---
type: "Bill"
title: "Marriage - Confidential Communication"
description: "Marriage - Confidential Communication"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 241"
citation: "Maryland HB 241 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Simpson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2024-10-17"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1b52c6f4-7e1e-48a0-8927-44da716891f2"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0241?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "3fefcfe46b133966352230c27da28392a2b92dc09c79035c03f3bab4ecc79b50"
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 HB 241 (2025) — Marriage - Confidential Communication

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Marriage - Confidential Communication** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_145_hb0241t.pdf)
2. **First - Marriage - Confidential Communication** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0241f.pdf)
3. **Third - Marriage - Confidential Communication** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/hb/hb0241t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Simpson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-10-17** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-10** Hearing 1/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-01-16** Hearing canceled
- **2025-01-16** Hearing 1/23 at 11:00 a.m.
- **2025-02-17** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-18** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-20** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-21** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 145 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1b52c6f4-7e1e-48a0-8927-44da716891f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).