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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Legal Advice to Corporations - Clarification"
+description: "Legal Advice to Corporations - Clarification"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 794"
+citation: "Maryland SB 794 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Courts and Court Personnel - Statewide", "Business Regulation and Occupations", "Attorneys", "Contracts", "Corporations", "Interstate Affairs", "Securities", "Voting", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Smith"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-02-03"
+last_action: "2017-05-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0016fa04-e586-4d5d-a9ba-8030be7a19b0"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=SB794&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "5facbca97b8150782ce4fad8e02c16861820d63703f8e0a08175635a77f78e1a"
+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 794 (2017) — Legal Advice to Corporations - Clarification
+
+## 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/sb0794f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Smith — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-03** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-08** Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {858676/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-03-16** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-17** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-17** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-31** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-05** Returned Passed
+- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 508 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0016fa04-e586-4d5d-a9ba-8030be7a19b0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+