Maryland legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Maryland HB503: Housing Development Act
Status: Introduced, April 3, 2025
Requiring the Department of Housing and Community Development to periodically establish housing production targets for the State and certain local jurisdictions; requiring the Department to publish housing production targets on its website and notify certain local jurisdictions; requiring the Department to publish an annual report assessing the progress of the State and certain local jurisdictions with meeting specified housing targets; establishing the Housing Opportunities Made Equitable Commission; etc.
What the bill says
From the chaptered text, April 1, 2025:
HB0503/753625/1 BY: Delegate M. Morgan AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 503, AS AMENDED On page 8 of the Environment and Transportation Committee Amendments (HB503/963528/1), after line 2 of Amendment No. 2, insert: "(B) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, THE DEPARTMENT MAY NOT APPROVE A HOUSING DEVELOPMENT PROJECT APPLICATION IF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IN THE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AREA EXCEEDS CAPACITY."; and in lines 3 and 10, strike "(B)" and "(C)", respectively, and substitute "(C)" and "(D)", respectively. On page 9 of the Environment and Transportation Committee Amendments, in line 7 of Amendment No. 2, strike "(D)" and substitute "(E)".
Sponsors
- Adrienne Jones (D, 10) · primary sponsor
- Nick Allen (D, 8)
- Marlon Amprey (D, 40)
- Adrian Boafo (D, 23)
- Diana Fennell (D, HD-047A)
- Linda Foley (D, 15)
- Kevin Hornberger (R, HD-035A)
- Dana Jones (D, HD-030)