republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2018/hb-1456.md

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Bill	Offshore Drilling Liability Act	Offshore Drilling Liability Act	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2018	HB 1456	Maryland HB 1456 (2018)	bill	Civil Actions and Procedures Bonds Civil Actions Contracts Damages Fuel Judgments Liability Wells	enacted	Barve	1	16	3	2018-02-09	2018-05-15	openstates	ocd-bill/342dce5b-a482-48db-a335-7c5dbe84c08e	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1456&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs	47f0362dd6d5eaca30241270c2f4d83a3cbf55bc71198ccd7cb884985bb63038	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 1456 (2018) — Offshore Drilling Liability Act

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 115–22 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading and Final Passage (Hse concurred) — 115–21 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading — 46–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Barve — primary (person)
• Beidle — cosponsor (person)
• Carr — cosponsor (person)
• Flanagan — cosponsor (person)
• Fraser-Hidalgo — cosponsor (person)
• Gilchrist — cosponsor (person)
• Healey — cosponsor (person)
• Holmes — cosponsor (person)
• Jalisi — cosponsor (person)
• Knotts — cosponsor (person)
• Lafferty — cosponsor (person)
• Platt — cosponsor (person)
• Robinson — cosponsor (person)
• Stein — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-09 First Reading Judiciary and Environment and Transportation referral-committee
• 2018-02-12 Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m. (Judiciary)
• 2018-03-16 Favorable Report by Judiciary committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-16 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-16 Second Reading Passed
• 2018-03-19 Third Reading Passed (115-22) passage
• 2018-03-19 First Reading Judicial Proceedings referral-committee
• 2018-04-02 Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-04-03 Favorable with Amendments {548173/1 Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-04-03 Floor Amendment {423121/1 (Senator Zirkin) Adopted amendment-passage
• 2018-04-03 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2018-04-04 Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) passage
• 2018-04-05 House Concur - Senate Amendments
• 2018-04-05 Third Reading Passed (115-21) passage
• 2018-04-05 Passed Enrolled
• 2018-05-15 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 626 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/342dce5b-a482-48db-a335-7c5dbe84c08e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).