republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2017/sb-278.md

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Bill	Maryland Farms and Families Act	Maryland Farms and Families Act	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2017	SB 278	Maryland SB 278 (2017)	bill	Agriculture Agriculture Department of Agriculture Appropriations Farmland Food Food Stamps Grants Nonprofit Organizations Reports Revenue and Taxes Rules and Regulations	enacted	Middleton	1	14	2	2017-01-20	2017-05-04	openstates	ocd-bill/bf8483df-91e6-415a-888a-f7cd61dd1227	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB278&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs	e33544146c71d35c63caa98e3f06a3ffc1716209242cc36902196a3842564f22	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland SB 278 (2017) — Maryland Farms and Families Act

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 138–0 (pass) · legislature
• Third Reading — 46–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Middleton — primary (person)
• Benson — cosponsor (person)
• Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
• Mathias — cosponsor (person)
• Peters — cosponsor (person)
• Reilly — cosponsor (person)
• Smith — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-20 First Reading Finance and Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs referral-committee
• 2017-01-25 Hearing 2/16 at 1:00 p.m. (Finance)
• 2017-02-28 Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-03-01 Favorable with Amendments {767877/1 Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-03-01 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2017-03-03 Third Reading Passed (46-0) passage
• 2017-03-06 First Reading Appropriations referral-committee
• 2017-03-08 Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2017-03-31 Favorable Report by Appropriations committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-03-31 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-03-31 Second Reading Passed
• 2017-04-04 Third Reading Passed (138-0) passage
• 2017-04-05 Returned Passed
• 2017-05-04 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 396 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bf8483df-91e6-415a-888a-f7cd61dd1227. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).