---
type: "Bill"
title: "Housing and Community Development - Affordable Housing - Identifying Suitable Property"
description: "Housing and Community Development - Affordable Housing - Identifying Suitable Property"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 283"
citation: "Maryland HB 283 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Palakovich Carr"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-12"
last_action: "2024-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/17a99148-518d-45a4-8247-a728ff32a7f6"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0283?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "83597562161113b191ca94b6eafcd065434b170fa55a568fa016df99e72f9f90"
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 283 (2024) — Housing and Community Development - Affordable Housing - Identifying Suitable Property

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Housing and Community Development - Affordable Housing - Identifying Suitable Property** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_153_hb0283t.pdf)
2. **First - Housing and Community Development - Affordable Housing - Identifying Suitable Property** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0283f.pdf)
3. **Third - Housing and Community Development - Affordable Housing - Identifying Suitable Property** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0283t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **42–5** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **105–33** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-12** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-18** Hearing 2/06 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2024-02-12** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-13** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-13** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-02-15** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-02-16** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-03** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2024-04-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 153 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/17a99148-518d-45a4-8247-a728ff32a7f6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).