---
type: "Bill"
title: "Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning, or Refrigeration Contractors - Equipment Sales"
description: "Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning, or Refrigeration Contractors - Equipment Sales"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1162"
citation: "Maryland HB 1162 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stein"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-06"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dee1a708-0a43-4918-acc2-75cff882f1a6"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb1162?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "34ea164a7e60e3dd8ae8906366171691550bbddda3f760421fcf04da5f0ead83"
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 1162 (2025) — Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning, or Refrigeration Contractors - Equipment Sales

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning, or Refrigeration Contractors - Equipment Sales** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_386_hb1162t.pdf)
2. **First - Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning, or Refrigeration Contractors - Equipment Sales** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1162f.pdf)
3. **Third - Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning, or Refrigeration Contractors - Equipment Sales** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb1162t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **101–38** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **35–11** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Stein — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-06** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06** Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-15** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-05** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-05** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 386 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dee1a708-0a43-4918-acc2-75cff882f1a6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).