---
type: "Bill"
title: "General Provisions - Veterans Benefits - Honorable Discharge"
description: "General Provisions - Veterans Benefits - Honorable Discharge"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 491"
citation: "Maryland SB 491 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Attar", "Augustine", "Brooks", "Carozza", "Gile", "Hester", "Kagan", "King", "Kramer", "M. Washington", "Salling", "Waldstreicher"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-23"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e2cfcc75-1dad-4a6d-b050-3af0dfd78122"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0491?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "da376224b2206954302e39dad176465ad50cb9502cf78903d7030d1c8c45955d"
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 491 (2025) — General Provisions - Veterans Benefits - Honorable Discharge

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - General Provisions - Veterans Benefits - Honorable Discharge** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_271_sb0491t.pdf)
2. **First - General Provisions - Veterans Benefits - Honorable Discharge** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0491f.pdf)
3. **Third - General Provisions - Veterans Benefits - Honorable Discharge** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0491t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Attar — primary (person)
- Augustine — primary (person)
- Brooks — primary (person)
- Carozza — primary (person)
- Gile — primary (person)
- Hester — primary (person)
- Kagan — primary (person)
- King — primary (person)
- Kramer — primary (person)
- M. Washington — primary (person)
- Salling — primary (person)
- Waldstreicher — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-23** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** Hearing 4/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 271 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e2cfcc75-1dad-4a6d-b050-3af0dfd78122`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).