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Senate version would keep planning-department reporting and require counties to report development impact fees and expenditures
Summary
Sen. Ron Watson's office said SB814 (cross-file of HB698) would require counties to report yearly to the Maryland Department of Planning on the collection and use of development impact fees, surcharges and excise taxes; the Senate version retains several reporting provisions not in the House bill.
Senate Bill 814, presented by Delaney Gray on behalf of Sen. Ron Watson, would require counties to submit annual reports to the Maryland Department of Planning detailing amounts collected and how development impact fees, surcharges and excise taxes were used.
Gray said SB814 is a cross-file of House Bill 698 and that the Senate version retains three changes requested by the Senate: keeping the reporting requirement with the Maryland Department of Planning rather than the governor and Maryland General Assembly, maintaining a requirement to report the address and location of developments generating the fees, and including expenditures of those fees in the required information.
Gray told the committee that the amendments were requested by MAACO and that the bill has no fiscal impact. She said the bill would help counties better track these fees, improve transparency and allow planners and stakeholders to understand where money is being spent.
The committee recorded no vote in the hearing transcript.
