecture or a permit to operate a business through which an individual may practice architecture under certain circumstances; authorizing the Board to establish an electronic portal to allow the anonymous reporting of a suspected violation of certain provisions of law relating to the practicing of architecture; authorizing a certain code official to verify a licensee's documents before a permit is processed; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB990

Introduced
2/6/26  
Extending the deadline by which a solar energy generating system must be placed in service to be eligible for certification under the Small Solar Energy Generating System Incentive Program from January 1, 2028, to January 1, 2031; and increasing the total amount of in-State generating capacity for certain solar energy generating systems from 270 megawatts to 540 megawatts.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1002

Introduced
2/6/26  
Refer
2/6/26  
Report Pass
3/20/26  
Engrossed
3/21/26  
Refer
3/23/26  
Report Pass
3/30/26  
Enrolled
4/7/26  
Chaptered
4/14/26  
Prohibiting certain facilities from involuntarily transferring or discharging a resident to certain housing or before receiving certain confirmations; altering the information required to be included in a certain notice or new notice; requiring that a certain notice or new notice be provided to certain residents at least a certain period of time before an involuntary discharge or transfer; establishing time requirements that apply to the discharge or transfer of a resident if a new notice of involuntary discharge or transfer is provided; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1000

Introduced
2/6/26  
Refer
2/6/26  
Report Pass
3/20/26  
Engrossed
3/21/26  
Requiring, beginning July 1, 2026, the school mapping data produced with funding from the School Mapping Data Program to contain site- specific labeling for bodies of water in the 1-mile radius surrounding the school grounds.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB707

Introduced
2/6/26  
Refer
2/6/26  
Report Pass
3/23/26  
Engrossed
3/23/26  
Refer
3/24/26  
Report Pass
4/8/26  
Enrolled
4/9/26  
Chaptered
4/28/26  
Defining "danger to the life or safety of the individual or of others" for purposes of the involuntary admission of individuals with mental disorders to a facility or Veterans' Administration hospital and the emergency evaluation of individuals with mental disorders.