File Code: Agencies, Offices, and Officials
Prior Year Introduction As: HB 657/95 - CGM
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 236
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Edwards, Holt, La Vay, Brinkley, Conroy, Bissett,
Owings, Jacobs, V. Mitchell, Cadden, Flanagan, Wood, McClenahan,
Linton, Baldwin, Malone, Weir, Redmer, McKee, DeCarlo, Donoghue,
Bonsack, Bozman, Guns, Slade, Conway, Mossburg, Greenip, Klima, Ports,
M. Burns, Morgan, Schade, Rzepkowski, Faulkner, Elliott, Snodgrass,
Stup, Getty, Stocksdale, Stull, Harkins, Hecht, Kittleman, and Comeau
- Entitled:
-
English Language - Formal Recognition
Designating the English language as the official language of the State
of Maryland; providing for certain exceptions; providing that the Act
may not be construed to require the translation into English of any
official motto or slogan; and making provisions of the Act severable.
House Action
- 2/4
- First Reading Commerce and Government Matters
- Hearing 2/25 at 1:15 p.m.
- 2/11
- Hearing cancelled
- Hearing 3/10 at 1:15 p.m.
- 3/17
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Commerce and Government Matters
- 3/18
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Special Order 3/19 (Perry) Adopted
- 3/19
- Special Order 3/20 (Perry) Adopted
- 3/20
- Floor Amendment (Perry) Rejected (58-70)
- Floor Amendment (Delegate Valderrama)
- Laid Over (Delegate Valderrama) Adopted
- Floor Amendment (Delegate Valderrama) Adopted
- Floor Amendment (Delegate Valderrama) Rejected
- Floor Amendment (Delegate Valderrama) Rejected
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/23
- Third Reading Passed (76-59)
Senate Action
- 3/24
- First Reading Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate George C. Edwards, District 1A
- Delegate Robert C. Baldwin, District 33
- Delegate Phillip D. Bissett, District 30
- Delegate Rose Mary Hatem Bonsack, District 34
- Delegate K. Bennett Bozman, District 38
- Delegate David R. Brinkley, District 4A
- Delegate Michael W. Burns, District 32
- Delegate Joan Cadden, District 31
- Delegate Michael G. Comeau, District 35A
- Delegate Mary A. Conroy, District 23
- Delegate Norman H. Conway, District 38
- Delegate Diane DeCarlo, District 6
- Delegate John P. Donoghue, District 2C
- Delegate Donald B. Elliott, District 4B
- Delegate Patricia Anne Faulkner, District 14A
- Delegate Robert L. Flanagan, District 14B
- Delegate Joseph M. Getty, District 5
- Delegate Janet Greenip, District 33
- Delegate Ronald A. Guns, District 36
- Delegate James M. Harkins, District 35A
- Delegate Sue C. Hecht, District 3
- Delegate Kenneth C. Holt, District 6
- Delegate Nancy Jacobs, District 34
- Delegate Robert H. Kittleman, District 14B
- Delegate Martha S. Klima, District 9A
- Delegate Richard La Vay, District 15
- Delegate Samuel C. Linton, District 28
- Delegate James E. Malone, Jr., District 12A
- Delegate Charles A. McClenahan, District 38
- Delegate Robert A. McKee, District 2A
- Delegate Van T. Mitchell, District 28
- Delegate John S. Morgan, District 13B
- Delegate Mathew Mossburg, District 39
- Delegate George W. Owings, III, District 27B
- Delegate James F. Ports, Jr., District 8
- Delegate Alfred W. Redmer, Jr., District 8
- Delegate James E. Rzepkowski, District 32
- Delegate Victoria L. Schade, District 31
- Delegate John F. Slade, III, District 29B
- Delegate Louise V. Snodgrass, District 3
- Delegate Nancy Reter Stocksdale, District 5
- Delegate Paul S. Stull, District 4A
- Delegate J. Anita Stup, District 3
- Delegate Michael H. Weir, District 6
- Delegate John F. Wood, Jr., District 29A
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- LANGUAGE
- STATE SYMBOLS
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Article - 41 Governor - Executive and Administrative Departments
- (
18-207
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- House
- Number: 183906/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 20, 1998 at:
11:30 a.m. Status: Rejected
- Number: 263703/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 20, 1998 at:
11:49 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Number: 363207/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 20, 1998 at:
12:28 p.m. Status: Rejected
- Number: 476061/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 18, 1998 at:
10:45 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Number: 513105/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 20, 1998 at:
12:24 p.m. Status: Rejected
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- House
- March 20, 1998: Floor Amendment (Perry) {183906/1 Rejected (58-70)
- March 23, 1998: Third Reading Passed (76-59)
