2024 Legislative Recap and Achievements

As we reflect on Maryland’s 2024 legislative session, we can take pride in the impact achieved when Maryland's business community speaks with one voice.

While this legislative session was filled with challenges for businesses, including the threat of burdensome regulations, increased costs and state budget deficits, our advocacy efforts ensured that policymakers heard the concerns and priorities of businesses loud and clear. We actively opposed damaging proposals like combined reporting, expanding the state sales tax to services, and an onslaught of new regulations that would strain companies. Through our collective voice, we prevailed on many fronts vital to making Maryland more competitive and better for business.

Through the collective strength of our members, the Maryland Chamber Federation and our dedicated team, we emerged victorious on many of the key issues facing our coalition of more than 6,800 businesses and job creators from every corner of Maryland. Together, we demonstrated the essential role that the private sector plays in driving innovation, creating jobs and sustaining the vibrant communities that define our state.

Guided by your priorities, we focused on responsible government spending, equitable transportation funding, data privacy, military retirement tax elimination and childcare incentives.

We supported 18 pieces of legislation during the 2024 session, including the Governor's Critical Infrastructure Streamlining Act, the Transparent Government Act, the Keep Our Heroes Home Act, the Economic Competitiveness Act and the Clean Slate Act. Simultaneously, we fought against proposals that would push Maryland further down the ladder of economic competitiveness, successfully opposing 42 bills, with only a few receiving final passage.