---
type: "Bill"
title: "Housing and Community Development - Just Community Designation"
description: "Housing and Community Development - Just Community Designation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 241"
citation: "Maryland HB 241 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-09-18"
last_action: "2024-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6afb9fd1-c5b1-41f4-a4d7-5fe3d19b1b4f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0241?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "dfcf861bb61b60e7be8fb78ee16c7b23a65f3509a31b9f0de5e2d2ba24d03d0d"
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 241 (2024) — Housing and Community Development - Just Community Designation

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Housing and Community Development - Just Community Designation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_147_hb0241t.pdf)
2. **First - Housing and Community Development - Just Community Designation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0241f.pdf)
3. **Third - Housing and Community Development - Just Community Designation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0241t.pdf)

## Votes

- FLA Del. Hartman /983222/1 — **35–97** (fail) · lower
- On Third Reading — **99–37** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **34–12** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chair, Environment and Transportation Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-09-18** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2024-01-10** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-10** Hearing 1/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-01-22** Hearing canceled
- **2024-01-22** Hearing 1/30 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2024-02-19** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-20** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-20** Motion Special Order until 2/21 (Delegate Hartman) Adopted
- **2024-02-21** Floor Amendment {
- **2024-02-21** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-02-23** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-02-26** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-05** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-06** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-06** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2024-04-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 147 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6afb9fd1-c5b1-41f4-a4d7-5fe3d19b1b4f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).