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The Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee held a multi-hour hearing on Feb. 11, 2025, reviewing 11 bills on topics including an AI evidence clinic pilot for courts, an additional St. Marys County judgeship request, a register of wills salary adjustment, liability protections for a Hagerstown sports facility, limits on liability waivers for recreation businesses, eminent domain protections and higher compensation proposals for farm owners tied to the Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project, technical cleanup to a tenant right-of-first-refusal law, a correction to a rentersrights title-insurance issue, proposed increases to the cap on pet damage awards, a proposal to repeal the state cap on non-economic damages, and a bill to ban algorithmic rent-pricing that relies on non-public competitor data. The committee heard panels of government officials, judges, academic experts, advocates and industry representatives. Several items drew extended questioning about statutory drafting, funding implications and potential unintended consequences; at least two matters (algorithmic rent pricing, non-economic damage caps) produced sharply divided testimony from broad coalitions on each side.
