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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Secretaries of Principal Departments - Supervision and Review of Decisions and Actions by Units Within Departments"
+description: "Secretaries of Principal Departments - Supervision and Review of Decisions and Actions by Units Within Departments"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 517"
+citation: "Maryland SB 517 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["State Government - Agencies", "Offices", "and Officials", "Health Occupations", "Business Regulation and Occupations", "Administrative Agencies", "Administrative Hearings", "Office of", "AELR Committee", "Attorney General", "Committees and Commissions", "Contests", "Health and Mental Hygiene", "Department of", "Health Occupations", "Hearings", "Identification", "Judges", "Jurisdiction", "Prices", "Rules and Regulations"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Zucker"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-02-01"
+last_action: "2017-05-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8fa435d9-491e-4fe7-8a25-b39854cb6eba"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB517&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "3b377ca5c93a9ee43a40a799c7de2f5cb72a8a2ea34e3134b180588ad96888df"
+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 517 (2017) — Secretaries of Principal Departments - Supervision and Review of Decisions and Actions by Units Within Departments
+
+## 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/sb0517f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Zucker — primary (person)
+- Conway — cosponsor (person)
+- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
+- Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
+- Waugh — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-01** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-13** Favorable with Amendments {784533/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-13** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-03-15** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-15** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-22** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-03** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-05** Returned Passed
+- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 614 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8fa435d9-491e-4fe7-8a25-b39854cb6eba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+