---
type: "Bill"
title: "Cannabis - Sale and Distribution - Tetrahydrocannabinol Offenses"
description: "Cannabis - Sale and Distribution - Tetrahydrocannabinol Offenses"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 12"
citation: "Maryland HB 12 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-09-19"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/36ad21d5-a94d-47de-9446-1a9d1192e63b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0012?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "7022d61b6ebdf493b997b54883df784b474eb989db038801d8d229a32cd1ef3e"
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 HB 12 (2025) — Cannabis - Sale and Distribution - Tetrahydrocannabinol Offenses

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - Cannabis - Sale and Distribution - Tetrahydrocannabinol Offenses** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_57_hb0012t.pdf)
2. **First - Cannabis - Sale and Distribution - Tetrahydrocannabinol Offenses** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0012f.pdf)
3. **Third - Cannabis - Sale and Distribution - Tetrahydrocannabinol Offenses** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0012t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **96–36** (pass) · lower
- HB 12 HB 100 HB 158 HB 968 HB 1450 — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chair, Economic Matters Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2024-09-19** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-16** Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-03** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-25** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-01** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 57 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/36ad21d5-a94d-47de-9446-1a9d1192e63b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).