---
type: "Bill"
title: "Tobacco Product Licensees - Additional Licensure for Electronic Smoking Devices"
description: "Tobacco Product Licensees - Additional Licensure for Electronic Smoking Devices"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 249"
citation: "Maryland SB 249 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beidle"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-01-16"
last_action: "2026-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ef8df863-ad85-4854-aff3-a67e7adca2f9"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0249?ys=2026RS"
source_hash: "5c3b5f02cbeefe501bf3aab2af8e8bd542ff5f543aa488dc6d17ead2aa3bf71e"
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 249 (2026) — Tobacco Product Licensees - Additional Licensure for Electronic Smoking Devices

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Tobacco Product Licensees - Additional Licensure for Electronic Smoking Devices** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_415_sb0249t.pdf)
2. **First - Tobacco Product Licensees - Additional Licensure for Electronic Smoking Devices** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0249f.pdf)
3. **Third - Tobacco Product Licensees - Additional Licensure for Electronic Smoking Devices** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0249t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **106–30** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Beidle — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-16** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-21** Hearing 2/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-02-16** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-17** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-17** Second Reading Passed
- **2026-02-19** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-02-20** Referred Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-06** Hearing 3/24 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2026-04-13** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-13** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-13** Returned Passed
- **2026-05-12** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 415 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ef8df863-ad85-4854-aff3-a67e7adca2f9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).