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Real Estate - Real Estate Brokerage Services and Termination of Residential Real Estate Contracts (The Anthony Moorman Act)

Sponsor: Antonio Hayes (District 40)Committee: Judicial ProceedingsSubject: Real PropertyStatus: Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m. (as of Nov 15, 2022)

What this bill does

Official synopsis

Requiring a real estate broker or an escrow agent, if a purchaser terminates a certain transaction under certain circumstances, to distribute trust money to the purchaser within 30 days after a certain written notice of the termination is sent; requiring a holder of trust money who makes a certain distribution to notify the seller and purchaser of the distribution within a certain period of time; establishing that a holder of trust money may not be held liable for a certain decision to distribute the trust money; etc.

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Testimony (6)

MGA witness list
FAV 3FavorableFWA 2Favorable with amendmentsUNF 1Unfavorable
PositionWitnessOrganizationTestimony
FAVDavis, WayneUnited Real Estate ExecutivesOral
FAVHayes, AntonioIndividualWritten (PDF)
FAVSenator Hayes, Senator HayeslegislatorIndividualOral
UNFO'Connell, WilliamMSBA Real Property Section CounselWritten (PDF)
FWASchuller, Mary ClareMaryland Land Title AssociationWritten (PDF)
FWACastelli, WilliamlobbyistIndividualOral + Written (PDF)

Organizations on record

Registered lobbyists who testified

FWACastelli, 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