Maryland 2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 177)

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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB341

Introduced
1/23/26  
Authorizing the purchase, installation, and use of a certain portable solar energy generating system for certain purposes; altering the renewable energy portfolio standard; requiring that certain alternative compliance fees be paid into a certain escrow account rather than into the Maryland Strategic Energy Investment Fund; requiring the Public Service Commission to require electric companies to procure a certain number of SRECs and SREC-IIs; requiring the Commission to issue certain solicitations; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB459

Introduced
1/23/26  
Establishing the standard of review that the State Board of Education must use when considering an appeal of certain actions taken by a county board of education; and establishing a limit of 90 days on the duration of a stay ordered by the State Superintendent of Schools of a certain action taken by a county board.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB329

Introduced
1/23/26  
Requiring the State Department of Education to approve and certify a nonprofit organization that meets certain requirements as a scholarship granting organization; requiring the Department, beginning in 2027, to annually provide the Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury a list of scholarship granting organizations; and requiring the Comptroller to make available online guidance that assists taxpayers in claiming a certain tax credit for certain contributions.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB484

Introduced
1/23/26  
Providing an addition modification under the corporate income tax for the amount of certain direct-to-consumer advertising expenses for certain covered drugs paid or incurred during the taxable year that are deducted under the Internal Revenue Code; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2025.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB359

Introduced
1/23/26  
Refer
1/23/26  
Report Pass
3/9/26  
Engrossed
3/12/26  
Refer
3/13/26  
Report Pass
4/8/26  
Requiring individuals who will have direct contact with children in certain child care facilities to submit to a criminal history records check; requiring the State Department of Education, by June 30, 2027, to establish a centralized unit for the processing and management of information about criminal history records checks; altering the applicability of probationary employment qualifications for first-time child care teachers in child care centers in the State that serve children who are at least 2 years old; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB333

Introduced
1/23/26  
Refer
1/23/26  
Report Pass
3/16/26  
Engrossed
3/19/26  
Refer
3/20/26  
Report Pass
4/3/26  
Enrolled
4/8/26  
Chaptered
4/14/26  
Entering into the Interstate Podiatric Medical Licensure Compact; authorizing a podiatrist to practice in a participating state under certain scope of practice rules; establishing the Interstate Podiatric Medical Licensure Compact Commission to oversee the Compact and its duties and powers; and providing the Act is contingent on the enactment of substantially similar provisions in four other states.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB351

Introduced
1/23/26  
Refer
1/23/26  
Report Pass
3/2/26  
Engrossed
3/5/26  
Requiring an insurer that issues or delivers private passenger motor vehicle insurance policies in the State to disclose the use of a program that measures the operation of an insured vehicle and to establish a process by which a policyholder may correct or appeal data the policyholder believes to be erroneous; prohibiting insurers with respect to certain private passenger motor vehicle insurance policies from initiating a premium increase in increments of less than 6 months; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB356

Introduced
1/23/26  
Refer
1/23/26  
Report Pass
2/11/26  
Engrossed
2/17/26  
Allowing a parent of a stillborn child a refundable credit of $1,000 against the State income tax for each birth for which a certain certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth or a certificate of fetal death has been issued; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2026.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB364

Introduced
1/23/26  
Revising, restating, and recodifying the laws of this State relating to the Janet L. Hoffman Loan Assistance Repayment Program.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB478

Introduced
1/23/26  
Refer
1/23/26  
Report Pass
3/9/26  
Engrossed
3/11/26  
Refer
3/12/26  
Report Pass
4/2/26  
Enrolled
4/3/26  
Chaptered
4/14/26  
Altering a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for unreimbursed expenses paid or incurred by eligible teachers during a taxable year for the purchase of certain classroom supplies to include prekindergarten classroom teachers employed in publicly funded prekindergarten programs at eligible public providers or lead teachers or consulting teachers employed in a publicly funded prekindergarten program at an eligible private provider in the State; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2025.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB444

Introduced
1/22/26  
Refer
1/22/26  
Report Pass
1/29/26  
Engrossed
2/3/26  
Refer
2/4/26  
Report Pass
2/9/26  
Enrolled
2/13/26  
Chaptered
2/17/26  
Prohibiting the State, a unit of local government, a county sheriff, or any agency, officer, employee, or agent of the State or a unit of local government from entering into an immigration enforcement agreement; and requiring the termination of an existing immigration enforcement agreement immediately on the taking effect of the Act.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB481

Introduced
1/23/26  
Requiring, rather than authorizing, a court to order visitation to be rescheduled, in a manner consistent with the best interests of the child, when the court finds that a party to a custody or visitation order has unjustifiably denied or interfered with visitation granted by the custody or visitation order.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB461

Introduced
1/23/26  
Refer
1/23/26  
Report Pass
3/10/26  
Engrossed
3/12/26  
Refer
3/13/26  
Report Pass
3/30/26  
Establishing the Rural Readiness Program administered by the Rural Maryland Council to provide assistance to rural communities to enhance their capacity for economic development; requiring priority to be given when making certain grants to entities that have completed the Rural Readiness Program; and establishing the Rural Maryland Capacity Building Fund to be administered by the Council to provide grants to support collaborative planning and capacity building initiatives that address the needs of rural communities.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB479

Introduced
1/23/26  
Refer
1/23/26  
Report Pass
4/11/26  
Engrossed
4/13/26  
Requiring the University System of Maryland to develop, in consultation with the State Department of Education and the Maryland Higher Education Commission, certain recommendations for a Southern Maryland Early College Teacher Pathway Program and a teacher preparation pathway in a certain manner; establishing the Southern Maryland Early College Teacher Pathway Program Workgroup; requiring, the Governor to include an appropriation of $125,000 in fiscal years 2028 and 2029, to support the Workgroup's recommendations; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB332

Introduced
1/23/26  
Increasing, from $10,000 to $25,000, the maximum amount of the council of unit owners' property insurance deductible for which a unit owner is responsible if the cause of damage to or destruction of any portion of the condominium originates from the unit owner's unit; and providing that a contract for the resale of a condominium unit by a unit owner other than the developer is not enforceable unless it contains a written notice of the unit owner's responsibility for the amount of the deductible where damage originates from the unit.