---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Information Act - Required Denials - Physical Addresses, E-Mail Addresses, and Telephone Numbers"
description: "Public Information Act - Required Denials - Physical Addresses, E-Mail Addresses, and Telephone Numbers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 477"
citation: "Maryland SB 477 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Regulations and Procedures", "Electronic Communication", "Emergency Bills", "Emergencies", "Identification", "Inspections", "Notices", "Postal Service", "Privacy", "Records", "Telephones"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kagan"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-26"
last_action: "2018-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fb52d944-9d35-4b96-9009-19de03f86723"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB477&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "feafd07cb4ecfa3bfd6342dcb56ef61b630d897e26a7dfb394d93728c5cbee2e"
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 477 (2018) — Public Information Act - Required Denials - Physical Addresses, E-Mail Addresses, and Telephone Numbers

## 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/sb0477f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **133–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kagan — primary (person)
- Astle — cosponsor (person)
- Bates — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Brochin — cosponsor (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Conway — cosponsor (person)
- Currie — cosponsor (person)
- DeGrange — cosponsor (person)
- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
- Hough — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Kasemeyer — cosponsor (person)
- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
- King — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Lee — cosponsor (person)
- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
- Manno — cosponsor (person)
- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
- McFadden — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Muse — cosponsor (person)
- Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
- Norman — cosponsor (person)
- Oaks — cosponsor (person)
- Peters — cosponsor (person)
- Pinsky — cosponsor (person)
- Ramirez — cosponsor (person)
- Ready — cosponsor (person)
- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
- Salling — cosponsor (person)
- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Waugh — cosponsor (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)
- Zirkin — cosponsor (person)
- Zucker — 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 2/14 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2018-02-23** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-26** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-26** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-02-28** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-01** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-07** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-26** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-28** Third Reading Passed (133-5) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-10** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 40 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fb52d944-9d35-4b96-9009-19de03f86723`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).