---
type: "Bill"
title: "Department of Commerce - Maryland Advisory Commission on Manufacturing Competitiveness - Renaming and Restructuring"
description: "Department of Commerce - Maryland Advisory Commission on Manufacturing Competitiveness - Renaming and Restructuring"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 245"
citation: "Maryland HB 245 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Economic and Community Development", "Commerce", "Department of", "Committees and Commissions", "Names"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-23"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/351c8e7b-5c0c-465a-9b83-a260734b8e00"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB245&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "539578cedd9defd0b9c805ae391c2dc6f65c4d2bee83b1b201527258007cb49d"
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 245 (2017) — Department of Commerce - Maryland Advisory Commission on Manufacturing Competitiveness - Renaming and Restructuring

## 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/hb0245f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **136–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Chair — primary (person)
- Economic Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Commerce) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-23** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Hearing 2/08 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-09** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-10** Favorable with Amendments {563699/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-10** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-15** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-16** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-16** Hearing 3/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-04** Special Order until 4/5 (Senator Astle) Adopted
- **2017-04-06** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-06** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 259 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/351c8e7b-5c0c-465a-9b83-a260734b8e00`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).