---
type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Legislative Services - Publication of Municipal Charter Amendments and Local Laws of Charter and Code Counties"
description: "Department of Legislative Services - Publication of Municipal Charter Amendments and Local Laws of Charter and Code Counties"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 286"
citation: "Maryland SB 286 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - General Assembly", "Local Government - Generally", "Counties", "Electronic Government", "Legislative Services", "Department of", "Municipal Corporations", "Publications", "Public Local Laws"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["The President (By Request - Department of Legislative Services)"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-28"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f5256677-4d2e-4fbc-8e82-dc0ecb260b42"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB286&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "3d4160bae99101a866ac6138588c26e213917c9063628ea3e670c1e8e796a6c4"
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 286 (2019) — Department of Legislative Services - Publication of Municipal Charter Amendments and Local Laws of Charter and Code Counties

## 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/sb0286f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- The President (By Request - Department of Legislative Services) — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-28** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-29** Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-01-31** Hearing canceled
- **2019-02-06** Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-11** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-14** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-14** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-15** Hearing 3/22 at 12:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-25** Favorable Report by House Rules and Executive Nominations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-26** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-26** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-27** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-28** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 263 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f5256677-4d2e-4fbc-8e82-dc0ecb260b42`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).