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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Corporations and Associations - Limited Worker Cooperative Associations - Authorization (Maryland Limited Worker Cooperative Association Act)"
+description: "Corporations and Associations - Limited Worker Cooperative Associations - Authorization (Maryland Limited Worker Cooperative Association Act)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 144"
+citation: "Maryland SB 144 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["M. Washington"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2024-10-16"
+last_action: "2025-04-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7a3bcb97-21c4-4833-a262-ffa202e2d081"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0144?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "336946c4e30711cfafbf3eaab3c9fc6664243fc603fd3e2c51713274a5fbdbf3"
+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 SB 144 (2025) — Corporations and Associations - Limited Worker Cooperative Associations - Authorization (Maryland Limited Worker Cooperative Association Act)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Corporations and Associations - Limited Worker Cooperative Associations - Authorization (Maryland Limited Worker Cooperative Association Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_199_sb0144e.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled - Corporations and Associations - Limited Worker Cooperative Associations - Authorization (Maryland Limited Worker Cooperative Association Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0144e.pdf)
+3. **First - Corporations and Associations - Limited Worker Cooperative Associations - Authorization (Maryland Limited Worker Cooperative Association Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0144f.pdf)
+4. **Third - Corporations and Associations - Limited Worker Cooperative Associations - Authorization (Maryland Limited Worker Cooperative Association Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0144t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading (Amend) — **104–35** (pass) · lower
+- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- M. Washington — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-10-16** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2025-01-08** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-02** Hearing 1/09 at 2:00 p.m.
+- **2025-02-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-11** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-02-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-02-14** Referred Economic Matters `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-04** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-07** Senate Concurs House Amendments
+- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-07** Passed Enrolled
+- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 199 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7a3bcb97-21c4-4833-a262-ffa202e2d081`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+