---
type: "Bill"
title: "Metro Board Member Act"
description: "Metro Board Member Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 279"
citation: "Maryland SB 279 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Transportation - Generally", "Committees and Commissions", "Environmental Matters", "Investigations and Inquiries", "Mass Transit", "Public Officials", "Review Boards", "Safety", "Salaries and Compensation", "Signatures", "Transportation", "Department of", "Veto"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Feldman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-22"
last_action: "2018-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/44ea178d-6f36-41db-a22d-f4648c1c5321"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB279&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
source_hash: "9bff9f67a5e76a86b00252baeb42f8b8dcf691f481c1056db574835bac3acfc7"
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 279 (2018) — Metro Board Member Act

## 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/2018RS/bills/sb/sb0279f.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **126–13** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Feldman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-22** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-24** Hearing 2/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2018-03-12** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-13** Favorable with Amendments {427878/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2018-03-15** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
- **2018-03-15** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-05** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2018-04-09** Third Reading Passed (126-13) `passage`
- **2018-04-09** Returned Passed
- **2018-04-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 354 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/44ea178d-6f36-41db-a22d-f4648c1c5321`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).