---
type: "Bill"
title: "Federally Qualified Health Centers Grant Program - Acquisition of Land"
description: "Federally Qualified Health Centers Grant Program - Acquisition of Land"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 43"
citation: "Maryland HB 43 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Lewis"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2024-09-17"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/75f1ce21-52a1-46e7-b0af-3d6fad2ad7bd"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0043?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "411d3daf602fae2c7f7b01fd5718101a1f6ed1fa6284aef8127208b89d0a290b"
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 43 (2025) — Federally Qualified Health Centers Grant Program - Acquisition of Land

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Federally Qualified Health Centers Grant Program - Acquisition of Land** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_642_hb0043t.pdf)
2. **First - Federally Qualified Health Centers Grant Program - Acquisition of Land** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0043f.pdf)
3. **Third - Federally Qualified Health Centers Grant Program - Acquisition of Land** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0043t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **124–12** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- J. Lewis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-09-17** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-17** Hearing 1/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-01-24** Hearing canceled
- **2025-01-24** Hearing 1/28 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2025-02-17** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-18** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-20** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-21** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-25** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-01** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 642 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/75f1ce21-52a1-46e7-b0af-3d6fad2ad7bd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).