---
type: "Bill"
title: "Organized Retail Theft Act of 2025"
description: "Organized Retail Theft Act of 2025"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 179"
citation: "Maryland HB 179 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Grammer", "Hartman", "Kaufman", "Toles", "Wu"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2024-09-30"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e113a46a-9462-40b8-ada6-479fb516b9c3"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0179?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "e6e5369e8d4c61335c00ba9f0249dbbb8297a32bbfe8eb85fea7826895c0ad9e"
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 179 (2025) — Organized Retail Theft Act of 2025

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Organized Retail Theft Act of 2025** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_192_hb0179t.pdf)
2. **First - Organized Retail Theft Act of 2025** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0179f.pdf)
3. **Third - Organized Retail Theft Act of 2025** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0179t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **132–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Grammer — primary (person)
- Hartman — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- Toles — primary (person)
- Wu — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-09-30** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-10** Hearing 1/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-24** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-25** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-28** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 192 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e113a46a-9462-40b8-ada6-479fb516b9c3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).