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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Cemeteries - Authority to Maintain and Repair Memorials and Monuments"
+description: "Cemeteries - Authority to Maintain and Repair Memorials and Monuments"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 50"
+citation: "Maryland SB 50 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Business Regulation and Occupations", "Cemeteries", "Monuments and Memorials", "Notices", "Postal Service", "Public Information"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Astle"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2016-08-05"
+last_action: "2017-05-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d6ae07af-b364-4762-aef0-4e9509b0d341"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB50&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "1b377676c40c6ce250eb94f75ec9aebb5c7ddb8c9d0e57605b8c4ab26366f8c6"
+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 50 (2017) — Cemeteries - Authority to Maintain and Repair Memorials and Monuments
+
+## 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/sb/sb0050f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Astle — primary (person)
+- Benson — cosponsor (person)
+- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
+- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
+- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
+- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
+- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2016-08-05** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2017-01-11** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-10** Hearing 1/18 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-01-26** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-01-27** Favorable with Amendments {807876/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-01-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-01-31** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2017-02-01** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-15** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-31** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-05** Returned Passed
+- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 477 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d6ae07af-b364-4762-aef0-4e9509b0d341`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+