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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Housing and Community Development - Affordable Housing - Educator Workforce Housing and Municipal Corporations"
+description: "Housing and Community Development - Affordable Housing - Educator Workforce Housing and Municipal Corporations"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "HB 168"
+citation: "Maryland HB 168 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Vogel"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-10-07"
+last_action: "2026-05-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f7b6d695-b22d-4000-84f3-c370d2c6e43d"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0168?ys=2026RS"
+source_hash: "9373075a252c4641931d18347a6671f9190c363261a5aeb385c7287d7d1952cf"
+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 168 (2026) — Housing and Community Development - Affordable Housing - Educator Workforce Housing and Municipal Corporations
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Housing and Community Development - Affordable Housing - Educator Workforce Housing and Municipal Corporations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_678_hb0168e.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled - Housing and Community Development - Affordable Housing - Educator Workforce Housing and Municipal Corporations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0168e.pdf)
+3. **First - Housing and Community Development - Affordable Housing - Educator Workforce Housing and Municipal Corporations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0168f.pdf)
+4. **Third - Housing and Community Development - Affordable Housing - Educator Workforce Housing and Municipal Corporations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0168t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading (Amend) — **34–10** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **89–32** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **111–22** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Vogel — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-10-07** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2026-01-14** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-19** Hearing 2/05 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2026-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-17** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2026-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-03-19** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-20** Hearing 3/31 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2026-04-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-13** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-13** House Concurs Senate Amendments
+- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-13** Passed Enrolled
+- **2026-05-26** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 678 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f7b6d695-b22d-4000-84f3-c370d2c6e43d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+