---
type: "Bill"
title: "Housing and Community Development - Affordable Housing - Excess Real Property"
description: "Housing and Community Development - Affordable Housing - Excess Real Property"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 744"
citation: "Maryland SB 744 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hettleman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-02-07"
last_action: "2022-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ad595ef5-38bd-418e-977f-d51ac5e7f5bb"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0744?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "1c655c34496f061bdc2baf9240b6d74b0a0273439a13887083f483cb9870f5a8"
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 744 (2022) — Housing and Community Development - Affordable Housing - Excess Real Property

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Housing and Community Development - Affordable Housing - Excess Real Property** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_337_sb0744e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Housing and Community Development - Affordable Housing - Excess Real Property** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/sb/sb0744e.pdf)
3. **First - Housing and Community Development – Affordable Housing – Listing and Disposal of Excess Real Property** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/sb/sb0744f.pdf)
4. **Third - Housing and Community Development - Affordable Housing - Excess Real Property** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/sb/sb0744t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On third reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **134–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hettleman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-07** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-09** Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-02-15** Hearing canceled
- **2022-02-15** Hearing 3/10 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-17** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-03-18** Motion Returned Second Reading (Senator Guzzone) Adopted
- **2022-03-18** Floor Amendment {
- **2022-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-03-21** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-21** Referred Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-23** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-04-07** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-07** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-08** Senate Concurs House Amendments
- **2022-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-08** Passed Enrolled
- **2022-05-12** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 337 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ad595ef5-38bd-418e-977f-d51ac5e7f5bb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).