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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Landlord and Tenant - Repossession for Failure to Pay Rent - Shielding of Court Records"
+description: "Landlord and Tenant - Repossession for Failure to Pay Rent - Shielding of Court Records"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "HB 521"
+citation: "Maryland HB 521 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Amprey", "Bartlett", "Chang", "Charkoudian", "Charles", "Crutchfield", "Cullison", "Henson", "Hill", "Howell", "K. Young", "Landis", "Lehman", "Love", "Pena-Melnyk", "Ruth", "Shetty", "Stewart", "Terrasa", "Williams"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2022-01-21"
+last_action: "2022-05-29"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f9cb0ddd-2f69-4a4e-a907-02b7467d112a"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0521?ys=2022RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "2c48807dfd456428081df64559bfe4e7b25efebd93766b28049daf847b81ab59"
+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 521 (2022) — Landlord and Tenant - Repossession for Failure to Pay Rent - Shielding of Court Records
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Landlord and Tenant - Repossession for Failure to Pay Rent - Shielding of Court Records** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_722_hb0521t.pdf)
+2. **First - Landlord and Tenant - Repossession for Failure to Pay Rent - Shielding of Court Records** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0521f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Landlord and Tenant - Repossession for Failure to Pay Rent - Shielding of Court Records** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0521t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **92–38** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **40–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Amprey — primary (person)
+- Bartlett — primary (person)
+- Chang — primary (person)
+- Charkoudian — primary (person)
+- Charles — primary (person)
+- Crutchfield — primary (person)
+- Cullison — primary (person)
+- Henson — primary (person)
+- Hill — primary (person)
+- Howell — primary (person)
+- K. Young — primary (person)
+- Landis — primary (person)
+- Lehman — primary (person)
+- Love — primary (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
+- Ruth — primary (person)
+- Shetty — primary (person)
+- Stewart — primary (person)
+- Terrasa — primary (person)
+- Williams — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-01-21** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-16** Hearing 3/02 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2022-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-03-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2022-03-21** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2022-03-21** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-23** Hearing 3/31 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2022-04-09** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-04-09** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-04-09** Second Reading Passed
+- **2022-04-09** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2022-04-09** Returned Passed
+- **2022-05-29** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 722 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f9cb0ddd-2f69-4a4e-a907-02b7467d112a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+