---
type: "Bill"
title: "Environment - Compostable, Degradable, and Biodegradable Plastic Products - Labeling"
description: "Environment - Compostable, Degradable, and Biodegradable Plastic Products - Labeling"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1349"
citation: "Maryland HB 1349 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Environment", "Environmental Matters", "Fines", "Food", "Labeling", "Penalties and Sentences", "Recycling"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robinson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-10"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6a0084a2-6294-4df6-9d28-1c04e5d4afd9"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1349&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "1a1912f2133ecb6e4a4038a96787127f4e10762efab726f42c3fbecde4a9859d"
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 1349 (2017) — Environment - Compostable, Degradable, and Biodegradable Plastic Products - Labeling

## 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/hb1349f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **33–14** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **120–8** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Robinson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-10** First Reading Environment and Transportation and Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m. (Environment and Transportation)
- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments {830918/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Special Order until 03/18 (Delegate Kipke) Adopted
- **2017-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (120-8) `passage`
- **2017-03-20** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs and Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-22** Hearing 4/04 at 1:00 p.m. (Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs)
- **2017-04-10** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (33-14) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 374 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6a0084a2-6294-4df6-9d28-1c04e5d4afd9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).