---
type: "Bill"
title: "Corporations - Corporate Records and Electronic Transmission"
description: "Corporations - Corporate Records and Electronic Transmission"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 136"
citation: "Maryland SB 136 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Corporations and Associations", "Corporations", "Electronic Communication", "Investments", "Notices", "Records", "Reports", "Telecommunications and Information Technology"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Waldstreicher and West"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-21"
last_action: "2019-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/995a28c0-3a71-4a17-8659-f4cec9790e84"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB136&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "99a9063d5858080a6a81fd758d5a780cb635a51fc576111044b064b7127662c6"
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 136 (2019) — Corporations - Corporate Records and Electronic Transmission

## 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/sb/sb0136f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Waldstreicher and West — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-21** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-22** Hearing 1/30 at 2:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-04** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-02-07** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2019-02-08** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-26** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-04-03** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-04** Third Reading Passed (134-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-30** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 288 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/995a28c0-3a71-4a17-8659-f4cec9790e84`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).