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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Public Utilities - Generating Stations - Generation and Siting (Renewable Energy Certainty Act)"
+description: "Public Utilities - Generating Stations - Generation and Siting (Renewable Energy Certainty Act)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 931"
+citation: "Maryland SB 931 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Feldman"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2025-02-03"
+last_action: "2025-05-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/33f624de-c7ad-48dc-8fb9-45e722850e6f"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0931?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "eb21d8327a9dd73037cc983e36160c40e9b5d08885bd01fdd0e06a84ca725caf"
+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 931 (2025) — Public Utilities - Generating Stations - Generation and Siting (Renewable Energy Certainty Act)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Public Utilities - Generating Stations - Generation and Siting (Renewable Energy Certainty Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_623_sb0931e.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled - Public Utilities - Generating Stations - Generation and Siting (Renewable Energy Certainty Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0931e.pdf)
+3. **First - Public Utilities - Generating Stations - Generation and Siting (Renewable Energy Certainty Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0931f.pdf)
+4. **Third - Public Utilities - Generating Stations - Generation and Siting (Renewable Energy Certainty Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0931t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Floor Amendment Mautz /743821/1 — **11–25** (fail) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **35–11** (pass) · upper
+- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **33–10** (pass) · upper
+- Floor Amendment Hershey /963629/1 — **12–27** (fail) · upper
+- On Third Reading (Amend) — **97–39** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Feldman — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-03** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-10** Hearing 2/28 at 1:30 p.m.
+- **2025-03-31** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-31** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-31** Motion Laid Over (Senator Feldman) Adopted
+- **2025-04-01** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-01** Floor Amendment {
+- **2025-04-01** Floor Amendment {
+- **2025-04-01** Floor Amendment {
+- **2025-04-01** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-04-01** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-02** Referred Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-02** Rereferred to Economic Matters
+- **2025-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-03** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-03** Motion Special Order until 04/04 (Delegate Crosby) Adopted
+- **2025-04-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2025-04-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-07** Senate Concurs House Amendments
+- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2025-04-07** Passed Enrolled
+- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 623 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/33f624de-c7ad-48dc-8fb9-45e722850e6f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+