---
type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Housing and Community Development - Crisis Shelter Home Program for the Homeless"
description: "Department of Housing and Community Development - Crisis Shelter Home Program for the Homeless"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 955"
citation: "Maryland HB 955 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Economic and Community Development", "Emergencies", "Fees", "Housing and Community Development", "Department of", "Housing", "Indigent Persons", "Rules and Regulations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Valentino-Smith"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-05"
last_action: "2018-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/87328011-16ba-4cc0-9f7a-84e57e346738"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB955&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "5e3079742b2420bb45074c44d97ded8184d8e0421c6fe967111a4047532a3487"
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 955 (2018) — Department of Housing and Community Development - Crisis Shelter Home Program for the Homeless

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2018RS/bills/hb/hb0955f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **135–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Valentino-Smith — primary (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
- Krimm — cosponsor (person)
- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- McKay — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-02-05** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-12** Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-05** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-06** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-08** Third Reading Passed (135-3) `passage`
- **2018-03-09** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-15** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-26** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-28** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-10** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 105 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/87328011-16ba-4cc0-9f7a-84e57e346738`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).