---
type: "Bill"
title: "Hospitals - Financial Assistance and Collection of Debts - Policies"
description: "Hospitals - Financial Assistance and Collection of Debts - Policies"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 268"
citation: "Maryland HB 268 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Charkoudian", "Cullison", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Lopez", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson", "Taveras", "White Holland", "Woods", "Woorman"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-10-25"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/96290a76-175a-4191-b29c-286ba8eda1d3"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0268?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "809744b15111bb8a47b30c9faf4294e88879a1939cb8e797ccd05deab82bc114"
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 268 (2025) — Hospitals - Financial Assistance and Collection of Debts - Policies

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Hospitals - Financial Assistance and Collection of Debts - Policies** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_693_hb0268t.pdf)
2. **First - Hospitals - Financial Assistance and Collection of Debts - Policies** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0268f.pdf)
3. **Third - Hospitals - Financial Assistance and Collection of Debts - Policies** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0268t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **111–24** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **40–7** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Charkoudian — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)
- Woorman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-10-25** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-15** Hearing 1/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-25** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-01** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 693 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/96290a76-175a-4191-b29c-286ba8eda1d3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).