---
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: "SB 171"
citation: "Maryland SB 171 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education - Local Bills", "Education", "Boards of", "Elections", "Talbot County", "Time"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eckardt"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-12-08"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1d0a9497-9c16-44ae-a559-899ba7b79836"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB171&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "3b25ec8d630c8ce273aa0c69c8c5771f3192ba96f9c9196d02c57988c5a136aa"
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 171 (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/sb/sb0171f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Eckardt — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-15** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-17** Hearing 1/24 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-05** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-06** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-02-08** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-02-09** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-05** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-06** Favorable Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-07** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2017-12-08** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 372 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1d0a9497-9c16-44ae-a559-899ba7b79836`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).