---
type: "Bill"
title: "Business Regulation - Cellular Phone Carriers - Authorized Users"
description: "Business Regulation - Cellular Phone Carriers - Authorized Users"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 846"
citation: "Maryland SB 846 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hettleman"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a45aee8b-bfbe-4493-94fc-f6417061a107"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0846?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "30655871b5a7dd8c4a3f92ca9b23a7e466a956f6ef6389353ae6f2bec6b93f76"
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 846 (2025) — Business Regulation - Cellular Phone Carriers - Authorized Users

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Business Regulation - Cellular Phone Carriers - Authorized Users** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_334_sb0846t.pdf)
2. **First - Business Regulation - Cellular Phone Carriers - Service Contract Requirement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0846f.pdf)
3. **Third - Business Regulation - Cellular Phone Carriers - Authorized Users** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0846t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hettleman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-03** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06** Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-15** Referred Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-01** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `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
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 334 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a45aee8b-bfbe-4493-94fc-f6417061a107`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).