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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Clean Water Commerce Act of 2017"
+description: "Clean Water Commerce Act of 2017"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 314"
+citation: "Maryland SB 314 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Environment", "Agriculture", "Department of", "Chesapeake Bay", "Commerce", "Department of", "Environment", "Department of", "Environmental Matters", "Natural Resources", "Department of", "Reports", "Revenue and Taxes", "Rules and Regulations", "Sunset", "Transportation", "Department of", "Water"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["The President (By Request - Administration) and Bates"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2017-01-20"
+last_action: "2017-05-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/59645310-8382-4aa3-a389-b7dd7129f602"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB314&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "819e0ae5a907ca475daa43a231b9a26af987cca838234c31102f0840176a902a"
+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 314 (2017) — Clean Water Commerce 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/sb/sb0314f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **136–1** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- The President (By Request - Administration) and Bates — primary (person)
+- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
+- Hershey — cosponsor (person)
+- Hough — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
+- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
+- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
+- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Norman — cosponsor (person)
+- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Salling — cosponsor (person)
+- Serafini — cosponsor (person)
+- Simonaire — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-20** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-27** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-02-27** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-02-28** Favorable with Amendments {514039/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-02-28** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-03-02** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-03** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-06** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments {870113/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-04-07** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (136-1) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** Senate Concur - House Amendments
+- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
+- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 367 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/59645310-8382-4aa3-a389-b7dd7129f602`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+