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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Maryland Farms and Families Act"
+description: "Maryland Farms and Families Act"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 586"
+citation: "Maryland HB 586 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Agriculture", "Agriculture", "Department of", "Agriculture", "Appropriations", "Farmland", "Food", "Food Stamps", "Grants", "Nonprofit Organizations", "Reports", "Revenue and Taxes", "Rules and Regulations"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hettleman"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-30"
+last_action: "2017-05-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6da3c93f-5d92-4047-abcb-279f42e76b8f"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB586&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "4813380ea08537ecc9d7572b14be63cc4de11026198b6959beb5378ebf732e83"
+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 HB 586 (2017) — Maryland Farms and Families Act
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0586f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hettleman — primary (person)
+- A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
+- Frick — cosponsor (person)
+- Gutierrez — cosponsor (person)
+- Hixson — cosponsor (person)
+- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
+- McIntosh — cosponsor (person)
+- Queen — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
+- West — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-30** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-10** Favorable with Amendments {724563/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-10** Special Order until 03/14 (Delegate Jameson) Adopted
+- **2017-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-03-15** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-16** First Reading Finance and Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-16** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m. (Finance)
+- **2017-04-05** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-05** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-04-06** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-06** Returned Passed
+- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 395 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6da3c93f-5d92-4047-abcb-279f42e76b8f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+