---
type: "Bill"
title: "Medical Debt - Complaints for Money Judgment and Real Property Liens"
description: "Medical Debt - Complaints for Money Judgment and Real Property Liens"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 349"
citation: "Maryland SB 349 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Love"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-16"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/924a1d0d-5084-4aa2-8e1b-374b1549533d"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0349?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "9eefb8989eb8369b13afea5f940868d5f0f8f8a2454ae04ca38b144145b43831"
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 SB 349 (2025) — Medical Debt - Complaints for Money Judgment and Real Property Liens

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Medical Debt - Complaints for Money Judgment and Real Property Liens** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_497_sb0349t.pdf)
2. **First - Medical Debt - Complaints for Money Judgment and Real Property Liens** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0349f.pdf)
3. **Third - Medical Debt - Complaints for Money Judgment and Real Property Liens** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0349t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Love — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-16** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-20** Hearing 1/29 at 11:00 a.m.
- **2025-03-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-13** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13** Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-15** Hearing canceled
- **2025-03-15** Hearing 3/19 at 2:30 p.m.
- **2025-03-19** Hearing canceled
- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/19 at 2:15 p.m.
- **2025-04-01** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 497 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/924a1d0d-5084-4aa2-8e1b-374b1549533d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).