---
type: "Bill"
title: "Carroll County – Scenic River Advisory Board – Composition"
description: "Carroll County – Scenic River Advisory Board – Composition"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 601"
citation: "Maryland SB 601 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural Resources - Generally", "Agriculture", "Carroll County", "Committees and Commissions", "Counties", "Natural Resources", "Rivers", "Streams", "and Lakes"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hough"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-31"
last_action: "2018-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/80e1f1e8-6f8b-4ec0-8e8e-969197112e6e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB601&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "dd57cf8cdbaabae830cca7338c1b4b20de2354d29f3093d6d7105355c8dd65dc"
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 601 (2018) — Carroll County – Scenic River Advisory Board – Composition

## 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/sb0601f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Hough — primary (person)
- Bates — cosponsor (person)
- Ready — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-31** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-31** Hearing 2/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-05** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-06** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-03-08** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-09** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-06** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-09** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-09** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 270 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/80e1f1e8-6f8b-4ec0-8e8e-969197112e6e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).