---
type: "Bill"
title: "Environment - Water Bottle Filling Stations - Requirement"
description: "Environment - Water Bottle Filling Stations - Requirement"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 96"
citation: "Maryland SB 96 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brooks"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-08-23"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/675d9e4a-bd3a-43fe-b9ce-c8d09c384568"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0096?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "c1213d01fc4c1c27cfc003be97d7e14bbedd33a30dd16dc369495d31cd28daec"
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 96 (2025) — Environment - Water Bottle Filling Stations - Requirement

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Environment - Water Bottle Filling Stations - Requirement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_548_sb0096t.pdf)
2. **First - Environment - Water Bottle Filling Stations - Requirement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0096f.pdf)
3. **Third - Environment - Water Bottle Filling Stations - Requirement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0096t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **108–31** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **34–12** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brooks — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-08-23** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-23** Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-28** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Motion Laid Over (Senator Ready) Adopted
- **2025-04-01** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Referred Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Rereferred to Environment and Transportation
- **2025-04-07** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 548 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/675d9e4a-bd3a-43fe-b9ce-c8d09c384568`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).