---
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: "SB 566"
citation: "Maryland SB 566 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sydnor"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-24"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ccc738c-f48d-4d99-9190-9673ddf64a3c"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0566?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "fb0f92b103ee85e9958125d9ca96860ed28ba14e746df4ba60927bbeb34bce32"
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 566 (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_569_sb0566t.pdf)
2. **First - Real Property - Filing Fee for Residential Mortgage Foreclosure - Increase** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0566f.pdf)
3. **Third - Real Property - Filing Fee for Residential Mortgage Foreclosure - Increase** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0566t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **100–39** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **33–14** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Sydnor — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-24** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-28** Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.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 Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** 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 569 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0ccc738c-f48d-4d99-9190-9673ddf64a3c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).