HB232/SB346 - Maryland Beverage Container Recycling Refund and Litter Reduction Program
Sponsor(s): Delegate Terrasa and Senator Brooks
Description: This bill would establish the Maryland Beverage Container Recycling Refund and Litter Reduction Program, to reduce pollution by allowing beverage containers to be recycled and include the refund value of the container at the time of purchase.
HB59/SB192 Property Tax – Tax Sales – Revisions
Sponsor: Chair, Ways and Means Committee (By Request- Departmental – Housing and Community Development and the Chair, Budget, and Taxation Committee
Description: A bill that expands the protections that Baltimore City has to the rest of the state related to water and sewer bill collections, and increases the threshold for tax sale to $1,000 and provides additional protections to residents to avoid tax sale.
HB1128 - Land Bank Authorities – Powers and Authority
Sponsor: Delegate Holmes
Description: A bill that grants lank bank authorities the jurisdiction to create special funds, allocate loans or grants, enter partnerships, and allows them to conduct In Rem tax sale foreclosure actions on behalf of the jurisdiction.
HB709/SB651- Landlord and Tenant – Residential Leases and Holdover Tenancies – Local Good Cause Termination (Good Cause Eviction)
Sponsor(s): Delegate Wilkins and Senator Muse, Senator Lam,
Description: A bill that authorizes a county to adopt a local law, ordinance, or provision to prohibits some landlords from terminating a lease or to forgo renewing a lease during the lease period without a reasonable cause.
HB1348 - Consumer Protection – Solicitation Following a Disaster – Prohibition
Sponsor: Delegate Amprey
Description: A bill that prohibits a person working on behalf of a contractor or a contractor from advertising or soliciting their services to victims of a disaster within 48 hours after a disaster.
HB1006 - Immigration Enforcement - Sensitive Locations - Guidelines and Policies (Protecting Sensitive Locations Act)
Sponsored by Delegate Wilkins
Description: A bill that restricts immigration enforcement at all sensitive locations such as in schools, places of worship, and hospitals.
SB0977 - State and Local Agencies - Enforcement of Federal Immigration Law - Restrictions on Access to Information (Maryland Data Privacy Act)
Sponsored by Senator Lam
Description: A bill that restricts access to databases, facilities, buildings and information to individuals for the purpose of cooperating with immigration law enforcement.