---
type: "Bill"
title: "Financial Institutions - Maryland Community Investment Venture Fund and Regulation of Entities - Revisions"
description: "Financial Institutions - Maryland Community Investment Venture Fund and Regulation of Entities - Revisions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 259"
citation: "Maryland HB 259 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-09-30"
last_action: "2026-04-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b5a445aa-6cff-4c2c-b1bb-bd7311bb5501"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0259?ys=2026RS"
source_hash: "2b3dbbec449bc523178eacfae88dbf024211b25bafd736157e433710a1f0f929"
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 HB 259 (2026) — Financial Institutions - Maryland Community Investment Venture Fund and Regulation of Entities - Revisions

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Financial Institutions - Maryland Community Investment Venture Fund and Regulation of Entities - Revisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_131_hb0259t.pdf)
2. **First - Financial Institutions - Maryland Community Investment Venture Fund and Regulation of Entities - Revisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0259f.pdf)
3. **Third - Financial Institutions - Maryland Community Investment Venture Fund and Regulation of Entities - Revisions** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/hb/hb0259t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **120–10** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chair, Economic Matters Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-09-30** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2026-01-14** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-19** Hearing 2/03 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-02-03** Hearing canceled
- **2026-02-03** Hearing 2/03 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2026-02-17** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-18** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-20** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-02-23** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-30** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-31** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2026-04-14** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 131 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b5a445aa-6cff-4c2c-b1bb-bd7311bb5501`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).