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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Department of Housing and Community Development - Office of Statewide Broadband - Established (Digital Connectivity Act of 2021)"
+description: "Department of Housing and Community Development - Office of Statewide Broadband - Established (Digital Connectivity Act of 2021)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 66"
+citation: "Maryland SB 66 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Beidle", "Carozza", "Eckardt", "Elfreth", "Gallion", "Griffith", "Guzzone", "Hester", "Kagan", "Kelley", "Lam", "Patterson", "Pinsky", "Reilly", "Rosapepe", "Simonaire", "Washington", "West", "Zucker"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2020-09-23"
+last_action: "2021-04-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3878bc38-c553-43ca-b8af-baf7a4df85f4"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0066?ys=2021RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "dbef33e92bdbf79b6b7c3b86de1a11d5b7591a13aafa551fb96f33be99fc86d6"
+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 66 (2021) — Department of Housing and Community Development - Office of Statewide Broadband - Established (Digital Connectivity Act of 2021)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Department of Housing and Community Development - Office of Statewide Broadband - Established (Digital Connectivity Act of 2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_74_sb0066e.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled - Department of Housing and Community Development - Office of Statewide Broadband - Established (Digital Connectivity Act of 2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0066e.pdf)
+3. **First - Department of Housing and Community Development - Office of Digital Inclusion - Established** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0066f.pdf)
+4. **Third - Department of Housing and Community Development - Office of Digital Inclusion - Established (Digital Connectivity Act of 2021)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0066t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading (Emerg/Amend) — **120–17** (pass) · lower
+- On Third Reading (Emerg) — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+- On third reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Beidle — primary (person)
+- Carozza — primary (person)
+- Eckardt — primary (person)
+- Elfreth — primary (person)
+- Gallion — primary (person)
+- Griffith — primary (person)
+- Guzzone — primary (person)
+- Hester — primary (person)
+- Kagan — primary (person)
+- Kelley — primary (person)
+- Lam — primary (person)
+- Patterson — primary (person)
+- Pinsky — primary (person)
+- Reilly — primary (person)
+- Rosapepe — primary (person)
+- Simonaire — primary (person)
+- Washington — primary (person)
+- West — primary (person)
+- Zucker — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-09-23** Pre-filed `introduction`
+- **2021-01-13** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs and Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-22** Hearing 2/09 at 1:00 p.m. (Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs)
+- **2021-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-17** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2021-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2021-03-19** Referred Economic Matters `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-05** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-05** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-05** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2021-04-07** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2021-04-09** Senate Concurs House Amendments
+- **2021-04-09** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2021-04-09** Passed Enrolled
+- **2021-04-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 74 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3878bc38-c553-43ca-b8af-baf7a4df85f4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+