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Bill	Fire Protection and Prevention - Residential Rental Property - Requirements (Melanie Nicholle Diaz Fire Safety Act)	Fire Protection and Prevention - Residential Rental Property - Requirements (Melanie Nicholle Diaz Fire Safety Act)	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2024	HB 823	Maryland HB 823 (2024)	bill		enacted	Addison Allen Boyce Charkoudian Foley Guyton J. Long Jacobs Lehman Ruth Stein Stewart T. Morgan Terrasa	3	13	2	2024-01-31	2024-05-16	openstates	ocd-bill/f0a8e4a2-13b1-49cb-b992-fd45c29a0a27	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0823?ys=2024RS&search=True	9f4627d397f7da24b851c8e4247d9d52ed2a33563f78e5a645857803804d2ee8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 823 (2024) — Fire Protection and Prevention - Residential Rental Property - Requirements (Melanie Nicholle Diaz Fire Safety Act)

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Fire Protection and Prevention - Residential Rental Property - Requirements (Melanie Nicholle Diaz Fire Safety Act) (committee substitute) — source
2. First - Fire Protection and Prevention - Residential Rental Property - Requirements (Melanie Nicholle Diaz Fire Safety Act) (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Fire Protection and Prevention - Residential Rental Property - Requirements (Melanie Nicholle Diaz Fire Safety Act) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 138–0 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading — 47–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Addison — primary (person)
• Allen — primary (person)
• Boyce — primary (person)
• Charkoudian — primary (person)
• Foley — primary (person)
• Guyton — primary (person)
• J. Long — primary (person)
• Jacobs — primary (person)
• Lehman — primary (person)
• Ruth — primary (person)
• Stein — primary (person)
• Stewart — primary (person)
• T. Morgan — primary (person)
• Terrasa — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-31 First Reading Environment and Transportation and Ways and Means referral-committee
• 2024-02-06 Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m. (Environment and Transportation)
• 2024-03-16 Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-16 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-16 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2024-03-18 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2024-03-18 Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment referral-committee
• 2024-03-29 Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-29 Favorable Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-29 Second Reading Passed
• 2024-04-03 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2024-04-04 Returned Passed
• 2024-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 744 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f0a8e4a2-13b1-49cb-b992-fd45c29a0a27. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).