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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Offshore Drilling Liability Act"
+description: "Offshore Drilling Liability Act"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 1456"
+citation: "Maryland HB 1456 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Civil Actions and Procedures", "Bonds", "Civil Actions", "Contracts", "Damages", "Fuel", "Judgments", "Liability", "Wells"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Barve"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2018-02-09"
+last_action: "2018-05-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/342dce5b-a482-48db-a335-7c5dbe84c08e"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1456&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "47f0362dd6d5eaca30241270c2f4d83a3cbf55bc71198ccd7cb884985bb63038"
+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 1456 (2018) — Offshore Drilling Liability 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb1456f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **115–22** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **115–21** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Barve — primary (person)
+- Beidle — cosponsor (person)
+- Carr — cosponsor (person)
+- Flanagan — cosponsor (person)
+- Fraser-Hidalgo — cosponsor (person)
+- Gilchrist — cosponsor (person)
+- Healey — cosponsor (person)
+- Holmes — cosponsor (person)
+- Jalisi — cosponsor (person)
+- Knotts — cosponsor (person)
+- Lafferty — cosponsor (person)
+- Platt — cosponsor (person)
+- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
+- Stein — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-09** First Reading Judiciary and Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-12** Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m. (Judiciary)
+- **2018-03-16** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-16** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-16** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (115-22) `passage`
+- **2018-03-19** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-02** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-03** Favorable with Amendments {548173/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-03** Floor Amendment {423121/1 (Senator Zirkin) Adopted `amendment-passage`
+- **2018-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-04-04** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-05** House Concur - Senate Amendments
+- **2018-04-05** Third Reading Passed (115-21) `passage`
+- **2018-04-05** Passed Enrolled
+- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 626 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/342dce5b-a482-48db-a335-7c5dbe84c08e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+