---
type: "Bill"
title: "Courts - Baltimore City Jobs Court Pilot Program and Circuit Court Real Property Records Improvement Fund"
description: "Courts - Baltimore City Jobs Court Pilot Program and Circuit Court Real Property Records Improvement Fund"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 785"
citation: "Maryland HB 785 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. Lewis"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-02-03"
last_action: "2022-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e8dd14a8-b599-487e-8895-41b8c43b1bf0"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0785?ys=2022RS&search=True"
source_hash: "00ff4f5daa2a2f3ecc154797619ad85c500ee22cf83484252d723fec70c76d29"
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 785 (2022) — Courts - Baltimore City Jobs Court Pilot Program and Circuit Court Real Property Records Improvement Fund

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Courts - Baltimore City Jobs Court Pilot Program and Circuit Court Real Property Records Improvement Fund** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/Chapters_noln/CH_522_hb0785e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Courts - Baltimore City Jobs Court Pilot Program and Circuit Court Real Property Records Improvement Fund** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0785e.pdf)
3. **First - Baltimore City – District Court – Jobs Court Pilot Program** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0785f.pdf)
4. **Third - Baltimore City – District Court – Jobs Court Pilot Program** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/hb/hb0785t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **108–25** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **43–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **107–24** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- R. Lewis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-03** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-03** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2022-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-17** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-18** Referred Judicial Proceedings Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-08** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-08** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-08** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2022-04-09** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-11** House Concurs Senate Amendments
- **2022-04-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-11** Passed Enrolled
- **2022-05-29** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 522 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e8dd14a8-b599-487e-8895-41b8c43b1bf0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).