---
type: "Bill"
title: "Clean Energy - Energy Storage Technology Study"
description: "Clean Energy - Energy Storage Technology Study"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 773"
citation: "Maryland HB 773 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Utility Regulation", "Economic and Community Development", "Committees and Commissions", "Electronic Government", "Energy Matters", "Equipment", "Industry and Technology", "Power Plants", "Prices", "Procurement", "Public Service Commission", "Reports", "Rules and Regulations", "Storage", "Utilities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Korman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-02-03"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/90848970-5b49-4fe9-aaeb-770a0ae8ae95"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB773&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "c4cdafeddf067d55f27b79a3c6eead39bd4c0d9a13ed0b482f6714d2f3d5c010"
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 773 (2017) — Clean Energy - Energy Storage Technology Study

## 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/hb0773f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **119–20** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **107–34** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Korman — primary (person)
- Barkley — cosponsor (person)
- Buckel — cosponsor (person)
- Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Cassilly — cosponsor (person)
- Chang — cosponsor (person)
- Clippinger — cosponsor (person)
- Fennell — cosponsor (person)
- Fraser-Hidalgo — cosponsor (person)
- Frick — cosponsor (person)
- Jalisi — cosponsor (person)
- Jameson — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kramer — cosponsor (person)
- Lafferty — cosponsor (person)
- Lam — cosponsor (person)
- Lierman — cosponsor (person)
- M. Washington — cosponsor (person)
- Mautz — cosponsor (person)
- McComas — cosponsor (person)
- Miele — cosponsor (person)
- Morhaim — cosponsor (person)
- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- Reznik — cosponsor (person)
- Valderrama — cosponsor (person)
- Waldstreicher — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-03** First Reading Economic Matters `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-10** Hearing 2/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-15** Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-15** Favorable with Amendments {683193/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-15** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-03-16** Third Reading Passed (107-34) `passage`
- **2017-03-17** First Reading Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-20** Hearing 4/04 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Favorable with Amendments {467176/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed with Amendments (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** House Concur - Senate Amendments
- **2017-04-10** Third Reading Passed (119-20) `passage`
- **2017-04-10** Passed Enrolled
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 382 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/90848970-5b49-4fe9-aaeb-770a0ae8ae95`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).