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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Bay Restoration Fund - Authorized Uses"
+description: "Bay Restoration Fund - Authorized Uses"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 78"
+citation: "Maryland HB 78 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["C. Watson"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-01-10"
+last_action: "2020-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9e849d24-703b-437d-ad54-d21ad212f1f5"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0078?ys=2020RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "d6b14612cd5210f0ca6cbbe921070fca70a1c029a2813b20ca9d72795a2c2d8b"
+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 78 (2020) — Bay Restoration Fund - Authorized Uses
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Bay Restoration Fund - Authorized Uses** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_44_hb0078t.pdf)
+2. **First - Bay Restoration Fund - Authorized Uses** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0078f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Bay Restoration Fund - Authorized Uses** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0078t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- C. Watson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-10** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-13** Hearing 1/29 at 2:00 p.m.
+- **2020-02-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-02-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-02-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2020-02-20** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-02-21** Referred Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-15** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-15** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-15** Second Reading Passed
+- **2020-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-16** Returned Passed
+- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 44 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9e849d24-703b-437d-ad54-d21ad212f1f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+