---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Health - Mobile Food Service Facilities - Licensing and Inspection by County Health Departments"
description: "Public Health - Mobile Food Service Facilities - Licensing and Inspection by County Health Departments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 262"
citation: "Maryland SB 262 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health", "Counties", "Emergency Bills", "Equipment", "Fees", "Fines", "Food", "Health", "Inspections", "Licenses", "Motor Vehicles", "Notices", "Refuse Disposal", "Registration", "Retail Sales", "Rules and Regulations", "Sewage", "Storage", "Water"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bates"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-20"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b278fe6e-3dc4-48d9-a00e-58faf24bca7d"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB262&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "98a8b8d06bd4b1eab4ef3787c2b11a6e3571452cb24cbe0c6587ca230963e854"
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 262 (2017) — Public Health - Mobile Food Service Facilities - Licensing and Inspection by County Health Departments

## 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/sb/sb0262f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Bates — primary (person)
- Astle — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Norman — cosponsor (person)
- Oaks — cosponsor (person)
- Ready — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-20** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-25** Hearing 2/16 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-20** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-20** Favorable with Amendments {117272/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-02-22** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-23** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-24** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-24** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-24** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-28** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 215 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b278fe6e-3dc4-48d9-a00e-58faf24bca7d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).