---
type: "Bill"
title: "Consumer Protection - Right to Repair - Powered Wheelchairs"
description: "Consumer Protection - Right to Repair - Powered Wheelchairs"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 31"
citation: "Maryland HB 31 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hornberger", "Kaufman"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-09-27"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8d71240a-bf3d-40e3-9443-ad126ae440dc"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0031?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "34c0bcbde80bd598202e7adec2d0c24fad2e3ea190e05ec7cf0c93aeb34b457c"
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 31 (2025) — Consumer Protection - Right to Repair - Powered Wheelchairs

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Consumer Protection - Right to Repair - Powered Wheelchairs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_546_hb0031t.pdf)
2. **First - Consumer Protection - Right to Repair - Powered Wheelchairs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0031f.pdf)
3. **Third - Consumer Protection - Right to Repair - Powered Wheelchairs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0031t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **121–17** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hornberger — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-09-27** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-08** Hearing 1/21 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 Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 546 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8d71240a-bf3d-40e3-9443-ad126ae440dc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).