---
type: "Bill"
title: "Human Services - Adult Protective Services"
description: "Human Services - Adult Protective Services"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 246"
citation: "Maryland HB 246 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2024-10-09"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e1348c31-4e60-4f40-8bd7-d84fc681d1f0"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0246?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "543df6a02844f0b3c1530ed7b142002ef798e59cce2b5cc21f42f04aea73ef00"
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 246 (2025) — Human Services - Adult Protective Services

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Human Services - Adult Protective Services** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_37_hb0246t.pdf)
2. **First - Human Services - Adult Protective Services** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0246f.pdf)
3. **Third - Human Services - Adult Protective Services** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0246t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chair, Judiciary Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-10-09** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-10** Hearing 1/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** 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
- **2025-04-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 37 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e1348c31-4e60-4f40-8bd7-d84fc681d1f0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).