---
type: "Bill"
title: "Home Builder Guaranty Fund - Award Limitations - Revisions"
description: "Home Builder Guaranty Fund - Award Limitations - Revisions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 164"
citation: "Maryland SB 164 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kelley"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-13"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/15b5540e-61c7-4f63-87e4-36c24c26ae9f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0164?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "e048163c90e6d6af12d6668169c90e8e58ebe5106e8468482041ac80d0286c07"
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 SB 164 (2020) — Home Builder Guaranty Fund - Award Limitations - Revisions

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Home Builder Guaranty Fund - Award Limitations - Revisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_59_sb0164t.pdf)
2. **First - Home Builder Guaranty Fund - Award Limitations - Revisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0164f.pdf)
3. **Third - Home Builder Guaranty Fund - Award Limitations - Revisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0164t.pdf)

## Votes

- ON THIRD READING (Rules Suspended) — **130–0** (pass) · lower
- Motion to suspend rules and allow 2 Rdgs on 1 Day — **129–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kelley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-13** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-15** Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-02-10** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-11** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-11** Second Reading Passed
- **2020-02-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-02-14** Referred Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-18** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-18** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-18** Motion Rules Suspend Two Readings Same Day (Delegate Luedtke) Adopted
- **2020-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 59 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/15b5540e-61c7-4f63-87e4-36c24c26ae9f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).