---
type: "Bill"
title: "Comprehensive Flood Management Grant Program - Funding for Underserved and Overburdened Communities"
description: "Comprehensive Flood Management Grant Program - Funding for Underserved and Overburdened Communities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 148"
citation: "Maryland SB 148 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Washington", "Augustine", "Benson", "Brooks", "Hester", "Jackson", "Kagan", "Lewis Young", "M. Washington", "McCray", "Rosapepe", "Watson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-11-01"
last_action: "2024-05-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/153ce068-9910-43a0-892e-f94c0c3261b9"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0148?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "a7174dd2ba0cf67cfff9eb566bd5d9c710bd21776e9e850702756850bd044a98"
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 148 (2024) — Comprehensive Flood Management Grant Program - Funding for Underserved and Overburdened Communities

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Comprehensive Flood Management Grant Program - Funding for Underserved and Overburdened Communities** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_516_sb0148e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Comprehensive Flood Management Grant Program - Funding for Underserved and Overburdened Communities** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0148e.pdf)
3. **First - Comprehensive Flood Management Grant Program - Funding for Underserved and Overburdened Communities** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0148f.pdf)
4. **Third - Comprehensive Flood Management Grant Program - Funding for Underserved and Overburdened Communities and Areas at Extreme Risk of Flooding** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0148t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **116–20** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- A. Washington — primary (person)
- Augustine — primary (person)
- Benson — primary (person)
- Brooks — primary (person)
- Hester — primary (person)
- Jackson — primary (person)
- Kagan — primary (person)
- Lewis Young — primary (person)
- M. Washington — primary (person)
- McCray — primary (person)
- Rosapepe — primary (person)
- Watson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-11-01** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2024-01-10** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment and Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-25** Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m. (Education, Energy, and the Environment)
- **2024-02-26** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-27** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-02-29** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-01** Referred Environment and Transportation Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-21** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m. (Environment and Transportation)
- **2024-04-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-05** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-08** Senate Concurs House Amendments
- **2024-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-08** Passed Enrolled
- **2024-05-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 516 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/153ce068-9910-43a0-892e-f94c0c3261b9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).