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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Sales and Use Tax - Licensed Caterers - Exemption"
+description: "Sales and Use Tax - Licensed Caterers - Exemption"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 843"
+citation: "Maryland SB 843 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["King", "Miller", "Peters"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-02-03"
+last_action: "2020-05-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b19a293-9342-401a-b64a-493ba738816f"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0843?ys=2020RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "64a590c0de94867146b5eb573aa07705d68c48b04735218746b9ca499ebcd030"
+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 843 (2020) — Sales and Use Tax - Licensed Caterers - Exemption
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Sales and Use Tax - Licensed Caterers - Exemption** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_644_sb0843t.pdf)
+2. **First - Sales and Use Tax - Licensed Statewide Caterers - Exemption** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0843f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Sales and Use Tax - Licensed Caterers - Exemption** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0843t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- King — primary (person)
+- Miller — primary (person)
+- Peters — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-02-03** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-06** Hearing 2/19 at 2:00 p.m.
+- **2020-02-10** Hearing canceled
+- **2020-02-10** Hearing 2/19 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2020-02-27** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-02-28** Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-02-28** Motion Special Order until 3/3 (Senator Kagan) Adopted
+- **2020-03-03** Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-03** Motion Special Order until Later Today (Senator Peters) Adopted
+- **2020-03-03** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-03** Floor Amendment {
+- **2020-03-03** Motion Laid Over (Senator Peters) Adopted
+- **2020-03-04** Floor Amendment {
+- **2020-03-04** Motion Special Order until 3/5 (Senator Peters) Adopted
+- **2020-03-05** Floor Amendment {
+- **2020-03-05** Floor Amendment {
+- **2020-03-05** Motion Special Order until 3/6 (Senator Kagan) Rejected
+- **2020-03-05** Floor Amendment {
+- **2020-03-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2020-03-09** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-10** Referred Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-10** Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2020-03-16** Hearing canceled
+- **2020-03-17** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-17** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-18** Returned Passed
+- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 644 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5b19a293-9342-401a-b64a-493ba738816f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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