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type: "Bill"
title: "Organized Retail Theft Act of 2025"
description: "Organized Retail Theft Act of 2025"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 11"
citation: "Maryland SB 11 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Watson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-09-30"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fd2b7f5e-1cce-4477-ab94-ccfe2a47f14c"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0011?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "ab00e44040f4a05f71ae74d4514f576db894e26c19f41a39d948679beb4f8378"
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 11 (2025) — Organized Retail Theft Act of 2025
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Organized Retail Theft Act of 2025** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_191_sb0011t.pdf)
2. **First - Organized Retail Theft Act of 2025** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0011f.pdf)
3. **Third - Organized Retail Theft Act of 2025** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0011t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **1241** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **450** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Watson — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-09-30** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2025-01-08** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-09** Hearing 1/21 at 2:30 p.m.
- **2025-02-03** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-04** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-02-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-02-07** Referred Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2025-04-22** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 191 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fd2b7f5e-1cce-4477-ab94-ccfe2a47f14c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).