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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Task Force on Rural Internet, Broadband, Wireless, and Cellular Service - Study and Extension"
+description: "Task Force on Rural Internet, Broadband, Wireless, and Cellular Service - Study and Extension"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 968"
+citation: "Maryland SB 968 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["State Government - Agencies", "Offices", "and Officials", "Committees and Commissions", "Counties", "Electronic Communication", "Maps and Charts", "Reports", "Sunset", "Telecommunications and Information Technology"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Eckardt"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-02-05"
+last_action: "2018-04-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4b18be78-c1c9-412a-822c-1bf7a787847c"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB968&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "245c365aa0771655b4afaf613e26b3550d1ab7d72897c16e6916b0c060ab9712"
+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 968 (2018) — Task Force on Rural Internet, Broadband, Wireless, and Cellular Service - Study and Extension
+
+## 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/sb0968f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Eckardt — primary (person)
+- Astle — cosponsor (person)
+- Benson — cosponsor (person)
+- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
+- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
+- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
+- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
+- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-05** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-07** Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-13** Favorable with Amendments {647970/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-15** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-15** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-28** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-28** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-28** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-03-29** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-30** Returned Passed
+- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 178 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4b18be78-c1c9-412a-822c-1bf7a787847c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+