Maryland 2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 97)

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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.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB468

Introduced
1/23/26  
Establishing the Mental Health Care Fund for Children and Youth to support improved access to mental health care services for children and youth in the State; imposing a tax on certain annual revenues derived from certain digital social media services in the State; providing for the calculation and collection of the tax; requiring the Comptroller to distribute revenue from the tax in a certain manner; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB467

Introduced
1/23/26  
Refer
1/23/26  
Report Pass
3/21/26  
Engrossed
3/23/26  
Refer
3/23/26  
Report Pass
4/8/26  
Requiring the annual report of the Maryland Parole Commission to include certain information; altering a certain provision of law to require the Commission to provide certain documents to an incarcerated individual and the incarcerated individual's representative at a certain time; requiring the Commission to document, state on the record, provide to an incarcerated individual, and make available to the public certain information; applying the Act retroactively; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB474

Introduced
1/23/26  
Refer
1/23/26  
Report Pass
3/2/26  
Engrossed
3/4/26  
Refer
3/5/26  
Report Pass
4/6/26  
Prohibiting a person from operating or towing a vehicle, subject to certain exceptions, without making reasonable efforts to remove from exposed vehicle surfaces accumulated snow and ice; and prohibiting a person from committing a violation of the Act that contributes to an accident resulting in property damage or the death of or serious bodily injury to another person.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB445

Introduced
1/23/26  
Refer
1/23/26  
Report Pass
2/23/26  
Engrossed
2/26/26  
Refer
2/27/26  
Report Pass
3/30/26  
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide certain coverage related to orthoses beginning January 1, 2027; clarifying that certain mandated benefits related to prostheses include all prostheses determined by a treating health care provider to be medically necessary for completing daily living activities, essential job-related activities or performing certain other physical activities; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB446

Introduced
1/23/26  
Refer
1/23/26  
Report Pass
3/23/26  
Engrossed
3/23/26  
Refer
3/23/26  
Report Pass
4/6/26  
Enrolled
4/9/26  
Chaptered
4/28/26  
Altering the duties of the Virginia I. Jones Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Council to include an examination of the capacity of health care providers to deliver care to certain individuals and to identify methods by which the State can assist health care providers in delivering care to certain individuals; establishing the Dementia Services and Brain Health Program in the Maryland Department of Health to lead the State's public health efforts relating to brain health and dementia; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB456

Introduced
1/23/26  
Refer
1/23/26  
Report Pass
3/20/26  
Engrossed
3/20/26  
Refer
3/23/26  
Report Pass
4/9/26  
Establishing, in Howard County, a gift basket permit that authorizes a permit holder to sell and deliver gift baskets containing beer, wine, or liquor to certain individuals under certain circumstances; providing that certain distance requirements do not apply to the issuance of the permit; and providing a gift basket permit fee of $100.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB355

Introduced
1/23/26  
Requiring both parties to be married, rather than one party, to appear before the clerk of a circuit court to apply for a marriage license.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB482

Introduced
1/23/26  
Altering certain standards for the drawing of legislative districts; establishing standards for the drawing of congressional districts; establishing the Legislative and Congressional Redistricting and Apportionment Commission as an independent unit of State government to divide the State into certain legislative districts and congressional districts subject to certain requirements and procedures; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB362

Introduced
1/23/26  
Altering the penalty to add imprisonment not exceeding 5 years for storing or leaving a loaded firearm in a location where the person knew or should have known that an unsupervised minor has access to the firearm.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland House Bill HB450

Introduced
1/23/26  
Refer
1/23/26  
Report Pass
4/8/26  
Engrossed
4/9/26  
Refer
4/9/26  
Refer
4/10/26  
Prohibiting a court or a party in a criminal or juvenile delinquency case from disclosing or allowing inspection of a certain court filing or record to a nonparty unless the court or the party redacts certain identifying information relating to a certain victim of sexual assault or victim of stalking that appears in the filing or record, subject to a certain exception; providing for disclosure or inspection of a certain record or filing by a certain health occupations board; etc.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB358

Introduced
1/23/26  
Increasing to two the number of resident judges of the Circuit Court for Queen Anne's County.
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Maryland 2026 Regular Session

Maryland Senate Bill SB350

Introduced
1/23/26  
Authorizing a county board of education to adopt an open enrollment policy to authorize certain students to attend, free of charge, a public school in a county other than the county where the student is domiciled with the student's parent or guardian, subject to certain requirements; requiring county boards to include certain students in full-time equivalent enrollment counts; and directing certain funding to the county in which certain students are enrolled in a public school under an open enrollment policy.