---
type: "Bill"
title: "Electric Companies - Regional Transmission Organizations - Report (Utility Transparency and Accountability Act)"
description: "Electric Companies - Regional Transmission Organizations - Report (Utility Transparency and Accountability Act)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 37"
citation: "Maryland SB 37 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Attar", "Augustine", "Brooks", "Hester", "Kagan", "M. Washington", "Simonaire"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-11-01"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f3b9876e-9384-43ea-afe6-5f8cbcd71743"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0037?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "8c38ac4d2287e6c39c30ad0b6e80d80637283bb3248aded13652a805ca6da901"
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 37 (2025) — Electric Companies - Regional Transmission Organizations - Report (Utility Transparency and Accountability Act)

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Electric Companies - Regional Transmission Organizations - Report (Utility Transparency and Accountability Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_438_sb0037t.pdf)
2. **First - Electric Companies - Regional Transmission Organizations - Report (Utility Transparency and Accountability Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0037f.pdf)
3. **Third - Electric Companies - Regional Transmission Organizations - Report (Utility Transparency and Accountability Act)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0037t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Attar — primary (person)
- Augustine — primary (person)
- Brooks — primary (person)
- Hester — primary (person)
- Kagan — primary (person)
- M. Washington — primary (person)
- Simonaire — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-11-01** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-27** Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 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 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
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 438 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f3b9876e-9384-43ea-afe6-5f8cbcd71743`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).