---
type: "Bill"
title: "Anne Arundel County - Alcoholic Beverages - Board Meetings"
description: "Anne Arundel County - Alcoholic Beverages - Board Meetings"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 163"
citation: "Maryland SB 163 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beidle", "Elfreth", "Reilly", "Rosapepe", "Simonaire"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-13"
last_action: "2020-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f771ff35-80b5-4e3f-aba2-06ea1bbc92c3"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0163?ys=2020RS&search=True"
source_hash: "29fd593b9a07673246ef95a1c41ce621af6f52b3295aef80ff71f37550fd28be"
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 163 (2020) — Anne Arundel County - Alcoholic Beverages - Board Meetings

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Anne Arundel County - Alcoholic Beverages - Board Meetings** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Chapters_noln/CH_153_sb0163t.pdf)
2. **First - Anne Arundel County - Alcoholic Beverages - Board Meetings** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0163f.pdf)
3. **Third - Anne Arundel County - Alcoholic Beverages - Board Meetings** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/bills/sb/sb0163t.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion to suspend rules and allow 2 Rdgs on 1 Day — **127–0** (pass) · lower
- ON THIRD READING (Rules Suspended) — **130–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Beidle — primary (person)
- Elfreth — primary (person)
- Reilly — primary (person)
- Rosapepe — primary (person)
- Simonaire — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-13** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-05** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2020-03-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-11** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-11** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2020-03-13** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-13** Referred Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-18** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-18** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-18** Motion Rules Suspend Two Readings Same Day (Delegate Luedtke) Adopted
- **2020-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-05-08** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 153 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f771ff35-80b5-4e3f-aba2-06ea1bbc92c3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).