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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Mel Noland Woodland Incentives and Fellowship Fund - Reporting"
+description: "Mel Noland Woodland Incentives and Fellowship Fund - Reporting"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 257"
+citation: "Maryland SB 257 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Simonaire"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-01-19"
+last_action: "2026-04-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b9e066d5-afae-4b4e-b266-0869e951302a"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0257?ys=2026RS"
+source_hash: "968f394e492db185b5f02e7bdba045b76ebe67af641c762831ae55e5aaf6c549"
+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 257 (2026) — Mel Noland Woodland Incentives and Fellowship Fund - Reporting
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chapter - Mel Noland Woodland Incentives and Fellowship Fund - Reporting** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/Chapters_noln/CH_331_sb0257t.pdf)
+2. **First - Mel Noland Woodland Incentives and Fellowship Fund - Reporting** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0257f.pdf)
+3. **Third - Mel Noland Woodland Incentives and Fellowship Fund - Reporting** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2026RS/bills/sb/sb0257t.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Simonaire — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-19** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-23** Hearing 2/10 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2026-02-20** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-20** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-20** Second Reading Passed
+- **2026-02-24** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-02-25** Referred Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-25** Hearing 4/01 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2026-04-03** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-03** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2026-04-08** Returned Passed
+- **2026-04-28** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 331 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b9e066d5-afae-4b4e-b266-0869e951302a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
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