---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation - Easement Termination"
description: "Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation - Easement Termination"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 155"
citation: "Maryland HB 155 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture", "Agriculture", "Counties", "Farmland", "Hearings", "Land Preservation Trusts", "Notices", "Public Works", "Board of"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/965853fa-6bbb-4803-98b0-139046ce98fd"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB155&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "248456ab287b380e63506b2e59f9ec26f90c2b3eb7c93306e40ac173b0aa6e86"
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 155 (2017) — Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation - Easement Termination

## 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/hb0155f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Chair — primary (person)
- Environment and Transportation Committee (By Request - Departmental - Agriculture) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-18** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-18** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-20** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Special Order until 2/22 (Delegate Rey) Adopted
- **2017-02-22** Floor Amendment {583428/1 (Delegate Rey) Adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2017-02-22** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-02-24** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-27** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** Rereferred to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
- **2017-03-15** Hearing 3/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-04** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-05** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-11** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 114 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/965853fa-6bbb-4803-98b0-139046ce98fd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).