---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Protecting Opportunities and Regional Trade (PORT) Act – Reports of Attorney General – Frequency"
description: "Maryland Protecting Opportunities and Regional Trade (PORT) Act – Reports of Attorney General – Frequency"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 575"
citation: "Maryland HB 575 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Office of the Attorney General"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-23"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/43de0e63-75ba-4da7-9dd2-4241de62fa3c"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0575?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "7fc83bc96c07052eb661a49f7ef42e4dcf4886d04cf108d752f0456e405542f4"
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 575 (2025) — Maryland Protecting Opportunities and Regional Trade (PORT) Act – Reports of Attorney General – Frequency

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Maryland Protecting Opportunities and Regional Trade (PORT) Act – Reports of Attorney General – Frequency** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_99_hb0575t.pdf)
2. **First - Maryland Protecting Opportunities and Regional Trade (PORT) Act – Reports of Attorney General – Frequency** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0575f.pdf)
3. **Third - Maryland Protecting Opportunities and Regional Trade (PORT) Act – Reports of Attorney General – Frequency** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0575t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **35–12** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chair, Economic Matters Committee — primary (organization)
- Office of the Attorney General — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-23** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-23** Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-02-19** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-20** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-25** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-26** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13** Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **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
- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 99 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/43de0e63-75ba-4da7-9dd2-4241de62fa3c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).