---
type: "Bill"
title: "Junk Dealers and Scrap Metal Processors - Cell Tower Batteries - Required Record"
description: "Junk Dealers and Scrap Metal Processors - Cell Tower Batteries - Required Record"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 198"
citation: "Maryland HB 198 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business Regulation and Occupations", "Dealers", "Equipment", "Records", "Wreckers and Scrap Processors"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles County Delegation"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-19"
last_action: "2017-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/94559dbc-c701-44e8-a5b7-3f1c4819c87f"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB198&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "ca178bd89a9a0b76467e10c1d5d5182563e44407a8e3518cfe507ed24b35a064"
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 198 (2017) — Junk Dealers and Scrap Metal Processors - Cell Tower Batteries - Required Record

## 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/hb0198f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **133–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Charles County Delegation — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-20** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-19** Hearing 1/31 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-07** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-08** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-08** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-02-10** Third Reading Passed (133-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-15** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** Hearing 3/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report by Finance `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 115 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/94559dbc-c701-44e8-a5b7-3f1c4819c87f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).