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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Department of Agriculture - Maryland Produce Safety Program"
+description: "Department of Agriculture - Maryland Produce Safety Program"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 50"
+citation: "Maryland HB 50 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Agriculture", "Public Health", "Administrative Agencies", "Agriculture", "Department of", "Agriculture", "Circuit Courts", "Civil Actions", "Commerce and Business", "Counties", "Court Costs", "Courts", "Damages", "Data", "Disclosure", "District Courts", "Examinations", "Federal Government", "Fees", "Food", "Health", "Hearings", "Industry and Technology", "Inspections", "Judges", "Judgments", "Juries", "Jurisdiction", "Law Enforcement", "Liability", "Libel and Slander", "Notices", "Penalties and Sentences", "Petitions", "Privacy", "Public Information", "Records", "Retail Sales", "Revenue and Taxes", "Rules and Regulations", "Subpoenas", "Sunset", "Trials", "Warrants", "Witnesses"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-01-14"
+last_action: "2019-04-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3162841f-95ef-49c9-ae35-82c89ff8d0ca"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB50&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "a94f40619ab052d7f0397442c62c9668637ce4bf7ccf2b169a0ec6b93ebe93f4"
+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 HB 50 (2019) — Department of Agriculture - Maryland Produce Safety Program
+
+## 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb0050f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **141–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chair — primary (person)
+- Environment and Transportation Committee (By Request - Departmental - Agriculture) — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-14** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-23** Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-01-31** Hearing canceled
+- **2019-01-31** Hearing 2/06 at 1:30 p.m.
+- **2019-02-18** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-02-20** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-02-20** Second Reading Passed
+- **2019-02-22** Third Reading Passed (141-0) `passage`
+- **2019-02-25** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-11** Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-03-26** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-27** Second Reading Passed
+- **2019-03-28** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2019-03-29** Returned Passed
+- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 131 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3162841f-95ef-49c9-ae35-82c89ff8d0ca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+