---
type: "Bill"
title: "Commercial Tenants - Personal Liability Clauses - Enforceability"
description: "Commercial Tenants - Personal Liability Clauses - Enforceability"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 719"
citation: "Maryland HB 719 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Moon"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-01-26"
last_action: "2021-12-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/035c3fae-2421-4886-902b-7d70d400a1ef"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0719?ys=2021RS&search=True"
source_hash: "254a293e2024b3b10394f036ae5e0eb19ec2ddae036b597a1e6f703f82611e59"
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 719 (2021) — Commercial Tenants - Personal Liability Clauses - Enforceability

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Commercial Tenants - Personal Liability Clauses - Enforceability** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/Ch_25_hb0719e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Commercial Tenants - Personal Liability Clauses - Enforceability** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0719e.pdf)
3. **First - Commercial Tenants - Personal Liability Clauses - Enforceability** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0719f.pdf)
4. **Third - Commercial Tenants - Personal Liability Clauses - Enforceability** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0719t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Emerg/Amend) — **45–1** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **106–31** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **124–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Moon — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-26** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-26** Hearing 2/10 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2021-03-20** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-20** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2021-03-22** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-22** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-10** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-10** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2021-04-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-12** House Concurs Senate Amendments
- **2021-04-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-12** Passed Enrolled
- **2021-05-28** Vetoed by the Governor (Policy) `executive-veto`
- **2021-12-06** Motion Special Order vote on veto until next session (Delegate Luedtke) Adopted
- **2021-12-07** Overridden `veto-override-passage`
- **2021-12-07** Overridden `veto-override-passage`
- **2021-12-07** Became law per Maryland Constitution, Chapter 25 of 2021 Special Session `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/035c3fae-2421-4886-902b-7d70d400a1ef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).