---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Health – Cottage Food Products – Definition and Sale"
description: "Public Health – Cottage Food Products – Definition and Sale"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 290"
citation: "Maryland SB 290 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health", "Commerce and Business", "Cooperative Associations", "Food", "Health", "Health", "Department of", "Industry and Technology", "Postal Service", "Retail Sales", "Rules and Regulations", "Safety", "Transient Merchants"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Smith"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-29"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b035ebd-ded5-465b-9d57-137865bdeef9"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB290&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "05baddd51298b733d4353391625f1031282f888a2153063ef5a49b0e8ec24adb"
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 290 (2019) — Public Health – Cottage Food Products – Definition and Sale

## 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/sb0290f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **43–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Smith — primary (person)
- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
- Hough — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-29** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-06** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-28** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28** Favorable with Amendments {677376/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-28** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-29** Third Reading Passed (43-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-01** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-01** Rereferred to Health and Government Operations
- **2019-04-02** Hearing 4/03 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-04** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-04** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-04** Third Reading Passed (133-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 371 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8b035ebd-ded5-465b-9d57-137865bdeef9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).