---
type: "Bill"
title: "Waterway Improvement Fund - Ocean City Inlet Dredging Study"
description: "Waterway Improvement Fund - Ocean City Inlet Dredging Study"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 1260"
citation: "Maryland SB 1260 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural Resources - Generally", "Dredging", "Natural Resources", "Ocean City", "Sunset", "Waterway Improvement Fund"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mathias"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-03-09"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/151c03d8-569a-466e-ade1-ad5ff39d3c37"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB1260&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "24a3d1fae35683ce8c5bec232907a23cf5a66a257a9783bf9b70225582c3dee2"
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 1260 (2018) — Waterway Improvement Fund - Ocean City Inlet Dredging Study

## 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/sb1260f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **50–87** (fail) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **96–44** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mathias — primary (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 Mathias) Adopted
- **2018-03-09** Referred Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-16** Rereferred to Budget and Taxation
- **2018-03-19** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Favorable with Amendments {799438/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-04-04** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-04** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-06** Rereferred to Environment and Transportation
- **2018-04-06** Hearing 4/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-09** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-09** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-09** Special Order until next session (Delegate Stein) Adopted
- **2018-04-09** Special Order until later this session (Delegate Rey) Adopted
- **2018-04-09** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-09** Floor Amendment {283725/1 (Delegate Folden) Rejected (50-87) `amendment-failure`
- **2018-04-09** Floor Amendment {553326/1 (Delegate Rey) Rejected `amendment-failure`
- **2018-04-09** Motion vote previous question (Delegate Bromwell) Adopted
- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (96-44) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-15** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 719 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/151c03d8-569a-466e-ade1-ad5ff39d3c37`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).