---
type: "Bill"
title: "Landlord and Tenant - Residential Leases - Water and Sewer Bills"
description: "Landlord and Tenant - Residential Leases - Water and Sewer Bills"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 468"
citation: "Maryland SB 468 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Real Property", "Landlord and Tenant", "Leases and Rent", "Notices", "Sewage", "Utilities", "Water"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eckardt"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-26"
last_action: "2018-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/42266532-a9c7-4e91-b4c9-5b89d4e827e6"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB468&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "cc4f7f64c3d6668137aeaee1813d7df2a8e1a1ce8392458358b46298cc48d209"
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 468 (2018) — Landlord and Tenant - Residential Leases - Water and Sewer Bills

## 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/sb0468f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **38–9** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Eckardt — primary (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Salling — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-26** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-31** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-26** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-26** Favorable with Amendments {708975/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-26** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-27** Third Reading Passed (38-9) `passage`
- **2018-03-27** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-28** Rereferred to Environment and Transportation
- **2018-03-29** Hearing 4/03 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-06** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-06** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-06** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2018-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 514 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/42266532-a9c7-4e91-b4c9-5b89d4e827e6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).