---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local Comprehensive Planning and State Economic Growth, Resource Protection, and Planning Policy - Planning Principles"
description: "Local Comprehensive Planning and State Economic Growth, Resource Protection, and Planning Policy - Planning Principles"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 286"
citation: "Maryland HB 286 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-10-06"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6f8b4be6-e23d-416d-804c-63559c5586d4"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0286?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "66bbe3598b09a43845e496367d4b175aa1067dddc1cb6c833a3d88674683bfbd"
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 286 (2025) — Local Comprehensive Planning and State Economic Growth, Resource Protection, and Planning Policy - Planning Principles

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Local Comprehensive Planning and State Economic Growth, Resource Protection, and Planning Policy - Planning Principles** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_63_hb0286t.pdf)
2. **First - Local Comprehensive Planning and State Economic Growth, Resource Protection, and Planning Policy - Planning Principles** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0286f.pdf)
3. **Third - Local Comprehensive Planning and State Economic Growth, Resource Protection, and Planning Policy - Planning Principles** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0286t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **96–39** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **37–10** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chair, Environment and Transportation Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-10-06** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-15** Hearing 2/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Motion Special Order until 03/05 (Delegate Ghrist) Adopted
- **2025-03-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-11** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 63 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6f8b4be6-e23d-416d-804c-63559c5586d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).