---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sale of Residential Real Property - Required Flood Risk Disclosure"
description: "Sale of Residential Real Property - Required Flood Risk Disclosure"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 200"
citation: "Maryland HB 200 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Behler", "Guyton", "Lehman", "Pasteur", "Patterson", "Pena-Melnyk", "Ruth", "Stinnett", "Terrasa"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-10-03"
last_action: "2026-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7a15b171-bb36-4039-bc6b-55ede278420a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0200?ys=2026RS"
source_hash: "799776c4816a67a41ffa1aad8773147d4bb355e5b0e894a7a13f8d11551f895a"
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 200 (2026) — Sale of Residential Real Property - Required Flood Risk Disclosure

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Sale of Residential Real Property - Required Flood Risk Disclosure** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_776_hb0200t.pdf)
2. **First - Sale of Residential Real Property - Required Flood Risk Disclosure** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0200f.pdf)
3. **Third - Sale of Residential Real Property - Required Flood Risk Disclosure** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0200t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **40–1** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **94–35** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Behler — primary (person)
- Guyton — primary (person)
- Lehman — primary (person)
- Pasteur — primary (person)
- Patterson — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Ruth — primary (person)
- Stinnett — primary (person)
- Terrasa — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-10-03** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2026-01-14** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-19** Hearing 2/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-03-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-04** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2026-03-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-03-06** Referred Judicial Proceedings Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-20** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m. (Judicial Proceedings)
- **2026-04-13** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-13** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-13** Second Reading Passed
- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-13** Returned Passed
- **2026-05-26** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 776 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7a15b171-bb36-4039-bc6b-55ede278420a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).