---
type: "Bill"
title: "Municipalities - Annexation Resolutions - Submission to Department of Planning"
description: "Municipalities - Annexation Resolutions - Submission to Department of Planning"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 245"
citation: "Maryland SB 245 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-10-06"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5caacb05-ab00-4b29-b504-4b7e5e883c90"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0245?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "e25d6bd521452a48ee6814bf44c3da515b5c92d487650fb47fef429b5d1b3591"
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 245 (2025) — Municipalities - Annexation Resolutions - Submission to Department of Planning

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Municipalities - Annexation Resolutions - Submission to Department of Planning** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_60_sb0245t.pdf)
2. **First - Municipalities - Annexation Resolutions - Submission to Department of Planning** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0245f.pdf)
3. **Third - Municipalities - Annexation Resolutions - Submission to Department of Planning** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0245t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **132–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chair, Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-10-06** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-09** Hearing 1/21 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2025-01-15** Hearing canceled
- **2025-01-15** Hearing 1/21 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2025-02-10** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-11** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-11** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-02-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-14** Referred Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-28** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-31** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 60 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5caacb05-ab00-4b29-b504-4b7e5e883c90`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).