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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Task Force on Rural Internet, Broadband, Wireless, and Cellular Service - Study and Extension"
+description: "Task Force on Rural Internet, Broadband, Wireless, and Cellular Service - Study and Extension"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 243"
+citation: "Maryland HB 243 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["State Government - Agencies", "Offices", "and Officials", "Committees and Commissions", "Counties", "Electronic Communication", "Maps and Charts", "Reports", "Sunset", "Telecommunications and Information Technology"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Krimm"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-19"
+last_action: "2018-04-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/71f081e9-8426-4ce0-bfdc-7f1a8d83f5f6"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB243&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2018rs"
+source_hash: "ee90c9769abb5cc4ff4ecdd84beabe86ffd30f335106ced6f2b8ef1109d239f3"
+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 HB 243 (2018) — Task Force on Rural Internet, Broadband, Wireless, and Cellular Service - Study and Extension
+
+## 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/2018RS/bills/hb/hb0243f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- On Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+- On Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Krimm — primary (person)
+- A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Afzali — cosponsor (person)
+- Arentz — cosponsor (person)
+- Aumann — cosponsor (person)
+- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
+- Beitzel — cosponsor (person)
+- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
+- Carey — cosponsor (person)
+- Carozza — cosponsor (person)
+- Ciliberti — cosponsor (person)
+- Folden — cosponsor (person)
+- Ghrist — cosponsor (person)
+- Glass — cosponsor (person)
+- Jacobs — cosponsor (person)
+- Jameson — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
+- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
+- Lisanti — cosponsor (person)
+- Mautz — cosponsor (person)
+- McKay — cosponsor (person)
+- Otto — cosponsor (person)
+- Rose — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Howard — cosponsor (person)
+- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
+- Vogt — cosponsor (person)
+- W. Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Wivell — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-19** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-19** Hearing 2/01 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-07** Favorable with Amendments {613294/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2018-03-08** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-09** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-13** Hearing 3/22 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2018-03-26** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-27** Second Reading Passed
+- **2018-03-28** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2018-03-29** Returned Passed
+- **2018-04-24** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 177 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/71f081e9-8426-4ce0-bfdc-7f1a8d83f5f6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+