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Subcommittee backs flood-risk disclosure bill with realtor support after narrowing amendments
Summary
House Bill 200 would require sellers to provide a flood-risk disclosure form (developed by MDE) noting flood plain status, federal insurance requirements, and seller knowledge of past flood damage; realtors helped draft amendments removing documentary burdens and the bill moved out of subcommittee.
House Bill 200, a required flood-risk disclosure proposal, advanced out of the Housing and Real Property Subcommittee after amendments negotiated with realtor stakeholders narrowed the bill’s documentary requirements.
Sponsor Delegate Lehman told the committee the measure would add a form — developed by the Maryland Department of the Environment — for sellers of single-family homes to disclose whether the property…
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