---
type: "Bill"
title: "Selling or Providing Alcoholic Beverages to Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities and Others – Repeal of Prohibition"
description: "Selling or Providing Alcoholic Beverages to Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities and Others – Repeal of Prohibition"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 461"
citation: "Maryland SB 461 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcoholic Beverages - Statewide Bills", "Alcoholic Beverages - Local Bills", "Alcoholic Beverages Licenses", "Alcoholic Beverages - By Subdivision", "Allegany County", "Carroll County", "Charles County", "Developmental Disabilities", "Harford County", "Kent County", "Montgomery County", "Notices", "Queen Anne's County", "Retail Sales", "Washington County"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Zucker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-26"
last_action: "2018-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/14d1030a-204a-45c6-9532-48a051200583"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB461&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "034ba5a1c4232310f4e58a9698d80a70ec49cad2523a2cfea02168a9c40abbc5"
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 461 (2018) — Selling or Providing Alcoholic Beverages to Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities and Others – Repeal of Prohibition

## 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/sb0461f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Zucker — primary (person)
- Bates — cosponsor (person)
- Conway — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
- Manno — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
- Pinsky — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Salling — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Waugh — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-26** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-26** Hearing 2/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-27** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-28** Favorable with Amendments {204630/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-28** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-02** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-05** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-23** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-23** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-23** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-26** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-27** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 305 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/14d1030a-204a-45c6-9532-48a051200583`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).