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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Maryland Metro/Transit Funding Act"
+description: "Maryland Metro/Transit Funding Act"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 277"
+citation: "Maryland SB 277 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Transportation - Generally", "Capital Budget", "Administrative Agencies", "Anne Arundel County", "Appropriations", "Assessments", "Auditors and Audits", "Baltimore City", "Baltimore County", "Bridges and Tunnels", "Budgets", "Buses", "Committees and Commissions", "Communications", "Commuters", "District of Columbia", "Driver Education", "Excise Tax", "Grants", "Harford County", "Howard County", "Interstate Affairs", "Mass Transit", "Motor Vehicles", "Notices", "Parking", "Pedestrians", "Railroads", "Reports", "Revenue and Taxes", "Sunset", "Time", "Transportation", "Department of", "Transportation", "Zoning and Planning"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Feldman"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2018-01-22"
+last_action: "2018-04-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f8d04fdb-402d-4abd-b793-676842bec097"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB277&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "e297397939281b32c6a8fe7dc56eb43c3488255113a2262fbd86c28e91404993"
+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 277 (2018) — Maryland Metro/Transit Funding 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/sb/sb0277f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **97–42** (pass) · lower
+- On third reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Feldman — primary (person)
+- Benson — cosponsor (person)
+- Currie — cosponsor (person)
+- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
+- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
+- King — cosponsor (person)
+- Lee — cosponsor (person)
+- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
+- Manno — cosponsor (person)
+- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Muse — cosponsor (person)
+- Peters — cosponsor (person)
+- Pinsky — cosponsor (person)
+- Ramirez — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Zucker — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-22** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-24** Hearing 2/07 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-01-31** Hearing canceled
+- **2018-01-31** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-29** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-29** Favorable with Amendments {179435/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-29** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-30** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-02** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-04** Rereferred to Appropriations and Environment and Transportation
+- **2018-04-05** Hearing 4/05 at 2:30 p.m. (Appropriations)
+- **2018-04-07** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-07** Favorable with Amendments {374966/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (97-42) `passage`
+- **2018-04-09** Senate Concur - House Amendments
+- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-09** Passed Enrolled
+- **2018-04-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 351 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f8d04fdb-402d-4abd-b793-676842bec097`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+