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Baltimore City - Repossession for Failure to Pay Rent - Registration and License Information

Sponsor: Delegate AttarCommittee: Environment and TransportationSubject: Counties - Local LawsStatus: First Reading Judicial Proceedings (as of Nov 6, 2020)

What this bill does

Official synopsis

Requiring a landlord, at the time of filing a certain complaint in an action for repossession for failure to pay rent in Baltimore City, to be in compliance with certain local license requirements and certain lead-based paint abatement laws; providing that a landlord has the burden of proving, by a certain standard of evidence, that a property is in compliance with certain local license requirements; authorizing a landlord to provide an electronic copy of a license as proof of compliance with certain local license requirements; etc.

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Testimony (9)

MGA witness list
FAV 5FavorableFWA 4Favorable with amendments
PositionWitnessOrganizationTestimony
FAVcountess, gregorylegal aid bureauOral + Written (PDF)
FAVCugen, SamIndividualPosition only
FAVCugen, SamIndividualPosition only
FAVDelegate Attar, Delegate AttarlegislatorIndividualPosition only
FAVblendy, nicholasIndividualOral + Written (PDF)
FWAWilpone-Welborn, KiraConsumer Protection DivisionWritten (PDF)
FWAgreenfield, aaronlobbyistmmhaOral + Written (PDF)
FWAshah, zafarpjc, renters unitedOral + Written (PDF)
FWAblendy, nicholasIndividualPosition only

Organizations on record

Registered lobbyists who testified

FWAgreenfield, aaronmmhaRegistered for: BTS Bioenergy; Baltimore Area Council Boy Scouts of America, Inc.; Embassy of Japan; Ernst & Young, LLP; FEi Systems; Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake