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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Criminal Records – Expungement and Maryland Judiciary Case Search (Expungement Reform Act of 2025)"
+description: "Criminal Records – Expungement and Maryland Judiciary Case Search (Expungement Reform Act of 2025)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 432"
+citation: "Maryland SB 432 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Administration", "Charles", "Ellis", "Henson", "Hettleman", "King", "Love", "Muse", "President", "Smith", "Sydnor", "Waldstreicher", "West"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-21"
+last_action: "2025-04-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/27c46714-f6b8-4988-b87c-fd4e54a82c16"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0432?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "1596856e04b919153cf52d26d56532779e155064eb1f96806dfd41e7ffed88dc"
+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 432 (2025) — Criminal Records – Expungement and Maryland Judiciary Case Search (Expungement Reform Act of 2025)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Criminal Records – Expungement and Maryland Judiciary Case Search (Expungement Reform Act of 2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_95_sb0432t.pdf)
+2. **First - Criminal Records – Expungement and Maryland Judiciary Case Search (Expungement Reform Act of 2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0432f.pdf)
+3. **Racial Equity Impact Note** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/Pubs/BudgetFiscal/2025RS-SB0432-REIN.pdf)
+4. **Third - Criminal Records – Expungement and Maryland Judiciary Case Search (Expungement Reform Act of 2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0432t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **101–38** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **36–11** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Administration — primary (person)
+- Charles — primary (person)
+- Ellis — primary (person)
+- Henson — primary (person)
+- Hettleman — primary (person)
+- King — primary (person)
+- Love — primary (person)
+- Muse — primary (person)
+- President — primary (person)
+- Smith — primary (person)
+- Sydnor — primary (person)
+- Waldstreicher — primary (person)
+- West — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-21** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-24** Hearing 2/05 at 2:00 p.m.
+- **2025-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-13** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-03-15** Referred Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-04-01** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-02** Second Reading Passed
+- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-03** Returned Passed
+- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 95 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/27c46714-f6b8-4988-b87c-fd4e54a82c16`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+