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IntroducedJan 28, 2026
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Passed HouseMar 12, 2026
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Passed Senate
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Became Law
Maryland House Bill
Fair Housing and Housing Discrimination - Regulations, Intent, and Discriminatory Effect
Last Action See all actions
Senate • Mar 13, 2026: Referred Judicial Proceedings
Latest Bill Text See all bill texts
Summary
Comments on HB 573
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors
Votes
YES: 96
- Joseline A. Peña-Melnyk
- Ebersole
- Kaufman
- Roberson
- Taylor
- Acevero
- Edelson
- Kerr
- Rogers
- Terrasa
- Addison
- Embry
- Korman
- Rosenberg
- Toles
- Allen
- Fair
- Lehman
- Ross
- Turner
- Alston
- Fennell
- Lewis
- Ruff
- Valderrama
- Amprey
- Foley
- Long, J.
- Ruth
- Vogel
- Bagnall
- Forbes
- Lopez
- Sample-Hughes
- Watson
- Barnes
- Fraser-Hidalgo
- Martinez
- Schindler
- Wells
- Bartlett
- Guyton
- McCaskill
- Schmidt
- White Holland
- Behler
- Guzzone
- Mireku-North
- Shetty
- Wilkins
- Bhandari
- Harrison
- Moon
- Simmons
- Williams
- Boyce
- Healey
- Moreno
- Simpson
- Wilson
- Cardin
- Hill
- Odom
- Smith
- Wims
- Chang
- Holmes
- Palakovich Carr
- Solomon
- Wolek
- Charkoudian
- Ivey
- Pasteur
- Spiegel
- Woods
- Clippinger
- Johnson, A.
- Patterson
- Stein
- Woorman
- Coley
- Johnson, S.
- Phillips
- Stewart
- Wu
- Conaway
- Jones, D.
- Pruski
- Stinnett
- Young
- Crutchfield
- Kaiser
- Queen
- Taveras
- Ziegler
- Davis
NO: 36
Actions
- Mar 13, 2026 | Senate
- Referred Judicial Proceedings
- Mar 12, 2026 | House
- Third Reading Passed (96-36)
- Mar 11, 2026 | House
- Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed
- Mar 10, 2026 | House
- Favorable Report by Economic Matters
- Feb 03, 2026 | House
- Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- Jan 28, 2026 | House
- First Reading Economic Matters
Documents
- Fiscal and Policy NotePDF
- Vote - House - Committee - Economic MattersPDF
- Video: Economic MattersHTML
- Witness ListHTML
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Wilson Randall, Claudia (Community Development Network of Maryland)
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Plante, Cecilia (Maryland Legislative Coalition)
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Sarro, Lisa (Community Legal Services)
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Day, Jake (Department of Housing and Community Development)
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Girdner, Linnie
- ECM In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- May, Lisa (Maryland REALTORS)
- ECM In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Hovermale, Emily (Baltimore Regional Housing Partnership)
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Allen, Susan
- ECM In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Smith, Jonathan (Attorney General of Maryland)
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- London, Rachel (Maryland Developmental Disabilities Council)
- ECM In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Wheaton, David (NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund)
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Fontaine, Diana (Congressman Glenn Ivey)
- ECM Testimony, FWA -- Clark, Ashley (Harris Jones & Malone, LLC)
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Dove, S. Spencer (Maryland Commission on Civil Rights)
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Browning, Jeremy (Maryland Commission on LGBTQIA+ Affairs)
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Collins, Jocelyn (Public Policy Partners)
- ECM Testimony, FWA -- ANDERSON, ARLISA (Housing Authority of Baltimore City (HABC))
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Themelis, Nina (Mayor's Office of Government Relations)
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Muckle, Lonia (CASH Campaign of Maryland)
- ECM Testimony, FWA -- Rotunno, Gina (NAMIC)
- ECM In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Legagneur, Sasha (Poverty & Race Research Action Council)
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Dixon, Monique (Gibson-Banks Center for Race and the Law, University of Maryland Carey School of Law)
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Othman, Ronza (National Federation of the Blind of Maryland)
- ECM Virtual - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Turner, Albert (Renters United Maryland)
- ECM In Person - Oral Testimony, FAV -- Bergan, Courtney (Maryland Legal Aid)
- ECM Testimony, FAV -- Kaplowitz, Richard KAP (Year)



