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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	SB 420	Maryland SB 420 (2020)	bill		enacted	Augustine Beidle Elfreth Kagan Lam Peters Pinsky Waldstreicher	4	18	4	2020-01-27	2020-05-08	openstates	ocd-bill/0b322c1f-f843-4ffb-8048-3dc17ae29376	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0420?ys=2020RS&search=True	afed40261c0740aded9f387772ce354fff097dbb04e72f8cc9c8db3d4d978fa4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland SB 420 (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. Enrolled - Environment – Use of Fire–Fighting Foam and PFAS Chemicals (committee substitute) — source
3. First - Public Safety - Fire Fighting Foam and PFAS Chemicals (committee substitute) — source
4. Third - Environment – Use of Fire–Fighting Foam and PFAS Chemicals (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Motion to suspend rules and allow 2 Rdgs on 1 Day — 128–0 (pass) · lower
• On third reading — 45–0 (pass) · upper
• On Third Reading — 46–0 (pass) · upper
• ON THIRD READING (Rules Suspended) (Amend) — 133–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Augustine — primary (person)
• Beidle — primary (person)
• Elfreth — primary (person)
• Kagan — primary (person)
• Lam — primary (person)
• Peters — primary (person)
• Pinsky — primary (person)
• Waldstreicher — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-27 First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs referral-committee
• 2020-01-30 Hearing 2/11 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2020-02-24 Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs 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 Health and Government Operations referral-committee
• 2020-03-15 Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-15 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-15 Motion Special Order until Next Session (Delegate Pena-Melnyk) Adopted
• 2020-03-15 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-03-15 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2020-03-15 Motion Rules Suspend Two Readings Same Day (Delegate Pena-Melnyk) Adopted
• 2020-03-15 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2020-03-17 Senate Concurs House Amendments
• 2020-03-17 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2020-03-17 Passed Enrolled
• 2020-05-08 Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 277 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0b322c1f-f843-4ffb-8048-3dc17ae29376. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).