Maryland legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Maryland HB769: Real Property - Residential Foreclosures - Commencement Restrictions
Status: Introduced, March 17, 2025
Establishing certain restrictions for the commencement of a foreclosure and an order to docket or a complaint to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on residential property.
What the bill says
From the chaptered text, March 15, 2025:
HB0769/313021/1 BY: Environment and Transportation Committee AMENDMENTS TO HOUSE BILL 769 (First Reading File Bill) AMENDMENT NO. 1 On page 1, in the sponsor line, strike "and Simmons" and substitute "Simmons, Behler, Boyce, Healey, T. Morgan, and Stewart"; in line 2, strike "Materially Delinquent Mortgages" and substitute "Commencement Restrictions"; in line 3, strike "altering certain requirements for" and substitute "establishing certain restrictions for the commencement of a foreclosure and"; strike beginning with "requiring" in line 4 down through "foreclosures" in line 8 and substitute "and generally relating to an action to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust"; in line 12, strike the second "and" and substitute a comma; in the same line, after "(b)" insert ", and (f)"; in line 17, strike "7-105.1(e)(1)" and substitute "7-105.1(e)"; and in line 22, strike "7-105.19" and substitute "7-105.1(e-1)". AMENDMENT NO. 2 On page 3, in line 14, in each instance, strike the bracket; strike in their entirety lines 15 through 21, inclusive; in line 22, strike "[2.] 3." and substitute "2."; in line 27, strike "and"; and after line 27, insert: "(2) Be accompanied by: (i) The original or a certified copy of the mortgage or deed of trust; (ii) A statement of the debt remaining due and payable supported by an affidavit of the plaintiff or the secured party or the …
Sponsors
- Dana Jones (D, HD-030) · primary sponsor
- Nick Allen (D, 8)
- Heather Bagnall (D, 33C)
- Sandy Bartlett (D, HD-032)
- Adrian Boafo (D, 23)
- Marvin Holmes (D, HD-023B)
- Lewis, J. (D)
- Andrew Pruski (D, HD-033)
- Kent Roberson (D, 25)
- Stuart Schmidt (R, HD-033)
- Gary Simmons (D, 12B)
- Dylan Behler (D, 30A)
Latest actions
- : Referred Judicial Proceedings
- : Third Reading Passed (139-0)
- : Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- : Favorable with Amendments {313021/1 Adopted
- : Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation
- : Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- : First Reading Environment and Transportation
- : Text - Third - Real Property - Residential Foreclosures - Commencement Restrictions
- : Vote - House - Committee - Environment and Transportation
- : Text - First - Real Property – Residential Foreclosures – Materially Delinquent Mortgages
Votes
- Third Reading Passed (139-0) (March 17, 2025): 139 yea, 0 nay, passed
Subjects: Communications -see also- ElecComm; Intergov; Telecom; etc., Mortgages, Time, Loans -see also- Credit; Mortgages; Scholarships&SFA, Residential Property -see also- Apartments; Condominiums, Real Property, Foreclosure, Financial Regulation, Division of
Common questions
- What is HB769?
- HB769 is a bill in the Maryland Legislature (2025 Regular Session): Real Property - Residential Foreclosures - Commencement Restrictions.
- What does HB769 do?
- Establishing certain restrictions for the commencement of a foreclosure and an order to docket or a complaint to foreclose a mortgage or deed of trust on residential property.
- What is the status of HB769?
- Introduced as of March 17, 2025. Latest action: Referred Judicial Proceedings (March 17, 2025).
- Who sponsored HB769?
- Dana Jones (D, HD-030), with 11 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for HB769?
- On the Maryland Legislature website: https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0769?ys=2025RS&search=True
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