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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Connecting Rural Maryland Act of 2017"
+description: "Connecting Rural Maryland Act of 2017"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 1169"
+citation: "Maryland HB 1169 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["State Government - Agencies", "Offices", "and Officials", "Utility Regulation", "Committees and Commissions", "Communications", "Counties", "Electronic Communication", "Federal Government", "Reports", "Telecommunications and Information Technology"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mautz"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-02-09"
+last_action: "2017-05-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/557d6a12-6097-4ced-a6ab-c593d958c07c"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1169&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "3ed1da99cf31016bd20e596c7bf2d095bf8b9b6ee9dd6a7ce0ac87835bd5fc95"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
+---
+
+# Maryland HB 1169 (2017) — Connecting Rural Maryland Act of 2017
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb1169f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mautz — primary (person)
+- Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Anderton — cosponsor (person)
+- Arentz — cosponsor (person)
+- Aumann — cosponsor (person)
+- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
+- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
+- Frick — cosponsor (person)
+- Glenn — cosponsor (person)
+- Jameson — cosponsor (person)
+- Valderrama — cosponsor (person)
+- W. Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-09** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-09** Hearing 2/23 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-29** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-29** Favorable with Amendments {143599/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-29** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-03-30** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-31** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
+- **2017-04-05** Rereferred to Finance
+- **2017-04-05** Hearing 4/06 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-04-07** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-10** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-10** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
+- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 620 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/557d6a12-6097-4ced-a6ab-c593d958c07c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+