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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Registered Apprenticeship Investments for a Stronger Economy (RAISE) Act"
+description: "Registered Apprenticeship Investments for a Stronger Economy (RAISE) Act"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 431"
+citation: "Maryland SB 431 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Administration", "Augustine", "Brooks", "Carozza", "Charles", "Gile", "Henson", "Hettleman", "James", "King", "M. Washington", "President", "West"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-21"
+last_action: "2025-04-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/34843716-2ecb-4432-b013-e6ca137e729e"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0431?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "22a4f510ad34f37d02802b6807c0f1cbce1d3d1711440ea68f18e6bd3711913f"
+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 431 (2025) — Registered Apprenticeship Investments for a Stronger Economy (RAISE) Act
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Registered Apprenticeship Investments for a Stronger Economy (RAISE) Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_2_sb0431t.pdf)
+2. **First - Registered Apprenticeship Investments for a Stronger Economy (RAISE) Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0431f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Registered Apprenticeship Investments for a Stronger Economy (RAISE) Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0431t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **33–9** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **104–31** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Administration — primary (person)
+- Augustine — primary (person)
+- Brooks — primary (person)
+- Carozza — primary (person)
+- Charles — primary (person)
+- Gile — primary (person)
+- Henson — primary (person)
+- Hettleman — primary (person)
+- James — primary (person)
+- King — primary (person)
+- M. Washington — primary (person)
+- President — primary (person)
+- West — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-21** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-03** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-03-17** Referred Economic Matters `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **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 2 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/34843716-2ecb-4432-b013-e6ca137e729e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+