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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Opioid Restitution Fund - Authorized Uses"
+description: "Opioid Restitution Fund - Authorized Uses"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 495"
+citation: "Maryland SB 495 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ellis"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-24"
+last_action: "2025-05-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/17554168-2a55-4fce-8c3c-d4c18f953cc6"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0495?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "7351e32698440f3a3ef71412096bffe0b9a8388030859c506830cf1279642de6"
+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 495 (2025) — Opioid Restitution Fund - Authorized Uses
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Opioid Restitution Fund - Authorized Uses** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_701_sb0495t.pdf)
+2. **First - Opioid Restitution Fund - Authorized Uses** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0495f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Opioid Restitution Fund - Authorized Uses** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0495t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **100–33** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **29–13** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ellis — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-24** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-27** Hearing 2/11 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 Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-17** Hearing 3/26 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
+- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 701 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/17554168-2a55-4fce-8c3c-d4c18f953cc6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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