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+type: "Bill"
+title: "State Government - Office of Minority Affairs and Interdepartmental Advisory Committee on Minority Affairs - Renaming"
+description: "State Government - Office of Minority Affairs and Interdepartmental Advisory Committee on Minority Affairs - Renaming"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 700"
+citation: "Maryland SB 700 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["State Government - Agencies", "Offices", "and Officials", "Annotated Code of Maryland", "Committees and Commissions", "Minorities", "Names", "Small Business", "Women"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Robinson"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-02-03"
+last_action: "2017-05-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/29af0859-4484-49ee-bc67-1e661781d1fe"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB700&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "8b411f16cf12415f2237f166b7fab8635de6c36e1a1b0c255da944823ec02057"
+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 700 (2017) — State Government - Office of Minority Affairs and Interdepartmental Advisory Committee on Minority Affairs - Renaming
+
+## 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/sb0700f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Robinson — primary (person)
+- Bates — cosponsor (person)
+- Benson — cosponsor (person)
+- Brochin — cosponsor (person)
+- Conway — cosponsor (person)
+- Currie — cosponsor (person)
+- DeGrange — cosponsor (person)
+- Eckardt — cosponsor (person)
+- Ferguson — cosponsor (person)
+- Guzzone — cosponsor (person)
+- Kagan — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelley — cosponsor (person)
+- King — cosponsor (person)
+- Klausmeier — cosponsor (person)
+- Lee — cosponsor (person)
+- Madaleno — cosponsor (person)
+- Manno — cosponsor (person)
+- Mathias — cosponsor (person)
+- McFadden — cosponsor (person)
+- Muse — cosponsor (person)
+- Nathan-Pulliam — cosponsor (person)
+- Oaks — cosponsor (person)
+- Reilly — cosponsor (person)
+- Salling — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Zucker — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-03** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-03** Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-13** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-14** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-14** Floor Amendment {723522/1 (Senator Oaks) Adopted `amendment-passage`
+- **2017-03-14** 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 634 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/29af0859-4484-49ee-bc67-1e661781d1fe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+