---
type: "Bill"
title: "Procurement - Department of General Services - Exemption for Historic Structures"
description: "Procurement - Department of General Services - Exemption for Historic Structures"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 144"
citation: "Maryland HB 144 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Procurement", "Exemptions", "General Services", "Department of", "Historical Matters", "Procurement"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/79825f18-5185-4d2a-847f-874ee7f0f1fb"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB144&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "1ca7db6a252d20175d299d1d5466bdc8b76800c1ae4b3eee804f0d389ffb53c1"
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 144 (2017) — Procurement - Department of General Services - Exemption for Historic Structures

## 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/hb0144f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **135–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **132–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Chair — primary (person)
- Health and Government Operations Committee (By Request - Departmental - General Services) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-18** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-18** Hearing 1/26 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2017-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Favorable with Amendments {846289/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (132-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-20** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-23** Rereferred to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
- **2017-03-23** Hearing 4/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-29** Hearing canceled
- **2017-03-29** Hearing 4/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments {404532/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-07** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-08** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2017-04-08** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-08** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-04-11** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 108 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/79825f18-5185-4d2a-847f-874ee7f0f1fb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).