republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2025/hb-268.md

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Bill	Hospitals - Financial Assistance and Collection of Debts - Policies	Hospitals - Financial Assistance and Collection of Debts - Policies	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2025	HB 268	Maryland HB 268 (2025)	bill		enacted	Bagnall Bhandari Charkoudian Cullison Guzzone Hill Kaiser Kerr Lopez Martinez Pena-Melnyk Rosenberg S. Johnson Taveras White Holland Woods Woorman	3	13	2	2024-10-25	2025-05-20	openstates	ocd-bill/96290a76-175a-4191-b29c-286ba8eda1d3	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0268?ys=2025RS&search=True	809744b15111bb8a47b30c9faf4294e88879a1939cb8e797ccd05deab82bc114	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 268 (2025) — Hospitals - Financial Assistance and Collection of Debts - Policies

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Hospitals - Financial Assistance and Collection of Debts - Policies (committee substitute) — source
2. First - Hospitals - Financial Assistance and Collection of Debts - Policies (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Hospitals - Financial Assistance and Collection of Debts - Policies (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 111–24 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading — 40–7 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bagnall — primary (person)
• Bhandari — primary (person)
• Charkoudian — primary (person)
• Cullison — primary (person)
• Guzzone — primary (person)
• Hill — primary (person)
• Kaiser — primary (person)
• Kerr — primary (person)
• Lopez — primary (person)
• Martinez — primary (person)
• Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
• Rosenberg — primary (person)
• S. Johnson — 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.

• 2024-10-25 Pre-filed introduction
• 2025-01-08 First Reading Health and Government Operations referral-committee
• 2025-01-15 Hearing 1/29 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2025-03-03 Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-04 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-04 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2025-03-06 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2025-03-07 Referred Finance referral-committee
• 2025-03-24 Favorable Report by Finance committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-25 Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-31 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2025-04-01 Returned Passed
• 2025-05-20 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 693 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/96290a76-175a-4191-b29c-286ba8eda1d3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).