Maryland State Builders Association
Maryland Building Industry Association
2017 Legislative Committee
Senate & House Progress Report---February 28 2017
(Priority Local Bills indicated by shading)
Bill # Sponsor
|Bill Title |Committee |Hearing Date |Status |Prior Year Intro |MBIA
Position |Comments | |SB 29
Pinsky
(HB 617) |Forest Conservation Thresholds and Reforestation Requirements |EHE |1/24 at 1:00 pm |Senate Passed amends
House E&T | |-1 |Bill does not create anything in law that doesn’t already exist. Katie has advised that
We oppose it strenuously as “the camel’s nose under the tent.” Amendment added afforestation.
| |SB 62
Young
(HB 434) |Backyard Gardens - Prohibition on Restrictions |EHE |1/24 at 1:00 pm | | |-3 |There are ESD and possibly utility easement problems with this language. There is probably a way to carve those out that make it acceptable but this seems to allow homeowners to turn their on-site ESD device into a garden which is bad for various reasons.
| |SB 76
Reilly
(HB 280) |Circuit Court Real Property Records Improvement Fund - Change of Name |JPR |1/24
|UNFAV | |0 |Changes name of the “Circuit Court Real Property Records Improvement Fund” to the “State Judiciary Technology Fund”. Does not alter or raise fees
| |SB 111
McFadden
(HB 363) |Recordation and Transfer Taxes - Exemptions - Property Conveyed From Sole Proprietorship to Limited Liability Company
|B&T |2/1
2:00 pm. |Senate
Passed
amend
House W&M |HB0044 2016 |+2 |Would benefit transfer from farmer to developer in being able to pay ag transfer tax rather than higher rate tax | |SB 116
Edwards |Program Open Space - Attainment of Acquisition Goals - Local Government Apportionment and Use of Funds
|EHE |1/24
|Senate
Passed amend
House APP | |0 |Allows jurisdictions to use 100% of open space funds for “development” and “capital renewal” projects if the county’s land acquisition goals have already been met as certified by DNR and Planning | |SB 168
Conway
(HB 674) |Maryland Paint Stewardship Program |EHE |1/31 | |SB02012016 |-2 |This measure requires the Office of Recycling of the Maryland Department of Environment (MDE) to establish a paint recycling program. Builders and remodelers use architectural coatings in most of their construction and home improvement projects and anticipate that the requirements of this legislation would increase the cost of purchasing these materials. | |SB 177
Manno, et al
(HB 1226)
|Elevator Inspections - Testing |F |2/9 | |SB11652016 |-1 |Potential multifamily impacts; requires test be performed by a licensed elevator mechanic and with State inspector or third-party qualified inspector to be physically present at test | |SB 180
Peters, et al
(HB 644)
|Independent Living Tax Credit Act |B&T |2/8 |Senate Passed
w/amends
House W&M |SB0819
2016 |+3 |State tax credit, individual or a corporation,= 50% of renovation or construction costs (during taxable year) to provide accessibility / visitability features to or within a home; credit not to exceed $5,000
| |SB 183
President, By Request DLS
(HB 115) |Mold Remediation Licensure |EHE |2/2 |Senate Passed
House EM | |0 |Extends deadline for licensure of Mold Remediation firms to be licensed by MHIC from July 1 2013 to July 1, 2019 | |SB 190
President, By Request DLS
(HB 117) |Elevator Safety Review Board, Sunset Extension |F |2/2 |Senate
Passed
House EM | |0 |Extends the sunset of the Elevator Safety Review Board from 2016 to 2026 | |SB 230
Middleton, et al
(HB 1)
|Maryland Healthy Working Families Act, |F |2/9 | |SB0472
2016 |-2 |Democrat version of earned/family sick leave bill. | |SB 247
Ramirez
(HB 26)
|Notices of Foreclosure Sale and Postponement or Cancellation |JP
(E&T) |2/2 | | |0 |Requires written notice of proposed foreclosure sale to condominium or homeowners association that, at least 30 days before proposed sale, has recorded a statement of lien against the property; within 14 days after the postponement or cancellation of a foreclosure sale requires a notice to that effect sent to the record owner. | |SB 254
Peters, et al
(HB 1174) |Subtraction Modification – Perpetual Conservation Easements
|B&T |2/15 | |SB0371
2016 |0 |Provides a subtraction modification under MD income tax for the first $250,000 in proceeds from the sale of a perpetual conservation easement on real property in the State.
| |SB 266
Conway, et al
(HB 281) |On–Site Sewage Disposal Systems – Best Available Technology For Nitrogen Removal – Prohibition |EHE |1/31 |FAV\
Special Order until 3/2 | |-3 |Prohibits a person from installing, or having installed, on property a person owns in the State in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, the Atlantic Coastal Bays watershed, or the watershed of a nitrogen–impaired body of water, an on–site sewage disposal system to service a newly constructed building, unless system utilizes nitrogen removal technology | |SB 284
Ready, et al |Vehicle–Miles–Traveled Tax and Associated Mandated Devices – Prohibition
|B&T |2/15 | |SB0196
2016
SB0664
2015 |+2 |Prohibits the State or a local jurisdiction from imposing or levying a vehicle–miles–traveled tax or other similar fees, tolls, or taxes; prohibiting the State or a local jurisdiction from requiring the installation of a device in or on a privately owned vehicle to facilitate the reporting of vehicle–miles traveled | |SB 301
Feldman, et al
(HB 699) |Real Property – Installation and Use of Electric Vehicle Recharging Equipment |JP |2/7 |UNFAV |SB01682016
SB0762
2015 |-1 |Provides that specified provisions of a recorded covenant or restriction, a declaration, or the bylaws or rules of a condominium or homeowners association are void and unenforceable; establishes requirements and procedures relating to an application to the condominium or homeowners association to install or use electric vehicle recharging equipment; requiring owners of electric vehicle recharging equipment to be responsible for specified costs and disclosures | |SB 302
Feldman, et al
(HB 36) |Plug-In Electric Drive Vehicles - Reserved Parking Spaces |JP |2/7 |UNFAV | |0 |If an electric vehicle charging station is provided, this bill requires marking of the space, allows for towing, and it will not count as an additional parking space requirement | |SB 305
President by Request Admin
(HB 382) |Commonsense Paid Leave Act
|F & B&T |2/9 | | |+1 |Requires specified employers to provide employees with paid time off; specified employers are eligible for a tax subtraction modification under specified circumstances; provides the method of determining whether an employer is required to provide paid time off; applies the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017; applies to firms of 50 employees or more that work over 30 hours a week, allows a tax credit for firms under 50 employees | |SB 307
President by Request Admin
(HB 402)
Emergency Bill |Repeal of the Maryland Open Transportation Investment Decision Act of 2016 (Road Kill Bill Repeal} |B&T |2/22 | | |+2 |Repeals specified State transportation goals. Repeals requirements that DOT: score the extent to which specified transportation projects satisfy the goals; develop a scoring system and promulgate regulations; in accordance with the scoring system, rank major transportation projects for inclusion in the draft and final Consolidated Transportation Program | |SB 314
President by Request Admin
(HB 417)
|Clean Water Commerce Act Of 2017 |EHE |2/14 |2nd Reading Pass
w/aments | |+1 |Authorizes funds in the Bay Restoration Fund to be used for the costs associated with the purchase of nutrient credits, not to exceed $10,000,000 per year. | |SB 317
President by Request Admin
(HB 394)
|More Jobs for Marylanders Act of 2017
|B&T |2/22 | | |0 |Establishes the More Jobs for Marylanders Program within the Dept. of Commerce; business entities certified to participate in the Program are exempt from specified fees and the sales tax imposed on specified purchases; allows business entities a credit against State income and property taxes; exempts specified business entities from specified expensing and deprecation subtraction modifications. Tax incentives for new industrial businesses entering the State, probably not our issue | |SB 335
Rosapepe
(HB 652)
|Career Apprenticeship Opportunity Act Of 2017
|B&T |2/16 | | |+2 |Requires the Board of Education to develop, on or before December 1, 2017, goals for percentages of high school graduates for completing specified career and technical education programs and earning credentials, to develop a method to consider a student’s attainment of credential or completion of apprenticeship program as equivalent to a specified Advanced Placement examination score
| |SB 343
Eckardt, et al
(HB 384) |Bay Restoration Fund – Eligible Costs – Expansion |EHE |2/7 |Senate
Passed amends
House E&T | |+1 |Alters the definition of “eligible costs” as it relates to projects that receive funding from the Bay Restoration Fund to include any wastewater facility upgrade to enhanced nutrient removal, as determined by MDE.
