---
type: "Bill"
title: "Open Meetings Act - Closed Meetings - Cybersecurity"
description: "Open Meetings Act - Closed Meetings - Cybersecurity"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 695"
citation: "Maryland HB 695 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Regulations and Procedures", "State Government - Agencies", "Offices", "and Officials", "Administrative Agencies", "Committees and Commissions", "Crimes and Punishments", "Cybersecurity", "Identification", "Investigations and Inquiries", "Privacy", "Safety", "Telecommunications and Information Technology"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Frick"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-31"
last_action: "2018-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/99c5445f-e99c-45ba-b145-633729eae21f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB695&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "25268726bf8be80a72cbd07628d80716336253d11b05f22ec594f5f0a6b848dd"
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 695 (2018) — Open Meetings Act - Closed Meetings - Cybersecurity

## 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/hb0695f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Frick — primary (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Miele — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-31** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-31** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-02** Hearing canceled
- **2018-02-02** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-07** Favorable with Amendments {406980/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-08** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-09** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-15** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-02** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-04** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 304 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/99c5445f-e99c-45ba-b145-633729eae21f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).