---
type: "Bill"
title: "Opioid Restitution Fund - Authorized Uses"
description: "Opioid Restitution Fund - Authorized Uses"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 495"
citation: "Maryland SB 495 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ellis"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-24"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/17554168-2a55-4fce-8c3c-d4c18f953cc6"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0495?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "7351e32698440f3a3ef71412096bffe0b9a8388030859c506830cf1279642de6"
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 495 (2025) — Opioid Restitution Fund - Authorized Uses

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Opioid Restitution Fund - Authorized Uses** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_701_sb0495t.pdf)
2. **First - Opioid Restitution Fund - Authorized Uses** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0495f.pdf)
3. **Third - Opioid Restitution Fund - Authorized Uses** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0495t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **100–33** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **29–13** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ellis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-24** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-27** Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `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`
- **2025-03-17** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-28** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-31** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 701 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/17554168-2a55-4fce-8c3c-d4c18f953cc6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).