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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Public Information Act - Required Denials - Physical Addresses, E-Mail Addresses, and Telephone Numbers"
+description: "Public Information Act - Required Denials - Physical Addresses, E-Mail Addresses, and Telephone Numbers"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 477"
+citation: "Maryland SB 477 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["State Government - Regulations and Procedures", "Electronic Communication", "Emergency Bills", "Emergencies", "Identification", "Inspections", "Notices", "Postal Service", "Privacy", "Records", "Telephones"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kagan"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-26"
+last_action: "2018-04-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fb52d944-9d35-4b96-9009-19de03f86723"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB477&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "feafd07cb4ecfa3bfd6342dcb56ef61b630d897e26a7dfb394d93728c5cbee2e"
+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 477 (2018) — Public Information Act - Required Denials - Physical Addresses, E-Mail Addresses, and Telephone Numbers
+
+## 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/sb0477f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **133–5** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kagan — primary (person)
+- Astle — cosponsor (person)
+- Bates — cosponsor (person)
+- Benson — cosponsor (person)
+- Brochin — cosponsor (person)
+- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Conway — cosponsor (person)
+- Currie — cosponsor (person)
+- DeGrange — cosponsor (person)
+- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
+- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
+- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
+- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
+- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
+- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
+- Hough — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
+- Kasemeyer — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
+- King — cosponsor (person)
+- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
+- Lee — cosponsor (person)
+- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
+- Manno — cosponsor (person)
+- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
+- McFadden — cosponsor (person)
+- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Muse — cosponsor (person)
+- Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
+- Norman — cosponsor (person)
+- Oaks — cosponsor (person)
+- Peters — cosponsor (person)
+- Pinsky — cosponsor (person)
+- Ramirez — cosponsor (person)
+- Ready — cosponsor (person)
+- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
+- Salling — cosponsor (person)
+- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
+- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Waugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Zirkin — cosponsor (person)
+- Zucker — 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 2/14 at 2:00 p.m.
+- **2018-02-23** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-26** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-26** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-02-28** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-01** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-07** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-26** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-27** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-03-28** Third Reading Passed (133-5) `passage`
+- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
+- **2018-04-10** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 40 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fb52d944-9d35-4b96-9009-19de03f86723`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+