---
type: "Bill"
title: "Trafficking Regulated Firearms - Felony Classification"
description: "Trafficking Regulated Firearms - Felony Classification"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 443"
citation: "Maryland SB 443 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Folden", "James", "McKay", "Smith", "Sydnor", "Waldstreicher", "West"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-22"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/06ef1c1a-77c8-4694-84b6-537ea756ee7a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0443?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "7c67dcae4df140ef999621a96fae5fb691b7d07d46c44cc9bad8d169e44431a5"
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 443 (2025) — Trafficking Regulated Firearms - Felony Classification

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Trafficking Regulated Firearms - Felony Classification** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_465_sb0443t.pdf)
2. **First - Trafficking Regulated Firearms - Felony Classification** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0443f.pdf)
3. **Third - Trafficking Regulated Firearms - Felony Classification** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0443t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Folden — primary (person)
- James — primary (person)
- McKay — primary (person)
- Smith — primary (person)
- Sydnor — primary (person)
- Waldstreicher — primary (person)
- West — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-22** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-28** Hearing 2/05 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-02-20** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-21** Referred Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-26** Hearing canceled
- **2025-03-26** Hearing 3/26 at 3:15 p.m.
- **2025-04-01** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 465 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/06ef1c1a-77c8-4694-84b6-537ea756ee7a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).