2022 Regular Session • Maryland Legislature
HB720: Real Estate - Real Estate Brokerage Services and Termination of Residential Real Estate Contracts (The Anthony Moorman Act)
Legislative Summary
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.
Bill History
2/3/2022
First Reading Environment and Transportation
House of Delegates
2/4/2022
Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
House of Delegates
Status Information
Current Status
Introduced(2/3/2022)
Chamber
House of Delegates
Committee
Environment and Transportation(House of Delegates)
Sine Die
Sponsors
Democrat: 18
Primary Sponsor

Chanel Branch
Democrat
Co-Sponsors (17)
Talmadge Branch
Democrat
Nick Charles
Democrat
Linda Foley
Democrat
Michele Guyton
Democrat
Andrea Harrison
Democrat
Shaneka Henson
Democrat
Terri Hill
Democrat
Carl Jackson
Democrat
Dana Jones
Democrat
Rachel Jones
Democrat
Edith Patterson
Democrat
Roxane Prettyman
Democrat
Lily Qi
Democrat
Sheree Sample-Hughes
Democrat
Stephanie Smith
Democrat
Kriselda Valderrama
Democrat
Melissa Wells
Democrat