---
type: "Bill"
title: "Environment - Reservoir Augmentation Permit - Establishment"
description: "Environment - Reservoir Augmentation Permit - Establishment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 265"
citation: "Maryland SB 265 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-10-06"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/96d9a443-8ac9-4e68-86d3-47f1f653d5ac"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0265?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "fa5abd25e213cf7c1b7f7e2b9fd6de507670c1df293242675d6b649610e1ddb3"
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 265 (2025) — Environment - Reservoir Augmentation Permit - Establishment

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Environment - Reservoir Augmentation Permit - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_442_sb0265t.pdf)
2. **First - Environment - Reservoir Augmentation Permit - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0265f.pdf)
3. **Third - Environment - Reservoir Augmentation Permit - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0265t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–1** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **104–36** (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`
- **2025-01-14** Hearing 1/14 at 2:30 p.m.
- **2025-01-14** Hearing canceled
- **2025-01-14** Hearing 1/28 at 2:30 p.m.
- **2025-02-24** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-25** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-25** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-02-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-28** Referred Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-03** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** 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 442 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/96d9a443-8ac9-4e68-86d3-47f1f653d5ac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).