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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Home Builders - Open House - Sales Representative Disclosure Requirements"
+description: "Home Builders - Open House - Sales Representative Disclosure Requirements"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "HB 850"
+citation: "Maryland HB 850 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["A. Johnson", "Bhandari"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-02-04"
+last_action: "2026-05-12"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a69d0045-1d57-4ae0-b6ee-21958b07285d"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0850?ys=2026RS"
+source_hash: "d003594f19618495e2934159a4e5991414bfe039a6cdbd80df839f75227bcc55"
+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 850 (2026) — Home Builders - Open House - Sales Representative Disclosure Requirements
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Home Builders - Open House - Sales Representative Disclosure Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_544_hb0850t.pdf)
+2. **First - Home Builders - Open House - Sales Representative Disclosure Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0850f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Home Builders - Open House - Sales Representative Disclosure Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0850t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **131–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- A. Johnson — primary (person)
+- Bhandari — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-02-04** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-09** Hearing 2/26 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 Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-18** Hearing 3/24 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2026-04-09** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-09** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-09** Second Reading Passed
+- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-13** Returned Passed
+- **2026-05-12** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 544 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a69d0045-1d57-4ae0-b6ee-21958b07285d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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