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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Courts - Consumer Debt Collection Actions - Statute of Limitations"
+description: "Courts - Consumer Debt Collection Actions - Statute of Limitations"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 42"
+citation: "Maryland SB 42 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Civil Actions and Procedures", "Debt Collection", "Statutes of Limitation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Norman and Cassilly"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-11-02"
+last_action: "2018-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a8d923b5-65e3-45ae-8792-9c096aac6a51"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB42&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "f268952083a93e1a298292983f14b50706bd772f6d9b78ed0c748d000bcf407d"
+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 SB 42 (2018) — Courts - Consumer Debt Collection Actions - Statute of Limitations
+
+## 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/2018RS/bills/sb/sb0042f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **132–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Norman and Cassilly — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-11-02** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2018-01-10** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-04** Hearing 1/16 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-02-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-14** Favorable with Amendments {518773/1 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-14** Laid Over (Senator Middleton) Adopted
+- **2018-02-15** Favorable with Amendments {518773/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-02-19** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2018-02-20** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-07** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-04-05** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-05** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-04-06** Third Reading Passed (132-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
+- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 549 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a8d923b5-65e3-45ae-8792-9c096aac6a51`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+