---
type: "Bill"
title: "Environment - Coal Combustion By-Products - Fees, Coordinating Committee, and Regulations"
description: "Environment - Coal Combustion By-Products - Fees, Coordinating Committee, and Regulations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 425"
citation: "Maryland SB 425 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["M. Jackson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-21"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/355b2c26-79b7-492e-96d7-f58842d5ebe6"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0425?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "f39b80a0a6180579e921ae16c702754d75fc2c6872c6ce3fb45c58d69c40304c"
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 425 (2025) — Environment - Coal Combustion By-Products - Fees, Coordinating Committee, and Regulations

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Environment - Coal Combustion By-Products - Fees, Coordinating Committee, and Regulations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_529_sb0425t.pdf)
2. **First - Environment - Coal Combustion By-Products - Fees, Coordinating Committee, and Regulations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0425f.pdf)
3. **Third - Environment - Coal Combustion By-Products - Fees, Coordinating Committee, and Regulations** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0425t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **98–33** (pass) · lower
- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **35–11** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- M. Jackson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-21** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-23** Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17** Motion Laid Over (Senator Hershey) Adopted
- **2025-03-17** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17** Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator Hester) Adopted
- **2025-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-17** Motion Rules Suspend Two Readings Same Day Const/Rule 24 (Senator Hester) Adopted
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-18** Referred Environment and Transportation Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m. (Environment and Transportation)
- **2025-04-07** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `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
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 529 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/355b2c26-79b7-492e-96d7-f58842d5ebe6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).