---
type: "Bill"
title: "Carroll County - Prospective Employees and Volunteers - Criminal History Records Check"
description: "Carroll County - Prospective Employees and Volunteers - Criminal History Records Check"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 831"
citation: "Maryland HB 831 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carroll County Delegation"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-01-29"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/005fb420-eda1-478a-bab3-0f9a83b0be3b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0831?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "6f5c62262fe3586a044322d29b91d6d37132f75c7416e14f3e59a441a5acb0bb"
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 831 (2025) — Carroll County - Prospective Employees and Volunteers - Criminal History Records Check

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Carroll County - Prospective Employees and Volunteers - Criminal History Records Check** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_154_hb0831t.pdf)
2. **First - Carroll County - Prospective Employees and Volunteers - Criminal History Records Check** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0831f.pdf)
3. **Third - Carroll County - Prospective Employees and Volunteers - Criminal History Records Check** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0831t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Carroll County Delegation — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-29** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-14** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 154 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/005fb420-eda1-478a-bab3-0f9a83b0be3b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).