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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Land Use - Agritourism"
+description: "Land Use - Agritourism"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 252"
+citation: "Maryland HB 252 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Agriculture", "Agriculture", "Counties", "Education", "Equipment", "Farmland", "Laws and Ordinances", "Sports and Recreation", "Tourism"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-19"
+last_action: "2018-05-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9ac3ef7d-83e4-4089-869c-2cb1012ea3d4"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB252&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "9b057c13bd051528ff6216e1b963dff3eb92232078985f80a3744e2825f57ef9"
+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 252 (2018) — Land Use - Agritourism
+
+## 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/hb0252f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chair — primary (person)
+- Environment and Transportation Committee (By Request - Departmental - Agriculture) and Rey — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-19** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-22** Hearing 2/07 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {130412/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-19** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-22** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-04-05** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-05** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-04-06** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-06** Returned Passed
+- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 672 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9ac3ef7d-83e4-4089-869c-2cb1012ea3d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+