---
type: "Bill"
title: "Medical Debt - Complaints for Money Judgment and Real Property Liens"
description: "Medical Debt - Complaints for Money Judgment and Real Property Liens"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 428"
citation: "Maryland HB 428 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Attar", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Boafo", "Boyce", "Charkoudian", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Embry", "Fair", "Feldmark", "Forbes", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kaufman", "Kerr", "Lopez", "Martinez", "Palakovich Carr", "Pena-Melnyk", "Rosenberg", "Ruth", "S. Johnson", "Shetty", "Simpson", "Taveras", "Taylor", "Terrasa", "White Holland", "Wims", "Woods", "Woorman"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-01-16"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/252b5405-f875-4adf-81d6-bf0142243ce2"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0428?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "b133a5ce762426fbc96e49c588eaf95aef725ac5a054f16e2977e01074e0208f"
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 428 (2025) — Medical Debt - Complaints for Money Judgment and Real Property Liens

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Medical Debt - Complaints for Money Judgment and Real Property Liens** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_498_hb0428t.pdf)
2. **First - Medical Debt - Complaints for Money Judgment and Real Property Liens** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0428f.pdf)
3. **Third - Medical Debt - Complaints for Money Judgment and Real Property Liens** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0428t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alston — primary (person)
- Attar — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Boafo — primary (person)
- Boyce — primary (person)
- Charkoudian — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Embry — primary (person)
- Fair — primary (person)
- Feldmark — primary (person)
- Forbes — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Hutchinson — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- Ruth — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Shetty — primary (person)
- Simpson — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- Taylor — primary (person)
- Terrasa — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Wims — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)
- Woorman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-16** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29** Hearing 2/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-03** Hearing canceled
- **2025-02-03** Hearing 2/05 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-24** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-25** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-25** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-02-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-28** 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 498 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/252b5405-f875-4adf-81d6-bf0142243ce2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).