---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Schools - Restorative Practices Schools - Comprehensive Plan"
description: "Public Schools - Restorative Practices Schools - Comprehensive Plan"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 197"
citation: "Maryland HB 197 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Atterbeary", "Ebersole", "Fair", "Feldmark", "Mireku-North", "Palakovich Carr", "Pasteur", "Roberts", "Wells", "Wu", "Young"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-10-15"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f2360960-e564-48c7-8355-8f093f0715f9"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0197?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "f75dfc29223c433459f6f7d7ac389f822453070cc3112c11b793ceb57b2b6c36"
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 197 (2025) — Public Schools - Restorative Practices Schools - Comprehensive Plan

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Public Schools - Restorative Practices Schools - Comprehensive Plan** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_240_hb0197t.pdf)
2. **First - Public Schools - Restorative Practices Schools - Comprehensive Plan** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0197f.pdf)
3. **Third - Public Schools - Restorative Practices Schools - Comprehensive Plan** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0197t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **34–13** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **94–36** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Atterbeary — primary (person)
- Ebersole — primary (person)
- Fair — primary (person)
- Feldmark — primary (person)
- Mireku-North — primary (person)
- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
- Pasteur — primary (person)
- Roberts — primary (person)
- Wells — primary (person)
- Wu — primary (person)
- Young — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-10-15** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-15** Hearing 1/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-24** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-25** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-25** Motion Special Order until 02/26 (Delegate Fisher) Adopted
- **2025-02-26** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-02-28** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-03** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 240 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f2360960-e564-48c7-8355-8f093f0715f9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).