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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Food Establishments - Portable Chemical Toilets"
+description: "Food Establishments - Portable Chemical Toilets"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 559"
+citation: "Maryland HB 559 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["T. Morgan"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-01-23"
+last_action: "2025-05-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb212624-a671-498a-8f4d-9ad225ef3058"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0559?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "fad4f126e854b5949b4c5e517e0510a278e7b2433c7fe371338496e64a3a01e9"
+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 559 (2025) — Food Establishments - Portable Chemical Toilets
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Food Establishments - Portable Chemical Toilets** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_762_hb0559e.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled - Food Establishments - Portable Chemical Toilets** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0559e.pdf)
+3. **First - Food Establishments - Portable Chemical Toilets** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0559f.pdf)
+4. **Third - Food Establishments - Portable Chemical Toilets** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0559t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading (Amend) — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **138–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- T. Morgan — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-23** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-29** Hearing 2/05 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-02-03** Hearing canceled
+- **2025-02-03** Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-02-19** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-20** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-20** Second Reading Passed
+- **2025-02-25** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-02-26** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-24** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-25** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-25** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-03-28** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-01** House Concurs Senate Amendments
+- **2025-04-01** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-01** Passed Enrolled
+- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 762 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eb212624-a671-498a-8f4d-9ad225ef3058`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+