---
type: "Bill"
title: "Open Meetings Act - State Ethics Commission (Maryland State Agency Transparency Act of 2023)"
description: "Open Meetings Act - State Ethics Commission (Maryland State Agency Transparency Act of 2023)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 58"
citation: "Maryland HB 58 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alston", "Bagnall", "Bhandari", "Chisholm", "Cullison", "Guzzone", "Hill", "Hutchinson", "Kaiser", "Kerr", "Kipke", "Korman", "Lopez", "M. Morgan", "Martinez", "Pena-Melnyk", "R. Lewis", "Reilly", "Rosenberg", "S. Johnson", "Szeliga", "Taveras", "White", "Woods"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-10-20"
last_action: "2023-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0019d5e7-4fb6-44c7-94fe-cd0295610c4a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0058?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "098d19d432e74d08d80fbab555a8fc42986e71cc558b698ab32cc0bf57ff2c00"
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 58 (2023) — Open Meetings Act - State Ethics Commission (Maryland State Agency Transparency Act of 2023)

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Open Meetings Act - State Ethics Commission (Maryland State Agency Transparency Act of 2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_149_hb0058t.pdf)
2. **First - Open Meetings Act – State Ethics Commission (Maryland State Agency Transparency Act of 2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0058f.pdf)
3. **Third - Open Meetings Act - State Ethics Commission (Maryland State Agency Transparency Act of 2023)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/hb/hb0058t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Alston — primary (person)
- Bagnall — primary (person)
- Bhandari — primary (person)
- Chisholm — primary (person)
- Cullison — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Hutchinson — primary (person)
- Kaiser — primary (person)
- Kerr — primary (person)
- Kipke — primary (person)
- Korman — primary (person)
- Lopez — primary (person)
- M. Morgan — primary (person)
- Martinez — primary (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
- R. Lewis — primary (person)
- Reilly — primary (person)
- Rosenberg — primary (person)
- S. Johnson — primary (person)
- Szeliga — primary (person)
- Taveras — primary (person)
- White — primary (person)
- Woods — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-10-20** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2023-01-11** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-20** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-07** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-03-09** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-10** Referred Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-04** Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-04** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2023-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 149 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0019d5e7-4fb6-44c7-94fe-cd0295610c4a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).