---
type: "Bill"
title: "Waterway Improvement Fund - Public Boating Construction Projects - Financing Limits"
description: "Waterway Improvement Fund - Public Boating Construction Projects - Financing Limits"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 877"
citation: "Maryland SB 877 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural Resources - Generally", "Boats and Ships", "Chesapeake Bay", "Construction", "Dredging", "Environmental Matters", "Marinas", "Revenue and Taxes", "Rivers", "Streams", "and Lakes", "Sewage", "Sports and Recreation", "Water", "Waterway Improvement Fund"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-08"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/44496db4-5f3b-4335-b319-7118af29c6c5"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB877&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "2ec54f19b0291dc62848b32a35a8bbfeed20d59efa0825c8d3debca099ca1d39"
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 877 (2019) — Waterway Improvement Fund - Public Boating Construction Projects - Financing Limits

## 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/sb0877f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-08** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** Rereferred to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
- **2019-02-15** Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-05** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-06** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-03-08** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-11** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-12** 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** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-04** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 272 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/44496db4-5f3b-4335-b319-7118af29c6c5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).