---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal Law - Controlled Dangerous Substances and Firearms"
description: "Criminal Law - Controlled Dangerous Substances and Firearms"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 413"
citation: "Maryland HB 413 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Clippinger", "Moon"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-16"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ad474c7e-24e4-4552-a659-93cee4e6c274"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0413?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "789ae7f0b7278cc996f0e74c080a47f8e1594732718b6ef2a271b52d3b2230d3"
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 413 (2025) — Criminal Law - Controlled Dangerous Substances and Firearms

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Criminal Law - Controlled Dangerous Substances and Firearms** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_136_hb0413t.pdf)
2. **First - Criminal Law - Controlled Dangerous Substances and Firearms** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0413f.pdf)
3. **Racial Equity Impact Note** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/Pubs/BudgetFiscal/2025RS-HB0413-REIN.pdf)
4. **Third - Criminal Law - Controlled Dangerous Substances and Firearms** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0413t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **38–9** (pass) · upper
- FLA Del. Rose /893925/1 — **40–97** (fail) · lower
- On Third Reading — **101–37** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Clippinger — primary (person)
- Moon — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-16** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-17** Hearing 2/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-12** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12** Motion Special Order until 03/13 (Delegate Rose) Adopted
- **2025-03-13** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-03-13** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-03-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-26** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-26** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 136 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ad474c7e-24e4-4552-a659-93cee4e6c274`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).