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IntroducedOct 01, 2025
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Passed HouseMar 05, 2026
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Passed Senate
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Became Law
Maryland House Bill
Residential Rental Apartments - Air-Conditioning Requirement
Last Action See all actions
Senate • Mar 06, 2026: Referred Judicial Proceedings
Latest Bill Text See all bill texts
Summary
Comments on HB 153
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors
Votes
YES: 94
- Joseline A. Peña-Melnyk
- Crutchfield
- Jones, D.
- Qi
- Stewart
- Acevero
- Cullison
- Kaiser
- Queen
- Stinnett
- Addison
- Ebersole
- Kaufman
- Roberson
- Taveras
- Allen
- Edelson
- Kerr
- Roberts
- Taylor
- Alston
- Embry
- Korman
- Rogers
- Terrasa
- Amprey
- Fair
- Lehman
- Rosenberg
- Toles
- Bagnall
- Feldmark
- Lewis
- Ross
- Turner
- Barnes
- Fennell
- Lopez
- Ruff
- Valderrama
- Bartlett
- Foley
- Martinez
- Ruth
- Vogel
- Behler
- Forbes
- McCaskill
- Sample-Hughes
- Watson
- Bhandari
- Fraser-Hidalgo
- Mireku-North
- Schindler
- Wells
- Boafo
- Guyton
- Moon
- Schmidt
- Wilkins
- Boyce
- Guzzone
- Moreno
- Shetty
- Wilson
- Cardin
- Harrison
- Odom
- Simmons
- Wims
- Chang
- Hill
- Palakovich Carr
- Simpson
- Wolek
- Charkoudian
- Holmes
- Pasteur
- Smith
- Woorman
- Clippinger
- Ivey
- Patterson
- Solomon
- Young
- Coley
- Johnson, A.
- Phillips
- Spiegel
- Ziegler
- Conaway
- Johnson, S.
- Pruski
- Stein
NO: 35
NOT VOTING: 1
Actions
- Mar 06, 2026 | Senate
- Referred Judicial Proceedings
- Mar 05, 2026 | House
- Third Reading Passed (94-35)
- Mar 04, 2026 | House
- Favorable with Amendments {503024/1 Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- Mar 03, 2026 | House
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters
- Jan 19, 2026 | House
- Hearing 2/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- Jan 14, 2026 | House
- First Reading Economic Matters
- Oct 01, 2025 | House
- Pre-filed
Documents
- Fiscal and Policy NotePDF
- Vote - House - Committee - Economic MattersPDF
- Video: Economic MattersHTML
- Witness ListHTML
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Plante, Cecilia (Maryland Legislative Coalition)
- ECM In Person - Oral Testimony, FWA -- Hill, Matt
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Shewbridge, Rylie (Fello)
- ECM Testimony, INFO -- Pipkin, Matthew (Maryland Multi-Housing Association)
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Sarro, Lisa (Community Legal Services)
- ECM Testimony, INFO -- ANDERSON, ARLISA (Housing Authority of Baltimore City (HABC))
- ECM Testimony, INFO -- Cantu, Hugo (Apartments and Office Building Association)
- ECM In Person - Oral Testimony, UNF -- Castelli, William (Rifkin, Weiner, Livingston LLC)
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Faulkner, Jaclyn (AIA Maryland, Inc.)
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Wilpone-Welborn, Kira (Consumer Protection Division of the Maryland Office of the Attorney General)
- ECM In Person - Oral Testimony, FWA -- Shah, Zafar (Maryland Legal Aid)
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Lehman, Mary (MGA)
- ECM Testimony, FWA -- Themelis, Nina (Mayor's Office of Government Relations)
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Ball, Calvin (Howard County Exec)
- ECM Testimony, FWA -- Othman, Ronza (National Federation of the Blind)



