Maryland 2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 72)

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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1589

Introduced
2/15/26  
Altering the circumstances under which the Secretary of Health is required to make a new certificate of birth due to the change of a sex designation of an individual; establishing requirements and a prohibition related to the making of new certificates of birth; and altering the options for indicating an individual's sex designation on a license, identification card, or moped operator's permit issued by the Motor Vehicle Administration.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1593

Introduced
2/15/26  
Refer
2/15/26  
Refer
3/9/26  
Refer
3/10/26  
Report Pass
3/21/26  
Engrossed
3/23/26  
Requiring the Secretary of Health to adopt regulations governing the Community Pathways Waiver, including regulations pertaining to the delivery of self-directed services.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1596

Introduced
2/15/26  
Refer
2/15/26  
Establishing the Maryland Growth Initiative in the Maryland Technology Development Corporation to support the growth of start-up companies; requiring the Initiative to create a certain list of companies in the State that are between certain growth phases according to a certain priority; establishing the Maryland Growth Initiative Fund to be administered by the Corporation as a special, nonlapsing fund; requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget an appropriation of $5,000,000 for the Initiative; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB970

Introduced
2/13/26  
Refer
2/13/26  
Refer
3/4/26  
Report Pass
3/19/26  
Engrossed
3/20/26  
Requiring, rather than authorizing, certain sports wagering licensees and sports wagering operators that advertise in the State to contract with certain independent evaluators to evaluate and rate the sports wagering licensee's sports wagering content, sports wagering experts, sports wagering influencers, and content partners; and making the Act contingent on the State Lottery and Gaming Control Commission issuing licenses to at least three independent evaluators.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1591

Introduced
2/15/26  
Establishing that a vessel registered under Title 8, Subtitle 7 of the Natural Resources Article is not a nonwater-dependent project for the purpose of certain provisions of law regarding construction on State or private wetlands, regardless of how the vessel is used or operated.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB962

Introduced
2/13/26  
Refer
2/13/26  
Prohibiting individuals convicted of certain crimes in relation to the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, from serving on a board, committee, commission, task force, or workgroup created by state law, in the executive service of state government, or in a special appointment in state government; and requiring an appointing authority to take certain actions to remove or terminate the employment of an individual serving in a role in violation of the Act.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB963

Introduced
2/13/26  
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to replace the State Medicaid Management Information System mainframe with a modular system.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB977

Introduced
2/14/26  
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 HB1597

Introduced
2/16/26  
Refer
2/16/26  
Refer
3/9/26  
Establishing an unregulated space in hospital operating suites pilot project; requiring the Health Services Cost Review Commission to administer the pilot project; requiring the Commission to develop certain criteria and standards for the pilot project; requiring the Commission by December 1 annually to submit a certain report to certain committees of the General Assembly; and requiring certain ambulatory surgical centers and freestanding surgical centers to provide the Commission with certain information.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB972

Introduced
2/14/26  
Refer
2/14/26  
Refer
3/4/26  
Report Pass
3/18/26  
Engrossed
3/19/26  
Refer
3/20/26  
Report Pass
4/10/26  
Authorizing the Board of License Commissioners for Baltimore City to issue Class B beer, wine, and liquor licenses for the odd side of the 1000 block of West Baltimore Street and the even side of the 800 block of North Charles Street in the 40th alcoholic beverages district, subject to certain limitations; and prohibiting certain license holders in a certain area of the 40th alcoholic beverages district from selling alcoholic beverages before 10 a.m. or after 10 p.m.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1600

Introduced
2/16/26  
Requiring that books and records kept by or on behalf of certain homeowners associations be posted online; clarifying that a governing body of a homeowners association may secure a line of credit or loan to fund reserves; requiring that certain homeowners associations provide notice of a meeting by electronic transmission 14 days prior to the meeting; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1598

Introduced
2/16/26  
Refer
2/16/26  
Refer
3/9/26  
Refer
3/10/26  
Report Pass
4/9/26  
Engrossed
4/9/26  
Refer
4/10/26  
Refer
4/13/26  
Report Pass
4/13/26  
Authorizing, rather than requiring, a certain racing licensee to receive a grant for a capital construction plan from the Racetrack Facility Renewal Account without providing and expending a matching fund; requiring the racing licensee that receives the grant without providing and expending a matching fund to conduct live racing in the State for at least 10 years after the construction plan is complete; and requiring the State Racing Commission to recapture certain grant funds under certain circumstances and in a certain manner.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1602

Introduced
2/16/26  
Refer
2/16/26  
Refer
4/9/26  
Report Pass
4/10/26  
Engrossed
4/11/26  
Requiring counties in which a volunteer fire company is located to offer no-cost preventive cancer screenings in accordance with certain guidelines to volunteer firefighters volunteering and retired volunteer firefighters who volunteered with the volunteer fire company; authorizing a county to satisfy the requirement by providing a certain annual examination or applying for a certain grant; requiring the volunteer fire companies to maintain a list of volunteer firefighters and retired volunteer firefighters; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB975

Introduced
2/14/26  
Renaming the Office of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs to be the Office of Small, Minority, Disability, and Women Business Affairs; renaming the Special Secretary of Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs to be the Special Secretary of Small, Minority, Disability, and Women Business Affairs; expanding the duties of the Special Secretary to include matters concerning individuals with disabilities; altering the purpose of the Department of Social and Economic Mobility Special Fund; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB974

Introduced
2/14/26  
Refer
2/14/26  
Refer
3/4/26  
Report Pass
3/18/26  
Engrossed
3/19/26  
Refer
3/20/26  
Report Pass
4/11/26  
Specifying that the inspector for the Board of License Commissioners for Caroline County is the county codes administrator or an individual the Board appoints as inspector.