Who pays to lobby in Annapolis.
Registered lobbyists, the employers who hire them and what the lobbyists reported for each employer, from the Maryland State Ethics Commission's records.
registered lobbyists
Lobbyists on the State Ethics Commission's Current Lobbyist List for Nov. 2025 - Oct. 2026, as the list totals them on Oct. 25, 2026. The list's export has 782 distinct names: 757 individual registrants and 25 organizations registered as entity registrants.
clients (lobbyist employers)
Employers on the State Ethics Commission's Current Employer List for Nov. 2025 - Oct. 2026 on Oct. 25, 2026, including registrations that have already ended this year.
| Constellation Energy Generation, LLC | $762,931.24 |
| America Works USA Filed by America Works USA itself as an entity registrant; $739,500.00 of it is listed as communications spending for March 30 to April 30, 2026. | $755,599.86 |
| National Multiple Sclerosis Society, The Almost all of this is one report listing $750,000.00 in lobbyist compensation for Jan. 5 to Feb. 17, 2026 (form A052495). It is shown as filed; we have not asked the filer whether the amount is correct. | $750,051.94 |
| Maryland Retailers Alliance | $736,070.41 |
| Maryland REALTORS | $584,774.05 |
| Coinbase, Inc. $499,920.47 of it is communications spending on the report Coinbase's own staff lobbyist filed. | $546,129.66 |
| Johns Hopkins | $473,159.75 |
| Maryland Chamber of Commerce | $405,476.97 |
| MedChi, The Maryland State Medical Society | $402,095.50 |
| Lifebridge Health, Inc. | $384,680.30 |
| Washington Gas | $373,827.09 |
| Pepco Holdings, LLC. | $341,405.05 |
| Sports Betting Alliance | $331,181.09 |
| Sheppard Pratt Health Systems | $308,100.00 |
| Baltimore Gas and Electric Company | $294,037.99 |
Total expenses as filed on lobbyists' activity reports for this employer for the Nov. 2025 - Oct. 2026 lobbying year (the 'Total Expenses' column of the State Ethics Commission's activity report export), added up across every lobbyist who reported for the employer. It includes the lobbyists' compensation as reported plus their reported expenses (staff, office, communications, events, meals, gifts and other). Almost all of these reports cover Nov. 1, 2025 to April 30, 2026; reports for May 1 to Oct. 31, 2026 are due Nov. 30, 2026 and are not included. Not campaign contributions, not money the employer spent without a registered lobbyist reporting it, and not a full-year figure.
Sources: Maryland State Ethics Commission, Current Lobbyist List, Nov. 2025 - Oct. 2026 (export); Maryland State Ethics Commission, Current Employer List, Nov. 2025 - Oct. 2026 (export); Maryland State Ethics Commission, public access search: Activity Reports, lobbying year Nov. 2025 - Oct. 2026 (export).
How to read this
Maryland lobbyists register with the State Ethics Commission for each employer (client) they lobby for, for a lobbying year that runs Nov. 1 to Oct. 31. Each lobbyist files an activity report for each employer twice a year, covering Nov. 1 to April 30 (due May 31) and May 1 to Oct. 31 (due Nov. 30). Unlike some states, Maryland's reports list the compensation the lobbyist received from the employer as well as expenses such as communications, events, meals and gifts, and the Commission's export gives a total for each report. The table adds up those totals per employer for the 4,068 activity reports filed so far for the Nov. 2025 - Oct. 2026 year (3,637 of them cover Nov. 1, 2025 to April 30, 2026, the period that includes the 2026 legislative session; the rest are reports for registrations that began or ended partway through). Second-half reports are not due until Nov. 30, 2026, so these are not full-year figures. On 14 reports the total as filed differs from the sum of its line items; the total is used as filed. Totals for the complete Nov. 2024 - Oct. 2025 year are in the saved export but are kept apart and not added to these. Registering as a lobbyist or employer and reporting spending is lawful and public; these records do not show that any official acted because of it.
What is not here yet
- Activity reports for May 1 to Oct. 31, 2026 are due Nov. 30, 2026; until then the spending figures cover mostly Nov. 1, 2025 to April 30, 2026.
- Separate employer reports and gift and meal reports were not added to the table; only lobbyists' activity reports are counted.
- The individual activity report forms were not opened one by one; amounts are as given in the Commission's export, including one report that lists $750,000.00 in compensation for a six-week period, which we have not checked with the filer.
Gaps in the lobbying records as of the date checked.