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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Baltimore Metropolitan Council - Queen Anne's County - Membership"
+description: "Baltimore Metropolitan Council - Queen Anne's County - Membership"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 173"
+citation: "Maryland HB 173 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Economic and Community Development", "Baltimore Metropolitan Council", "County Commissioners", "Public Officials", "Queen Anne's County"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Arentz"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-19"
+last_action: "2017-04-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eead176d-b409-4fca-b808-13b1112a2b94"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB173&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "8691b0a6f9944458ac07647303ae3bd84852c1b99a791dd97655dda622be553c"
+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 173 (2017) — Baltimore Metropolitan Council - Queen Anne's County - Membership
+
+## 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/hb0173f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **134–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Arentz — primary (person)
+- Ghrist — cosponsor (person)
+- Jacobs — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-19** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-02-27** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-02-28** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-02-28** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-03-02** Third Reading Passed (134-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-03** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-08** Hearing 3/23 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-27** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-28** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-28** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-03-29** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-30** Returned Passed
+- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 303 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eead176d-b409-4fca-b808-13b1112a2b94`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+