---
type: "Bill"
title: "Human Services - Local Departments of Social Services - Audits"
description: "Human Services - Local Departments of Social Services - Audits"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 230"
citation: "Maryland SB 230 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-10-03"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c34598e7-4841-4885-8fe7-fc8db0212f19"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0230?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "d0add0d0976d7ce0ff061fdc2fb0d3c224c5cc9a5b3d307d7bab8459b96cb04a"
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 230 (2025) — Human Services - Local Departments of Social Services - Audits

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Human Services - Local Departments of Social Services - Audits** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_418_sb0230t.pdf)
2. **First - Human Services - Local Departments of Social Services - Audits** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0230f.pdf)
3. **Third - Human Services - Local Departments of Social Services - Audits** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0230t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **133–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chair, Finance Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-10-03** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-14** Hearing 1/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-11** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-02-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-14** 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
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 418 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c34598e7-4841-4885-8fe7-fc8db0212f19`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).