---
type: "Bill"
title: "Financial Institutions and Activities - Virtual Currency Kiosks - Registration and Regulation"
description: "Financial Institutions and Activities - Virtual Currency Kiosks - Registration and Regulation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 305"
citation: "Maryland SB 305 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beidle", "Hettleman"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-13"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f6271464-34bf-46c4-88c4-bffbea823674"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0305?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "e9a1dadf622b47e5817db4590ef8927906290fb735ca3d716e7401441c171cde"
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 305 (2025) — Financial Institutions and Activities - Virtual Currency Kiosks - Registration and Regulation

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Financial Institutions and Activities - Virtual Currency Kiosks - Registration and Regulation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_117_sb0305t.pdf)
2. **First - Financial Institutions and Activities - Virtual Currency Kiosks - Registration and Regulation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0305f.pdf)
3. **Third - Financial Institutions and Activities - Virtual Currency Kiosks - Registration and Regulation** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0305t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **124–14** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Beidle — primary (person)
- Hettleman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-13** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-22** Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-12** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-14** Referred Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-21** Hearing canceled
- **2025-03-21** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-01** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 117 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f6271464-34bf-46c4-88c4-bffbea823674`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).