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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Real Property - Landlord and Tenant - Procedures for Failure to Pay Rent, Breach of Lease, and Tenant Holding Over"
+description: "Real Property - Landlord and Tenant - Procedures for Failure to Pay Rent, Breach of Lease, and Tenant Holding Over"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 767"
+citation: "Maryland HB 767 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Acevero", "Allen", "Atterbeary", "Behler", "Boyce", "Ebersole", "Fair", "Feldmark", "Foley", "Healey", "Hill", "Kaufman", "Lehman", "Palakovich Carr", "Pasteur", "R. Lewis", "Ruth", "Stein", "Stewart", "Terrasa", "White Holland", "Wilkins", "Williams"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2025-01-29"
+last_action: "2025-05-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/81f5c4f7-9bb0-49e3-abb7-08b9aa9af014"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0767?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "ee6b6b9b481a75f63079ac80d9a898d476594d5470b1af681b09ca3dfd03eec2"
+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 767 (2025) — Real Property - Landlord and Tenant - Procedures for Failure to Pay Rent, Breach of Lease, and Tenant Holding Over
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Real Property - Landlord and Tenant - Procedures for Failure to Pay Rent, Breach of Lease, and Tenant Holding Over** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_563_hb0767e.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled - Real Property - Landlord and Tenant - Procedures for Failure to Pay Rent, Breach of Lease, and Tenant Holding Over** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0767e.pdf)
+3. **First - Real Property - Landlord and Tenant - Procedures for Failure to Pay Rent, Breach of Lease, and Tenant Holding Over (Tenant Possessions Recovery Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0767f.pdf)
+4. **Third - Real Property - Landlord and Tenant - Procedures for Failure to Pay Rent, Breach of Lease, and Tenant Holding Over (Tenant Possessions Recovery Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0767t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading (Amend) — **32–12** (pass) · upper
+- FLA Del. Adams /893023/1 — **38–95** (fail) · lower
+- FLA Del. Morgan, M. /583029/1 — **41–90** (fail) · lower
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **97–41** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **93–42** (pass) · lower
+- FLA Del. Long, R. /973624/1 — **38–91** (fail) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Acevero — primary (person)
+- Allen — primary (person)
+- Atterbeary — primary (person)
+- Behler — primary (person)
+- Boyce — primary (person)
+- Ebersole — primary (person)
+- Fair — primary (person)
+- Feldmark — primary (person)
+- Foley — primary (person)
+- Healey — primary (person)
+- Hill — primary (person)
+- Kaufman — primary (person)
+- Lehman — primary (person)
+- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
+- Pasteur — primary (person)
+- R. Lewis — primary (person)
+- Ruth — primary (person)
+- Stein — primary (person)
+- Stewart — primary (person)
+- Terrasa — primary (person)
+- White Holland — primary (person)
+- Wilkins — primary (person)
+- Williams — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-29** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-29** Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-14** Motion Special Order until 03/15 (Delegate M. Morgan) Adopted
+- **2025-03-15** Floor Amendment {
+- **2025-03-15** Floor Amendment {
+- **2025-03-15** Floor Amendment {
+- **2025-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-03-17** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-04** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-07** House Concurs Senate Amendments
+- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-07** Passed Enrolled
+- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 563 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/81f5c4f7-9bb0-49e3-abb7-08b9aa9af014`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+