---
type: "Bill"
title: "Somerset County - Salaries of Local Officials - Increase"
description: "Somerset County - Salaries of Local Officials - Increase"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 844"
citation: "Maryland HB 844 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beauchamp", "Hartman", "Otto"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-30"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/31009e44-33c8-439c-ab63-fc26b3411f15"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0844?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "6b69d054f6520633f2437fb9cacbe9dcca5c44c8c1b4d57f9eebd55090c29b4b"
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 844 (2025) — Somerset County - Salaries of Local Officials - Increase

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Somerset County - Salaries of Local Officials - Increase** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_400_hb0844t.pdf)
2. **First - Somerset County - Salaries of Local Officials - Increase** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0844f.pdf)
3. **Third - Somerset County - Salaries of Local Officials - Increase** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0844t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Beauchamp — primary (person)
- Hartman — primary (person)
- Otto — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-30** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19** Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-12** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 400 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/31009e44-33c8-439c-ab63-fc26b3411f15`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).