---
type: "Bill"
title: "Landlord and Tenant - Military Personnel - Limitation on Liability for Rent"
description: "Landlord and Tenant - Military Personnel - Limitation on Liability for Rent"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 851"
citation: "Maryland HB 851 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Real Property", "Armed Forces", "Landlord and Tenant", "Leases and Rent", "Liability", "Spouses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Folden"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-03"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff5f7f92-7661-446b-ba19-5b12a8e8bf43"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB851&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "e5662fb19f33694d54600de54c23b02fea6b7f89e9ac0ed3b71624198c33ae6e"
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 851 (2017) — Landlord and Tenant - Military Personnel - Limitation on Liability for Rent

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0851t.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Folden — primary (person)
- Anderton — cosponsor (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Arentz — cosponsor (person)
- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
- B. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Beidle — cosponsor (person)
- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
- C. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Carey — cosponsor (person)
- Carozza — cosponsor (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Flanagan — cosponsor (person)
- Ghrist — cosponsor (person)
- Glass — cosponsor (person)
- Holmes — cosponsor (person)
- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
- Jacobs — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Krimm — cosponsor (person)
- McComas — cosponsor (person)
- McConkey — cosponsor (person)
- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Miele — cosponsor (person)
- Otto — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- S. Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
- Vogt — cosponsor (person)
- W. Miller — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-02-03** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-27** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-28** Favorable with Amendments {220617/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-28** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-02** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-03** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-31** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-31** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 704 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ff5f7f92-7661-446b-ba19-5b12a8e8bf43`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).