---
type: "Bill"
title: "Security Guards and Security Guard Employers - Registration, Certification, and Regulation"
description: "Security Guards and Security Guard Employers - Registration, Certification, and Regulation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 299"
citation: "Maryland SB 299 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carozza", "Feldman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-10"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8adca2cd-6cce-44c1-b062-e83a068503ca"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0299?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "85c5465d157bdaa7e1af97c95ad9099516c64b479fefeb8e73aeb66759480b19"
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 299 (2025) — Security Guards and Security Guard Employers - Registration, Certification, and Regulation

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Security Guards and Security Guard Employers - Registration, Certification, and Regulation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_703_sb0299e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Security Guards and Security Guard Employers - Registration, Certification, and Regulation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0299e.pdf)
3. **First - Cannabis Agents - Registration - Security Guards** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0299f.pdf)
4. **Third - Cannabis Agents - Registration - Security Guards** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0299t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading (Amend) — **135–0** (pass) · lower
- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **43–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Carozza — primary (person)
- Feldman — 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 Report by Finance `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 Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-21** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-01** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Senate Concurs House Amendments
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Passed Enrolled
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 703 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8adca2cd-6cce-44c1-b062-e83a068503ca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).