| |SB 357
Pinsky
(HB 615) |Business Relief and Tax Fairness Act of 2017 |B&T |2/22 | |SB04322016 |-1 |Prohibits the State Department of Assessments and Taxation from imposing a fee for the filing of specified documents by corporations or business entities with 10 or fewer employees; requiring specified corporations to compute Maryland taxable income using a specified combined reporting method; requiring, subject to specified regulations, specified groups of corporations to file a combined income tax return reflecting the aggregate income tax liability of all the members of the group. Combined reporting law | |SB 365
Young, et al
(HB 599)
|Forest Conservation Act – Exemption, Reforestation Rate, and Forest Conservation Fund – Alterations
|EHE |2/7 | | |-3 |Alters the FCA exemption for the cutting or clearing of public utility rights–of–way or land for electric generating stations; increases acreage planted to meet the reforestation requirement; and authorizes an increase in in lieu rate | |SB 367
Zucker, et al
(HB 1155) |Income Tax – Subtraction Modification – Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief
|B&T |2/22 | |SB 596 2014 |0 |Allows a subtraction modification under the MD income tax for income from the discharge of indebtedness related to acquiring, constructing, substantially improving, or refinancing a principal residence; provides that the subtraction does not apply to more than $100,000 for an individual and $200,000 for a married couple filing jointly or specified individuals; applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2016, but before 1/1/ 2019 | |SB 376
Norman
(HB 595 |Mortgages and Deeds of Trust – Certification Requirement For Recordation – Repeal
|JP |2/9 | | |0 |Repeals the requirement that a mortgage or deed of trust bear a specified attorney certification or a certification that the instrument was prepared by a specified party in order to be recorded; and makes a stylistic change. | |SB 386
Nathan–Pulliam, et al |Pollinator Habitat Plans – Plan Contents – Requirement and Prohibition
|EHE |2/7 |FAV
w/amends
Laid Over | |0 |Requires a pollinator habitat plan established by Department of Natural Resources, the Maryland Environmental Service, and the State Highway Administration be as protective of pollinators as the Department of Agriculture’s managed pollinator protection plan; prohibits use of specified pesticides, seeds, or plants in the pollinator habitat plan. | |SB 392
Hershey
|Credit Regulation – Revolving and Closed End Credit Loans – Elimination of Duplicative Disclosures |F |2/9 |2nd Reading Pass
w/amends | |0 |Provides that disclosure provided by a lender to a borrower in compliance with a specified federal law shall satisfy specified disclosure requirements under provisions of law governing revolving credit and closed end credit loans secured by a first mortgage or first deed of trust on residential real property | |SB 421
Peters, et al
(HB 583) |Counties – Historic Preservation – Development Limitation
|EHE |3/7 | | |-3 |Does not allow “improvements” to real property abutting or adjacent to properties continuously occupied by a religious institution since the “18th century” unless there is a 600 foot buffer, all capital projects in the consolidated transportation plan are complete, SHA and municipality approve the project, the owner covenants to allow bells to ring in perpetuity and owner covenants to pay for any improvements necessary to religious property as a result of owner’s development | |SB 440
Conway and Salling
HB 557
|Environment – Water Management – Sediment Control
at Large Redevelopment Sites
|EHE |2/14 |2nd Reading Pass
w/amends | |+1 |Applies to sites larger than 100 acres and is or was used as an industrial site where there is application for voluntary cleanup/remediation. Requires department of environment approval of sediment control plan instead of local SCD and requires criteria for sediment control of large redev sites to be determined by the Department | |SB 461
Conway
(Request – Baltimore City Administration)
(HB 405)
|Plumbing and Heating, Ventilation, Air–Conditioning, and Refrigeration Inspectors – Qualifications |EHE |2/16 |UNFAV
Withdrawn | |0 |Provides an exception to the authority of a county or local government to employ only plumbing inspectors who hold a master plumbing license issued by specified entities; authorizes a county or local government to hire plumbing inspectors who obtain certification by the International Code Council as a mechanical inspector within 6 months of being hired; provides that plumbing and HVAC inspectors must have at least 5 years of experience before being appointed or employed
| |SB 472
Young, et al
(HB 656)
|Environment – Municipal Stormwater Charges –
Property Subject to Charges
|EHE and B&T |2/14
EHE | | |0 |Allows for stormwater fees to be charged to state and local government property, colleges, universities, public schools if the municipality has a stormwater fee AND the fee applies to municipal properties (probably for MoCo?)
| |SB 529
Benson
|Condominiums – Delinquent Owners – Restrictions on Common Element Usage
|JP |2/16 | | |0 |Authorizes a council of unit owners to enact bylaws prohibiting or restricting the use of common elements by a unit owner who is delinquent in payment of assessments under specified circumstances; provides requirements for bylaws implementing a prohibition or restriction on the use of specified common elements by specified delinquent owners
| |SB 530
Benson
|Real Property – Regulation of Common Ownership Community Managers
|JP |2/16 | | |-1 |Creates the State Board of Common Ownership Community Managers in the Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation; provides for the composition of the Board, etc; provides that the Act does not prohibit specified persons from providing services under specified circumstances; requires an individual to be issued a license by the Board before providing management services for a common ownership community under specified circumstances | |SB 550
Hough
|Frederick County - Ethics Requirements and Campaign Activity Concerning the County Executive and County Council |EHE |2/23 | | | |Requires nonelected members of boards and commissions in Frederick County to vacate office on becoming a candidate for an elected office, as specified; prohibiting a business entity, and a lawyer or lobbyist for the business entity, that has a pending bid or application before a county board or commission from making a contribution to candidates, as specified; requires a campaign finance entity for a candidate to disclose a contribution within a specified time period | |SB 563
Madaleno et al
(HB 946) |Transportation - Highway User Revenues - Distribution to Municipalities |B&T |2/28 | | |0 |Increases contribution to Baltimore City by specified amounts | |SB 564
Madaleno, et al
(HB 942) |Transportation – Highway User Revenues – Distribution to Municipalities |B&T |2/28 | | |0 |Distributes less money to general fund and generally more money to counties and municipalities | |SB 586
King, et al |Local Infrastructure Fast Track for Maryland Act |B&T |3/7 | | |0 |Authorizes the Office of Legislative Audits to perform an audit of local governments that receive a distribution of highway user revenues; increases, over 7 fiscal years, the portion of highway user revenues that is distributed to local governments; alters the allocation of the local share of highway user revenues among Baltimore City, counties, and municipalities; requiring, if distributions to municipalities do not equal $26,400,000, that additional distributions of highway user revenues be made to specified municipalities | |SB 605
Pinsky, et al
(HB 915) |Income Tax – Carried Interest – Additional Tax |B&T |2/28 | | |-1 |Imposes a tax of 19% on the Maryland taxable income, attributable to specified investment management services, of an individual or a corporation or the distributive share of a pass–through entity; providing that the tax does not apply to investment management services if at least 80% of the specified assets consists of real estate | |SB 607
Pinsky, et al
HB 665 |Labor and Employment – Exemptions from Overtime Pay – Administrative, Executive, or Professional Capacity |F |3/2 | | |-1 |Alters the conditions under which an individual who works in a specified administrative, executive, or professional capacity qualifies for an exemption from overtime pay; requires that individuals be compensated on a salary basis at a specified rate or amount to qualify as an individual who is employed in an administrative, executive, or professional capacity | |SB 626
Benson
(HB1511)
|Prevailing Wage Rates – Public Work Contracts – Suits by Employees |F |3/2 | | |0 |Authorizes employees to file an action if the employee is paid less than the prevailing wage rate for a public works contract allows for treble damages. Not clear if this applies to any public works contracts or only those which are supposed to be prevailing wage | |SB 670
Kelley, et al
HB 676 |Condominiums – Unenforceability of Certain Provisions of Governing Documents |JP |2/28 | |SB02502016 |-2 |Makes unenforceable provisions of specified condominium governing documents relating to asserting claims; applying the Act prospectively | |SB 699
Rosapepe, et al
HB 467 |Providing Our Workers Education and Readiness (Power) – Apprenticeship Act
|F and B&T |3/9 F | |SB0457 2016
|-1 |Requires a contractor or subcontractor awarded a $500k or more contract for a capital project funded with at least 1 million in State dollars to register with an apprenticeship program and use apprentices from, an apprenticeship program that is registered with MD DLLR or U.S. Department of Labor, or requires the contractor or subcontractor to make payments to the State Apprenticeship Training Fund or to specified apprenticeship program (of no more than $.25 an hour)
| |SB 719
Eckardt
(HB 779)
|Conserving Working Waterfront Farms Act of 2017
|EHE |2/21 | | |-1 |Alters the contents of the criteria developed by the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation for counties to consider when determining whether a property qualifies for the Critical Farms Program to include other benefits attributable to wildlife habitat enhancement and shoreline and water quality protection; makes criteria more flexible | |SB 722
Conway
(HB 1311) |Public Safety - Light Frame Combustible Construction - Requirements |EHE |2/21 | | |-3 |Requires DHCD, by 10/1/ 2018, to adopt by regulation a statewide building code relating to buildings constructed with or being constructed by specified light frame combustible construction; establishes requirements for the construction of specified buildings; prohibits a construction project using a specified type of construction from proceeding unless a fire watch warden is present; establishing qualifications and responsibilities | |SB 728
Smith, et al
(HB0172) |Home Act of 2017 |JP |2/28 | |HB 759
