---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Schools – Health and Safety Best Practices – Digital Devices"
description: "Public Schools – Health and Safety Best Practices – Digital Devices"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1110"
citation: "Maryland HB 1110 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Primary and Secondary Education", "Public Health", "Curriculum", "Education", "Boards of", "Education", "Education", "State Board of", "Health", "Health", "Department of", "Mental and Behavioral Health", "Private Schools", "Public Schools", "Safety", "Telecommunications and Information Technology"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Arentz"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-07"
last_action: "2018-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5fc50489-74ce-4607-97ce-2dc11ba5c7b4"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1110&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "30e069919eb1a478b6982a808d1d98d9ab6e944fe80059ceb60e5bf02b91e0c7"
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 1110 (2018) — Public Schools – Health and Safety Best Practices – Digital Devices

## Version chain

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

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2018RS/bills/hb/hb1110f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Arentz — primary (person)
- Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Anderton — cosponsor (person)
- Beitzel — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
- Chang — cosponsor (person)
- Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Clippinger — cosponsor (person)
- Cluster — cosponsor (person)
- Corderman — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Folden — cosponsor (person)
- Ghrist — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- Hornberger — cosponsor (person)
- Impallaria — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Jacobs — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Lafferty — cosponsor (person)
- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
- Mautz — cosponsor (person)
- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Shoemaker — cosponsor (person)
- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
- Vogt — cosponsor (person)
- W. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-07** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-12** Hearing 3/02 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-26** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Favorable with Amendments {855867/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-28** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-29** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-02** Rereferred to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
- **2018-04-02** Hearing 4/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-04-05** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-06** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2018-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 244 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5fc50489-74ce-4607-97ce-2dc11ba5c7b4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).