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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Ethics - Local Public Ethics Commissions and Entities - Meeting and Reporting Requirements"
+description: "Ethics - Local Public Ethics Commissions and Entities - Meeting and Reporting Requirements"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 474"
+citation: "Maryland SB 474 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Ethics", "Committees and Commissions", "Counties", "Ethics", "General Assembly", "Reports", "Signatures"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Benson"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-26"
+last_action: "2018-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/09a39201-70b3-45a5-a199-8fc35b921f36"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB474&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "c5ec7dfb689e12a9bb3843bc0602aa65bf72970c46679e628fa6c5fc85c6d41c"
+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 474 (2018) — Ethics - Local Public Ethics Commissions and Entities - Meeting and Reporting Requirements
+
+## 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/sb0474f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Benson — primary (person)
+- Currie — cosponsor (person)
+- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
+- Lee — cosponsor (person)
+- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
+- Peters — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-26** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-26** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-02-26** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-27** Favorable with Amendments {714539/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-01** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-02** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-06** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-04-02** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-03** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-04-06** Third Reading Passed (133-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
+- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 457 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/09a39201-70b3-45a5-a199-8fc35b921f36`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+