2016 |-1 |The Act seeks to deconcentrate poverty by providing additional opportunities for tenants utilizing public subsidies to live in neighborhoods other than the neighborhoods in which those individuals are currently and disproportionately residing; expands the housing policy of the State regarding the provision of fair housing to include providing for fair housing regardless of source of income; prohibits specified discriminatory acts based on a person’s source of income | |SB 753
Guzzone |Tax Sales – Foreclosure of Right of Redemption – Naming of Defendants |B&T |2/28 | | |0 |Establishes requirements for naming of the defendants in an action to foreclose the right of redemption on property sold at a tax sale if the defendant is deceased or believed to be deceased; and establishing requirements for filing a specified affidavit in an action to foreclose the right of redemption on property sold at a tax sale. | |SB 759
Guzzone |Property Tax – Credit for Accessibility Design Features – Newly Constructed Apartment Buildings |B&T |3/9 | | |+2 |Expands a property tax credit authorized against the county or municipal corporation property tax for residential real property equipped with an accessibility feature to include newly constructed apartment buildings; authorizes the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county or municipal corporation to define, by law, specified accessibility or universal design features that qualify for the credit. Does not include age restricted housing | |SB 769
Manno
(HB 338) |Property Tax – Renters’ Property Tax Relief Program – Assets |B&T |3/7 | | |0 |Excludes the cash value of qualified retirement savings plans or individual retirement accounts from the definition of “assets” for purposes of renters’ property tax relief; and applies the Act to all calendar years beginning after December 31, 2016 | |SB 796
Edwards, et al |Economic Development – County Economic Development Tax Incentives Program and One Maryland Tax Credit |B&T |3/7 | | |0 |Establishes the County Economic Development Tax Incentives Program to encourage businesses to locate and expand in specified counties of the State (distressed counties); provides that after a business is designated as a qualified business, the business is eligible for a specified State property tax exemption, income tax subtraction modification, and sales and use tax exemption; authorizes a county and municipal corporation to provide an exemption from the county and municipal corporation property tax; | |SB 805
Young
|Frederick County - Ethics - Prohibited Contributions to Planning Commission Members |EHE |2/23 | | | |Prohibits a specified applicant from making a contribution to a member of the Planning Commission in Frederick County who is a candidate for Frederick County Council or Frederick County Executive during a specified period of time; prohibits a specified member of the Planning Commission from voting or participating in the proceedings on a specified application if the member, the treasurer, or the political committee of the member received a contribution from a specified applicant | |SB 809
Muse, et al
(HB1369) |Condominiums and Homeowners Associations – Sales of Common Elements and Common Areas |JP |2/28 | | |0 |Requires the governing body of a condominium to provide a written notice no less than 30 days before the sale of any common element in the condominium; requires the governing body of a homeowners association to provide notice before the sale of any common area owned by the homeowners association; requires that when a tax lien is imposed on specified properties, the governing body imposing the lien must notify each member of the condominium association or homeowner’s association | |SB 812
Madaleno, et al
(HB 1514) |Housing and Community Development – Community Development Program Act |B&T |3/8 | |SB08362016 |-2 |Establishes the Community Development Program in DHCD; establishes the Community Development Board and the Community Development Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; specifying the purpose of the Fund; provides for the imposition of a community development transfer fee on residential and commercial property under specified circumstances ranging from $50-$250 based on cost of the transfer (1st time buyers exempt). Last year tax was .5% of transfer cost | |SB 852
Ready
(HB 203) |Maryland Accessibility Code – Applicability |EHE |3/2 | | |-3
(amend) |Clarifies that the Maryland Accessibility Code applies to new construction, a renovation, a reconstruction of an existing building, and a specified change of use. Would cover residential less than four stories. | |SB 855
Madaleno, et al |Main Street Fairness Act of 2017 |B&T |3/8 | | |0 |Alters the definition of "engage in the business of an out-of-state vendor", for purposes of establishing nexus under the sales and use tax law, to include vendors who sell or deliver, during the preceding four quarterly periods, tangible personal property or taxable services to customers in the State if the cumulative gross receipts are greater than $10,000 or the sales or deliveries are made in at least 200 separate transactions. Not our issue | |SB 867
Klausmeier, et al
(HB 1476) |Workers' Compensation - Failure to Report Accident or Action to Deter or Dissuade from Filing a Claim - Penalties |F |2/21 at 1:30 p.m. | | |0 |Alters the penalties imposed on an employer who fails to report an accidental personal injury within the time required under the workers' compensation law; provides that an employer who takes an action to deter or dissuade a covered employee from filing a specified claim application form is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to penalties; requires an employer to pay to a covered employee a specified amount of compensation or benefits under specified circumstances | |SB 870
Mathias, et al
(HB 466) |Prevailing Wage – Tax Increment Financing Developments – Application
|F |3/16 | | |-3 |Alters the prevailing wage law to apply to structures or works constructed with bond proceeds in tax increment financing development districts and applying the Act only to a contract executed on or after July 1, 2017 | |SB 875
Kelley
(HB 1048) |Residential Property - Notice of Foreclosure
|JP |2/28 | | |0 |Requires a person authorized to sell residential property subject to foreclosure to file a notice of foreclosure with DLLR; establishes that a notice of foreclosure may be filed through the Foreclosed Property Registry and that the notice of foreclosure contain specified information. Creates a state foreclosure registry and repeals any local registries | |SB 896
Astle and Middleton
HB 1438 |Natural Resources - Program Open Space - Use of Local Funds |EHE |2/28 | | |0 |Allows 100% of funds for acquisition; alters the required contents of a local land preservation and recreation plan; | |SB 915
Guzzone
(HB 592) |Real Property Tax - Assessment Appeals Process |B&T |3/8 | | |0 |Requires a hearing on an appeal to a supervisor of assessments concerning the value or classification of real property to occur no later than 90 days after the Dept. of Assessments and Taxation received the appeal; allows a hearing to occur on a later date if the supervisor and the person who has appealed the value or classification. If no final valuation is given within 30 days, applicant may immediately appeal and the lesser value shall apply until the appeal is final | |SB 926
Madaleno, et al
HB 1548
|Income Tax Credit - Renewable Energy Property |B&T |3/8 | |SB08092016 |0 |This bill allows an individual or corporation to claim a State income tax credit for the qualified costs to construct or purchase renewable energy property for residential or commercial use. Subject to specified maximum amounts, the value of the credit is equal to 35% of the costs and increases to 50% if the property is located within a rural area, on a brownfields site, or within certain low-income communities. | |SB 929
Astle
(HB 959)
|Commercial Law - Consumer Protection - Door-to-Door Sales |F |3/8 | | |+3 |Recodifies, in part, the definition of "door-to-door sale" as provisions that establish the application of the Maryland Door-to-Door Sales Act; alters the transactions to which the Maryland Door-to-Door Sales Act applies | |SB 936
Smith
|Residential Property – Foreclosure Timelines and Procedures |JP |2/28 | | |0 |Alters requirements for a final loss mitigation affidavit and the timeline for filing an action to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on residential property; requires a notice of intent to foreclose to be accompanied by a loss mitigation application for specific loss mitigation programs that are applicable to a specified loan; requires an order to docket or a complaint to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on residential property to include a specified affidavit. Allows extension of mediation period from 30 to 90 days. Requires bank to provide documents for mediation and allows hearing administrator to postpone sale if mediation is not entered into in good faith | |SB 942
Manno
|Labor and Employment – Clean Energy Workforce Account – Establishment |F |3/16 | | |0 |Establishes the Clean Energy Workforce Account in the Maryland Employment Advancement Right Now Program; provides for the funding of the Account; specifies that the purpose of the Account is to provide grants on a competitive basis to provide pre–apprenticeship job training for careers in the clean energy industry; specifies the priority for grants awarded from the Account; requires that a pre–apprenticeship job training program include specified training and curriculum and a documented strategy. Not our issue | |SB 957
Eckardt
(HB 1168) |Counties and Municipalities – Land Bank Authorities |B&T and EHE |3/8 B&T | | |+1 |Alters provisions of law concerning the authority of a municipality to establish a land bank authority; makes provisions of law concerning the establishment of a land bank authority applicable to a municipality or county; authorizes two or more local governments to enter into an intergovernmental cooperation agreement. Allows local govt to quiet title or foreclose. Allows local gov’ts to transfer clean title at tax sale rather than current case with title attached to various liens | |SB 962
Madaleno, et al
(HB1416) |Labor and Employment – Payment of Minimum Wage Required (Fight For Fifteen)
|F |3/16 | | |-1 |Specifies the State minimum wage rate in effect for specified time periods based on employer size; increasing, except under specified circumstances, the State minimum wage rate based on the annual growth in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers for the Washington–Baltimore metropolitan area; requires the Board of Revenue Estimates during a specified time period to conduct an analysis; authorizes, under specified circumstances, the Governor to temporarily suspend a minimum wage rate increase | |SB 969
Feldman
