---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Commercial Receivership Act"
description: "Maryland Commercial Receivership Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1065"
citation: "Maryland HB 1065 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commercial Law - Generally", "Civil Actions and Procedures", "Appeals", "Civil Actions", "Claims", "Commerce and Business", "Contracts", "Courts", "Credit", "Damages", "District of Columbia", "Hearings", "Mortgages", "Personal Property", "Personal Representatives", "Real Property", "Records", "Spouses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carey"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-08"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e882fef3-5aff-4f66-b19e-8a1b197d05c6"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1065&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "0e7fb68a841d6b4361540a2b714b27e0e6d432f7dad7ceee148950152a37fe52"
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 1065 (2019) — Maryland Commercial Receivership Act

## Version chain

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

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2019RS/bills/hb/hb1065f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Carey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-08** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-14** Hearing canceled
- **2019-02-14** Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-19** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-19** Favorable with Amendments {253391/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-19** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-20** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-20** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Rereferred to Finance
- **2019-04-03** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-04** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 284 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e882fef3-5aff-4f66-b19e-8a1b197d05c6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).