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type: "Bill"
title: "Housing Opportunities Made Equal Act"
description: "Housing Opportunities Made Equal Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 530"
citation: "Maryland SB 530 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Augustine", "Beidle", "Benson", "Carter", "Elfreth", "Ellis", "Feldman", "Griffith", "Guzzone", "Hayes", "Hester", "Kagan", "Kelley", "King", "Kramer", "Lam", "Lee", "Patterson", "Peters", "Pinsky", "Smith", "Sydnor", "Waldstreicher", "Washington", "Young", "Zucker"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 22
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-01-30"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f890cb22-0e18-4ab4-b188-794b5d08a450"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0530?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "d552b4fbf87db7791ead2a3a3e0d8d50a0f31c8b82580c8ecb2b7ec92d61f656"
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 SB 530 (2020) — Housing Opportunities Made Equal Act
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Housing Opportunities Made Equal Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_117_sb0530t.pdf)
2. **First - Housing Opportunities Made Equal Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0530f.pdf)
3. **Third - Housing Opportunities Made Equal Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0530t.pdf)
## Votes
- Floor Amendment Ready/263922/1 — **1729** (fail) · upper
- FLA Del. Morgan /543524/1 — **4392** (fail) · lower
- On Third Reading — **3412** (pass) · upper
- FLA Del. Buckel /583828/1 — **4394** (fail) · lower
- On Third Reading — **9442** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Augustine — primary (person)
- Beidle — primary (person)
- Benson — primary (person)
- Carter — primary (person)
- Elfreth — primary (person)
- Ellis — primary (person)
- Feldman — primary (person)
- Griffith — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hayes — primary (person)
- Hester — primary (person)
- Kagan — primary (person)
- Kelley — primary (person)
- King — primary (person)
- Kramer — primary (person)
- Lam — primary (person)
- Lee — primary (person)
- Patterson — primary (person)
- Peters — primary (person)
- Pinsky — primary (person)
- Smith — primary (person)
- Sydnor — primary (person)
- Waldstreicher — primary (person)
- Washington — primary (person)
- Young — primary (person)
- Zucker — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-30** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-30** Hearing 2/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-02-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-18** Motion Laid Over (Senator Smith) Adopted
- **2020-02-19** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-19** Committee Amendment Adopted
- **2020-02-19** Favorable as Amended Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-19** Floor Amendment {
- **2020-02-19** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2020-02-21** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-02-24** Referred Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-06** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-09** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-09** Second Reading Passed
- **2020-03-10** Floor Amendment {
- **2020-03-10** Floor Amendment {
- **2020-03-10** Motion Vote Previous Question (Delegate Gilchrist) Adopted
- **2020-03-10** Floor Amendment (Delegate Buckel) Rejected `amendment-failure`
- **2020-03-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-11** Returned Passed
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 117 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f890cb22-0e18-4ab4-b188-794b5d08a450`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).