2026 MD Legislative Session

 

Our approach for 2026 should consider these as some of our priorities:

• Prohibiting companies from charging Veterans for assistance with disability claims.
•  Eliminating the age restriction for military retired pay subtraction. 
•  Expeditated licensure and certification for uniformed service members and their spouses and retirees rather than compacts UNLESS DoD agrees to treat all uniformed services equally. 
•  Increased availability of affordable childcare for service families.
•  Advanced enrollment procedures for dependent children of uniformed service members (the bills (HB 596 and SB 601) passed, however, neither bill made it through review in the original chamber). We will try again this year.

The 2026 Maryland General Assembly session began on January 13th and ended April 13th. Information on this page has been updated as bills are now finalized.

We should continue to reach out to our House and Senate State Representatives to encourage the elimination of any age differences in the amount of tax emptions as well as eventually phasing out the taxation of Uniform Services retirement income.

Attached is the list of proposed bills.   Bills with Red in the last column have passed and are signed  by the Governor.

If the last column is in Blue, the bill was dropped or both houses did not approve the bill.