---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Law Library - Renaming"
description: "State Law Library - Renaming"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 594"
citation: "Maryland SB 594 (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: ["Peters"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ce383c63-1b63-47ba-a51c-8423a7204e58"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB594&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "40cb6d7f10ca4ec3fd2065038190836792dff07591aa0bac6b3206532b41950f"
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 594 (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/sb/sb0594f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Peters — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-04** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-06** Hearing 3/06 at 12:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-12** Hearing canceled
- **2019-02-12** Hearing 2/20 at 12:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-20** Hearing canceled
- **2019-02-21** Hearing 2/28 at 12:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-11** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Floor Amendment {903521/1 (Senator Peters) Adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-12** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2019-03-14** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2019-03-14** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-15** Hearing 3/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-29** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-29** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-29** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-02** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 39 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ce383c63-1b63-47ba-a51c-8423a7204e58`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).