---
type: "Bill"
title: "Kent County - Deer Hunting - Sundays"
description: "Kent County - Deer Hunting - Sundays"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 312"
citation: "Maryland HB 312 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Hunting and Fishing", "Animals", "Hunting", "Kent County", "Natural Resources", "Department of", "Time"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jacobs"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-01-25"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ae6e4e8f-857d-44bd-8bf5-632bee09223a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB312&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "180bf2db6e5cf625443441d0fc2f7ef0881a05c1fee038218f2404ebeca69a56"
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 312 (2017) — Kent County - Deer Hunting - Sundays

## 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/hb0312f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **129–4** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **131–5** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **43–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Jacobs — primary (person)
- Arentz — cosponsor (person)
- Ghrist — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-25** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-02** Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-06** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-07** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-07** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-10** Third Reading Passed (131-5) `passage`
- **2017-03-13** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-07** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Favorable with Amendments {694633/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (43-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (129-4) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 458 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ae6e4e8f-857d-44bd-8bf5-632bee09223a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).