---
type: "Bill"
title: "Comprehensive Flood Management Grant Program - Funding for Underserved and Overburdened Communities"
description: "Comprehensive Flood Management Grant Program - Funding for Underserved and Overburdened Communities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 449"
citation: "Maryland HB 449 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Acevero", "Fennell", "Ivey", "Kaufman", "McCaskill", "Pasteur", "Ruth", "Turner"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-22"
last_action: "2024-05-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/830871db-57a1-482a-a64b-cd09d8d42206"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0449?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "ace0bd22c19736ca85dacac68d06cb290c1f36e823ad9fcd8b314a7a88e74f86"
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 449 (2024) — Comprehensive Flood Management Grant Program - Funding for Underserved and Overburdened Communities

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Comprehensive Flood Management Grant Program - Funding for Underserved and Overburdened Communities** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_517_hb0449t.pdf)
2. **First - Comprehensive Flood Management Grant Program - Funding for Underserved and Overburdened Communities** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0449f.pdf)
3. **Third - Comprehensive Flood Management Grant Program - Funding for Underserved and Overburdened Communities** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0449t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **111–19** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Acevero — primary (person)
- Fennell — primary (person)
- Ivey — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- McCaskill — primary (person)
- Pasteur — primary (person)
- Ruth — primary (person)
- Turner — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-22** First Reading Environment and Transportation and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-01** Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m. (Environment and Transportation)
- **2024-04-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-05** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-04-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-06** Referred Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-08** Rereferred to Education, Energy, and the Environment and Budget and Taxation
- **2024-04-08** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-08** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-08** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2024-05-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 517 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/830871db-57a1-482a-a64b-cd09d8d42206`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).