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Delegates debate bill to let tenants operate certified family child care in rentals; amendment fails, sponsor lays over changes
Summary
Lawmakers debated House Bill 543, which would bar landlords from prohibiting certified family child care in new residential leases and allow landlords to be named on required insurance; an amendment about rent increases failed and sponsors laid the bill over for one day to consider changes.
The House considered House Bill 543, a landlord-tenant measure intended to expand access to regulated family child care. The bill would require that future residential leases not prohibit a tenant from operating a family child care home certified by the Maryland State Department of Education and would permit landlords to be listed on the child care operator’s insurance.
The floor leader said the bill “recogniz[es] that we have a child care crisis” and described it as designed to…
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