---
type: "Bill"
title: "St. Mary's County - Metropolitan Commission - Personnel"
description: "St. Mary's County - Metropolitan Commission - Personnel"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 679"
citation: "Maryland HB 679 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties - Local Laws", "Committees and Commissions", "Engineers", "Public Local Laws", "St. Mary's County", "Treasurers", "Work", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["St. Mary's County Delegation"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-01"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/702efcfa-19a8-4b06-869d-b86cd357e094"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB679&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "6bc6401f31b3d53ab27e1da6ac5325906191d19199c1ba2e65059ddfa87526ef"
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 679 (2017) — St. Mary's County - Metropolitan Commission - Personnel

## 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/hb0679f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **140–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- St. Mary's County Delegation — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-01** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-14** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `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 Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-21** Hearing 3/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-03** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-04** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-04** Returned Passed
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 296 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/702efcfa-19a8-4b06-869d-b86cd357e094`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).