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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "General Provisions - Veterans Benefits - Honorable Discharge"
+description: "General Provisions - Veterans Benefits - Honorable Discharge"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 491"
+citation: "Maryland SB 491 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Attar", "Augustine", "Brooks", "Carozza", "Gile", "Hester", "Kagan", "King", "Kramer", "M. Washington", "Salling", "Waldstreicher"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-23"
+last_action: "2025-05-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e2cfcc75-1dad-4a6d-b050-3af0dfd78122"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0491?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "da376224b2206954302e39dad176465ad50cb9502cf78903d7030d1c8c45955d"
+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 491 (2025) — General Provisions - Veterans Benefits - Honorable Discharge
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - General Provisions - Veterans Benefits - Honorable Discharge** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_271_sb0491t.pdf)
+2. **First - General Provisions - Veterans Benefits - Honorable Discharge** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0491f.pdf)
+3. **Third - General Provisions - Veterans Benefits - Honorable Discharge** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0491t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Attar — primary (person)
+- Augustine — primary (person)
+- Brooks — primary (person)
+- Carozza — primary (person)
+- Gile — primary (person)
+- Hester — primary (person)
+- Kagan — primary (person)
+- King — primary (person)
+- Kramer — primary (person)
+- M. Washington — primary (person)
+- Salling — primary (person)
+- Waldstreicher — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-23** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-30** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `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 Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-18** Hearing 4/01 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2025-04-02** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
+- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 271 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e2cfcc75-1dad-4a6d-b050-3af0dfd78122`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+