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Bill	Public Ethics - Officials and Employees - Acceptance of Gifts and Prohibited Retaliation	Public Ethics - Officials and Employees - Acceptance of Gifts and Prohibited Retaliation	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2021	SB 4	Maryland SB 4 (2021)	bill		enacted	Edwards Feldman Ferguson Klausmeier	3	16	2	2020-09-15	2021-05-18	openstates	ocd-bill/60f502e9-7b05-4c27-8605-61a7ab6bfd9a	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0004?ys=2021RS&search=True	189b9f2ae8ad9fb23db491510992c84c1151663fa121df0c30286277f690e45c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland SB 4 (2021) — Public Ethics - Officials and Employees - Acceptance of Gifts and Prohibited Retaliation

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Public Ethics - Officials and Employees - Acceptance of Gifts and Prohibited Retaliation (committee substitute) — source
2. First - Maryland Public Ethics Law - Retaliation for Reporting or Participating in Investigation - Prohibition (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Public Ethics - Officials and Employees - Acceptance of Gifts and Prohibited Retaliation (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 46–0 (pass) · upper
• On Third Reading — 119–13 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Edwards — primary (person)
• Feldman — primary (person)
• Ferguson — primary (person)
• Klausmeier — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-09-15 Pre-filed introduction
• 2021-01-13 First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs referral-committee
• 2021-01-19 Hearing 2/04 at 11:00 a.m.
• 2021-03-05 Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-05 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-05 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2021-03-09 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2021-03-10 Referred Environment and Transportation referral-committee
• 2021-03-12 Hearing 3/25 at 1:30 p.m.
• 2021-04-10 Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-10 Favorable Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-10 Second Reading Passed
• 2021-04-12 Floor Amendment {
• 2021-04-12 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2021-04-12 Returned Passed
• 2021-05-18 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 254 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/60f502e9-7b05-4c27-8605-61a7ab6bfd9a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).