---
type: "Bill"
title: "Charles County - Collective Bargaining for Public Safety Officials"
description: "Charles County - Collective Bargaining for Public Safety Officials"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 446"
citation: "Maryland HB 446 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Local Government - Generally", "Charles County", "Collective Bargaining", "Contracts", "County Commissioners", "Emergency Medical Services", "Fees", "Fire Protection", "Mediation", "Municipal Corporations", "Notices", "Oaths", "Rules and Regulations", "Safety", "Signatures", "Subpoenas", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Charles County Delegation (By Request)"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-26"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8ba1e067-ebdc-4633-a19f-511067387695"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB446&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "fcd6cb8d62c2da14438796883ad4803f5458b40f69b983e6b390b75e1931e8cb"
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 446 (2017) — Charles County - Collective Bargaining for Public Safety Officials

## 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/hb0446f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **118–20** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Charles County Delegation (By Request) — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-26** First Reading Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/14 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-20** Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Favorable with Amendments {394469/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-02-23** Third Reading Passed (118-20) `passage`
- **2017-02-24** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-08** Hearing 3/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-27** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-28** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-28** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-29** Third Reading Passed (46-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-30** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 178 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8ba1e067-ebdc-4633-a19f-511067387695`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).