---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Designations – State Spirit – Maryland Rye"
description: "State Designations – State Spirit – Maryland Rye"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 178"
citation: "Maryland HB 178 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Allen", "Barve", "Fair", "Feldmark", "Foley", "Forbes", "Griffith", "Healey", "Pruski", "Reznik"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-01-18"
last_action: "2023-05-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/150df561-0dbd-4e98-908e-14940f553b86"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0178?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "eb7dfe68a5837c1d554eb6127882c97441ca696607c087c3c828eba7da501851"
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 178 (2023) — State Designations – State Spirit – Maryland Rye

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - State Designations – State Spirit – Maryland Rye** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_309_hb0178t.pdf)
2. **First - State Designations – State Spirit – Maryland Rye** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0178f.pdf)
3. **Third - State Designations – State Spirit – Maryland Rye** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0178t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Allen — primary (person)
- Barve — primary (person)
- Fair — primary (person)
- Feldmark — primary (person)
- Foley — primary (person)
- Forbes — primary (person)
- Griffith — primary (person)
- Healey — primary (person)
- Pruski — primary (person)
- Reznik — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-18** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-08** Hearing 3/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-17** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-17** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-17** Second Reading Passed
- **2023-03-18** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-20** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-30** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2023-03-31** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2023-05-03** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 309 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/150df561-0dbd-4e98-908e-14940f553b86`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).