---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Government - Maryland Uniform Electronic Legal Materials Act"
description: "State Government - Maryland Uniform Electronic Legal Materials Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 165"
citation: "Maryland HB 165 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Regulations and Procedures", "Archives", "Cybersecurity", "Electronic Communication", "Electronic Government", "Evidence", "Federal Government", "Identification", "Interstate Affairs", "Jurisdiction", "Notices", "Publications", "Public Information", "Recordation", "Records", "Rules and Regulations", "Uniform Laws"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barron and Pena-Melnyk"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-19"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/60b4f4b9-3edd-42fe-b7ec-e90f7825307f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB165&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "3ec0021aa1e0b748af65f087645b7a07e99e804736cce737d651ebc2e12d7dae"
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 165 (2017) — State Government - Maryland Uniform Electronic Legal Materials 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/hb0165f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Barron and Pena-Melnyk — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-19** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-25** Hearing 2/01 at 3:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-14** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-15** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-15** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-02-17** Third Reading Passed (135-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-20** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-07** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 553 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/60b4f4b9-3edd-42fe-b7ec-e90f7825307f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).