HB1308 |Electricity – Construction of Overhead Transmission Lines – Condemnation Authority
|F |3/7 | | |0 |Authorizes a person to which a certificate of public convenience and necessity is issued for the construction of a specified overhead transmission line to acquire specified property or rights by condemnation subject to approval by the Public Service Commission | |SB 975
Ready
|Real Property – Agricultural Land Preservation Easements – Separate Parcels |JP | | | |0 |Establishes that, unless a deed expressly provides otherwise, the grant of an agricultural land preservation easement governing two or more separate parcels of land owned by the same grantor under separate deeds does not consolidate the parcels for any other purpose, under specified circumstances; establishes that a specified parcel of land subject to an agricultural land preservation easement may be conveyed separately without the approval of the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation | |SB 994
Rosapepe
|School Overcrowding Reduction Act of 2017 |B&T |3/8 | | |+1 |Renames the Maryland Stadium Authority to be the Maryland Construction Authority; authorizes governmental units to request assistance from the Authority regarding public school facility construction projects; establishes a design–construct–operate–maintain–finance arrangement as an alternative financing method; provides construction costs that exceed a specified amount per student are ineligible for State funding. Allows private entity to hold title to a building to be used as a school | |SB 1014
Conway
|Real Property – Expedited Wrongful Detainer Proceedings – Property for Sale or Lease |JP |2/28 | | |0 |Requires expedited proceedings in a wrongful detainer action if the property that is the subject of the action is, at the time of the complaint, advertised or listed for sale or lease by the complainant; requires that notice of a hearing on a specified complaint and appeal be served in person or posted conspicuously on the property under specified circumstances with a ruling by the court within 2 days | |SB 1022
Mathias
(HB 607)
|Real Property – Vacant and Abandoned Property – Expedited Foreclosure |Rules
Re-refer
JP |3/14
| | |0 |Authorizes a secured party to petition the circuit court for leave to immediately commence an action to foreclose the mortgage or deed of trust on specified vacant and abandoned property; authorizes a county, municipal corporation, homeowners association, or condominium to notify a secured party of any vacant and abandoned property located in the county, municipal corporation, homeowners association, or condominium in a specified manner. Must be vacant 120 days or more, vacants do not include projects undergoing construction, reno or repairs with a mortgage/deed of trust in default for 90+ days
| |SB 1065
Manno, et al |Transportation – I–270/US 15 Multi–Modal Corridor Study and West Side Mobility Study – Review and Update |Referred to F |3/22 | | |+2 |Requires specified Maryland Department of Transportation business entities to review and update the I–270/US 15 Multi–Modal Corridor Study and the West Side Mobility Study in order to ensure compliance with federal and State project development process requirements for the approval and funding of major public transportation projects; and requires that a report be submitted on or before January 1 each year to specified committees until the completion of the review and update | |SB 1077
Ramirez
(HB 994)
|Statute of Limitations – Residential Leases Signed Under Seal |Rules | | | |0 |Clarifies the time period within which a civil action on a residential lease that has been signed under seal must be filed, and declares that it is the intent of the General Assembly to clarify that an action for rent arrears under any kind of residential lease must be filed in compliance with specified provisions of law
| |SB 1096
Peters
|Corporate Income Tax – Single Sales Factor Apportionment |Rules
Reref JP | | |SB08422016 |-1 |Alters the formula used to apportion income to the State for corporations that carry on a trade or business in and out of the State; applies the Act to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2016 Rather than other formulas, a “single sales factor formula” is required. What is this? | |SB 1103
Mathias
(HB 1623) |Home Sprinkler and Fire Safety Assistance Fund |Rules
Reref EHE | | | | +2 |Establishes the Home Sprinkler and Fire Safety Assistance Fund to provide grants to offset the costs of installing a sprinkler system when purchasing a home; requires DHCD to administer the Fund; requires the State Treasurer to hold the Fund and the Comptroller to account for the Fund; specifies the contents of the Fund; and provides for the investment of money in, and expenditures from, the Fund. For homes under 2500 sqft, SFD homes, owners income must be less than or equal to that used for MD mortgage program | |SB 1115
Benson |Maryland Homeowners Association Act – Payment Plan for Fees or Charges – Written Policy |Rules
Reref JP | | | |0 |Requires a specified homeowners association to develop a written policy regarding a payment plan for specified fees or charges; requires the written policy to include any qualifications needed to participate in the payment plan and disclose the terms and conditions of the payment plan; requires the homeowners association to send by mail or electronic transmission a copy of the written policy to each lot owner within 30 days of the finalization of the written policy; and applying the Act | |SB 1116 Benson, et a
(HB 1614) |Maryland Fair Scheduling, Wages, and Benefits Act |Rules | | |2016 Sb664
|-2 |Must post work schedule for all employees 21 days before the workweek, if any change is made must post/send new schedule to all employees, for each shift change made the employer will pay employee between 1-4 hours of pay based on the extent and notification of the change, employer must offer additional work hours to those under 40 hours a week before hiring additional staff, various provisions for legal enforcement including fines, liquidated damages, rebuttable presumptions | |SB 1145
Benson
(HB 1615) |Maryland Fair Scheduling Act |Rules | | | | |Requires an employer, except under specified circumstances, to pay employees at a rate for shifts; providing that a shift trade includes when the employer transmits the shift trade offer under specified circumstances; provides that an employee has the right to decline work hours that occur during the 11 hours following the end of a shift; requires an employer to pay one–and–a–half times the employees regular rate for any hours worked during the 11 hours following the previous shift | |HB 1
Clippinger
(SB 230) |Maryland Healthy Working Families Act, |EC
|2/10
12:30 pm |FAV
w/amend
Special Order until 3/1 |2016-HB0580 |-2 |Democrat version of earned/family sick leave bill. Also filed as HB65 (Delegate Jackson) | |HB 26
Holmes
(SB 247) |Notices of Foreclosure Sale and Postponement or Cancellation |E&T |1/24
1:30pm |House Passed
Senate JP
Hearing
3/16 | |0 |Requires written notice of proposed foreclosure sale to condominium or homeowners association that, at least 30 days before proposed sale, has recorded a statement of lien against the property; within 14 days after the postponement or cancellation of a foreclosure sale requires a notice to that effect sent to the record owner. | |HB 34
Holmes |Homeowners Associations - Resale of Lot - Inspection Fees |E&T |1/24
1:30 pm
JP 3/16 |House Passed w/amends
Senate JP | |+1
w/amend |Allows up to a $100 fee an HOA may charge to a purchaser of an HOA unit for inspection of property. Sponsor will accept friendly amendment to limit bill to resales | |HB 36
Lam
(SB 302) |Plug-In Electric Drive Vehicles - Reserved Parking Spaces |E&T |1/26
2 pm | |2016-HB0839 |0 |If an electric vehicle charging station is provided, this bill requires marking of the space, allows for towing, and it will not count as an additional parking space requirement | |HB 41
Holmes |Common Ownership Communities - Statewide Registration |E&T |1/24
1:30 pm |House
Passed
Senate JP |2016-HB1061 |+2/+3 with amend |Creates an HOA and Condo Assc statewide registry that begins to apply 1 year after the condo or HOA is recorded in the land records. 2017 bill introduced includes amendments that came out of the House in 2016. Bill failed in Senate in 2016.
Sponsor will accept friendly amendment to allow the registry to be a public record | |HB 105
Chair, By request DNR |Program Open Space, Apportionment Formula |APP |1/31 | | |0 |Creates a committee to review, every 5 years, starting in 2017 to review apportionment of open space funds using current population and transfer tax revenue. Removes committee’s ability to strip unused funds and notify the local government. | |HB 107
Chair, By Request HCD |Funding for Newly Constructed Housing |E&T |1/31
2 pm | | |+1 |Allows HCD to provide funding for a “growth related” project not in a PFA where costs from building and fire code make the project difficult for “low” or “moderate” income individuals to afford the home | |HB 115
(SB 183)
Speaker, By Request DLS |Mold Remediation Licensure |EM |1/25
1:30 pm |House
Passed
Senate EHE | |0 |Extends deadline for licensure of Mold Remediation firms to be licensed by MHIC from July 1 2013 to July 1, 2019 | |HB 117
(SB 190)
Speaker, By Request DLS | Elevator Safety Review Board, Sunset Extension |EM |1/25
1:30 pm
(2/2) |House
Passed
Senate F | |0 |Extends the sunset of the Elevator Safety Review Board from 2016 to 2026 | |HB 136
Chair, By Request MD Insurance Admin. |Insurance - Public Adjusters |EM |1/26 |House Passed (amend);
Senate F | |0 |Alters provisions concerning the licensing and practice of public adjusters; alters the title that a licensed public adjuster may use; repeals requirement for specified experience before taking a specified written examination; etc...
| |HB 155
Chair, By Request Governor |Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation - Easement Termination |E&T |2/8 |House Passed
w/amends
Senate Rules | |-2 |Alters procedures for terminating an easement purchased by the MD Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation; establishes criteria to be considered by a county governing body and the Foundation for approving or denying a termination of an easement
| |HB 172
Lafferty and McIntosh
(SB 728)
|Home Act of 2017
|E&T |2/7 | |HB 759
2016 |-1 |Act seeks to deconcentrate poverty by providing additional opportunities for tenants utilizing public subsidies to live in neighborhoods other than the neighborhoods in which those individuals are currently and disproportionately residing | |HB 203
Krebs, et al 3
(SB 852) |Maryland Accessibility Code – Applicability |E&T |2/7 | | |-3
(amend) |Clarifies that the Maryland Accessibility Code applies to new construction, a renovation, a reconstruction of an existing building, and a specified change of use. Would cover residential less than four stories.
