---
type: "Bill"
title: "Housing and Community Development - Food Deserts - Small Loans"
description: "Housing and Community Development - Food Deserts - Small Loans"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1492"
citation: "Maryland HB 1492 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Economic and Community Development", "Appropriations", "Food", "Health", "Housing and Community Development", "Department of", "Loans", "Small Business"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hayes"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-10"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d51d77d3-ceff-4135-ace1-c33a7ce42cb0"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1492&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "648dc2cfc7b8eef455a1846def0768a9c5f35760364a4274b9525f60e30fc2b4"
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 1492 (2017) — Housing and Community Development - Food Deserts - Small Loans

## Version chain

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

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb1492f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **118–15** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Hayes — primary (person)
- Ali — cosponsor (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Conaway — cosponsor (person)
- Glenn — cosponsor (person)
- McCray — cosponsor (person)
- McIntosh — cosponsor (person)
- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-10** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {570112/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-15** Third Reading Passed (118-15) `passage`
- **2017-03-16** First Reading Finance and Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-16** Hearing 3/30 at 1:00 p.m. (Finance)
- **2017-04-05** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-06** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 636 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d51d77d3-ceff-4135-ace1-c33a7ce42cb0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).