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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning, and Refrigeration Contractors - License Restoration"
+description: "Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning, and Refrigeration Contractors - License Restoration"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 263"
+citation: "Maryland SB 263 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: []
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-10-12"
+last_action: "2025-04-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/63322407-bf3c-4bdb-a403-a2ac1020f338"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0263?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "c8a4b0fd8ad4d393282824054814f7bca6244c7b6285e94dd305ca038f6dcba7"
+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 263 (2025) — Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning, and Refrigeration Contractors - License Restoration
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning, and Refrigeration Contractors - License Restoration** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_86_sb0263t.pdf)
+2. **First - Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning, and Refrigeration Contractors - License Restoration** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0263f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning, and Refrigeration Contractors - License Restoration** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0263t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **46–1** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chair, Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee — primary (organization)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-10-12** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2025-01-08** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-14** Hearing 1/30 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-03-11** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-12** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-12** Second Reading Passed
+- **2025-03-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-03-13** Referred Economic Matters `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-31** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-31** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-01** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
+- **2025-04-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 86 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/63322407-bf3c-4bdb-a403-a2ac1020f338`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+