| |HB 230
Morales, et al |Subtraction Modification – First–Time Homebuyer Savings Accounts |W&M |2/8 | | |+1 |Allows a subtraction modification under MD income tax for contributions to a first–time homebuyer savings account during a taxable year and earnings on the account. For closing costs, settlement, etc up to 5k per year for 10 years (50k cap)
| |HB 238
Lafferty
|Workforce Housing Grant Program – Mandatory Funding |E&T |2/7 | | |0 |Requires the Governor to appropriate at least $4,000,000 for each of FYs 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 to the Workforce Housing Fund for projects in designated sustainable communities | |HB 248
Request DLLR |Maryland Home Improvement Commission – Special Fund And Fees
|EM |2/7 | | |-2 |Establishes the MD Home Improvement Commission Special Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund in DLLR. At the end of the year, any unspent $ over 100k reverts to general fund and any investment earnings of the fund go to general fund (both bad). Fees cannot increase more than 12.5% a year. Fees will be set yearly by regulation to cover the direct and indirect costs of the MHIC. Does away with the current initial fee of $250 per applicant and the $250 renewal fee bi-annually. Allows for penalties paid by licensees to go to the general fund rather than MHIC fund | |HB 261
Jackson, et al
|Termination of Service to Multifamily Dwelling Unit – Notification to Property Owner Property Manager
|EM |2/2 |House Passed amends
Senate F | |0 |Requires a public service company that is going to terminate electric or gas service to a customer who resides in a multifamily dwelling unit to notify the property owner or property manager of the multifamily dwelling unit before terminating service; requiring a public service company to provide the notice only to a property owner or property manager who enrolls in a specified service termination notification program | |HB 280
Malone & Kittleman
(SB 76) |Circuit Court Real Property Records Improvement Fund – Change Of Name
|EM |2/8
Canceled | | |0 |Changes the name of the Circuit Court Real Property Records Improvement Fund to the State Judiciary Technology Fund. Does not alter or raise fees
| |HB 281
Lafferty, et al
(SB 266) |On–Site Sewage Disposal Systems – Best Available Technology for Nitrogen Removal – Prohibition |E&T |2/15 | | |-3 |Prohibits a person from installing, or having installed, on property a person owns in the State in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, the Atlantic Coastal Bays watershed, or the watershed of a nitrogen–impaired body of water, an on–site sewage disposal system to service a newly constructed building, unless system utilizes nitrogen removal technology | |HB 284
Krebs, et al
|State Property Tax – Homestead Property Tax Assessment Cap Reduction
|W&M |2/16 | |HB0170
2016
HB0149
2015 |0 |Reducing from 110% to 105% the homestead property tax credit percentage for the State property tax; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after June 30, 201 | |HB 327
Miele |Residential Leases – Notice of Routine Maintenance |E&T |2/7 | | |-1 |Requires landlord of any leased residential dwelling unit to conspicuously post notice about routine maintenance to the dwelling unit at least 24 hours in advance of the routine maintenance; the notice should provide the anticipated date and time of the maintenance and a general description of the maintenance; Act does not apply to routine maintenance scheduled at the request of a tenant | |HB 338
Tarlau, et al
(SB 769) |Property Tax – Renters’ Property Tax Relief Program – Assets |W&M |2/16 | | |0 |Excludes the cash value of qualified retirement savings plans or individual retirement accounts from the definition of “assets” for purposes of renters’ property tax relief; and applies the Act to all calendar years beginning after December 31, 2016 | |HB 363
A. Miller, et al
(SB 111) |Recordation and Transfer Taxes – Exemptions – Property Conveyed from Sole Proprietorship to Limited Liability Company |W&M |2/16 | |HB00442016 |+2 |Would benefit transfer from farmer to developer in being able to pay ag transfer tax rather than higher rate tax. | |HB 376
Moon, et al |Business Entity Campaign Contributions – Prohibition |W&M |2/16 | | |-0 |Prohibiting business entities from directly making contributions to campaign finance entities. | |HB 382
Speaker by Request Admin
(SB 305) |Commonsense Paid Leave Act
|EM |2/10
12:30 pm | | |+1 |Requires specified employers to provide employees with paid time off; specified employers are eligible for a tax subtraction modification under specified circumstances; provides the method of determining whether an employer is required to provide paid time off; applies the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017; applies to firms of 50 employees or more that work over 30 hours a week, allows a tax credit for firms under 50 employees | |HB 384
Adams, et al
(SB 343) |Bay Restoration Fund – Eligible Costs – Expansion |E&T |2/15 | | |+1 |Alters the definition of “eligible costs” as it relates to projects that receive funding from the Bay Restoration Fund to include any wastewater facility upgrade to enhanced nutrient removal, as determined by MDE. | |HB 394
Speaker by Request Admin
(SB 317) |More Jobs for Marylanders Act of 2017 |W&M |2/22 | | |0 |Establishes the More Jobs for Marylanders Program within the Dept. of Commerce; business entities certified to participate in the Program are exempt from specified fees and the sales tax imposed on specified purchases; allows business entities a credit against State income and property taxes; exempts specified business entities from specified expensing and deprecation subtraction modifications. Tax incentives for new industrial businesses entering the State, probably not our issue | |HB 402
Speaker by Request Admin
(SB 307)
Emergency Bill |Repeal of the Maryland Open Transportation Investment Decision Act of 2016 (Road Kill Bill Repeal} |App and E&T |3/3
App | | |+2 |Repeals specified State transportation goals and Repeals requirements that DOT: score the extent to which specified transportation projects satisfy the goals; develop a scoring system and promulgate regulations; in accordance with the scoring system, rank major transportation projects for inclusion in the draft and final Consolidated Transportation Program | |HB 405
Anderson (Request – Baltimore City Administration)
(SB 461) |Plumbing and Heating, Ventilation, Air–Conditioning, and Refrigeration Inspectors – Qualifications
|EM |2/14 |UNFAV
Withdrawn | |0 |Provides an exception to the authority of a county or local government to employ only plumbing inspectors who hold a master plumbing license issued by specified entities; authorizes a county or local government to hire plumbing inspectors who obtain certification by the International Code Council as a mechanical inspector within 6 months of being hired; provides that plumbing and HVAC inspectors must have at least 5 years of experience before being appointed or employed | |HB 417
Speaker by Request Admin
(SB 314) |Clean Water Commerce Act Of 2017 |E&T |2/22 | | |+1 |Authorizes funds in the Bay Restoration Fund to be used for the costs associated with the purchase of nutrient credits, not to exceed $10,000,000 per year. | |HB 434
Carr
SB 62 |Backyard Gardens - Prohibition on Restrictions |E&T |2/14 | | |-3 |There are ESD and possibly utility easement problems with this language. There is probably a way to carve those out that make it acceptable but this seems to allow homeowners to turn their on-site ESD device into a garden which is bad for various reasons. | |HB 453
M. Washington, et al |Tax Sales – Water Liens |W&M |2/23 | | |0 |Prohibits a tax sale of real property solely to enforce liens for unpaid water, sewer, and sanitary system services; provides a specified exception to the prohibition on specified tax sales of real property; repeals a prohibition on specified tax sales made obsolete by the Act; the Act applies prospectively to liens attaching to real property on or after Oct. 1, 2017 | |HB 465
McCray, et al |“Earn” Apprenticeships (Expand Apprenticeship Resources Now Act)
|EM |2/21 | | |0 |Requires a contractor or subcontractor that performs work on state owned buildings or facilities to use ONLY workers that have completed or are enrolled in a specified apprenticeship program or to pay specified workers not less than a journey worker’s rate; provides that a person who violates a specified provision of law may be assessed a civil penalty and on conviction is subject to a fine not exceeding $20,000 | |HB 466
McCray, et al
(SB 870) |Prevailing Wage – Tax Increment Financing Developments – Application
|EM |2/21 | | |-3 |Alters the prevailing wage law to apply to structures or works constructed with bond proceeds in tax increment financing development districts and applying the Act only to a contract executed on or after July 1, 2017 | |HB 467
McCray, et al
SB 699 |Providing Our Workers Education and Readiness (Power) – Apprenticeship Act
|EM |2/21 | |HB0108 2016 |0 |Requires a contractor or subcontractor awarded a $500k or more contract for a capital project funded with at least 1 million in State dollars to register with an apprenticeship program and use apprentices from, an apprenticeship program that is registered with MD DLLR or U.S. Department of Labor, or requires the contractor or subcontractor to make payments to the State Apprenticeship Training Fund or to specified apprenticeship program (of no more than $.25 an hour) | |HB 468
McCray, et al |Procurement – Prevailing Wage – Application to Leased Properties |EM |2/21 | | |NAIOP Position
or 0 |Applies the prevailing wage law to specified construction contracts on property where the State or a political subdivision of the State leases 55% of the space or the property or premises is at least 20,000 sq ft | |HB 469
Sydnor |Recordation and Transfer Tax – Principal Residence Surrendered in Bankruptcy – Exemption
|W&M |2/23 | | |0 |Exempts from recordation and State and county transfer taxes specified instruments of writing that transfer specified residential real property surrendered in bankruptcy under specified circumstances. | |HB 496
Sydnor, et al
|Baltimore County – Nuisance Actions – Community Association Standing
|E&T | | | |-3 |Alters the definitions of “community association” and “nuisance” for purposes of provisions of law authorizing community associations to seek judicial relief for nuisance abatement in Baltimore County; repeals a provision of law requiring a court to determine in what amount and under what conditions a bond must be filed by a community association in a nuisance action | |HB 500
Kramer, et al |Rental Units, Condominiums, and Homeowners Associations – Smoking Restrictions |E&T |2/14 |UNFAV | |0 |Allows written leases for residential real property to include restrictions or prohibitions on smoking tobacco products in the dwelling unit or elsewhere on the premises; allows the bylaws or regulations of a condominium to contain restrictions or prohibitions on smoking tobacco products; authorizes a homeowners association to include in its declaration, bylaws, rules, or recorded covenants and restrictions a prohibition on smoking tobacco products in multi–unit dwellings and common areas | |HB 510
McConkey, et al |Property Tax – Assessments and Valuations of Real Property – Appeals
|W&M |2/16 | | |0 |Requires a specified appellate body, with respect to an appeal concerning an assessment or a valuation of real property, to examine whether and to ensure that the assessment or valuation adhered to generally accepted appraisal methods and techniques. What is the purpose of this? | |HB 525
Sydnor |Maryland Mortgage Lender Law – Mortgage Lender – Definition
|EM |2/15 | | |0 |Alters the definition of “mortgage lender” under the Maryland Mortgage Lender Law to include a specified assignee or successor of a person who makes a mortgage loan to any person and acquires the mortgage loan when the mortgage is in default and to exclude a specified licensee. States that a “mortgage lender does not include” a collections agency | |HB 537
Parrott, et al
