---
type: "Bill"
title: "Garrett County Alcoholic Beverages Act of 2025"
description: "Garrett County Alcoholic Beverages Act of 2025"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 685"
citation: "Maryland HB 685 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hinebaugh"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-24"
last_action: "2025-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/acf1221b-1f68-4299-bc69-33c01b8c58b5"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0685?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "0766856f7e5a1c0734bacb439847ffe610bab2780a0a218136d075f7baf0a10f"
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 685 (2025) — Garrett County Alcoholic Beverages Act of 2025

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Garrett County Alcoholic Beverages Act of 2025** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_790_hb0685t.pdf)
2. **First - Garrett County Alcoholic Beverages Act of 2025** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0685f.pdf)
3. **Third - Garrett County Alcoholic Beverages Act of 2025** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0685t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Hinebaugh — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-24** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29** Hearing 2/17 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`
- **2025-03-18** Referred Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-20** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 790 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/acf1221b-1f68-4299-bc69-33c01b8c58b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).