---
type: "Bill"
title: "Department of the Environment - Fees, Penalties, Funding, and Regulation"
description: "Department of the Environment - Fees, Penalties, Funding, and Regulation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 250"
citation: "Maryland SB 250 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-10-12"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6c634cfb-656b-4aef-be4a-464b1c11170b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0250?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "4659d5ead265c05010f6b73ae7ece864d6b9b95b9e8dfc6cff520df91e751b4c"
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 250 (2025) — Department of the Environment - Fees, Penalties, Funding, and Regulation

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Department of the Environment - Fees, Penalties, Funding, and Regulation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_432_sb0250t.pdf)
2. **First - Department of the Environment - Fees, Penalties, Funding, and Regulation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0250f.pdf)
3. **Third - Department of the Environment - Fees, Penalties, Funding, and Regulation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0250t.pdf)

## Votes

- Floor Amendment Ready /403029/1 — **17–27** (fail) · upper
- On Third Reading — **96–44** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **33–14** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2024-10-12** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-23** Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Motion Laid Over (Senator Hershey) Adopted
- **2025-03-17** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-03-17** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-03-17** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-18** Referred Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-20** Hearing canceled
- **2025-03-20** Hearing 4/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-04** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `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
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 432 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6c634cfb-656b-4aef-be4a-464b1c11170b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).