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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Department of the Environment - Yard Waste, Food Residuals, and Other Organic Materials Diversion and Infrastructure - Study"
+description: "Department of the Environment - Yard Waste, Food Residuals, and Other Organic Materials Diversion and Infrastructure - Study"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 171"
+citation: "Maryland HB 171 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Environment", "Environment", "Department of", "Environmental Matters", "Food", "General Assembly", "Governor", "Refuse Disposal", "Reports"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Robinson"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2017-01-19"
+last_action: "2017-05-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4aaae6c6-a53c-4acb-ba5e-fc3e85e704ae"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB171&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "9fad79c57a8195029bfa5b224f954b5b1ed980c97615b85c4a8b58e469499b0c"
+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 171 (2017) — Department of the Environment - Yard Waste, Food Residuals, and Other Organic Materials Diversion and Infrastructure - Study
+
+## 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/hb0171f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **134–2** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Robinson — primary (person)
+- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
+- Carr — cosponsor (person)
+- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Fraser-Hidalgo — cosponsor (person)
+- Gilchrist — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
+- Kramer — cosponsor (person)
+- Lam — cosponsor (person)
+- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
+- Moon — cosponsor (person)
+- Morhaim — cosponsor (person)
+- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
+- Platt — cosponsor (person)
+- Reznik — cosponsor (person)
+- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-19** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-23** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-02-27** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-02-28** Favorable with Amendments {510316/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-02-28** Floor Amendment {913024/1 (Delegate Rey) Adopted `amendment-passage`
+- **2017-02-28** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-03-02** Third Reading Passed (134-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-03** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2017-04-03** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-04** Favorable with Amendments {364035/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-04** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-04-05** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (45-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-08** House Concur - Senate Amendments
+- **2017-04-08** Third Reading Passed (134-2) `passage`
+- **2017-04-08** Passed Enrolled
+- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 384 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4aaae6c6-a53c-4acb-ba5e-fc3e85e704ae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+