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type: "Bill"
title: "Agriculture - County Agricultural Land Preservation Programs"
description: "Agriculture - County Agricultural Land Preservation Programs"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 57"
citation: "Maryland SB 57 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture", "Taxes - Property", "Administrative Agencies", "Agriculture", "Certifications", "Committees and Commissions", "Conservation", "Counties", "Land Preservation Trusts", "Planning", "Department of", "Property Tax", "Reports", "Revenue and Taxes", "Time", "Transfer Tax", "Zoning and Planning"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-10-15"
last_action: "2019-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/13a33840-ee3c-4f18-9c02-86cb318e58f9"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB57&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019rs"
source_hash: "b814e5e94a63bac41b619ea0ddb6d8363b23aea9b8d41a843a86ae75e782fa56"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
---
# Maryland SB 57 (2019) — Agriculture - County Agricultural Land Preservation Programs
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2019RS/bills/sb/sb0057f.pdf)
## Votes
- On Third Reading — **1380** (pass) · lower
- On Third Reading — **440** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Chair — primary (person)
- Education — cosponsor (person)
- Environmental Affairs Committee (By Request - Departmental - Agriculture) — cosponsor (person)
- Health — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-10-15** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2019-01-09** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-09** Hearing 1/22 at 4:00 p.m.
- **2019-02-04** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-05** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-05** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-02-07** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2019-02-08** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-12** Hearing 3/20 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2019-03-29** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-29** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-29** Second Reading Passed
- **2019-04-03** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2019-04-05** Returned Passed
- **2019-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 129 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/13a33840-ee3c-4f18-9c02-86cb318e58f9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).