---
type: "Bill"
title: "Recreational Equality for Service Members Act"
description: "Recreational Equality for Service Members Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 494"
citation: "Maryland HB 494 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Allen", "Guyton", "Holmes", "Lehman", "R. Lewis"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-20"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02e0738d-af41-42ba-b974-a44c3cf43d13"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0494?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "184ddd370bc9cd274e5b5c9f57dd88c6c6742ef0ebb4c01b026cb2cf76890efc"
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 494 (2025) — Recreational Equality for Service Members Act

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Recreational Equality for Service Members Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_266_hb0494t.pdf)
2. **First - Recreational Equality for Service Members Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0494f.pdf)
3. **Third - Recreational Equality for Service Members Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0494t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Allen — primary (person)
- Guyton — primary (person)
- Holmes — primary (person)
- Lehman — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-22** Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 266 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/02e0738d-af41-42ba-b974-a44c3cf43d13`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).