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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Metro Board Member Act"
+description: "Metro Board Member Act"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 279"
+citation: "Maryland SB 279 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Transportation - Generally", "Committees and Commissions", "Environmental Matters", "Investigations and Inquiries", "Mass Transit", "Public Officials", "Review Boards", "Safety", "Salaries and Compensation", "Signatures", "Transportation", "Department of", "Veto"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Feldman"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-22"
+last_action: "2018-04-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/44ea178d-6f36-41db-a22d-f4648c1c5321"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB279&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "9bff9f67a5e76a86b00252baeb42f8b8dcf691f481c1056db574835bac3acfc7"
+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 279 (2018) — Metro Board Member 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/sb0279f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **126–13** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Feldman — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-22** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-24** Hearing 2/07 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-13** Favorable with Amendments {427878/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-15** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-15** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-05** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-05** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (126-13) `passage`
+- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
+- **2018-04-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 354 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/44ea178d-6f36-41db-a22d-f4648c1c5321`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+