republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2018/sb-477.md

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Maryland SB 477 (2018) — Public Information Act - Required Denials - Physical Addresses, E-Mail Addresses, and Telephone Numbers

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 — 47–0 (pass) · upper
• On Third Reading — 133–5 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Kagan — primary (person)
• Astle — cosponsor (person)
• Bates — cosponsor (person)
• Benson — cosponsor (person)
• Brochin — cosponsor (person)
• Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
• Conway — cosponsor (person)
• Currie — cosponsor (person)
• DeGrange — cosponsor (person)
• Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
• Edwards — cosponsor (person)
• Feldman — cosponsor (person)
• Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
• Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
• Hershey — cosponsor (person)
• Hough — cosponsor (person)
• Jennings — cosponsor (person)
• Kasemeyer — cosponsor (person)
• Kelley — cosponsor (person)
• King — cosponsor (person)
• Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
• Lee — cosponsor (person)
• Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
• Manno — cosponsor (person)
• Mathias — cosponsor (person)
• McFadden — cosponsor (person)
• Middleton — cosponsor (person)
• Miller — cosponsor (person)
• Muse — cosponsor (person)
• Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
• Norman — cosponsor (person)
• Oaks — cosponsor (person)
• Peters — cosponsor (person)
• Pinsky — cosponsor (person)
• Ramirez — cosponsor (person)
• Ready — cosponsor (person)
• Reilly — cosponsor (person)
• Robinson — cosponsor (person)
• Rosapepe — cosponsor (person)
• Salling — cosponsor (person)
• Serafini — cosponsor (person)
• Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
• Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Waugh — cosponsor (person)
• Young — cosponsor (person)
• Zirkin — cosponsor (person)
• Zucker — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-26 First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs referral-committee
• 2018-01-26 Hearing 2/14 at 2:00 p.m.
• 2018-02-23 Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-02-26 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-02-26 Second Reading Passed
• 2018-02-28 Third Reading Passed (47-0) passage
• 2018-03-01 First Reading Health and Government Operations referral-committee
• 2018-03-07 Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2018-03-26 Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-27 Favorable Report Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-27 Second Reading Passed
• 2018-03-28 Third Reading Passed (133-5) passage
• 2018-04-09 Returned Passed
• 2018-04-10 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 40 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fb52d944-9d35-4b96-9009-19de03f86723. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).