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Bill	Environment – Use of Fire–Fighting Foam and PFAS Chemicals	Environment – Use of Fire–Fighting Foam and PFAS Chemicals	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2020	HB 619	Maryland HB 619 (2020)	bill		enacted	Bagnall Barron Bhandari Brooks C. Jackson Cardin Charles Chisholm Cullison Ebersole Feldmark Forbes Guyton Hettleman Hill Johnson K. Young Kelly Kerr Kipke Krebs Love Metzgar Morgan P. Young Pena-Melnyk R. Lewis Reilly Rosenberg Saab Sample-Hughes Stein Szeliga	3	15	2	2020-01-29	2020-05-08	openstates	ocd-bill/4f45b183-b31d-4a41-8ada-83bf6ceeae34	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0619?ys=2020RS&search=True	e9d98dc279dbe6bfb7ab1dbf0dc908ae70266bef43a15ec7ae18ac5949eca96e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 619 (2020) — Environment – Use of Fire–Fighting Foam and PFAS Chemicals

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Environment – Use of Fire–Fighting Foam and PFAS Chemicals (committee substitute) — source
2. First - Environment - Use of Fire-Fighting Foam Containing Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances - Prohibition (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Environment – Use of Fire–Fighting Foam and PFAS Chemicals (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 137–0 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading — 45–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bagnall — primary (person)
• Barron — primary (person)
• Bhandari — primary (person)
• Brooks — primary (person)
• C. Jackson — primary (person)
• Cardin — primary (person)
• Charles — primary (person)
• Chisholm — primary (person)
• Cullison — primary (person)
• Ebersole — primary (person)
• Feldmark — primary (person)
• Forbes — primary (person)
• Guyton — primary (person)
• Hettleman — primary (person)
• Hill — primary (person)
• Johnson — primary (person)
• K. Young — primary (person)
• Kelly — primary (person)
• Kerr — primary (person)
• Kipke — primary (person)
• Krebs — primary (person)
• Love — primary (person)
• Metzgar — primary (person)
• Morgan — primary (person)
• P. Young — primary (person)
• Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)
• R. Lewis — primary (person)
• Reilly — primary (person)
• Rosenberg — primary (person)
• Saab — primary (person)
• Sample-Hughes — primary (person)
• Stein — primary (person)
• Szeliga — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-29 First Reading Health and Government Operations referral-committee
• 2020-02-03 Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2020-02-24 Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-02-25 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-02-25 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2020-02-27 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2020-02-28 Referred Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs referral-committee
• 2020-03-10 Hearing 3/17 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2020-03-15 Hearing canceled
• 2020-03-17 Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-17 Favorable Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-17 Second Reading Passed
• 2020-03-17 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2020-03-18 Returned Passed
• 2020-05-08 Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 276 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4f45b183-b31d-4a41-8ada-83bf6ceeae34. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).