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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Environment - Water Bottle Filling Stations - Requirement"
+description: "Environment - Water Bottle Filling Stations - Requirement"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 277"
+citation: "Maryland HB 277 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Charkoudian", "Ebersole", "Fair", "Feldmark", "Foley", "Healey", "Lehman", "Palakovich Carr", "Ruth", "Stein", "Terrasa", "Vogel", "Wims", "Woods", "Woorman", "Wu"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-08-23"
+last_action: "2025-05-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eebe0266-03cf-4128-9564-43664be2a4f2"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0277?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "460770ed5963ecca6180efdffbed2714ba632669922255fbe8960a298dd7a44f"
+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 277 (2025) — Environment - Water Bottle Filling Stations - Requirement
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Environment - Water Bottle Filling Stations - Requirement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_547_hb0277t.pdf)
+2. **First - Environment - Water Bottle Filling Stations - Requirement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0277f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Environment - Water Bottle Filling Stations - Requirement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0277t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **105–30** (pass) · lower
+- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **33–12** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Charkoudian — primary (person)
+- Ebersole — primary (person)
+- Fair — primary (person)
+- Feldmark — primary (person)
+- Foley — primary (person)
+- Healey — primary (person)
+- Lehman — primary (person)
+- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
+- Ruth — primary (person)
+- Stein — primary (person)
+- Terrasa — primary (person)
+- Vogel — primary (person)
+- Wims — primary (person)
+- Woods — primary (person)
+- Woorman — primary (person)
+- Wu — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-08-23** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2025-01-08** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-08** Hearing 2/05 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-01-15** Hearing canceled
+- **2025-01-15** Hearing 2/05 at 2:00 p.m.
+- **2025-02-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-02-20** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-02-21** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-28** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-28** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-28** Second Reading Passed
+- **2025-04-02** Motion Special Order until 4/3 (Senator Folden) Adopted
+- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-03** Returned Passed
+- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 547 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eebe0266-03cf-4128-9564-43664be2a4f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+