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Bill	Shellfish Aquaculture - Harvest Hours	Shellfish Aquaculture - Harvest Hours	us/states/md	Maryland General Assembly	2024	SB 879	Maryland SB 879 (2024)	bill		enacted	Brooks Elfreth Gile Klausmeier Rosapepe Simonaire	3	14	2	2024-02-02	2024-05-09	openstates	ocd-bill/e07bfe07-5935-4497-ad6c-48216810aea4	http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0879?ys=2024RS&search=True	153e75e372c639ea18804b2e7f6d19d2096157363e94ec229b0cd0a1f05af224	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-md

Maryland SB 879 (2024) — Shellfish Aquaculture - Harvest Hours

Version chain

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

1. Chapter - Shellfish Aquaculture - Harvest Hours (committee substitute) — source
2. First - Shellfish Aquaculture - Harvest Hours (committee substitute) — source
3. Third - Shellfish Aquaculture - Harvest Hours (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• On Third Reading — 136–0 (pass) · lower
• On Third Reading — 46–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brooks — primary (person)
• Elfreth — primary (person)
• Gile — primary (person)
• Klausmeier — primary (person)
• Rosapepe — primary (person)
• Simonaire — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-02 First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment referral-committee
• 2024-02-07 Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2024-03-04 Favorable Report by Education, Energy, and the Environment committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-05 Favorable Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-05 Second Reading Passed
• 2024-03-07 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2024-03-08 Referred Environment and Transportation referral-committee
• 2024-03-21 Hearing 4/03 at 1:00 p.m.
• 2024-04-05 Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-05 Favorable Adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-05 Second Reading Passed
• 2024-04-08 Third Reading Passed passage
• 2024-04-08 Returned Passed
• 2024-05-09 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 551 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e07bfe07-5935-4497-ad6c-48216810aea4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).