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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Fair Housing and Housing Discrimination - Regulations, Intent, and Discriminatory Effect"
+description: "Fair Housing and Housing Discrimination - Regulations, Intent, and Discriminatory Effect"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "HB 573"
+citation: "Maryland HB 573 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Acevero", "Behler", "Fennell", "Foley", "Hill", "Ivey", "Kaufman", "Lehman", "Moreno", "Odom", "Ruff", "Spiegel", "Taveras", "Terrasa", "Turner", "Vogel", "Williams", "Wims", "Wolek", "Woods"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2026-01-28"
+last_action: "2026-05-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e25678f0-8ed7-470a-88d4-5bd9c2464484"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0573?ys=2026RS"
+source_hash: "5cb4fabd1e2b552bc1aec1195c8bbd116d19a898bb3083713df0429ae6c5666f"
+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 573 (2026) — Fair Housing and Housing Discrimination - Regulations, Intent, and Discriminatory Effect
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Fair Housing and Housing Discrimination - Regulations, Intent, and Discriminatory Effect** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_778_hb0573e.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled - Fair Housing and Housing Discrimination - Regulations, Intent, and Discriminatory Effect** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0573e.pdf)
+3. **First - Fair Housing and Housing Discrimination - Regulations, Intent, and Discriminatory Effect** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0573f.pdf)
+4. **Third - Fair Housing and Housing Discrimination - Regulations, Intent, and Discriminatory Effect** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0573t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **96–36** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading (Amend) — **29–11** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (CCR Adp) — **98–34** (pass) · lower
+- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **33–12** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Acevero — primary (person)
+- Behler — primary (person)
+- Fennell — primary (person)
+- Foley — primary (person)
+- Hill — primary (person)
+- Ivey — primary (person)
+- Kaufman — primary (person)
+- Lehman — primary (person)
+- Moreno — primary (person)
+- Odom — primary (person)
+- Ruff — primary (person)
+- Spiegel — primary (person)
+- Taveras — primary (person)
+- Terrasa — primary (person)
+- Turner — primary (person)
+- Vogel — primary (person)
+- Williams — primary (person)
+- Wims — primary (person)
+- Wolek — primary (person)
+- Woods — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-28** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-03** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2026-03-10** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-11** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-03-13** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2026-04-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-09** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-09** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2026-04-09** Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator Augustine) Adopted
+- **2026-04-09** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-11** House Refuses Concur Senate Amendments
+- **2026-04-11** House Requests Senate Recede
+- **2026-04-11** House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Amprey, Charkoudian and Adams)
+- **2026-04-13** House Refuses Concur Senate Amendments
+- **2026-04-13** House Requests Senate Recede
+- **2026-04-13** House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Amprey, Charkoudian and Adams)
+- **2026-04-13** Senate Refuses Recede
+- **2026-04-13** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Sydnor, Henson and West)
+- **2026-04-13** Senate Refuses Recede
+- **2026-04-13** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Sydnor, Henson and West)
+- **2026-04-13** Conference Committee Report {
+- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-13** Conference Committee Report {
+- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-13** Passed Enrolled
+- **2026-05-26** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 778 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e25678f0-8ed7-470a-88d4-5bd9c2464484`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+