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House approves submetering bill after questions on $1 fee and eviction language
Summary
H.B. 220, allowing individual submeters with a $1/month administrative charge mirroring existing electric/gas law, passed after floor questions about the $1 fee and removal of a provision that would have allowed unpaid water bills to be treated in eviction proceedings.
The Maryland House of Delegates passed House Bill 220 on third reading after members raised procedural and policy questions about a $1-per-unit monthly administrative charge and the treatment of unpaid water bills in landlord-tenant law. The clerk announced the final vote as 95 in favor and 34 opposed.
A delegate from Baltimore County asked why the bill…
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