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type: "Bill"
title: "Real Property - Landlord and Tenant - Procedures for Failure to Pay Rent, Breach of Lease, and Tenant Holding Over"
description: "Real Property - Landlord and Tenant - Procedures for Failure to Pay Rent, Breach of Lease, and Tenant Holding Over"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 767"
citation: "Maryland HB 767 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Acevero", "Allen", "Atterbeary", "Behler", "Boyce", "Ebersole", "Fair", "Feldmark", "Foley", "Healey", "Hill", "Kaufman", "Lehman", "Palakovich Carr", "Pasteur", "R. Lewis", "Ruth", "Stein", "Stewart", "Terrasa", "White Holland", "Wilkins", "Williams"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-01-29"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/81f5c4f7-9bb0-49e3-abb7-08b9aa9af014"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0767?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "ee6b6b9b481a75f63079ac80d9a898d476594d5470b1af681b09ca3dfd03eec2"
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 767 (2025) — Real Property - Landlord and Tenant - Procedures for Failure to Pay Rent, Breach of Lease, and Tenant Holding Over
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Real Property - Landlord and Tenant - Procedures for Failure to Pay Rent, Breach of Lease, and Tenant Holding Over** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_563_hb0767e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Real Property - Landlord and Tenant - Procedures for Failure to Pay Rent, Breach of Lease, and Tenant Holding Over** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0767e.pdf)
3. **First - Real Property - Landlord and Tenant - Procedures for Failure to Pay Rent, Breach of Lease, and Tenant Holding Over (Tenant Possessions Recovery Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0767f.pdf)
4. **Third - Real Property - Landlord and Tenant - Procedures for Failure to Pay Rent, Breach of Lease, and Tenant Holding Over (Tenant Possessions Recovery Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0767t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **3212** (pass) · upper
- FLA Del. Adams /893023/1 — **3895** (fail) · lower
- FLA Del. Morgan, M. /583029/1 — **4190** (fail) · lower
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **9741** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **9342** (pass) · lower
- FLA Del. Long, R. /973624/1 — **3891** (fail) · lower
## Sponsors
- Acevero — primary (person)
- Allen — primary (person)
- Atterbeary — primary (person)
- Behler — primary (person)
- Boyce — primary (person)
- Ebersole — primary (person)
- Fair — primary (person)
- Feldmark — primary (person)
- Foley — primary (person)
- Healey — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- Lehman — primary (person)
- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
- Pasteur — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Ruth — primary (person)
- Stein — primary (person)
- Stewart — primary (person)
- Terrasa — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Wilkins — primary (person)
- Williams — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-29** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29** Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Motion Special Order until 03/15 (Delegate M. Morgan) Adopted
- **2025-03-15** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-03-15** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-03-15** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** House Concurs Senate Amendments
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Passed Enrolled
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 563 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/81f5c4f7-9bb0-49e3-abb7-08b9aa9af014`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).