---
type: "Bill"
title: "Somerset County - State's Attorney - Annual Salary"
description: "Somerset County - State's Attorney - Annual Salary"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 439"
citation: "Maryland HB 439 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts and Court Personnel - Local", "Salaries and Compensation", "Somerset County", "State's Attorneys"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Otto"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-26"
last_action: "2017-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f9a105f8-6791-4a7a-aaaf-a376646e901a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB439&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "28e7d61feab33bc3951ae66843416ecbb0a6972e5ddc82f1f32afd0d6059b393"
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 439 (2017) — Somerset County - State's Attorney - Annual Salary

## 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/hb0439f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **136–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Otto — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-26** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Hearing 2/28 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 (136-1) `passage`
- **2017-03-13** First Reading Judicial Proceedings `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-30** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-07** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-07** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-25** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 734 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f9a105f8-6791-4a7a-aaaf-a376646e901a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).