---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Safety - 9-1-1 Trust Fund - 9-8-8 Suicide Prevention Hotline"
description: "Public Safety - 9-1-1 Trust Fund - 9-8-8 Suicide Prevention Hotline"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 421"
citation: "Maryland HB 421 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Johnson", "Kerr", "McComas", "S. Johnson", "Taveras"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-01-16"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02e7f953-aadd-4b2f-a364-962dd9f2723e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0421?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "db40caf28c056f1ee347448a14239ea948d983f6c4f6f3082e124cdf0617b74a"
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 421 (2025) — Public Safety - 9-1-1 Trust Fund - 9-8-8 Suicide Prevention Hotline

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Public Safety - 9-1-1 Trust Fund - 9-8-8 Suicide Prevention Hotline** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_13_hb0421t.pdf)
2. **First - Public Safety - 9-1-1 Trust Fund - 9-8-8 Suicide Prevention Hotline** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0421f.pdf)
3. **Third - Public Safety - 9-1-1 Trust Fund - 9-8-8 Suicide Prevention Hotline** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0421t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- A. Johnson — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- McComas — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-16** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-21** Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-24** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `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 Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `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 13 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/02e7f953-aadd-4b2f-a364-962dd9f2723e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).