---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Veterans Trust - Assistance to Members of the Maryland National Guard"
description: "Maryland Veterans Trust - Assistance to Members of the Maryland National Guard"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 246"
citation: "Maryland SB 246 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-10-30"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6fd1b9fb-07e5-4fbf-a97c-0abe468d3b5d"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0246?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "3c4075766cda98d3ec5e44a2a25043b68225a6b9eb2ab39b2099f353d529a045"
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 246 (2025) — Maryland Veterans Trust - Assistance to Members of the Maryland National Guard

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Maryland Veterans Trust - Assistance to Members of the Maryland National Guard** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_618_sb0246t.pdf)
2. **First - Maryland Veterans Trust - Assistance to Members of the Maryland National Guard** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0246f.pdf)
3. **Third - Maryland Veterans Trust - Assistance to Members of the Maryland National Guard** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0246t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2024-10-30** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-09** Hearing 1/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-24** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-25** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-25** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-02-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-28** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-05** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** 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 618 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6fd1b9fb-07e5-4fbf-a97c-0abe468d3b5d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).