---
type: "Bill"
title: "Dorchester County - Sunday Hunting - Deer Bow Hunting Season"
description: "Dorchester County - Sunday Hunting - Deer Bow Hunting Season"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 889"
citation: "Maryland SB 889 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Hunting and Fishing", "Animals", "Blue Laws", "Boundaries", "Dorchester County", "Hunting", "Natural Resources", "Department of", "Privacy", "Time", "Weapons"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eckardt"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-14"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/be7054d3-7ced-4492-b06b-7c78ac5d6bd3"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB889&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "51838d2985aa7597d771e1122e81a5043bf395497ddda63628cc2e9e52289557"
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 889 (2019) — Dorchester County - Sunday Hunting - Deer Bow Hunting Season

## 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/sb0889f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **130–9** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **45–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Eckardt — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-14** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-21** Rereferred to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
- **2019-02-26** Hearing 3/12 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-07** Hearing canceled
- **2019-03-07** Hearing 3/12 at 10:00 a.m.
- **2019-03-22** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-22** Favorable with Amendments {614136/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-22** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-25** Third Reading Passed (45-1) `passage`
- **2019-03-26** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-28** Rereferred to Environment and Transportation
- **2019-04-04** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-04** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-06** Third Reading Passed (130-9) `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 191 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/be7054d3-7ced-4492-b06b-7c78ac5d6bd3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).