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Real Estate - Workgroup to Study Real Estate Trust Money Distribution

Sponsor: Delegate Branch, C.Committee: Economic MattersSubject: Real PropertyStatus: Rereferred to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs (as of Dec 1, 2021)

What this bill does

Official synopsis

Establishing the Workgroup to Study Real Estate Trust Money Distribution; providing for the membership, composition, chair and staffing of the Workgroup; requiring the workgroup to study certain issues including the timely disposition of deposit money when a dispute arises between buyer and seller; and requiring the Workgroup to report to certain committees of the General Assembly by December 1, 2021, recommendations for any legislation needed to clarify the manner in which real estate trust money is distributed.

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Testimony (7)

MGA witness list
FAV 5FavorableUNF 2Unfavorable
PositionWitnessOrganizationTestimony
FAVDavis, WayneUnited Real Estate ExecutivesOral
FAVBranch, ChanelIndividualOral + Written (PDF)
FAVDelegate Branch, C., Delegate Branch, C.legislatorIndividualOral
FAVHolt, RandyIndividualOral
FAVMoorman, AnthonyIndividualOral
UNFGraf, LorilobbyistMaryland Building Industry AssociationWritten (PDF)
UNFCastelli, WilliamlobbyistIndividualOral + Written (PDF)

Organizations on record

Registered lobbyists who testified

UNFGraf, LoriMaryland Building Industry AssociationRegistered for: Maryland Building Industry Association
UNFCastelli, WilliamRegistered for: ASC Engineered Solutions; Berkshire Hathaway Energy GT&S, LLC; Board of County Commissioners of Allegany County, MD; Brown Advisory; Cable Telecommunications Association of Maryland, Delaware and D.C., Inc.; Colonial Pipeline Company