---
type: "Bill"
title: "Financial Institutions - Commissioner of Financial Regulation - Debt Settlement Services"
description: "Financial Institutions - Commissioner of Financial Regulation - Debt Settlement Services"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 59"
citation: "Maryland HB 59 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Financial Institutions", "Debt Collection", "Debt Management", "Financial Institutions", "Financial Regulation", "Division of", "Mortgages", "Prices", "Registration", "Rules and Regulations", "Time"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-17"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3d17035b-2c19-4e14-a201-c4ef82d9874d"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB59&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "9e9c6606bc0cef8fa7880030126ee980e68875341b6401c9201d97693e723e66"
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 59 (2019) — Financial Institutions - Commissioner of Financial Regulation - Debt Settlement Services

## 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0059t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chair — primary (person)
- Economic Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Labor — cosponsor (person)
- Licensing and Regulation) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-17** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-17** Hearing 1/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-01-21** Hearing canceled
- **2019-01-21** Hearing 1/30 at 3:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-14** Favorable with Amendments {213594/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-02-19** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
- **2019-02-20** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-12** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-25** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-28** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 90 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3d17035b-2c19-4e14-a201-c4ef82d9874d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).