Prince George's County Council - Reference No. CB-062-2025

• Reference No.: CB-062-2025
• Draft No.: 2
• Type: Council Bill
• Status: Enacted
• Meeting Body: County Council
• Meeting Date: 11/17/2025
• Introduced Date: 10/21/2025
• Public Hearing Date: 11/17/2025 @ 10:00 AM
• Effective date: 1/23/2026
• Title: AN ACT CONCERNING ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS for the purpose of clarifying ambiguity with respect to requirements for seeking judicial review and aligning the appellate rights for administrative citations with those that are available for civil citations.
• Proposers/Sponsors: County Executive, Thomas E. Dernoga, Ingrid S. Watson
• Code sections: 13-1129 -
• Contact: Calisa Smith, Associate County Attorney, Office of Law Lori Parris, Chief of Staff, DPIE

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
12/8/2025	2	County Executive	signed
11/17/2025	2	County Council	public hearing held
11/17/2025	2	County Council	enacted	Pass
10/21/2025	2	County Council	introduced
10/2/2025	1	Planning, Housing and Economic Development Committee	Favorably recommended with amendments	Pass
9/4/2025	1	Planning, Housing and Economic Development Committee	Held in Committee	Pass
7/3/2025	1	Planning, Housing and Economic Development Committee	Held in Committee	Pass
6/17/2025	1	County Council	presented and referred

Title

AN ACT CONCERNING ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS for the purpose of clarifying ambiguity with respect to requirements for seeking judicial review and aligning the appellate rights for administrative citations with those that are available for civil citations.

Background

Current law specifies that administrative remedies must be exhausted prior to seeking judicial review in the circuit court, but there has been some ambiguity as to whether reconsideration is considered to be an administrative remedy. This proposal clarifies that a Respondent must file a timely request for reconsideration, as opposed to seeking immediate review in Circuit Court.

Current law also provides a direct right to appeal to the Appellate Court of Maryland if a party is aggrieved by a circuit court decision. This allows a Respondent two direct appeals from an administrative decision - one to the circuit court and one to the appellate. In contrast, a party who is aggrieved by a district court decision in a civil citation case only has a right to one direct appeal (to circuit court). Any further appeals beyond that point are discretionary. This proposal aligns the two processes so that, in each case, a party has one right to a direct appeal.