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Votes at a glance: Economic Matters Committee passes a package of housing, privacy, worker-benefit and local-development bills
Summary
The Economic Matters Committee voted favorably on a range of bills in a single voting session: consumer protection measures, broadband reporting, housing-application vesting, data-privacy tighteners, property-title pilot-to-study, workers' compensation presumptions, and multiple local development bills; several items were held or withdrawn.
The Economic Matters Committee completed its docket, reporting many bills favorably as amended and passing a package of measures.
Notable outcomes recorded in the hearing include: - House Bill 103 (consumer protection) — passed (chair announced "House bill 103 passes") reported tally: 14 yes (motion: favorable as amended). - House Bill 347 (workers' compensation presumption for hypertension) — passed, reported tally: 18 yes (favorable as amended). - House Bill 382 (broadband reporting for low-income programs) — passed, reported tally: 12 yes. - House Bill 548 (housing application vesting and fee timing) — passed (vote reported in transcript; tally announced as passage). - House Bill 711 (data privacy updates) — passed, reported tally: 12 yes. - House Bill 730 (franchise disclosure timing) — passed (committee approved Senate-conforming amendments). - House Bill 810 (blockchain title pilot narrowed to a study) — passed; fiscal note discussed and reported as $0 on cross-file. - House Bill 878 (Carroll County correctional deputies workers' comp presumption) — passed. - House Bill 894 (transit-oriented enterprise zones) — passed, reported tally: 12 yes. - House Bill 1098 (judgment-exemption revisions) — passed, reported tally: 18 yes. - House Bill 1100 (telecommunications infrastructure damage penalty reduced) — passed, reported tally: 18 yes. - House Bill 1191 (temporary licenses for event-based dealers) — passed, reported tally: 18 yes. - House Bill 1221 (short-term rental fire-safety requirements) — passed, reported tally: 17 yes. - House Bill 1252 (Montgomery County housing study) — passed, reported tally: 18 yes. - House Bill 1276 (West North Avenue appropriations threshold) — passed, reported tally: 18 yes. - House Bill 1452 (Suitland Development Authority) — passed, reported tally: 18 yes. - House Bill 1456 (residential-advertising verification) — passed, reported tally: 13 yes. - House Bill 1466 (appraisal-gap expansion for redlined areas) — passed, reported tally: 17 yes.
Held or withdrawn items: - House Bill 502 — held by request. - House Bill 1132 — held. - House Bill 1584 — held near the end of the session. - House Bill 1548 — withdrawn (unfavorable/withdrawn announced).
The committee adjourned and reminded members of upcoming voting sessions.
