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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Tax Sales - Foreclosure of Right of Redemption - Naming of Defendants"
+description: "Tax Sales - Foreclosure of Right of Redemption - Naming of Defendants"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 861"
+citation: "Maryland HB 861 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Taxes - Property", "Death", "Estates and Trusts", "Foreclosure", "Tax Sales"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["D. Barnes"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-02-03"
+last_action: "2017-04-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ded2d03f-a0c5-4a5c-989e-f1f028b65f88"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB861&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "cddab4f883e416da70b2539b62b1c2daae5ab7e71fe5b6e74c7bc956e9c8220a"
+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 HB 861 (2017) — Tax Sales - Foreclosure of Right of Redemption - Naming of Defendants
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0861f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- D. Barnes — primary (person)
+- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
+- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
+- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
+- Knotts — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
+- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
+- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-03** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-10** Hearing 3/02 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-03** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-05** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2017-04-05** Rereferred to Finance
+- **2017-04-06** Reassigned to Budget and Taxation
+- **2017-04-07** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-10** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-10** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
+- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 243 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ded2d03f-a0c5-4a5c-989e-f1f028b65f88`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+