---
type: "Bill"
title: "General Provisions - Veterans Benefits - Honorable Discharge"
description: "General Provisions - Veterans Benefits - Honorable Discharge"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 699"
citation: "Maryland HB 699 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Allen", "Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Boyce", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "D. Jones", "Ebersole", "Fair", "Forbes", "Guyton", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Lopez", "M. Morgan", "Martinez", "McCaskill", "Pena-Melnyk", "R. Lewis", "Reilly", "Rogers", "Rosenberg", "Ross", "S. Johnson", "Stein", "Szeliga", "Taveras", "Vogel", "White Holland", "Woods", "Woorman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-24"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c140786a-6383-463c-89de-150e019d82f1"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0699?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "903de5e3b8bcc3dfb8e40f329200e93c56b15f8a87067d1a185f846a9b397839"
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 699 (2025) — General Provisions - Veterans Benefits - Honorable Discharge

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - General Provisions - Veterans Benefits - Honorable Discharge** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_270_hb0699e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - General Provisions - Veterans Benefits - Honorable Discharge** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0699e.pdf)
3. **First - General Provisions - Veterans Benefits - Honorable Discharge** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0699f.pdf)
4. **Third - General Provisions - Veterans Benefits - Honorable Discharge** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0699t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Amend) — **41–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **139–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Allen — primary (person)
- Alston — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Boyce — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- D. Jones — primary (person)
- Ebersole — primary (person)
- Fair — primary (person)
- Forbes — primary (person)
- Guyton — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Hutchinson — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Kipke — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- M. Morgan — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- McCaskill — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Reilly — primary (person)
- Rogers — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- Ross — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Stein — primary (person)
- Szeliga — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- Vogel — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)
- Woorman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-24** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29** Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-05** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-04-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** House Concurs Senate Amendments
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Passed Enrolled
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 270 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c140786a-6383-463c-89de-150e019d82f1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).