---
type: "Bill"
title: "Washington Metrorail Safety Commission Membership Act"
description: "Washington Metrorail Safety Commission Membership Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 285"
citation: "Maryland HB 285 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Transportation - Generally", "Committees and Commissions", "District of Columbia", "Mass Transit", "Montgomery County", "Prince George's County", "Public Officials", "Residency", "Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Korman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-23"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/67bf95ef-0f49-47a8-b199-81f86f9d40b0"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB285&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "b589fc913b0b9ff00f2245f816c76b30f0d602bfb7bde2d604fe1996c59a2b0d"
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 285 (2017) — Washington Metrorail Safety Commission Membership Act

## 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/hb0285f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Korman — primary (person)
- A. Miller — cosponsor (person)
- A. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- B. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Barve — cosponsor (person)
- C. Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- D. Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Dumais — cosponsor (person)
- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
- Fraser-Hidalgo — cosponsor (person)
- Frick — cosponsor (person)
- Frush — cosponsor (person)
- Gaines — cosponsor (person)
- Gilchrist — cosponsor (person)
- Gutierrez — cosponsor (person)
- Healey — cosponsor (person)
- Hixson — cosponsor (person)
- Holmes — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Knotts — cosponsor (person)
- Kramer — cosponsor (person)
- Krimm — cosponsor (person)
- Luedtke — cosponsor (person)
- Moon — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- Proctor — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- Reznik — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Sanchez — cosponsor (person)
- Tarlau — cosponsor (person)
- Valderrama — cosponsor (person)
- Valentino-Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Vallario — cosponsor (person)
- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-23** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-25** Hearing 2/16 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-01** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-02** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-02** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-07** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-09** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-31** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-03** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 352 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/67bf95ef-0f49-47a8-b199-81f86f9d40b0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).