---
type: "Bill"
title: "Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program - Employee Certification and Awareness Materials"
description: "Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program - Employee Certification and Awareness Materials"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 795"
citation: "Maryland HB 795 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kaiser", "Kaufman", "Lehman", "Lopez", "Palakovich Carr", "R. Lewis", "Spiegel", "Terrasa", "Toles"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-29"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5be39733-c970-410a-a3de-d0ddf8453dc3"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0795?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "cb242d112819f487eba890468cfb617ddb542e8b9b272876d3085052b1852e98"
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 795 (2025) — Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program - Employee Certification and Awareness Materials

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program - Employee Certification and Awareness Materials** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_324_hb0795t.pdf)
2. **First - Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program - Employee Certification and Awareness Materials** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0795f.pdf)
3. **Third - Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program - Employee Certification and Awareness Materials** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0795t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **33–13** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **125–8** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kaufman — primary (person)
- Lehman — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- Palakovich Carr — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Spiegel — primary (person)
- Terrasa — primary (person)
- Toles — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-29** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29** 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
- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 324 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5be39733-c970-410a-a3de-d0ddf8453dc3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).