---
type: "Bill"
title: "Federally Qualified Health Centers Grant Program - Acquisition of Land"
description: "Federally Qualified Health Centers Grant Program - Acquisition of Land"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 1005"
citation: "Maryland SB 1005 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Benson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-10"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e7b957ab-5e23-4031-b636-1fb3756fee15"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb1005?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "d85c1ea45732bc91d7d3b61739e2092d387878a656c2b16997d29fa66c8427c7"
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 SB 1005 (2025) — Federally Qualified Health Centers Grant Program - Acquisition of Land

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Federally Qualified Health Centers Grant Program - Acquisition of Land** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_641_sb1005t.pdf)
2. **First - Federally Qualified Health Centers Grant Program - Acquisition of Land** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb1005f.pdf)
3. **Third - Federally Qualified Health Centers Grant Program - Acquisition of Land** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb1005t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **127–10** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Benson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-10** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-21** Rereferred to Finance
- **2025-03-04** Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-14** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-04** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 641 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e7b957ab-5e23-4031-b636-1fb3756fee15`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).