---
type: "Bill"
title: "Environment - Failing On-Site Sewage Disposal System - Definition"
description: "Environment - Failing On-Site Sewage Disposal System - Definition"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 190"
citation: "Maryland HB 190 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Environment", "Administrative Agencies", "Communications", "Counties", "Environment", "Department of the", "Environmental Matters", "Equipment", "Hazardous and Toxic Substances", "Health", "Laws and Ordinances", "Licenses", "Local Government Mandates", "Safety", "Sewage", "Water"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lafferty and Qi"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-23"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/12139a87-025b-4b3b-87cd-63f73b8eed29"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB190&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "eb221b8d5b93422cb80cc22d2813bdbbc8a6ecd458e1a7a32a911ef3c248bc4c"
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 190 (2019) — Environment - Failing On-Site Sewage Disposal System - Definition

## 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/hb0190f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **41–4** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — **130–4** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **129–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lafferty and Qi — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-23** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-29** Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-04** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-05** Favorable with Amendments {950911/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-05** Special Order until 03/06 (Delegate Ghrist) Adopted
- **2019-03-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-08** Third Reading Passed (129-5) `passage`
- **2019-03-11** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-14** Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Favorable with Amendments {324035/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-04-04** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (41-4) `passage`
- **2019-04-04** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2019-04-04** Third Reading Passed (130-4) `passage`
- **2019-04-04** Passed Enrolled
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 342 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/12139a87-025b-4b3b-87cd-63f73b8eed29`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).