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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Home Energy Assistance - Critical Medical Needs Program"
+description: "Home Energy Assistance - Critical Medical Needs Program"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 425"
+citation: "Maryland SB 425 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Utility Regulation", "Social Services - Generally", "Energy", "Administrative Agencies", "Disabilities", "Diseases", "Energy Matters", "Equipment", "Fuel", "Health", "Human Services", "Department of", "Legal Aid", "Nonprofit Organizations", "Rules and Regulations", "Utilities"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Benson"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-02-01"
+last_action: "2019-04-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/926f5510-192a-4f75-b714-3b5e5b5623db"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB425&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "7d6d9c34216fc5b9334b2910f1c58b3389d35c57017ae01bc4a32199f2dfb8ff"
+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 SB 425 (2019) — Home Energy Assistance - Critical Medical Needs Program
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2019RS/bills/sb/sb0425f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Benson — primary (person)
+- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
+- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
+- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
+- Kramer — cosponsor (person)
+- Lee — cosponsor (person)
+- Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
+- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
+- Washington — cosponsor (person)
+- Young — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-01** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-14** Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-05** Favorable with Amendments {837578/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-03-07** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2019-03-08** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-14** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-14** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-14** Second Reading Passed
+- **2019-03-15** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
+- **2019-03-18** Returned Passed
+- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 283 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/926f5510-192a-4f75-b714-3b5e5b5623db`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+