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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Agriculture - Industrial Hemp Pilot Program - Establishment"
+description: "Agriculture - Industrial Hemp Pilot Program - Establishment"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 698"
+citation: "Maryland HB 698 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Agriculture", "Agriculture", "Department of", "Agriculture", "Cannabis", "Commerce and Business", "Higher Education", "Industry and Technology", "Inspections", "Licenses", "Records", "Registration", "Retail Sales", "Rules and Regulations"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Fraser-Hidalgo"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-31"
+last_action: "2018-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/af2b8b90-94cd-411f-a483-0c0cea097c79"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB698&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "08c7c9280ed94bf22875cadc71ffcbcedc7b9eb1225610f0f0ecb71c2f6aeea5"
+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 698 (2018) — Agriculture - Industrial Hemp Pilot Program - Establishment
+
+## 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/hb0698f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **136–1** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Fraser-Hidalgo — primary (person)
+- Anderton — cosponsor (person)
+- Barve — cosponsor (person)
+- Beidle — cosponsor (person)
+- Carr — cosponsor (person)
+- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Clark — cosponsor (person)
+- Flanagan — cosponsor (person)
+- Folden — cosponsor (person)
+- Frush — cosponsor (person)
+- Gilchrist — cosponsor (person)
+- Healey — cosponsor (person)
+- Holmes — cosponsor (person)
+- Jacobs — cosponsor (person)
+- Jalisi — cosponsor (person)
+- Knotts — cosponsor (person)
+- Lafferty — cosponsor (person)
+- McCray — cosponsor (person)
+- McMillan — cosponsor (person)
+- Morhaim — cosponsor (person)
+- Otto — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
+- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
+- Wivell — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-31** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-31** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-02-26** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-27** Favorable with Amendments {680813/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-01** Third Reading Passed (136-1) `passage`
+- **2018-03-02** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-02** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-03** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-04-04** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-05** Returned Passed
+- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 475 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/af2b8b90-94cd-411f-a483-0c0cea097c79`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+