---
type: "Bill"
title: "Electric Companies - Regional Transmission Organizations - Report (Utility Transparency and Accountability Act)"
description: "Electric Companies - Regional Transmission Organizations - Report (Utility Transparency and Accountability Act)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 121"
citation: "Maryland HB 121 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charkoudian"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-09-11"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c884db80-cb36-4bb1-b35e-b9bafd5a0fe6"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0121?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "8c815d91c0c3c95b7cb55a334723663a4be0aff7f3e4e97123c5d99c22bed8a0"
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 121 (2025) — Electric Companies - Regional Transmission Organizations - Report (Utility Transparency and Accountability Act)

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Electric Companies - Regional Transmission Organizations - Report (Utility Transparency and Accountability Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_439_hb0121t.pdf)
2. **First - Electric Companies - Regional Transmission Organizations - Report (Utility Transparency and Accountability Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0121f.pdf)
3. **Third - Electric Companies - Regional Transmission Organizations - Report (Utility Transparency and Accountability Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0121t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **128–8** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Charkoudian — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-09-11** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-08** Hearing 1/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `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 Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 439 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c884db80-cb36-4bb1-b35e-b9bafd5a0fe6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).