US state regulation
Maryland
Every state-level regulation PlainRegWatch tracks for Maryland - across data privacy, AI, food chemical bans, right to repair and worker protection, with status, effective dates and official sources.
- Tracker score
- 48/100 Above median
- Regulations tracked
- 3 Above median
- Enacted into law
- 3
- Categories regulated
- 2/5
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QUIET pending desk. 0 pending · 3 enacted · 2/5 policy areas with rows.
The verdict
Maryland sits in the ceiling tracker band at 48/100 with 3 enacted across 2/5 areas, led by Employment & Worker Protection.
- 48/100
- tracker (ceiling tercile)
- 3
- tracked rows (mid tercile)
- 3
- enacted into law
- Employment & Worker Protection
- WORKER-LED lead area
Tracker score is a 0–100 portal-derived measure: weighted counts of records marked enacted across five covered categories, normalized to the top result, not enforcement strength, legal burden, or an official state rating.
State archive posture brief
Maryland legislative archive posture
Entity-varying stamps from Maryland's rows in the five-category PlainRegWatch archive, volume band, enactment share, tracker score, and corpus rank, not a clone nationwide scaffold.
- 3 Tracked rows in archive
- 3 Enacted into law 100% share
- 0 Pending bills tracked
- 48/100 Portal tracker score
- #20 Of 51 by volume
- #14 Of 51 by tracker score
- Florida Nearest volume peer 3 rows
- 2 Of 5 policy areas Employment & Worker Protection
Enacted-volume neighbourhood
Enacted statute count among nearest archive-volume peers (snapshot 2026-07-16).
State context
Maryland's pending heat vs the tracked state corpus
QUIET pending desk: Maryland is below the peer average for tracked volume and above the peer average for tracker score. Highlighted point = this state.
PlainRegWatch methodology: tracker score is a normalized enacted-count index, not legal burden. Placement method.
Maryland enactments by year
Enacted regulations tracked in PlainRegWatch since 2015 · peak 1 in 2022
Policy coverage
Maryland enacted mix · WORKER-LED
Worker-protection-led shelf: each card is live from Maryland's rows (enacted counts only), with links into the national category hubs.
Maryland regulatory footprint index
A single 0-100 index combining Maryland's standing on 3 of 3 tracked measures: enacted-law volume, portal tracker strictness, and tracked-category breadth. This describes how extensive Maryland's tracked regulatory footprint is, not a judgment of good or bad governance. A missing measure would drop out and redistribute its weight rather than deflating the index.
73/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Enacted volume
- C 3 tracked
69th percentile nationwide
- Tracker strictness
- B 48/100
76th percentile nationwide
- Category breadth
- B 2 categories
76th percentile nationwide
Benchmarked live against every state reporting each measure in the current portal tracker. Not a legal, compliance, or governance-quality score; PlainRegWatch's own weighting (enacted volume 40%, tracker strictness 35%, category breadth 25%).
💼 Employment & Worker Protection
Maryland Minimum Wage Act
Maryland Code, Lab. & Emp. 3-413 Effective: 2025-01-01Maryland minimum wage $15.00/hr for all employers (2024 unification). Annually CPI-indexed. Tipped: $3.63/hr.
Maryland TIME Act (Family/Medical Leave) + Healthy Working Families Act
SB 275 / HB 8 Effective: 2026-07-01Maryland TIME Act: 12 weeks paid family/medical leave starting 2026. Healthy Working Families: paid sick 40 hrs/year for employers 15+.
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Read with Maryland
Nearest archive-volume peers and tracker-score poles for Maryland (LIGHT · MID · QUIET), replacing the old fixed Related strip.
LIGHT MID QUIET WORKER-LED
Florida · LIGHT
Florida tracks 3 rows (more by 0 than Maryland); tracker stamp MID vs MID.
Rhode Island · LIGHT
Rhode Island tracks 3 rows (more by 0 than Maryland); tracker stamp MID vs MID.
Hawaii · LIGHT
Hawaii tracks 3 rows (more by 0 than Maryland); tracker stamp LOWER vs MID.
District of Columbia · LIGHT
District of Columbia tracks 3 rows (more by 0 than Maryland); tracker stamp LOWER vs MID.
Alaska (FLOOR score pole)
Alaska sits near Maryland on archive volume yet stamps FLOOR while this page stamps MID.
Employment & Worker Protection hub · WORKER-LED
Maryland's lead category is Employment & Worker Protection (2 enacted) under the WORKER-LED archive stamp.
Regulations by category in Maryland
Source: State regulatory filings (IAPP / MultiState aggregation) Maryland state-rule registry · 2024 Maryland: 3 tracked · 3 enacted · tracker 48/100 (LIGHT/MID). Status reflects the latest legislative tracker snapshot.
Counts and tracker score are Maryland's rows in the curated five-category archive · as of July 2026.