---
type: "Bill"
title: "Corporations and Real Estate Investment Trusts – Miscellaneous"
description: "Corporations and Real Estate Investment Trusts – Miscellaneous"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 781"
citation: "Maryland HB 781 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dumais"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-29"
last_action: "2021-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/209b1a53-9fc1-44d8-b5ba-45294160a2a7"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0781?ys=2021RS&search=True"
source_hash: "47b25f4919052a9a16093eba6f42ed79dfdd3917decc96513c32e02ceaed1b42"
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 781 (2021) — Corporations and Real Estate Investment Trusts – Miscellaneous

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Corporations and Real Estate Investment Trusts – Miscellaneous** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_779_hb0781t.pdf)
2. **First - Corporations and Real Estate Investment Trusts – Miscellaneous** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0781f.pdf)
3. **Third - Corporations and Real Estate Investment Trusts – Miscellaneous** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0781t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **118–13** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dumais — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-29** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-29** Hearing 2/17 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2021-03-03** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-04** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-09** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-09** Hearing 3/24 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2021-03-10** Hearing canceled
- **2021-03-10** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2021-04-02** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-05** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2021-04-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2021-05-30** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 779 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/209b1a53-9fc1-44d8-b5ba-45294160a2a7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).