---
type: "Bill"
title: "Cecil County - Orphans' Court Judges - Travel Expense Allowance"
description: "Cecil County - Orphans' Court Judges - Travel Expense Allowance"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 629"
citation: "Maryland HB 629 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts and Court Personnel - Local", "Cecil County", "Judges", "Orphans' Court", "Prices"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cecil County Delegation"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-30"
last_action: "2017-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a19371eb-1d81-426a-8dfc-63d53b09d109"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB629&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "d91e2992653375baeb737b37e08f1053f1ae095c1436c53aac08322e9a98acce"
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 629 (2017) — Cecil County - Orphans' Court Judges - Travel Expense Allowance

## 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/hb0629f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Cecil County Delegation — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-30** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-03** Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-13** Favorable Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-18** Third Reading Passed (140-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-20** 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
- **2017-04-11** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 79 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a19371eb-1d81-426a-8dfc-63d53b09d109`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).