republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2018/hb-1566.md

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Bill	Public Utilities - Water and Sewage Disposal Companies - Acquisition	Public Utilities - Water and Sewage Disposal Companies - Acquisition	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2018	HB 1566	Maryland HB 1566 (2018)	bill	Utility Regulation Appraisals Assessments Commerce and Business Construction Fees Mergers and Acquisitions Prices Public Service Commission Sewage Time Utilities Water	enacted	W. Miller	1	14	2	2018-02-09	2018-04-24	openstates	ocd-bill/9892a74e-5f4c-4ce1-8391-c50b1ae33c5b	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1566&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs	0b0a6a42728de05da23248180d2b6cc040e36150a5879c77bdd81eb8ac5c4e7a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 1566 (2018) — Public Utilities - Water and Sewage Disposal Companies - Acquisition

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 — 46–0 (pass) · upper
• On Third Reading — 135–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• W. Miller — primary (person)
• Adams — cosponsor (person)
• Arentz — cosponsor (person)
• Aumann — cosponsor (person)
• Brooks — cosponsor (person)
• Carey — cosponsor (person)
• Clippinger — cosponsor (person)
• Davis — cosponsor (person)
• Fisher — cosponsor (person)
• Impallaria — cosponsor (person)
• Jameson — cosponsor (person)
• Lisanti — cosponsor (person)
• Mautz — cosponsor (person)
• S. Howard — cosponsor (person)
• Wilson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-09 First Reading Economic Matters referral-committee
• 2018-02-09 Hearing 3/08 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2018-03-17 Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-17 Favorable with Amendments {203494/1 Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-17 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2018-03-19 Third Reading Passed (135-0) passage
• 2018-03-19 First Reading Finance referral-committee
• 2018-03-21 Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2018-04-02 Favorable Report by Finance committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-04-02 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-04-02 Second Reading Passed
• 2018-04-03 Third Reading Passed (46-0) passage
• 2018-04-04 Returned Passed
• 2018-04-24 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 219 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9892a74e-5f4c-4ce1-8391-c50b1ae33c5b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).