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Bill	Mortgages and Deeds of Trust - Prerequisites to Recording	Mortgages and Deeds of Trust - Prerequisites to Recording	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2017	HB 595	Maryland HB 595 (2017)	bill	Real Property Attorneys Deeds Estates and Trusts Licenses Mortgages Recordation	enacted	McMillan	1	13	2	2017-01-30	2017-05-04	openstates	ocd-bill/ab90be51-bbf4-4040-b1e5-1292b963e6a8	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB595&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs	567216c4e9360e88c28eac859f3cd595c3e5bf31c7195f6156e70a046208f59b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 595 (2017) — Mortgages and Deeds of Trust - Prerequisites to Recording

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 134–0 (pass) · legislature
• Third Reading — 47–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• McMillan — primary (person)
• Beidle — cosponsor (person)
• Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
• Folden — cosponsor (person)
• Holmes — cosponsor (person)
• Jalisi — cosponsor (person)
• McComas — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-30 First Reading Environment and Transportation referral-committee
• 2017-02-01 Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2017-03-13 Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-03-14 Favorable with Amendments {960819/4 Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-03-14 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2017-03-15 Third Reading Passed (134-0) passage
• 2017-03-16 First Reading Judicial Proceedings referral-committee
• 2017-04-06 Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-04-07 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-04-07 Second Reading Passed
• 2017-04-10 Third Reading Passed (47-0) passage
• 2017-04-10 Returned Passed
• 2017-05-04 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 520 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ab90be51-bbf4-4040-b1e5-1292b963e6a8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).