---
type: "Bill"
title: "Environment - Statewide Recycling Needs Assessment and Producer Responsibility for Packaging Materials"
description: "Environment - Statewide Recycling Needs Assessment and Producer Responsibility for Packaging Materials"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 222"
citation: "Maryland SB 222 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Augustine", "Brooks", "Elfreth", "Hester", "Hettleman", "Kagan", "Lewis Young"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-01-23"
last_action: "2023-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/51971abe-def8-4995-ae70-6c5170986f25"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0222?ys=2023RS&search=True"
source_hash: "4fe2b1176d9188972a9bb1a23bdd64cd0c0d711f540534e86c4fd63ceec584c3"
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 222 (2023) — Environment - Statewide Recycling Needs Assessment and Producer Responsibility for Packaging Materials

## Version chain

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

1. **Chapter - Environment - Statewide Recycling Needs Assessment and Producer Responsibility for Packaging Materials** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/Chapters_noln/CH_465_sb0222e.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Environment - Statewide Recycling Needs Assessment and Producer Responsibility for Packaging Materials** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/sb/sb0222e.pdf)
3. **First - Environment - Reducing Packaging Materials - Producer Responsibility** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/sb/sb0222f.pdf)
4. **Third - Environment - Reducing Packaging Materials - Producer Responsibility** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2023RS/bills/sb/sb0222t.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Augustine — primary (person)
- Brooks — primary (person)
- Elfreth — primary (person)
- Hester — primary (person)
- Hettleman — primary (person)
- Kagan — primary (person)
- Lewis Young — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-23** First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-25** Hearing 2/09 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2023-03-16** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-16** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-16** Motion Laid Over (Senator Ready) Adopted
- **2023-03-16** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-16** Floor Amendment {
- **2023-03-16** Floor Amendment {
- **2023-03-16** Floor Amendment {
- **2023-03-16** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-03-17** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-20** Referred Environment and Transportation Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-22** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m. (Environment and Transportation)
- **2023-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-03** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-03** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2023-04-06** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-07** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
- **2023-04-07** Senate Requests House Recede
- **2023-04-07** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Augustine, Hester and Simonaire)
- **2023-04-08** Senate Refuses Concur House Amendments
- **2023-04-08** Senate Requests House Recede
- **2023-04-08** Senate Conference Committee Appointed (Senators Augustine, Hester and Simonaire)
- **2023-04-08** House Refuses Recede
- **2023-04-08** House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Stein, Barve and Crosby)
- **2023-04-10** House Refuses Recede
- **2023-04-10** House Conference Committee Appointed (Delegates Stein, Barve and Crosby)
- **2023-04-10** Conference Committee Report {
- **2023-04-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-10** Conference Committee Report {
- **2023-04-10** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-10** Passed Enrolled
- **2023-05-08** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 465 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/51971abe-def8-4995-ae70-6c5170986f25`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).