---
type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Agriculture - Seafood and Aquaculture Product Marketing"
description: "Department of Agriculture - Seafood and Aquaculture Product Marketing"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 120"
citation: "Maryland HB 120 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture", "Advertising", "Agriculture", "Department of", "Aquaculture", "Committees and Commissions", "Fees", "Licenses", "Meat", "Poultry", "Seafood", "Names", "Natural Resources", "Department of", "Revenue and Taxes"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/344b03f9-f082-4e94-97cd-51c0c1cb8e49"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB120&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "7ac1c8f25d3db25ef46ee1e7db76769b4227485a42a4eb78bdd396ed771787d4"
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 120 (2017) — Department of Agriculture - Seafood and Aquaculture Product Marketing

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0120f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Chair — primary (person)
- Environment and Transportation Committee (By Request - Departmental - Agriculture) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-18** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-18** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-27** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-28** Favorable with Amendments {290418/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-28** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-02** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-03** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** Rereferred to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
- **2017-03-15** Hearing 3/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-05** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-11** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 101 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/344b03f9-f082-4e94-97cd-51c0c1cb8e49`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).