---
type: "Bill"
title: "Landlord and Tenant - Repossession for Failure to Pay Rent - Shielding of Court Records"
description: "Landlord and Tenant - Repossession for Failure to Pay Rent - Shielding of Court Records"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 521"
citation: "Maryland HB 521 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Amprey", "Bartlett", "Chang", "Charkoudian", "Charles", "Crutchfield", "Cullison", "Henson", "Hill", "Howell", "K. Young", "Landis", "Lehman", "Love", "Pena-Melnyk", "Ruth", "Shetty", "Stewart", "Terrasa", "Williams"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-21"
last_action: "2022-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f9cb0ddd-2f69-4a4e-a907-02b7467d112a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0521?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "2c48807dfd456428081df64559bfe4e7b25efebd93766b28049daf847b81ab59"
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 521 (2022) — Landlord and Tenant - Repossession for Failure to Pay Rent - Shielding of Court Records

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Landlord and Tenant - Repossession for Failure to Pay Rent - Shielding of Court Records** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_722_hb0521t.pdf)
2. **First - Landlord and Tenant - Repossession for Failure to Pay Rent - Shielding of Court Records** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0521f.pdf)
3. **Third - Landlord and Tenant - Repossession for Failure to Pay Rent - Shielding of Court Records** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0521t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **92–38** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **40–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Amprey — primary (person)
- Bartlett — primary (person)
- Chang — primary (person)
- Charkoudian — primary (person)
- Charles — primary (person)
- Crutchfield — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Henson — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Howell — primary (person)
- K. Young — primary (person)
- Landis — primary (person)
- Lehman — primary (person)
- Love — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Ruth — primary (person)
- Shetty — primary (person)
- Stewart — primary (person)
- Terrasa — primary (person)
- Williams — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-21** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-16** Hearing 3/02 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-03-21** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-21** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-23** Hearing 3/31 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-04-09** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-09** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-09** Second Reading Passed
- **2022-04-09** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2022-05-29** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 722 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f9cb0ddd-2f69-4a4e-a907-02b7467d112a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).