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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Access to Counsel in Evictions - Task Force and Special Fund"
+description: "Access to Counsel in Evictions - Task Force and Special Fund"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 154"
+citation: "Maryland SB 154 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Guzzone", "Hettleman"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-10-30"
+last_action: "2025-05-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4388868e-e9a0-402b-8f52-9bd63caf9472"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0154?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "4ceb360dc6dd0d80f136f885a8e151bb9801c5126fce356fbafe0f2b00688a3f"
+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 154 (2025) — Access to Counsel in Evictions - Task Force and Special Fund
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Access to Counsel in Evictions - Task Force and Special Fund** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_457_sb0154t.pdf)
+2. **First - Access to Counsel in Evictions – Task Force Termination and Special Fund** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0154f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Access to Counsel in Evictions - Task Force and Special Fund** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0154t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **99–40** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **35–11** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Guzzone — primary (person)
+- Hettleman — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-10-30** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2025-01-08** First Reading Budget and Taxation and Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-08** Hearing 1/15 at 10:30 a.m. (Budget and Taxation)
+- **2025-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-17** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-03-18** Referred Appropriations Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m. (Appropriations)
+- **2025-03-26** Hearing canceled (Appropriations)
+- **2025-03-26** Hearing 3/26 at 2:30 p.m. (Appropriations)
+- **2025-04-07** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-07** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
+- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 457 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4388868e-e9a0-402b-8f52-9bd63caf9472`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+