Maryland 2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 174)

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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1326

Introduced
2/12/26  
Refer
2/12/26  
Report Pass
3/19/26  
Engrossed
3/20/26  
Refer
3/23/26  
Report Pass
4/6/26  
Expanding the circumstances under which a report or record concerning child abuse or neglect may be disclosed by the Department of Human Services to include the administrator of a certain child care center, the coach, team administrator, or manager of a certain youth sports program, and the administrator or other appropriate personnel of any organization that provides adult supervision or care and control of children; and providing that a report or record concerning child abuse may be disclosed by the Department only after a finalized finding.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1356

Introduced
2/12/26  
Authorizing an employer to require an applicant to disclose the applicant's engagement in certain actions only if the disclosure is related to certain job requirements; prohibiting an employer from taking certain adverse action against an employee if the employee engages in certain activity; and providing that adverse action taken against an employee within 120 days after the employee engages in activity protected under the Act creates a rebuttable presumption of retaliation.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1316

Introduced
2/12/26  
Requiring the Hilltop Institute at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County to conduct a study on the feasibility of establishing a universal health care program through a single-payer system in the State; and establishing the Advisory Commission on Universal Health Care to assist the Institute in the development of final findings and recommendations based on a certain study.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1250

Introduced
2/12/26  
Regulating the manner in which a developer designs and creates and an operator makes available to users in the State a chatbot, including establishing safety and privacy protections for users; establishing, an enhanced protection for users who are minors under the age of 13 years; requiring the display of certain warnings when using a chatbot; establishing that a chatbot is considered a product for certain product liability actions; applying certain provisions of the Act to governmental units; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1327

Introduced
2/12/26  
Establishing March 26 as Key Bridge Heroes Commemoration Day in recognition of the service and sacrifice of certain workers; and requiring a certain ceremony to honor and remember the sacrifices and contributions of certain workers.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1259

Introduced
2/12/26  
Refer
2/12/26  
Report Pass
3/20/26  
Engrossed
3/21/26  
Refer
3/23/26  
Prohibiting a local jurisdiction in the State from denying or restricting the operation of certain family child care homes if the family child care home meets the licensing requirements established by the State Department of Education; and requiring a local jurisdiction to designate the operation of certain family child care homes as a residential activity and as a permitted use.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1278

Introduced
2/12/26  
Establishing the Maryland Positive Youth Development Commission in the State Department of Education to make grant awards to certain eligible organizations that provide positive youth development programming to certain youth; establishing the Maryland Positive Youth Development Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; and requiring interest earnings of the Fund to be credited to the Fund.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1324

Introduced
2/12/26  
Refer
2/12/26  
Report Pass
3/21/26  
Engrossed
3/23/26  
Refer
3/23/26  
Report Pass
4/3/26  
Enrolled
4/13/26  
Chaptered
4/28/26  
Adding Baltimore City to the list of jurisdictions in which the safety zone for archery hunters extends 50 yards from a dwelling house, residence, church, or any other building or camp occupied by human beings.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1260

Introduced
2/12/26  
Requiring the governing body of a certain common ownership community or the management agent of a certain homeowners association to maintain certain information about the common ownership community on its website in a downloadable format and at no cost; and altering the fees that certain common ownership communities may charge for information relating to an individual unit or lot.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1275

Introduced
2/12/26  
Requiring the standards of participation for student participation in interscholastic athletics established by a county board of education to include a process for a student to appeal a determination that the student is academically ineligible to participate in interscholastic athletics; and establishing certain requirements for a certain appeal process, including a certain provisional eligibility period.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1309

Introduced
2/12/26  
Establishing the Commission to Review and Assess Racial Disparities in the State Criminal Justice System to study and make recommendations on certain matters involving the disparate treatment of African Americans, Hispanics, and other non-White individuals in the State's criminal justice system and other criminal justice issues in the State; and requiring the Commission to submit a final report of its findings and recommendations on or before September 1, 2028.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1344

Introduced
2/12/26  
Requiring the Maryland Transit Administration to study the locally operated transit systems throughout the State; requiring the study to include certain information regarding cost shares, ridership, and historical cost increases; requiring the Administration to identify best practices for funding and governance; and requiring the Administration to submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the Governor and certain committees of the General Assembly by December 1, 2026.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1314

Introduced
2/12/26  
Continuing the Urban Trees Program administered by the Chesapeake Bay Trust; and making permanent a requirement that the Governor include $10,000,000 in the annual budget bill for the Urban Trees Program.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1294

Introduced
2/12/26  
Refer
2/12/26  
Report Pass
3/13/26  
Engrossed
3/18/26  
Altering the term "child pornography" to be "child sexual abuse material" for purposes of certain criminal offenses; and defining "computer-generated image" to include images created through the use of artificial intelligence software as the term pertains to provisions of law related to child sexual abuse material.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1345

Introduced
2/12/26  
Refer
2/12/26  
Report Pass
3/18/26  
Engrossed
3/18/26  
Refer
3/19/26  
Report Pass
4/10/26  
Establishing that, under the Maryland Trust Act, a certain in terrorem clause contained in a trust is void under certain circumstances.