---
type: "Bill"
title: "Home Builders - Open House - Sales Representative Disclosure Requirements"
description: "Home Builders - Open House - Sales Representative Disclosure Requirements"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 850"
citation: "Maryland HB 850 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Johnson", "Bhandari"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-02-04"
last_action: "2026-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a69d0045-1d57-4ae0-b6ee-21958b07285d"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0850?ys=2026RS"
source_hash: "d003594f19618495e2934159a4e5991414bfe039a6cdbd80df839f75227bcc55"
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 850 (2026) — Home Builders - Open House - Sales Representative Disclosure Requirements

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Home Builders - Open House - Sales Representative Disclosure Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_544_hb0850t.pdf)
2. **First - Home Builders - Open House - Sales Representative Disclosure Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0850f.pdf)
3. **Third - Home Builders - Open House - Sales Representative Disclosure Requirements** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0850t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **131–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- A. Johnson — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-02-04** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-09** Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-03-10** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-11** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-03-13** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-18** Hearing 3/24 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-04-09** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-09** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-09** Second Reading Passed
- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-13** Returned Passed
- **2026-05-12** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 544 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a69d0045-1d57-4ae0-b6ee-21958b07285d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).