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+type: "Bill"
+title: "General Provisions - State Designations - Great Seal"
+description: "General Provisions - State Designations - Great Seal"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 88"
+citation: "Maryland SB 88 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["State Government - Agencies", "Offices", "and Officials", "Language", "State Symbols"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Simonaire"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2016-10-12"
+last_action: "2017-05-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c11797bb-e20a-422a-82e6-b92d84731dd3"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB88&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "5758cb0503f1418a8b916f4e905d94c6871e0902027e51bcdf4fea106a5da888"
+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 88 (2017) — General Provisions - State Designations - Great Seal
+
+## 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/sb0088f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **135–2** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **44–3** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Simonaire — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2016-10-12** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2017-01-11** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-08** Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-13** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-14** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-14** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-03-15** Third Reading Passed (44-3) `passage`
+- **2017-03-15** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-22** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-04-06** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-04-08** Third Reading Passed (135-2) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
+- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 496 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c11797bb-e20a-422a-82e6-b92d84731dd3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+