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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Military Department – Chief of Staff and Aides – Appointment Authority"
+description: "Military Department – Chief of Staff and Aides – Appointment Authority"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 255"
+citation: "Maryland SB 255 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: []
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-09-29"
+last_action: "2025-04-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/813efcc3-ce22-4338-94f3-ba56d8073fe5"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0255?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "82ae80b49d7a392e216901c9caaab8cdb89520070e3a8797f0db05b8929bb695"
+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 255 (2025) — Military Department – Chief of Staff and Aides – Appointment Authority
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Military Department – Chief of Staff and Aides – Appointment Authority** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_20_sb0255t.pdf)
+2. **First - Military Department – Chief of Staff and Aides – Appointment Authority** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0255f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Military Department – Chief of Staff and Aides – Appointment Authority** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0255t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **132–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chair, Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee — primary (organization)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-09-29** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2025-01-08** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-09** Hearing 1/23 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-02-03** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-04** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-04** Second Reading Passed
+- **2025-02-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-02-07** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-11** Hearing 3/18 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-03-28** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-28** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-03-31** Returned Passed
+- **2025-04-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 20 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/813efcc3-ce22-4338-94f3-ba56d8073fe5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+