---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Government - Maryland Manual - Revisions (Maryland Manual Modernization Act)"
description: "State Government - Maryland Manual - Revisions (Maryland Manual Modernization Act)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 78"
citation: "Maryland HB 78 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government - Agencies", "Offices", "and Officials", "State Government - Regulations and Procedures", "Administrative Agencies", "Archives", "Electronic Communication", "Electronic Government", "Historical Matters", "Publications", "Public Information", "Public Officials", "Records"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Korman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-13"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/637fafc2-9901-4315-89c6-bccef73e8c20"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB78&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "fb4fc31b7d03d5069792363f8f77562501fb1590b74389f0b12fc4be8f1df656"
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 78 (2017) — State Government - Maryland Manual - Revisions (Maryland Manual Modernization Act)

## 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/hb0078f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **131–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **45–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Korman — primary (person)
- Angel — cosponsor (person)
- Barron — cosponsor (person)
- Bromwell — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- K. Young — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kipke — cosponsor (person)
- Metzgar — cosponsor (person)
- Miele — cosponsor (person)
- Morales — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Oaks — cosponsor (person)
- Pena-Melnyk — cosponsor (person)
- Pendergrass — cosponsor (person)
- Platt — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenberg — cosponsor (person)
- Saab — cosponsor (person)
- Sample-Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Szeliga — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-13** First Reading Health and Government Operations `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-18** Hearing 1/26 at 1:30 p.m.
- **2017-02-07** Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-08** Favorable with Amendments {776587/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-08** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2017-02-10** Third Reading Passed (131-0) `passage`
- **2017-02-15** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **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 (45-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 552 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/637fafc2-9901-4315-89c6-bccef73e8c20`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).