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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Carroll County - Volunteer Fire, Rescue, and Emergency Medical Services"
+description: "Carroll County - Volunteer Fire, Rescue, and Emergency Medical Services"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 542"
+citation: "Maryland SB 542 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Counties - Local Laws", "Carroll County", "Committees and Commissions", "County Commissioners", "Emergency Medical Services", "Fire Protection", "Rescue Squads", "Revenue and Taxes", "Salaries and Compensation", "Volunteers"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Carroll County Senators"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-31"
+last_action: "2018-04-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f3760c6c-8373-4114-a33b-5e754ebcc3e8"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB542&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "5aa5e21fdc26ccb4fdd201f6ead769d339928e5eea1342b752a1e09f89fb7117"
+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 542 (2018) — Carroll County - Volunteer Fire, Rescue, and Emergency Medical Services
+
+## 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/sb0542f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Carroll County Senators — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-31** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-31** Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-05** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-06** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-03-08** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-09** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-06** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-09** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-04-09** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
+- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
+- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 269 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f3760c6c-8373-4114-a33b-5e754ebcc3e8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+