---
type: "Bill"
title: "Tax Sales - Homeowner Protection Program - Funding and Alterations"
description: "Tax Sales - Homeowner Protection Program - Funding and Alterations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 953"
citation: "Maryland HB 953 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Feldmark", "Kaiser", "Pasteur", "Woorman"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-31"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/939152ed-facc-4f55-9333-6a9520ce7dc6"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0953?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "575411a6fa36aea7909047c71d8338174ec39ed867218be056b0d6c88437a610"
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 953 (2025) — Tax Sales - Homeowner Protection Program - Funding and Alterations

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Tax Sales - Homeowner Protection Program - Funding and Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_647_hb0953t.pdf)
2. **First - Tax Sales - Homeowner Protection Program - Funding and Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0953f.pdf)
3. **Third - Tax Sales - Homeowner Protection Program - Funding and Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0953t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **134–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Feldmark — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Pasteur — primary (person)
- Woorman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-31** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04** Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-03** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 647 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/939152ed-facc-4f55-9333-6a9520ce7dc6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).