---
type: "Bill"
title: "Food Establishments - Portable Chemical Toilets"
description: "Food Establishments - Portable Chemical Toilets"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 544"
citation: "Maryland SB 544 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bailey", "M. Jackson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-24"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e59ed688-1b2a-4aef-a02a-8194ff773ae0"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0544?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "6c5b527c214e559c1d6f03128f558c0d3fb22e2928265e64be53aaf6699433fc"
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 544 (2025) — Food Establishments - Portable Chemical Toilets

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Food Establishments - Portable Chemical Toilets** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_761_sb0544t.pdf)
2. **First - Food Establishments - Portable Chemical Toilets** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0544f.pdf)
3. **Third - Food Establishments - Portable Chemical Toilets** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0544t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bailey — primary (person)
- M. Jackson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-24** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-10** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Motion Special Order until 3/12 (Senator Ellis) Adopted
- **2025-03-12** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-03-12** Motion Laid Over (Senator Kramer) Adopted
- **2025-03-12** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-03-12** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-03-12** Motion Special Order until 3/13 (Senator Jennings) Adopted
- **2025-03-13** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-03-13** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-14** Motion Returned Second Reading (Senator M. Jackson) Adopted
- **2025-03-14** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** 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
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 761 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e59ed688-1b2a-4aef-a02a-8194ff773ae0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).