---
type: "Bill"
title: "Residential Real Property - Local Limits on Summoning Law Enforcement or Emergency Services"
description: "Residential Real Property - Local Limits on Summoning Law Enforcement or Emergency Services"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 249"
citation: "Maryland HB 249 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Palakovich Carr"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-09-03"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/483ee3cc-56d1-494e-9937-3fbed9cab707"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0249?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "dba3f8f03ad78e5d58df11d3cc75bffaa5cb8bda467675a2a0c95f6620c7ffd0"
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 249 (2025) — Residential Real Property - Local Limits on Summoning Law Enforcement or Emergency Services

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Residential Real Property - Local Limits on Summoning Law Enforcement or Emergency Services** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_476_hb0249t.pdf)
2. **First - Residential Real Property - Local Limits on Summoning Law Enforcement or Emergency Services** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0249f.pdf)
3. **Third - Residential Real Property - Local Limits on Summoning Law Enforcement or Emergency Services** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0249t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **96–37** (pass) · lower
- FLA Del. Pippy /843728/1 — **38–94** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-09-03** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-10** Hearing 1/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-24** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-25** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-25** Motion Special Order until 02/26 (Delegate Pippy) Adopted
- **2025-02-26** Motion Special Order until 02/27 (Delegate Pippy) Adopted
- **2025-02-27** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-02-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-03-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-05** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 476 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/483ee3cc-56d1-494e-9937-3fbed9cab707`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).