---
type: "Bill"
title: "Harford County District Courthouse – H. Wayne Norman, Jr. Memorial Plaza"
description: "Harford County District Courthouse – H. Wayne Norman, Jr. Memorial Plaza"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 1259"
citation: "Maryland SB 1259 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts and Court Personnel - Local", "District Courts", "Emergency Bills", "Harford County", "Names", "Public Buildings and Facilities", "Signs and Billboards"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cassilly"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-09"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/679c0d4d-e439-4c1e-915a-f04b1e204a6f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB1259&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "705c0fc1fb7ac288d2d4a56bfc1e492cdb08007a31657a46f01e2324e6690478"
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 1259 (2018) — Harford County District Courthouse – H. Wayne Norman, Jr. Memorial Plaza

## 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/sb/sb1259f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cassilly — primary (person)
- Astle — cosponsor (person)
- Bates — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Brochin — cosponsor (person)
- Conway — cosponsor (person)
- Currie — cosponsor (person)
- DeGrange — cosponsor (person)
- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Hough — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
- Kasemeyer — cosponsor (person)
- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
- King — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Lee — cosponsor (person)
- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
- Manno — cosponsor (person)
- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
- McFadden — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Muse — cosponsor (person)
- Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
- Oaks — cosponsor (person)
- Peters — cosponsor (person)
- Pinsky — cosponsor (person)
- Ramirez — cosponsor (person)
- Ready — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
- Salling — cosponsor (person)
- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Waugh — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)
- Zirkin — cosponsor (person)
- Zucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-09** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-09** Motion Rules Suspended for late introduction (Senator Zirkin) Adopted
- **2018-03-09** Motion Rules Suspended Referred (Senator Zirkin) Adopted
- **2018-03-09** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-12** Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {568370/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-16** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-16** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-16** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-05** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-06** Third Reading Passed (134-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 370 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/679c0d4d-e439-4c1e-915a-f04b1e204a6f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).