---
type: "Bill"
title: "Environment - Managed Aquifer Recharge Pilot Program - Establishment"
description: "Environment - Managed Aquifer Recharge Pilot Program - Establishment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1296"
citation: "Maryland HB 1296 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lehman", "Pruski"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-07"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c3d2e2e5-4486-43a5-8a94-57b45cd2daa0"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1296?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "5d9a56eb566835ed5b2492bf60ed0bbcfd55e0b7181c7af20e3a3b5e61e5576c"
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 1296 (2025) — Environment - Managed Aquifer Recharge Pilot Program - Establishment

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Environment - Managed Aquifer Recharge Pilot Program - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_474_hb1296t.pdf)
2. **First - Environment - Managed Aquifer Recharge Pilot Program - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1296f.pdf)
3. **Third - Environment - Managed Aquifer Recharge Pilot Program - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1296t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **104–35** (pass) · lower
- FLA Del. Chisholm /703323/1 — **35–99** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lehman — primary (person)
- Pruski — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-07** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-07** Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-15** Motion Special Order until 03/17 (Delegate Chisholm) Adopted
- **2025-03-17** Floor Amendment {
- **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`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 474 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c3d2e2e5-4486-43a5-8a94-57b45cd2daa0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).