Maryland Senate Bill 278 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)
Status: Passed on May 4 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-05-04 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 396
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]

Establishing the Maryland Farms and Families Program in the Department of Agriculture; establishing that the purpose of the Program is to double the purchasing power of food-insecure Maryland residents with limited access to fresh fruits and vegetables and to increase revenue for farmers through redemption of specified benefits at Maryland farmers markets; establishing a Maryland Farms and Families Fund; requiring the Governor to include a $500,000 appropriation to the Fund each fiscal year subject to the limitations of the State budget; etc.

Maryland Farms and Families Act

Sen. Thomas Middleton [D]	Sen. Joanne Benson [D]	Sen. Guy Guzzone [D]	Sen. Jim Mathias [D]
Sen. Douglas Peters [D]	Sen. Edward Reilly [R]	Sen. William Smith [D]

2017-03-28 - House - House Floor - Third Reading Passed (138-0) (Y: 138 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2017-03-03 - Senate - Senate Floor - Third Reading Passed (46-0) (Y: 46 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-05-04	Senate	Approved by the Governor - Chapter 396
2017-04-05	Senate	Returned Passed
2017-04-04	House	Third Reading Passed (138-0)
2017-03-31	House	Second Reading Passed
2017-03-31	House	Favorable Report Adopted
2017-03-31	House	Favorable Report by Appropriations
2017-03-21	House	Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
2017-03-06	House	First Reading Appropriations
2017-03-03	Senate	Third Reading Passed (46-0)
2017-03-01	Senate	Second Reading Passed with Amendments
2017-03-01	Senate	Favorable with Amendments {767877/1 Report Adopted
2017-02-28	Senate	Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
2017-02-16	Senate	Hearing 2/16 at 1:00 p.m. (Finance)
2017-01-20	Senate	First Reading Finance and Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/SB0278?ys=2017rs
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/sb/sb0278f.pdf
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/sb/sb0278t.pdf
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/Chapters_noln/CH_396_sb0278t.pdf
Amendment	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/amds/bil_0008/sb0278_76787701.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/fnotes/bil_0008/sb0278.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/votes_comm/sb0278_fin.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/votes_comm/sb0278_ehe.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/votes_comm/sb0278_app.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/ag_letters/sb0278.pdf
Roll Call	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?pid=flrvotepage&tab=subject3&id=sb0278,s-0402&stab=02&ys=2017RS
Roll Call	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?pid=flrvotepage&tab=subject3&id=sb0278,h-1065&stab=02&ys=2017RS