---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal Records – Expungement and Maryland Judiciary Case Search (Expungement Reform Act of 2025)"
description: "Criminal Records – Expungement and Maryland Judiciary Case Search (Expungement Reform Act of 2025)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 432"
citation: "Maryland SB 432 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Administration", "Charles", "Ellis", "Henson", "Hettleman", "King", "Love", "Muse", "President", "Smith", "Sydnor", "Waldstreicher", "West"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-21"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/27c46714-f6b8-4988-b87c-fd4e54a82c16"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0432?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "1596856e04b919153cf52d26d56532779e155064eb1f96806dfd41e7ffed88dc"
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 432 (2025) — Criminal Records – Expungement and Maryland Judiciary Case Search (Expungement Reform Act of 2025)

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Criminal Records – Expungement and Maryland Judiciary Case Search (Expungement Reform Act of 2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_95_sb0432t.pdf)
2. **First - Criminal Records – Expungement and Maryland Judiciary Case Search (Expungement Reform Act of 2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0432f.pdf)
3. **Racial Equity Impact Note** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/Pubs/BudgetFiscal/2025RS-SB0432-REIN.pdf)
4. **Third - Criminal Records – Expungement and Maryland Judiciary Case Search (Expungement Reform Act of 2025)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0432t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **101–38** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **36–11** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Administration — primary (person)
- Charles — primary (person)
- Ellis — primary (person)
- Henson — primary (person)
- Hettleman — primary (person)
- King — primary (person)
- Love — primary (person)
- Muse — primary (person)
- President — primary (person)
- Smith — primary (person)
- Sydnor — primary (person)
- Waldstreicher — primary (person)
- West — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-21** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-24** Hearing 2/05 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-15** Referred Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Hearing 3/25 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-04-01** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 95 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/27c46714-f6b8-4988-b87c-fd4e54a82c16`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).