---
type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Commerce - Nonprofit Organizations Navigator - Established"
description: "Department of Commerce - Nonprofit Organizations Navigator - Established"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 541"
citation: "Maryland HB 541 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Boafo", "Cullison", "D. Jones", "Embry", "Fair", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Lopez", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "Ross", "S. Johnson", "Stewart", "Taveras", "Taylor", "Terrasa", "White Holland", "Woods", "Woorman"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-22"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a233be67-0e12-40e1-b6a2-0ed4b11ac473"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0541?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "b9b59e49cbfef4598b6a632871a7330502de5a5fc9f374429f9b9d2bd005a945"
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 541 (2025) — Department of Commerce - Nonprofit Organizations Navigator - Established

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Department of Commerce - Nonprofit Organizations Navigator - Established** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_315_hb0541t.pdf)
2. **First - Department of Commerce - Nonprofit Organizations Navigator - Established** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0541f.pdf)
3. **Third - Department of Commerce - Nonprofit Organizations Navigator - Established** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0541t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **100–35** (pass) · lower
- FLA Del. Fisher /833420/1 — **37–98** (fail) · lower
- Bill is on Third Reading for Final Passage. — **32–13** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Alston — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Boafo — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- D. Jones — primary (person)
- Embry — primary (person)
- Fair — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- Ross — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Stewart — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- Taylor — primary (person)
- Terrasa — primary (person)
- White Holland — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)
- Woorman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-22** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-22** Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Motion Special Order until Next Session (Delegate Fisher) Adopted
- **2025-04-03** Motion Special Order until Later This Session (Delegate Fisher) Adopted
- **2025-04-03** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Referred Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-07** Rereferred to Finance
- **2025-04-07** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-07** Motion Rules Suspend Two Readings Same Day Const/Rule 24 (Senator Ellis) Adopted
- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 315 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a233be67-0e12-40e1-b6a2-0ed4b11ac473`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).