---
type: "Bill"
title: "Corporations - Maryland General Corporation Law - Miscellaneous Provisions"
description: "Corporations - Maryland General Corporation Law - Miscellaneous Provisions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 137"
citation: "Maryland SB 137 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Corporations and Associations", "Corporations", "Elections", "Electronic Commerce", "Foreign Ownership", "Laws and Ordinances", "Limited Liability Companies", "Mergers and Acquisitions", "Notices", "Partnerships", "Time", "Voting"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Waldstreicher and West"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-21"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5c0030c4-c2f0-4040-8afd-c1158a077123"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB137&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "a010c8d4e3c43302c337b32c1c5dc3d5aece1d0c3f419085f380a019b77e862c"
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 137 (2019) — Corporations - Maryland General Corporation Law - Miscellaneous Provisions

## 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/2019RS/bills/sb/sb0137f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Waldstreicher and West — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-21** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-22** Hearing 1/30 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-04** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-02-07** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2019-02-08** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-26** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-03** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-05** Third Reading Passed (133-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 289 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5c0030c4-c2f0-4040-8afd-c1158a077123`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).