---
type: "Bill"
title: "Corporations - Formation of a Holding Company by Merger"
description: "Corporations - Formation of a Holding Company by Merger"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 759"
citation: "Maryland HB 759 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Corporations and Associations", "Charters", "Commerce and Business", "Committees and Commissions", "Corporations", "Mergers and Acquisitions", "Real Estate Investment Trusts"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kramer and West"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-02"
last_action: "2017-04-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bb351ba8-1184-495b-8442-66a9e4657230"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB759&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "13a79fff74eede73abc58b9e5d33e297bf29a66760f906e26b54eeb409a81e82"
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 759 (2017) — Corporations - Formation of a Holding Company by Merger

## 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/hb0759f.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Kramer and West — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-02** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-02** Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-07** Favorable Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-08** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-08** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-10** Third Reading Passed (136-0) `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
- **2017-04-18** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 358 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bb351ba8-1184-495b-8442-66a9e4657230`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).