Maryland Senate Bill 644 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-1)
Status: Passed on April 8 2014 - 100% progression
Action: 2014-04-08 - Approved by the Governor - Chapter 69
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]

Establishing a State policy that open data be machine readable and released to the public in specified ways; establishing a Council on Open Data; providing for the composition, appointment, terms, chairs, and staffing of the Council; requiring the Council to promote the policy on open data by providing specified guidance and policy recommendations, advocating for specified practices, and making recommendations on the purchasing of specified data processing devices, systems, or software; etc.

State Government - Open Data Policy - Council on Open Data

Sen. William Ferguson [D]	Sen. Ulysses Currie [D]	Sen. Roy Dyson [D]	Sen. Nancy Jacobs [R]
Sen. Verna Jones-Rodwell [D]	Sen. Katherine Klausmeier [D]	Sen. Richard Madaleno [D]	Sen. Roger Manno [D]
Sen. Karen Montgomery [D]	Sen. Jamin Raskin [D]

2014-03-26 - House - House Floor - Third Reading Passed (132-0) (Y: 132 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 8) [PASS]
2014-03-12 - Senate - Senate Floor - Third Reading Passed (47-0) (Y: 47 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-04-08	Senate	Approved by the Governor - Chapter 69
2014-04-03	Senate	Returned Passed
2014-04-02	House	Third Reading Passed (132-0)
2014-04-01	House	Second Reading Passed
2014-04-01	House	Favorable Report Adopted
2014-03-31	House	Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations
2014-03-26	House	Hearing 3/26 at 1:00 p.m.
2014-03-18	House	First Reading Health and Government Operations
2014-03-17	Senate	Third Reading Passed (47-0)
2014-03-14	Senate	Second Reading Passed with Amendments
2014-03-14	Senate	Favorable with Amendments {554839/1 Report Adopted
2014-03-14	Senate	Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
2014-03-04	Senate	Hearing 3/04 at 1:00 p.m.
2014-02-05	Senate	Reassigned to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
2014-01-30	Senate	First Reading Senate Rules

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/SB0644?ys=2014rs
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2014RS/bills/sb/sb0644f.pdf
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2014RS/bills/sb/sb0644t.pdf
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2014RS/Chapters_noln/CH_69_sb0644t.pdf
Amendment	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2014RS/amds/bil_0004/sb0644_55483901.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2014RS/fnotes/bil_0004/sb0644.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2014RS/votes_comm/sb0644_ehe.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2014RS/votes_comm/sb0644_hgo.pdf
Roll Call	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?pid=flrvotepage&tab=subject3&id=sb0644,s-0597&stab=02&ys=2014RS
Roll Call	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?pid=flrvotepage&tab=subject3&id=sb0644,h-0937&stab=02&ys=2014RS