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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Electricity and Gas - Emissions Reductions, Rate Regulation, Cost Recovery, Infrastructure, Planning, Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard, and Energy Assistance Programs (Next Generation Energy Act)"
+description: "Electricity and Gas - Emissions Reductions, Rate Regulation, Cost Recovery, Infrastructure, Planning, Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard, and Energy Assistance Programs (Next Generation Energy Act)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 937"
+citation: "Maryland SB 937 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Attar", "Brooks", "Feldman", "M. Washington", "President", "Simonaire"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2025-02-03"
+last_action: "2025-05-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5efd1dd1-ddc0-442f-b66e-1e56a528d844"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0937?ys=2025RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "2f0bb4b4d82dab7ab0ffe4d676d6241d4e3015ba9a08448b3c22d6694f4a5177"
+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 937 (2025) — Electricity and Gas - Emissions Reductions, Rate Regulation, Cost Recovery, Infrastructure, Planning, Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard, and Energy Assistance Programs (Next Generation Energy Act)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Electricity and Gas - Emissions Reductions, Rate Regulation, Cost Recovery, Infrastructure, Planning, Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard, and Energy Assistance Programs (Next Generation Energy Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_625_sb0937e.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled - Electricity and Gas - Emissions Reductions, Rate Regulation, Cost Recovery, Infrastructure, Planning, Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard, and Energy Assistance Programs (Next Generation Energy Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0937e.pdf)
+3. **First - Public Utilities - Electricity Generation Planning - Procurement, Permitting, and Co-Location (Next Generation Energy Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0937f.pdf)
+4. **Third - Electricity and Gas - Emissions Reductions, Rate Regulation, Cost Recovery, Infrastructure, Planning, Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard, and Energy Assistance Programs (Next Generation Energy Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0937t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **36–10** (pass) · upper
+- Floor Amendment Hershey /823825/1 — **11–29** (fail) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **37–9** (pass) · upper
+- FLA Del. Grammer /813822/1 — **39–97** (fail) · lower
+- On Third Reading (Amend) — **97–39** (pass) · lower
+- Floor Amendment Hershey /133829/1 — **11–31** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Attar — primary (person)
+- Brooks — primary (person)
+- Feldman — primary (person)
+- M. Washington — primary (person)
+- President — primary (person)
+- Simonaire — 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 Augustine) 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** Floor Amendment {
+- **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 625 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5efd1dd1-ddc0-442f-b66e-1e56a528d844`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+