---
type: "Bill"
title: "Corporations and Associations - Electric Cooperatives - Nonescheat Capital Credits"
description: "Corporations and Associations - Electric Cooperatives - Nonescheat Capital Credits"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 227"
citation: "Maryland HB 227 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Adams", "Crosby"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2024-10-01"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b10396ac-bef2-49a3-b1db-fb84a5b5aec1"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0227?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "df87a7ddc5a61519474ffcd42b24facb481df01d6d6e05ccb8f30fbfac5a6d83"
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 227 (2025) — Corporations and Associations - Electric Cooperatives - Nonescheat Capital Credits

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Corporations and Associations - Electric Cooperatives - Nonescheat Capital Credits** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_212_hb0227t.pdf)
2. **First - Corporations and Associations - Electric Cooperatives - Nonescheat Capital Credits** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0227f.pdf)
3. **Third - Corporations and Associations - Electric Cooperatives - Nonescheat Capital Credits** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0227t.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Adams — primary (person)
- Crosby — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-10-01** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-08** Hearing 1/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-10** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-11** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-14** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 212 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b10396ac-bef2-49a3-b1db-fb84a5b5aec1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).