---
type: "Bill"
title: "Financial Institutions - Commissioner of Financial Regulation - Mortgage Lenders, Loan Servicers, and Loan Originators"
description: "Financial Institutions - Commissioner of Financial Regulation - Mortgage Lenders, Loan Servicers, and Loan Originators"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 61"
citation: "Maryland HB 61 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Financial Institutions", "Banks and Trust Companies", "Financial Institutions", "Licenses", "Loans", "Mortgages"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-17"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4685e531-ba7c-49a4-87b7-1816fc219370"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB61&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "c5010e9116c915a28d02cd08ff6ecae0ff3161ddaf9707c3ff8f3eef441d8136"
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 61 (2019) — Financial Institutions - Commissioner of Financial Regulation - Mortgage Lenders, Loan Servicers, and Loan Originators

## 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/hb0061f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chair — primary (person)
- Economic Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Labor — cosponsor (person)
- Licensing and Regulation) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-17** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-17** Hearing 1/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-01-21** Hearing canceled
- **2019-01-21** Hearing 1/30 at 3:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-25** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-26** Favorable with Amendments {483296/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-26** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-02-28** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-01** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-12** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-25** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-28** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 92 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4685e531-ba7c-49a4-87b7-1816fc219370`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).