---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Government - Display of the POW/MIA Flag on State Building Grounds"
description: "State Government - Display of the POW/MIA Flag on State Building Grounds"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 664"
citation: "Maryland HB 664 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Agencies", "Offices", "and Officials", "Armed Forces", "Flags", "General Services", "Department of", "Public Buildings and Facilities", "Transportation", "Department of"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Reilly"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-01"
last_action: "2017-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/93ce164f-cf2f-42f7-861e-97bb4a348c5a"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB664&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "44f1b08b36b346945da63af12a1dcff93955d17967e207ab3af44525c72d85c2"
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 664 (2017) — State Government - Display of the POW/MIA Flag on State Building Grounds

## 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/hb0664f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **42–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **137–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Reilly — primary (person)
- Anderton — cosponsor (person)
- Arentz — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- C. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Carozza — cosponsor (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Cullison — cosponsor (person)
- Folden — cosponsor (person)
- Ghrist — cosponsor (person)
- Grammer — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Healey — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Jacobs — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Knotts — cosponsor (person)
- Krebs — cosponsor (person)
- McDonough — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Miele — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Otto — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- Rey — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
- Vogt — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-01** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-03** Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-02-28** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-01** Favorable with Amendments {486384/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-01** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-03** Third Reading Passed (137-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-06** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-08** Reassigned to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
- **2017-04-05** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-07** Third Reading Passed (42-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-11** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 33 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/93ce164f-cf2f-42f7-861e-97bb4a348c5a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).