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IntroducedOct 30, 2024
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Passed SenateMar 17, 2025
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Passed HouseApr 07, 2025
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Signed into Law
Access to Counsel in Evictions - Task Force and Special Fund
Last Action See all actions
Senate • Apr 07, 2025: Returned Passed
Latest Bill Text See all bill texts
Summary/Bill Text
Comments on SB 154
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors
Votes
YES: 99
- Speaker
- Crutchfield
- Jones, D.
- Qi
- Taylor
- Acevero
- Cullison
- Kaiser
- Queen
- Terrasa
- Addison
- Davis
- Kaufman
- Roberson
- Toles
- Allen
- Ebersole
- Kerr
- Roberts
- Turner
- Alston
- Edelson
- Korman
- Rogers
- Valderrama
- Amprey
- Embry
- Lehman
- Rosenberg
- Vogel
- Atterbeary
- Fair
- Lewis, J.
- Ross
- Watson
- Bagnall
- Feldmark
- Lewis, R.
- Ruff
- Wells
- Barnes
- Fennell
- Long, J.
- Ruth
- White Holland
- Bartlett
- Foley
- Lopez
- Schindler
- Wilkins
- Behler
- Forbes
- Martinez
- Shetty
- Williams
- Bhandari
- Fraser-Hidalgo
- McCaskill
- Simmons
- Wilson
- Boafo
- Guyton
- Mireku-North
- Simpson
- Wims
- Boyce
- Guzzone
- Moon
- Smith
- Wolek
- Cardin
- Harris
- Palakovich Carr
- Solomon
- Woods
- Chang
- Harrison
- Pasteur
- Spiegel
- Woorman
- Charkoudian
- Healey
- Patterson
- Stein
- Wu
- Clippinger
- Hill
- Pena-Melnyk
- Stewart
- Young
- Conaway
- Holmes
- Phillips
- Stinnett
- Ziegler
- Crosby
- Ivey
- Pruski
- Taveras
NO: 40
Actions
- Apr 07, 2025 | Senate
- Returned Passed
- Apr 07, 2025 | House
- Favorable Report by Appropriations
- Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed
- Third Reading Passed (99-40)
- Mar 26, 2025 | House
- Hearing canceled (Appropriations)
- Hearing 3/26 at 2:30 p.m. (Appropriations)
- Mar 19, 2025 | House
- Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m. (Appropriations)
- Mar 18, 2025 | House
- Referred Appropriations Judiciary
- Mar 17, 2025 | Senate
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation
- Favorable with Amendments {553524/1 Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- Third Reading Passed (35-11)
- Jan 08, 2025 | Senate
- First Reading Budget and Taxation and Judicial Proceedings
- Hearing 1/15 at 10:30 a.m. (Budget and Taxation)
- Oct 30, 2024 | Senate
- Pre-filed
Documents
- Fiscal and Policy Note (Revised)PDF
- Vote - Senate - Committee - Budget and TaxationPDF
- Vote - Senate - Committee - Judicial ProceedingsPDF
- Vote - House - Committee - JudiciaryPDF
- Video: Budget and TaxationHTML
- Video: JudiciaryHTML
- Witness ListHTML
- B&T Testimony, FAV -- Jordan, Lisae C (Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault (MCASA))
- B&T Testimony, FAV -- Girard, Meredith (Shore Legal Access (formerly Mid-Shore Pro Bono))
- B&T Testimony, FAV -- White, Marceline (Economic Action Maryland)
- B&T Testimony, FAV -- Turner, Albert (Renters United Maryland)
- B&T Testimony, FAV -- Ruth, Laure (Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence)
- B&T Testimony, FAV -- Davis, Katherine (Pro Bono Resource Center)
- B&T Testimony, FAV -- Hunt, Ethan (Anne Arundel County)
- B&T Testimony, FAV -- Plante, Cecilia (Maryland Legislative Coalition)
- B&T Testimony, FAV -- OMalley, Catherine (Women's Law Center)
- B&T Testimony, FAV -- Sarro, Lisa (Community Legal Services)
- B&T Testimony, FAV -- Hettleman, Shelly (MGA- Senator Hettleman)
- B&T Testimony, FAV -- Hausner, Deena (House of Ruth Maryland)
- B&T Testimony, FAV -- Lopez, Eric (Capital Area Immigrants' Rights (CAIR) Coalition)
- B&T Testimony, FAV -- Rosenberg, Daniel
- B&T In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Siri, Michelle (The Maryland Legal Services Corporation)
- B&T In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Flavahan, Louise
- B&T Testimony, FAV -- Zeimer, Matan (Jews United for Justice)
- B&T Testimony, FAV -- Hill, Matt
- B&T Testimony, FAV -- Zelaya, Michelle (Maryland Catholic Conference)
- B&T Testimony, FAV -- Sarkar, Shaoli (Maryland State Bar Association)
- B&T Testimony, FAV -- Taylor, Ronnie (FreeState Justice)
- B&T In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Shah, Reena (Maryland Access to Justice Commission)
- B&T Testimony, FAV -- Schultz, Victoria (Maryland Legal Aid)
- B&T Testimony, N/A -- Testimony, All
- APP Testimony, FAV -- Plante, Cecilia (Maryland Legislative Coalition)
- APP Testimony, FAV -- Sarro, Lisa (Community Legal Services)
- APP Testimony, FAV -- Jordan, Lisae C (Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault (MCASA))
- APP Testimony, FAV -- Girard, Meredith (Shore Legal Access (formerly Mid-Shore Pro Bono))
- APP Testimony, FAV -- Schultz, Victoria (Maryland Legal Aid)
- APP Testimony, FAV -- OMalley, Catherine (Women's Law Center)
- APP Testimony, FAV -- Siri, Michelle (The Maryland Legal Services Corporation)
- APP Testimony, FAV -- Zeimer, Matan (Jews United for Justice)
- APP Testimony, FAV -- Zelaya, Michelle (Maryland Catholic Conference)
- APP In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Flavahan, Louise
- APP Testimony, FAV -- Davis, Katherine (Pro Bono Resource Center)
- APP Testimony, FAV -- Shah, Reena (Maryland Access to Justice Commission)
- APP Testimony, FAV -- Hettleman, Shelly (MGA- Senator Hettleman)
- APP Testimony, FAV -- Ruth, Laure (Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence)
- APP Testimony, FAV -- Hill, Matt