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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Family Law - Permanent Protective Orders - Consent"
description: "Family Law - Permanent Protective Orders - Consent"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 721"
citation: "Maryland SB 721 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Henson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-31"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/57eed952-8f2f-4252-8c5b-0f407677a63b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0721?ys=2025RS&search=True"
source_hash: "b7eb7b270bab17c31ddb5f18995ae0a62ad0c7b0d8110e299f953af572d58b09"
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 721 (2025) — Family Law - Permanent Protective Orders - Consent
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Chapter - Family Law - Permanent Protective Orders - Consent** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/Chapters_noln/CH_537_sb0721t.pdf)
2. **First - Family Law - Permanent Protective Orders - Consent** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0721f.pdf)
3. **Third - Family Law - Permanent Protective Orders - Consent** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/bills/sb/sb0721t.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **1310** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **470** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Henson — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-31** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04** Hearing 3/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2025-03-13** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Second Reading Passed
- **2025-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-03-15** 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
- **2025-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 537 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/57eed952-8f2f-4252-8c5b-0f407677a63b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).