---
type: "Bill"
title: "Human Services - Adult Protective Services"
description: "Human Services - Adult Protective Services"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 205"
citation: "Maryland SB 205 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-10-09"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/70e99c9f-9eaf-4e40-aeed-e079f5995e94"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0205?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "58db1aa3e00897402e86c3cb9f95b57a0b4c25fcb30dd8b63eb93d9ee55de139"
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 SB 205 (2025) — Human Services - Adult Protective Services

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Human Services - Adult Protective Services** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_38_sb0205t.pdf)
2. **First - Human Services - Adult Protective Services** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0205f.pdf)
3. **Third - Human Services - Adult Protective Services** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0205t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **41–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chair, Judicial Proceedings Committee — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-10-09** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-06** Hearing 1/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 38 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/70e99c9f-9eaf-4e40-aeed-e079f5995e94`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).