---
type: "Bill"
title: "County Agricultural Land Preservation Programs - Recertification and Remittance of Unexpended Funds - Extensions"
description: "County Agricultural Land Preservation Programs - Recertification and Remittance of Unexpended Funds - Extensions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 620"
citation: "Maryland HB 620 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture", "Taxes - Recordation and Transfer", "Agriculture", "Committees and Commissions", "Conservation", "Counties", "Licenses", "Planning", "Department of", "Revenue and Taxes", "Time", "Transfer Tax", "Zoning and Planning"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Luedtke"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 25
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-01-29"
last_action: "2018-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ed1d7b21-715f-42a3-b047-712b980b7858"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB620&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "a997258f7963f6456bb921cafc61fa8c6824ab6d277e1a1c0dd1953f3a6070ae"
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 620 (2018) — County Agricultural Land Preservation Programs - Recertification and Remittance of Unexpended Funds - Extensions

## 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/hb0620f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
- On third reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (CCR Adp) — **138–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Luedtke — primary (person)
- A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Anderton — cosponsor (person)
- Dumais — cosponsor (person)
- Fraser-Hidalgo — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Jameson — cosponsor (person)
- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- Mautz — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-29** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-30** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-26** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-01** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-02** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-15** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-26** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Favorable with Amendments {384235/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-28** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-02** House Refuses to Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2018-04-02** House Requests Senate Recede
- **2018-04-02** Conference Committee Appointed
- **2018-04-02** Delegates Stein, Jacobs, and Healey
- **2018-04-04** Senate Refuses to Recede
- **2018-04-04** Conference Committee Appointed
- **2018-04-04** Senators Pinsky, Zucker, and Waugh
- **2018-04-07** Conference Committee Report Adopted
- **2018-04-07** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Conference Committee Report Adopted
- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Passed Enrolled
- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 294 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ed1d7b21-715f-42a3-b047-712b980b7858`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).