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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Courts of Appeals and Special Appeals - Renaming"
+description: "Courts of Appeals and Special Appeals - Renaming"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 666"
+citation: "Maryland SB 666 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["A"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Peters"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-02-03"
+last_action: "2021-04-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4d982742-b807-4906-b95e-7a714a8f65bf"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0666?ys=2021RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "aa5f90f2259327198cc1953b6f5a175d4466e808c97cafd1cb01a566de8abe21"
+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 666 (2021) — Courts of Appeals and Special Appeals - Renaming
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Courts of Appeals and Special Appeals - Renaming** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_82_sb0666t.pdf)
+2. **First - Courts of Appeals and Special Appeals - Renaming** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0666f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Courts of Appeals and Special Appeals - Renaming** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0666t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading (Const) — **38–7** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading (Const) — **124–12** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Peters — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-03** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-04** Hearing 2/24 at 12:00 p.m.
+- **2021-02-09** Hearing canceled
+- **2021-02-09** Hearing 2/24 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2021-03-24** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-25** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-25** Second Reading Passed
+- **2021-03-26** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2021-03-29** Referred Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-06** Rereferred to Judiciary
+- **2021-04-08** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-08** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2021-04-12** Returned Passed
+- **2021-04-13** Approved by the Governor, assigned a chapter number, enactment subject to constitutional referendum - Chapter 82 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4d982742-b807-4906-b95e-7a714a8f65bf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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