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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation - Use of Land - Signs and Outdoor Advertising Displays"
+description: "Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation - Use of Land - Signs and Outdoor Advertising Displays"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 571"
+citation: "Maryland SB 571 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Agriculture", "Advertising", "Agriculture", "Boundaries", "Committees and Commissions", "Easements", "Equipment", "Farmland", "Forests and Parks", "Hunting", "Laws and Ordinances", "Notices", "Political Candidates", "Real Property", "Retail Sales", "Signs and Billboards", "Trespass"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bates"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-31"
+last_action: "2018-05-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/057de680-96da-473e-8da5-70d1d1ea0bb7"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB571&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "7b3c760576d55eb21984340f40af4e9a843a03c06418556c5051186cccbdd15a"
+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 571 (2018) — Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation - Use of Land - Signs and Outdoor Advertising Displays
+
+## 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/sb0571f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **136–1** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bates — 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 2/20 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`
+- **2018-03-19** Hearing 3/28 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 (136-1) `passage`
+- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
+- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 644 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/057de680-96da-473e-8da5-70d1d1ea0bb7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+