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+type: "Bill"
+title: "State Designations – State Spirit – Maryland Rye"
+description: "State Designations – State Spirit – Maryland Rye"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 178"
+citation: "Maryland HB 178 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["A"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Allen", "Barve", "Fair", "Feldmark", "Foley", "Forbes", "Griffith", "Healey", "Pruski", "Reznik"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 0
+first_action: "2023-01-18"
+last_action: "2023-05-03"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/150df561-0dbd-4e98-908e-14940f553b86"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0178?ys=2023RS&search=True"
+source_hash: "eb7dfe68a5837c1d554eb6127882c97441ca696607c087c3c828eba7da501851"
+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 178 (2023) — State Designations – State Spirit – Maryland Rye
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - State Designations – State Spirit – Maryland Rye** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_309_hb0178t.pdf)
+2. **First - State Designations – State Spirit – Maryland Rye** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0178f.pdf)
+3. **Third - State Designations – State Spirit – Maryland Rye** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0178t.pdf)
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Allen — primary (person)
+- Barve — primary (person)
+- Fair — primary (person)
+- Feldmark — primary (person)
+- Foley — primary (person)
+- Forbes — primary (person)
+- Griffith — primary (person)
+- Healey — primary (person)
+- Pruski — primary (person)
+- Reznik — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-18** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-08** Hearing 3/15 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2023-03-17** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-03-17** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-03-17** Second Reading Passed
+- **2023-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2023-03-20** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-30** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-03-30** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-03-30** Second Reading Passed
+- **2023-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2023-04-03** Returned Passed
+- **2023-05-03** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 309 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/150df561-0dbd-4e98-908e-14940f553b86`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+