republic-os/legislation/us/states/md/2024/hb-256.md

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Bill	Waterway Incident Notification System (WINS) - Study	Waterway Incident Notification System (WINS) - Study	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2024	HB 256	Maryland HB 256 (2024)	bill		enacted	D. Jones Lehman T. Morgan	3	18	2	2023-09-28	2024-05-09	openstates	ocd-bill/c9c2197c-384d-4fd5-80f3-183121cad0c9	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/hb0256?ys=2024RS&search=True	1985c1691b14838b2ff39815a1901438d661a20c4919de963d7a6d058d769173	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland HB 256 (2024) — Waterway Incident Notification System (WINS) - Study

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Waterway Incident Notification System (WINS) - Study (committee substitute) — source
2. First - Waterway Incident Notification System (WINS) Workgroup (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Waterway Incident Notification System (WINS) - Study (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 139–0 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading — 45–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• D. Jones — primary (person)
• Lehman — primary (person)
• T. Morgan — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-09-28 Pre-filed introduction
• 2024-01-10 First Reading Environment and Transportation referral-committee
• 2024-01-18 Hearing 2/07 at 2:30 p.m.
• 2024-01-23 Hearing canceled
• 2024-01-23 Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2024-02-14 Hearing canceled
• 2024-02-14 Hearing 2/14 at 1:15 p.m.
• 2024-03-04 Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-05 Favorable with Amendments { committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-05 Second Reading Passed with Amendments
• 2024-03-07 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2024-03-08 Referred Judicial Proceedings referral-committee
• 2024-03-27 Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-28 Favorable Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-28 Second Reading Passed
• 2024-03-29 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2024-04-01 Returned Passed
• 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 546 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c9c2197c-384d-4fd5-80f3-183121cad0c9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).