---
type: "Bill"
title: "Program Open Space - Authorized Transfer to the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority Financing Fund - Increase"
description: "Program Open Space - Authorized Transfer to the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority Financing Fund - Increase"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 267"
citation: "Maryland HB 267 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural Resources - Generally", "Operating Budget", "Appropriations", "Budgets", "Historical Matters", "Program Open Space", "Revenue and Taxes"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Wilson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-23"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0c59161d-0794-40a5-b4f4-e9d9f1a863bc"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB267&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "a7d1e31b6237274e129d0c21d6d467726b8327ba90e9f99e35c8ec73eabde228"
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 267 (2017) — Program Open Space - Authorized Transfer to the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority Financing Fund - Increase

## 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/hb0267f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- B. Wilson — primary (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Ebersole — cosponsor (person)
- Flanagan — cosponsor (person)
- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Mautz — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-23** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-27** Reassigned to Appropriations
- **2017-01-30** Hearing 2/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-07** Favorable with Amendments {644963/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-07** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-13** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-15** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-21** Hearing 3/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-27** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-27** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-27** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-28** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-28** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 660 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0c59161d-0794-40a5-b4f4-e9d9f1a863bc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).