The Maryland Senate cleared a broad slate of measures across multiple committees during the session, adopting committee reports, appointing conference committees and recording final-passage votes on many third-reading bills.
Notable floor actions and recorded final-passage roll calls (as announced by the clerk):
- Senate Bill 279 (tobacco and electronic smoking enforcement): declared passed with 42 affirmative votes.
- Senate Bill 411 (hospital clinical-staffing committees and plans): declared passed with 42 affirmative votes.
- Senate Bill 611 (MDH study on hospice reimbursement): declared passed with 41 affirmative votes.
- House Bill 1017 (zoning requirements for private immigration detention facilities): declared passed with 32 affirmative votes.
- House Bill 1430 (charter school facilities funding, as amended): passed on third reading (34 affirmative votes reported after floor amendment and reconsideration of an amendment).
Throughout the evening the Senate also: read and journalized numerous messages from the House of Delegates; set up several conference committees to reconcile disagreements (named appointees were announced in the transcript); and special-ordered or laid over items (notably HB154 and HB191) to give senators time to review drafting and collect additional information.
Several bills were concurred with House amendments by unanimous consent in committee reports and ordered printed for third reading. Adjournment was set for Monday at 10:00 a.m.