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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Building Homes Act"
+description: "Building Homes Act"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "HB 805"
+citation: "Maryland HB 805 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Fair", "Kaufman", "Shetty", "Solomon"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-02-04"
+last_action: "2026-05-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2e1e4e45-3fb0-4f66-928f-4d1dfdcd98b7"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0805?ys=2026RS"
+source_hash: "d29e9a16cd00abd0b4544ff7d82c174e625eb4cf33f1bc8c97c0588dcd55eb02"
+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 805 (2026) — Building Homes Act
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Building Homes Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_698_hb0805t.pdf)
+2. **First - Building Homes Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0805f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Building Homes Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0805t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **110–10** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Fair — primary (person)
+- Kaufman — primary (person)
+- Shetty — primary (person)
+- Solomon — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-02-04** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-05** Hearing 2/17 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2026-03-04** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-05** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-03-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-03-09** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-25** Hearing 4/02 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2026-04-08** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-08** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-08** Second Reading Passed
+- **2026-04-09** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-10** Returned Passed
+- **2026-05-26** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 698 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2e1e4e45-3fb0-4f66-928f-4d1dfdcd98b7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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