---
type: "Bill"
title: "Business Regulation – Licensing – Definition of Storage Warehouse"
description: "Business Regulation – Licensing – Definition of Storage Warehouse"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 968"
citation: "Maryland HB 968 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Johnson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-01-31"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/614f8709-fd93-4f15-a692-3c059ef6ce19"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0968?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "e3884d7b1fa84f15701d0e760148081cfe8180f4d3edf11e887c2c5addb75e01"
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 968 (2025) — Business Regulation – Licensing – Definition of Storage Warehouse

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Business Regulation – Licensing – Definition of Storage Warehouse** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_359_hb0968t.pdf)
2. **First - Business Regulation – Licensing – Definition of Storage Warehouse** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0968f.pdf)
3. **Third - Business Regulation – Licensing – Definition of Storage Warehouse** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0968t.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- A. Johnson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-31** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-03** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-25** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-01** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 359 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/614f8709-fd93-4f15-a692-3c059ef6ce19`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).