---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation – Board of Trustees and Elimination of District Agreements"
description: "Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation – Board of Trustees and Elimination of District Agreements"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 58"
citation: "Maryland SB 58 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture", "Agriculture", "Boundaries", "Charles County", "Codes", "Committees and Commissions", "Deeds", "Easements", "Farmland", "Land Preservation Trusts", "Land Records", "Property Tax", "St. Mary's County", "Worcester County", "Zoning and Planning"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-10-10"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8c7565dc-04ae-4029-a2d8-baf0833198e5"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB58&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "68d5cd2d58eeab653e228be4bac705a04d2297c9c2929a94980ac1bcbba0d3f7"
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 58 (2019) — Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation – Board of Trustees and Elimination of District Agreements

## 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/sb0058f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
- On third reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chair — primary (person)
- Education — cosponsor (person)
- Environmental Affairs Committee (By Request - Departmental - Agriculture) — cosponsor (person)
- Health — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-10-10** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2019-01-09** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-09** Hearing 1/22 at 4:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-04** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `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 Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-12** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-29** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-29** Favorable with Amendments {870014/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-29** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-04-01** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (136-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2019-04-03** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Passed Enrolled
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 130 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8c7565dc-04ae-4029-a2d8-baf0833198e5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).