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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Real Property - Ground Leases - Past Due Ground Rent"
+description: "Real Property - Ground Leases - Past Due Ground Rent"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 170"
+citation: "Maryland SB 170 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["West"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-01-13"
+last_action: "2020-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8f71dbcd-7e8d-4a6f-890f-a24ec7b768c9"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0170?ys=2020RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "3a17e5c3cb9c786ee92a9e79849c7c3c5dc3a44a5029328a72fed1d36eff7e46"
+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 170 (2020) — Real Property - Ground Leases - Past Due Ground Rent
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Real Property - Ground Leases - Past Due Ground Rent** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_125_sb0170t.pdf)
+2. **First - Real Property - Ground Leases - Past Due Ground Rent** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0170f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Real Property - Ground Leases - Past Due Ground Rent** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0170t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- West — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-13** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-14** Hearing 1/28 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2020-02-10** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-02-11** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-02-11** Second Reading Passed
+- **2020-02-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-02-14** Referred Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-16** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-16** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-18** Returned Passed
+- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 125 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8f71dbcd-7e8d-4a6f-890f-a24ec7b768c9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+