---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maryland Home Improvement Commission - Special Fund and Fees"
description: "Maryland Home Improvement Commission - Special Fund and Fees"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 248"
citation: "Maryland HB 248 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business Regulation and Occupations", "Auditors and Audits", "Committees and Commissions", "Comptroller", "Fees", "Home Improvement", "Labor", "Licensing", "and Regulation", "Department of", "Notices", "Revenue and Taxes", "Rules and Regulations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chair"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-23"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c9d1e4bc-cdb4-4163-8b4f-1f72be4aa511"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB248&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "47aea4ed19e9a9603f90fd447bcda7c7854521933a4447793776c05fb08bda30"
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 248 (2017) — Maryland Home Improvement Commission - Special Fund and Fees

## 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/hb0248f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Chair — primary (person)
- Economic Matters Committee (By Request - Departmental - Labor — cosponsor (person)
- Licensing and Regulation) — 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 2/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-14** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Favorable with Amendments {783594/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-15** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-16** First Reading Senate Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-23** Rereferred to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
- **2017-03-23** Hearing 4/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-29** Hearing canceled
- **2017-03-29** Hearing 4/05 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-07** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 255 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c9d1e4bc-cdb4-4163-8b4f-1f72be4aa511`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).