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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: "SB 530"
+citation: "Maryland SB 530 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Augustine", "Beidle", "Benson", "Carter", "Elfreth", "Ellis", "Feldman", "Griffith", "Guzzone", "Hayes", "Hester", "Kagan", "Kelley", "King", "Kramer", "Lam", "Lee", "Patterson", "Peters", "Pinsky", "Smith", "Sydnor", "Waldstreicher", "Washington", "Young", "Zucker"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2020-01-30"
+last_action: "2020-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f890cb22-0e18-4ab4-b188-794b5d08a450"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0530?ys=2020RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "d552b4fbf87db7791ead2a3a3e0d8d50a0f31c8b82580c8ecb2b7ec92d61f656"
+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 SB 530 (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_117_sb0530t.pdf)
+2. **First - Housing Opportunities Made Equal Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0530f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Housing Opportunities Made Equal Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0530t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Floor Amendment Ready/263922/1 — **17–29** (fail) · upper
+- FLA Del. Morgan /543524/1 — **43–92** (fail) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **34–12** (pass) · upper
+- FLA Del. Buckel /583828/1 — **43–94** (fail) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **94–42** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Augustine — primary (person)
+- Beidle — primary (person)
+- Benson — primary (person)
+- Carter — primary (person)
+- Elfreth — primary (person)
+- Ellis — primary (person)
+- Feldman — primary (person)
+- Griffith — primary (person)
+- Guzzone — primary (person)
+- Hayes — primary (person)
+- Hester — primary (person)
+- Kagan — primary (person)
+- Kelley — primary (person)
+- King — primary (person)
+- Kramer — primary (person)
+- Lam — primary (person)
+- Lee — primary (person)
+- Patterson — primary (person)
+- Peters — primary (person)
+- Pinsky — primary (person)
+- Smith — primary (person)
+- Sydnor — primary (person)
+- Waldstreicher — primary (person)
+- Washington — primary (person)
+- Young — primary (person)
+- Zucker — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-30** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-30** Hearing 2/04 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2020-02-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-02-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-02-18** Motion Laid Over (Senator Smith) Adopted
+- **2020-02-19** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-02-19** Committee Amendment Adopted
+- **2020-02-19** Favorable as Amended Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-02-19** Floor Amendment {
+- **2020-02-19** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2020-02-21** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-02-24** Referred Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-06** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-09** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-09** Second Reading Passed
+- **2020-03-10** Floor Amendment {
+- **2020-03-10** Floor Amendment {
+- **2020-03-10** Motion Vote Previous Question (Delegate Gilchrist) Adopted
+- **2020-03-10** Floor Amendment (Delegate Buckel) Rejected `amendment-failure`
+- **2020-03-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-11** Returned Passed
+- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 117 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f890cb22-0e18-4ab4-b188-794b5d08a450`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+