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Bill	Cemeteries - Authority to Maintain and Repair Memorials and Monuments	Cemeteries - Authority to Maintain and Repair Memorials and Monuments	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2017	SB 50	Maryland SB 50 (2017)	bill	Business Regulation and Occupations Cemeteries Monuments and Memorials Notices Postal Service Public Information	enacted	Astle	1	15	2	2016-08-05	2017-05-04	openstates	ocd-bill/d6ae07af-b364-4762-aef0-4e9509b0d341	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB50&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs	1b377676c40c6ce250eb94f75ec9aebb5c7ddb8c9d0e57605b8c4ab26366f8c6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland SB 50 (2017) — Cemeteries - Authority to Maintain and Repair Memorials and Monuments

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 — 137–0 (pass) · legislature
• Third Reading — 46–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Astle — primary (person)
• Benson — cosponsor (person)
• Feldman — cosponsor (person)
• Hershey — cosponsor (person)
• Jennings — cosponsor (person)
• Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
• Mathias — cosponsor (person)
• Middleton — cosponsor (person)
• Reilly — cosponsor (person)
• Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-08-05 Pre-filed introduction
• 2017-01-11 First Reading Finance referral-committee
• 2017-01-10 Hearing 1/18 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2017-01-26 Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-01-27 Favorable with Amendments {807876/1 Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-01-27 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2017-01-31 Third Reading Passed (46-0) passage
• 2017-02-01 First Reading Health and Government Operations referral-committee
• 2017-03-15 Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2017-03-31 Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-03-31 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-03-31 Second Reading Passed
• 2017-04-04 Third Reading Passed (137-0) passage
• 2017-04-05 Returned Passed
• 2017-05-04 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 477 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d6ae07af-b364-4762-aef0-4e9509b0d341. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).