---
type: "Bill"
title: "Registered Apprenticeship Investments for a Stronger Economy (RAISE) Act"
description: "Registered Apprenticeship Investments for a Stronger Economy (RAISE) Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 431"
citation: "Maryland SB 431 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Administration", "Augustine", "Brooks", "Carozza", "Charles", "Gile", "Henson", "Hettleman", "James", "King", "M. Washington", "President", "West"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-21"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/34843716-2ecb-4432-b013-e6ca137e729e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0431?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "22a4f510ad34f37d02802b6807c0f1cbce1d3d1711440ea68f18e6bd3711913f"
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 431 (2025) — Registered Apprenticeship Investments for a Stronger Economy (RAISE) Act

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Registered Apprenticeship Investments for a Stronger Economy (RAISE) Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_2_sb0431t.pdf)
2. **First - Registered Apprenticeship Investments for a Stronger Economy (RAISE) Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0431f.pdf)
3. **Third - Registered Apprenticeship Investments for a Stronger Economy (RAISE) Act** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0431t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **33–9** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **104–31** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Administration — primary (person)
- Augustine — primary (person)
- Brooks — primary (person)
- Carozza — primary (person)
- Charles — primary (person)
- Gile — primary (person)
- Henson — primary (person)
- Hettleman — primary (person)
- James — primary (person)
- King — primary (person)
- M. Washington — primary (person)
- President — primary (person)
- West — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-21** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-03** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `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 Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-31** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `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 2 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/34843716-2ecb-4432-b013-e6ca137e729e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).