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IntroducedFeb 06, 2026
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Passed SenateMar 23, 2026
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Passed House
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Became Law
Maryland Senate Bill
Landlord and Tenant - Residential Leases - Prospective Tenant Criminal History Records Check (Maryland Fair Chance Housing Act)
Last Action See all actions
House • Apr 02, 2026: Hearing 4/02 at 2:30 p.m.
Latest Bill Text See all bill texts
Summary
Comments on SB 937
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors
Votes
Actions
- Apr 02, 2026 | House
- Hearing canceled
- Hearing 4/02 at 1:30 p.m.
- Hearing canceled
- Hearing 4/02 at 2:30 p.m.
- Mar 26, 2026 | House
- Hearing 4/02 at 1:00 p.m.
- Mar 24, 2026 | House
- Referred Economic Matters
- Mar 23, 2026 | Senate
- Third Reading Passed (32-10)
- Mar 20, 2026 | Senate
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings
- Favorable with Amendments {973928/1 Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- Feb 12, 2026 | Senate
- Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- Feb 06, 2026 | Senate
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
Bill Texts
- Text - First - Landlord and Tenant - Residential Leases - Prospective Tenant Criminal History Records Check (Maryland Fair Chance Housing Act)PDF
- Amendments {973928/1 Adopted (Senate)PDF
- Text - Third - Landlord and Tenant - Residential Leases - Prospective Tenant Criminal History Records Check (Maryland Fair Chance Housing Act)PDF
Documents
- Fiscal and Policy Note (Revised)PDF
- Vote - Senate - Committee - Judicial ProceedingsPDF
- Video: Judicial ProceedingsHTML
- Video: Economic MattersHTML
- Witness ListHTML
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Plante, Cecilia (Maryland Legislative Coalition)
- JPR Testimony, INFO -- ANDERSON, ARLISA (Housing Authority of Baltimore City (HABC))
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Kovacs, Lisa (Maryland Association of Local Management Boards)
- JPR Testimony, FWA -- Clark, Ashley (Harris Jones & Malone, LLC)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Kemerer, Hannibal (Maryland Office of the Public Defender)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Kaplowitz, Richard KAP (Year)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Sarro, Lisa (Community Legal Services)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Hovermale, Emily (Baltimore Regional Housing Partnership)
- JPR In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Robinson, Ramieka (Goucher Prison Education Program & BUILD)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Blaha, Katherine (SURJ)
- JPR Testimony, INFO -- Wilpone-Welborn, Kira (Consumer Protection Division of the Maryland Office of the Attorney General)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Gaines, Martaze (Legal Defense Fund)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Ortega, Chelsea (Santoni, Vocci & Ortega, LLC)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Bevan-Dangel, Jennifer (Economic Action Maryland Fund)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Davis, Katherine (Pro Bono Resource Center)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- SWASC, UM (Social Work Advocates for Social Change)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Girard, Meredith (Shore Legal Access (formerly Mid-Shore Pro Bono))
- JPR Testimony, FWA -- Jones, Brenda (Families Advocating Intelligent Registries (FAIR))
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Nosbaum, Ray
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Puentes, Erica (Progressive Maryland)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Turner, Albert (Renters United Maryland)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Diamond, Joanna (Health Care for the Homeless)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Schumitz, Kali (Maryland Center on Economic Policy)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- and Thibault Manekin, Minister Thomas Anderson (BUILD & Seawall)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Scott, Waunita (Mavrik Village)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Day, Jake (Department of Housing and Community Development)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Girdner, Linnie
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Shah, Zafar (Maryland Legal Aid)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Wheaton, David (NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund)
- JPR In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Bae, John (Vera Institute of Justice)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Losak, Matthew (Montgomery County Renters Alliance, Inc.)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Muckle, Lonia (CASH Campaign of Maryland)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Rodriguez, Victoria
- JPR Testimony, FWA -- Anleu, Brian
- JPR In Person - Oral Testimony, UNF -- Castelli, William (Rifkin, Weiner, Livingston LLC)
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Yost, E.V.
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Lent, Michael
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Henson, Senator Shaneka
- JPR Testimony, FAV -- Speaks, Terry (Out for Justice)
- JPR Testimony, N/A -- Testimony, All
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