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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Housing Opportunities Made Equal Act"
+description: "Housing Opportunities Made Equal Act"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 231"
+citation: "Maryland HB 231 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Acevero", "Bagnall", "Boyce", "Brooks", "Clippinger", "Conaway", "Cullison", "D.M. Davis", "Feldmark", "Fennell", "Fraser-Hidalgo", "Harrison", "Healey", "Hettleman", "Holmes", "J. Lewis", "Korman", "Krimm", "Lehman", "Lierman", "Love", "Luedtke", "McIntosh", "McKay", "Moon", "Mosby", "Palakovich Carr", "Patterson", "R. Lewis", "Reznik", "Rosenberg", "Ruth", "Shetty", "Smith", "Stewart", "Terrasa", "Valderrama", "Wells"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-01-17"
+last_action: "2020-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4fd0c942-d44f-49e6-a8b6-1b1e0c4ddd18"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0231?ys=2020RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "b7c3dcfa94bc3a1e1242f5ba84543816bca4e61b4005d975fc2b5d20c56c2411"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
+---
+
+# Maryland HB 231 (2020) — Housing Opportunities Made Equal Act
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Housing Opportunities Made Equal Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_116_hb0231t.pdf)
+2. **First - Housing Opportunities Made Equal Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0231f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Housing Opportunities Made Equal Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0231t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **95–42** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **31–15** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Acevero — primary (person)
+- Bagnall — primary (person)
+- Boyce — primary (person)
+- Brooks — primary (person)
+- Clippinger — primary (person)
+- Conaway — primary (person)
+- Cullison — primary (person)
+- D.M. Davis — primary (person)
+- Feldmark — primary (person)
+- Fennell — primary (person)
+- Fraser-Hidalgo — primary (person)
+- Harrison — primary (person)
+- Healey — primary (person)
+- Hettleman — primary (person)
+- Holmes — primary (person)
+- J. Lewis — primary (person)
+- Korman — primary (person)
+- Krimm — primary (person)
+- Lehman — primary (person)
+- Lierman — primary (person)
+- Love — primary (person)
+- Luedtke — primary (person)
+- McIntosh — primary (person)
+- McKay — primary (person)
+- Moon — primary (person)
+- Mosby — primary (person)
+- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
+- Patterson — primary (person)
+- R. Lewis — primary (person)
+- Reznik — primary (person)
+- Rosenberg — primary (person)
+- Ruth — primary (person)
+- Shetty — primary (person)
+- Smith — primary (person)
+- Stewart — primary (person)
+- Terrasa — primary (person)
+- Valderrama — primary (person)
+- Wells — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-17** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-17** Hearing 2/04 at 2:00 p.m.
+- **2020-01-17** Hearing canceled
+- **2020-01-17** Hearing 2/04 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2020-03-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-09** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-09** Motion Special Order until 3/10 (Delegate Holmes) Adopted
+- **2020-03-10** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-10** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2020-03-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-12** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-15** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-15** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-15** Second Reading Passed
+- **2020-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-17** Returned Passed
+- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 116 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4fd0c942-d44f-49e6-a8b6-1b1e0c4ddd18`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+