|On–Site Sewage Disposal Systems and Funding for Wastewater Treatment Facilities and Sewerage Systems |E&T |3/1 | | |+1 |Authorizes a person to install, replace, or have installed or replaced a specified on–site sewage disposal system that does not utilize specified nitrogen removal technology on specified property located outside the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Critical Area; requires the Department of the Environment or the local approving authority to impose a fee of $200 for a residential on–site sewage disposal system and $100 per 1,000 square feet for a non–residential building on–site sewage disposal system. Allows money from non BAT systems to be used for wastewater treatment plant, pipe and other upgrades and repairs | |HB 552
Parrott,et al |Transportation - Motor Fuel Tax and Highway User Revenue - Increased Local Share |E&T |2/23 | |HB13882016
Did not track in 2016 at all |0 |Allocates motor fuel tax revenue to an account that is shared with local governments; increases the portion of highway user revenue that is distributed to local governments; alters the allocation of the local share of highway user revenue; proposes an amendment to the MD Constitution mandating that revenue be credited to a specified account and distributed from that account in a specified manner; submits the amendment to the qualified voters of the State for their adoption or rejection | |HB 557
Stein, et al
(SB 440)
|Environment – Water Management – Sediment Control at Large Redevelopment Sites |E&T |2/22 | | |+1 |Prohibits a county or municipality from issuing a grading or building permit until the developer submits a grading and sediment control plan approved by the Department of the Environment if the property that is the subject of the permit is, or is included in, a large redevelopment site; requires the Department to determine specified criteria for large redevelopment sites; provides that the Department is the approval authority for large redevelopment sites; and defines the term “large redevelopment site”. | |HB 583
Valentino–Smith and Holmes
(SB 421) |Counties – Historic Preservation – Development Limitation |E&T |2/14
cancelled | | |-3 |Provides that improvements to real property that is adjacent to or abuts religious property in charter or code home rule counties may be authorized only if specified conditions are met, including provision for buffers, improvements, approvals, covenants, and financial responsibilities; and applying the Act. | |HB 595
McMillan, et al
(SB 376) |Mortgages and Deeds of Trust – Certification Requirement For Recordation – Repeal |E&T |2/14 | | | 0 |Repeals the requirement that a mortgage or deed of trust bear a specified attorney certification or a certification that the instrument was prepared by a specified party in order to be recorded; and makes a stylistic change | |HB 592
M. Washington
(SB 915) |Real Property Tax - Assessment Appeals Process |W&M |2/23 | | |0 |Requires a hearing on an appeal to a supervisor of assessments concerning the value or classification of real property to occur no later than 90 days after the Dept. of Assessments and Taxation received the appeal; allows a hearing to occur on a later date if the supervisor and the person who has appealed the value or classification | |HB 599
Healey, et al
(SB 365) |Forest Conservation Act – Exemption, Reforestation Rate, and Forest Conservation Fund – Alterations |E&T |2/22 | | |-3 |Alters the FCA exemption for the cutting or clearing of public utility rights–of–way or land for electric generating stations; increases acreage planted to meet the reforestation requirement; and authorizes an increase in in lieu rate | |HB 607
Parrott, et al
(SB 1022) |Real Property – Vacant and Abandoned Property – Expedited Foreclosure |E&T |2/14 | | |0 |Authorizes a secured party to petition the circuit court for leave to immediately commence an action to foreclose the mortgage or deed of trust on specified vacant and abandoned property; authorizes a county, municipal corporation, homeowners association, or condominium to notify a secured party of any vacant and abandoned property located in the county, municipal corporation, homeowners association, or condominium in a specified manner | |HB 615
Healey, et al
SB 357 |Business Relief and Tax Fairness Act of 2017 |W&M |2/22 | |HB08122016 |-1 |Prohibits the State Department of Assessments and Taxation from imposing a fee for the filing of specified documents by corporations or business entities with 10 or fewer employees; requiring specified corporations to compute Maryland taxable income using a specified combined reporting method; requiring, subject to specified regulations, specified groups of corporations to file a combined income tax return reflecting the aggregate income tax liability of all the members of the group | |HB 617
Healey
SB 29 |Forest Conservation Act – Forest Conservation Thresholds and Reforestation Requirements |E&T |2/22 | | |-1 |Clarifies that units of local government with planning and zoning authority may adopt forest conservation thresholds and reforestation requirements that are more stringent than forest conservation thresholds and reforestation requirements in State law | |HB 644
Luedtke, et al
(SB 180)
|Independent Living Tax Credit Act
|W&M |2/22 | |HB 371
2016 |+3 |Allows an individual or a corporation a credit against the State income tax equal to 50% of the renovation or construction costs incurred during the taxable year to provide specified accessibility and visitability features to or within a home; provides that the credit may not exceed $5,000; requires applicants to file an application before a specified date and to file an amended return; applies the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017 | |HB 651
Holmes
|Real Property – Condominiums and Homeowners Associations – Reserve Studies – Annual Budgets
|E&T |2/14 |2ND Reading Pass
w/amends | |-1
(amend) |Requires the governing body of specified condominiums to have a reserve study conducted of the common elements of the condominium by a specified date and at specified intervals; requires the reserve study to meet specified criteria; alters the content of the annual budget of specified homeowners associations; requires the governing body of specified homeowners associations to have a reserve study conducted of the common areas of the homeowners association by a specified date and at specified intervals
| |HB 652
McCray, et al
(SB 335)
|Career Apprenticeship Opportunity Act of 2017
|W&M and EM |2/28
W&M | | |+2 |Requires the Board of Education to develop, on or before December 1, 2017, goals for percentages of high school graduates for completing specified career and technical education programs and earning credentials, to develop a method to consider a student’s attainment of credential or completion of apprenticeship program as equivalent to a specified Advanced Placement examination score | |HB 656
Barve, et al
(SB 472)
|Environment – Municipal Stormwater Charges –
Property Subject to Charges
|E&T |2/15 | | |0 |Allows for stormwater fees to be charged to state and local government property, colleges, universities, public schools if the municipality has a stormwater fee AND the fee applies to municipal properties (probably for MoCo?) | |HB 665
Tarlau, et al
(SB 607) |Labor and Employment – Exemptions from Overtime Pay – Administrative, Executive, or Professional Capacity
|EM |2/21 | | |-1 |Alters the conditions under which an individual who works in a specified administrative, executive, or professional capacity qualifies for an exemption from overtime pay; requires that individuals be compensated on a salary basis at a specified rate or amount to qualify as an individual who is employed in an administrative, executive, or professional capacity | |HB 674
Lafferty and Cassilly
(SB 168) |Maryland Paint Stewardship Program |E&T and EM |2/15
E&T | |HB03322016 |-2 |This measure requires the Office of Recycling of the Maryland Department of Environment (MDE) to establish a paint recycling program. Builders and remodelers use architectural coatings in most of their construction and home improvement projects and anticipate that the requirements of this legislation would increase the cost of purchasing these materials | |HB 676
Holmes
(SB 670)
|Condominiums – Unenforceability of Certain Provisions of Governing Documents |E&T |2/14 | |HB1170 2016
|-2 |Makes unenforceable provisions of specified condominium governing documents relating to asserting claims; applying the Act prospectively | |HB 691
Atterbeary, et al
|Corporations and Associations – Annual Reports – Filing Fees (Filing Fee Fairness Act of 2017)
|EM |2/22 | | |-2 |Alters the fee that business entities must pay for filing an annual report with the State Department of Assessments and Taxation; and applying the Act prospectively | |HB 699
Lam, et al
(SB 301)
|Real Property – Installation and Use of Electric Vehicle Recharging Equipment |E&T |2/21 |UNFAV
Withdrawn |SB01682016
SB0762
2015 |-1 |Provides that specified provisions of a recorded covenant or restriction, a declaration, or the bylaws or rules of a condominium or homeowners association are void and unenforceable; establishes requirements and procedures relating to an application to the condominium or homeowners association to install or use electric vehicle recharging equipment; requiring owners of electric vehicle recharging equipment to be responsible for specified costs and disclosures | |HB 779
Mautz
(SB 719) |Conserving Working Waterfront Farms Act of 2017
|E&T |2/22 | | |-1 |Alters the contents of the criteria developed by the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation for counties to consider when determining whether a property qualifies for the Critical Farms Program to include other benefits attributable to wildlife habitat enhancement and shoreline and water quality protection; and requires the State Department of Agriculture to report to specified committees of the General Assembly on or before December 1, 2017, on its efforts to encourage easement purchases on working waterfront farms | |HB 789
Cullison
|Condominiums and Homeowners Associations – Amendment of Governing Documents
|E&T |2/21 | | |0 |Lowers threshold from 2/3 to 55% of unit owners to amend governing documents but members must be in “good standing” to vote meaning they cannot be in arrears on payments more than 90 or in violation of governing docs and given prior notice | |HB 810
Request by DLLR |Apprenticeships – Apprenticeship and Training Council – Revisions
|EM |2/28 | | |0 |Requires the Division of Workforce Development and Adult Learning to adopt regulations to carry out provisions of law; provides that the Division is the designated State Apprenticeship Agency under provisions of federal law; alters the duties of the Apprenticeship and Training Council; prohibits persons from taking actions regarding apprenticeship programs for specified occupations unless the program is first approved by the Division, rather than the Council. Not our issue | |HB 830
Healey and Frush
SB 386 |Pollinator Habitat Plans – Plan Contents – Requirement and Prohibition
|E&T |2/22 | | |0 |Requires a pollinator habitat plan established by Department of Natural Resources, the Maryland Environmental Service, and the State Highway Administration be as protective of pollinators as the Department of Agriculture’s managed pollinator protection plan; prohibits use of specified pesticides, seeds, or plants in the pollinator habitat | |HB 872
Chair, Ways and Means by Request Commerce Dept. |Tax Credits – Enterprise Zones, Rise Zones, and Maryland Jobs Development Projects |W&M |3/1 | | |0 |Changes enterprise zones designations from 10 to 5 years. Removes the ability to get the Enterprise zone credit AND the enterprise zone employment credit. To get the credit an entity will have to make capital investment but not meet the creating new jobs criteria. RISE zones will get the property tax credit and can also get the MD Jobs Dev credit which is newly created for “high impact economic dev project[s]” as designated by Commerce Dept. Cannot combine this credit with enterprise or one MD credits. Credits are stronger for less populated, less wealthy jurisdictions (75k or less employees making 2/3 median income on average)
| |HB 915
Tarlau, et al
