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Economic Matters Committee advances slate of bills, including blockchain land-record pilot and housing rule changes
Summary
The Economic Matters Committee voted favorably on a broad slate of bills—mostly voice votes—advancing measures from blockchain-enabled property recordation to fair-housing conformity, a Maryland Futures Board, and several local and technical items; most passed with unanimous or near-unanimous support and will appear separately on the House floor.
The Economic Matters Committee on April 11 advanced a broad package of measures on a largely bipartisan, voice-vote docket, moving bills ranging from a blockchain pilot for land records to a state-level conformity of federal fair-housing standards.
The committee’s chair opened the session and the committee treated voting list 18 as a consent calendar, which the panel approved without discussion. The committee then proceeded through voting list 17, taking up a series of separate bills that were each moved favorable and, in most cases, passed in committee.
Lawmaker B, who outlined several of the measures, described Senate Bill 168 as a conforming change to the House cross-file that would permit using blockchain technology for property recordation and verification and asked for two amendments: “Amendment number 1 is technical. Amendment number 2 [names] the Maryland Blockchain…
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