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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Organized Retail Theft Act of 2025"
+description: "Organized Retail Theft Act of 2025"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 179"
+citation: "Maryland HB 179 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Grammer", "Hartman", "Kaufman", "Toles", "Wu"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2024-09-30"
+last_action: "2025-04-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e113a46a-9462-40b8-ada6-479fb516b9c3"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0179?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "e6e5369e8d4c61335c00ba9f0249dbbb8297a32bbfe8eb85fea7826895c0ad9e"
+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 179 (2025) — Organized Retail Theft Act of 2025
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Organized Retail Theft Act of 2025** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_192_hb0179t.pdf)
+2. **First - Organized Retail Theft Act of 2025** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0179f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Organized Retail Theft Act of 2025** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0179t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **132–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Grammer — primary (person)
+- Hartman — primary (person)
+- Kaufman — primary (person)
+- Toles — primary (person)
+- Wu — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-09-30** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2025-01-08** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-10** Hearing 1/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-02-24** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-25** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-02-28** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-27** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-27** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
+- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 192 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e113a46a-9462-40b8-ada6-479fb516b9c3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+