---
type: "Bill"
title: "Real Property – Filing Fee for Residential Mortgage Foreclosure – Increase"
description: "Real Property – Filing Fee for Residential Mortgage Foreclosure – Increase"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 796"
citation: "Maryland HB 796 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harris", "Holmes", "J. Long", "Phillips", "Stinnett", "Woods"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-29"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b76a2f94-75a6-499b-acbc-fd674ff7e00a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0796?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "ec9a38adb98f727d68664d92ddebe0e4ffd1111d950b7c0a9721d0094264467b"
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 796 (2025) — Real Property – Filing Fee for Residential Mortgage Foreclosure – Increase

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Real Property – Filing Fee for Residential Mortgage Foreclosure – Increase** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_581_hb0796t.pdf)
2. **First - Real Property – Filing Fee for Residential Mortgage Foreclosure – Increase** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0796f.pdf)
3. **Third - Real Property – Filing Fee for Residential Mortgage Foreclosure – Increase** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0796t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **95–40** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **33–13** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Harris — primary (person)
- Holmes — primary (person)
- J. Long — primary (person)
- Phillips — primary (person)
- Stinnett — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-29** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-31** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-17** Hearing canceled
- **2025-02-17** Hearing 2/19 at 11:00 a.m.
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-26** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-26** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 581 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b76a2f94-75a6-499b-acbc-fd674ff7e00a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).