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Fully KeptHousing

Stand up for renters and confront Maryland having the highest eviction filing rate in America.

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Fully KeptFact-checker reviewConfidence: 88%

Adversarial re-check: every cited source is real, live, and accurately quoted. (1) The governor's own 2024 State of the State page contains the promise verbatim: 'We will stand up for renters and confront the harsh truth that Maryland has the highest eviction filing rate in America.' (2) The Maryland General Assembly page for HB0693 confirms the Renters' Rights and Stabilization Act of 2024 was filed by 'The Speaker (By Request - Departmental - Housing and Community Development)' -- i.e., a Moore administration departmental bill -- passed the House 94-39 and Senate 35-9, and was 'Approved by the Governor' on April 25, 2024 as Chapter 124. (3) The Maryland DHCD signing release confirms the law 'establishes the Office of Tenant and Landlord Affairs,' 'creates the Maryland Tenants Bill of Rights,' 'increases the eviction filing fee to address the high eviction filing rate,' caps security deposits, and creates a tenant opportunity to purchase. (4) The Baltimore Banner (June 2025) confirms measurable effect: 'filings and evictions have both decrease by about 10% since the fee increased.' (5) Independently added corroboration from the Maryland Access to Justice Commission, which states the Senate companion 'was sponsored by President Bill Ferguson at request of the Governor Moore's Administration' -- confirming this was the administration's own bill, not a bill Moore merely signed. Outcome check, applied party-neutrally: the promise's verbs are 'stand up for' and 'confront,' not 'eliminate' or 'make Maryland no longer #1.' Moore's administration authored the flagship response, it was enacted in the same session as the pledge, it is structural and statewide, and it produced a measured ~10% decline. That is a fulfilled promise, not merely a led-but-unlanded effort (which would be CHAMPIONED, +0.75). I applied the reciprocity test: a Republican governor who named a problem in a State of the State, authored the landmark bill addressing it, passed it in the same session with bipartisan margins, signed it, and saw a ~10% improvement would also be rated FULL. Adversarial searching found no evidence of Moore vetoing or acting against renter-protection legislation. Two minor corrections to the prior rationale that do not affect the outcome: (a) I could NOT verify the claim that Moore personally testified on Feb. 20, 2024 -- the governor's-office URL for that release returns 404 and no independent confirmation surfaced, so that detail is dropped rather than asserted; (b) sources disagree on the pre-reform filing fee ($8 vs $15, $25 in Baltimore City), so the exact prior figure should not be stated as settled. Neither is load-bearing. Residual uncertainty (why not 1.0): Maryland's filing rate reportedly remains the nation's highest in absolute terms, and 2025-2026 follow-through was not independently verified.

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