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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Endangered and Threatened Species - Incidental Taking - Bats"
+description: "Endangered and Threatened Species - Incidental Taking - Bats"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 894"
+citation: "Maryland HB 894 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Arentz", "Arikan", "Behler", "Boyce", "Ghrist", "Hutchinson", "Jacobs", "Nawrocki", "Otto", "Schmidt", "Stewart", "Szeliga", "T. Morgan", "Valentine", "Wivell"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2025-01-30"
+last_action: "2025-05-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/848bc7b1-6ab4-47dd-a943-9420afe85f0f"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0894?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "a73b6ac216031546d727202a81022837975659f80b5792a02c9beabd23db83ee"
+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 894 (2025) — Endangered and Threatened Species - Incidental Taking - Bats
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Endangered and Threatened Species - Incidental Taking - Bats** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_551_hb0894t.pdf)
+2. **First - Endangered and Threatened Species - Incidental Taking - Bats** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0894f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Endangered and Threatened Species - Incidental Taking - Bats** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0894t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Arentz — primary (person)
+- Arikan — primary (person)
+- Behler — primary (person)
+- Boyce — primary (person)
+- Ghrist — primary (person)
+- Hutchinson — primary (person)
+- Jacobs — primary (person)
+- Nawrocki — primary (person)
+- Otto — primary (person)
+- Schmidt — primary (person)
+- Stewart — primary (person)
+- Szeliga — primary (person)
+- T. Morgan — primary (person)
+- Valentine — primary (person)
+- Wivell — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-30** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-31** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-03-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-04** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-03-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-03-07** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-31** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-04** Returned Passed
+- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 551 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/848bc7b1-6ab4-47dd-a943-9420afe85f0f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+