republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2025/hb-699.md

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Bill	General Provisions - Veterans Benefits - Honorable Discharge	General Provisions - Veterans Benefits - Honorable Discharge	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2025	HB 699	Maryland HB 699 (2025)	bill		enacted	Allen Alston Bagnall Bhandari Boyce Chisholm Cullison D. Jones Ebersole Fair Forbes Guyton Guzzone Hill Hutchinson Kaiser Kerr Kipke Lopez M. Morgan Martinez McCaskill Pena-Melnyk R. Lewis Reilly Rogers Rosenberg Ross S. Johnson Stein Szeliga Taveras Vogel White Holland Woods Woorman	4	15	3	2025-01-24	2025-05-06	openstates	ocd-bill/c140786a-6383-463c-89de-150e019d82f1	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0699?ys=2025RS&search=True	903de5e3b8bcc3dfb8e40f329200e93c56b15f8a87067d1a185f846a9b397839	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 699 (2025) — General Provisions - Veterans Benefits - Honorable Discharge

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - General Provisions - Veterans Benefits - Honorable Discharge (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled - General Provisions - Veterans Benefits - Honorable Discharge (committee substitute) — source
3. First - General Provisions - Veterans Benefits - Honorable Discharge (committee substitute) — source
4. Third - General Provisions - Veterans Benefits - Honorable Discharge (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading (Amend) — 41–0 (pass) · upper
• On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — 139–0 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading — 138–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Allen — primary (person)
• Alston — primary (person)
• Bagnall — primary (person)
• Bhandari — primary (person)
• Boyce — primary (person)
• Chisholm — primary (person)
• Cullison — primary (person)
• D. Jones — primary (person)
• Ebersole — primary (person)
• Fair — primary (person)
• Forbes — primary (person)
• Guyton — 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)
• McCaskill — primary (person)
• Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
• R. Lewis — primary (person)
• Reilly — primary (person)
• Rogers — primary (person)
• Rosenberg — primary (person)
• Ross — primary (person)
• S. Johnson — primary (person)
• Stein — primary (person)
• Szeliga — primary (person)
• Taveras — primary (person)
• Vogel — primary (person)
• White Holland — primary (person)
• Woods — primary (person)
• Woorman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-24 First Reading Health and Government Operations referral-committee
• 2025-01-29 Hearing 2/25 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
• 2025-04-05 Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-05 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-05 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2025-04-05 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2025-04-07 House Concurs Senate Amendments
• 2025-04-07 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2025-04-07 Passed Enrolled
• 2025-05-06 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 270 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c140786a-6383-463c-89de-150e019d82f1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).