---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Law Library - Renaming"
description: "State Law Library - Renaming"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1330"
citation: "Maryland HB 1330 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Agencies", "Offices", "and Officials", "Courts and Court Personnel - Statewide", "Administrative Office of the Courts", "Annotated Code of Maryland", "Legislative Services", "Department of", "Libraries", "Names", "Publications"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. Watson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-15"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/052da9b4-14ac-435f-bd18-f23b3d375c0d"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1330&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "3a35022dd7c7580b32ad8adb47458a0470f8e719ff2447736541feb69f2eafed"
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 1330 (2019) — State Law Library - Renaming

## 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/2019RS/bills/hb/hb1330f.pdf)

## Votes

- No motion given — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- R. Watson — primary (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- D. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- D.M. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-15** First Reading House Rules and Executive Nominations `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-22** Rereferred to Judiciary
- **2019-02-26** Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {282414/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-18** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-18** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 38 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/052da9b4-14ac-435f-bd18-f23b3d375c0d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).