Maryland 2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 152)

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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB984

Introduced
2/6/26  
Prohibiting, on and after January 1, 2035, a person from disposing of a mattress in a landfill, subject to certain exceptions; prohibiting, on and after January 1, 2035, a person from disposing of a mattress in an incinerator, subject to a certain exception; requiring certain producers of mattresses sold at retail in the State or a certain representative organization to submit a plan for the establishment of a Mattress Stewardship Program in the Department of the Environment for approval on or before July 1, 2031; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB967

Introduced
2/6/26  
Prohibiting an electric company from collecting certain environmental surcharges or fees under certain circumstances; and requiring the Public Service Commission, by October 1, 2027, and each October 1 thereafter, to make a certain calculation each year related to the change in residential electric bills relative to inflation.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1009

Introduced
2/6/26  
Prohibiting a clerk of the circuit court from recording an instrument that effects a change of ownership of real property from the United States to another person unless the instrument is accompanied by a Certificate of Compliance; requiring the Office of the Attorney General and the State Department of Assessments and Taxation to review certain changes of ownership of real property and issue a Certificate of Compliance following a determination of legal compliance; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB994

Introduced
2/6/26  
Refer
2/6/26  
Report Pass
3/23/26  
Engrossed
3/23/26  
Refer
3/23/26  
Report Pass
4/8/26  
Establishing the Sellers of Travel Services Registration Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund in the Maryland Department of Labor; requiring that investment earnings be credited to the General Fund of the State; requiring the Secretary of Labor to annually calculate costs; authorizing the Department to set fees; requiring providers of travel services to file with the Department proof of professional liability and errors and omissions liability insurance in the amount of at least $1,000,000; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB965

Introduced
2/6/26  
Establishing the Office of Health Care Quality Stakeholder Advisory Council to provide feedback to the Office of Health Care Quality regarding maintaining oversight of health care facilities and to notify the Secretary of Health if the Office is negligent in providing oversight of health care facilities; requiring the Advisory Council, beginning January 1, 2027, to hold a virtual public meeting once every 6 months; and requiring a summary of each public meeting to be published on the Council's website within 30 days of the meeting.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1001

Introduced
2/6/26  
Refer
2/6/26  
Report Pass
3/16/26  
Engrossed
3/18/26  
Refer
3/19/26  
Report Pass
4/10/26  
Requiring a police officer who is on duty at a polling place to obey the authority of the State Administrator, the Deputy State Administrator, or a local election director; providing that, in a polling place, certain individuals have the authority to keep the peace and order the arrest of certain persons; requiring a local election director, while serving in a polling place, to protect certain rights of challengers and watchers; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB666

Introduced
2/6/26  
Refer
2/6/26  
Prohibiting the governing body of a county or municipality from enacting a local law or ordinance prohibiting the offering of certain residential property as a short-term rental by an operator solely because the operator is a lessee or sublessee of the property; authorizing the governing body of a county or municipality to enact a local law or ordinance prohibiting the operator of a short-term rental who is a lessee or sublessee of the property from operating more than one short-term rental within the county or municipality; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB676

Introduced
2/6/26  
Altering from a misdemeanor to a felony the crime of making a threat of mass violence.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB678

Introduced
2/6/26  
Altering the requirements for a sworn affidavit submitted for judicial authorization to initiate a forensic genetic genealogical DNA analysis and search (FGGS).
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB674

Introduced
2/6/26  
Establishing the Baltimore region, capital region, and Southern Maryland region transportation authorities to develop and implement certain transportation plans; establishing the Baltimore region, capital region, and Southern Maryland region transportation funds as special, nonlapsing funds; imposing certain transportation authority sales tax surcharges, hotel surcharges, and transfer tax surcharges; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB992

Introduced
2/6/26  
Altering the contents and use of the State Recycling Trust Fund; establishing a separate covered electronic device producer responsibility program plan and annual report, registration, and review fee account within the Fund; repealing certain provisions of law relating to existing covered electronic device takeback programs; altering certain provisions of law relating to registration fees for certain manufacturers of covered electronic devices; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB655

Introduced
2/6/26  
Altering the contents and use of the State Recycling Trust Fund; establishing a separate covered electronic device producer responsibility program plan and annual report, registration, and review fee account within the Fund; repealing certain provisions of law relating to existing covered electronic device takeback programs; altering certain provisions of law relating to registration fees for certain manufacturers of covered electronic devices; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB697

Introduced
2/6/26  
Refer
2/6/26  
Report Pass
3/16/26  
Engrossed
3/19/26  
Establishing a rebuttable presumption that a social media platform has made an independent expenditure to a certain candidate if the social media platform knowingly and purposefully alters its algorithm to amplify certain political content for the benefit of the candidate; prohibiting a foreign national from using a bot to publish, distribute, or disseminate campaign material or artificially amplify political content to users of an online platform for a certain purpose; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB670

Introduced
2/6/26  
Refer
2/6/26  
Report Pass
3/16/26  
Engrossed
3/20/26  
Refer
3/21/26  
Report Pass
4/3/26  
Requiring a police officer who is on duty at a polling place to obey the authority of the State Administrator, the Deputy State Administrator, or a local election director; providing that in a polling place certain individuals have the authority to keep the peace and order the arrest of certain persons; requiring a local election director while serving in a polling place, to protect certain rights of challengers and watchers; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB976

Introduced
2/6/26  
Altering the definition of "full-time equivalent enrollment" in the calculation for State education aid to include the average number of students enrolled in kindergarten through grade 12 on September 30 and May 31 of the prior school year; requiring the State Department of Education to publish online and submit a certain report to certain standing committees of the General Assembly; and applying the Act to the calculation of education funding for fiscal years beginning after June 30, 2027.