---
type: "Bill"
title: "Hospitals - Medical Debt Collection - Sale of Patient Debt"
description: "Hospitals - Medical Debt Collection - Sale of Patient Debt"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 765"
citation: "Maryland HB 765 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Cullison", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Ivey", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Lopez", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "Rosenberg", "Ross", "S. Johnson", "Spiegel", "Taveras", "White Holland", "Woods", "Woorman"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-29"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9eb8568c-0abf-4bfe-b972-42bd89e3276c"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0765?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "5fa41dbe8e5a0d65bbfa6e4f06830a40ef7168f1c8045afbc6dc792542bb3b22"
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 765 (2025) — Hospitals - Medical Debt Collection - Sale of Patient Debt

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Hospitals - Medical Debt Collection - Sale of Patient Debt** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_750_hb0765t.pdf)
2. **First - Hospitals - Medical Debt Collection - Sale of Patient Debt** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0765f.pdf)
3. **Third - Hospitals - Medical Debt Collection - Sale of Patient Debt** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0765t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **34–12** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **103–36** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alston — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Ivey — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- Ross — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Spiegel — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)
- Woorman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-29** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04** Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-31** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 750 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9eb8568c-0abf-4bfe-b972-42bd89e3276c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).