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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Health Facilities - Hospitals - Medical Debt Protection"
+description: "Health Facilities - Hospitals - Medical Debt Protection"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 565"
+citation: "Maryland HB 565 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Charkoudian"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-01-20"
+last_action: "2021-05-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6a7776d7-f57d-4a5d-a36e-6c8c9c60b2ae"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0565?ys=2021RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "9516cb0182291c383a68d8223dbb8d1cccbdcd0af5bc7624f1e2361e6f8953b3"
+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 565 (2021) — Health Facilities - Hospitals - Medical Debt Protection
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Health Facilities - Hospitals - Medical Debt Protection** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_770_hb0565t.pdf)
+2. **First - Health Facilities - Hospitals - Medical Debt Protection** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0565f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Health Facilities - Hospitals - Medical Debt Protection** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0565t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Charkoudian — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-20** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-29** Hearing 2/16 at 1:30 p.m.
+- **2021-03-20** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-20** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2021-03-22** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2021-03-22** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-02** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-06** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-06** Second Reading Passed
+- **2021-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2021-04-08** Returned Passed
+- **2021-05-30** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 770 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6a7776d7-f57d-4a5d-a36e-6c8c9c60b2ae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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