republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2025/hb-448.md

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Bill	Modernization of Military Laws Act	Modernization of Military Laws Act	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2025	HB 448	Maryland HB 448 (2025)	bill		enacted	Alston Bagnall Bhandari Chisholm Cullison Guzzone Hill Hutchinson Kaiser Kerr Kipke Lopez M. Morgan Martinez Pena-Melnyk Reilly Rosenberg Ross S. Johnson Szeliga Taveras White Holland Woods Woorman	3	13	2	2025-01-16	2025-05-06	openstates	ocd-bill/0a9c6f03-9e43-44fa-a9f0-4f10494b1fdf	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0448?ys=2025RS&search=True	a9d696451305fd5f0ef392df2e897d563e18457c07c5a820e28fc0e642451ce1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 448 (2025) — Modernization of Military Laws Act

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Modernization of Military Laws Act (committee substitute) — source
2. First - Modernization of Military Laws Act (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Modernization of Military Laws Act (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 44–0 (pass) · upper
• On Third Reading — 139–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alston — primary (person)
• Bagnall — primary (person)
• Bhandari — primary (person)
• Chisholm — primary (person)
• Cullison — primary (person)
• Guzzone — primary (person)
• Hill — primary (person)
• Hutchinson — primary (person)
• Kaiser — primary (person)
• Kerr — primary (person)
• Kipke — primary (person)
• Lopez — primary (person)
• M. Morgan — primary (person)
• Martinez — primary (person)
• Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
• Reilly — primary (person)
• Rosenberg — primary (person)
• Ross — primary (person)
• S. Johnson — primary (person)
• Szeliga — primary (person)
• Taveras — primary (person)
• White Holland — primary (person)
• Woods — primary (person)
• Woorman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-16 First Reading Health and Government Operations referral-committee
• 2025-01-21 Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2025-03-10 Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-11 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-11 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2025-03-12 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2025-03-12 Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment referral-committee
• 2025-04-03 Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-03 Favorable Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-03 Second Reading Passed
• 2025-04-04 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2025-04-05 Returned Passed
• 2025-05-06 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 254 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0a9c6f03-9e43-44fa-a9f0-4f10494b1fdf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).