---
type: "Bill"
title: "Domestic Partnership and Marriage - Required Information"
description: "Domestic Partnership and Marriage - Required Information"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 286"
citation: "Maryland SB 286 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["West"]
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/7acd47c6-1979-43eb-8655-989fd234d83c"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0286?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "fdd14df9819b15e21d4e2f869ce99bc66b51f45170583f6f6645703802bd7bda"
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 286 (2025) — Domestic Partnership and Marriage - Required Information

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Domestic Partnership and Marriage - Required Information** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_227_sb0286t.pdf)
2. **First - Domestic Partnership and Marriage - Required Information** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0286f.pdf)
3. **Third - Domestic Partnership and Marriage - Required Information** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0286t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **131–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- West — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-10** 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`
- **2025-03-31** Favorable Report by Judiciary `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 227 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7acd47c6-1979-43eb-8655-989fd234d83c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).