republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2025/hb-765.md

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Bill	Hospitals - Medical Debt Collection - Sale of Patient Debt	Hospitals - Medical Debt Collection - Sale of Patient Debt	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2025	HB 765	Maryland HB 765 (2025)	bill		enacted	Alston Bagnall Bhandari Cullison Guzzone Hill Ivey Kaiser Kerr Lopez Martinez Pena-Melnyk Rosenberg Ross S. Johnson Spiegel Taveras White Holland Woods Woorman	3	14	2	2025-01-29	2025-05-20	openstates	ocd-bill/9eb8568c-0abf-4bfe-b972-42bd89e3276c	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0765?ys=2025RS&search=True	5fa41dbe8e5a0d65bbfa6e4f06830a40ef7168f1c8045afbc6dc792542bb3b22	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 765 (2025) — Hospitals - Medical Debt Collection - Sale of Patient Debt

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Hospitals - Medical Debt Collection - Sale of Patient Debt (committee substitute) — source
2. First - Hospitals - Medical Debt Collection - Sale of Patient Debt (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Hospitals - Medical Debt Collection - Sale of Patient Debt (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 34–12 (pass) · upper
• On Third Reading (Emerg) — 103–36 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

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

• 2025-01-29 First Reading Health and Government Operations referral-committee
• 2025-02-04 Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2025-03-12 Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-12 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-12 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2025-03-13 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2025-03-17 Referred Finance referral-committee
• 2025-03-18 Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2025-03-31 Favorable Report by Finance committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-02 Favorable Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-02 Second Reading Passed
• 2025-04-03 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2025-04-03 Returned Passed
• 2025-05-20 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 750 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9eb8568c-0abf-4bfe-b972-42bd89e3276c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).