---
type: "Bill"
title: "St. Mary's County - Corrections"
description: "St. Mary's County - Corrections"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 485"
citation: "Maryland HB 485 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["St. Mary's County Delegation"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-20"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3ae014f1-565d-4d0c-aa21-48a27ddc92ce"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0485?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "080e01665a47fc82c45fe1622a88447d4b9c0bf8a0e63dc5ada0575343702eeb"
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 485 (2025) — St. Mary's County - Corrections

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - St. Mary's County - Corrections** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_131_hb0485t.pdf)
2. **First - St. Mary's County - Corrections** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0485f.pdf)
3. **Third - St. Mary's County - Corrections** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0485t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- St. Mary's County Delegation — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-27** Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-14** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-15** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-04** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 131 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3ae014f1-565d-4d0c-aa21-48a27ddc92ce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).