Maryland 2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 73)

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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB971

Introduced
2/14/26  
Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to establish Gwynns Falls State Park as a partnership park between the Department and Baltimore City; altering the authorized uses of a certain part of the Park System Capital Improvements and Acquisition Fund; prohibiting the Department from charging an entrance fee to the State Park; requiring the Governor to include in the budget bill for fiscal year 2028 $2,8880,354 for the establishment of the Park and an additional appropriation of $280,000 for the hiring of a certain consultant; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB973

Introduced
2/14/26  
Altering a limitation on claiming the income tax credit for eligible long-term care insurance premiums for more than 1 year with respect to the same insured individual; altering the amount of the credit from a one-time $500 credit to a maximum of $250 for a taxable year beginning after December 31, 2026; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2026.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1603

Introduced
2/16/26  
Establishing requirements for certain vision benefits, vision benefit plans, and vision benefit discount plans; requiring an insurer or a vision benefit manager to disclose certain information on its website and in certain communications and maintain certain methods of communication for use by participating eye care providers; establishing certain requirements and prohibitions for contracts between insurers or vision benefit managers and participating eye care providers; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB978

Introduced
2/14/26  
Defining, for purposes of collective bargaining in community colleges, the term "supervisory employee" to mean an employee who is authorized to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline employees, direct employees for 50% of the employee's working hours, and address employee complaints; and excluding from the definition a department head or an employee in a comparable position or any faculty member below the level of assistant dean.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1601

Introduced
2/16/26  
Requiring a deed presented for recording effecting a change in ownership of residential property to contain the name of the title insurer and the policy number if the purchaser or other party has obtained title insurance.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB976

Introduced
2/14/26  
Refer
2/14/26  
Increasing, from $11,600 to $16,000, the annual salary of a judge of the Orphans' Court in Wicomico County.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1599

Introduced
2/16/26  
Refer
2/16/26  
Refer
3/9/26  
Refer
3/10/26  
Report Pass
4/9/26  
Engrossed
4/10/26  
Refer
4/10/26  
Refer
4/13/26  
Report Pass
4/13/26  
Establishing the Chesapeake Bay Enhancement Program to provide funding for certain oyster propagation and replenishment projects that mitigate the effects of certain transportation projects on the State's oyster population; establishing the Maryland Seafood Industry Financial Assistance Fund to provide financial assistance to certain commercial watermen and small businesses; and prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from making certain approvals for tidal fish licenses or authorizations of certain borrowers.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB981

Introduced
2/15/26  
Establishing the Common Ownership Community Ombudsman Unit in the Division of Consumer Protection in the Office of the Attorney General to receive and respond to certain complaints; requiring common ownership communities to file certain governing documents with the Department of Housing and Community Development, which the Department must use to create a publicly accessable database; and establishing requirements for a local common ownership commission established by the local government of a county.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1606

Introduced
2/17/26  
Prohibiting a person from charging an annual interest rate above 6% per year on a certain obligation held by an active service member or jointly by an active service member and the active service member's spouse; requiring that the active service member or the active service member's spouse provide the creditor with certain notice and documentation not later than 180 days after termination or discharge from active duty; and authorizing a court to grant a creditor relief from application of the Act after a certain finding.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB982

Introduced
2/15/26  
Refer
2/15/26  
Refer
3/20/26  
Report Pass
4/6/26  
Engrossed
4/8/26  
Refer
4/8/26  
Refer
4/9/26  
Report Pass
4/11/26  
Authorizing a mutual insurance holding company to convert its mutual insurance holding company system to a mutual insurer on adoption and approval of a plan of conversion; and establishing certain requirements related to the plan of conversion and its submission to the Maryland Insurance Commissioner for approval.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1607

Introduced
2/17/26  
Refer
2/17/26  
Refer
3/9/26  
Repealing certain prohibitions on the location of a community solar energy generating system based on the combined installed capacity of all community solar energy generating systems on adjacent parcels of land.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1605

Introduced
2/17/26  
Refer
2/17/26  
Repealing the requirement that county governments are required to pay 50% of the amount of compensation to individuals erroneously convicted of a crime the individual did not commit.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB1604

Introduced
2/17/26  
Refer
2/17/26  
Refer
3/16/26  
Report Pass
4/9/26  
Engrossed
4/9/26  
Prohibiting certain provisions from being included in certain public school system contracts; specifying that certain provisions are void if included in a public school system contract; specifying the applicable law and interpretation of public school system contracts; and applying the Act prospectively.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB979

Introduced
2/15/26  
Increasing from 1 year to 3 years the statute of limitations for the prosecution or suit for enforcement of local consumer protection codes for which equitable relief, a fine, or a penalty is provided.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB983

Introduced
2/15/26  
Refer
2/15/26  
Refer
3/4/26  
Report Pass
3/23/26  
Engrossed
3/23/26  
Repealing the requirement that a proposed new academic program be a graduate program in order for the Maryland Higher Education Commission or institutions of higher education in the State to file an objection to implementation of the proposed program; requiring the Program Review Process Advisory Council to study and make recommendations on extending the objection process for certain proposed academic programs with consideration of certain legal precedence regarding unnecessary program duplication; etc.