---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Schools - Restorative Practices Schools - Comprehensive Plan"
description: "Public Schools - Restorative Practices Schools - Comprehensive Plan"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 68"
citation: "Maryland SB 68 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Washington", "Brooks"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 26
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-10-14"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b4674547-580c-4367-9ac8-410468713394"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0068?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "924260efc928345afb5d5593e449d23bf1267b52ae1ae23ebbaf2dcaa9b2a6c9"
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 68 (2025) — Public Schools - Restorative Practices Schools - Comprehensive Plan

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Public Schools - Restorative Practices Schools - Comprehensive Plan** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_241_sb0068t.pdf)
2. **First - Public Schools - Restorative Practices Schools - Comprehensive Plan** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0068f.pdf)
3. **Third - Public Schools - Restorative Practices Schools - Comprehensive Plan** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0068t.pdf)

## Votes

- Floor Amendment Ready /673526/1 — **14–32** (fail) · upper
- On Third Reading — **31–13** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **97–39** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- A. Washington — primary (person)
- Brooks — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-10-14** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-13** Hearing 1/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-01-15** Hearing canceled
- **2025-01-15** Hearing 1/29 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2025-01-23** Hearing canceled
- **2025-01-23** Hearing 1/29 at 2:30 p.m.
- **2025-02-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-11** Motion Laid Over (Senator A. Washington) Adopted
- **2025-02-12** Committee Amendment {
- **2025-02-12** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-02-12** Motion Special Order until 2/13 (Senator Ready) Adopted
- **2025-02-13** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-02-13** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-02-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-02-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-19** Referred Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03** Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-05** Hearing canceled
- **2025-03-05** Hearing 3/19 at 2:15 p.m.
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 241 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b4674547-580c-4367-9ac8-410468713394`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).