republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2025/hb-894.md

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Bill	Endangered and Threatened Species - Incidental Taking - Bats	Endangered and Threatened Species - Incidental Taking - Bats	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2025	HB 894	Maryland HB 894 (2025)	bill		enacted	Arentz Arikan Behler Boyce Ghrist Hutchinson Jacobs Nawrocki Otto Schmidt Stewart Szeliga T. Morgan Valentine Wivell	3	12	1	2025-01-30	2025-05-13	openstates	ocd-bill/848bc7b1-6ab4-47dd-a943-9420afe85f0f	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0894?ys=2025RS&search=True	a73b6ac216031546d727202a81022837975659f80b5792a02c9beabd23db83ee	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 894 (2025) — Endangered and Threatened Species - Incidental Taking - Bats

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Endangered and Threatened Species - Incidental Taking - Bats (committee substitute) — source
2. First - Endangered and Threatened Species - Incidental Taking - Bats (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Endangered and Threatened Species - Incidental Taking - Bats (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 135–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Arentz — primary (person)
• Arikan — primary (person)
• Behler — primary (person)
• Boyce — primary (person)
• Ghrist — primary (person)
• Hutchinson — primary (person)
• Jacobs — primary (person)
• Nawrocki — primary (person)
• Otto — primary (person)
• Schmidt — primary (person)
• Stewart — primary (person)
• Szeliga — primary (person)
• T. Morgan — primary (person)
• Valentine — primary (person)
• Wivell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-30 First Reading Environment and Transportation referral-committee
• 2025-01-31 Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2025-03-03 Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-04 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-04 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2025-03-06 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2025-03-07 Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment referral-committee
• 2025-03-31 Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-02 Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-03 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2025-04-04 Returned Passed
• 2025-05-13 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 551 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/848bc7b1-6ab4-47dd-a943-9420afe85f0f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).