---
type: "Bill"
title: "Corporations and Associations - Cooperative Limited Equity Housing Corporations - Establishment"
description: "Corporations and Associations - Cooperative Limited Equity Housing Corporations - Establishment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 85"
citation: "Maryland HB 85 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charkoudian"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-09-17"
last_action: "2026-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b55b2ced-e626-4f51-be58-c2bf43f966d6"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0085?ys=2026RS"
source_hash: "e5b38cf2dde49b22bbaa9ac25c08d716d6330ba127433cbb79518b9d6cb789f7"
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 85 (2026) — Corporations and Associations - Cooperative Limited Equity Housing Corporations - Establishment

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Corporations and Associations - Cooperative Limited Equity Housing Corporations - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_260_hb0085t.pdf)
2. **First - Corporations and Associations - Cooperative Limited Equity Housing Corporations - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0085f.pdf)
3. **Third - Corporations and Associations - Cooperative Limited Equity Housing Corporations - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0085t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **35–8** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **103–33** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Charkoudian — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-09-17** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2026-01-14** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-19** Hearing 2/10 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-02-24** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-25** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-25** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2026-02-26** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-02-27** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2026-04-09** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `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
- **2026-04-28** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 260 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b55b2ced-e626-4f51-be58-c2bf43f966d6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).