---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Tort Claims Act - Employees of an Office of a Sheriff"
description: "Maryland Tort Claims Act - Employees of an Office of a Sheriff"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 271"
citation: "Maryland SB 271 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["M. Jackson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-09"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ba3cbd6d-48ad-4df4-a8cc-f4ff7c386ba6"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0271?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "e478c9eddf8d9fe47309f490b519140b9de785508726c8310a2181325053a29d"
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 271 (2025) — Maryland Tort Claims Act - Employees of an Office of a Sheriff

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Maryland Tort Claims Act - Employees of an Office of a Sheriff** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_133_sb0271t.pdf)
2. **First - Maryland Tort Claims Act - Employees of an Office of a Sheriff** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0271f.pdf)
3. **Third - Maryland Tort Claims Act - Employees of an Office of a Sheriff** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0271t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- M. Jackson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-09** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-16** Hearing 1/29 at 11:00 a.m.
- **2025-02-10** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `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 Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-26** Hearing canceled
- **2025-03-26** Hearing 3/26 at 3:15 p.m.
- **2025-04-07** Favorable Report by Judiciary `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
- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 133 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ba3cbd6d-48ad-4df4-a8cc-f4ff7c386ba6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).