Maryland 2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 214)

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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB569

Introduced
2/4/26  
Altering certain requirements for a controller relating to the collection of personal data; and prohibiting a controller, unless consumer consent is obtained, from collecting, processing, sharing, or selling precise geolocation data for the purpose of targeted advertising.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB890

Introduced
2/4/26  
Requiring a certain on-site interview following a report of suspected child abuse to be with the child's parent or guardian rather than the child's caretaker; and requiring a local department of social services or a law enforcement agency to provide a certain notice to a parent or legal guardian of a child at a certain time during an investigation of suspected child abuse or neglect.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB918

Introduced
2/5/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Report Pass
4/13/26  
Authorizing a certain enforcement officer to enforce provisions regulating the sale and distribution of cigarettes, other tobacco products, and electronic smoking devices; authorizing the Executive Director of the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Cannabis Commission to reprimand a licensee or suspend or revoke a license for a violation identified under the Act; requiring the Comptroller to distribute a certain amount of the licensure authorization request fees collected to the Family League of Baltimore City, Inc. in a certain manner; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB912

Introduced
2/5/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Report Pass
3/20/26  
Engrossed
3/23/26  
Establishing that certain provisions of law prohibiting the abandonment or certain neglect of an animal do not apply to a person who is providing care to a community cat under a trap-neuter-return policy; establishing that a local law that establishes a trap-neuter-return policy is subject to certain requirements and restrictions; and providing that the Act supersedes and preempts any law, ordinance, policy, regulation, or rule of any local government body, person, or corporation that restricts the practice of trap-neuter-return; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB946

Introduced
2/5/26  
Requiring the Governor's Appointments Office to report to the General Assembly beginning December 1, 2026, and each December 1 thereafter, certain demographic information regarding applicants and nominees for judicial office.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB901

Introduced
2/5/26  
Requiring a school to recognize a student's external diagnosis of autism from certain professionals until the school completes an initial evaluation; requiring a school to initiate an evaluation of a student within 30 days of receiving an external diagnosis of autism and written consent from the student's parent; requiring a school to provide certain supports to a student during the evaluation; and requiring a school to continue to provide supports to a student until the evaluation is complete and a certain determination is made.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB638

Introduced
2/5/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Report Pass
3/2/26  
Engrossed
3/6/26  
Refer
3/9/26  
Report Pass
4/8/26  
Enrolled
4/10/26  
Chaptered
4/28/26  
Authorizing the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority to award grants and loans to local jurisdictions to develop certain management plans and encourage revitalization of and reinvestment in certified heritage area resources; decreasing from 10% to 7% or $600,000, whichever is greater, of Program Open Space funds transferred to the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority Financing Fund that may be used for certain operating expenses; and increasing from $3,000,000 to $9,000,000 the maximum amount of funding that may be transferred to the Fund.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB623

Introduced
2/5/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Report Pass
3/23/26  
Engrossed
3/23/26  
Refer
3/24/26  
Establishing a Class C-PCL (premium cigar lounge) alcoholic beverages license for use in conjunction with a tobacconist license; authorizing a local licensing board to issue the license; authorizing a local licensing board to permit the owner or operator of a tobacconist that does not hold an alcoholic beverages license to allow the consumption of alcoholic beverages on the premises under certain circumstances; prohibiting a county clerk from issuing a tobacconist license if the location shares a wall with a health care or child care facility; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB585

Introduced
2/5/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Report Pass
3/9/26  
Engrossed
3/12/26  
Refer
3/13/26  
Report Pass
4/1/26  
Requiring research facilities that are located in the State and required to submit an Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Form 7023 to pay contributions for the Human-Relevant Research Fund to the Department of Agriculture, rather than the Maryland Department of Health.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB922

Introduced
2/5/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Report Pass
3/18/26  
Engrossed
3/19/26  
Requiring the Behavioral Health Administration to adopt regulations authorizing a behavioral health program to relocate to another site; and requiring the regulations to address an expedited approval process, the use of documentation previously submitted, providing authorization for temporary approvals for a relocation, and authorization to consider the program's regulatory record as a basis for expediting the process.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB591

Introduced
2/5/26  
Establishing the Maryland Chapter of the National Public Safety Alliance for Individuals with Disabilities in the Department of State Police; requiring the Department, in conjunction with the Department of Disabilities, to establish guidelines for the use of a certain interface and protocols and policy; establishing the National Public Safety Alliance for Individuals with Disabilities Commission; requiring the Commission to study and make recommendations regarding the establishment of a secure interface; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB947

Introduced
2/5/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Report Pass
3/16/26  
Engrossed
3/18/26  
Refer
3/19/26  
Report Pass
4/2/26  
Enrolled
4/8/26  
Chaptered
4/14/26  
Altering the Invasive Blue Catfish Pilot Program to include the Blue Catfish Gill Net Program and any other program the Department of Natural Resources considers effective in curbing the spread of the blue catfish in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries; and requiring the Department to report by December 1 each year beginning in 2026, to certain committees of the General Assembly on the activities of the Pilot Program during the immediately preceding year, including findings and recommendations related to the Program.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB603

Introduced
2/5/26  
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 HB951

Introduced
2/5/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Report Pass
3/10/26  
Engrossed
3/12/26  
Refer
3/13/26  
Report Pass
4/9/26  
Repealing a requirement that a printed deed or other instrument offered for recordation include certain margins; and requiring the clerk of the circuit court of a county to date each change or correction made to information in the general alphabetical index on the horizontal line on which the change or correction was made.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB601

Introduced
2/5/26  
Refer
2/5/26  
Report Pass
3/19/26  
Engrossed
3/20/26  
Refer
3/21/26  
Report Pass
4/8/26  
Enrolled
4/10/26  
Chaptered
4/14/26  
Requiring each local school system to designate a local point of contact for certain communications, to comply with, and certify compliance with, the State minimum cybersecurity standards, and to conduct a cybersecurity maturity assessment every 2 years; requiring the Office of Security Management within the Department of Information Technology to annually review and, if necessary, update the State minimum cybersecurity standards; requiring the Department to advise local school systems on certain functions; etc.