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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Hospitals - Medical Debt Collection - Sale of Patient Debt"
+description: "Hospitals - Medical Debt Collection - Sale of Patient Debt"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 765"
+citation: "Maryland HB 765 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Cullison", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Ivey", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Lopez", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "Rosenberg", "Ross", "S. Johnson", "Spiegel", "Taveras", "White Holland", "Woods", "Woorman"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-29"
+last_action: "2025-05-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9eb8568c-0abf-4bfe-b972-42bd89e3276c"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0765?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "5fa41dbe8e5a0d65bbfa6e4f06830a40ef7168f1c8045afbc6dc792542bb3b22"
+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 765 (2025) — Hospitals - Medical Debt Collection - Sale of Patient Debt
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Hospitals - Medical Debt Collection - Sale of Patient Debt** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_750_hb0765t.pdf)
+2. **First - Hospitals - Medical Debt Collection - Sale of Patient Debt** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0765f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Hospitals - Medical Debt Collection - Sale of Patient Debt** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0765t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **34–12** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **103–36** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alston — primary (person)
+- Bagnall — primary (person)
+- Bhandari — primary (person)
+- Cullison — primary (person)
+- Guzzone — primary (person)
+- Hill — primary (person)
+- Ivey — primary (person)
+- Kaiser — primary (person)
+- Kerr — primary (person)
+- Lopez — primary (person)
+- Martinez — primary (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
+- Rosenberg — primary (person)
+- Ross — primary (person)
+- S. Johnson — primary (person)
+- Spiegel — primary (person)
+- Taveras — primary (person)
+- White Holland — primary (person)
+- Woods — primary (person)
+- Woorman — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-29** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-04** Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-03-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-12** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-03-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-03-17** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-18** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-03-31** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-02** Second Reading Passed
+- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-03** Returned Passed
+- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 750 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9eb8568c-0abf-4bfe-b972-42bd89e3276c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+