---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Cybersecurity Council - Membership - Revisions"
description: "Maryland Cybersecurity Council - Membership - Revisions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 281"
citation: "Maryland SB 281 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Agencies", "Offices", "and Officials", "Committees and Commissions", "Cybersecurity", "Elections", "General Assembly", "Public Officials"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Simonaire"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-22"
last_action: "2018-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/686c6238-fa2a-42b8-8dfe-4120e621e8b3"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB281&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "fde73d2e47d7c54b027ead616bae272679bcb9c70bbc543b14379784e57a0f8d"
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 281 (2018) — Maryland Cybersecurity Council - Membership - Revisions

## 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/sb0281f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Simonaire — primary (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Peters — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-22** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-24** Hearing 1/31 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-19** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-21** Favorable with Amendments {144339/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-21** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-02-23** Third Reading Passed (40-0) `passage`
- **2018-02-26** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-07** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-29** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-29** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-29** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-30** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-02** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 151 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/686c6238-fa2a-42b8-8dfe-4120e621e8b3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).