---
type: "Bill"
title: "Gender Diversity in the Boardroom – Annual Report"
description: "Gender Diversity in the Boardroom – Annual Report"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 911"
citation: "Maryland SB 911 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business Regulation and Occupations", "Taxes - Sales and Use", "Comptroller", "Corporations", "Exemptions", "Gender", "Nonprofit Organizations", "Reports", "Sales and Use Tax", "Sunset", "Women"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beidle"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-14"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c1eed9e0-0535-4628-b1ed-8adfde07dbe8"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB911&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "b7d9a9b7700b56db990d17011602568f794692d3cd06294ef8acac7b8df53151"
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 911 (2019) — Gender Diversity in the Boardroom – Annual Report

## 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/sb0911f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **106–32** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **40–6** (pass) · upper
- On third reading — **40–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Beidle — primary (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Elfreth — cosponsor (person)
- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
- Lee — cosponsor (person)
- Washington — cosponsor (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 Budget and Taxation
- **2019-02-22** Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-18** Favorable with Amendments {579737/1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-18** Laid Over (Senator Jennings) Adopted
- **2019-03-19** Favorable with Amendments {579737/1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-19** Special Order until 3/20 (Senator Elfreth) Adopted
- **2019-03-20** Favorable with Amendments {579737/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-20** Floor Amendment {973521/3 (Senator Elfreth) Adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-20** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-21** Third Reading Passed (40-6) `passage`
- **2019-03-22** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** Rereferred to Ways and Means
- **2019-03-27** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Favorable with Amendments {185765/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-04-03** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (106-32) `passage`
- **2019-04-05** Senate Concur - House Amendments
- **2019-04-05** Third Reading Passed (40-6) `passage`
- **2019-04-05** Passed Enrolled
- **2019-05-13** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 514 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c1eed9e0-0535-4628-b1ed-8adfde07dbe8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).