---
type: "Bill"
title: "Legal Advice to Corporations - Clarification"
description: "Legal Advice to Corporations - Clarification"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 236"
citation: "Maryland HB 236 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts and Court Personnel - Statewide", "Business Regulation and Occupations", "Attorneys", "Corporations", "Interstate Affairs", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barron"]
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/932522cc-5e1e-4de5-a123-82eb18bdb80a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB236&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "6de5f3448fe3938f2b4d4175ac3d448c63ef194028bae39ecc03242bb8eb2a4d"
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 236 (2017) — Legal Advice to Corporations - Clarification

## 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/hb0236f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Barron — primary (person)
- C. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Jameson — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-20** First Reading Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-19** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-20** Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Favorable with Amendments {702515/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-02-23** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-24** 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 507 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/932522cc-5e1e-4de5-a123-82eb18bdb80a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).