---
type: "Bill"
title: "Creation of a State Debt - Qualified Zone Academy Bonds"
description: "Creation of a State Debt - Qualified Zone Academy Bonds"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 153"
citation: "Maryland HB 153 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Capital Budget", "Committees and Commissions", "Construction", "Education", "State Department of", "Public Schools", "State Bonds"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["The Speaker (By Request - Administration)"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9db25b35-d70e-4cef-8bf1-92b7f699ab3e"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB153&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "1a9505b8b742a4ce75388f45d8f8eb814d2801f8ae51b051a9ed9ee1c7a997c4"
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 153 (2017) — Creation of a State Debt - Qualified Zone Academy Bonds

## 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/hb0153f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **130–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- The Speaker (By Request - Administration) — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-18** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-15** Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-17** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Special Order until 03/18 (Delegate Jones) Adopted
- **2017-03-18** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (130-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-20** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-24** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-29** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-31** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-31** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-11** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 32 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9db25b35-d70e-4cef-8bf1-92b7f699ab3e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).