---
type: "Bill"
title: "Residential Property - Vacant and Abandoned Property - Expedited Foreclosure"
description: "Residential Property - Vacant and Abandoned Property - Expedited Foreclosure"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 1033"
citation: "Maryland SB 1033 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Real Property", "Abandoned Property", "Circuit Courts", "Citations", "Counties", "Financial Regulation", "Division of", "Foreclosure", "Mortgages", "Municipal Corporations", "Postal Service", "Public Officials", "Real Property", "Rules and Regulations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eckardt and Mathias"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-10"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/146f8e82-d734-4a41-9911-b713d68968f0"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB1033&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "6c9d4d632418c5ed9037f237258220d56e7801be7c7b1faeab39eacea18069b9"
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 SB 1033 (2017) — Residential Property - Vacant and Abandoned Property - Expedited Foreclosure

## 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/sb/sb1033f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Eckardt and Mathias — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-10** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-09** Rereferred to Judicial Proceedings
- **2017-03-14** Hearing 3/16 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-30** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Favorable with Amendments {668574/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-31** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-31** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-06** Rereferred to Environment and Transportation
- **2017-04-08** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 617 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/146f8e82-d734-4a41-9911-b713d68968f0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).