---
type: "Bill"
title: "Endangered and Threatened Species - Incidental Taking - Bats"
description: "Endangered and Threatened Species - Incidental Taking - Bats"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 894"
citation: "Maryland HB 894 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Arentz", "Arikan", "Behler", "Boyce", "Ghrist", "Hutchinson", "Jacobs", "Nawrocki", "Otto", "Schmidt", "Stewart", "Szeliga", "T. Morgan", "Valentine", "Wivell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-01-30"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/848bc7b1-6ab4-47dd-a943-9420afe85f0f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0894?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "a73b6ac216031546d727202a81022837975659f80b5792a02c9beabd23db83ee"
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 894 (2025) — Endangered and Threatened Species - Incidental Taking - Bats

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Endangered and Threatened Species - Incidental Taking - Bats** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_551_hb0894t.pdf)
2. **First - Endangered and Threatened Species - Incidental Taking - Bats** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0894f.pdf)
3. **Third - Endangered and Threatened Species - Incidental Taking - Bats** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0894t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Arentz — primary (person)
- Arikan — primary (person)
- Behler — primary (person)
- Boyce — primary (person)
- Ghrist — primary (person)
- Hutchinson — primary (person)
- Jacobs — primary (person)
- Nawrocki — primary (person)
- Otto — primary (person)
- Schmidt — primary (person)
- Stewart — primary (person)
- Szeliga — primary (person)
- T. Morgan — primary (person)
- Valentine — primary (person)
- Wivell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-30** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-31** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 551 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/848bc7b1-6ab4-47dd-a943-9420afe85f0f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).