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type: "Bill"
title: "Residential Leases - Late Payment Penalties - Calculation"
description: "Residential Leases - Late Payment Penalties - Calculation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 273"
citation: "Maryland HB 273 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Allen"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 20
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-10-14"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/38a71f59-45fb-4c96-acb7-342a47376bb4"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0273?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "96561df74b5349308dc44c69219ed85059e5c6c9d698536a8f174a50e1dc08f2"
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 273 (2025) — Residential Leases - Late Payment Penalties - Calculation
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Residential Leases - Late Payment Penalties - Calculation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_580_hb0273t.pdf)
2. **First - Residential Leases - Late Payment Penalties - Calculation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0273f.pdf)
3. **Third - Residential Leases - Late Payment Penalties - Calculation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0273t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **440** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **12112** (pass) · lower
- FLA Del. Adams /663027/1 — **3792** (fail) · lower
- FLA Del. Schmidt /193924/1 — **3892** (fail) · lower
## Sponsors
- Allen — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-10-14** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-15** Hearing 1/28 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-10** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-11** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-11** Motion Special Order until 02/12 (Delegate Adams) Adopted
- **2025-02-12** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-02-12** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-02-12** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-02-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-17** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-15** Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-04** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator Waldstreicher) Adopted
- **2025-04-04** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 580 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/38a71f59-45fb-4c96-acb7-342a47376bb4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).