---
type: "Bill"
title: "Queen Anne's County - Alcoholic Beverages - Class D Beer, Wine, and Liquor and Class 9 Limited Distillery Licenses"
description: "Queen Anne's County - Alcoholic Beverages - Class D Beer, Wine, and Liquor and Class 9 Limited Distillery Licenses"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 820"
citation: "Maryland SB 820 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic Beverages - Local Bills"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hershey"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-03"
last_action: "2017-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b90c8734-fb4f-41ec-9f3b-28a875475842"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB820&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "f194f27823bb47e0d4e4631c846464657f0e0db688710b9096a958b6bd640d89"
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 820 (2017) — Queen Anne's County - Alcoholic Beverages - Class D Beer, Wine, and Liquor and Class 9 Limited Distillery Licenses

## 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/sb0820f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Hershey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-03** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Hearing 2/24 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-03** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-06** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-08** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-08** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-27** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-28** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-29** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-11** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 88 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b90c8734-fb4f-41ec-9f3b-28a875475842`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).