---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Protecting Opportunities and Regional Trade (PORT) Act - Reports of Attorney General - Frequency"
description: "Maryland Protecting Opportunities and Regional Trade (PORT) Act - Reports of Attorney General - Frequency"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 285"
citation: "Maryland SB 285 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Office of the Attorney General"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-10"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/09ce0a25-0448-405e-93a3-6bf8746229af"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0285?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "109b253f606ab63ed0c028bb119c09ce641f51d322d5366f7b641cacb3e17616"
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 285 (2025) — Maryland Protecting Opportunities and Regional Trade (PORT) Act - Reports of Attorney General - Frequency

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Maryland Protecting Opportunities and Regional Trade (PORT) Act - Reports of Attorney General - Frequency** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_98_sb0285t.pdf)
2. **First - Attorney General - Collapse of Francis Scott Key Bridge - Reporting** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0285f.pdf)
3. **Third - Maryland Protecting Opportunities and Regional Trade (PORT) Act - Reports of Attorney General - Frequency** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0285t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chair, Finance Committee — primary (organization)
- Office of the Attorney General — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-10** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-14** Hearing 1/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-11** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-02-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-14** 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
- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 98 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/09ce0a25-0448-405e-93a3-6bf8746229af`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).