---
type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Social and Economic Mobility - Established"
description: "Department of Social and Economic Mobility - Established"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1253"
citation: "Maryland HB 1253 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Speaker"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-07"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1e73debf-5781-48c1-82be-f5e00e27b961"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1253?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "eac827271283399f3d5029da2d00d75983b22016a823735305c70a5a09d7704f"
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 1253 (2025) — Department of Social and Economic Mobility - Established

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Department of Social and Economic Mobility - Established** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_605_hb1253t.pdf)
2. **First - Maryland Department of Social Equity - Established** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1253f.pdf)
3. **Third - Department of Social and Economic Mobility - Established** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1253t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **101–37** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **33–14** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Speaker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-07** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-08** Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-12** Hearing canceled
- **2025-02-13** Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-05** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-05** Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-05** Motion Special Order until Next Session (Senator Hershey) Adopted
- **2025-04-05** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 605 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1e73debf-5781-48c1-82be-f5e00e27b961`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).