---
type: "Bill"
title: "Oil and Natural Gas - Hydraulic Fracturing - Prohibition"
description: "Oil and Natural Gas - Hydraulic Fracturing - Prohibition"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1325"
citation: "Maryland HB 1325 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Environment", "Natural Resources - Generally", "Environment", "Department of", "Fuel", "Hydraulic Fracturing", "Licenses", "Rules and Regulations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fraser-Hidalgo"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-02-10"
last_action: "2017-04-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a9e7b31-ccfa-4d5f-961b-cd556c7c832b"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1325&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "9f9c80d6e36e167e9f9e1f60dc73302518834939dbdb542b9f5124d9985a871e"
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 1325 (2017) — Oil and Natural Gas - Hydraulic Fracturing - Prohibition

## 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/hb/hb1325f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **36–10** (pass) · legislature
- Floor Amendment {583222/1 (Delegate Hornberger) — **44–86** (fail) · legislature
- Third Reading — **97–40** (pass) · legislature
- Floor Amendment {433428/1 (Delegate Buckel) — **41–90** (fail) · legislature
- Favorable — **35–12** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Fraser-Hidalgo — primary (person)
- A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
- B. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Barve — cosponsor (person)
- Beidle — cosponsor (person)
- Branch — cosponsor (person)
- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Chang — cosponsor (person)
- Conaway — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- D. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Dumais — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
- Frush — cosponsor (person)
- Gilchrist — cosponsor (person)
- Gutierrez — cosponsor (person)
- Haynes — cosponsor (person)
- Healey — cosponsor (person)
- Hettleman — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hixson — cosponsor (person)
- Holmes — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Jameson — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Knotts — cosponsor (person)
- Kramer — cosponsor (person)
- Krimm — cosponsor (person)
- Lafferty — cosponsor (person)
- Lam — cosponsor (person)
- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
- Lisanti — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- McIntosh — cosponsor (person)
- Moon — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Morhaim — cosponsor (person)
- Mosby — cosponsor (person)
- Oaks — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Reznik — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
- Sophocleus — cosponsor (person)
- Stein — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Valderrama — cosponsor (person)
- Vallario — cosponsor (person)
- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
- Wilkins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-02-10** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-07** Favorable with Amendments {200614/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-07** Special Order until 3/08 (Delegate McKay) Adopted
- **2017-03-08** Floor Amendment {433428/1 (Delegate Buckel) Rejected (41-90) `amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-08** Floor Amendment {583222/1 (Delegate Hornberger) Rejected (44-86) `amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-08** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-10** Motion vote previous question (Delegate Gilchrist) Adopted
- **2017-03-10** Third Reading Passed (97-40) `passage`
- **2017-03-13** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-23** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-23** Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-23** Special Order until 3/24 (Senator Jennings) Adopted
- **2017-03-24** Favorable Report Adopted (35-12) `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-24** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-27** Floor Amendment {123923/1 (Senator Edwards) Rejected `amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-27** Third Reading Passed (36-10) `passage`
- **2017-03-27** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 13 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5a9e7b31-ccfa-4d5f-961b-cd556c7c832b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).