---
type: "Bill"
title: "Counties and Municipalities - At-Will Supervisory Employees - Residency Requirements"
description: "Counties and Municipalities - At-Will Supervisory Employees - Residency Requirements"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 167"
citation: "Maryland HB 167 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Local Government - Generally", "Counties", "Municipal Corporations", "Public Employees", "Residency", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McCray"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-19"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9578c560-4158-4b1f-9baa-d9f527b8a021"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB167&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "8b492c041bb90e2fc82f5656cc06fdc000408447d6585436bc1eb4447fb99b6c"
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 167 (2017) — Counties and Municipalities - At-Will Supervisory Employees - Residency Requirements

## 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/hb0167f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **118–18** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- McCray — primary (person)
- Anderton — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Knotts — cosponsor (person)
- Moon — cosponsor (person)
- Stein — cosponsor (person)
- Wivell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-19** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-20** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Favorable with Amendments {454569/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-02-23** Third Reading Passed (118-18) `passage`
- **2017-02-24** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-03** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 776 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9578c560-4158-4b1f-9baa-d9f527b8a021`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).