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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Adult Protective Services - Investigations and Disclosure of Information"
+description: "Adult Protective Services - Investigations and Disclosure of Information"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 542"
+citation: "Maryland HB 542 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Crutchfield"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2025-01-22"
+last_action: "2025-05-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/00043af3-835d-4b1c-9910-9b796a08d5f8"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0542?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "6b57a979d823a558da105e5e1c804974b77c6f84687d6fef4c01df1809e11bd1"
+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 542 (2025) — Adult Protective Services - Investigations and Disclosure of Information
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Adult Protective Services - Investigations and Disclosure of Information** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_500_hb0542t.pdf)
+2. **First - Adult Protective Services - Investigations and Disclosure of Information** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0542f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Adult Protective Services - Investigations and Disclosure of Information** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0542t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Crutchfield — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-22** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-27** Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-03-10** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-11** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-03-12** 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
+- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 500 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/00043af3-835d-4b1c-9910-9b796a08d5f8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+