---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Transit Administration – State Employees – Free Ridership (Transit Benefit for State Employees)"
description: "Maryland Transit Administration – State Employees – Free Ridership (Transit Benefit for State Employees)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 319"
citation: "Maryland SB 319 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Transportation - Generally", "State Government - Personnel", "Baltimore City", "Baltimore County", "Budget and Management", "Department of", "Buses", "Collective Bargaining", "Commuters", "Fees", "Mass Transit", "Railroads", "Reimbursement Rates", "Reports", "State Employees", "Transportation", "Department of", "Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Augustine"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-30"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d4091f02-5ecb-4281-b7f4-041e087e9dfa"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB319&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "6f6ccaca533cc3594aad91652ac54de98eed23ee75bee74b1f04bce8b22947c9"
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 319 (2019) — Maryland Transit Administration – State Employees – Free Ridership (Transit Benefit for State Employees)

## 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/sb0319f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **31–14** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **99–38** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Augustine — primary (person)
- Elfreth — cosponsor (person)
- Feldman — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Kramer — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Zucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-30** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-01** Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-20** Favorable with Amendments {387479/1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-20** Laid Over (Senator Hough) Adopted
- **2019-02-21** Favorable with Amendments {387479/1 Finance Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-21** Floor Amendment {723823/1 (Senator Augustine) Adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-21** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-02-25** Third Reading Passed (31-14) `passage`
- **2019-02-26** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05** Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-02** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Floor Amendment {803122/1 (Delegate Ghrist) Withdrawn `amendment-withdrawal`
- **2019-04-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-03** Third Reading Passed (99-38) `passage`
- **2019-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 420 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d4091f02-5ecb-4281-b7f4-041e087e9dfa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).