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Bill	Landlord and Tenant – Residential Tenants – Access to Counsel	Landlord and Tenant – Residential Tenants – Access to Counsel	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2021	HB 18	Maryland HB 18 (2021)	bill		enacted	Rosenberg Stewart W. Fisher Wilkins	4	22	6	2020-10-30	2021-05-30	openstates	ocd-bill/d2dd2c1f-cb60-4592-9bb5-af3644bf3368	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0018?ys=2021RS&search=True	00a6ba54e6c35e7b77d5050261254a117314f47cf47c05461ce9f68ffbe7995b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 18 (2021) — Landlord and Tenant – Residential Tenants – Access to Counsel

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Landlord and Tenant – Residential Tenants – Access to Counsel (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled - Landlord and Tenant - Residential Tenants - Right to Counsel (committee substitute) — source
3. First - Landlord and Tenant – Eviction Action – Right to Counsel (committee substitute) — source
4. Third - Landlord and Tenant - Residential Tenants - Right to Counsel (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• FLA Del. Morgan /393322/1 — 44–88 (fail) · lower
• FLA Del. Chisholm /403922/1 — 35–88 (fail) · lower
• FLA Del. Buckel /883227/1 — 46–86 (fail) · lower
• On Third Reading (Amend) — 30–15 (pass) · upper
• On Third Reading — 95–42 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — 94–43 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Rosenberg — primary (person)
• Stewart — primary (person)
• W. Fisher — primary (person)
• Wilkins — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-10-30 Pre-filed introduction
• 2021-01-13 First Reading Judiciary referral-committee
• 2021-01-26 Hearing 2/17 at 1:30 p.m.
• 2021-03-16 Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-16 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-16 Motion Special Order until Next Session (Delegate Buckel) Adopted
• 2021-03-17 Floor Amendment {
• 2021-03-17 Floor Amendment {
• 2021-03-17 Floor Amendment {
• 2021-03-17 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2021-03-18 Motion Vote Previous Question (Delegate Lierman) Adopted
• 2021-03-18 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2021-03-19 Referred Judicial Proceedings Budget and Taxation referral-committee
• 2021-04-09 Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-09 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-09 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2021-04-10 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2021-04-12 House Concurs Senate Amendments
• 2021-04-12 Motion Vote Previous Question (Delegate Pena-Melnyk) Adopted
• 2021-04-12 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2021-04-12 Passed Enrolled
• 2021-05-30 Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 746 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d2dd2c1f-cb60-4592-9bb5-af3644bf3368. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).