---
type: "Bill"
title: "National Capital Strategic Economic Development Fund"
description: "National Capital Strategic Economic Development Fund"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1345"
citation: "Maryland HB 1345 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Economic and Community Development", "Community Development", "Comptroller", "Grants", "Housing and Community Development", "Department of", "Loans", "Revenue and Taxes", "Treasurers", "Urban Renewal"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Washington and Healey"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-10"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/447ecf98-dadb-4d8e-9eac-dd557339143c"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1345&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "547719f00cbe7c2783024a025a5faf007062463335571feca74d267ba59d6873"
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 1345 (2017) — National Capital Strategic Economic Development Fund

## 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/hb1345f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **91–47** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- A. Washington and Healey — primary (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 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments {240413/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-18** Third Reading Passed (91-47) `passage`
- **2017-03-20** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-21** Hearing 4/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-06** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-07** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 523 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/447ecf98-dadb-4d8e-9eac-dd557339143c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).