---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Historic Trust Grant Fund Improvement Act"
description: "Maryland Historic Trust Grant Fund Improvement Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1513"
citation: "Maryland HB 1513 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Agencies", "Offices", "and Officials", "Appropriations", "Budgets", "Governor", "Grants", "Historical Matters", "Reports", "Revenue and Taxes"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jones"]
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/0fc2f8d3-2999-48d5-a8f3-4b8bfb6aeea6"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB1513&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "a12184f8a2ba5b9697966a9ebfd3e847f92e005ef95372b707af2ce662fe4d20"
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 1513 (2017) — Maryland Historic Trust Grant Fund Improvement Act

## 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/hb1513f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **134–5** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Jones — primary (person)
- Atterbeary — cosponsor (person)
- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Gaines — cosponsor (person)
- Gutierrez — cosponsor (person)
- Hixson — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- McIntosh — cosponsor (person)
- Oaks — cosponsor (person)
- P. Young — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-10** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-15** Hearing 3/02 at 3:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Favorable with Amendments {204167/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (134-5) `passage`
- **2017-03-20** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-24** Hearing 3/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-04** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-05** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 513 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0fc2f8d3-2999-48d5-a8f3-4b8bfb6aeea6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).