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+type: "Bill"
+title: "State Forest, State Park, and Wildlife Management Area Revenue Equity Program"
+description: "State Forest, State Park, and Wildlife Management Area Revenue Equity Program"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 273"
+citation: "Maryland SB 273 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Taxes - Property", "Natural Resources - Generally", "Animals", "Appropriations", "Assessments and Taxation", "Department of", "Boundaries", "Commerce and Business", "Consumer Price Index", "Counties", "Forests and Parks", "Natural Resources", "Department of", "Program Open Space", "Revenue and Taxes", "State Aid"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Edwards"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2017-01-20"
+last_action: "2017-05-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eac75b00-6011-49ff-8493-04092ad4c55a"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB273&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "80581cb4cdf548b7a658d7f2716b4a7670126f5566e42d8be505f2f032f16e33"
+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 SB 273 (2017) — State Forest, State Park, and Wildlife Management Area Revenue Equity Program
+
+## 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/sb/sb0273f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **133–4** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Edwards — primary (person)
+- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
+- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
+- Manno — cosponsor (person)
+- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
+- McFadden — cosponsor (person)
+- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Peters — cosponsor (person)
+- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-20** First Reading Budget and Taxation and Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-25** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m. (Budget and Taxation)
+- **2017-03-13** Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {969932/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-03-16** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-16** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-17** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-04-10** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-10** Favorable with Amendments {490014/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-10** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (133-4) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** Senate Concur - House Amendments
+- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (45-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
+- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 692 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eac75b00-6011-49ff-8493-04092ad4c55a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+