---
type: "Bill"
title: "Food Establishments - Portable Chemical Toilets"
description: "Food Establishments - Portable Chemical Toilets"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 559"
citation: "Maryland HB 559 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["T. Morgan"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-23"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb212624-a671-498a-8f4d-9ad225ef3058"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0559?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "fad4f126e854b5949b4c5e517e0510a278e7b2433c7fe371338496e64a3a01e9"
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 559 (2025) — Food Establishments - Portable Chemical Toilets

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Food Establishments - Portable Chemical Toilets** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_762_hb0559e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Food Establishments - Portable Chemical Toilets** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0559e.pdf)
3. **First - Food Establishments - Portable Chemical Toilets** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0559f.pdf)
4. **Third - Food Establishments - Portable Chemical Toilets** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0559t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading (Amend) — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **138–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- T. Morgan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-23** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29** Hearing 2/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-03** Hearing canceled
- **2025-02-03** Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-19** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-20** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-20** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-02-25** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-26** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-25** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-25** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-28** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-01** House Concurs Senate Amendments
- **2025-04-01** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-01** Passed Enrolled
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 762 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eb212624-a671-498a-8f4d-9ad225ef3058`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).