---
type: "Bill"
title: "Frederick County - County Employees and Volunteers - Criminal History Records Check"
description: "Frederick County - County Employees and Volunteers - Criminal History Records Check"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 492"
citation: "Maryland HB 492 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fair", "Kerr", "Miller", "Rose", "Simpson", "Tomlinson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-20"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a43196d7-d847-4f3d-99c4-0025672a50c5"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0492?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "9f13f367a7cff5a9f0025505a8535c406bf1efbf146bb43eb6fe3e09b9aa45a2"
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 492 (2025) — Frederick County - County Employees and Volunteers - Criminal History Records Check

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Frederick County - County Employees and Volunteers - Criminal History Records Check** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_149_hb0492t.pdf)
2. **First - Frederick County - County Employees and Volunteers - Criminal History Records Check** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0492f.pdf)
3. **Third - Frederick County - County Employees and Volunteers - Criminal History Records Check** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0492t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Fair — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Miller — primary (person)
- Rose — primary (person)
- Simpson — primary (person)
- Tomlinson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13** Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-13** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-25** Hearing canceled
- **2025-03-25** Hearing 3/25 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-04** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-05** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 149 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a43196d7-d847-4f3d-99c4-0025672a50c5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).