(SB 605) |Income Tax – Carried Interest – Additional Tax |W&M |3/1 | | |-1 |Imposes a tax of 19% on the Maryland taxable income, attributable to specified investment management services, of an individual or a corporation or the distributive share of a pass–through entity; providing that the tax does not apply to investment management services if at least 80% of the specified assets consists of real estate | |HB 942
Anderton, et al
(SB 564) |Transportation – Highway User Revenues – Distribution to Municipalities |E&T |3/2 | | |0 |Alters the percentages of highway user revenues that are required to be distributed to Baltimore City and municipalities in specified fiscal years; alters the percentages in specified fiscal years of highway user revenues that are required to be used as authorized under the Transportation Trust Fund; repeals obsolete distributions and transfers of highway user revenues for specified fiscal years | |HB 946
Anderton, et al
(SB 563) |Transportation - Highway User Revenues - Distribution to Municipalities |E&T |3/2 | | |0 |Alters the authorized uses of highway user revenues; requires that additional distributions of highway user revenues be made in specified fiscal years to Baltimore City and, under specified circumstances, municipalities; requires that additional distributions of highway user revenues be allocated among municipalities; repeals obsolete distributions and transfers of highway user revenues for specified fiscal years | |HB 954
Holmes
|Foreclosed Property Registry – Updated Information – Notice to Local Governments
|E&T |2/21 |2nd Reading Pass w/amends | |0 |Requires DLLR to establish procedures that require a foreclosure purchaser to send to the Department any updates to the information about or relating to the foreclosure purchaser that was submitted in the initial registration of a residential property with the Foreclosed Property Registry; and requires DLLR, for each registered residential property, to send to specified local governments a copy of the initial registration and any specified updates | |HB 959
Kramer
(SB 929)
|Commercial Law - Consumer Protection - Door-to-Door Sales |EM |3/1 | | |+3 |Recodifies, in part, the definition of "door-to-door sale" as provisions that establish the application of the Maryland Door-to-Door Sales Act; alters the transactions to which the Maryland Door-to-Door Sales Act applies | |HB 970
Fraser–Hidalgo, et al
|Real Property – New Home Sales – Information on Energy–Efficient Options |E&T |2/21 | | |+3 |Requires, for a development with 11 or more homes to be built by the same builder, a home builder to provide a purchaser with written information on energy–efficient options available for a new home; and requires a contract for the initial sale of a new home to contain an acknowledgment that the purchaser was informed about specified energy–efficient options for the new home | |HB 994
Waldstreicher,
et al
SB 1077
Ramirez |Statute of Limitations – Residential Leases Signed Under Seal |E&T |2/21 | |HB0971
2016
Did not track in 2016 |0 |Clarifies the time period within which a civil action on a residential lease that has been signed under seal must be filed, and declares that it is the intent of the General Assembly to clarify that an action for rent arrears under any kind of residential lease must be filed in compliance with specified provisions of law | |HB 1045
Cassilly
|On–Site Sewage Disposal Systems – Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) Technology – Regulations |E&T |2/24 | | |-2 |Requires the Department of the Environment, on or before October 1, 2018, and for a specified purpose, to adopt regulations that update specified evaluation criteria and increase a specified hydraulic loading rate. This bill does not appear to be placed into any article or section or create any new language or remove old language? | |HB 1046
Holmes
|Residential Property – Foreclosure Process – Filing Requirements – Mediation Procedures |E&T |2/28 | | |0 |Foreclosure filings can begin 120 days after default rather than 90. Allows for prehearing conferences scheduled by admin hearings officer | |HB 1048
Holmes
(SB 875) |Residential Property - Notice of Foreclosure
|E&T |2/28 | | |0 |Requires a person authorized to sell residential property subject to foreclosure to file a notice of foreclosure with the DLLR under certain circumstances; establishes that a notice of foreclosure may be filed through the Foreclosed Property Registry; establishes that the notice of foreclosure contain specified information | |HB 1058
W. Miller |Business Regulation – Home Improvement Retailers – Home Improvement Contracts
|EM |2/28 | | |0 |Authorizes a retailer who sells home improvement goods to obtain the full contract price of a home improvement contract under specified circumstances; requires a home improvement retailer to post an irrevocable letter of credit, payable to the Consumer Protection Division in the Office of the Attorney General, in the amount of $100,000 per retail store but not to exceed $2,000,000 for a home improvement retailer with multiple stores. What does this bill do? “owner” is undefined | |HB 1062
W. Miller
|Business Occupations And Professions – Professional Engineers And Professional Land Surveyors – Revisions And Repeal Of Firm Permits |EM |2/28 | | |+1 |Specifies that professional engineers, professional land surveyors, and licensed property line surveyors must be employees, owners, directors, officers, members, or partners of the entity through which the services are provided, and repeals provisions of law relating to permits for corporations, partnerships, or limited liability companies to operate a business through which engineering or land surveying is practiced | |HB 1063
Stein, et al
|Agriculture – Maryland Healthy Soils Program |E&T |2/22 | | |0 |Establishes the Maryland Healthy Soils Program for specified purposes; requires the Department of Agriculture to provide incentives, including research, education, technical assistance, and, subject to available funding, financial assistance, to farmers to implement farm management practices that contribute to healthy soils; and requires the Department to determine whether the Program may be implemented in a manner to enhance other specified programs | |HB 1118
Lafferty |Natural Resources – Roadside Trees – Preservation and Protection |E&T |3/1 | | |-2 |Creates policy to preserve and protect roadside trees. Requires DNR to create regs on roadside trees, notice in the event of remediation of roadside trees causing hazard. Except as otherwise provided a person cannot maintain, remove or injure a roadside tree. Dept may issue permits to maintain or remove trees. Tree may NOT be removed to improve aesthetics or for convenience of adjacent property owner, only for health and safety reasons. If a tree is removed, it must be replaced in a location determined by the department, | |HB 1146
McCray, et al
|Labor and Employment – General Contractor Liability for Nonpayment Of Wages |EM |3/7 | | |-3 |Provides that general contractors are jointly and severally liable for violations of the wage payment and collection law by their subcontractors and the subcontractors’ subcontractors | |HB 1155
Hixson, et al
(SB 367)
|Income Tax – Subtraction Modification – Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief |W&M |3/8 | |HB0923 2014 |0 |Allows a subtraction modification under the MD income tax for income from the discharge of indebtedness related to acquiring, constructing, substantially improving, or refinancing a principal residence; provides that the subtraction does not apply to more than $100,000 for an individual and $200,000 for a married couple filing jointly or specified individuals; applies to taxable years beginning after 12/31/2016, but before 1/1/ 2019 | |HB 1156
Stein
|Residential Property – Foreclosed Property Registry – Notice of Registration |E&T |2/28 | | |0 |Authorizes a homeowners association or condominium council of unit owners to file with DLLR a request for notice of an initial registration in the Foreclosed Property Registry; requires DLLR to maintain a current list of specified requests for notice and to promptly send specified written notice after receiving an initial registration in the Registry to a homeowners association or condominium | |HB 1168
Holmes
(SB 957) |Counties and Municipalities – Land Bank Authorities |E&T |2/28 | | |+1 |Alters provisions of law concerning the authority of a municipality to establish a land bank authority; makes provisions of law concerning the establishment of a land bank authority applicable to a municipality or county; authorizes two or more local governments to enter into an intergovernmental cooperation agreement. Allows local govt to quiet title or foreclose. Allows local gov’ts to transfer clean title at tax sale rather than current case with title attached to various liens | |HB 1174
Jackson, et al
(SB 254) |Subtraction Modification – Perpetual Conservation Easements |W&M |3/8 | | |0 |Provides a subtraction modification under MD income tax for the first $250,000 in proceeds from the sale of a perpetual conservation easement on real property in the State. | |HB 1184
Malone, et al |Corporations and Associations – Filing Fees – Reductions |EM |3/8 | |HB04572016
MBIA was a +1 |+1 |Lowers corporate annual report filing fees to from $300 to $100 over a period of 4 years | |HB 1189
Adams
|Prevailing Wage – Basis for Rate Determination – Survey Data |EM |3/14 | |HB0609 2016
MBIA was a 0 |+1 |Prohibits the Commissioner of Labor and Industry from considering voluntarily reported wage data for projects covered by prevailing wage law. | |HB 1190
Adams, et al
|Corporations and Associations – Annual Reports – Fees |EM |3/8 | | |+1 |Creates a tiered system of annual reporting fees from $0 to $300 based on gross receipts in the year. Highest level is $200k in sales and receipts | |HB 1192
Davis
|Real Property – Regulation Of Common Ownership Community Managers |EM |3/1 | |HB0576 2013 |+1 w/
Amend |Creates the State Board of Common Ownership Community Managers in DLLR; provides for the composition of the Board and appointment, terms, and expenses of the Board members; providing that the Act does not prohibit specified persons from providing services under specified circumstances; requires an individual to be issued a license by the Board before providing management services for a common ownership community | |HB 1193
Holmes
|Real Property – Regulation of Common Ownership Community Managers |EM |3/1 | |HB0010 2014 |+1 w/
Amend |Creates the State Board of Common Ownership Community Managers in DLLR; provides for the composition of the Board and appointment, terms, and expenses of Board members; provides that the Act does not prohibit specified persons from providing services under specified circumstances; requiring an individual to be issued a license by the Board before providing management services for a common ownership community | |HB 1226
C. Wilson
(SB 177) |Elevator Inspections - Testing |EM |3/6 | | |-1 |Potential multifamily impacts; requires test be performed by a licensed elevator mechanic and with State inspector or third-party qualified inspector to be physically present at test | |HB 1260 McMillan |Annual Reports and Personal Property Reports – Fees, Exemption, and Affidavit |EM |3/8 | | |0 |If the entity did not own personal property in previous year, fee is $100. If entity did not owe property tax in previous year, the fee is waived and entity is not required to file | |HB1308
Feldman
SB 969)
|Electricity – Construction of Overhead Transmission Lines – Condemnation Authority |EM |3/9 | | |0 |Authorizes a person to which a certificate of public convenience and necessity is issued for the construction of a specified overhead transmission line to acquire specified property or rights by condemnation subject to approval by the Public Service Commission | |HB 1311
McCray
(SB 722) |Public Safety - Light Frame Combustible Construction - Requirements |E&T |3/7
Cancelled;
3/14 | | |-3 |Requires DHCD, by 10/1/ 2018, to adopt by regulation a statewide building code relating to buildings constructed with or being constructed by specified light frame combustible construction; establishes requirements for the construction of specified buildings; prohibits a construction project using a specified type of construction from proceeding unless a fire watch warden is present; establishing qualifications and responsibilities | |HB 1345
