---
type: "Bill"
title: "Port of Baltimore - Renaming"
description: "Port of Baltimore - Renaming"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 156"
citation: "Maryland SB 156 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["A"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beidle", "Gile", "Guzzone", "Hershey", "Klausmeier", "Mautz", "Ready", "Salling"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-11-01"
last_action: "2024-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19be2e42-1b22-44e8-9fca-d3ed70b667f6"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0156?ys=2024RS&search=True"
source_hash: "24852371417cf2a4979c0016e76a83b3e11464ee78a3b1236bb3b5eff2261db5"
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 156 (2024) — Port of Baltimore - Renaming

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Port of Baltimore - Renaming** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/Chapters_noln/CH_5_sb0156t.pdf)
2. **First - Port of Baltimore - Renaming** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0156f.pdf)
3. **Third - Port of Baltimore - Renaming** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0156t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Beidle — primary (person)
- Gile — primary (person)
- Guzzone — primary (person)
- Hershey — primary (person)
- Klausmeier — primary (person)
- Mautz — primary (person)
- Ready — primary (person)
- Salling — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-11-01** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2024-01-10** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-02** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-11** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-12** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2024-03-14** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-15** Referred Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-18** Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2024-03-27** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-27** Favorable Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2024-03-29** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-01** Returned Passed
- **2024-04-09** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 5 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/19be2e42-1b22-44e8-9fca-d3ed70b667f6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).