---
type: "Bill"
title: "Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning, and Refrigeration Contractors - License Restoration"
description: "Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning, and Refrigeration Contractors - License Restoration"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 263"
citation: "Maryland SB 263 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-10-12"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/63322407-bf3c-4bdb-a403-a2ac1020f338"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0263?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "c8a4b0fd8ad4d393282824054814f7bca6244c7b6285e94dd305ca038f6dcba7"
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 263 (2025) — Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning, and Refrigeration Contractors - License Restoration

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning, and Refrigeration Contractors - License Restoration** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_86_sb0263t.pdf)
2. **First - Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning, and Refrigeration Contractors - License Restoration** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0263f.pdf)
3. **Third - Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning, and Refrigeration Contractors - License Restoration** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0263t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–1** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2024-10-12** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-14** Hearing 1/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-11** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-03-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-13** Referred Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 86 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/63322407-bf3c-4bdb-a403-a2ac1020f338`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).