---
type: "Bill"
title: "Talbot County Board of Education – Start Date of Term for Members"
description: "Talbot County Board of Education – Start Date of Term for Members"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 156"
citation: "Maryland HB 156 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education - Local Bills", "Education", "Boards of", "Elections", "Talbot County", "Time"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mautz and Adams"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-17"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fde7b0d3-9362-4f9c-bf4d-28128b600e44"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB156&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "1736e86cfe6a95c1031f53141cbe653aeb0d64046307fa2e87b9183da9804d51"
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 156 (2018) — Talbot County Board of Education – Start Date of Term for Members

## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb0156f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mautz and Adams — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-17** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-18** Hearing 2/01 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-16** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-17** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-17** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-19** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-19** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-02** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 371 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fde7b0d3-9362-4f9c-bf4d-28128b600e44`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).