---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Government - Office of Minority Affairs and Interdepartmental Advisory Committee on Minority Affairs - Renaming"
description: "State Government - Office of Minority Affairs and Interdepartmental Advisory Committee on Minority Affairs - Renaming"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1506"
citation: "Maryland HB 1506 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Agencies", "Offices", "and Officials", "Annotated Code of Maryland", "Committees and Commissions", "Minorities", "Names", "Small Business", "Women"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Glenn"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-10"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/36a66890-fe08-47cb-8ea2-7a54830c6ce6"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1506&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "3d5ad6b5a57f503240fbd32db2b01f93e1feedeb73bd9ce2160a3258dba509d6"
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 1506 (2017) — State Government - Office of Minority Affairs and Interdepartmental Advisory Committee on Minority Affairs - Renaming

## 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/hb1506f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Glenn — primary (person)
- Conaway — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Haynes — cosponsor (person)
- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- McCray — cosponsor (person)
- Oaks — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lewis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-10** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-15** Hearing 3/01 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-13** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-15** Third Reading Passed (133-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-16** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-16** Hearing 3/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 633 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/36a66890-fe08-47cb-8ea2-7a54830c6ce6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).