---
type: "Bill"
title: "St. Mary's County - Emergency Snow Routes - Authority"
description: "St. Mary's County - Emergency Snow Routes - Authority"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 89"
citation: "Maryland HB 89 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["St. Mary's County Delegation"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-13"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a65f6439-ac79-44ac-b46d-25fba4c6acd7"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0089?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "2690d8dbc3744c2621680e7bdefc3a42f21b95b46b70e7d2853a09f466197375"
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 HB 89 (2020) — St. Mary's County - Emergency Snow Routes - Authority

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - St. Mary's County - Emergency Snow Routes - Authority** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_46_hb0089t.pdf)
2. **First - St. Mary's County - Emergency Snow Routes - Authority** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0089f.pdf)
3. **Third - St. Mary's County - Emergency Snow Routes - Authority** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/hb/hb0089t.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 89 HB 893 HB 1060 HB 1069 HB 1444 — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- St. Mary's County Delegation — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-13** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-30** Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-02-24** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-25** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-27** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-02-28** Referred Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-09** Hearing 3/18 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-03-15** Hearing canceled
- **2020-03-16** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-16** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-16** Second Reading Passed
- **2020-03-16** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-17** Returned Passed
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 46 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a65f6439-ac79-44ac-b46d-25fba4c6acd7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).