---
type: "Bill"
title: "Municipalities - Legislative Audit - Exemption"
description: "Municipalities - Legislative Audit - Exemption"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 962"
citation: "Maryland SB 962 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mautz"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7bab924f-3eb2-40a6-87d2-f325a5c112de"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0962?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "60ba55baa5cf1f7d5c212990e773df1d3a19e803b710d1e843d6955b896aef3b"
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 962 (2025) — Municipalities - Legislative Audit - Exemption

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Municipalities - Legislative Audit - Exemption** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_727_sb0962t.pdf)
2. **First - Municipalities - Legislative Audit - Exemption** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0962f.pdf)
3. **Third - Municipalities - Legislative Audit - Exemption** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0962t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **131–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mautz — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-03** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-05** Hearing 3/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-28** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `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 727 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7bab924f-3eb2-40a6-87d2-f325a5c112de`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).