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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Maryland Transit Administration – State Employees – Free Ridership (Transit Benefit for State Employees)"
+description: "Maryland Transit Administration – State Employees – Free Ridership (Transit Benefit for State Employees)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 319"
+citation: "Maryland SB 319 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Transportation - Generally", "State Government - Personnel", "Baltimore City", "Baltimore County", "Budget and Management", "Department of", "Buses", "Collective Bargaining", "Commuters", "Fees", "Mass Transit", "Railroads", "Reimbursement Rates", "Reports", "State Employees", "Transportation", "Department of", "Transportation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Augustine"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-01-30"
+last_action: "2019-05-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d4091f02-5ecb-4281-b7f4-041e087e9dfa"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB319&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
+source_hash: "6f6ccaca533cc3594aad91652ac54de98eed23ee75bee74b1f04bce8b22947c9"
+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 319 (2019) — Maryland Transit Administration – State Employees – Free Ridership (Transit Benefit for State Employees)
+
+## 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/sb/sb0319f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **31–14** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **99–38** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Augustine — primary (person)
+- Elfreth — cosponsor (person)
+- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
+- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
+- Kramer — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Washington — cosponsor (person)
+- Zucker — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-30** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-01** Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-02-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-02-20** Favorable with Amendments {387479/1 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-02-20** Laid Over (Senator Hough) Adopted
+- **2019-02-21** Favorable with Amendments {387479/1 Finance Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-02-21** Floor Amendment {723823/1 (Senator Augustine) Adopted `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-02-21** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2019-02-25** Third Reading Passed (31-14) `passage`
+- **2019-02-26** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-05** Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2019-04-02** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-02** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-02** Floor Amendment {803122/1 (Delegate Ghrist) Withdrawn `amendment-withdrawal`
+- **2019-04-02** Second Reading Passed
+- **2019-04-03** Third Reading Passed (99-38) `passage`
+- **2019-04-05** Returned Passed
+- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 420 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d4091f02-5ecb-4281-b7f4-041e087e9dfa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+