---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Health Abortion Grant Program - Establishment"
description: "Public Health Abortion Grant Program - Establishment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 848"
citation: "Maryland SB 848 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Guzzone"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a76180a-9a7c-46f0-aa0a-dc792ff87bab"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0848?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "2104cc5a97b00d565ad35d5b65d4aae257157c2cccf54f837acf3ee24b8516b7"
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 848 (2025) — Public Health Abortion Grant Program - Establishment

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Public Health Abortion Grant Program - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_436_sb0848t.pdf)
2. **First - Public Health Abortion Grant Program - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0848f.pdf)
3. **Third - Public Health Abortion Grant Program - Establishment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0848t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **29–15** (pass) · upper
- Floor Amendment Ready /553827/1 — **12–33** (fail) · upper
- On Third Reading — **98–33** (pass) · lower
- Floor Amendment Carozza /483327/1 — **12–32** (fail) · upper
- Floor Amendment McKay /383728/1 — **14–29** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Guzzone — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-03** First Reading Finance and Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06** Hearing 3/06 at 1:00 p.m. (Finance)
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Motion Laid Over (Senator Carozza) Adopted
- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-03-14** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-03-14** Floor Amendment {
- **2025-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-28** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-28** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-31** Returned Passed
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 436 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0a76180a-9a7c-46f0-aa0a-dc792ff87bab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).