---
type: "Bill"
title: "Common Ownership Communities – Candidate or Proposition Signs – Display Period"
description: "Common Ownership Communities – Candidate or Proposition Signs – Display Period"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 855"
citation: "Maryland HB 855 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Healey", "Holmes"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2026-02-04"
last_action: "2026-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a064fecf-09f8-4be3-9fc8-f2adddefbae6"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0855?ys=2026RS"
source_hash: "a797c73594c9edb58c8bc7d74a3b84e18af15b83cd502a1f24330a1541b9c082"
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 855 (2026) — Common Ownership Communities – Candidate or Proposition Signs – Display Period

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Common Ownership Communities – Candidate or Proposition Signs – Display Period** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_289_hb0855t.pdf)
2. **First - Common Ownership Communities – Candidate or Proposition Signs – Display Period** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0855f.pdf)
3. **Third - Common Ownership Communities – Candidate or Proposition Signs – Display Period** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0855t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **128–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Healey — primary (person)
- Holmes — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-02-04** First Reading Government, Labor, and Elections `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-05** Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-03-02** Favorable Report by Government, Labor, and Elections `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-03** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2026-03-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-03-05** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2026-04-09** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-09** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-13** Returned Passed
- **2026-04-28** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 289 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a064fecf-09f8-4be3-9fc8-f2adddefbae6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).