---
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: "HB 277"
citation: "Maryland HB 277 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charkoudian", "Ebersole", "Fair", "Feldmark", "Foley", "Healey", "Lehman", "Palakovich Carr", "Ruth", "Stein", "Terrasa", "Vogel", "Wims", "Woods", "Woorman", "Wu"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-08-23"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eebe0266-03cf-4128-9564-43664be2a4f2"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0277?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "460770ed5963ecca6180efdffbed2714ba632669922255fbe8960a298dd7a44f"
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 277 (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_547_hb0277t.pdf)
2. **First - Environment - Water Bottle Filling Stations - Requirement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0277f.pdf)
3. **Third - Environment - Water Bottle Filling Stations - Requirement** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0277t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **105–30** (pass) · lower
- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **33–12** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Charkoudian — primary (person)
- Ebersole — primary (person)
- Fair — primary (person)
- Feldmark — primary (person)
- Foley — primary (person)
- Healey — primary (person)
- Lehman — primary (person)
- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
- Ruth — primary (person)
- Stein — primary (person)
- Terrasa — primary (person)
- Vogel — primary (person)
- Wims — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)
- Woorman — primary (person)
- Wu — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-08-23** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-08** Hearing 2/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-01-15** Hearing canceled
- **2025-01-15** Hearing 2/05 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-02-20** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-21** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-28** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-02** Motion Special Order until 4/3 (Senator Folden) Adopted
- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 547 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eebe0266-03cf-4128-9564-43664be2a4f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).