---
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: "SB 49"
citation: "Maryland SB 49 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Real Property", "Armed Forces", "Landlord and Tenant", "Leases and Rent", "Liability", "Spouses", "Veterans"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cassilly and Jennings"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2016-11-15"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e0c09f55-cdc8-4d51-89fe-ce8f7366fa15"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB49&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "1c6f478de891f5e932a1a96cb52923f89c7c7995b264045bd97b5a6a06750dfd"
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 49 (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/sb/sb0049f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **141–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Cassilly and Jennings — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-11-15** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-04** Hearing 1/24 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-14** Favorable with Amendments {268777/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-02-16** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-17** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-06** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (141-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 705 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e0c09f55-cdc8-4d51-89fe-ce8f7366fa15`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).