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type: "Bill"
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title: "General Provisions - Veterans Benefits - Honorable Discharge"
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description: "General Provisions - Veterans Benefits - Honorable Discharge"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
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legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
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session: "2025"
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identifier: "SB 491"
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citation: "Maryland SB 491 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Attar", "Augustine", "Brooks", "Carozza", "Gile", "Hester", "Kagan", "King", "Kramer", "M. Washington", "Salling", "Waldstreicher"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 13
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2025-01-23"
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last_action: "2025-05-06"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e2cfcc75-1dad-4a6d-b050-3af0dfd78122"
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source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0491?ys=2025RS&search=True"
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source_hash: "da376224b2206954302e39dad176465ad50cb9502cf78903d7030d1c8c45955d"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
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---
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# Maryland SB 491 (2025) — General Provisions - Veterans Benefits - Honorable Discharge
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Chapter - General Provisions - Veterans Benefits - Honorable Discharge** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_271_sb0491t.pdf)
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2. **First - General Provisions - Veterans Benefits - Honorable Discharge** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0491f.pdf)
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3. **Third - General Provisions - Veterans Benefits - Honorable Discharge** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0491t.pdf)
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## Votes
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- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
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- On Third Reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Attar — primary (person)
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- Augustine — primary (person)
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- Brooks — primary (person)
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- Carozza — primary (person)
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- Gile — primary (person)
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- Hester — primary (person)
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- Kagan — primary (person)
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- King — primary (person)
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- Kramer — primary (person)
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- M. Washington — primary (person)
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- Salling — primary (person)
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- Waldstreicher — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-01-23** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
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- **2025-01-30** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
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- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-03-14** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
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- **2025-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
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- **2025-03-17** Referred Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-18** Hearing 4/01 at 1:00 p.m.
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- **2025-04-02** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-04-02** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
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- **2025-04-07** Returned Passed
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- **2025-05-06** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 271 `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e2cfcc75-1dad-4a6d-b050-3af0dfd78122`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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