---
type: "Bill"
title: "Economic Development - Small Business Guaranty Fund - Alterations"
description: "Economic Development - Small Business Guaranty Fund - Alterations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 601"
citation: "Maryland HB 601 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Amprey", "Boyce", "Conaway", "Crutchfield", "Pasteur", "Patterson", "Pena-Melnyk", "Phillips", "Roberson", "Ruff", "Simmons", "Taveras", "Toles", "Wells", "White Holland", "Woods"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-01-23"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2f9636e5-b5ec-434b-9adc-ae84018fa012"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0601?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "ecb7dc6b3d1f3ddc674ca8f20663ca8e1b2ad09054e2b8fba71b7f8cf02dab4c"
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 601 (2025) — Economic Development - Small Business Guaranty Fund - Alterations

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Economic Development - Small Business Guaranty Fund - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_3_hb0601t.pdf)
2. **First - Economic Development - Small Business Guaranty Fund - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0601f.pdf)
3. **Third - Economic Development - Small Business Guaranty Fund - Alterations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0601t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **135–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Amprey — primary (person)
- Boyce — primary (person)
- Conaway — primary (person)
- Crutchfield — primary (person)
- Pasteur — primary (person)
- Patterson — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Phillips — primary (person)
- Roberson — primary (person)
- Ruff — primary (person)
- Simmons — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- Toles — primary (person)
- Wells — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-23** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-31** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** 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 3 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2f9636e5-b5ec-434b-9adc-ae84018fa012`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).