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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Cownose Ray Fishery Management Plan and Moratorium on Contests"
+description: "Cownose Ray Fishery Management Plan and Moratorium on Contests"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 211"
+citation: "Maryland HB 211 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Hunting and Fishing", "Contests", "Crimes and Punishments", "Emergency Bills", "Fish and Fishing", "Natural Resources", "Department of", "Penalties and Sentences", "Rules and Regulations"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Robinson"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-20"
+last_action: "2017-05-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/20518ab3-c100-4122-aaa1-b3884347d1e9"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB211&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "782c7565161295282165ba2fd77f3facae4dca10b7d67667f76a5db2c81a00fc"
+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 211 (2017) — Cownose Ray Fishery Management Plan and Moratorium on Contests
+
+## 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/hb0211f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **119–21** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **44–2** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Robinson — primary (person)
+- A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
+- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
+- Carr — cosponsor (person)
+- Fraser-Hidalgo — cosponsor (person)
+- Frush — cosponsor (person)
+- Gutierrez — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Korman — cosponsor (person)
+- Kramer — cosponsor (person)
+- Lisanti — cosponsor (person)
+- Morhaim — cosponsor (person)
+- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Platt — cosponsor (person)
+- Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
+- Turner — cosponsor (person)
+- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-20** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-23** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {140619/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-03-15** Third Reading Passed (119-21) `passage`
+- **2017-03-16** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-04** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-04** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-04-05** Third Reading Passed (44-2) `passage`
+- **2017-04-06** Returned Passed
+- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 398 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/20518ab3-c100-4122-aaa1-b3884347d1e9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+