A. Washington |National Capital Strategic Economic Development Fund |E&T |2/28 | | |0 |Establishes the National Capital Strategic Economic Development Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to provide grants to assist in predevelopment activities, for revitalization projects in the State; requires DHCD to administer the Fund; requires the State Treasurer to hold the Fund and the Comptroller to account for the Fund; specifies the contents of the Fund; specifies eligibility criteria for awarding grants from the Fund. This bill requires a mandated appropriation in the annual budget bill. Can only be used by counties and CDCs, not private developers. Not our issue | |HB 1352
Rose, et al |On–Site Sewage Disposal – Historic and Culturally Significant Properties – Regulations |E&T |3/1 | | |0 |Requires the Department of the Environment, on or before December 31, 2017, to adopt regulations providing for the correction of failing on–site sewage disposal systems located on historic and culturally significant properties; and requires the regulations to be designed to facilitate the use and preservation of, and to accommodate specified characteristics associated with, historic and culturally significant properties | |HB 1355
Rose,
et al |Sewerage Systems - Residential Major Subdivisions in Tier III and Tier IV Areas |E&T |3/1 | | |+1 |Authorizes a local jurisdiction to authorizing a residential major subdivision served by on–site sewage disposal systems, community sewerage systems, or shared systems in Tier III and Tier IV areas under specified circumstances; exempts specified residential major subdivisions from specified provisions of law; and specifies that the Act does not create new development rights. Allows major subs on Tier III and IV if numerous criteria of land preservation are met or if the rights existed prior to tier mapping in 2012 | |HB1369
Proctor
(SB 809) |Condominiums and Homeowners Associations – Sales of Common Elements and Common Areas |E&T |3/7 | | |0 |Requires the governing body of a condominium to provide a written notice no less than 30 days before the sale of any common element in the condominium; requires the governing body of a homeowners association to provide notice before the sale of any common area owned by the homeowners association; requires that when a tax lien is imposed on specified properties, the governing body imposing the lien must notify each member of the condominium association or homeowner’s association | |HB 1374
Wilkins, et al |State Highway Administration Neighbor Notification Act |E&T |3/9 | | |-1 |Requires the State Highway Administration to send a notice to nearby property owners at least 2 weeks in advance of planned construction on a State highway; requires the Administration to send the notice on behalf of persons involved in the planned construction; requires the notice to include specified information; requires the Administration to send another notice to nearby property owners if planned construction is postponed | |HB 1406
Glass, et al |Smart Meters – Customer Rights and Required Reports |EM |3/16 | | |0 |Requires a utility company to give written notice to customers prior to deploying smart meters throughout all or a portion of the utility company’s service territory; prohibits a utility company from imposing any additional fee or charge on a customer who refuses installation of a smart meter or requests removal of a smart meter; requires the Public Service Commission and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to make reports regarding smart meters | |HB 1413
Proctor, et al |Real Property – New Residential Construction – Correction of Drainage Defect |E&T |3/7 | | |-3 |Requires a home builder to correct a drainage defect within 6 months after receiving written notice of the defect if an owner provides notice, including documentation, to the home builder within 6 months of the day the owner takes possession or the day the home builder completes specified grading or landscaping work. Limited to “custom homes” and mobile homes but custom homes definition is any home constructed for a homeowner on land previously owned by the builder so this is almost all homebuilders/MBIA members | |HB 1416
Waldstreicher
(SB 962) |Labor and Employment – Payment of Minimum Wage Required (Fight For Fifteen)
|EM |3/7 | | |-1 |Specifies the State minimum wage rate in effect for specified time periods based on employer size; increasing, except under specified circumstances, the State minimum wage rate based on the annual growth in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers for the Washington–Baltimore metropolitan area; requires the Board of Revenue Estimates during a specified time period to conduct an analysis; authorizes, under specified circumstances, the Governor to temporarily suspend a minimum wage rate increase | |HB 1419
Glass |Gas And Electricity – Analog Meters – Purchase And Installation |EM |3/16 | | |0 |Requires the Public Service Commission to authorize a customer of a gas company or an electric company to purchase and install an analog meter; requires the meter to comply with specified standards; requires a gas company or an electric company to install the meter or allow specified persons to install the meter at the customer’s request; provides that an analog meter may replace a different type of meter; prohibits a gas company or an electric company from requiring the customer to install additional controls | |HB 1437
Proctor, et al |Foreclosed and Vacant Residential Property – Common Ownership Communities – Payment of Regular Assessments |E&T |3/7 | | |0
(reconsider) |Requires the secured party of a vacant in a common ownership community to pay the monthly assessment fee to the common ownership entity if the property is “neglected by the owner/property manager” and poses a “threat to public safety” | |HB 1438
Stein, et al
(SB 896) |Natural Resources - Program Open Space - Use of Local Funds |APP |3/7 | | |0 |Allows 100% of funds for acquisition; authorizes a; alters the required contents of a local land preservation and recreation plan; | |HB 1470
McCray |Apprenticeship and Training Council – Apprentice Ratios – Electrical Craft or Trade |EM |3/7 | | |-1 |Requires the Apprenticeship and Training Council, on or before October 1, 2018, to adopt regulations establishing a ratio of journey workers to apprentices employed in the electrical craft or trade; prohibits the Council from establishing a ratio less than a specified amount; requires an employer in the electrical craft or trade to comply with specified regulations; requires the Commissioner of Labor and Industry to investigate a specified suspected violation under specified circumstances | |HB 1476
Glenn, et al
SB 867 |Workers' Compensation - Failure to Report Accident or Action to Deter or Dissuade from Filing a Claim - Penalties |EM |3/3 | | |0 |Alters the penalties imposed on an employer who fails to report an accidental personal injury within the time required under the workers' compensation law; provides that an employer who takes an action to deter or dissuade a covered employee from filing a specified claim application form is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to penalties; requires an employer to pay to a covered employee a specified amount of compensation or benefits under specified circumstances | |HB1511
Morales, et al
SB 626 |Prevailing Wage Rates – Public Work Contracts – Suits by Employees |EM |3/14 | | |0 |Authorizes employees to file an action if the employee is paid less than the prevailing wage rate for a public works contract allows for treble damages. Not clear if this applies to any public works contracts or only those which are supposed to be prevailing wage | |HB 1514
Hixson, et al
(SB 812) |Housing and Community Development – Community Development Program Act |E&T and W&M |3/7
E&T | | |-2 |Establishes the Community Development Program in DHCD; establishes the Community Development Board and the Community Development Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; specifying the purpose of the Fund; provides for the imposition of a community development transfer fee on residential and commercial property under specified circumstances ranging from $50-$250 based on cost of the transfer (1st time buyers exempt). Last year tax was .5% of transfer cost | |HB 1515
Lafferty |Residential Property – Foreclosure Timelines and Procedures |E&T |3/7 | | |0 |Alters requirements for a specified final loss mitigation affidavit; alters the timeline for filing an action to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on residential property; requires a notice of intent to foreclose to be accompanied by a loss mitigation application for specific loss mitigation programs that are applicable to a specified loan; requires an order to docket or a complaint to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on residential property to include a specified affidavit | |HB 1548
Ebersole, et al
SB 926
|Income Tax Credit - Renewable Energy Property |Rules &
Executive Nominations | | |HB10702016 |0 |This bill allows an individual or corporation to claim a State income tax credit for the qualified costs to construct or purchase renewable energy property for residential or commercial use. Subject to specified maximum amounts, the value of the credit is equal to 35% of the costs and increases to 50% if the property is located within a rural area, on a brownfields site, or within certain low-income communities | |HB 1561
Frush
|Personal Property Tax – Exemption – Property Used in Well Construction |Rules &
Executive Nominations | | | |0 |Authorizes the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City or the governing body of a county or municipal corporation to exempt, under specified circumstances, specified personal property used in the construction of specified wells from the county or municipal corporation property tax; authorizes the governing body of a county or municipal corporation to enact specified provisions to carry out the exemption; and applying the Act to taxable years beginning after June 30, 2017 | |HB 1614
Morales, et al
(SB 1116) |Maryland Fair Scheduling, Wages, and Benefits Act |Rules &
Executive Nominations | | | |-2 |Must post work schedule for all employees 21 days before the workweek, if any change is made must post/send new schedule to all employees, for each shift change made the employer will pay employee between 1-4 hours of pay based on the extent and notification of the change, employer must offer additional work hours to those under 40 hours a week before hiring additional staff, various provisions for legal enforcement including fines, liquidated damages, rebuttable presumptions | |HB 1615
Morales, et al
(SB 1145)
|Maryland Fair Scheduling Act |Rules &
Executive Nominations | | | | |Requires an employer, except under specified circumstances, to pay employees at a rate for shifts; providing that a shift trade includes when the employer transmits the shift trade offer under specified circumstances; provides that an employee has the right to decline work hours that occur during the 11 hours following the end of a shift; requires an employer to pay one–and–a–half times the employees regular rate for any hours worked during the 11 hours following the previous shift | |HB 1623
Sample–Hughes, et al (SB 1103) |Home Sprinkler and Fire Safety Assistance Fund |Rules &
Executive Nominations | | | |+2 |Establishes the Home Sprinkler and Fire Safety Assistance Fund to provide grants to offset the costs of installing a sprinkler system when purchasing a home; requires DHCD to administer the Fund; requires the State Treasurer to hold the Fund and the Comptroller to account for the Fund; specifies the contents of the Fund; and provides for the investment of money in, and expenditures from, the Fund. For homes under 2500 sqft, SFD homes, owners income must be less than or equal to that used for MD mortgage program | |
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