---
type: "Bill"
title: "Tax Sales - Foreclosure of Right of Redemption - Naming of Defendants"
description: "Tax Sales - Foreclosure of Right of Redemption - Naming of Defendants"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 861"
citation: "Maryland HB 861 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxes - Property", "Death", "Estates and Trusts", "Foreclosure", "Tax Sales"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["D. Barnes"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-03"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ded2d03f-a0c5-4a5c-989e-f1f028b65f88"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB861&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "cddab4f883e416da70b2539b62b1c2daae5ab7e71fe5b6e74c7bc956e9c8220a"
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 861 (2017) — Tax Sales - Foreclosure of Right of Redemption - Naming of Defendants

## 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/hb0861f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- D. Barnes — primary (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
- Knotts — cosponsor (person)
- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-03** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-10** Hearing 3/02 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-05** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-05** Rereferred to Finance
- **2017-04-06** Reassigned to Budget and Taxation
- **2017-04-07** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 243 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ded2d03f-a0c5-4a5c-989e-f1f028b65f88`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).